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PENN STATE:
PENN STATE-ABUSE
Now the NCAA gets its say on Penn State. College sports' governing body was expected to deal a series of heavy blows to the Nittany Lions' football program on Monday, less than two weeks after a devastating report accused coach Joe Paterno and other top university officials of concealing child sex abuse allegations against a retired assistant coach for years to avoid bad publicity. A news conference was scheduled for 9 a.m. in Indianapolis. By Tom Coyne and Ralph D. Russo.
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GLF--BRITISH OPEN
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England - Adam Scott had the claret jug in his grasp with four holes to play. A player of enormous potential was poised to fulfill his promise at age 32, collecting the first major championship of his career after building a comfortable lead over three days of brilliant golf. Then, a bogey. And another. And another. And finally, at the 18th hole, with a 7-foot putt to at least force a playoff, he missed again. Scott's knees buckled. Golf's oldest championship had been snatched away, handed to Ernie Els in one of the great collapses in golfing history. By Paul Newberry.
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BBO--HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Receiving baseball's highest honor always seems to produce a special impression on those directly involved. It was no different Sunday when the late Ron Santo, a star third baseman for the Cubs and later a beloved broadcaster for the team, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum along with former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin. By John Kekis.
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CYC--TOUR DE FRANCE
PARIS - After making history in Paris as the first Briton to win the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins is heading home to London where he hopes to cap off his tremendous run of success with an Olympic gold medal. By Greg Keller.
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VIDEO:
- The NCAA said that that it would levy "corrective and punitive measures'' against Penn State on Monday in the wake of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
- Penn State has taken down the famed statue of once-sainted Joe Paterno on a day when the NCAA announced it is about to spell out its punishment to the university for its handling of a child sex abuse scandal.
COMMENTARY:
GLF--TIM DAHLBERG-072212
LYTHAM St. ANNES, England - The enduring image of Tiger Woods from this British Open will be of him bent over on one knee, his other leg angled to the side, as he desperately tried to save his day with a miracle shot from deep in a bunker off the sixth green. His problems, though, are much deeper than one misadventure at the Open.
By Sports Columnist Tim Dahlberg
NEW/DEVELOPING:
BBA--YANKEES-ATHLETICS
OAKLAND, Calif. - A tying home run. A game-ending single. Players streaming out of the dugout, mobbing the final hitter on the field. A whipped-cream pie - maybe two - in the face, and a sports-drink bath to wash it all down. No matter how many times the scene unfolds, it never seems to get old in Oakland this season. Seth Smith hit a tying homer in the ninth inning, Coco Crisp singled home the winning run in the 12th and the surging A's rallied from four runs down to stun the New York Yankees 5-4 Sunday and complete a four-game sweep. Oakland improved to 14-2 in July, the best record in the majors during that span, with a league-leading 11th walk-off win. By Antonio Gonzalez. Sent
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OLY--BKO-ARGENTINA-US
BARCELONA, Spain - Dressed up like the Dream Team, this U.S. Olympic basketball squad even played like one - for 10 minutes. Though it didn't last, the Americans never thought it would. Argentina came nearly all the way back before the U.S. held on for an 86-80 victory in an exhibition game Sunday. By Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney.
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PRO FOOTBALL:
FBN--COLORADO SHOOTING-MANNING
AURORA, Colo. - A half dozen Denver Broncos visited with survivors of the Colorado theater shooting on Sunday to try to lift their spirits, while quarterback Peyton Manning on also called four patients. By Arnie Stapleton. Sent
Also:
- DETROIT - FBN--Lions-Berry Arrested. Lions CB Berry arrested for second time in a month. Sent
OLYMPICS:
Olympic Spotlight
OLY--MUNICH MEMORIAL
LONDON - Complaining that the Olympic movement is still ignoring their pain, Israelis marked the 40th anniversary of the Munich massacre on Sunday with a modest service in the atrium of a London apartment block. By Rob Harris. Sent
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OLY--LONDON 2012-MASCOTS
LONDON - Sinister. Disturbing. Creepy. Frightening. The official mascots of London's Olympic and Paralympic Games - Wenlock and Mandeville - have been called all of those things, but organizers are hoping to tack on a more positive title: merchandising magic. By Cassandra Vinograd.
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OLY--BKW-TURKISH RIVALRY
ISTANBUL - The rivalry between Fenerbahce and Galatasaray is one of the fiercest in women's basketball. Sunday night the teams' fans actually had something in common - cheering on their national team against a U.S. squad that included six players who have suited up for the Turkish rivals. By Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg.
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Also:
- KOURTANE, Finland - OLY--ATH-Kluft Withdraws. Former Olympic and world heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft withdraws from London Games because of injury.
GOLF:
GLF--TRUE SOUTH CLASSIC
MADISON, Miss. - Scott Stallings shot a 4-under 68 in the final round of the True South Classic to beat Jason Bohn by two strokes, earning his first Tour victory of the year and the second of his career. By David Brandt. Sent
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AUTO RACING:
CAR--NASCAR-NATIONWIDE-CHICAGOLAND
JOLIET, Ill. - After spending most of the week sick in bed, Elliott Sadler brushed off questions from team owner Richard Childress about a potential replacement driver, then held off a charge by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on a green-white-checker finish to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday.
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CAR--INDYCAR-EDMONTON
EDMONTON, Alberta - Helio Castroneves has been quietly lurking in the championship race this season, taking advantage of mistakes by others to position himself for a run at the IndyCar Series title. After his win Sunday at Edmonton, everybody knows he's in the mix for his first career championship. Sent
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Also:
- HOCKENHEIM, Germany - CAR--F1-German GP. Alonso wins German GP to extend championship lead. By Nesha Starcevic. Sent
ALSO:
- DETROIT - BBA--Tigers Cabrera Homers. Tigers Cabrera hits 300th homer. Sent
- ATLANTA - TEN--Atlanta Open. Roddick beats Muller to win Atlanta Open. By George Henry. Sent
- COLUMBIA, S.C. - FBC--Carlen-Obit. Jim Carlen dies; led West Virginia, Texas Tech and South Carolina teams. Sent
Monday's Time Schedule
BASEBALL
American League
Baltimore at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.
Boston at Texas, 8:05 p.m.
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.
Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.
National League
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.
Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.
Atlanta at Miami, 7:10 p.m.
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.
Cincinnati at Houston, 8:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
San Diego at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m.

