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• Britain's women beat New Zealand to secure final place

  17-08-2016 23:50
  
  By Angus MacSwan RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain beat New Zealand 3-0, with two goals coming from Alex Danson, in a tense women’s Olympic hockey semi-final on Wednesday to set up a final clash with the Netherlands. Britain led 1-0 at halftime and it was a close-fought match until the women in red made it safe with two goals from penalties in the last 10 minutes. The first quarter was end-to-end although Britain had more possession.
  
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• Golden couple Jason Kenny and Laura Trott target Tokyo glory in 2020

  17-08-2016 23:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Laura Trott and Jason Kenny are already planning to add to their combined haul of 10 Olympic gold medals with the pursuit of yet more sporting history.
  
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• Chelsea ready to launch club-record £60m bid for top target

  17-08-2016 23:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CHELSEA are ready to make Kalidou Koulibaly their club-record signing in a £60m move.
  
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• Pat Hickey will spend night in Rio hospital as police arrest him over Olympic ticket scandal

  17-08-2016 23:43
  
  Hickey is facing three charges and a possible seven years in jail.
  
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• No gold but plenty of golden moments for Parker

  17-08-2016 23:42
  By Steve Keating RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - There will be no golden end to Tony Parker's international career, nor silver or bronze either after France bowed out of the Olympic men's basketball tournament with a whimper on Wednesday falling 92-67 to Spain. It was hardly a suitable goodbye for the man considered the greatest French player ever and widely regarded as one of the top point guards of all-time - from any country. "For Tony Parker he is the best French player forever," declared France
  
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• Yeleussinov wins 4th straight Kazakh welterweight gold medal

  17-08-2016 23:40
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Daniyar Yeleussinov leaves with a more permanent — and gnarly — reminder of his Olympic experience than a gold medal.
  
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• Golf - Reed, Fowler rush back from Rio in bid to make Ryder Cup

  17-08-2016 23:39
  By Andrew Both GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - With the Rio Olympics in their rear view mirror, Patrick Reed and Rickie Fowler are turning their thoughts to the Ryder Cup, the main reason they are playing the Wyndham Championship starting here on Thursday. Reed is on the borderline of qualifying for the United States team, with Fowler on the outside looking in, so now is not the time to take a week off, even after the rigours of Rio. Reed is eighth in the U.S. standings, while Fowler is 1
  
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• Inbee Park a shot back as women's golf returns to Olympics

  17-08-2016 23:38
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Inbee Park could tell right away Wednesday that this was not an ordinary golf tournament.
  
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• Golf - American Reed wants Olympic golf format tweaked for 2020

  17-08-2016 23:38
  By Andrew Both GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - As much as Patrick Reed enjoyed the Olympic experience, he would like to see the format tweaked for Tokyo 2020. The Rio men's golf competition last week was staged like a regular small-field tour event - 72 holes of stroke play with no team aspect. Reed would like to see 30 two-man teams in Tokyo, with the stronger nations perhaps having two teams.
  
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• Brazil 6 - Honduras 0: Neymar scores fastest Olympic goal as hosts progress into final

  17-08-2016 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neymar scored a brace – including the fastest goal in Olympic history – as Brazil swept past Honduras 6-0 into the final of the men’s football tournament yesterday.
  
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• France wins dramatic jumping final

  17-08-2016 23:31
  By Caroline Stauffer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - France won its second team show jumping gold medal ever and its first in 40 years on Wednesday in a dramatic final round of competition featuring eliminations, last-minute horse swaps and rails toppling down. The United States took silver after Olympic veteran Beezie Madden withdrew due to an injured horse, meaning the United States started with only three riders and was not able to drop its worst score when Lucy Davis knocked a rail down for four
  
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• Rangers made to sweat on Joe Garner deal as contract issue holds up move

  17-08-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RANGERS boss Mark Warburton faces an anxious sweat to see if he can get Joe Garner in before the weekend clash with Motherwell.
  
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• Mo Farah: Team GB's Rio success proof London Olympics was just the beginning

  17-08-2016 23:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MO FARAH believes Team GB’s success in Rio proves that London 2012 was no fluke.
  
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• Joe Hart wants to leave Manchester City but favours a loan move after being axed by Pep Guardiola

  17-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CHRIS WHEELER: Joe Hart is determined to leave Manchester City in the next two weeks and has no wish to fight for his place under new coach Pep Guardiola.
  
