As Atletico Madrid prepare for the start of the new La Liga season, the Spanish club has made a significant signing off the pitch by snapping up Maria de Villota to race for the team in Superleague Formula by Sonangol.
Every day of the Surf Life Festival there will be the opportunity for visitors to the Festival to
try a new challenge such as beach volleyball, rugby, football and even freerunning.
The World Youth Qualifying Finals starts today. Australia take on the hosts The Cook Islands, Jamaica vs NI, NZ take on Malawi and England fight against SA, matches start at 5pm
So the real business has started, and the stadium and the surrounds felt different today. The crowd was larger, more vociferous, with more flags, and definitely more partisan, creating the kind of atmosphere that these championships deserve.
For the second-straight year, Maria Antonelli stood atop the Otera Open podium with a Brazilian partner as she and Talita Antunes captured the women’s gold medal here late Saturday afternoon at the US$380,000 SWATCH FIVB World Tour event in the southern Norwegian resort city. photo FIVB
Dutch squash star Natalie Grinham grabbed the biggest WISPA World Tour title of her life when she upset top seed Natalie Grainger in today\'s (Sunday) final of the A1 Homes New Zealand Women’s Squash Open at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. photo WISPA
The Rogers Cup starts today in Tornoto, Canada. The Worlds Top players start their campaigns including Dinara Safina, Serena and Venus Williams, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic,,,,stay tuned
Though unable to score a try, France held a firm grip on their IRB third place ranking over Canada, scoring all of their points on kicks to take a 12-7 victory at the 2009 Womens Nations Cup.
Lisa Meldrum became the third Canadian to win on the 2009 Duramed FUTURES Tour today when she captured her first Tour title at the $100,000 iMPACT Classic. photo futurestour.com
Bandits third baseman Stacy May wasted no time making a statement against Rockford’s undefeated pitcher Cat Osterman, blasting just the third pitch of the game from Osterman deep to centerfield for the solo homerun to give the Bandits a 1-0 lead with no outs in the bottom of the first.
Australias Women clinched another gold medal on the final day (16/8) of the XIII Asia Pacific Championships in Kuala Lumpur to end its campaign in fine style.
In a hotly contested battle that was decided in the final seconds by only a half point, Courtney Conlogue ripped through the waves in Oceanside, California, this afternoon and bested her competitors to claim the honor of being the 2009 Supergirl Pro Junior Champion and take home the $5,000 top prize.
Pauline Ado (Hendaye, FRA), 18, won the ASP Grade-2 Oakley Pro Junior in France, respectively in the women’s division, finishing atop an international field over 150 competitors to raise the coveted trophy in front of a massive crowd.
Number one seed, Japanese Misaki Morizono versus number two seeded Korean Yang Ha Eun was the top class final in the Girls Singles event at the Korean Junior and Cadet Open on Sunday 16th August 2009. Cadet aged Yang Ha Eun of Korea is the most successful player on the Junior Circuit. Photo By: An Sung Ho
Qian Chen shocked Crystal Palace to become the first ever Chinese female pentathlete to triumph at the World Championships as the Great British team had mixed fortunes. Report and photo David Brenchley
Jessica Ennis (Sheffield) took the World Heptathlon gold medal in a final session of excellence where she moved to second on the UK all time lists on a points score of 6731, 238 ahead of German Jennifer Oeser in silver on 6493.
BERLIN - Team USA\'s women led the charge in the morning session as all 100m and 800m women advanced to the next round, and Michelle Carter and Rachel Yurkovich qualified for their respective finals Sunday morning at the 2009 IAAF World Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
Britain will have four women in the final of the Modern Pentathlon World Championships on Sunday as Heather Fell, Katy Livingstone, Freyja Prentice and Mhairi Spence all qualified in Friday’s Semi finals. Report by Jenna Davies
In the top of the seventh, Bandits catcher Rachel Folden finally broke through against Rockford’s Cat Osterman, getting the first hit of the game off Osterman (11-0) for a single through the left side. Bandits’ first baseman Samantha Findlay followed Folden up with her own single to put two on.
Over 600 women came to East Manchester to play netball (Sat 1st AUG) at Wright Robinson College the home of Dominoes Netball Club Manchester. This year’s tournament was the biggest event yet !!
Californian Mina Harigae has a thing for Kentucky Bluegrass. In her two trips to the land of fine horses and mint juleps, she has come away victorious in golf. photo futurestour.com
Costly errors foiled the Bandits for the second day in a row as the Akron Racers (26-14) were able to take down the Bandits (23-11) by a score of 4-0 in the Sunday afternoon battle.
East Londons Rosy Hodge took the silver medal at the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games in Costa Rica yesterday after finishing in second place behind American Courtney Conlogue in perfect four foot surf.
