Kim Clijsters, the winner of the U.S. Open championship, has defeated the world’s top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki at the WTA Championships with a 6:3, 5:7, 6:3 victory on Sunday. Clijsters, who has recently been on sidelines because of the injured foot, has won her fifth title of the season and third season-ending event, after she won [...]
France’s national team coach Laurent Blanc has started a campaign aimed at decreasing the number of clubs in the French top league from twenty to eighteen. Blanc says many of the French soccer players feel overloaded with too many games they have to play during the season. He further added that streamlining the national championship [...]
The FIFA’s governing body has announced Wednesday its decision to suspend two of its executive members as well as four other lower ranking members, after allegations and subsequent investigation have linked them to the vote-selling scandal. According to the FIFA’s head of ethics committee Claudio Sulser, the two high-ranking members who were barred from the [...]
The Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko has successfully defended his world title in the WBC heavyweight category in a battle against American Shannon Briggs. The duel, which took place in Hamburg in front of 16,000 fans at the O2 World Hamburg sports arena, culminated in a convincing victory of the 39-year old Ukrainian. Klitschko needed all [...]
The famous soccer player David Beckham has refused to finish his soccer career in England. It looks like Fabio Capello was determined to bring down the curtain on David Beckham’s international career, when he asked Beckham to play in a soccer match against France at Wembley in November. Beckham’s appearance at Wembley was supposed to [...]
Yuri van Gelder, the former gymnastics world champion, will miss the world championship that is due to start on October 16th, in Rotterdam, Holland, amid drug use allegations. The famous Dutch gymnast, who has been dismissed from the team for allegedly using cocaine, has firmly denied he used any drugs recently, including cocaine. The twenty [...]
Serbian government had to issue an official apology to Italy for the violence at the Euro 2012 qualifying soccer match in Genoa, after Serbian soccer fans got into a fight with Italian police. According to media reports, as many as 16 people have been hospitalized and another 17 arrested by the police following the violence [...]
Danish Caroline Wozniacki will officially become number one tennis player in the world beginning next Monday according to the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) classification. The 20-year-old Wozniacki has become the 1st tennis player from Denmark to become world’s number one player, after she has reached China Open tournament quarter-finals scoring 6:3 6:2 against Czech’s Petra [...]
The famous Liverpool soccer club may be sold to the owners of Boston’s baseball club Red Sox. Even though the agreement to sell has been announced by the Liverpool’s board, the fate of the England’s most prestigious soccer club will not be known until it has been decided in the courts. Liverpool has announced its [...]
India has assured the international sports community that the housing facilities for athletes coming to participate in the Commonwealth Games will be all cleaned up by Wednesday. India says labourers are working double hours to get everything ready for the October 3rd opening ceremony. Serious questions were raised about India’s image as the third largest [...]
