This week marks 115 years since Britain celebrated its first-ever heavyweight boxing champion. On March 17, 1897, Bob ‘Ruby Robert’ Fitzsimmons knocked out Jim Corbett in the 14th round of their world title fight in Carson City, Nevada.
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Young British hopeful Heather Watson was able to come back from the brink of defeat as she made her way to the second round of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami with an inspired fight back.
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*A weekend spent in Istanbul was more than enough evidence to suggest that British athletics will be coming to the London 2012 party.
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*A day spent at the Aviva Birmingham Grand Prix over the weekend was more than enough to prove that Britain's athletes are looking in good shape to excel this summer at the London Olympics.
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*British cruiserweight Ola Ofalabi hopes for a tilt at the world title in the summer but before then he has been sparring with the Klitschko’s in Austria as both brothers, Vitaly and Wladimir, prepare for world title fights against Britain’s Dereck Chisora on Saturday and France’s Jean-Marc Mormeck in March.
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*Dereck Chisora may wake up on Saturday morning as the big underdog that night in his quest to defeat Vitaly Klitschko, the WBC Heavyweight world champion, but he is convinced his time has come.
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Did you catch the men's indoor 60 metres dash in Sheffield over the weekend?   Dwain Chambers was sprinting so fast as he crossed the finish line in first place that not even the ramp and padding could prevent him from flipping over the barrier and ending up, head first down, with his legs sticking up...
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Slipping out of range with regularity, easing onto the back foot and countering with a trademark left, Thomas Stalker's first step towards Olympic deification took place at the 2011 AIBA World Championships last October.
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The Great Britian junior Winter Olympics team have won 3 medals, after winnign silver in the female bobsleigh competition on the final day. 　 Mica McNeil and Jazmin Sawyers won silver, while their teammates the GB second team, Kirsten Emerson and Frances Slater finished fourth.
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Dereck Chisora has been waiting more than a year for his opportunity to fight one of the Klitschko brothers for a world heavyweight title. The former British champion was due to face Wladimir on 11 December, before injury ruled the Ukrainian out.
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*The appointment of Ivan Lendl as Andy Murray’s full-time coach has led to the inevitable discussion as to whether he could be the man to turn Murray the contender into Murray the Grand Slam champion.
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James Blake has mysteriously withdrawn from next month's Australian Open, citing person reasons.   It will be the second successive year that the popular American has missed out on the Melbourne tournament and will no doubt be a massive blow to his comeback from a career-threatening knee injury.
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Heather Watson has been ruled out of her opening tournament of the year, in Aukland, New Zealand. She was due to be playing in the ASB Classic qualifying rounds.
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Lindsey Vonn has finally won on home soil following 46 World Cup victories and she couldn't have imagined a better place to do it than at Beaver Creek, the resort at which she grew up.
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Scotland will have to win two tie-breakers to reach the medal play-offs at the European Curling Championship after they were locked in a deadlock. David Murdoch's rink won their final round-robin match against Sweden 9-3 meaning they finished joint fourth with Czech Republic, Germany and Switzerland.
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Skip David Murdoch has kept Scotland's chances of qualifying for the European Curling Championship play-offs alive going into the final group game. Scotland beat Latvia 8-2 to bounce back from a 5-2 defeat at the hands of Denmark, the joint leaders of the group with Sweden with just one loss from seven games.
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Ted Ligety has beaten Marcel Hirscher in a World Cup giant slalom at Beaver Creek, two days after his defeat to the Austrian. The American trumped his rival to win his second race from three events this season with a combined time of two minutes 40. 01 seconds over the two runs.
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German biathlon star Magdalena Neuner has announced she will retire from the sport at the end of the season. The 24-year-old, who has won 10 World Championship gold medals and 25 World Cup races to cement her place as the most successful Biathlete of all time, announced the decision on her website.
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Scotland's men have lost 5-2 to Denmark at the European Curling Championship in Moscow. Following Tuesday morning's defeat captain David Murdoch's team have now won three and lost three of their round-robin matches.
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Scotland have hit back at the European Curling Championship in Moscow after claiming an 8-7 win over Norway. David Murdoch's continued good form was the key despite the Scotland captain handing their opponents a four in the fourth end.
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