AN African tribal tattoo on Mike Tyson's face may have put an end to his boxing career and that of world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.

AN ITALIAN court has agreed to extradite to the United States a Russian man accused of fixing figure skating events at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Russian’s lawyer said yesterday.

The alleged Russian mobster charged with fixing two Olympic figure skating contests was on tape saying six judges might be involved, Italian police said as they released details from their investigation of the worst judging scandal in Olympic history.