Summer Olympic News

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.

David Beckham was not quite the outstanding British footballer of his generation.

After David Beckham's long and distinguished football career ends on a remote plastic field in northwestern France, his life promises to be far more glamorous once he steps away from the game he loves.

Phillips, 28, started for Indiana Fever as they won the 2012 WNBA championship but the commitment cost her the chance to represent Australia at last year's London Olympics.

This is a Tuesday, May 7, 2013 file photo of the Royal Oak Chronograph Leo Messi No.

A STUNNED community paid tribute to a "larger-than-life family man" after the death of British Olympic gold medal winning sailor Andrew Simpson.

Pascale Bercovitch has a firm handshake and a ready smile. She's hard to keep up with as she takes an elevator to a cafe on the ground floor of her gym in northern Tel Aviv and talks about her hopes to compete in 2016 in Rio De Janeiro.

TRAFFORD Metropolitan Borough Swimming Club celebrated a 100 years of competitive swimming with a spectacular swimming gala held at Sale Leisure Centre on Saturday.

UK Athletics performance director Neil Black insists the best is yet to come from Christine Ohuruogu as she targets her second world 400m title in Moscow later this year.

Pau Gasol has immediately penciled himself out of playing for the Spanish National team during the FIBA European Championship.

The lease for its Fort Lauderdale museum, open since 1965, expires in 2015. Hall of Fame officials say the city's planned redesign for the aging Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex and its swimming pools would move the museum to an unappealing building and would fail to attract more visitors.

Commuters and visitors passing through Grand Central Terminal Wednesday might run into something unusual: an international wrestling match in Vanderbilt Hall.

The America's Cup sailing regatta will go ahead, organizers said on Tuesday, following concerns about safety due to the death of a sailor in a training accident last week.

Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer appear back on track after early losses in Madrid last week.