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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) - Olympic gold medallist Evan Lysacek said Thursday he won't compete for the rest of 2010, taking a break from figure skating to focus on other interests.Published 14 minutes ago |
IZMIR, Turkey (AFP) - China scraped into the second round of the world basketball championships on Thursday while Australia also made sure of their last 16 spot.Published 1 hour, 28 minutes ago |
MONZA, Italy (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button may be friends and team-mates, but both are close rivals for the world championship and each has his own goals as he enters the run-in to the end of the season.Published 2 hours, 16 minutes ago |
ANKARA (AFP) - China slumped to a crushing 87-40 defeat to Turkey in their final group game at the world basketball championships on Thursday, but still reached the second round thanks to Puerto Rico.Published 2 hours, 40 minutes ago |
FLORENCE, Italy (AFP) - Italy coach Cesare Prandelli admitted there's an atmosphere of apprehension surrounding the national team ahead of Friday's Euro 2012 qualifier against Estonia in Tallinn.Published 3 hours, 3 minutes ago |
NEW YORK (AFP) - Russian sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko, twice a US Open semi-finalist, became the latest high-ranked contender ousted at the US Open, falling 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 Thursday to 38th-ranked Frenchman Richard Gasquet.Published 3 hours, 4 minutes ago |
NEW YORK (AFP) - Top seed Caroline Wozniacki powered her way into the third round of the US Open on Thursday, handing out a 6-0, 6-0 whitewash to Taiwan's Chang Kai-Chen.Published 4 hours, 5 minutes ago |
TAUNTON, England (AFP) - The three Pakistan cricketers accused of involvement in an illegal betting scam protested their innocence Thursday as they formally withdrew from the scandal-tainted tour of England.Published 4 hours, 59 minutes ago |
ROME (AFP) - World 800m champion Caster Semenya insisted Thursday that she is not interested in what people say about her as she steps up her preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi next month.Published 5 hours, 42 minutes ago |
NEW YORK (AFP) - Andy Roddick's second-round exit from the US Open has pushed a new set of rising American men into the Grand Slam spotlight, hoping to advance the legacy of such legends as Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.Published 5 hours, 58 minutes ago |
