Italian runner Ivan Cudin won the 245.3km historic Spartathlon race on Saturday for a third time, clocking 22 hours, 29 minutes and 29 seconds.

Cubin, 39, fourth last year, also won in 2010 and 2011.

Uzbek gymnast Oksana Chusovitina was winning gold medals at international meets before many of her rivals at the Asian Games were even born. At 39 years of age, she's not done yet.

Having taken silver in the vault at Incheon, Chusovitina has her aim firmly set on the 2016 Rio Olympics, when she'll be 41. That would be her seventh appearance at an Olympic Games, an amazing feat for almost any athlete, much less one competing in a sport like gymnastics that so favors the young.

Valencia remained undefeated and took the lead of the Spanish league on goal difference by beating Cordoba 3-0 on Thursday.

Valencia's fourth win in five rounds lifted it to the top of the table ahead of Barcelona and Sevilla on goal difference.

Udinese moved into third place in the Serie A with a 1-0 win at Lazio on Thursday.

Forward Cyril Thereau scored in the 26th minute for the visitors, slotting in from the center of the area between two defenders at the Stadio Olimpico.

Inter Milan and AC Milan described their first meeting about the future of the San Siro they share as "very positive."

Inter president Erick Thohir had a business lunch with AC Milan vice president Barbara Berlusconi on Thursday. A joint statement by the clubs said the meeting was spent "mainly discussing the stadium and reiterating their desire to pursue their targets for development and growth."

UEFA has opened formal investigations into overspending by Liverpool and Inter Milan and possible breaches of its Financial Fair Play rules.

The former European champions are among seven clubs which qualified for the Champions League or Europa League this season being investigated for "break-even deficits" in the past two financial years.

A racehorse owned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has been stripped of a second-place finish in this year's prestigious Gold Cup after testing positive for the banned painkiller morphine.

The source of the positive test given by Estimate has been traced back to contaminated feed, and the horse's trainer Michael Stoute did not face a penalty.

The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, on Thursday said the Gulf state will put on one of the finest World Cups in history when it hosts the tournament in 2022.

Qatar and football's world governing body FIFA are coming under increasing pressure to take the 2022 showpiece away from a country that has little sporting infrastructure or footballing culture, while there have been accusations of bribery in the bidding process.

Lionel Messi failed to take his chances as Barcelona was held to a 0-0 draw by a disciplined and defensive Malaga side in the Spanish league on Wednesday.

Messi missed two opportunities in the first half and never looked comfortable on the ball after the break.

Arturo Vidal scored twice as Juventus comfortably beat Cesena 3-0 on Wednesday to become the first team in Serie A history to win its opening four matches without conceding a goal.

Vidal converted a controversial penalty in the 18th minute. He then found the net from beyond the area in the 64th and Stephan Lichtsteiner added Juve's third in the 85th after a counterattack.