*The debate over whether or not David Haye will come out of retirement to meet Vitali Klitschko goes on, with plenty of opinions being voiced on all sides.
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*Unbeaten Mexican star Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr hung onto his World Boxing Council middleweight crown on Saturday by stopping US challenger Peter Manfredo in the fifth round. * * * The American tried in vain to evade the champion's blows before referee Laurence Cole halted the bout one minute and fifty-two seconds into the fifth round.
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Jenson Button has set the pace in the first practice for the penultimate race of 2011 in Abu Dhabi this weekend.
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Ian Thorpe’s return to the pool after five years away from international competition was, as he himself had predicted, less of a bang than a whisper.
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*Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel wrapped up the 2011 world title but if he was hoping to seal the deal with a win in Japan, he was disappointed, as Britain’s Jenson Button took the top spot on the podium.
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British rider Bradley Wiggins claimed silver as Germany's Tony Martin lived up to his billing as favourite to lift his first time trial world title in Copenhagen. Martin showed his class by completing the course in 53 minutes 43. 85 seconds with Wiggins finishing one minute 15. 88 seconds behind in second.
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Kenyan Martin Mathathi set a new course record for the Great North Run at the weekend, coming home in just 58 minutes and 56 seconds, the sixth fastest half-marathon time in history.
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Prodigious Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake proved himself a serious contender for team-mate Usain Bolt’s Olympic 200m crown in Brussels on Friday night, storming home in the second fastest time in history.   The 21-year-old upstaged his fellow Jamaican and training partner at the last Diamond League meeting of the season by clocking a stunning 19.
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Jamaica’s new 100m world champion Yohan Blake produced a personal best of 9. 82 seconds to beat Asafa Powell at the latest Diamond League meeting in Zurich.
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In a world where sporting prowess and achievement is rewarded by multi-million pound deals and endorsements from the world’s biggest sponsors, it’s no wonder so many people look at sport as a career.
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*Usain Bolt insists he will not let his disqualification from the 100m final affect him when he defends his 200m title at the World Championships.
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As Britain’s Dwain Chambers lamented his shock disqualification in the 100m, two athletes with plenty to prove made it through to the semi-finals of the 400m * * After plenty of controversy and hype surrounding his qualifying,  first for the right to enter the Championships alongside able-bodied athletes, and secondly to reach the necessary qualifying time, double amputee...
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It’s raining in Belgium but that hasn’t stopped Michael Schumacher celebrating 20 years in the sport with a pace-setting drive in the first practice for the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend.
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Mark Cavendish has pulled out of the Vuelta a Espana during the fourth stage, after a tough start was compounded by the fierce heat.   The Manchester sprint champion had pulled out during the 170km Baza to Sierra Nevada leg, and comes after HTC Highroad team mate Matt Goss withdrew in Stage One.
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Jamaican former world record holder and fastest sprinter in the world this year Asafa Powell has pulled out of Friday’s Diamond League meeting at Crystal Palace.   The race would have been the last chance to see Powell, who ran 100 metres in 9.
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On Day Four of the Fina World Aquatic Championships in Shanghai, fourteen-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Phelps picked up his first Gold of the competition in the 200m butterfly.
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Hamilton triumphs in Germany Lewis Hamilton reignited his Formula One championship challenge with a much-needed victory in the German Grand Prix.   Hamilton led on four separate occasions throughout the race at the Nurburgring, the most important of which was naturally at the end to dispel all the negativity that has surrounded him of late.
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The Tour de France goes uphill on Thursday with Thomas Voeckler predicting further trouble in his bid to retain the race leader's yellow jersey.
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Geraint Thomas anticipates a breakaway will prevail in Friday's 13th stage of the Tour de France.   Thomas expects to take a back seat on the 152. 5-kilometres stage from Pau to Lourdes after 12 days as one of the Tour's most prominent riders.
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There are times in life when you can struggle, momentarily, to find the most perfect expression to sum up in one, succinct and lucid manner, the emotion of an occasion which, in all probability, will linger in your memory for the rest of your days.
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