Summary

  • League Cup quarter-final: Southampton v Liverpool build-up

  • Lord Coe appears before DCMS committee over athletics doping scandal

  • Wladimir Klitschko takes up contractual option to fight Tyson Fury again

  • VOTE: Who will win the rematch?

  • Gary Neville to coach Valencia until end of season

  1. football

    Neville appointed Valencia coachpublished at 16:57

    Football

    Former England striker Gary Lineker was at Barcelona for part of Terry Venables' stint as manager of the Spanish club...

  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 16:48 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2015

    #bbcsportsday

    Tony: New York Yankees... leading in final inning of game 4, already 3 games up in a best of 7 series, they lost the series...

    Tim Stubbs: '93 Jana Navotná 3rd set 4-1 up in Wimbledon final vs Stephi Graf but loses. I recall tears on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder

    Elwyn Evans: Paul Bodin. Cardiff Arms Park. Heartbreaking.

    Keep the suggestions coming in on Twitter at #bbcsportsday

  3. boxing

    Klitschko v Fury IIpublished at 16:42

    Boxing

    Who do you think will win the rematch? Have your say by voting above. 

    Full terms and conditions are available here.

    Klitschko v FuryImage source, Getty Images
  4. boxing

    Klitschko v Fury IIpublished at 16:41

    Boxing

    Mike Costello
    BBC Radio 5 live boxing commentator

    Klitschko tweeted couple of days ago how he was still suffering, and that sentiment explains why he as committed to the rematch only four days after his defeat. 

    The setback against Fury ended an unbeaten run for Klitschko, stretching back 11 years and 22 fights. 

    At this stage, there's no mention of date or venue for the return. They'll be decided with a view to maximising the purse for each boxer. 

    Although Klitschko turns 40 in March, the contest against Fury was the first in a new 5 fight deal with the German broadcaster RTL. 

    So, as he said in another online posting this week, 'the story will continue'.

  5. athletics

    Coe grilled by parliamentary committeepublished at 16:34

    Athletics

    Lord Coe is asked about ending his 38-year ambassadorial paid role with US sportswear giant Nike following conflict of interest claims over the 2021 World Championships going to Eugene, Oregon, where Nike is based.

    "Ive had a long relationship with them," said Coe. "I made the judgement given the level of noise around the relationship. 

    "This had become a monstrous distraction. Reality and perception had become horribly entangled and I didn't want anything to distract from changes I have implemented.

    "In hindsight, if I thought the noise would have escalated would I have got rid of it beforehand, yes I would have."

  6. athletics

    Coe grilled by parliamentary committeepublished at 16:28

    Athletics

    Lord Coe praises the risk taken by whistleblowers, both within and outside the IAAF, before he is asked about how he felt about allegations of corruption over his predecessor Lamine Diack. 

    "Shocked, suffused with sorrow and anger," says Coe.

    "Lamine Diack had been president since 2000 and he became a council leader in 1976. I said he would be seen as a spiritual leader for the sport. Clearly, if I was sitting with a charge sheet in front of me I would not have said that.

    "No," answers Coe when asked if he had heard any whispers about Diack's conduct.

  7. boxing

    Klitschko v Fury II - who will win?published at 16:27

    Vote now

    After Wladimir Klitschko announced he was going to take up the option of a rematch with Tyson Fury, we want to know - who do you think will win? 

    Have your say by clicking above. Voting opens at 16:30 GMT. Full terms and conditions are available here.

    Klitschko - FuryImage source, Getty Images
  8. athletics

    Coe grilled by MPs on dopingpublished at 16:25

    Athletics

    When asked by MP Julie Elliott about the 'no start' rules, Thomas Capdevielle, the Anti-Doping Senior Manager/Acting Operations Director at the IAAF says that the regulations were in many ways "a permit to dope" as they allowed athletes to treat the threshold as a "limit they could not cross, but anything below the red line they were free to dope".

    The 'no start' rule allowed the use of data from biological passports to keep athletes with abnormal values out of competition for a certain period of time.  

    Thomas Capdevielle

  9. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 16:17

    Athletics

    Lord Coe says he has not spoken to the Russian Athletics Federeation (Araf) as it is suspended and the IAAF is waiting on the "new structures" it puts in place.

    "The night that they got suspended my council colleague made the presentation to the council. The council decided evidence in Wada report was enough for suspension yo be upheld."

  10. snooker

    Selby sees off Poomjaengpublished at 16:13

    Snooker

    Mark Selby has beaten Thailand's Dechawat Poomjaeng 6-1 in their fourth round match at the UK Championship and then took time out to take a selfie with the BBC sport team at the Barbican in York.

    You can currently watch the action on BBC Two or here on the website...

