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Tommie Smith, centre, in London to promote his bookDo sports men and women of colour care a hoot about their race? The tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams are proud to be Black and beautiful but there are not many others like them. Former sports magazine editor Marc Wadsworth recalls an historic event 40 years ago at the Mexico Olympics which sparked the debate.

Marc Wadsworth

Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown hurtling ahead of the rest of the field in a new world-best performance for the year drew a gasp of admiration from the white middle-aged woman standing next to me. We were both watching a plasma-screen television in central London on Thursday.

The world of tennis has been left reeling after Justine Henin, ranked the women's number one player, announced her retirement with immediate effect.

Henin, 25, had recently experienced bad form and pulled out of this week’s Rome Masters, citing fatigue as the factor.

Ben Araujo

Cardiff City and Portsmouth will be the two teams that contest this year’s British Football Association Cup final in May. For the first time since 1995 when Everton overcame Manchester United, a soccer team not recognised as one of the so called “big four” will have their name engraved on that famous trophy.

Aspiring young footballers coming through the ranks don't realise how easy they have it nowadays - or ar least compared to Nolberto Solano's rise to the top, writes James Randall.

James Randall

Motor-racing ace Lewis Hamilton has been compared to golfing giant Tiger Woods. But the Brit does not deserve the comparison made by over-enthusiastic UK journalists.

With five out of every six footballers not making the cut at professional level, Professional Footballers Association Chief Executive Gordon Taylor talks to Phil Simms about how the FA is failing the countries young footballers.