Football
Patient Germany plan to outrun Greeks
GDANSK (Reuters) - Germany are planning to bide their time and eventually wear down defensive-minded Greece when they meet in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Friday.
World's largest lasagne marks Italy visit
KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - A Polish restaurant in Krakow has set a Guinness World Record for cooking the biggest ever lasagne in honour of the Italy football team staying nearby.
Ukraine's woes dominate rest day
GDANSK, Poland (Reuters) - Players, officials and fans took a breather on the first blank day of the European soccer Championship on Wednesday but the rumblings of discontent surrounding co-hosts Ukraine continued.
England fined over crowd problems at Sweden match
WARSAW (Reuters) - The English FA has been fined 5,000 euros after England fans tried to invade the Kiev pitch during their 3-2 win over Sweden in Euro 2012 Group D on Friday, UEFA said in a statement.
Fiery judoka Monteiro is Portugal's best hope
LISBON (Reuters) - Falling out of trees and sliding down stairs on old window blinds are more than a warm childhood memory for Portugal's best female judoka, they shaped Telma Monteiro into her nation's top medal hope at the London Olympics.
Gdansk mayor urges Poland to make World Cup bid
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland should build on Euro 2012 and make a joint bid to host the World Cup with the Czech Republic or Germany, Pawel Adamowicz, mayor of one of the European Championship's venue cities Gdansk, was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Debunked Soviet myth returns to haunt Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine is finding itself dogged by a World War II propaganda myth about an ill-starred football match against a German team even as it tries to cement its status as a modern European nation by co-hosting the Euro 2012 football championship.
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- Collina defends extra official 7:45pm Wednesday 20th June 2012 UEFA referees' chief Pierluigi Collina has leapt to the defence of the additional assistant referee experiment after FIFA president Sepp Blatter declared Ukraine's European Championship defeat
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