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• How do we get rid of drugs cheats like Justin Gatlin? Stop lining their pockets 

  24-05-2015 23:38 via
  
  MARTIN SAMUEL: The world’s top sprinter this year is Justin Gatlin, on his shoulder is Tyson Gay. Both are tainted by drugs and UK Athletics would not issue invitations to either man for an event.
  
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• Hamilton should have won - Rosberg

  24-05-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nico Rosberg admits to "mixed" feelings over his Monaco Grand Prix win after a team error costs Lewis Hamilton victory.
  
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• The story of your season in emojis

  24-05-2015 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Sport readers write an alternative history of the 2014-15 Premier League season - in stories using emojis.
  
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• Tom Sykes clinches World Superbike winning double at Donington Park

  24-05-2015 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TOM SYKES put in his bid to regain the World Superbike crown with his third winning double in as many years in the British round at Donington Park.
  
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• Asher-Smith sets British 100m record

  24-05-2015 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Teenage sprinter Dina Asher-Smith becomes the fastest British woman in history - and says she can go quicker.
  
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• Joe Root bats with freedom to help save England from losing further ground on New Zealand during day four of first Test

  24-05-2015 23:15 via
  
  LAWRENCE BOOTH AT LORD'S: Joe Root Root brings more than runs to this side. But, for the time being, the runs are doing very nicely all by themselves.
  
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• West Ham confirm Sam Allardyce has left the club shortly after defeat at Newcastle

  24-05-2015 22:56 via
  
  West Ham United have confirmed via a statement on their website that Sam Allardyce will leave the club after four years in charge of the east London outfit.
  
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• 'From dominance to desolation'

  24-05-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lewis Hamilton finds strength from despair after Mercedes lose their bearings, says chief F1 writer Andrew Benson.
  
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• VIDEO: Highlights: Munster 21-18 Ospreys

  24-05-2015 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scrum V presents highlights from the Pro12.
  
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• Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho gives Premier League winners' medal to his daughter following victory over Sunderland

  24-05-2015 22:36 via
  
  Jose Mourinho doesn't appear to be one for personal keepsakes, as the Chelsea manager handed his Premier League winners' medal to his daughter Matilde at Stamford Bridge.
  
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• Radamel Falcao: Manchester United confirm striker will not be signed for £43.2m

  24-05-2015 22:32
  
  Manchester United have confirmed that Radamel Falcao has no future at the club.
  
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• Roger Federer hits out at 'ridiculous' Wimbledon dress code after bold outfit choice in French Open

  24-05-2015 22:20 via
  
  Roger Federer defended his bold choice to wear a purple shirt and electric-orange shorts the French Open — and took a shot at Wimbledon’s infamously strict dress code.
  
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• England vs New Zealand: Ben Stokes credits his lightning century to just 'having a hack'

  24-05-2015 22:11
  
  It is an ethos that will inspire the even lowest-level village cricketer eager to up his or her batting average. England’s Ben Stokes’ record-breaking century against the country of his birth, New Zealand, was the result of the all-rounder persisting in “having a hack”, once he had got his eye in.
  
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• Wakefield 18-30 Widnes: Vikings stroll to first away win of season against Wildcats

  24-05-2015 22:08 via
  
  Widnes overcame the absence of skipper Kevin Brown to stroll to their first away win of the season and pile on the agony for coach-less Wakefield.
  
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• Jonas Gutierrez scores first goal since beating testicular cancer but admits he could have played 'last game' for Newcastle

  24-05-2015 22:01
  Newcastle hero Jonas Gutierrez has admitted that he could have played his "last game" at St James' Park after helping the club stay in the Premier League.
  
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• Northampton vs Saracens: Sarries turn attention to Bath at Wembley following victory at Franklin Gardens

  24-05-2015 22:00
  Saracens reached their fourth Premiership final in six seasons by knocking out the reigning champions and this season’s league table-toppers Northampton, 29-24 at Franklin’s Gardens. The mountain of turnovers and penalties won by Saracens, led by Jacques Burger in the terrifyingly indomitable flanker’s 100th appearance for the club, means the narrative from now until Saturday’s final at Twickenham is bound to be how Bath’s scintillating backs might escape the ravenous teeth of north L
  
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• Crystal Palace 1-0 Swansea: Alan Pardew targets four signings after his side complete their quest to finish in the top ten with Jason Puncheon starring for the Eagles at Selhurst Park

  24-05-2015 21:52 via
  
  JACK GAUGHAN AT SELHURST PARK: Alan Pardew has done nothing to disprove that since - all is well at Crystal Palace. He gleefully watched Jason Puncheon orchestrate his side's win.
  
