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...press conference today in Madrid, Landis continued to maintain he did nothing wrong, declaring "conclusively and categorically" that his Tour de France victory was the result of long years of training and "his devotion to cycling," not doping. Yet the damage to his reputation, and that of the sport, may already have been done. "When you work so hard in the race and you manage to bring back the excitement of the sport to the people, it's sad [for this to happen]",says Jos? Miguel Ech?varri, director of Pereiro's Caisse D'Epargne team. "If the victory comes...
...Israel seem as anxious as officials here are to avoid open conflict; that relative security makes for a safely defiant atmosphere. Hizballah sympathizers take to the streets with bullhorns, engaging bystanders in an angry, fevered call-and-response drawn from party slogans or the latest news. Motorcycles and cars sport yellow-and-green Hizballah banners. Many store windows feature the most popular new poster in Damascus: a photoshopped grouping of a grinning Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a grim Syrian president Bashar Assad and an inscrutable Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, surrounded by daffodils, roses, and red tulips (the symbol of Islamic...
Designer Marco Mavilla has tapped into '80s style with a timely idea: an acrylic and stainless chronograph that's half the weight of the real thing--and a fraction of the price. ToyWatch's Chronograph Sport ($225), left, comes in several colors and is one of four styles, all of which run with Citizen movement. Madonna has already clocked this trend...
...sharpest tool available to prosecutors against online gambling firms is the the U.S. Wire Act, which was conceived in the 1960s, long before the world went digital, and prohibits bets by wire communication. But since a U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that the act applied only to sports gambling, poker operators have denied that poker is a sport. (Those taking sports bets argue too that the Internet has changed the rules of the game and claim that the Wire Act is not applicable to such digital wagers...
Novices can get the feel of surfing without standing up using a bodyboard (a sport all its own), which lets the rider plane on the curl, the breaking face of the wave...