Topic: Nordic Countries

Portuguese defender Fabio Coentrao was ruled out on Saturday of Tuesday's Euro 2012 qualifier against Norway after injuring his right thigh in Friday's opening qualifier a 4-4 draw with Cyprus. The 22-year-old Benfica defender underwent scans on Saturday and it was decided ...

Wozniacki serves up double bagel to reach third round

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark beat the heat by breezing by Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan in a 6-0 6-0 whitewash on Thursday to reach the third round of the U.S. Open on another hot, sunny day in ...

Gatlin not looking back in anger

Disgraced former Olympic and world champion Justin Gatlin says he has turned a corner and is not looking back. Gatlin was the fastest man on the planet and the star of the athletics world when he won Olympic 100m gold in Athens ...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Wednesday took another swipe at Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, dismissing him as a "small time" coach. "In my book, a great coach solves his problems. A small-time coach runs from them," the 28-year-old Sweden forward told a press conference ...

Top seed Wozniacki breezes into second round

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark made short work of American wildcard Chelsey Gullickson, breezing into the second round of the U.S. Open with a 6-1 6-1 victory to close out Tuesday's programme. Wozniacki, who has compiled a 14-1 ...

Athletics: Semenya outshone on Diamond debut

South Africa's reigning 800m world champion Caster Semenya could only finish third in her debut on the Diamond League series at the final meet of the 14-leg series here on Friday. Semenya was racing in only her fourth outing since returning from ...

Sprinter Gay open to 400m challenge

US sprint star Tyson Gay is open to converting from the shorter events of the 100 and 200m to the lung-busting 400m discipline, with one eye on the US relay team for the 2012 London Olympics. Gay, the world leader in the ...

Kenyan Rudisha breaks men's 800m world record

BERLIN (Reuters) - Kenyan David Rudisha broke the men's 800 meters world record on Sunday, clocking a time of one minute 41.09 seconds at the ISTAF athletics meeting in the German capital. Rudisha snatched the world record from Denmark's Wilson Kipketer, who ...

Dolph Lundgren flexes box office muscle

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After a 15-year hiatus from big Hollywood movies, Dolph Lundgren, the man who played Drago in "Rocky IV" and He-Man in "Masters of the Universe," returns to the spotlight as one of "The Expendables," the new box ...

Tyson Gay sprints to 100m season best

America's Tyson Gay has followed up his Stockholm win over Usain Bolt by clocking the fastest 100m time this season in a blistering triumph at a rain-soaked London Diamond League meeting. Gay won in 9.78sec in miserable, damp conditions at Crystal Palace ...
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