A lifeless wicket and resolute batting by India continued to frustrate Sri Lanka's bid to win the first cricket Test here on Friday.

Australia's Anna Meares won the women's sprint to open the Melbourne round of the cycling World Cup series on Thursday, beating China's Guo Shuang by 2-0 in the best-of-three gold medal ride off.

Sprinters Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards earned their second Jesse Owens Awards on Thursday as USA Track & Field's athletes of the year.

Paceman Thilan Thushara will miss the remainder of Sri Lanka's tour of India because of a shoulder injury, his country's cricket board said on Tuesday.

Kate Hansen clinched a spot on the USA Luge national team for the first two World Cup races Sunday, giving the 17-year-old a chance at making the Olympics.

China's former world record holder Liu Xiang has easily won his third Asian 110 meter hurdle championship, posting a time of 13.50 seconds in a driving rain in the southern city of Guangzhou.

Pakistan overcame their one-day international series loss and maintained their world champion status in Twenty20 cricket with a convincing 49-run win over New Zealand at Dubai Stadium on Thursday.

Australian cycling star Stuart O'Grady was cleared to leave hospital later on Wednesday after his collapse in the wake of a 'hot lap' of the Valencia MotoGP circuit on Sunday according to Cycling Australia.

The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) said on Monday that it had postponed a hearing into Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde's appeal against a doping ban that sidelined him from this year's Tour de France.

America's Cup challenger BMW Oracle Racing has unveiled what is believed to be the world's largest wing, which it will test as a replacement for a traditional soft-sail rig on its giant trimaran.