Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has described his side's 5-1 thrashing at Liverpool as an "accident" and encouraged his players to respond by beating Manchester United on Wednesday.

Arsenal lost their hold on first place in the Premier League after their demolition at Anfield on Saturday, but Wenger is confident that they will show their worth against United at the Emirates Stadium.

That drone you might have spotted hovering and zipping around the Sochi Olympic slopes isn't searching for terrorists or protesters hiding behind the fir trees.

It's being used to transmit live video of snowboard and ski jump competitions to a screen near you.

Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch defended her Olympic super-combined gold in superb fashion on Monday, proving she was the woman to beat in the discipline.

The 29-year-old, who also won the world title last year, posted a total time of 2min 34.62sec after one downhill and one slalom run.

Brazil's passion for 'futebol' famously knows no bounds -- and comes in all shapes and sizes in this giant country, with Rio's beach culture the perfect backdrop.

Love of the Beautiful Game extends well beyond classic 11-a-side and, from before sunrise to long after sunset, dozens of balls whizz through the air as players do battle right to the water's edge.

Four-time gold medallist Simon Ammann admitted Monday that he needs a miracle if he is to achieve his dream of becoming the first man to win five Olympic ski jump titles.

The 32-year-old Swiss, who won double gold at Salt Lake City in 2002 and repeated the achievement in Vancouver four years ago, was a disappointing 17th on the normal hill Sunday when Poland's World Cup leader Kamil Stoch took gold.

International Olympic chiefs on Monday warned athletes against wearing symbols of mourning for lost loved ones during competitions at the Sochi 2014 Games.

Freestyle skiers and snowboarders have reportedly been banned from wearing tributes on their kit to Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke, who died after a halfpipe training accident in the United States 2012.

Picture this scene: Friday night, just before the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, in what's called the "presidential lounge" of Fisht Stadium. In the hospitality industry, that phrase "presidential" is often thrown around with very little meaning.

Not on this night.

Real Madrid forwards Gareth Bale and Jese Rodriguez each scored and set up goals for Karim Benzema in a 4-2 win over Villarreal on Saturday, giving the powerhouse a share of the Spanish league lead after Atletico Madrid stumbled to a 2-0 loss at Almeria.

With leading scorer Cristiano Ronaldo serving the first of a three-game suspension, Bale stepped up by opening in the seventh minute at the Santiago Bernabeu before he crossed for Benzema's first goal in the 25th.

Manuel Pellegrini insists Manchester City's failure to regain first place in the Premier League is hardly surprising after his squad was ravaged by injuries to several key players

City would have finished the weekend in first place had they beaten Norwich at Carrow Road on Saturday, but instead dropped to third after settling for a point from a frustrating 0-0 draw.

The British government has corrected a blunder in which it barred 2,500 of England's most notorious football hooligans from just the opening day of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a newspaper said Sunday.

Police Minister Damian Green signed a legal document that would have left them "free to cause mayhem", The Mail on Sunday said, had one of his team not later spotted the error.