SPORTS: Port Angeles 12U softball team still winning at regionals

HOQUIAM — The fantasy ended for one North Olympic Peninsula team and got a little more difficult for another in bracket play at the Northwest Babe Ruth Softball regional tournament Saturday.

But the North Olympic 12U team of Port Angeles continues to roll and is close to a regional championship.

Meanwhile, having won four straight in the preliminary 10U round-robin, Forks saw its hopes for a regional title shattered in two unimaginable games.

In a noon game, the little girls who could were leading Meridian, Idaho 4-3, only to see the Idaho girls plate two in the bottom of the sixth inning to win 5-4.

Tossed into the loser’s bracket at 4 p.m. against host Hoquiam, Forks led 2-1 with two out in the top of the sixth when Hoquiam scored three runs to win 4-2 and end Forks’ dream season.

On Sunday, Upper Rogue awaited the Meridian, Idaho and Hoquiam winner to determine the regional champion.

In 12U play, North Olympic continued to roll.

Opening with a 10-0 win over Upper Rogue on Saturday morning, Port Angeles then awaited host Hoquiam, a 6-5 winner over Ellensburg, in the night contest.

That one saw North Olympic lead 3-1, only to have Hoquiam score three runs and take a 4-3 lead into the fifth inning.

The Port Angeles girls scored two and shut the haborites down for a 5-4 win.

North Olympic now awaits to play the Hoquiam and Ellensburg survivor for the championship and a ticket to the 12U World Series in Florida.

In 16U competition, things got a bit harder for North Olympic.

The Port Angeles team opened with a 12-3 win over Upper Rogue, but then in the night cap committed just too many mistakes in falling to Hoquiam 6-3.

On Sunday, the North Olympic girls needed to beat Upper Rogue, and then defeat Hoquiam twice to retain their regional title.

Results weren’t available by press time.

