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Qatar says it will send women athletes to the Olympics for the first time at the London Games.

Tour de France organizers have selected French teams Cofidis, FDJ, Saur-Sojasun and Europcar as wild card invitations for the race this summer.

Former winner Carlos Sastre and last year's third-place finisher Denis Menchov likely will have to rely on a wild card to race in the Tour de France after their Geox-TMC team missed out on elite status in 2011.

Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans could yet compete in the time trial at the Beijing Olympics after the International Cycling Union (UCI) handed Australia a wild card for the event.

The U.S. women enter the Olympics with more question marks than ever before, but should still challenge for gold, writes Lindsey Dolich.

USA Wrestling's attempt to petition 132-pound freestyle wrestler Mike Zadick's way into the Olympic games apparently failed Monday when the sport's international governing body granted seven wild-card spots to China.

Sanya Richards doesn't want her Olympic hopes hanging on what she considers an antiquated selection process in the United States.

The United States earned a spot in the trampoline competition in Beijing on Thursday night, qualifying for its third straight Olympics.

The Astana team was granted entry to this year's Tour de France, a year after it was banned from cycling's biggest race in a doping investigation.

Roddick, Mojo, Wells, Palmeiro, Katrina, Saints, Wild Card, Schilling, Bonds, Unit vs. Felix, Peerless.

The star of this year's wild-card weekend wasn't the amazing Peyton Manning. It was Randy Moss' Afro.

Nine-time champion Martina Navratilova said Wednesday she has accepted a wild card to play singles at Wimbledon for the first time in 10 years.

Tim Goebel's skates caused so much pain this season he couldn't practice his trademark quadruple jumps with any consistency.

The Quickie has two words: Go Cubs.

World champion Mario Cipollini criticized Tour de France organizers on Monday after he and fellow Italian Marco Pantani were omitted from July's race.

Four cycling teams received wild cards Wednesday for this year's Tour de France. Among them is Saeco-Longoni, the Italian squad excluded a year ago after its star racer failed a drug test.