Roberto Mancini admits Manchester City's Community Shield clash with Chelsea on Sunday has been overshadowed by the transfer row that threatens to derail the Premier League champions before they have even started their title defense.

Mancini's side will face European champions Chelsea in the traditional curtain raiser to the English season at Villa Park this weekend and the fixture should have been an ideal chance for City to flex their muscles by showing off new additions to their squad.

A group of Olympic athletes from around the world has backed a campaign against child malnutrition in poor countries.

Olympians including Ethiopian runner Tirunesh Dibaba and British long jumper Greg Rutherford, both gold medal winners at the London Games, are among athletes who have written an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of a so-called "hunger summit" at the leader's residence in No.10 Downing Street.

This time, Usain Bolt ran hard right to the finish.

He even leaned at the line.

Pool or lake, it makes no difference to Ous Mellouli.

As long as there's water involved.

Juventus coach Antonio Conte has been suspended for 10 months for his role in a match-fixing scandal, but players Leonardo Bonucci and Simone Pepe have been cleared.

The Italian Football Federation's disciplinary committee announced the verdicts Friday. Prosecutor Stefano Palazzi had asked for Conte to be banned for 15 months.

Manchester United slashed the price of its U.S. share launch, cutting the amount it was raising in Friday's IPO to $233 million from a hoped-for $300 million or more.

The fabled team, mired in debt since 2005 after a heavily leveraged takeover by the Glazer family of Miami-based investors, lowered its price for the 16.7 million shares on offer to $14 late Thursday from the originally planned $16-20 range.

After splashing the cash for the second summer in a row the pressure is on Paris Saint Germain to deliver a first French league title since 1994, admits goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu.

PSG, flush with Qatari cash following after their money-no-object benefactors Qatar Sports Investments came on board last year, missed out last season to Montpellier, a provincial outfit who had never before won the top prize.

Designer Giorgio Armani predicted that the London Olympics would be the most stylish ever, but fashion experts say there has been as much bad taste as elegance on display.

From the Stella McCartney-designed British kit that omitted most of the red of the Union flag, to the U.S. team's Chinese-made Ralph Lauren uniforms, couture has collided with controversy throughout the Olympics.

Saad Ghayib al-Lami takes to a cafe to watch the Olympics, while Muheeb Khodr tunes in on a small television at work. Both want to avoid the continual power cuts that interrupt the games at home.

"When we follow the game at home, every five minutes the electricity is gone," said Lami, a 37-year-old truck driver who was at a cafe in central Baghdad to watch Olympic football.

Real Madrid has extended the contract of its Argentine winger Angel di Maria until 2018, the club said Thursday, sealing his place as it seeks to retain the Spanish league title.

"Angel di Maria has extended his contract with Real Madrid. (Coach) Jose Mourinho will have one of the key pieces of the Real Madrid attack available to him until at least the end of the 2017/18 season," it said in a statement.