Last modified: July 22. 2012 6:02PM

Sports in Brief: Castoneves wins Canadian Open

Helio Castroneves thrust himself into the IndyCar Series championship race Sunday in Edmonton, Alberta, by recording his second victory of the season. The Brazilian held off hard-charging Takuma Sato over the final 15 laps to pick up the win. It moved him one spot in the standings to second - he jumped over teammate Will Power - and he trails leader Ryan Hunter-Reay by 23 points with four races remaining.
Elliott Sadler held off a charge by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on a green-white-checker finish to win the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. Stenhouse appeared to have the stronger car and was chasing down Sadler in the closing laps of the race. But a late caution bunched up the field for NASCAR's version of overtime, and Sadler got a push from Justin Allgaier on the restart and pulled away. Stenhouse finished second, followed by Allgaier, Kenny Wallace, and Michael Annett.
Fernando Alonso led from the start to win the German Grand Prix in his Ferrari in Hockenheim, Germany, and extend his Formula One lead.
TENNIS: Andy Roddick beat Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2, to win the Atlanta Open and earn his 32d ATP World Tour title. Roddick, 29, ranks third among active players in career titles behind Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. He will play for the U.S. team when the Olympics begin next week at Wimbledon.
GOLF: In Madison, Miss., Scott Stallings shot a 4-under-par 68 in the final round of the True South Classic to beat Jason Bohn by 2 strokes. It was his first Tour victory of the year and the second of his career. He finished with a 24-under 264 - a tournament record at Annandale Golf Club.
Dan Quinn birdied three of his first seven holes to pull ahead and then stretched his lead on the back nine to beat former NFL quarterback Mark Rypien in the American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline, Nev. Quinn earned $125,000 from a total purse of $600,000. The former NHL star will caddie for Sunday's British Open winner, Ernie Els, this week in the Canadian Open.
NBA: The Chicago Bulls reportedly will sign former 76ers center Nazr Mohammed, according to the New York Post. The signing of Mohammed, who was with the Thunder last season, spells the end of Omer Asik's time in Chicago. The Turkish big man signed a three-year, $25 million offer sheet with the Rockets.
HORSE RACING: In Saratoga Springs, N.Y., favorite Bern Identity overtook Handsome Jack in the final sixteenth of a mile and moved on to a 11/4-length victory in the $200,000 Sanford Stakes for 2-year-olds. Ramon Dominguez joined Hall of Famer John Velazquez as the only riders in the 144-year history of Saratoga Race Course to win six races on a single card. On Saturday, Questing coasted to a 4¼-length victory in the $300,000 American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies.
NFL: Detroit cornerback Aaron Berry was arrested in Pennsylvania for the second time this offseason. Berry was taken into custody early Saturday morning on three charges of simple assault, Harrisburg police said. Berry, who is from Harrisburg, was arrested in that area June 23 on suspicion of DUI, failure to stop and render aid from an accident, and other counts.

London 2012: Diver Tom Daley 'stronger' after family heartache

By Nick Hope BBC Olympic sports reporter

TOM DALEY ON THE BBC

• Monday 23 July at 22:35 BST on BBC One: Tom Daley - Diving for Britain

Double Commonwealth champion Tom Daley says he wants to win an Olympic medal for his family after a difficult year.

Tom's father Rob Daley passed away last May and the diver was criticised in early 2012 from within the GB camp over his media commitments.
"It's about time we got some good news in our family," Daley told BBC Sport.

Daley on his Dad

"My dad was always Olympic crazy, he absolutely loved it and it was his big thing when he came and watched me in Beijing - he was just so proud to say that his son was an Olympian. It's great to know that he's always been so supportive and I definitely think he's still looking after me now."

"It's definitely been a tough year, but it's helped me gain a lot of motivation and inspiration and made me stronger."

A 'Tom Daley - Diving for Britain' documentary will air on BBC One at 22:35 on Monday 23 July.
Daley made his Olympic debut four years ago, where at 14 he was the youngest member of the British team to compete in Beijing.
He finished seventh in the individual 10m platform event and eighth alongside Blake Aldridge in the synchro competition. A year later, he secured victory at the World Championships in Rome.
Rob Daley was believed to be in remission following the removal of a brain tumour in 2006, however a scan in 2010 revealed it had returned.
He was not well enough to travel to Delhi, but Tom still managed to win double Commonwealth gold.
"We kind of knew that it was inevitable, it was just a question of when. For us and for me it brought me closer to my dad throughout the whole thing. I think if he didn't have that brain tumour we wouldn't have been so close, it's great that we've had that really strong connection."
At the 2011 World Championships Daley finished fifth, eight weeks after his father lost his battle with his condition.
"There was loads of pressure because the media was asking, 'Is he going to perform well, is he not?'" Daley added.
"I wasn't prepared properly because I had just lost my dad and it was about going in there and giving it my best shot. I know he would have wanted me to have carried on."