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• GB gymnasts have rivalry between men and women, says coach Van Hoof

  17-08-2016 23:30
  
  • Amy Tinkler’s Olympic bronze was a relief, admits men’s technical director
  • They’re a good close-knit team but they’re competitors, really focused’Pity Britain’s gymnasts. Their competition over, they had finally been able to celebrate their historic achievements – for most of them, their first taste of alcohol in more than a year – only to be woken up the next morning by a fire drill and forced to evacuate their building. Louis Smith,
  
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• Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis set to fight for bronze in badminton doubles play-off

  17-08-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British pair Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis will fight a Chinese duo for a bronze medal in the badminton men’s doubles play-off on Thursday.
  
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• Basketball - Spain get their groove back against France

  17-08-2016 23:27
  By Mary Milliken RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Spain steamrolled over European rivals France on Wednesday with a convincing 92-67 win that could quiet concerns that the veteran team were past their prime as they head to the men's Olympic basketball semi-finals. Ranked second behind the United States, Spain got off to a bad start in the Olympic tournament only to come back with four straight wins and increasing cohesion on the court. Six-times National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Tony Park
  
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• Paralympics ticket sales at just over ten percent - organisers

  17-08-2016 23:26
  By Karolos Grohmann RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Organisers of next month's Paralympic Games have so far sold only slightly over 10 percent of tickets for the event and have yet to find the cash needed to get the teams to Rio, they said on Wednesday. The Paralympics, held from Sept. 7-18, are facing the same problem as the Olympics where many events have had empty seats as Brazilians stayed away. Organisers are also struggling to find the cash and pay grants to national Paralympic committees to he
  
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• Thailand's Jutanugarn leads after first round, Park returns

  17-08-2016 23:21
  By Liana B. Baker RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn led after the first round of Olympic golf on Wednesday, with South Korea's Kim Sei-young and Inbee Park right behind her, Park looking in fine form after taking time off to deal with injuries. The 20-year-old Jutanugarn, who won the British Open last month, shot a six-under-par 65. Park, who had sat out competitive golf until a few weeks ago to rest her thumb and back, took advantage of calm conditions to fire a five-under-
  
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• Rio 2016: Who is Nicola Adams? When is she fighting next? Will she win Olympic gold?

  17-08-2016 23:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NICOLA ADAMS became one of the icons of London 2012 by winning boxing gold - so here's everything you need to know about the Olympic champion as she looks to defend her title at Rio 2016.
  
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• Steinbrenner says Yankees fans ready to embrace Baby Bombers

  17-08-2016 23:20
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Convinced Yankees fans are ready to embrace a new generation of Baby Bombers, owner Hal Steinbrenner watched Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge hit home runs in their first major league at-bats last weekend
  
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• Newcastle 4 - Reading 1: Dwight Gayle double seals first win under Rafael Benitez

  17-08-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RAFA Benitez quickly brought his Newcastle players back down to earth after they belatedly opened their Championship account with a first win of the season.
  
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• Huskers' practice performances impress Riley in trying times

  17-08-2016 23:19
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska coach Mike Riley is impressed with the resiliency his team has shown under difficult circumstances the past month.
  
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• Pictures: Recap every single Championship done deal and loan so far this transfer window

  17-08-2016 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EXPRESS SPORT keeps you right up to date with every single incoming deal that has taken place in the Championship so far this summer.
  
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• Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark kept waiting for sailing gold

  17-08-2016 23:11
  
  • British pair all but guaranteed top spot on podium
  • Women’s 470 final race delayed for lack of windThe British sailors Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark will have to wait one more day to claim gold after officials decided it was not windy enough to run the women’s 470 Olympic final.The pair were poised to sail to victory on Thursday but the Brazilian breeze had other ideas. For more than three hours the women bobbed about in Guanabara Bay, waiting to be given the green light
  
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• Rio 2016: Team GB guaranteed silver medal after 3-0 win over New Zealand

  17-08-2016 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TEAM GB will be guaranteed at least a silver medal in the women's hockey after they overcame New Zealand.
  
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• Celtic 5-2 Hapoel Beer Sheva: Leigh Griffiths brace edges Brendan Rodgers' side closer to Champions League football

  17-08-2016 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Celtic are a step closer to Champions League football after beating Hapoel Beer Sheva 5-2. 
  
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• Cardiff 2-1 Blackburn: Shane Duffy scores two own goals and gets sent off in miserable night for defender

  17-08-2016 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Blackburn defender Shane Duffy scored two own goals in six first-half minutes before being sent off as the Sky Bet Championship's bottom club lost 2-1 at Cardiff.
  
