Real Madrid, a team with players worth hundreds of millions of dollars, beginning with David Beckham, will enjoy an enviable security in Bucharest, Romanian national Rompres news agency reported on Monday.

Wushu will probably appear during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a "specially-set" sport, according to a Chinese sports official on Monday.

Four more Oklahoma City businessmen are joining the ownership group that is buying the Seattle SuperSonics, reports from Oklahoma city said on Sunday.

Chelsea keeper Petr Cech has undergone surgery for a depressed fracture of the skull after he was injured during the Blues' 1-0 win at Reading, BBC reported on Sunday.

Sun Weiwei defended China's dominance in women's race at the 2006 Beijing Marathon, as she claimed the title with two hours 34 minutes and 41 seconds on Sunday.

The long-delayed Wembley stadium in London will be completed in a few months, and will host the 2007 FA Cup, The Observer reported on Sunday.

China's former Olympic and world champion Kong Linghui was appointed assistant coach for the women's national table tennis team on Sunday, three days after he announced his retirement from the sport.

World champion Lin Dan of China beat Indonesia's Taufik Hidayat to win the Japan Open badminton tournament men's singles title here on Sunday.

The 2006 Special Olympic Shanghai Invitational Games opened in the Shanghai Gymnasium Sunday evening.

Chinese gymnasts dominated the men's qualifiers to book the first place ahead of Japan, while the Athens Olympic silver medallists U.S. fell out of the finals to settle with the eleventh at Aarhus gymnastic worlds in Denmark on Sunday.