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A Russian blogger has controversially asked an international women’s footballer whether she is a lesbian in an interview published on a sports website.

Russia 2018 World Cup Local Organizing Committee chief executive Alexey Sorokin has been elected to the FIFA Council following a vote in Geneva on Wednesday.

FC Barcelona have released a statement supporting “democracy” and “freedom of speech” in the wake of the Spanish government’s attempts to prevent a Catalan independence referendum in two weeks’ time.

Former Manchester United and England international defender Rio Ferdinand has announced he is becoming a professional boxer at the age of 38, despite no previous ring experience.

Manchester United have been confronted by equality campaign group Kick It Out, which has slammed the team’s fans chant about star striker Romelu Lukaku’s penis as “racist”. Opinion on social media has meanwhile split.

Almost 1 million applications for tickets have been submitted for FIFA 2018 World Cup Russia tickets since the first phase of sales opened on Thursday, according to FIFA ticketing department head Falk Eller.

The boxing judge who caused uproar by scoring the Gennady Golovkin versus Saul Alvarez middleweight world title fight on Saturday 118-110 to Alvarez has been stood down from judging major fights.

Wayne Rooney has been slapped with a two-year driving ban, 12-month community order (100 hours of unpaid work) after pleading guilty to drink-driving on Monday.

As national anti-doping organizations are calling for Russia to be banned from the 2018 Winter Games, despite WADA admitting that the evidence against Russian athletes was not sufficient for suspension, RT looks back at the scandal which rocked Russian sports.

FIFA have approved the procedure for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia final draw, to be held in Moscow on December 1.

President of the World Anti-Doping Agency Craig Reedie has criticized more than a dozen national anti-doping agencies who demanded that Russia be banned from 2018 Winter Olympics.

Fans of German football club FC Cologne made their presence felt after a 25-year absence from European football by swamping Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium on Thursday.