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Romario bats for footvolley to become Olympic sport
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 11 (IANS) Football legend and current Brazilian congressman Romario was named as the ambassador of footvolley by the Brazilian Confederation of Footvolley (CBFv). Romario has made it his goal to make the sport an Olympic event in the 2020 Games. Footvolley is a combination of football and volleyball and is played in the sand. Brazilians have made the sport popular worldwide, but

Former Tour de France champ Ullrich slapped with two year ban for doping offence
Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich has been banned for two years for a blood doping offence.

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Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich banned for 2 years
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich was Thursday banned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for two years and stripped of his third-place finish in the 2005 race for blood doping.

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CAS to issue Ullrich doping case verdict Thursday
Sport's highest court will issue a second verdict this week involving a doping case against a Tour de France winner.

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Rio 2016 delays picking golf course designer
The designer of the Olympic golf course for the 2016 Summer Games won't be announced until March.

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Olympics, World Cup preparation bring evictions

Like most Brazilians, Evandro dos Santos' devotion to soccer borders on the religious. Even when he wasn't watching a game, he loved hearing the roar of the crowd in nearby Maracana stadium

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