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Warner takes lead after Day One of decathlon, Mayer lurks
Canada’s Damian Warner snatched the lead after the opening day of decathlon competition at the world athletics championships on Wednesday but will have restless night with world record holder and defending champion Kevin Mayer lurking just 30 points back.
Leading coach Salazar gets four-year ban for doping violations
American Alberto Salazar, who has coached some of the world’s top distance runners including British multiple Olympic and world champion Mo Farah, has been banned for four years for doping violations.
Athletics: Kenya's Chepkoech powers to women's steeplechase gold
Kenya’s Beatrice Chepkoech stormed away from the field to win the 3,000 meters women’s steeplechase gold medal at the world athletics championships on Monday, making amends for a mistake that cost her a place on the podium two years ago.
McIlroy criticizes European Tour for easy course set-ups
Rory McIlroy slammed the European Tour after the final round at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at St. Andrews on Sunday, saying courses were often too easy to properly test the world’s best players.
Equestrian: Horses take the ferry for show-jumping event on New York island
You can lead a horse to water but can you make 95 of them board a ferry from Lower Manhattan to an island in the middle of the New York Harbor?
Brissett looks to stay hot vs. visiting Raiders
Jacoby Brissett gets a shot at the Oakland Raiders for the first time in his career Sunday afternoon when the host Indianapolis Colts seek a third straight win in a duel of former playoff combatants and Super Bowl champs.
World Cup host Qatar sees climate-controlled stadiums as the future
On a late September evening in Qatar a persistent 35 degree Celsius heat hung outside the 2022 World Cup host’s newly-built Al Janoub stadium, but down on the pitch the temperature was a cool 21 degrees.
Skateboarding: Sky has no limits, British prodigy eyes Tokyo
Sky Brown, the 11-year-old skateboarding prodigy who is poised to become Britain’s youngest ever Olympian at the 2020 Tokyo Games, has already amassed an enviable resume.
UEFA tells teams not to play where women can't watch
European football’s governing body (UEFA) said on Tuesday it would tell member clubs and national teams not to play games in countries where women do not have full access to stadiums.
Russia facing potential Olympic ban after WADA cites 'inconsistent' data
Russia is once again in danger of being banned from next year’s Olympics after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revealed that historical data supplied by the country’s anti-doping authority contained “inconsistencies”.