One of William Fox-Pitt's elite horses, Cool Mountain, will miss the Olympic Games due to a tendon injury. Fox-Pitt won the Rolex Kentucky title in 2010  and Great Britain team gold at the 2010 World Championships with Cool Mountain.
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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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*Speedo’s new swimwear technology has been unveiled, with promises of record breaking results at London 2012. *   The swimwear manufacturer claims their radical approach to swimwear means performances will be faster than those offered by previous high tech suits which were outlawed under technological doping rules in 2009.
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A hulking presence standing over 6 foot, 3 inches tall with his head shaved closely to the scalp, Sydney-born Stirling Mortlock is a comprehensive ‘True Blue’ stereotype, even before you take his 80 Tests for the Wallabies into account.
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Details of confidential reports into England’s performance on and off the pitch during the 2011 World Cup tournament have been leaked to the press and tales of players focused on money rather than rugby and a shambolic coaching regime have been revealed.
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Graham Henry, who has taken charge of the Barbarians squad in the run up to their fixture against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday, looks like he is basking in a blissful hangover, and who can blame him? Four years on from an ignominious Rugby World Cup exit at the hands on France in a sodden...
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Bayern Munich chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has revealed an attempt to prise Portuguese winger Nani away from Manchester United.   According to German sources, Rumenigge said: “We had an interest in Nani, but unfortunately the price went up and up so he was too expensive.
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Saints’ manager Jim Mallinder has more than the England job on his mind as he admitted that Northampton’s chances of reaching knockout stages of the Heineken Cup for the third successive season are looking remote.
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  Newcastle United target Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa has admitted that he is interested in sealing a move away from Montpellier and has even begun to learn English in preparation of a move.
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When he lines up for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday, Danny Cipriani – the immensely talented, yet frustratingly prodigal son of English rugby – will be thrust back into the thoughts of Red Rose fans once again.
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  Tottenham are hoping to land Lille striker Moussa Sow in the January transfer window and will offer the French champions Roman Pavlyuchenko in exchange for the prolific forward.
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Former Australia coach Eddie Jones has set out his stall for the England job, while two more possible candidates have said they wouldn’t take the job if it was offered.
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World number four Roger Federer began the season-ending ATP Tour Finals in London's O2 Arena with victory over French powerhouse Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. The match wasn’t without drama, as Federer, having won the first set in just 21 minutes, lost the second, before destroying Tsonga’s fight in the 10th game of the decider.
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Toro Rosso’s Friday driver Jean-Eric Vergne believes he could be as good as Red Bull’s Mark Webber given the chance.   Vergne tested champion Sebastian Vettel’s RB7 during the young driver test at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix circuit, coming in fastest in all six sessions over the course of three days.
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