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• Robin Goodfellow's Racing Tips: All the best bets for Tuesday, August 9

  08-08-2016 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow gives his hottest selections ahead of Tuesday's meetings at Nottingham, Lingfield, Chepstow and Thirsk.
  
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• Watch: Wild celebrations as hosts Brazil win first gold

  08-08-2016 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brazil win their first gold medal of Rio 2016 as Rafaela Silva beats world number one Sumiya Dorjsuren in the women's 57kg judo.
  
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• Japan, Uchimura win team gold in men's gymnastics

  08-08-2016 23:55
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest from the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• West Ham sign Swansea forward Ayew for £20.5m

  08-08-2016 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Forward Andre Ayew signs a four-year deal with West Ham United after moving from Swansea City in a £20.5m deal.
  
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• Paralympics ban for Russia different from IOC decision - Bach

  08-08-2016 23:43
  By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russia's exclusion from next month's Paralympic Games in Rio is a different situation from the IOC's decision to allow some Russian competitors to take part at the Olympics, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Monday. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) only had to ban one federation -- the Paralympic Committee of Russia -- while the IOC had to take a decision involving competitors from 28 international federations
  
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• Judo - Ono ends gold medal drought for Japan's men

  08-08-2016 23:40
  By Chris Gallagher RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Japan's Shohei Ono won gold in the men's -73kg judo at the Rio Games on Monday, ending an anxious wait for a Japanese men's team that had not claimed Olympic gold since 2008 in Beijing. Ono had been on a surge all day and emphatically capped his campaign with an ippon -- judo's equivalent of a knockout -- to defeat Rustam Orujov of Azerbaijan.
  
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• A day of tears and tumbles for Great Britain's women's gymnastics team... but 'Sass Squad' can claim first Olympic medal in Rio 2016

  08-08-2016 23:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MARTHA KELNER IN RIO: Many tears were shed inside the gymnastics arena on Sunday night as the women's team were reunited with their families who had nervously watched their qualification.
  
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• UK rapper Stormzy leaks Paul Pogba's transfer to Manchester United - FOXSports.com

  08-08-2016 23:29
  
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  UK rapper Stormzy leaks Paul Pogba's transfer to Manchester United
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  Paul Pogba's potential record-breaking move back to Manchester United has been the talk for an entire summer. He had a medical scheduled on Monday, but no official confirmation of the transfer has been made. However, UK rapper Stormzy, a known ...en meer »
  
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• Former world No.1 Wozniacki knocked out

  08-08-2016 23:28
  By Drazen Jorgic and Scott Malone RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova knocked out former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the second round of the Rio Olympics on Monday, in another poorly attended tennis match on centre court. Twice Wimbledon champion Kvitova overpowered Wozniacki 6-2 6-4 to progress to the third round, where she will face either Russia's Ekaterina Makarova or Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.
  
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• Rio to make new flags for China after criticism over flaws

  08-08-2016 23:21
  By Brenda Goh and Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Rio 2016 organising committee is making new flags for China after Chinese citizens watching the ceremony on television complained that the stars were incorrectly positioned. You have to be very familiar with the Chinese flag to notice it (the mistake)," Games spokesman Mario Andrada said. The complaints arose after China won medals in shooting and swimming events and its flag was raised as part of the medal ceremonies.
  
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• China wins Olympic gold in men's 10 metre synchronized diving

  08-08-2016 23:18
  By Joshua Schneyer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China's Chen Aisen and Lin Yue as expected won gold in the men’s 10 metre synchronized diving at the Rio Games on Monday, keeping alive the country's goal of a clean sweep in all eight events. Teams from the United States and Britain won the silver and bronze medals. With near perfect execution and synchronization scores over six dives, the world champions won by a wide margin. They were diving together for the first time at an Olympic Games. I
  
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• Equestrian - Australian eventers lead after daunting course

  08-08-2016 23:12
  By Caroline Stauffer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Australia led the eventing after Christopher Burton rode a fast and clean round on a cross country course full of falls, refusals and time penalties. Defending champions Germany dropped from first after dressage to fourth in team standings on Monday though Michael Jung, who took home individual gold four years ago, is in second place behind Burton. ''I took a few long routes because this is a difficult course... but he is so fast!'' said Burton, 34
  
