Kenenisa Bekele made it a unique double Olympic long-distance double for Ethiopia yesterday with relentless front-running that wore down everyone who dared to keep pace in the 5,000 metres. ...

The 2008-09 Premier League campaign gets under way this afternoon with the opening fixture between Floriana and Hamrun Spartans....

Birkirkara FC: Angus Buhagiar and Trevor Cilia (from Floriana), Patrick Borg (from Msida SJ). Coach John Buttigieg...

Sirens Centro Casalinga 12 Sliema McDonalds 13(3-2)(2-5)(4-2)(3-4)...

The International Rugby Board doesn't want a football-style club vs. country player row to affect its chances of getting a seven-a-side version of the sport into the Olympics. ...

One day after the US softball team failed to win the gold medal for the first time, the sport's officials pointed to Japan's victory as proof that their game is globally competitive and deserves to return to the Olympics. ...

World champion Maris Strombergs of Latvia won the men's BMX gold yesterday, sweeping to the front at the start of the winner-take-all final and never losing control in the sport's first-ever Olympic finals. ...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown avoided public criticism of the Chinese government's human rights record yesterday as he met the country's leaders in Beijing and prepared to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. ...

Athens gold medallist Steven Lopez of the United States was upset in the quarter-finals of the men’s 80-kilogram taekwondo tournament yesterday, losing in sudden-death overtime to Mauro Sarmiento of Italy. ...

Blonska stripped of heptathlon silver Lyudmila Blonska has been stripped of her Olympic silver medal in the heptathlon for doping. The Ukrainian athlete has been disqualified and kicked out of the Beijing Games ...