On July 22, Braun agreed to a suspension resulting from Major League Baseball's investigation of the now-closed Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic.

A week after swelling national pride by winning the world pole vault title and defending Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, Yelena Isinbayeva wants to leave her run-down hometown for Monaco.

The IOC received a letter from Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak giving reassurances the host country will comply fully with the Olympic Charter's provision against discrimination of any kind.

MLB does not recognize Ichiro Suzuki's overall mark, but players and coaches around the league marvel at the rarely heard number.

The Indian government on Wednesday backed the International Olympic Committee's efforts in barring tainted officials from contesting the national Olympic body's elections.

Organisers are rushing to complete the venues for the first Winter Games to be held in Russia before the symbolic start of the Games run-up with the torch lighting.

Robin van Persie held off last year's winner Lionel Messi to earn player of the week honors in the first round of soccer polls.

Quick kisses exchanged by four Russian female sprinters have set off a flurry of speculation that they were protesting Russia's new controversial law against gays.

They co-exist in a setting that has few if any parallels in baseball history — a suspended star who is appealing his penalty and provoking his bosses on a near-daily basis.

Oscar Pistorius was indicted on a charge of murdering his girlfriend, and prosecutors said witnesses heard a woman screaming before the sound of fatal gunshots fired by the double-amputee Olympian.