British eventer William Fox-Pitt has been flown back to England where his rehabilitation will continue as he recovers from the head injury he suffered after a fall in France last month.

"His recovery is likely to take time, but he is up and about and improving day by day," said his wife Alice. "We are exceptionally grateful for the huge amount of support we have received."

Scotland manager Gordon Strachan appears to be having a bit of a battle to remember players' names.

Strachan has had to get used to some new faces as he helps Ricky Sbragia prepare the under-21s for their European qualifier against Ukraine on Friday night. 

"I like watching good players training. It's mostly a watching brief," he said. 

"I have got to know their names though. I think I know them by their tattoos at the moment."

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The agent of Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola admits he has no idea what the Catalan has in mind for his future.

Guardiola's contract is up for renewal next summer and he has been linked with a move to Manchester City.

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Bayern's chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge suggested at the weekend that a decision - one way or another - would be made before the Bundesliga's winter break.

But Guardiola's agent Josep Maria Orobitg told Munich's Tz newspaper. "Not even I know what Pep's intentions are.

"We've had some intensive talks in the past few days, but when it comes to things like this, he's very private. "He will make up his mind entirely based on his own impressions."

More from UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner who has called for Russia to be banned from international competition and stripped of hosting next year's IAAF World Juniors in Kazan in the wake of the Wada report on doping allegations.

"The IAAF is meeting later this week to consider suspending Russia and my strong advice would be that you have got to do that," he said.

"If you suspend the Russian athletics federation you then have to remove the world junior championships - cancel them and take them elsewhere. 

"The worst thing would be for Russia to turn up at the world indoor championships in Oregon in March or to host the juniors and we find out that nothing has changed."

Cameron Laws: The only thing that surprises me is that people are surprised. Similar to the Fifa scandal, the public always knew.

Paul Brooks: WADA must control all drug testing centrally, Not national associations. Testers and administrators must be positively vetted.

Miss Moz: There will always be those looking to take a short cut to glory. The truth will always out in the end.

Keep them coming to #bbcsportsday

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We're not sure how many people will feel sympathy here, but the producer of a new documentary looking into the life of Cristiano Ronaldo says the footballer leads a lonely life.

James Gay-Rees was also behind the award-winning film Senna, external, about the Brazilian Formula 1 driver.

"He's got a very small group of friends and he surrounds himself with his family," James told BBC's Newsbeat..

"I think the level of sacrific e required to operate at that level is beyond most of our understanding."

The documentary team followed Real Madrid and Portugal player Ronaldo around for a year. Ronaldo is in cinemas for one night only on Monday but is also available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download now.

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After the publication of the Wada report into doping and cover-ups in athletics yesterday, we're asking whether you still trust sport. 

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AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli may require surgery on a troublesome groin injury.

The 25-year-old, who has made only four appearances since re-joining Milan on loan from Liverpool earlier this season, has been sidelined for over a month with the problem and travelled to Denmark on Monday for a consultation with a leading specialist. 

AC Milan said in a statement: "The medical staff of AC Milan and Liverpool FC will soon agree on which treatment the player will undergo." 

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Courtesy of Murray Burnell, from BBC London Sport.

Kevin Samuelson: Financial gain has ruined athletics,the same as it ruined football.Proven by players admitting they don't like the game, shame.

Conor Hennessy: Corruption in Fifa, discrimination in women's sport and now the drug scandal in Russia, think I'm gone off sport for a while.

Neil Davies: There are cheats in nearly every sport, until they punished accordingly it will keep growing. Basically its greed!

Keep the coming to #bbcsportsday

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Cheick Tiote has shrugged off claims that he was a "bad egg" in the Newcastle dressing room as he attempts to rejuvenate his career on Tyneside.

The 29-year-old Ivory Coast international midfielder is back in the team after recovering from a long-term knee injury.

Responding to accusations in the media of being an unsettling influence within the camp - something flatly denied by head coach Steve McClaren - Tiote told the Chronicle: "It didn't affect me, I know myself that I didn't do anything bad. Everybody at the club and my partner knows that.

"I just do my best for the team, that is the most important thing. All I want is to see the team go forward and win games."

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French triathlete Laurent Vidal has died of a heart attack, aged 31.

Vidal competed at two Olympics, finishing fifth at London 2012.

He retired suddenly in April last year after suffering a cardiopulmonary arrest during a swimming training session, but recovered after being placed in an induced coma.

World Triathlon confirmed the news on Tuesday, tweeting: , external "We are terribly saddened to hear of the passing of Laurent Vidal. He touched us all."

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Meanwhile, an athlete at the heart of the doping and corruption scandal engulfing Russian athletics says that punishment should be meted out to officials, and not competitors.

Disgraced Liliya Shobukhova hit out at a call from an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commission to suspend Russia's athletics federation from all competition.

"I just don't understand this recommendation by WADA," the Russian daily sports Express quotes Shobukhova as saying.

"The athletes are not connected to this at all! How is it possible to deprive young athletes, who are not to blame, of the right to compete at the Olympic Games?"

Shobukhova was excluded for life from all the world's major marathons because of doping, but had a separate doping ban cut in August after agreeing to cooperate with the WADA probe.

The Wada statement adds: "In the interim, samples analysed by the Moscow Antidoping Center shall be transported securely, promptly and with a demonstrable chain of custody to another WADA-accredited laboratory."

Some more meat on the bones about this breaking story, which is the latest development following on from the damning report released on Monday.

In a statement released a few minutes ago, Wada said: "The suspension, which takes effect immediately, prohibits the Moscow Antidoping Center from carrying out any WADA-related anti-doping activities including all analyses of urine and blood samples.

"The Moscow Antidoping Center may appeal this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) within 21 days of receipt of notice."

The suspension will last six months, or until Wada decided it can be lifted.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) suspends accreditation of Moscow's drug-testing lab, reports the news agency AP.

Meanwhile, here's a picture we've found of Phil wearing what might possibly be the worst golfing top of all time.

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A Question of Sport Teaser

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Today's teaser: Phil Mickelson was last out of the World Top 25 in 1995. Name the seven European golfers who were in it then?

Answer this afternoon.