World Sport News

“Sylvain Chavanel, how is your health? Very good! It's been exactly two months that I had surgery. A herniated disc as large as an inch in vertebrae L5-L7. It compressed the sciatic nerve and causes pain in the legs until the feet. I now live without pain. This is an extraordinary change, particularly in the

Wengen is probably one of his favorite stations on the circuit and the super-combined undoubtedly his best discipline. Everyone had done with the huge favorite Ivica Kostelic the first handset of winter, in Switzerland on Friday. But after the early descent, the horizon seemed responsible for the Croatian, only 23rd at 2 “96 Beat Feuz

quadruple Olympic champion (1988, 1992), who retired after the Atlanta Games (1996), aligns with the 400 freestyle and 800 freestyle on Sunday. “Excited to swim fast against all these youngsters,” the American said Thursday on the social network Twitter. His compatriots Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin, who was 24 years younger, and Frederick

His goal was “to be as close as possible to the podium during the three days of competition in Chaux-Neuve and win at least once.” Jason Lamy Chappuis has completed the first part of contract by taking second place in the first of three events held this weekend in the resort of Franche-Comté. The Olympic

“The list is not the best time of preparation.” But Claude Onesta had to choose between twenty-one players. On arrival, it takes seventeen in Serbia during Euro 2012. Cyril Dumoulin, the guardian of Chambery, author of a great start to the season, is one of the recalibrated. “But I told Cyril that I was well

DeLaet to commands card 63, a 7-under par, Canadian Graham DeLaet moved to head the tournament, after the first round played Thursday. He is ahead by two shots Swede Carl Pettersson, South Korea's KJ Choi and American Kyle Reifers. Leaderboard after 1st round 1. Graham DeLaet (CAN) 63 2. Carl Pettersson (SWE) 65 K.J. Choi

Certainly, there's Didier Cuche, seeking a first win in Wengen after a three second place finishes (2007, 2008, 2011), and then also his fellow Swiss Beat Feuz, new terror of the descent (still impressive in Friday the handset), and of course American Bode Miller, who feels so good on this track also shifted to him,

Nikola Karabatic (center-half of the France team): “It was a good game, committed, a bit jerky too. We missed shots, given the attacks against … But then we made the difference. We did not lose the right to Bercy. It's nice to have kept our unbeaten there, to a full house. It was heartwarming. We

Bryan Coquard, 19, finished at the top the first day of the omnium, Friday, at the first day of the round of World Cup track cycling in Beijing. Everything starts well for Bryan Coquard in Beijing, the third of four stages of the Track World Cup, which ends in February in London. The young French,

With only eight wins in 2011, Quick Step, became Omega Pharma-Quick Step for the reinforcement of the sponsor who left Lotto, has much to atone for this season. The formation of Patrick Lefevere was presented Friday at Vilvoorde, a suburb of Brussels, and will be based largely on the strength of the old Quick Step.

“This is the game we needed,” commented Claude Onesta few minutes after the victory. By winning against a rough team of Norway, the French have had a taste of what awaits them in Serbia from Monday to the Euro. They won because they are the best players in the world, but they have also suffered.

“With friends, we laugh. They tell me that the discipline was created for me “laughs Bryan Coquard. His opponents in earlier omnium grind teeth. At 20, the rider of Vendée U grew up on the track along the omnium, a combination of six tests of endurance and speed, appeared at Worlds 2007 and added to

31 straight wins … June 18, 2000: France, Sweden, 25-12. Attendance: 9000 February 3, 2001: France, Egypt, 24-21 (World Cup, final). Attendance: 15,000 February 4, 2001: Sweden-France 28-25 (World Cup, final). Attendance: 15,000 June 8, 2001: France, Slovenia, 28-21. Attendance: 12,000. June 9, 2001: France-Russia: 24-20. Attendance: 8000. June 10, 2001: France, Egypt, 27-13. Attendance:

The mission was simple Tours for this Thursday's Champions League. It was enough to win a set of TVB against Belchatow to emerge from its Pool F and qualify for the playoffs. The Touraine did much better in their Sports Palace, they have outclassed the Poles (3-0), which allows them to take first place before

It was October 2010. The team of France, which already held the three most prestigious titles (Olympics, World, Europe), housed within it two young players: Bingo and Arnaud Kentin Mahe. Since then, the first named and joined the Blues won the world championship in Sweden last year. The second was for the moment merely the