Summer Sports News

David Millar and Dwain Chambers will be given "100% support" by the British Olympic Association if they are part of Team GB for the London 2012 Games despite their previous doping violations.

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. -- Christina Cruz and Queen Underwood both devoted their lives to boxing several years before women had any hope of Olympic glory.

New Zealander Bevan Docherty says he was snubbed by Lance Armstrong after beating the seven-time Tour de France winner into second place at the Panama half ironman on Sunday, Armstrong's first professional triathlon.

Davis Cup hero Dan Evans has the potential to break into the world's top 100, according to the captain of the team against whom he came of age.

"I've broken my shoulder, broken my knees, broken my feet, broken my hands, I've broken ribs, I've broken the coccyx in my back." Off-road bicycle racing is a rough and tumble world, and three-time BMX world champion Shanaze Read has suffered enough injuries to end any sporting career.

LONG jump champion Mitchell Watt is expected to compete for the first and only time this domestic season in Melbourne at the national titles next month.

Americans swept the 60-meter hurdles at the Karlsruhe indoor meet Sunday with victories by Yvette Lewis and Jeff Porter.

Greg Garza, a graduate of Indio High School and former Pac-10 discus lifts weights at Shadow Hills High School January 27, 2012.

With the crowd at its feet, Lagat glided down the track toward the record he came here to break.

Former UConn star Kemba Walker will be honored by the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance as the state's Male Athlete of the Year.

FRISCO, Texas -- Alex Morgan tied it in the 88th minute and added the winner just before the final whistle in stoppage time to give the U.S. women's soccer team a dramatic 2-1 victory over New Zealand on Saturday in a chilly exhibition game at FC Dallas Stadium.

Given a supremely tough draw in the 2012 Davis Cup, the United States is off to an exhilarating start.

Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., posted the No. 1 score in four of the five rounds to win the women's three-metre gold medal at the opening stop on the FINA Grand Prix diving circuit in Rostock, Germany on Saturday.

SPORTS organisations in Basingstoke and Deane are expected to be hit with an average five per cent cut in funding from the borough council for the next financial year.

Football legend and current Brazilian congressman Romario was named as the ambassador of footvolley by the Brazilian Confederation of Footvolley .

IN POLAR opposites Chris Guccione and Lleyton Hewitt, Australia captain Pat Rafter has uncovered a doubles combination which further strengthens a tennis team he believes is playing like a top-three Davis Cup outfit.

Ben Ainslie will face no further punishment for an incident in December's World Championships which saw him board a media boat to confront the crew.

Teddington Swimming Club's James Stanhope continued his medal winning form as he claimed 50m butterfly silver for Middlesex County at the Povoa De Varzim International Open in Portugal at the weekend.

John Isner jolted Roger Federer with his big serve and booming groundstrokes Friday, winning 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 , 6-2 to give the United States a 2-0 lead against Switzerland in the first round of the Davis Cup.

Rio state police officers voted at a rally Thursday night to begin a strike that could prompt violence during the globe's biggest Carnival bash in spite of government approval of a pay raise earlier in the day.