Summer Olympic News

ON TARGET: Peter Wilson at the Southern Counties Shooting Ground at Clay Pigeon with Ashley Pike and Rob Scammell from Sturminster Newton PETER Wilson has conceded that nothing he achieves during the rest of his shooting career will beat winning Olympic gold last year.

NEW figures show the cost of hosting the Olympic Torch relay in Dorset set back councils more than A 180,000. Dorset County Council spent A 40,000 while Bournemouth council spent A 93,000 and Poole's expenses came to A 50,947. The figures were released on the first anniversary of the start of the Olympic torch relay last year when the flame arrived ... (more)

SANTA CLARA – Ricardo Lockette is so intent on landing a spot on the 49ers' roster that he bought a white board and markers so he could chart and study plays on his own time.

In the 30th meeting between the tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from the start and won 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title.

Phew! Well after all that excitement we're off to lie down in a darkened room, thanking the footballing gods that no more goals can go in now as my keyboard now resembles a smoking pile of ash.

Alise Post race to her third straight victory in the USA Cycling Elite BMX National Championships on Saturday, and fellow 2012 Olympian Nic Long won his second men's title.

JADE Faulkner's return to individual competition proved a resounding success as she scooped glory in the Netherlands last weekend.

And the figurative mantle of the section's premier girl was passed during the Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.

It is clearly cycling season, even at altitude. At the middle of May, one grand tour is snaking across Italy, one smaller tour is heading up the state of California and we are four weeks from the start of Ride the Rockies.

Thousands of spectators cheered and hollered as track runners bolted toward the finish line in this weekend's Special Olympics Florida's Summer Games.

Three-time Olympic Gold medallist, Stephanie Rice, says she plans to return to the pool for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

England's Lee Purdy has his first chance to fight for a world crown on Saturday while countryman Amir Khan looks to another main event bout to see about future world title opportunities.

Louis Smith MBE is set to reveal the truth about living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for the third series of My Secret Past.

Former Olympics champion Poul-Erik Hoyer has pledged to improve the image of badminton after winning the presidency of the sport's world governing body.

I felt so sorry for him on Thursday's short stage to Treviso, it must have been one of the hardest days, emotionally and psychologically, that he has ever had to endure.

A report Friday evening from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Canada's Ryder Hesjedal pedals during the eight stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, an individual time trial from Gabicce to Saltara, May 11, 2013.

The Brooklyn native will miss a few weeks of the WNBA season to join the Russian national women's basketball team for the EuroBasket tournament from June 15-30. Prince will leave the Chicago Sky on June 4 to train with the Russian team for a week before the tournament begins.

In the District 2 Class AA final, Scranton Prep freshman Pete Kazmierczak followed a double fault with a powerful ace that helped him and his teammate, Keller McGurrin, win the doubles championship over the top-seeded team from Wyoming Seminary, Henry Cornell-Matt Cartwright, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, Thursday at Kirby Park.

CANVEY'S middle-distance star Jessica Judd admits being the fastest 800m runner in the world this season "feels a bit surreal". Judd, 18, raced to a personal best time of 2m 00.37s in Watford making her not only the fastest under-20 in the world at the moment, but the fastest female full stop over the two-lap distance.