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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:…

Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, has qualified for his fifth Olympic Games after winning the US 200m butterfly trials. The 18-time gold medallist retired after London 2012 before returning to the pool in 2014. Read…

Wales captain Ashley Williams - a doubt with a shoulder injury - is fit to play against Belgium in Friday's Euro 2016 quarter-final against Belgium. The central defender suffered the injury against Northern Ireland on Saturday and had his…

Australian Olympic 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson will miss August's Rio Games after tearing a hamstring. Pearson, 29, who won gold at London 2012 and silver at Beijing 2008, suffered the injury in training. Read more:…

Gareth Bale says Wales have lifted their game to "another level" before their European Championship quarter-final against Belgium. Bale, 26, scored the winner as Wales beat Belgium 1-0 in a Euro 2016 qualifier on their way to reaching a…

The move will see him reunited with Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, who managed the 24-year-old Kenya captain during his spell as Saints manager. Wanyama arrived at St Mary's from Celtic for £12.5m in 2013 and scored four goals in 85…

Wales and Northern Ireland both have the belief they can win Euro 2016, according to their respective forwards Gareth Bale and Kyle Lafferty. The two sides meet in the last 16 of the tournament on Saturday. Read more:…

Rory McIlroy has pulled out of the Olympic Games in Rio because of concerns about the Zika virus. In a statement, McIlroy said that "my health and my family's health comes before everything else" Read more:…

It was the longest and most agonising night endured by supporters of Northern Ireland. But worth it. Three hours after their team had been beaten 1-0 by world champions Germany at Parc des Princes, they learned they had qualified for the…