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• Australian eventers lead after daunting course

  08-08-2016 23:11
  By Caroline Stauffer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Australia led the eventing after Christopher Burton rode a fast and clean round on a cross country course full of falls, refusals and time penalties. Defending champions Germany dropped from first after dressage to fourth in team standings on Monday though Michael Jung, who took home individual gold four years ago, is in second place behind Burton. ''I took a few long routes because this is a difficult course... but he is so fast!'' said Burton, 34
  
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• West Ham pay record fee for Ghana striker Ayew

  08-08-2016 23:08
  (Reuters) - Ghana striker Andre Ayew has joined West Ham United from Premier League rivals Swansea City for a club record fee of 20.5 million pounds, the Londoners said on Monday. Ayew played a pivotal role in steering Swansea away from relegation last season, netting 12 times in 34 starts as Francesco Guidolin's side finished 12th in the table.
  
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• Watch: Drinkhall first Briton into last 16 of table tennis since 1992

  08-08-2016 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Paul Drinkhall becomes only the third Briton to reach the last 16 in the Olympic table tennis competition.
  
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• Croatia's Glasnovic wins trap gold in shootoff

  08-08-2016 23:03
  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Josip Glasnovic won Croatia's first gold of the Olympics in the trap-shooting, beating Italy's Giovanni Pellielo in a four-shot shootoff. Glasnovic, a 33-year-old who also competed in Beijing in 2008, hit a perfect 15 of 15 in the semi-final but missed two in the final. He then fired four of four in the shootoff. Italy's Giovanni Pellielo, 46, earned his third silver medal in his seventh Olympic appearance. Edward Ling, a 33-year-old Briton, took the bronze medal from
  
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• Olympics - Cool temperatures, few mosquitoes make Games Zika-free, so far

  08-08-2016 23:01
  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - So far, at the Olympics many feared would be the Zika Games, so good. With as many as one million people expected to attend the spectacle, half of them foreigners, Rio de Janeiro has not turned out to be the Zika hothouse some athletes and visitors feared as the virus wreaked havoc in Brazil earlier this year. Despite some hot days, swings back to cooler temperatures in Brazil's winter mean that the population of the mosquito responsible for spreading th
  
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• West Ham complete signing of Andre Ayew from Swansea in deal worth £20.5m

  08-08-2016 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  West Ham have signed Swansea's Andre Ayew for £20.5million on a three-year deal. The Ghana forward joined the Welsh side on a free transfer last season, scoring 12 goals in 34 appearances.
  
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• Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow secure bronze medal by impressing in final round to pip Germans to third spot 

  08-08-2016 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Even with an Oscar-winning screenwriter for a partner sat among a rather modest crowd, this did not go exactly to script for Tom Daley.
  
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• Olympic results from DAY THREE, Rio 2016 Games LIVE: TEAM GB GOLD MEDAL UPDATES as Tom Daley grabs bronze

  08-08-2016 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Follow Sportsmail's coverage of the Olympic Games as Great Britain hope to add to their medal haul from day two in Rio. James Guy and Tom Daley feature on day three
  
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• Watch: GB's Daley & Goodfellow win diving bronze

  08-08-2016 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain pair Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow win Olympic bronze in the men's synchronised 10m platform at Rio 2016.
  
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• Sailing - Regatta sets sail on dirty water, tricky winds

  08-08-2016 22:57
  By Jeb Blount RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Olympic sailing began an 11-day regatta on Monday with near perfect winds as competitors showed little fear of heading back into waters criticised for sewage-borne pathogens and floating garbage. Britain's Nick Dempsey scored victories in the first two races in the RS:X class on the Escola Naval course on Guanabara Bay. With winds blowing 10 to 11 knots and strengthening to 14 after the 1:05pm (16.05 GMT) start, Dempsey grabbed large early leads in both r
  
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• Daley & Goodfellow win diving bronze - highlights & report

  08-08-2016 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain pair Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow win Olympic bronze in the men's synchronised 10m platform at Rio 2016.
  
