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When masses of people from around the world descend on a city for the Olympics, public health experts get a bit jittery. It’s easy to understand why: Thousands of tourists cramped into stadiums and bars inevitably swap bacteria and viruses. In the past, this has led to outbreaks of measles and norovirus. This year, there’s an extra layer of anxiety shrouding the upcoming Summer Games in August in Rio…

Russia has cleaned up its act ahead of a decision by the international anti-doping body next month on whether to lift a ban on Russian track and field athletes in time for the Rio Olympics, the Russian Sports Minister said Tuesday. “I don’t see any strong reason to keep our sportsmen from competing in the Olympic Games,” Vitaly Mutko told reporters at the palatial Ministry of Sports in central Moscow….

Wednesday night the NASCAR Hall of Fame is going to announce five new members who will be joining the Hall as the class of 2017. Every single one of these 20 names that were nominated are truly worthy. There are several on that list that I have worked for and worked with, so I can speak from first-hand experience as to why they deserve NASCAR’s highest honor. I’ll admit I…

MOSCOW – Ten medalists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including 2012 high jump champion Anna Chicherova, were among 14 Russians that tested positive in the reanalysis of their doping samples, state television reported Tuesday. Match TV said 11 of the 14 athletes on its retest list are from track and field, including 4×100-meter relay gold medalist Yulia Chermoshanskaya. The others are two weightlifters and a rower. CBS Evening News New…

British Cycling’s interim performance manager, Andy Harrison, was forced to issue a swift apology and ‘clarification’ to his riders after appearing to suggest that their places at this summer’s Olympics might be in jeopardy if they spoke negatively to the media about their experiences on the programme. In an email at 5.05pm on April 29, at the end of the week in which technical director Shane Sutton resigned amid claims…

Golf waited 112 years to make it back to the Olympics. With Rory McIlroy suggesting the Zika virus may keep him from making the trip to Rio to compete in the summer games, it can surely wait another four. McIlroy, following Sunday’s Irish Open victory, conceded that what experts are predicting could be a “full-blown global health disaster” due to the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil have him “monitoring”…

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Fourteen of the 31 athletes found to have doped at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing are Russian, according to the country’s state media. A report by Tass suggests that the majority of those 14 individuals compete in track and field events, putting Russia’s athletics participation at Rio 2016 in further doubt. An International Association of Athletics Federations taskforce has already been set up to decide whether Russia’s athletes will be…

British Cycling’s interim performance manager, Andy Harrison, was forced to issue a swift apology and ‘clarification’ to his riders after appearing to suggest that their places at this summer’s Olympics might be in jeopardy if they spoke negatively to the media about their experiences on the programme. In an email at 5.05pm on April 29, at the end of the week in which technical director Shane Sutton resigned amid claims…

The Political Crisis The president’s impeachment has plunged Brazil into chaos. In December, with a corruption scandal threatening to boil over and the economy slumping, members of the political opposition in Brazil’s legislature launched efforts to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, who won re-election for a second term in 2014. Earlier this month, Rousseff’s opponents got their wish when a majority of the Senate voted to remove her, suspending her from…

Amid the bedlam of unintended consequences brought about by an untested format, NASCAR’s All-Star Race was actually a welcome departure. Yes, it may have been confusing and controversial, but NASCAR’s annual exhibition at Charlotte Motor Speedway produced high quality racing. And that in itself has been a rarity in recent years, with one of NASCAR’s marquee events more often than not a dud. Before Joey Logano ran down…

Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET, the five individuals who will form the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2017 will be announced, along with the winner of the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR.    Thursday, cars return to Charlotte Motor Speedway to prepare for Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600, the longest race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the Hisense 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race. The highlight of…

An accurate metaphor for what happened to the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race format. Photo credit: Brian Lawdermilk/Stringer/Getty Images The “All-Star” event in any sport is a special one, since the best competitors get to battle it out with not much at stake but their pride. NASCAR has one also, and they try to make the race unique by using a new, oddball format each year. This year was so bad,…

Good morning everyone and welcome to this historic encounter as the U.S Men’s National Team face Puerto Rico for the very first time. Neither team has played since March so it will be interesting to see how much rust they can shake off as they commence the beginning of a busy summer. This is an interesting fixture as this is a chance to see what the future holds for Team…

NASCAR re-jiggered the format of Saturday’s Sprint All-Star Race in the hopes of pumping more drama into the event. The changes only appeared to cause confusion and hard feelings at Charlotte Motor Speedway. So, after Joey Logano passed Kyle Larson with three laps to go to win his first All-Star Race (and the $1 million that went with it), only one thing was completely clear: The idea of driving from…

New tires are king at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and so is Joey Logano. A NASCAR All-Star Race gimmick conceived by driver Brad Keselowski put six-time champion Jimmie Johnson and defending Cup champion Kyle Busch at the front, but on old tires, for the final segment. They held those spots for less than two corners. Kyle Larson and Logano, two of the first three cars on new tires, quickly overtook the…

CHICAGO (May 21, 2016) – U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has named the 23-player roster that will compete in the historic 2016 Copa America Centenario. The roster includes 15 players from the 2014 FIFA World Cup squad, and a total of 18 who have already appeared in Qualifying for Russia 2018. Veterans like team captain Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey marshal the group boasting loads of…

When qualifying was rained out for tonight’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (9 p.m. ET on FS1) it spawned confusion among fans and even some racers. Would the field for tonight’s race be set by the morning’s practice speeds or by owner points? Denny Hamlin jumped on Twitter to get an answer and he got one from the top — as NASCAR executive vice president and chief…

Brock Nelson takes a shot against Cam Talbot of Canada in the semifinals at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on May 21, 2016 in Moscow. The United States fell to Canada 4-3 in the semifinal round of the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship on…

RELATED: Results from Segment 3   CONCORD, N.C. — Kyle Larson shoehorned his way into the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race by whatever means necessary, making a full-contact lean on Chase Elliott‘s fenders on the last lap of Saturday’s Sprint Showdown preliminary.   Did the contact cross the line of sportsmanship? Maybe not, with both drivers deeming it a compulsory evil with the checkered flag in sight and a chance at a $1…