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Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe has “categorically” denied any form of cheating. The 41-year-old Briton said questions raised during a parliamentary select committee “effectively implicated” her in the Sunday Times’ allegations of blood doping in athletics. Jesse Norman MP suggested London Marathon winners and medallists and “potentially British athletes” were under suspicion. Radcliffe was not specifically named. But she ...

Forest Rangers coach Kaunda Simonda is certain the promoted side will beat relegation. Forest on Saturday lost 1-0 away to Nkana to suffer their eighth successive defeat since returning from the three-week, mid-season break on July 19 when they drew 1-1 at home with Nchanga Rangers. The loss at Nkana saw Forest drop from 7th to the trap door of ...

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney said on Monday that he had no regrets about the deterioration of his relationship with the club’s legendary former manager Alex Ferguson. Rooney was dropped towards the end of Ferguson’s 27-year Old Trafford tenure in 2013, with the Scot subsequently explaining that the former Everton striker had asked to leave the club for a second ...

Aggrey Chiyangi was not pleased with the manner in which Nkana went about in beating struggling Forest Rangers on Saturday. Nkana laboured to a 1-0 home win over the promoted side at Nkana Stadium in Kitwe. The victory saw Nkana bounce back from last weekend 2-1 away loss to arch-rivals Power Dynamos in the big Kitwe derby. Meanwhile, it took ...

The Kenya versus Equatorial Guinea friendly match has been called off just hours to the clash that had been scheduled for Tuesday at Nyayo National Stadium. An official at the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) who asked not to be named confirmed the development, saying the West Africans had a problem with traveling to Nairobi for the match after playing South ...

Wales manager Chris Coleman is adamant Euro 2016 qualification “is coming” despite being held to a goalless draw by Israel in Cardiff. Victory would have sealed Wales’ place at their first major tournament since 1958 with two games to spare. However, Coleman’s side need just one point from an away game in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 10 October or at home to ...

Zambia Striker Collins Mbesuma says he is not feeling any pressure ahead of Sunday’s game against Kenya. The Mpumalanga Black Aces striker is expected to end his 12-month exile from the Zambia national team this weekend in the 2017 Africa Cup Group E qualifier. “I am just going there to play my game,” Mbesuma said. “I have been in football ...

Zambia captain Rainford Kalaba is confident of leading his teammates to a favorable result way against Kenya this weekend. Kenya and Zambia clash on Sunday in Nairobi a 2017 Africa Cup Group E qualifier. The two teams head into match-day-two on the road to Gabon tied on 1 point each after drawing their respective opening Group games in June. Zambia ...

Mauritania shocked South Africa 3-1, Ghana edged Rwanda 1-0 and Nigeria were held 0-0 by Tanzania Saturday in Africa Cup of Nations matchday 2 qualifiers. A blunder by goalkeeper and captain Itumeleng Khune after five minutes cost South Africa a goal in Nouakchott and set the home team on the road to their greatest Cup of Nations triumph. Khune allowed ...

A Togo team lacking star Emmanuel Adebayor continued a perfect start to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group A qualifiers by winning 2-0 in Djibouti on Friday. Adebayor, who Tottenham Hotspur are trying to off-load, ignored a national team call-up three months after Belgium-born coach Tom Saintfiet stripped him of the captaincy before a matchday 1 game. The temperamental ...