Chris Froome got a brutal reminder of the unpredictable nature of the Tour de France when he crashed to the ground in Sunday's second stage, recovering to finish with torn shorts as German Marcel Kittel powered to victory at the end of a huge sprint.
Shot putter Manpreet Kaur smashed an 18-year-old national record to win gold and qualify for next year's Olympics as Railways dominated the show on the opening day of the 55th National Open Athletics Championships in Kolkata.
The American sprinter was officially stripped of her World Championship gold medals from the 100 and 200 metres.
The decision over Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou is expected on Tuesday.
Five Jamaican athletes, including two Olympic medallists, tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs at last month's national championships, sources close to Jamaican athletics said.
Pleasantly surprised after Barack Obama mentioned her name in his speech on Indian achievers, Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom said she was happy to know that the US President acknowledged her performances.
Dwain Chambers is to attend a UK Athletics independent drugs disciplinary hearing on Thursday, British newspapers reported.
The World record holder failed to make the US 100 metres team for next month's Olympics.
The US sprinters finished together in 10.30 seconds yesterday, edging world champion Kim Collins of St Kitts and Nevis by .03 seconds.
The World 100 metres record holder will press for arbitration of doping charges against the sprinter by the US Anti-Doping Agency.
Anti-doping officials believe world 100 metres record holder could have taken a cocktail of drugs including human growth hormone and EPO.
The IAAF will send a warning to the American sprinter for disrupting this year's World championships but will take no further action.
Usain Bolt once again produced his best when it mattered most to retain his 100 metres world title and reassert his status as the number one sprinter on the planet at a rocking Bird's Nest Stadium on Sunday night.
'After I won the final I gave my father a call.' 'He said the family had followed my progress on TV and saw that I had won.' '"We are going to sleep now," he said.' 'I told him 'I am a world champion and you are going to sleep!'
Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery should be free to compete in the Olympic Games since the drug allegations against them are not proven, IOC president Jacques Rogge said.
The athletics event gets underway at the Afro Asian Games on Tuesday, but the starting list of foreigners is still unknown.
The California laboratory said that no "positive test" results for steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs were found at the lab.
The American sprinter wants any samples obtained from the BALCO investigation to be tested for DNA first to ensure they belong to her.
The American sprinter will miss the Athens Olympic Games and all her results since December 15, 2000, have been disqualified.
The Olympic Games' central sport is tarnished and discredited even as officials have scrambled to defend its credibility.\n\n
The awards are presented annually to the outstanding U.S. male and female athletes.
It is the first time every athlete has been disqualified from a heat at a major championships.
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: The European 100 metres champion failed a test for the new designer steroid THG
The European 100 metres champion was banned for two years on Tuesday after failing a test for the new designer steroid THG.
Promising sprinter Dutee Chand bagged her second gold medal, winning the women's 200 metres, in a clean sweep of medals by Indians at the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on Friday.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Lewis in full flow was the finest sight in track and field for more than a decade.
The double world sprint champion and five other American athletes tested positive for the stimulant modafinil.
Both athletes are involved in the ongoing doping investigations.
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