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In February of this year, GB diving performance director Alexei Evangulov decided against entering Daley into the 10m individual event and then compared him to Russian tennis-flop Anna Kournikova after the Plymouth-born diver finished seventh alongside Peter Waterfield in the synchro competition.
Daley, 18, insisted he had never missed a training session due to media commitments and that he pays little attention to what the media say about him.
"To be honest I don't watch anything, I don't look at the papers," Daley said.
"I look at some of the pictures and watch some of my dives back but apart from that I focus on training and competitions. I can't focus on what others are writing or saying - so I have to focus on myself."
Daley claimed overall victory in the World Series in April and followed that up with an impressive European Championship gold and new British record score in Eindhoven in May.
He secured qualification for London 2012 with victory at the GB Olympic trials in Sheffield and his first event, 10m synchro, will take place on Monday 30 July.
The teenager will then return for the 10m individual preliminaries on 10 August.
"London 2012 is the biggest thing in my life," Daley said.
"It's going to be an amazing experience and I'm going to really try and go in there and do the best six dives that I could ever do. For me it means everything."
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Tom Daley relives his Beijing Olympic experience and looks to London

David Cerny's sculpture does push-ups in London.

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1:06 a.m. CDT, July 23, 2012

Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.

Els wins British Open after stunning Scott collapse
LYTHAM ST ANNES, England (Reuters) - South African Ernie
Els won the British Open by one stroke from Adam Scott on
Sunday after the Australian suffered an extraordinary late
collapse on an incident-packed final day. World number 13
Scott, chasing his first major championship, started the last
round with a four-shot lead and seemed to be cruising to
victory as he maintained that cushion with six holes to play.

Wiggins becomes Britain's first Tour de France winner

PARIS (Reuters) - Bradley Wiggins was greeted by thousands
of Union Jack-waving fans on the Champs Elysees when he claimed
the 99th edition of the Tour de France to become the first
British winner of the famous race on Sunday. Wiggins finished
safe in the bunch on the 20th and last stage, a 120-km ride
from Rambouillet, as he helped his Sky team mate and fellow
Briton Mark Cavendish to victory.

Alonso pulls away with German GP victory

HOCKENHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - Fernando Alonso led from
pole position to chequered flag to win the German Grand Prix
for Ferrari on Sunday while Germany's Formula One world
champion Sebastian Vettel was stripped of second place for an
overtaking infringement. The Spaniard's third win of the season
stretched his championship lead to 34 points and ensured he
will stay on top through the European summer break which starts
after next weekend's race in Hungary.

U.S. learn from narrow win over Argentina

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - It was the narrowest winning
margin yet for the U.S. basketball team in the run-up to
defending their Olympic title, but coach Mike Krzyzewski said
the 86-80 victory over Argentina provided a valuable lesson for
his squad. ``We learned a lot,'' he said, pointing to the way the
travelling rule is called by international referees, the proud
way Argentina battled back and the atmosphere of playing in
Barcelona, where the Dream Team roared to gold in 1992.

Penn State facing severe NCAA sanctions, removes Paterno
statue

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State
University braced for potentially crippling sanctions against
champion Sebastian Vettel was stripped of second place for an
overtaking infringement. The Spaniard's third win of the season
stretched his championship lead to 34 points and ensured he
will stay on top through the European summer break which starts
after next weekend's race in Hungary.

U.S. learn from narrow win over Argentina

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - It was the narrowest winning
margin yet for the U.S. basketball team in the run-up to
defending their Olympic title, but coach Mike Krzyzewski said
the 86-80 victory over Argentina provided a valuable lesson for
his squad. ``We learned a lot,'' he said, pointing to the way the
travelling rule is called by international referees, the proud
way Argentina battled back and the atmosphere of playing in
Barcelona, where the Dream Team roared to gold in 1992.

Penn State facing severe NCAA sanctions, removes Paterno
statue

STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State
University braced for potentially crippling sanctions against
down its statue of coach Joe Paterno for his role in the
scandal. The National Collegiate Athletic Association said on
Sunday it would announce punitive measures against the school
on Monday, and could levy the so-called death penalty that
would eliminate an entire season or more for the
scandal-scarred football program.

Cycling: Bring on London, says fired up Cavendish

PARIS (Reuters) - Mark Cavendish went off the radar for two
weeks during the Tour de France, only for the Briton to
re-emerge with victories in the last two sprints of the race
right on cue for the London Olympics. After winning the second
stage, Cavendish was never in the mix when Andre Greipel
claimed three stage victories. But on Sunday, the German rider
was nowhere to be seen as the Manx Missile snatched his fourth
victory on the Champs Elysees.

Stallings seals second tour win in True South

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Cibulkova eases past Bartoli in California final

CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) - Dominika Cibulkova claimed

her second career title when she romped to a routine 6-1 7-5
victory over top seed Marion Bartoli to win the Carlsbad Open
on Sunday. In an impressive display from behind the baseline,
the second seeded Slovakian was quicker around the court than
her French opponent, rallying from a 4-1 deficit in the second
set to record a morale-boosting victory ahead of the Olympics.

