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POWER TRIP: If you want to get leaner and stronger while fending off type 2 diabetes, working with weights has advantages.

When you've won six successive world titles, and Olympic gold, how do you motivate yourself to keep going and achieve even more? That's the challenge facing Picton and Marlborough rowing great Joseph Sullivan as he heads to Europe today with the New Zealand elite rowing squad for two World Cup regattas and the annual Henley international regatta.

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WITH news Doug Hawkins and Barry Michael will stand for election to the Senate at this year's federal election, we thought we'd take a look at other Aussies who'd taken the step from the sporting field to the political arena.

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To its full credit, I cannot doubt that the 2012 Olympic Games were a fortnight of pure fantasy; London most certainly did itself proud in the world's largest showcase of sporting talent.

ONE of Team GB's most promising sprinters may be in the city today as Derby host the second round of the British Athletics League Division Two.

Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fought twice as professionals, and their second bout produced one of the sport's most bizarre moments.

This May 1950 file publicity photo originally released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shows Esther Williams on location for the film "Pagan Love Song.

When Michael Heup trotted down the hill from the World War II Memorial to Jonas Green State Park in Annapolis , he was beaming.

Longines Global Champions Tour of London representatives; L-R: organiser Peter Phillips, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, British Olympic gold medallist Nick Skelton, GCT founder Jan Tops, and Longines President Walter von Kanel.

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The interim WBA lightweight championship will be on the line this Saturday night from the Bell Centre in Montreal, as two undefeated Latin American fighters seek to add to their resumes.

London Olympic medallist Simon van Velthooven and teenage star Dylan Kennett enjoyed victories on the second day of the UCI tier one international track event in Spain, while outstanding prospect Michael Vink prevailed in a prestigious UCI 1.2 category road race in Belgium.

Bob Casey. When it was announced three months ago that wrestling was being dropped as a sport in the Olympic Games, Sen.

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Special Olympian Liam Dennehy, 11, of Hopkinton is congratulated by Paul Montray of the Merrimack County Sheriff's Department after winning a gold medal in his division for the "turbo javelin" toss Friday in Durham.

Mount Everest is not just the highest peak on the planet, not just the incarnation of the Supreme Being, not just a pinnacle of exemplary beauty which has silently witnessed the world unfold before its eyes -- but the 8,850 metre high summit probably signifies the zenith of all human emotions.

Belfast's Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan, Tommy McCarthy and Sean McComb will all start their 2013 European Championship campaign in the next few days.

Four students at renowned Fort Lee Team USA Taekwondo Fitness have qualified for the 2013 USA ITF World Championship in Spain this October.