2010
07.29

Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will leave Astana at the end of this season after the Spaniard rejected the team’s offer to extend his contract, reports BBC Sport.
In three seasons with AstanaContador, 27, won two of his three Tour titles, a Giro d’Italia and Spanish Vuelta title

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Alberto Contador / Astana Team rides by the Arc de Triomphe during the final stage of Le Tour de France 2010, from Longjumeau to the Champs-Elysees in Paris
2010
07.29

Diego Maradona has accused the Argentine Football Association of “lies and betrayal” after his contract as national coach was not renewed reports BBC Sport.
Maradona claimed national team manager Carlos Bilardo “worked in the shadows” to oust him after Argentina’s quarter-final exit at this summer’s World Cup.

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Diego Maradona in action during the 1986 World Cup final against West Germany at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City
2010
07.28

Mo Farah clinched Great Britain’s first gold medal of the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona by storming to victory in the men’s 10,000m reports BBC Sport
Farah, 27, came home in a time of 28 minutes, 24.99 seconds, finishing ahead of fellow Britain Chris Thompson, who made it a GB one-two in the event

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Mo Farah celebrates victory in the Mens 10000m Final at the European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium, Barcelona
2010
07.28

Sir Chris Hoy does first lap of the 2012 Olympic velodrome reports BBC Sport

Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy is the first person to cycle around the London velodrome – a venue which is being constructed for the 2012 Olympics – while second on the track is London mayor Boris Johnson.

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Chris Hoy Olympic Champion in action
2010
07.27

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has slammed the “hypocrisy” of those who have criticised Fernando Alonso’s victory in Sunday’s German Grand Prix the BBC F1 website reports.
Ferrari have been fined $100,000 for appearing to give Felipe Massa a coded order to allow Alonso through to win and referred to F1’s governing body.

But Montezemolo replied: “Enough of the hypocrisy. This has always happened.”

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Felipe Massa / Ferrari takes the lead at the first corner at the start of the German Grand Prix at Hockenheimring
2010
07.26

England World Cup winner Jason Robinson will come out of retirement to play for National League club Fylde next season reports the BBC Sport website

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Jason Robinson in action during the World Cup Rugby semi final match between England & France

2010
07.26

Alberto Contador sealed his third Tour de France title in four years as Mark Cavendish won the final stage in Paris for the second successive year reports BBC Sport.

The Spaniard finished safely in the pack on the Champs Elysees to preserve his 39-second lead over Andy Schleck, with Russian Denis Menchov in third

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Alberto Contador / Astana Team on stage 19, the individual time trial of the 2010 Tour de France

2010
07.23

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso was quickest in the second practice session at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim reports the BBC F1 website.

The Spaniard traded fastest laps with the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel, who was second, and Mark Webber who was fourth – behind Ferrari’s Felipe Massa.

Lewis Hamilton crashed his McLaren in first practice and only had 12 minutes’ running in the second session after repairs but was still seventh

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Fernando Alonso / Ferrari F1 watches his monitor during practice for the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix in Monte Carlo

2010
07.23

Alberto Contador clung to the rear wheel of  Andy Schleck up the final major climb of this year’s Tour de France reports BBC Sport.

The defending champion held a lead of eight seconds over the Luxembourger, who was unable to shake off his rival up the 15.5km of the Col du Tourmalet.

Schleck’s attack with 10km left of the 174km stage from Pau left the rest of the overall contenders in his wake taking the Stage 17 win but Contador finished right up with his rival.

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Andy Schleck / Team Saxo Bank leads Alberto Contador / Astana Team as he attacks the Col du Tourmalet during stage 17 of the Tour de France
2010
07.22

Michael Schumacher says he will drive for Mercedes again in 2011 – because he has not reached his “final target” of winning an eighth world championship reports BBC F1 Sport.

Ahead of the German Grand Prix, a race he has won four times, Schumacher is ninth in the drivers championship, 109 points adrift of leader McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and 54 points behind team-mate Nico Rosberg.

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