The Australian team will not move into the Olympic Village for next month’s Rio de Janeiro Games because of problems including ‘blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring’, the head of the country’s delegation Kitty Chiller said yesterday.

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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho revealed yesterday he was ready to go home as the club’s pre-season tour of China threatened to descend into farce.

Pep Guardiola pushed aside any suggestion he would not shake hands with arch-rival Jose Mourinho and insisted all would be friendly when Manchester City play Manchester United today.

Qatar’s Adel Hussein Abdulla stormed back into contention to win the FIA T2 World Championship for Drivers by winning the category at the Teruel-based Baja Spain Arag?n, round five of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, yesterday.

Defending champion Lewis Hamilton produced a trademark triumph of pace and panache to win the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday ahead of Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg and replace him as leader of this year’s world title race.

Qatar’s Abdalelah Haroun, a World Indoor silver medallist, won the 400m with a season’s best timing of 44.81 at the IAAF World Under-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Friday.

The snark during recent seasons had been of LeBron James doubling as general manager, be it the additions he insisted upon during his Miami Heat tenure (Mike Miller, Ray Allen) or those he helped orchestrate with the Cleveland Cavaliers (Andrew Wiggins for Kevin Love, acquiring JR Smith, the above-m

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Robbie Keane and Gyasi Zardes scored early goals and the Los Angeles Galaxy ended the Timbers’ nine-match unbeaten streak with a 2-1 Major League Soccer victory in Portland on Saturday.

New England manager Sam Allardyce believes it is just the right time in his career for him to be taking on what some have called the impossible job.

Pakistan were bowled out for 198 in reply to England's first innings 589 for eight declared, a huge deficit of 391 runs, on the third day of the second Test at Old Trafford on Sunday.