Serena Williams raced into the third round at the Olympics, winning the final 10 games to beat Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-2, 6-0 yesterday. The match took only 44 minutes. ...

Two devastating defeats in two days have left former champion Laure Manaudou wondering whether she should quit the swimming competition midway through. ...

A British boxer accused Olympic judges of favoring his Chinese opponent yesterday, a few hours after the Ukrainian team lost its protest of a decision in its fighter's loss to another Chinese boxer. ...

Brazil, Germany in women’s football last eightCristiane scored three first-half goals for Brazil to come from behind to beat Nigeria 3-1, and Germany needed a late winner to defeat North Korea 1-0 ...

Michael Phelps put on another dominating performance at the Beijing Olympics, winning the 200-metre freestyle yesterday with a third straight world record. ...

The IAAF scrapped the 4x400-metre relay world record set by the United States in 1998 because of Antonio Pettigrew's admission of doping. Michael Johnson, Tyree Washington and Jerome Young...

CANOESingle Men: GOLD Michal Martikan , Slovakia SILVER David Florence Britain BRONZE Robin Bell Australia...

Matthew Asciak, Malta’s no 1 tennis player has been involved in various training camps and tournaments abroad during the last five weeks....

Local Premier league newcomers Qormi yesterday added another signing to their long list of signings this summer as they bought defender Roderick Sammut from Birkirkara for good....

FIFA could move Georgia’s upcoming World Cup qualifier against Ireland because of the escalating crisis in the country. World football’s governing body said yesterday it has yet to decide if the country is safe enough ...