My Sports News Digest

Three competing tweets have been nominated, and your vote will decide the winner. Check out the nominated tweets and vote for your favorite in the poll here: Adam Rippon outsmarts a mosquito “Sitting outside and just outsmarted a mosquito. Pants are tucked into my socks and jacket tucked into my pants. WHAT NOW, MOSQUITO?! Boom.” -Adam Rippon Louie Vito attempts to do laundry in a foreign language “Doin laundry in French is NOT easy…lets hope it all doesn’t shrink…or stink.” -Louie Vito Alex Shibutani sees a milestone in the distance “So excited right now. ONLY 5,338 more followers to 10,000. [...]

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TWICKENHAM, England – An official with the World Anti-Doping Agency says doping sanctions should be the same for everyone. Frederic Donze, WADA’s European director, spoke two days after the British Olympic Association was taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to stop it from enforcing lifetime bans on athletes who have served doping suspensions. The BOA is the only Olympic body to have such a rule, but it could be forced to scrap it ahead of the London Games. Donze says “WADA’s mandate has always been to harmonize the fight against doping in sport … this is really the [...]

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland – IOC President Jacques Rogge says he has received assurances that the London Olympics remain within budget despite claims of major cost overruns. With the games less than five months away, London organizers delivered their latest progress report Wednesday to the International Olympic Committee executive board. Rogge says “we were reassured” that the public sector budget stands at $ 14.6 billion. That includes a contingency fund of $ 785 million. Last week, a British oversight committee said the Olympics risked going over budget because of rising security costs, which now exceed more than $ 1.6 billion. Rogge says [...]

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The IOC is working with a handful of Syrian athletes to help them qualify for the Olympics, hoping they will make it to the London Games despite the spiral of violence shaking the country. Pere Miro, the IOC’s director of relations with national Olympic committees, said Tuesday the international body is providing funding to the athletes and believes four or five could qualify from track and field and swimming. “We want to try to make sure that the Syrian athletes will be in London,” he said. “We have a few under our control. We will continue supporting [...]

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BERLIN, March 19 – Saudi Arabia looks set to send women athletes to an Olympics for the first time later this year. The Saudis, Brunei and Qatar have never previously included females in their teams and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is eager to see that situation change in London in July. The IOC said on Monday that Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee officials presented a list of potential candidates for the London Games during a meeting at its headquarters in Lausanne last week. “After the assessment of the level of each athlete by the IOC and the international federations concerned, [...]

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Paralympian presented NYC Marathon gold medal to St. Petersburg orphanage she grew up in NEW YORK — No matter how much she tried, Tatyana McFadden couldn’t shake the idea. She had similar thoughts growing up and no matter how many times she asked her mom about it, deep down she knew she wasn’t emotionally prepared to act on it. But this was different. She was ready to revisit her roots. Born with a disability that left her paralyzed from the waist down and into a world unable and reluctant to provide the care that she needed, Tatyana overcame myriad obstacles [...]

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ORLANDO (NBA/Helin) – And it’s official – the Orlando Magic are the team everyone wants to face in the first round. Dwight Howard will not be back for the playoffs because he is going to have surgery on the herniated disc in his back, his agent told Ric Bucher of ESPN. Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard will undergo back surgery Friday morning in Los Angeles to repair a herniated disk, effectively ending his season and eliminating him from participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics, Howard’s agent said Thursday night… Dan Fegan, Howard’s agent, said he hopes this development debunks any [...]

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LONDON, March 19 – Olympic organisers have unveiled the white and gold kit to be worn by torchbearers as they carry the flame on its 8,000-mile journey around Britain plus the name of a 99-year-old who will take part. Dinah Gould, who will be a centenarian by the time she walks a 300-metre leg along the streets of London, was not born when the city staged its first Olympics in 1908 but remembers when the capital hosted the 1948 Games. “I just hope I do a good job,” she said on Monday, leaning against her walking stick. Gould, who prefers [...]

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