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• Dwight Gayle’s double gives Newcastle United lift-off against Reading

  17-08-2016 23:04
  
  It was not the smoothest of take-offs but, at the third attempt, Newcastle United’s Rafa-lution finally became airborne. With the final score slightly flattering, there were quite a few nervous moments and, at times, Reading made life uncomfortable for Rafael Benítez’s still gelling team.Eventually, though, a morale-boosting first win of the season rekindled hope on the Tyne. “It was most important to get three points today,” the Newcastle manager said after a matc
  
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• Dwight Gayle’s double gives Newcastle lift-off against Reading

  17-08-2016 23:04
  
  It was not the smoothest of take-offs but at the third attempt, Newcastle United’s Championship ‘Rafa-lution’ finally became airborne.With the final score slightly flattering, there were quite a few nervous moments and, for protracted periods, Reading made life uncomfortable for Rafael Benítez’s still gelling team. Eventually, though, a morale-boosting first win of the season featuring two goals from Dwight Gayle re-kindled hope on the Tyne. Continue reading...
  
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• Volleyball - U.S. men go through to semis seeking revenge

  17-08-2016 23:02
  By Anthony Boadle RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - An inexperienced U.S. men's volleyball team defeated Poland in straight sets on Wednesday and moved into the semifinals looking to avenge early upsets that almost knocked the Americans out of the Rio Games. With eight of its 12 players competing in the Olympics for the first time, the United States outplayed Poland, 25-23 25-22 25-20, ousting a team that had won the 2014 World Championship and two days ago sent home current Olympic champions Russia. T
  
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• Nigeria 0-2 Germany: Lukas Klostermann and Nils Petersen send world champions into gold medal clash with Brazil in Olympics final

  17-08-2016 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reigning world champions Germany booked their place in the Olympic final with a 2-0 defeat of Nigeria at the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo. Lukas Klostermann and Nils Petersen scored.
  
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• Celtic edge nearer group stage despite fright against Hapoel Beer-Sheva

  17-08-2016 23:02
  
  Celtic 5-2 Hapoel Beer-Sheva
  Rogic 5, Griffiths 39 45, Dembélé 73, Brown 85
  Maranhao 55, Melikson 57
  For 54 minutes this appeared a defining occasion for Brendan Rodgers and Celtic. What happened next ensured that, however the former Liverpool manager’s tenure in Glasgow is to play out, there will be few more madcap and memorable games.Celtic were enjoying a procession towards the Champions League group stage when 3-0 ahead. Hapoel Beer-Sheva briefly roared back, triggering C
  
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• Dundalk 0-2 Legia Warsaw: Irish minnows left to rue missed chances in Champions League play-off tie

  17-08-2016 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  IAN LADYMAN IN DUBLIN: In the end it was superior fitness that told, nothing else. Full-timers 2 Part-Timers 0. Legia took control of the tie with goals by Nemanja Nikolic and Aleksandar Prijovic.
  
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• Brazil nabs Olympic official for 'illegal' ticket sales

  17-08-2016 23:01
  
  Patrick Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland,to step down "temporarily" after his arrest in Rio.
  
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• Barnsley 3-2 QPR: Josh Scowen scores last-gasp winner in enthralling encounter at Oakwell

  17-08-2016 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Barnsley beat Queens Park Rangers 3-2 at Oakwell on Wednesday thanks to an 89th-minute goal from midfielder Josh Scowen. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's men had been looking for a third win from three.
  
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• The Latest: Kenyan steeplechaser Kemboi DQ'd, loses bronze

  17-08-2016 22:59
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Six boxing judges sent home from Rio 2016 after outrage over results

  17-08-2016 22:53
  
  • International Boxing Association takes ‘immediate action’
  • Michael Conlan hits out at Aiba again after his surprise defeatThe International Boxing Association has sent home a number of judges and referees following outrage over a string of contentious decisions, amid ongoing claims of wider corruption at the Rio boxing tournament.Less than 24 hours after the Guardian reported the fears of a high-level source that corruption was a factor in some of the decisions and the I
  
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• Northamptonshire urge ECB to give them fairer TV deal in 2017

  17-08-2016 22:52
  
  • County reach T20 finals day but only three of 2016 fixtures televised
  • Northants say ‘reputation and full houses’ make them attractive propositionNorthamptonshire, the only county to qualify for two home quarter-finals this season, have asked the England and Wales Cricket Board for a fairer TV deal next year. The county have qualified for T20 finals day on Saturday for the third time in four seasons – but only three of their fixtures in 2016 have been televised. Re
  
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• US men's volleyball reaches Rio semis with 4th straight win

  17-08-2016 22:51
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — John Speraw ran along the sideline about as close as he could to actually being in the action. He was cheering Aaron Russell to make a save while crashing into the barrier some 20 feet behind the end line.
  