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• Real without Ronaldo, Bale, Kroos and Pepe for Super Cup

  08-08-2016 22:54
  (Reuters) - Real Madrid will be without forward pair Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, midfielder Toni Kroos and defender Pepe for Tuesday's UEFA Super Cup encounter with Sevilla in Trondheim, Norway. France striker Karim Benzema is also doubtful for the match between the Champions League winners and the Europa League holders because of a back injury.
  
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• Rio 2016 Olympics: Daley and Goodfellow celebrate bronze for GB

  08-08-2016 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow win bronze in the men's synchronised 10 platform, with China's Lin Yue and Chen Aise taking gold.
  
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• Rio 2016 Olympics: Kenyan 'dance of celebration' for Mungai's boxing win

  08-08-2016 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kenyan coaches do a "dance of celebration" for boxer Peter Mungai Warui's split decision win in men's 49kg.
  
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• Phelps feels pain of aging and late-night races

  08-08-2016 22:49
  By Mary Milliken RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A big round purple bruise on his right shoulder, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps emerged from the pool in his qualifying heat for the 200-metre butterfly on Monday feeling the aches and the toll of late-night races in his fifth Olympics. The right shoulder, he said with a bit of a wince, "is where I hurt the most." Coming out of retirement in 2014 after a stint in rehab following his second drunk driving arrest, Phelps said the quick turnarounds between th
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Great Britain's Nick Dempsey takes windsurfing lead

  08-08-2016 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Great Britain's Nick Dempsey leads the men's RS:X windsurfing after three races at Marina de Gloria in Rio.
  
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• The Latest: Australian rider taken on stretcher after crash

  08-08-2016 22:44
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest from the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Rio 2016 Olympics: Rafaela Silva wins Brazil's first gold

  08-08-2016 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Watch the wild celebrations in the judo arena as Rafaela Silva wins Brazil's first gold medal of their home Olympics in Rio.
  
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• T20 Blast: Notts beat Essex by 39 runs to make Finals Day

  08-08-2016 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Samit Patel's superb spell of 4-20 sends Nottinghamshire to T20 Blast Finals Day as they beat Essex in the quarter-finals.
  
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• Beach Volleyball - Mixed fortunes for Brazil

  08-08-2016 22:37
  By Stephen Eisenhammer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's male and female beach volleyball pairs enjoyed mixed results on Monday, with the men losing to Austria but the women crushing Argentina to book a place in the final 16. Both pairs are considered gold medal favourites on their home sand, but male duo Alison Cerutti and Bruno Schmidt lost to Austria's Alexander Horst and Clemens Doppler 23-21, 16-21, 15-13. Austria, reeling from a straight sets defeat against Italy on Saturday, fed off a h
  
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• Weightlifting - Oldest ever Games lifter slams cheats and calls time

  08-08-2016 22:30
  By Brian Oliver RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Belgium's Tom Goegebuer became the oldest competitor in Olympic weightlifting history when he finished 14th in the men’s 56kg at the Rio Games and is now looking forward to retirement and, most of all, a cold beer. Having competed in his career against some rivals who were taking drugs, it was a ban on dopers from Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere that freed up places for his swansong in Rio. Throughout the 1990s Goegebuer said he never stood a cha
  
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• Cycling - Australians crash in training for team pursuit

  08-08-2016 22:25
  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Australian track cyclist Melissa Hoskins was taken to hospital after crashing in training for the women's team pursuit at the Olympic velodrome on Monday. Hoskins and several other members of the team hit the wooden boards after the high-speed accident but she appeared the most seriously injured and was taken from the track on a stretcher. There was no immediate word on her injuries. Ahhlee Ankudinoff, Georgia Baker and Amy Cure were also involved and suffered minor in
  
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• Judo - Silva wins first gold for host country Brazil

  08-08-2016 22:23
  Brazil's Rafaela Silva overcame top seed Sumiya Dorjsuren of Mongolia to win gold in the women's -57kg judo on Monday, sending the crowd into joyous celebration of their first Olympic gold as host country. Silva raised her arms to the crowd in triumph as she beat Dorjsuren on a waza-ari, following a pulsating semi-finals victory that went into extra time against Romania's Corina Caprioriu. Gold for Silva marks a fairytale rise to the Olympic podium from a childhood in Rio's notorious "City of Go
  
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• Suicide bombing at Pakistan hospital leaves dozens dead

  08-08-2016 22:19
  
  At least 70 killed in deadly Quetta hospital attack claimed both by the ISIL group and a faction of Pakistan Taliban.
  
