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Kenyan star Samuel Wanjiru finished a surprise fourth as Weidlinger kicked clear of Australian Collis Birmingham to win the 15km street race in Melbourne. Weidlinger won in 43 minutes and one second as Birmingham also impressed with second place, 17...

They were not quite unrecognisable from the side who lost the previous one-dayer by seven wickets, but by including the young tearaway fast bowlers Morne Morkel and Wayne Parnell, there was an obvious declaration of things to come. Morkel had...

He has never spoken about the Fitzgerald incident, for which he received a yellow card at the time then a subsequent eight-week ban, and a reluctance emerges when we ask about it directly. It is enough, he tries to say,...

As with growing up in a small village in Nigeria, so with being a footballer: it helps to be an optimist. That is why Joseph Yobo did not despair when his younger brother was once held for ransom for almost...

Last January, Matt received a two-year ban for taking a banned substance during competition – a huge blow to both career and reputation. How I would cope with this I do not know and hope never to find out, but...

Yes, England's World Cup bid was always going to be a shambles and, yes, the shamblers themselves were always going to have to turn to Mr Celebrity to dig them out of a PR hole of their own shovelling. If...

Yes, one by one, the quartet of global sports stars who have eschewed facial hair to vaunt the merits of a close shave have, pardon the pun, been cut down by... the curse of Gillette. First Thierry Henry, one of...

November 28, 2009 To the Sports Editor: Re “Catching Tuna From a Kayak, and Hanging On for the Ride,” Nov. 23: We can well appreciate the thrill of hooking and fighting bluefin tuna from a kayak but can’t imagine killing...

We were told to put our tennis clothes on and come down to accept our trophies,” recalled Raymond Moore, a member of the only South African team to win the Davis Cup. Bob Hewitt, who played singles and doubles for...

The win gave Namibia a 40-23 aggregate success overall, and they will now be in Pool D which includes Wales, South Africa, Fiji and Samoa. It is the fourth successive time that the Welwitschias have qualified for the showpiece tournament....