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IOC set to decide on new sports for 2016 Olympics

13.08.09

International Olympic Committee leaders are meeting to decide which two sports to recommend for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Games... more

First Lady of ballet is back on stage after her hardest performance

22.04.09

She's the Royal Ballet star who has more international invitations than any ballerina since Margot Fonteyn... more

Darling, you’ve changed your sums so fast...

08.01.09

Alistair Darling says the Treasury will abandon its forecast that the economy will start growing again in the second half of 2009... more

London must wait on Golden future

06.01.09

London will have to wait to discover whether it will be given a Golden League meeting in a planned restructuring of the series, the International Association of Athletics Federations has revealed... more

Football Talk

06.11.08

Jose Mourinho's Premier League winner’s medal goes under the hammer, Alisher Usmanov ups the stakes, West Ham head to court, and Mark Hughes should be looking over his shoulder according to Football Talk... more

Football Talk

16.10.08

Alan Pardew's future, David Seaman's glee at Spurs' dismal start to the season, Ashley Cole and a still bitter Robbie Savage make it into this week's Football Talk... more

IOC retest samples

08.10.08

The International Olympic Committee will retest 5,000 doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new bloodbooster drug... more

Finance

08.10.08

Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

Tevez legal battle set to rumble on

02.10.08

Football: West Ham have been boosted by a delay in the outcome of Sheffield United's Ł30million damages claim against them over Argentina star Carlos Tevez... more

West Ham step up their fight in Tevez saga after winning tense derby battle

29.09.08

Football: West Ham face two important dates this week as they intensify their campaign against the controversial judgement of the Football Association's independent tribunal in the Carlos Tevez affair... more

Hammers defiant over Tevez cover-up claims

24.09.08

Football: West Ham insist they will stand by under-fire chief executive Scott Duxbury and maintain that his position is not under review after the Carlos Tevez affair... more

Hammers set to fight crippling Tevez verdict

23.09.08

Football: West Ham are preparing to fight an independent tribunal's decision to rule in favour of Sheffield United over the Carlos Tevez affair... more

Danvers has to settle for third place once more

03.09.08

Athletics: Britain's Natasha Danvers finished in third place behind Melaine Walker and Anna Jesien in the 400 metres hurdles at the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Lausanne... more

Olympic blade runner go-ahead

16.05.08

An athlete with no legs dubbed Blade Runner has won the right to compete in the Beijing Olympics... more

Creative interpretation

16.04.08

The visual concept and stupefying technological wizardry helps make Stifter's Dinge a show that resonates in the mind.... more

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