• Kenya's Sydney Olympic 1,500 metres champion Noah Ngeny announced his retirement from international athletics. The 28-year-old hit the headlines when he beat Morocco's 1,500m king and overwhelming favourite Hicham El Guerrouj to win the gold medal in 2000 and break the Olympic record. Ngeny has been plagued by a recurring injury after a car accident in 2002 when he fractured his left hip.

• Thousands of cheering fans lined the streets of Manila yesterday to welcome home boxing hero Manny Pacquiao after his victory over Mexico's Erik Morales in their super featherweight re-match in Las Vegas. Pacquiao knocked down Morales with a flurry of punches in the third round of last weekend's much-anticipated fight, after Morales had won a decision in March 2005 and Pacquiao stopped the Mexican in the 10th round in January. Pacquiao has long been a celebrity in the Philippines, endorsing brands of beer, fast food, pain killers and karaoke microphones.

• Michelle Wie missed the cut for the 11th time in 12 professional men's golf events after a nervous 80 left her at 17 over par at the Casio World Open yesterday. The Honolulu schoolgirl had faced a near impossible task after equalling her worst score in a men's event with a nine-over 81 in freezing rain on Japan's Shikoku island on Thursday. Wie bowed out of the $1.2 million tournament easily last of 102 players.

• Former world no.4 on the WTA tour Jelena Dokic believes she can work her way back into the top 30 after flatly denying recent suggestions from her father that she had been kidnapped. In an interview with Sportski Zurnal, Dokic said: "Of course I haven't been kidnapped, that's complete nonsense. I have been listening to such rubbish from my father for the last three years." Dokic, 23, is currently ranked 583rd and looking for sponsors to finance her comeback after earning a total of $3,765,180 in career prize money.