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• Manchester United transfer news: Louis van Gaal reveals - 'I know which players have to go and which have to come'

  24-05-2015 21:47
  Louis van Gaal is expecting a busy summer of transfer activity at Manchester United having concluded the season.
  
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• Arsenal and Liverpool target James Milner has been offered a new deal by Manchester City - but 'must decide what is better for him'

  24-05-2015 21:45
  Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini says James Milner's future is still to be decided.
  
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• Sergio Aguero wins Golden Boot - every player who reached double figures in the Premier League

  24-05-2015 21:32
  
  Sergio Aguero collected the Premier League's Golden Boot award after finishing the season with 26 goals for Manchester City.
  
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• Middlesbrough vs Norwich preview: Aitor Karanka and Alex Neil battling it out for the ultimate prize

  24-05-2015 21:28
  This is the most lucrative match in sport and yet the real prize is not this coming season but the following one. The present Premier League TV deal is generous, of course, but the next one – the one for which Sky Sports and BT Sport paid a combined £5.1bn – is on another level entirely.
  
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• Frank Lampard finishes glittering career with another goal and the bumps from Manchester City team-mates

  24-05-2015 21:24
  Frank Lampard ended his brilliant career in England with a goal in his final game on these shores.
  
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• Verstappen provides F1 excitement

  24-05-2015 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Who needs new rules? Max Verstappen shows racing can be exciting with inventive and attacking driving in Monaco.
  
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• Swansea City fans reportedly fight amongst themselves as crowd trouble leaves a sour taste during their final Premier League game

  24-05-2015 21:10 via
  
  In a tightly-fought clash between Crystal Palace and Swansea, crowd trouble marred the final Premier League game of the season, as some away fans reportedly clashed with each other.
  
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• Rising Korean star Byeong Hun An fulfills his potential to land the BMW PGA Championship title at Wentworth

  24-05-2015 21:10 via
  
  Korea's 23-year-old Byeong Hun An confirmed the enormous promise he showed as an amateur with a commanding victory in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Sunday.
  
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• Robbie Britton: The Grand Union Canal Race attracts the eccentric - some might say peculiar - but real hard runners

  24-05-2015 21:07
  In the penultimate weekend of May two men fought a great battle and British sporting history was made. Although I’m not talking about muscular strongmen wearing big gloves tickling each other – these were real hard men.
  
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• Preston vs Swindon match report: Jermaine Beckford hat-trick banishes play-off jinx

  24-05-2015 21:05
  
  Jermaine Beckford hit a Wembley hat-trick as Preston ended their play-off jinx at the 10th attempt.
  
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• Celtic 5-0 Inverness: Champions get the party started by drubbing weakened Caley

  24-05-2015 21:03 via
  
  Celtic began their Scottish Premiership title-winning party after a Stefan Scepovic double helped them to an easy 5-0 win over a weakened Inverness side at Parkhead.
  
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• Mercedes snatch victory away from Lewis Hamilton with pit stop error

  24-05-2015 21:01
  
  For somebody who had just had one of the biggest prizes in motor racing snatched away at the 11th hour, through no fault of his own, Lewis Hamilton took defeat at team-mate Nico Rosberg’s hands with commendable dignity here at the Monaco Grand Prix.
  
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• Bath vs Saracens - Premiership final: Bath wide boys show England art of the possible

  24-05-2015 20:54
  
  The parallels with the World Cup final between South Africa and New Zealand almost exactly two decades ago go only so far: with all due respect to Bath and Saracens, who will contest the Aviva Premiership title at Twickenham this weekend, it is difficult for any top-flight club to roam freely across the moral high ground, as Nelson Mandela did to such electrifying effect in Johannesburg in 1995, when the continuing argument over salary cap issues threatens to leave the domestic game up to its e
  
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• Gerrard: One club, no fee, 7,000km run

  24-05-2015 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As Steven Gerrard ends his Liverpool career, we take a look at his vital statistics and see how he compares to his peers.
  
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• Jim Bolger to test colts’'mettle with Pleascach

  24-05-2015 20:50
  
  Derby prospects dominated the Classic weekend at the Curragh but, amid varying fortunes for Aidan O’Brien’s contenders, it was the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Pleascach who delivered the most conclusive trial – albeit for the Irish Derby.
  
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• PGA Championship: Ben An claims spoils despite a good drive by Chris Wood

  24-05-2015 20:49
  
  An Byeong-hun, or Ben An as he is more readily known, was probably not the first name on the lips of Wentworth folk at the start of the week. At the end of it there was little talk of anyone else, save perhaps Chris Wood, who bagged a Beamer with a hole in one.
  