  11. football

    German player to referee girls' game as punishmentpublished at 16:07

    Football

    A German football player could be made to referee a girls' match as punishment after making sexist remarks to a female referee.

    Fortuna Dusseldorf's Kerem Demirbay told German FA (DFB) referee Bibiana Steinhaus that "women have no place in football" after she sent him off for a second yellow card late in his side's 2-1 win at FSV Frankfurt last weekend.

    But Fortuna's interim CEO said: "It would be a good thing, if he really wants to prove his true opinion of women, if he goes to a girl's football match -- as a referee."

  12. boxing

    Fury and Wilder trade verbal blowspublished at 15:58

    Boxing

    Meanwhile, a war of words has erupted on Twitter between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder, who holds the other version of the heavyweight world title.

    Fury called out Wilder, tweeting:, external"How about a unification fight for all the belts? I'll destroy you."

    Wilder responded:, external "Your horrible singing after the fight was more impressive than the fight itself. I'm ready whenever fat boy..."

    Tyson FuryImage source, PA
  13. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 15:56

    Athletics

    MP Andrew Bingham says that reputation-wise, Coe was 'king of the world' after the London Olympics, but that his reputation is "back on the line."

    "Do you really think you can break this culture?"

    Once again, Coe repeats his line. "Yes, I have to. Because if I don't, there are no tomorrows for this sport. 

    "We have to get back to the belief that we have coaches, athletes, team doctors, everyone believing that it is possible to compete cleanly.

    "My father would have killed someone who suggested that I took anything that enhanced my performance."

  14. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 15:47

    Athletics

    MP Andrew Bingham takes his turn now, and asks whether the blood data of all athletes should be published, after some athletes' data was released via the media. 

    Lord Coe is unequivocal. 

    "No. The way that some of those profiles have been used has damaged the reputation of clean athletes. The issue for us is clear - we need systems in place that can follow up on suspicions. We do - we've just taken medals away from some athletes from the 2005 world championships. 

    "Just putting data out into the public domain as raw data is not good for clean athletes."

  15. athletics

    Coe grillde on dopingpublished at 15:41

    Athletics

    You can watch Lord Coe's appearance in front of a Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee by clicking on 'live coverage' above. 

  16. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 15:39

    Athletics

    Coe is asked whether he regrets taking up his role...

    "Not for one moment. The sport has been very good to me. I started life as an athlete. Athletics will always define me."

    Lord CoeImage source, BBC Sport
  17. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 15:37

    Athletics

    Asked if there is an acceptance with the IAAF that doping is acceptable, Lord Coe rebuffs that accusation.

    "If I go back to the immediate challenge we have there is Russia's ban and allegations made about some people in the IAAF.

    "If you say IAAF has acceptance that doping is acceptable, I don't accept that."

  18. boxing

    Klitschko takes rematch optionpublished at 15:30

    Boxing

    Tyson Fury hasn't yet responded to the news, but his camp had confirmed that a rematch with Wladimir Klitschko was written into the contract.

    “I want to be a great champion,” he said after Saturday's fight. “And I’d like to do it all again. One thing I can say about the rematch is that it’s going to be explosive.”  

    Tyson FuryImage source, Getty Images

    His promoter Mick Hennessey said: “Wembley Stadium would be very appealing at the right time of year, definitely. It was close to 55,000 in Düsseldorf. It would easily do 80,000 at Wembley. But it would have to be at the end of the football season.”  

  19. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 15:25 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2015

    Athletics

    Coe is asked about recent allegations concerning Kenya, and whether he has suspicions about other federations? 

    "Dick Pound, the chair of independent commission, has made it clear this is not simply about Russia, and not simply about athletics. People tend to forget this is not simply about athletics. I will await with interest the second report. It may throw more light on other areas that we need to be concerned about."

    Is there more to come from the second part of the Wada report?

    "I don't know. I genuinely don't know the answer to that. There's a lot of speculation around it, but we have no prior knowledge of what is in the report. If it shows there is systematic failure, we will address it."

    Coe points out that Russia has been suspended, "making sure that clean athletes in Russia can re-enter competition when we are satisfied that that criteria has been met'. It's not for any other organisation on when they return. That power rests with the IAAF."

  20. athletics

    Coe grilled on dopingpublished at 15:22

    Athletics

    Having been an Olympic goal medal-winning athlete in his athletics career in the 1970 and 1980s, Lord Coe is asked if there as there a period when Russia, who have been banned by the IAAF, was clean?

    "I genuinely don't know the answer," he says. "We have to recognise it is have a global problem. 

    "In the 1960s and 70s the Eastern Bloc countries would have said they were only doing what was going on in American campuses.

    "This is a lot more enlightened environment. I would not be coming to a select committeee. I don't know the prevalence. Have to assume fewer systems."