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GB men clinch historic away wins

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Great Britain’s men have made history by clinching their first away wins in the European Volleyball League, beating Croatia twice in Group A.

The first match saw GB triumph 3-0 and they followed that by winning 3-2 in a five-set thriller, which also marked a 50th British cap for skipper Ben Pipes.

Next up for GB are two matches against European champions Spain at Ponds Forge in Sheffield this weekend.

Britain will look to avenge two narrow defeats they suffered in Spain in June.

Massa targets return at home GP

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Felipe Massa has told Brazilian television he hopes to return to racing at the Brazilian Grand Prix on October 18, sports car magazine reports.

The Ferrari driver, 28, is recovering at home after suffering severe head injuries in a crash during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

“I can not wait to race again, I hope I can do the Brazilian Grand Prix,” he told television channel Globo.

“But it’s for the doctors to say. I have to show I can be ready.”

GB stay positive despite defeats

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In retrospect, Team GB has started to attract the attention of a large level of the O2 Arena, and against three euros Basket bona fide qualification was a good idea.

Unfortunately, the date (the original timetable for GB against Michael Jackson’s Farewell Tour) served, the team played its first Summer Games of the fans before, but perhaps a little rusty necessarily.

To do so, the teams of five players from front line (Luol Deng, Robert Archibald, Pops Mensah-Bonsu, Andy Betts and Boyd Flinders, the latter for most of the weekend) was twice the damage, but the Coach Chris Finch not accept that, from preparation for next month Euro Basketball final in Poland, with three defeats at home is a setback.

“It was not in my mentality in planning - I felt that there was no pressure on us all,” he says flat on the final press conference of the weekend.

“I wanted the training camps, and then we play here. If you play in a place like this, a little stuck on available data.”

Golf & rugby set to join Olympics

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Golf is a return to Olympics after an absence of 112 years in 2016, and Rugby Sevens is also recommended, as part of the year of the Games.

The International Olympic Committee votes in its meeting in Berlin of direction.

The recommendation must be rubber stamp of a meeting of the IOC Congress in Copenhagen in October.

Best Tennis Player Stefan Edberg

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Stefan Edberg is a period of six Grand Slam winners, four times Davis Cup winner and former number one in the world, and the Swede took some time, questions of users 606.
The 43 years, retired in 1996 after a stellar career and played on the ATP Champions Tour, already in the Algarve, in Vale do Lobo event in recent weeks.
Can it be in action in December on the Masters Tennis at Royal Albert Hall.