Tottenham was held to a 0-0 draw by Premier League newcomer Norwich Sunday, spurning the chance to go third in the standings behind fellow London clubs Arsenal and Chelsea.
Spurs, which had three players in England's 2-1 World Cup win over Poland on Wednesday, have yet to lose in five games this season. But it stays sixth after its third draw.
Norwich has yet to win since winning promotion to the Premier League and stays in 17th place. Goalkeeper Robert Green had a standout match.
Spanish League
Fernando Torres and Ariel Ibagaza struck in the last five minutes as Atletico Madrid beat Albacete 2-0.
Atletico's late burst moved it level with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at the top of the standings and maintained the team's winning start to the season.
Serbia-Montenegro striker Savo Milosevic scored twice as 10-man Osasuna rallied to humble Deportivo La Coruna 3-1 and win its first match of the season.
Bundesliga
Kaiserslautern scored its first victory of the season Sunday when it beat Hansa Rostock 3-2 on the road to escape from the bottom of the Bundesliga standings. Freiburg drew 2-2 in Hannover to remain unbeaten after four rounds.
Kaiserslautern stormed to a 3-0 lead on goals by Thomas Drescher (42nd minute), Thomas Riedl (44) and Halil Altintop (56).
Hannover blew a 2-0 lead to remain winless. Regius Dorn and Ellery Cairo salvaged the draw for Freiburg with second-half goals.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier