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 LONDON-Seven time champion Roger Federer is digesting an epic second-round Wimbledon defeat 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-5, 7-6 (7-5) by Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky ending a glorious personal history s

ROME-Rafael Nadal won his lucky seventh trophy at the Rome Masters Sunday, crushing Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3 as Serena Williams picked up her second at Foro Italico after 11 years with both players h

MILAN-- The city is crowded with runners- A traffic ban has been issued by the town council just for them: for the entire duration of one day, no cars are allowed in the city of Milan. People are everywhere; more than 13,000 runners of all ages.

ROME -- With no money and several racecourse closures Italian Horse Racing is on the precipice of dissolution, as the Government will withhold all prize money dated between August and December 2012

ROME -- Pro cycling returned to Rome's streets this spring, with a race that gained worldwide attention and whetted appetites ahead of the classics season.

MELBOURNE - Only hours after winning his fourth Australian Open trophy, Novak Djokovic was beginning to feel the approach of the French Open four months away.

 ROME-- Lance Armstrong's admission of guilt got people talking about performance enhancing drugs but other successful athletes likely will be discovered frauds before the storm blows over.

ROME - While football attendance numbers dwindle, Italian interest in Rugby Union is going from strength to strength.

ROME – On Sunday night Brendan Lynch, 26, prop for Rome’s Capitolina and employee at the FAO, was killed in a motorbike accident on the Roman ring road.

ROME -- In some ways, the Italian national team has been doing well in spite of, rather than because of, Serie A for many years.

ROME - For the Union Cycliste Internationale, the body which governs world cycling, the pressure is on.

ROME - The season-ending ATP World Tour Finals concluded this month amid growing dissatisfaction in the game over a self-inflicted scheduling crush which led to the abandonment of the traditional r