World of Sport
  • Brazilian star misses open goal from two yards

    Brazilian star Deivid is a good footballer. Last season he was top scorer for Flamengo, the side within which former World Player of the Year Ronaldinho plies his trade.

    On Wednesday night, however, he made the kind of blunder that would shame a novice striker playing for his school U10s.

    In the 35th minute of his club's Guanabara Trophy semi-final aganist Vasco da Gama, with the score at 1-1, he was set up for the easiest tap-in of his career thanks to a brilliant bit of dribbling and a perfect pass from right-back Leonardo Moura. What happens next beggars belief:

    Vasco, scarcely able to

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  • Get this house for free*! (*assuming Brighton get promoted)A football fan has pledged to give away his house if Brighton make it to the Premier League.

    And it's no dingy two-bed terrace we're talking about, but a luxury £1.4 million mansion in the seaside town of Hove.

    Brighton & Hove Albion supporter Martin Senior has his house on the market - but he has pledged that he will refund the entire purchase price should his beloved Seagulls make it into the top flight this season.

    And it's not as if it's a particularly unlikely scenario. Despite bookies' odds of 12-1, Brighton currently sit ninth in the table and on 50 points, putting them firmly in the

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  • Olympic venue guide: Water Polo Arena

    The Water Polo Arena from the airWhere is it?: Olympic Park, Stratford, East London.

    How do you get there?: The Water Polo Arena can be found in the south-east corner of the Olympic Park, adjacent to the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre. The park is accessible by rail, underground, Docklands Light Railway, bus or coach. National Rail, London Underground and DLR all serve Stratford station to the east of the park and West Ham station to the south, while Transport for London has bus stops in the area and there will also be coach services to the park.

    Capacity: 5,000.

    What events will be held there and when?: Water polo

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  • Half marathon ‘sabotaged’ by moved signs

    The IOC is yet to comment on the Village Bakery Wrexham Half Marathon being sabotagedOrganisers of a half marathon in Wales have blasted a "malicious individual" who severely disrupted the race on Sunday by moving signs which marked the route.

    Up to 40 of the almost 500 runners in the Village Bakery Wrexham Half Marathon only ran 11.3 miles of the 13.1-mile course.

    Wrexham.com reported how race organiser Peter Norman set out on the morning of the race to check all of the signs were in position, only to find one pointing the wrong way.

    Later, while driving the lead car during the race, Norman caught up with runners who should have been behind him. The sign had been moved again.

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  • Olympic countdown: Paris 1924

    Poster for the 1924 GamesBaron de Coubertin succeeded in his efforts to give Paris the chance to atone for the failings of the 1900 Olympics, and the French capital responded with a successful event.

    In fact the French delivered two Olympics in the same year, having already held the inaugural Winter Games at Chamonix. The significance was that such events as skating and ice hockey, which had occasionally appeared in the summer schedule, now had a home of their own.

    Germany was again absent. Ireland, Romania and Poland all appeared in their own right for the first time and the Olympic motto 'Citius, Altius, Fortius' —

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  • Slovenia win ski jumping event despite huge crash

    Slovenia won the team gold at the ski flying World Cup event in Oberstdorf, Germany, despite one of their team ending up in hospital following a huge crash.

    It was the first ever victory for Slovenia in a team ski jumping event at the top level, and came in an event that that was decided on a single round of jumps due to bad weather.

    Jurij Tepes, Jure Sinkovec, Peter Prevc and Robert Kranjec scored 732.5 points to edge Austria into second place on 731.8. Norway were third with 715.9, while the Austrians' second place was enough to win them the FIS Team Tour title.

    Amazingly, the victory came

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  • Quotes of the week: ‘He treated me like a dog!’

    Sorry seems to be the hardest word for Carlitos Tevez...

    "I was kind of in a bad mood and when (Mancini) brings on De Jong and takes off Dzeko, and we're losing 2-0, I thought it was a defensive substitution. So I decided to sit back on the bench. So I'd already warmed up for 10 minutes and he has this attitude that he wants to lose 2-0 instead of 4-0.

    "So I sat down and at the same time Dzeko comes off and is really angry and has a go at Mancini. He then sees the tunnel is closed so he has to sit down next to him and they start to have an argument. Dzeko was speaking Bosnian and Mancini

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  • ‘Michel Platini’ sparks brawl, joins opponents

    A week ago, Michel Platini was wading into Dinamo Bucharest players when a friendly against CSKA Sofia degenerated into a mass brawl but the Romanians were more impressed by his football skills and promptly signed the striker from the Bulgarian side.

    The 28-year-old Brazilian, named after the former France captain and current UEFA president, has signed a three-year deal with the Romanian league leaders yet only last Wednesday, he was blamed for sparking the melee in the Turkish resort of Antalya.

    The hot-tempered Platini reacted badly when he was fouled in the second half of the match,

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  • BMX star pulls off amazing trick

    BMX rider Daniel Sandoval has pulled off an incredible trick that has stunned the world of extreme sports.

    The rider managed to land a physics-defying 720-degree double tailwhip at the FISE contest in Costa Rica. Sandoval is reportedly the first rider ever to land the trick under the glare of the camera.

    The almost unbelievable stunt involves spinning the bike around through two complete revolutions with his feet off the pedals, getting back on in mid-air then spinning round once more for good measure - before calmly riding away.

    We say 'calmly'; that's not even vaguely true, as Sandoval was

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  • Linesman floored by piece of cardboard

    A linesman in the Belgian top flight has become a laughing stock after his theatrical reaction to being struck by a missile during a match.

    Assistant referee Michele Scatorchia was running the line during the match between Lierse and Zulte Waregem when he was struck by something thrown from the crowd.

    Going down as if he'd been bullseyed by a sniper on the roof of the Herman Vanderpoortenstadion, Scatorchia's reaction sparked terror that something awful had happened among his fellow officials, the players on the pitch and almost all of the 8,500 fans present.

    The referee blew the whistle to

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