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Michu left Swansea yesterday after agreeing a financial settlement with the club for his departure.

The 29-year-old forward was the club's top scorer in 2012-13 with 22 goals in a spectacular first season after a £2m move from Rayo Vallecano.

Phil Davison: Make the Olympics amateur only. Remove financial incentives & part of the problem will disappear.

James B: Lost interest in athletics when athletes can still compete after serving two bans. As for Russia, they won't be the only ones.

Michael Kendall: London 2012 100m final. At least half the men have served doping bans. Two of which won medals. Lifetime bans are needed.

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Ben Dirs
BBC Sport at Klitschko's training base in Austria

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A few kilometres from the exclusive Austrian ski resort of Kitzbuhel - a long-standing favourite of British royalty - is the blink-and-you'll-miss-it village of Going.

It is here, alongside well-heeled tourists and curious journalists, that Wladimir Klitschko is preparing for his eagerly-anticipated world heavyweight title defence against Britain's Tyson Fury, which will take place in Dusseldorf on 28 November.

Manchester's Fury, a devout Christian, recently accused Klitschko of being a "devil worshipper".

Nobody knew what Fury was talking about. But if worshipping the devil means you spend a couple of months every year holed up in the magnificent Bio-Hotel Stranglwirt in Going, nestled between the Kitzbuhel Alps and the Wild Kaiser and boasting, among other attractions, a restaurant with a window looking directly onto a shed of cows, it sounds like my kind of religion.

Klitschko will be performing an open workout at 1500 GMT. 

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Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho has been ruled out for eight weeks after suffering a knee ligament injury against Crystal Palace on Sunday.

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Ellen Williams: I'm too old to be shocked, just saddened; but it is not just Russia, think of the US athletes who have been caught!.

Donald Young: I feel vindicated. After years of 'its only cycling that has a problem', reality hits. Other sports should look at themselves too 

Mark Francis: Life time bans are the only answer. On the flip side, I ran Loughborough half full of night nurse. Am I any better?

A shocking admission Mark...

Good news, West Indies great Chris Gayle has found somewhere to have a knock tomorrow (see 10:45).

We can all rest easy now...

England international Sam Tomkins is set to miss Wigan's start to the 2016 Super League season, including the World Club Challenge, after undergoing knee surgery.

Tomkins, who returns to the Warriors after two years in the NRL, was ruled out of the current international series against New Zealand and had surgery last Friday.

The club say he is expected to return around the Easter period.

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England bowler Steve Finn has not had a good day. He posted this pic on Instagram, external, with the caption: "Don't text and walk. What a wally. The street sign came off second best, promise."

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Finn is recovering from a stress fracture which caused him to miss the Test series defeat to Pakistan.

Bob Dutton: Sport brings people together and it's better to expose a minority cheating to make it better for the vast majority.

Powered By Tea: still love athletics and sport in general but any doping story makes me very sad and even more so when so widespread.

Matt Gray: I have more faith in Cycling, and now Athletics, as they take cheating much more seriously than other main stream sports. Yesterday Athletics took the first step of many to become a cleaner sport.

Keep your opinions coming to #bbcsportsday

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If you were one of the world's best cricketers you'd think you wouldn't have to resort to Twitter to ask for a practice session...

The ICC's hq Gayle is referring to is in Dubai.

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

Teenage shooter Amber Hill will make her Olympic debut in Rio after being named in a six-strong team for next year's Games.

The European champion will compete alongside Elena Allen in the women's skeet event, with Jen McIntosh completing the women's team in the 50m three positions. 

Ed Ling has been selected for the men's trap event, with Steve Scott and Tim Kneale representing Great Britain in the double trap.

The selections take the British team for Rio up to 18 athletes, with the sailing and slalom canoe teams already selected. 

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Cornelius Lysaght
BBC Sport horse racing correspondent

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For sports fans whose interest flourished in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, Pat Eddery was a constant source of racing success along with Willie Carson and Steve Cauthen. 

Famous for his precision-judgment and a strong, ‘busy’ style, in rhythm with his mounts, during a close finish, Eddery’s best-known success was on the great Dancing Brave in an high-class Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, in 1986. 

I can still hear the commentator as they cut down their rivals, late on: “Here comes Dancing Brave, firing down the centre of the track”.

A spokesman for Russian president Vladimir Putin says that the Wada independent commission report into Russian athletics is 'groundless'. 

Dmitriy Peskov said "The thing is that if accusations are being voiced, they should be supported by proof. Until proof is not voiced, it is difficult to perceive accusations. They are groundless." 

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Chris Goreham
BBC Radio Norfolk sport

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Norwich City manager Alex Neil has told BBC Radio Norfolk that goalkeeper John Ruddy has not been affected by recent criticism of his performances. 

Neil kept faith with Ruddy for Saturday's 1-0 win over Swansea as he kept his first clean sheet since the Play-Off final in May.

"Criticism is part and parcel of football. John will take it on the chin and I will take it on the chin," said the Scot.

Ruddy has been the Canaries' first-choice goalkeeper since signing from Everton in 2010.

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Andy Murray has admitted he needs to do better when he's facing Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.

A couple of days after losing to Djokovic in the Paris Masters - the 10th time Murray has been beaten by the Serb in their last 11 matches - Murray told the ATP World Tour website: "It's harder playing against the best players.

"Those two (Djokovic and Federer) are two of the greatest players of all time, so there is no disgrace in losing to them.

"But I do feel like I need to start doing better in those match-ups, because the scoreline in the last couple of matches there hasn't been good."  

In the light of the Russian athletics scandal, and the continuing fall-out, today we are asking: How do you feel about sport today?

Chris Gill: The sport is now history. Feel for the millions who embraced it before and after Olympics. They have been cheated.

Chris Ivie: no, the corrupt don't get punished. sports stays corrupt.

Doktor Existenz: No it hasn't. People cheat. People are corrupt. People will always get away with it.

Keep them coming please to #bbcsportsday

Not sure what Louis van Gaal will make of this but Wayne Rooney was involved in a fight last night.

Actually, that's not quite true.

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In front of thousands of wrestling fans at a WWE event at the Manchester Arena, reports the Daily Mail,, external wrestler Wade Barrett grabbed the microphone and said: "In this ring are two men who can be easily be described as championship material.

"Which is, of course, is more than can be said of Wayne Rooney and Manchester United."

Rooney, at ringside with son Kai, jumped to his feet to confront Barrett and then slapped him in the face.

It was all harmless, theatrics of course, meaning Van Gaal can rest easy.

Chairman of UK Athletics Ed Warner was on BBC Radio 5 live this morning - he believes that the scandal goes further than just Russia.

"I suspect from jungle drums that beat that there are probably four, five or six nations that Athletics really has a problem with. 

"Russia's one. Athletics has probably got some other nations to root out."

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