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Sports Authority Holdings Inc.’s vendors and landlords are looking to pull the plug on the retailer’s bankruptcy case. The retailer’s unsecured creditors filed court papers Friday calling for the lights to be shut off permanently, saying Sports Authority faces mounting administrative claims on which it will never be able to get a grip. …

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

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Associated Press MOSCOW The International Olympic Committee is weighing up whether to ban Russia from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro after revelations of a massive doping cover-up, but relations between the two were once much sunnier. When IOC president Thomas Bach was elected in 2013, he was called almost immediately by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country was then gearing up to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi….

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

COLORADO SPRINGS — Outside it was a beautiful spring day with Pikes Peak looming majestically to the west, but as Desiree Linden pounded out miles on a treadmill in a hermetically sealed room at the Olympic Training Center, it was a Sunday morning in August in Rio de Janeiro. And she wasn’t at 6,100 feet, she was at sea level imagining the Olympic marathon. Linden was sweating hard in the…

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Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Updated July 23, 2016 14:26:03 Photo: Stephen Dank climbs into an ambulance after the shooting. (ABC News) Stephen Dank, the sports scientist at the centre of the Essendon doping scandal, has told of being shot at through the window of his house while he slept in the early hours of the morning. ABC News Radio contacted Dank, who said he was advised by police not to do…

Image copyright DAVID MARIUZ Image caption There has been a big increase in the number of people playing cricket in Scotland in recent years The number of people participating in sport in Scotland has increased in recent years, according to new figures. The SportScotland statistics showed the overall number of people registered to sports clubs had risen from 706,764 to 768,212 since 2013/14. The rise applied to almost all sports…

Holding power to account is a core responsibility of being an MP. It is all the more important when so often ordinary men and women in an insecure world have few other ways of protecting their interests, above all at work. So to see Mike Ashley, founder and chief executive of Sports Direct, blustering out his astonishment at the experiences of his workers must have been some slight compensation for…

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

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Moscow — At first glance, the divide between Russia and international athletic bodies over how to deal with the country’s allegedly state-backed doping – and the harsh punishments that are looming for Russia and hundreds of its athletes – looks insurmountable. Western experts argue that only the “nuclear option” of a total ban on Russian participation for at least one Olympic cycle will help to focus minds in Moscow. That,…

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The billionaire retailer Mike Ashley has been running Sports Direct like a Victorian workhouse, building his success on a business model that treats workers “without dignity or respect”, a scathing parliamentary inquiry has found. Related: Sports Direct boss had plenty of warning a crisis was looming The report by the business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee, which was triggered by a Guardian investigation last year, said Ashley had used…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Sunderland have moved quickly to replace Sam Allardyce, with a deal agreed for former Everton and Manchester United manager David Moyes to take over once the Englishman is confirmed as his country’s new national team boss. (Daily Telegraph) New England manager-in-waiting Sam Allardyce’s name is Scottish in origin, being derived from the old name for the area around Allardice Castle in Kincardineshire, Alrethis. (The National, print edition)…