Sports Shorts: Mayer and Asher-Smith are European athletes of the year

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday IMAGE: Kevin Mayer is the first Frenchman to hold the decathlon world record. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters World decathlon......

Disgraced cyclist Armstrong asks US judge to end government lawsuit

IMAGE: Disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has asked a US judge to decide a more than $100 million lawsuit against......

Armstrong's fate looms as USADA decision out on Monday

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal reaches a decisive day on Monday when cycling's governing body announces whether it has ratified the US Anti-Doping Agency's sanctions but whatever happens the......

IOC ponders Armstrong 2000 Games medal options

Lance Armstrong should come clean with a full doping confession, while the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will look into ways of taking away the former Tour de France champion's 2000 Games......

'Armstrong had motorcyclist deliver EPO in 1999'

Lance Armstrong paid for a motorcyclist to deliver the banned bloodbooster EPO to him during the 1999 Tour de France, former teammate Tyler Hamilton said in a BBC radio documentary broadcast on......