Former tennis star Jennifer Capriati is due in court in south Florida in a stalking and battery case involving her ex-boyfriend.

THERE was good news for Ireland ahead of next year’s Olympic Games in London following the appointment of Dr Marie-Elaine Grant to the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission (Games Group).

IT is probably inevitable that we will be told that the Chinese are exploiting the Olympic Games for their own political purposes, as if the Americans, the Germans, the Russians, the British, or all the others had not done so already.

“A CROWD of us were going along the Shepherd’s Bush Road when out of a lane came a chap with a donkey — just the sort of donkey and just the sort of cart they have at home,” Michael Collins recalled. “He came out quite suddenly and abruptly and we all cheered him. Nobody who has not been in exile will understand me, but I stand for that.”

Legendary Russian swimmer Alexander Popov has announced he is calling time on his illustrious career at the age of 33.

Boxing star Oscar de la Hoya has revealed he will drop down to the welterweight division after rubbishing reports of his retirement.

AS usual, swimming took pride of place during the first week of the Olympics and one of the features has been Germany’s failure to win a gold medal. As of yesterday they were reduced to just one bronze.

Crown Prince Felipe wrapped up a sun-soaked relay through the streets of Madrid today, touching the torch to light an Olympic cauldron in one of the capital’s most symbolic squares.

A former Colombian international footballer has been killed and four others injured by a lightning strike during a practice session with his team.