Where is it?: Royal Victoria Dock, East London.

How do you get there?: The Docklands Light Railway and bus routes provide the most suitable ways of getting to this venue, although London City Airport is only five minutes away. ExCeL is on the DLR Beckton line and is best reached via Custom House station. For your return journey, though, you have to board at Prince Regent station. Transport for London runs several bus routes in the area.

Capacity: 6,000-10,000.

What events will be held there and when?: Boxing (July 28-August 12), fencing (July 28-August 5), judo (July 28-August 3), table tennis

Golf's new world number one Rory McIlroy tried his hand at a different sport on Monday, winning a rally against Maria Sharapova during his girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki's tennis exhibition.

Dane Wozniacki summoned McIlroy from his courtside seat at Madison Square Garden and handed him the racquet in a lighthearted moment before the final game of her match, which she lost 6-3 6-4.

McIlroy resisted at first but then placed the tennis ball down on the blue surface, addressed it as if hitting a golf chip shot, then picked it up and started a friendly rally with the number-two ranked Sharapova.

Excessive diving is one of the curses of the modern game, but a referee at a Belgian lower league match has gone way too far in trying to redress the balance.

Julien Lecomte of Hainaut provincial side RSC Templeuvois was playing in the clash against USG Quevy last week when he was elbowed in the neck by an opponent and landed badly in the penalty area. Here's what happened next, courtesy of this clip from local TV:

If you picked out the distinctly non-Flemish sounding word "knocked out" from that video, you'll have realised what happened: Lecomte, far from feigning injury, was seriously hurt,

It's been a bad week for fans of positive quotes about China and clear quotes about the England captaincy. But it's been an excellent week for quotes about car crashes, Chelsea defenders denying all, and Arsenal managers angry at international friendlies. Enjoy our weekly round-up of the world's most quotable sports stars.

China crisis

"This place is horrendous! It just baffles me how world snooker continuously go out of their way to put tournaments on in the middle of nowhere. Dead cat found this morning. Any wonder this place stinks. Must be dead cats all round the town. Journey a nightmare.

NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski caused a stir when he tweeted a picture of a crash at the prestigious Daytona 500 race while inside his car.

Former Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya had crashed into a safety vehicle loaded with kerosene, causing an explosion and fire. Drivers in both vehicles escaped serious injury.

Keselowski, stuck in his Penske Racing car as stewards dealt with the hazard, took a picture on his phone and tweeted it with the message: "Fire! My view"

After that the racer continued to chat with fans via the social network during the lengthy delay.

The tweets helped

NASCAR driver Kevin Conway

Most NASCAR sponsors measure their investment in on-car advertisements in dollars and cents. Here's a story of one with far more value.

About four years ago, a young woman named Melissa Lech was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in suburban Chicago. Since then, her family had sought in vain for any clues about the identity of the driver.

Kevin Conway heard of Melissa's story, and agreed to put her picture and information on the rear deck lid (what, in street cars, would be the boot) of his Nationwide car for last September's Chicagoland race. Still no word, until Sunday night.

Adam Harrison scored a hat-trick with a 'bad back'

A thief who avoided prison by saying he had a bad back has been locked up after a local newspaper reported on his footballing exploits.

Adam Harrison, 25, had originally been given a suspended sentence when he was caught stealing lead from a Salvation Army church roof in his hometown of Macclesfield last July.

During the robbery, he tried to flee down a drainpipe but instead plunged 40ft and hurt his back — the courts showed mercy when sentencing him the following month and suspended his jail term.

Last October he was back in court and ordered to do unpaid work in lieu of his jail sentence

An Israeli top flight keeper has scored a surefire contender for the strangest own goal of all time.

Maccabi Haifa's Assaf Mendes was between the sticks for a friendly match against Dynamo Kiev on a windy Tuesday afternoon. A very, very windy Tuesday afternoon indeed, as Mendes found to his cost while hitting a clearance up the pitch:

Though the keeper ended up looking particularly silly as the ball looped back on itself and bounced into the net, we should point out in his defence that goalkeepers are not generally used to judging the trajectory of balls through gale force winds.

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