Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko appears close to rejoining his former team AC Milan after two unconvincing seasons at Chelsea, repubblica. it reported Wednesday.

Vlasios Maras fell off the horizontal bar on Saturday at the Beijing
Games in another Greek tragedy for the former two-time world champion
on the apparatus.

Jens Lehmann announced Friday he has decided to quit as German national football team goalkeeper.

Veteran Spanish keeper Cesar Sanchez is all set to join Tottenham from
Zaragoza on a free transfer, according to media reports in Spain and
England on Friday.

Chelsea have made an official approach to Real Madrid to buy Brazilian
international Robinho reportedly worth close to 20 million pounds (38
million dollars), it was reported Friday.

Du Li must defy the pressure of more than a billion people when she
aims to give Olympic host China the first gold medal of the Beijing
Games on Saturday.

The IAAF confirmed Thursday that it has provisionally
suspended seven Russian athletes for tampering with doping samples.

Chinese Olympic officials have promised the 2008 Games will be "clean"
with a radical new procedure being used to prevent doping, Wu Moutian,
deputy director of the Chinese Anti-doping Agency, said on Thursday.

Cycling star Riccardo Ricco admitted to doping Wednesday in a hearing
in front of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) which was called
following his failed dope test at this year's Tour de France.

Spanish Liga club Osasuna announced Wednesday that veteran striker Santi Ezquerro had signed a two-year contract with them.