If South Korea wins the bid to host the 2022 World Cup, it plans to offer North Korea the right to host a few games to help ease tension between the two neighbors, bid chairman Han Sung-Joo said on Wednesday.
The British Olympic team will have the most athletes representing the county in more than a century at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Wayne Rooney’s ankle dominated the sports pages on Wednesday with England and Manchester United supporters waiting anxiously for news from Old Trafford about their talismanic striker.
Sixty years after the United States shocked star-studded England at the World Cup, the countries will meet again at the 2010 edition.
The government and private entrepreneurs have spent millions renovating airports and building roads, bus and rail systems, hotels and stadiums for the monthlong tournament. In the short-term, the World Cup is a money-losing proposition, but South Africans are hoping for a payoff in the future.
Briton Mark Cavendish will skip the Giro d’Italia and ride the Tour of California instead, his HTC-Columbia team said on Wednesday.
The British government’s financial watchdog renewed its concern in a report Wednesday about the 2012 London Olympics going over budget.
Caster Semenya has declared her intent to compete again this season as the IAAF continues its lengthy gender verification tests on the controversial world champion. Universal Sports’ Joe Battaglia writes that despite Tuesday’s legal posturing, control of the situation remains with the IAAF and you shouldn’t expect to see her competing anytime soon.
AC Milan defender Oguchi Onyewu has traveled to California for a checkup on his knee as he recovers from the injury that has sidelined him for most of this season.
Italy coach Marcello Lippi has indicated he will step down again after the World Cup in South Africa.