Uzbekistan have beaten Qatar 13-2 in their classification match in the men's water polo tournament at Al-Sadd Aquatic Centre. The experienced Uzbeks simply had too much firepower for the home side and were 7-0 to the good after the first period.

Ten riders are in with the best chances for medals at Doha 2006 after round A of the individual jumping final at Doha Horse Racing and Equestrian Club on Tuesday. Korea's Song Sang Wuk on Clinton H and Qatar's Ali Yousuf Ahmad Al Rumaihi, riding Nagano, are the pick of the bunch so far and have not touched a rail in the jumping competition.

Preliminary group matches continued this morning in the men's doubles sepaktakraw competition at Al-Sadd Indoor Hall as teams started a day long series of matches that will see the top two teams in the two groups qualifying for the semifinals.

Japan won both the men's and women's individual kata final in the Karate competition this morning at the Qatar Sports Club Indoor Hall. The kata is a series of precise movements that, like wushu's taolu or shadow boxing, imitates the karateka's response to an imaginary attack.

Following the judgment passed by a New York court in the MasterCard v. FIFA case on 7 December, FIFA has parted company with its Director of the Marketing & TV Division, Jérôme Valcke, and three other employees in the division, Tom Houseman, Robert Lampman and Stefan Schuster.

Khalifa Stadium will play host to the final night of athletics action on Tuesday 12 December, where the competition will end with a bang, and indeed a Zhang - China's Liu Zhang heads an all-star cast of track and field superstars.

FIFA and the International Center for Sports Studies (CIES) delivered on their promise to establish the first sports administration programme as a part of FIFA's "Win in Africa with Africa" initiative when the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal recently opened its doors to 52 students for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Troubled Paris St Germain will be under tight scrutiny when they host Greek side Panathinaikos in the UEFA Cup on Wednesday in their first home match since one of their fans was killed by a policeman.

Germany will take on Romania in a friendly in Cologne on 12 September 2007 having already arranged matches against Austria and Switzerland for the new year.

Luo Yutong of China led the field by a wide margin at the end of the 1m springboard preliminary round, with compatriot Qin Kai 30.70 points behind in second place, and Japanese diver Ken Terauchi in third 61.30 adrift.

After suffering a series of successive defeats throughout the tournament, Hong Kong, China ended their Asian Games hockey competition on a high note after defeating Oman 4-0 at Al-Rayyan hockey fields to finish in 9th place.

It is crunch time at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex as the tennis semifinals take place on Tuesday 12 December. All the remaining participants in the men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles are guaranteed a medal, but few will be thinking of bronze, with theIt is crunch time at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex as the tennis semifinals take place on Tuesday 12 December.