Australia claim to have picked up another four Olympic swimming medals after researchers discovered they were wrongly awarded to the US more than a century ago. The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said that the four medals won by Francis Gailey at the 1904 Olympic Games in St Louis were incorrectly credited to the US instead of Australia. The AOC's official historian, Harry Gordon, said Gailey, who was raised in Queensland, was listed as an American during the St Louis Games because he competed wearing the colours of the Olympic Club of San Francisco.
Cricket
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will be flying home from the West Indies for treatment on his hip injury and will miss the final test match, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday. Flintoff, who is not involved in the fourth match being played in Barbados, will miss the final test in Trinidad starting on March 6 but will leave "with a view to returning" for the subsequent one-day series.
Basketball
Johnny 'Red' Kerr, who played 12 National Basketball Association seasons and served as the first coach of the Chicago Bulls, died on Thursday. He was 76. Kerr, slowed recently by prostate cancer, spent 35 seasons with the Bulls' organisation, more than three decades as the team broadcaster. Kerr was the NBA Coach of the Year in 1967 for guiding the Bulls into the play-offs in their first year of existence. He went 62-101 in two seasons coaching the Bulls before joining Phoenix for parts of two seasons.
Formula One
Rome could have a grand prix by 2013 if the Italian capital meets conditions set by Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One commercial supremo has said. The city is working on a plan by Maurizio Flammini, a former Formula Two driver and world superbike promoter, for a race in the EUR district on the outskirts of the capital. "Rome is a unique setting. I have spoken to Flammini and I could give it a race by 2013 under certain conditions," Ecclestone said.
MotoGP
Bulgaria will host a round of the MotoGP world championship between 2012 and 2016, the Bulgarian motorcycling federation (BMF) said. The BMF has signed a preliminary agreement with Dorna Sports, which holds the commercial rights to MotoGP, to stage a round of the world championship for five years. BMF's chief Bogdan Nikolov recently said a new track, to be built near the northern town of Dolna Mitropoliya, will probably host the races.