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Michael Phelps has a sense of how his transformation from greatest middle-distance swimmer to sprinter is going. He'll have to prove it at the U.S. national championships, where there's more at stake than just titles.
Harvey Glance of Alabama and Chandra Cheeseborough of Tennessee State will coach the U.S. track and field team at the world championships in Berlin next month.
Usain Bolt is ready to chase more records.
If age is Lance Armstrong's enemy, then experience is his friend.
Lance Armstrong will be fined for failing to sign in before Monday's third stage of the Tour de France.
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt plans to run in the 400-meter relay at the London Grand Prix, where he'd already committed to race in the 100.
Howard Thompkins III scored 22 points and the United States stayed perfect with an 85-69 win over Greece in a second-round game at the FIBA under-19 world championships Monday.
Former Olympic champion Yury Borzakovsky won the 800 meters in cold and rainy conditions at the Znamensky Brothers Memorial meet near Moscow on Sunday.
American crews won just two of the 19 trophies at stake Sunday on finals day of the Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames.
Timo Bracht of Germany has won the men's race at the Frankfurt Ironman and compatriot Sandra Wallenhorst took the women's division on a day in which temperatures climbed to 86 degrees.
Triple Olympic gold medalist Jason Lezak will skip the upcoming World Swimming Championships and instead compete in Israel's Maccabiah Games in tribute to his Jewish heritage.
Marino Vanhoenacker of Belgium set a course record in winning his fourth straight Ironman Austria triathlon on Sunday, while Bella Bayliss of Britain won the women's event.
The third stage of the Tour de France is under way, with breakaway riders attacking right from the start of the ride from Marseille to La Grande Motte.
A cricket umpire has died after being struck on the head by a ball.
Taylor Phinney woke up early Saturday, settling in to watch the Tour de France prologue from his couch in Boulder, Colo.
The worst-kept secret in the America's Cup is official: Alinghi of Switzerland will sail a giant catamaran when it defends the oldest trophy in international sports early next year against bitter U.S. rival BMW Oracle Racing.
Princeton and Brown advanced to the final of the Temple Cup for student eights at the Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames.
Lance Armstrong put in a solid performance in his comeback at the Tour de France on Saturday, finishing the first stage ahead of 170 riders many years younger and a respectable 10th behind winner Fabian Cancellara.
Ashton Gibbs scored 18 points to help the United States beat Egypt 112-55 on Saturday, completing a sweep of pool games at the FIBA under-19 world basketball championships.
Asafa Powell overcame a poor start to win the 100 meters in a photo finish at the Bislett Games on Friday, but fell short of clocking his 50th time under 10 seconds.
Michelle Kwan will skate before an audience for the first time in three years when she joins world champion Kim Yu-Na in Ice All-Stars 2009 in Seoul, South Korea, in August.
When the United Football League debuts in October, Michael Vick could be one of its players.
Olympic speedskating great Claudia Pechstein of Germany was banned for two years because of blood doping Friday and will miss the 2010 Vancouver Games.
Sprint star Tom Boonen of Belgium has been cleared to compete in the Tour de France after winning his appeal of a ban for testing positive for cocaine.
The 37-year-old Armstrong remains an intriguing contender for the yellow jersey. The American finished 12th overall in his first-ever Giro d'Italia this May after coming back from an early-season collarbone break, showing flashes of his old form in support of Levi Leipheimer. He certainly has the experience to win.