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• Roger Federer angered by French Open security as an intruder manages to grab a selfie on court with the Swiss maestro

  24-05-2015 20:49 via
  
  Roger Federer is 'not happy' after a young fan ran on to the court at the French Open, after his opening round win over Alejandro Falla, in a desperate bid to take a selfie with the great Swiss.
  
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• Preston North End 4-0 Swindon: Jermaine Beckford helps to finally end his side's play-off curse after scoring hat-trick at Wembley Stadium to send Simon Grayson's men to the Championship

  24-05-2015 20:49 via
  
  RIATH AL SAMARRAI AT WEMBLEY STADIUM: For the club weighed down by the cruel history of a 26-year curse, it took only three minutes to know this was going to be different.
  
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• Manchester United star Marouane Fellaini sees red for vicious stamp on Paul McShane 18 minutes after coming off the bench 

  24-05-2015 20:49 via
  
  Marouane Fellaini's season ended in misery as the Manchester United midfielder saw red for a vicious stamp on Hull defender Paul McShane.
  
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• French Open 2015: Andy Murray’s fitness has paid off in clay season preparation

  24-05-2015 20:47
  
  The pressures on local players here at the French Open are much the same as those on the British at Wimbledon, as Andy Murray’s coach knows all too well.
  
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• Andy Murray’s fitness has paid off in clay season preparation

  24-05-2015 20:47
  
  The pressures on local players here at the French Open are much the same as those on the British at Wimbledon, as Andy Murray’s coach knows all too well.
  
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• Saturday night’s all right for anything but trashy panel games

  24-05-2015 20:45
  
  It’s over. The void yawns before us, gaping with emptiness. Along with the Premier League season, Play to the Whistle has shuffled off into the ether for an indeterminate period of time. How will we fill our Saturday nights now?
  
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• What the Raheem Sterling Liverpool contract saga teaches us: Agents will never go out of business in football's cut-throat buyers' market

  24-05-2015 20:43
  It’s a measure of the murky way information changes hands in football that Aidy Ward, Raheem Sterling’s agent, should have been so appalled when a news reporter he did not know from Adam called up last Wednesday, talked with him for 10 minutes and, heaven forbid, typed out the notes of that conversation for publication by his employers, the London Evening Standard.
  
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• James DeGale demands hero’s welcome at home after gilding gold with title

  24-05-2015 20:42
  
  Tears of joy flowed as James DeGale and his trainer, Jim McDonnell, hugged in the changing room after completing their quest to create history on Saturday night, the magnitude of the situation simply overwhelming them.
  
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• Garry Monk to commit future to Swansea following best ever Premier League finish

  24-05-2015 20:42 via
  
  Swansea manager Garry Monk is set to sign a new long-term contract at the Liberty Stadium this week after guiding the Welsh club to their best ever finish in England's top flight.
  
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• FIFA president Sepp Blatter confident of re-election as he compares himself to a 'mountain goat that keeps going and going'  

  24-05-2015 20:42 via
  
  Sepp Blatter, who is expected to be re-elected as FIFA president for a fifth term on Friday, likened himself to a Swiss mountain goat, well known for their stubborn endurance.
  
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• VIDEO: An wins PGA with masterclass

  24-05-2015 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  South Korea's Byeong-hun An shoots a seven-under-par final round of 65 to win the PGA Championship at Wentworth.
  
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• Roger Federer fumes after selfie fan is given court blanche

  24-05-2015 20:38
  
  Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka might have wondered whether this was the French Open’s idea of revenge after Switzerland beat France in last year’s Davis Cup final.
  
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• Wenger keen to reward Walcott

  24-05-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Arsene Wenger is confident Arsenal can broker a deal to keep Theo Walcott at the club, with the England forward having signed off the Barclays
  
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• Rodgers apologises for poor defeat

  24-05-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers offered an apology for an "embarrassing" 6-1 defeat at Stoke and despite it putting his future under more scru
  
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• Pochettino relieved with fifth

  24-05-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino admitted he was grateful he will not have to worry about Europa League qualifiers next season, when he hope
  
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• Pearson thinks bigger

  24-05-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Leicester manager Nigel Pearson admits he will be aiming higher than just surviving again in the Barclays Premier League next season.The
  
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• Pardew thrilled with top-10 finish

  24-05-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alan Pardew reflected on his dream return to Crystal Palace after Sunday's 1-0 victory over Swansea secured a 10th-placed finish in the Barclays
  
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