Tennis had Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, swimming paired Australia's Eamon Sullivan and Stephanie Rice, but badminton can trump them all with at least three power couples in the sport.

A 97-year-old grandmother has travelled 2,400 kilometres by tricycle to watch the Chinese badminton team in action at the Beijing Olympics.

An Austrian first division manager was so incensed with a referee that he brandished a red card at the official from the touchline.

A man who shares a name with and lives in the same town as the British referee who awarded a controversial injury-time penalty in Euro 2008 has received death threats, newspapers here said Saturday.

An Iranian sports fanatic, who travelled to the Olympic Games in Athens on roller skates in 2004, is crossing Central Asia on horseback to attend the Summer Olympics in Beijing, he told AFP.

A Croatian first division side, struggling to find players for next season, have launched a series of job adverts in the local press on Sunday, asking that players bring their own equipment.

Magistrates in Wales showed a town's mayor the yellow card Monday after he was caught refereeing football matches while claiming state disability benefits.

Australian police cruising Sydney's city centre early Wednesday morning were startled when a parachutist floated to earth and landed in front of their patrol car.

Five-time gold medalist Ian Thorpe's enthusiasm for the Olympic torch remained undimmed Thursday, even after his attempt to ignite a cauldron with the Olympic flame failed due to a technical glitch.

World number one Roger Federer saluted great British loser Robert Dee on Wednesday as the world number 1,466 managed to avoid being confirmed as the worst player on the planet.