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Jo Pavey will compete in a fifth Olympic Games after being selected to represent Team GB at the Rio Games. The 42-year-old, who will be the oldest British woman to run in a Games, achieved the 10,000m qualifying time at the European…

Rio de Janeiro has overcome setbacks and is "ready to welcome the world" to the 2016 Olympics, says the International Olympic Committee. Nawal El Moutawakel, who heads the IOC group monitoring the preparations, has made her final visit to…

Usain Bolt will defend both his Olympic 100m and 200m titles and the 4x100m relay title after being named in the Jamaica team for Rio 2016. There had been worries over his participation after he injured a hamstring at the national trials.…

Spain's Alberto Contador has ruled himself out of the Rio Olympics after injury forced him to withdraw from the Tour de France. Contador pulled out of the Tour during Sunday's ninth stage and says his recovery will take four weeks. The…

Thierry Henry has left Arsenal after manager Arsene Wenger said he could not combine his job as a television pundit with his youth coaching role. Henry worked with youth players as part of his Uefa A Licence course, but was not prepared to…

Serena and Venus Williams reached the women's doubles final at Wimbledon with a straight-set victory over Julia Goerges and Karolina Pliskova. The unseeded American duo, who have won five Wimbledon doubles titles, triumphed 7-6 (7-3) 6-4…

Liverpool and France defender Mamadou Sakho has had a doping case against him dismissed by Uefa. The 26-year-old served a provisional 30-day suspension after testing positive for a 'fat burner' in March. Read more:…

Yorkshire batsman Gary Ballance has been recalled to the England side for the first Test against Pakistan at Lord's next week. England's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson misses out with a shoulder injury Read more at:…

Britain's Dina Asher-Smith and Greg Rutherford won gold medals at the European Championships on Thursday. British record holder Asher-Smith, 20, ran a season's best 22.37 seconds to win the 200m in Amsterdam. Read more:…

Belgian Greg van Avermaet won stage five of the Tour de France - the first in the mountains this year - to take both the yellow jersey and a big lead over the race favourites. The 31-year-old was part of an early breakaway and finished…

Lazio have appointed former Argentina boss Marcelo Bielsa as manager. The 60-year-old Argentine, whose most recent managerial position was in France with Marseille, will start work on 9 July. Lazio finished eighth in Serie A last season,…

England one-day captain Eoin Morgan is concerned about the security situation in Bangladesh, where the team are due to play five times in October. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is monitoring events after an attack by Islamic…

Barcelona have exercised a buy-back clause to re-sign midfielder Denis Suarez from Villarreal. Suarez, 22, has signed a four-year contract with an option of extending it for a further year after the Spanish champions agreed to pay a £2.73m…

American sprinter Justin Gatlin ran the fastest 100m time of the year at the US Olympic trials for Rio 2016. The 2012 bronze medallist, 34, finished in 9.80 seconds, beating 20-year-old Trayvon Bromell who qualified for his first Olympics.…

Manchester City have signed 19-year-old Ukraine midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko from FC Ufa. The teenager played for Ukraine at Euro 2016, featuring in all three group games before his country's elimination. Read more:…