Dodgers sweep Mets with late power surge

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Mind games of the victorious

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For decades after the first sports
psychology lab was established in 1920 in Germany, mental
coaches have been the water boys of sports science, viewed by
their colleagues as not quite good enough to make the
first-string team. That has changed. Virtually every top
professional team and elite athlete has a psychologist on speed
dial for help conquering the yips - when stress makes crucial
muscles jerk and ruins, say, an archery shot - marshal the
power of visualization, or just muster the confidence that can
mean the difference between medaling or just muddling through.

The morning briefing ... the lighter side of sports

David Cerny's sculpture does push-ups in London.

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A Czech artist has remodelled a traditional London double-decker bus into a mechanical sculpture of an athlete doing push-ups to celebrate the Olympic Games, which open in the British capital on Friday.
David Cerny, whose past works have enraged European politicians and sought to poke fun at rival artists, has installed the bus outside the Czech Olympic House in Lon-don's Islington neighbourhood.
Cerny bought the 1957 bus from an owner in the Netherlands, attached two huge arms, an electrical engine and a lot of wiring and suspension tools to make it into a piece of art named "London Boosted."
The mechanisms inside make the six-tonne bus move up and down on bright red arms, raising the chassis into various angles, accompanied by recordings of a groaning voice and video projections in the windows.
"There is one common exercise for every sportsman in the world and that is push-ups," Cerny said.
"It is training for sport activities, but at the same time it is also punishment in armies and prisons. So the push-ups are a very universal physical activity. . . . It is in a way very ironic."
In 2009, Cerny revealed a huge puzzle-like object, called "Entropa" in an EU building in Brussels that pictured European countries in unflattering ways, making a dramatic start to the Czech Republic's EU presidency.
Bulgaria protested for being shown as a squat toilet, Germany was a Swastika-like web of highways, including moving cars, France was covered by an "On Strike" banner and Britain was missing altogether.
In the Czech Republic, he once painted pink a Soviet tank that was serving as a monument of the 1945 liberation of Prague.
His "Shark" was a statue of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein floating in formaldehyde.
It was meant to poke fun at British artist Damien Hirst's embalmed shark and was banned from exhibitions in Belgium and Poland.
Cerny once also put up large replicas of guns and posters in London back in the 1990s, calling on people to observe a "Day of Killing" to control population growth, as part of an art fair.
In that context, the London bus seems uncontroversial.
"We will see how long the athlete can work out for," Cerny said. "Let's hope he will exercise for the full three weeks. He will be the biggest sportsman there."

Pope's Olympic message credits the power of sports

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says he is praying that the London Olympics promote world peace and friendship — a message the Vatican is increasingly emphasising as it focuses renewed attention on the positive role that sports can play in society.

But while the message yesterday may be new, sports have long been a mainstay for the Vatican. The first soccer game was played in the Apostolic Palace in 1521 and every year the Swiss Guards face off against the staff of the Vatican Museums in a tournament.

A new movie — 100 Meters From Paradise — about a fictitious Vatican team at the London Games won a rave review in the Vatican newspaper, but the prospects of the world's tiniest sovereign state actually fielding an Olympic squad are slim.

Oh sure, athletes abound among the Vatican's clerics and cardinals: Pope John Paul II was an avid skier, and Benedict's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein has been known to play a mean game of tennis. The late head of the Vatican bank, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, took to the links at a Rome golf club and, in ancient times, many popes were accomplished game hunters.

Even Vatican guests have shown their athletic prowess. When foreign diplomats took refuge inside Vatican City during the World War II-era German occupation of Rome, the Chinese ambassador to the Holy See practised his golf swing in the Vatican gardens, according to photographs in a new book The Ears of the Vatican by longtime Vatican reporter Bruno Bartoloni.

"Sports have always been appreciated in the Christian tradition," said Giovanni Maria Vian, editor of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, which has given ample space to Benedict's renewed message about the good that sports can bring to society.

He said competitive spirit, physical fitness and personal achievement are all "positive values" that the church has emphasised from its beginning.

Just last month, the Vatican's culture office opened a new "Culture and Sport" department, saying the sporting world was in need of a "cathartic" change to fight from spiraling into a profession dominated by money and drugs.

"Sports has to find its cultural aspect again, its profound spirit, and again be the educational reference point for young people," the Vatican's sports czar, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, said at the launch of the new office, which has a counterpart in the Vatican department for laity.