UEFA gives Liverpool's Mamadou Sakho a Euro 2016 reprieve

Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho has been handed a Euro 2016 lifeline after UEFA chose not to extend his suspension from football after a positive drugs test.

The France international was provisionally banned for 30 days on April 28 by after being notified by European football's governing body of an anti-doping offence relating to a test taken after March's Europa League quarter-final against Manchester United at Old Trafford.