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• Chelsea Transfer News: Mahrez hopes ended, club record bid made, Cuadrado deal hint

  17-08-2016 22:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EXPRESS SPORT brings you the latest transfer news from Stamford Bridge.
  
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• Cycling - Pajon sets pace as BMX riders take to the air

  17-08-2016 22:47
  By Martyn Herman RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - To the untrained eye Rio's green and red Olympic BMX track can, at first glance, look like a giant crazy golf course, not a place where gold medals will be won and lost on Friday. After the thrills and spills of the Olympics road races and the high-speed, high-tech track action in the velodrome, Wednesday gave the BMX cyclists the chance to shine as the men's and women's seeding runs took place at the Deodoro circuit. Last to go, accompanied by roars f
  
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• KICKING OFF: Freeney expected to make debut with Falcons

  17-08-2016 22:46
  
  A look at Thursday's NFL preseason matchups:
  
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• Badminton - Lee still has 'anger' to prove himself: coach

  17-08-2016 22:45
  By Ian Ransom RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Badminton world number one Lee Chong Wei still has the "anger" to prove himself a good player and an Olympic champion after a doping scandal that stained his record and set back his career, according to his coach Hendrawan. The 33-year-old Malaysian is bidding for an elusive gold medal in his Olympic swansong in Rio, having suffered heartbreaking defeats by Chinese great Lin Dan in the title-deciders at Beijing and London. Lee will play Lin in the semi-fi
  
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• Newcastle 4-1 Reading: Dwight Gayle double gives Rafa Benitez his first Championship win

  17-08-2016 22:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  CRAIG HOPE AT ST JAMES' PARK: Newcastle United are out of the Championship relegation zone - now there’s something Rafa Benitez never thought he would be celebrating this season.
  
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• Charley Hull keeps herself in contention with fine opening round in women's golf in Rio 

  17-08-2016 22:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Team GB player hitting the ball well and charged with the task of taking on the reigning Open Champion.
  
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• O'Brien assumes president role at OCI after Hickey arrest

  17-08-2016 22:37
  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - William O'Brien is to assume the role of Olympic Council of Ireland president after Patrick Hickey stepped down temporarily following his arrest earlier on Wednesday, the OCI said. Hickey was arrested during an early morning raid in a beachfront hotel in Rio de Janeiro in connection with an investigation into the illegal resale of tickets at the Olympics. (Editing by:)
  
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• Thomas Bach hits out at Rio fans after pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie is booed

  17-08-2016 22:36
  
  • IOC president says crowd behaviour was ‘shocking’• Home winner Thiago Braz da Silva consoled rivalThomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee president, described the home crowd’s treatment of the pole vault silver medallist Renaud Lavillenie as “shocking” and “unacceptable” after he was booed for a second successive evening at the Olympic Stadium in Rio.Lavillenie, the French world record holder, was the favourite to win gold as he did
  
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• Savannah Marshall frustrated to find no way past her Dutch nemesis

  17-08-2016 22:26
  
  • Team GB middleweight suffers ‘really close’ defeat to Nouchka Fontijn
  • Defending champion Claressa Shields of USA powers past Russian opponentSavannah Marshall, a boxer of few words and many punches, could not find enough of the latter to reach the Olympic middleweight semi-finals on Wednesday, beaten for the fifth time in six attempts by her Dutch nemesis, Nouchka Fontijn.The words did not exactly flow afterwards either as she refused to join the chorus of criticism tha
  
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• Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark made to wait for golden lap as lack of wind postpones 470 medal races

  17-08-2016 22:25
  
  Team GB sailors Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark will have to wait a little longer to rubber stamp their impressive Olympic triumph at Rio 2016. The 470 pair, who lead New Zealand rivals Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie by 20 points in the overall standings after 10 events, only have to finish the final medal race to secure a deserved gold. The men's race, which features sixth-place Britons Luke Patience and Chris Grube, was due to take place later in the afternoon and has also been pushed back.
  
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