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• Brazilian fans boo foreign athletes in culture clash

  08-08-2016 22:15
  By Andrew Downie and Drazen Jorgic RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilians brought a football fan's raucous attitude to the Rio Games on Monday, wildly cheering their own athletes, booing and mocking opponents -- and creating uncomfortable moments for Olympic athletes unaccustomed to no-holds-barred partisanship. Brazil-Argentina rivalry is more likely to cross the line from teasing to tense, as Argentinian tennis player Juan Martin Del Potro discovered on Monday during a centre court match agains
  
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• Rowing - Champion British pair save unbeaten record in final stretch

  08-08-2016 22:08
  By Angus MacSwan RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The five-year unbeaten streak of Britain's all-conquering rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning nearly ended on Monday as a spirited Danish duo led them until the last five metres in the women’s pair heat at the Olympic rowing regatta. The reigning Olympic and World champions were making a first appearance on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro after the race was postponed on Sunday due to high winds. Just keeping ahead, they were
  
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• Spats over doping dominate Olympic swimming events

  08-08-2016 22:03
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lilly King has her sights set on winning Olympic gold and she's not about to let anyone get in her way, especially not world champion breaststroker Yulia Efimova of Russia.
  
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• Brazil police detain director of THG Sports for illegal ticket sales

  08-08-2016 21:49
  By Daniel Flynn and Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police said on Monday they had detained a director of international sports hospitality company THG Sports and a woman working as an interpreter at the Rio Olympics on charges of fraudulent marketing of tickets for the Games. Police identified the THG director as Kevin James Mallon and the translator, who they said was also an employee of the company, as Barbara Carnieri. "We created a group with the police around two years
  
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• Mike Phelan: Hull caretaker boss in charge for visit of champions Leicester

  08-08-2016 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mike Phelan will take charge of Hull for their first match of the season against champions Leicester on Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Australia, New Zealand in rugby sevens final

  08-08-2016 21:23
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest from the 2016 Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Petra Kvitova knocks out former world No 1 Caroline Wozniacki to book spot in the third round at the Rio 2016 Olympics

  08-08-2016 21:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova knocked out former world number one Caroline Wozniacki in the second round of the Rio Olympics on Monday.
  
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• Dani Alves insists Juventus are at the 'same level' as Barcelona following free transfer

  08-08-2016 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dani Alves won 23 trophies during his eight years at Barcelona but the Brazilian believes Juventus are at the same level following his free transfer this summer.
  
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• Van Vleuten hoping to leave hospital today after horror crash

  08-08-2016 21:16
  
  Less than 24 hours after her horror crash in the women’s road race, the Dutch rider is hoping to leave hospital.
  
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• Ed Ling wins bronze for Great Britain in trap shooting

  08-08-2016 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Taunton farmer Ed Ling won Britain's third medal of the Rio Olympics with bronze in the trap shooting. The 33-year-old defeated Czech David Kostelecky 13-9 in the 15-shot contest.
  
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• Great Britain 7-25 New Zealand: Team GB lose out in women's rugby sevens semi-final but have bronze medal shot

  08-08-2016 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Great Britain's women will fight for an Olympic bronze medal in the rugby sevens on Monday night after being beaten 25-7 by New Zealand in their semi-final in Rio.
  
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• Highlights & report: British farmer wins trap shooting bronze

  08-08-2016 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ed Ling wins Great Britain's third medal of the Olympics with bronze in the men's trap shooting.
  
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• British farmer wins trap shooting bronze - highlights & report

  08-08-2016 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ed Ling wins Great Britain's third medal of the Olympics with bronze in the men's trap shooting.
  
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