South Africa's 4x100m relay team at the 2001 World Championships have been belatedly awarded the gold medal after initial winners the United States were disqualified. South Africa's quartet of Morne Nagel, Corne du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton and Mathew Quinn were surprise silver medallists in Edmonton, Canada behind the favoured Americans who were disqualified following Tim Montgomery's doping infringement. The South Africa team was honoured with the gold medals at a function in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Motor racing

Michael Schumacher said yesterday that he could never make a Formula One comeback even if he wanted to because the sport will continue developing at a heady pace. "Formula One is constantly changing," Schumacher said in a first interview since retiring at the end of last season after a record seven world championships. "The technology, the engines, the rules, the circuits. Once you're out of it, you're out," the 37 year-old told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung SZ magazine. Even though Schumacher repeatedly ruled out a return to the sport he dominated for so long, a spectacular performance at the end of the 2006 season in which he was second fuelled speculation in Germany he would not stay away for good.