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■ Soccer
Juve dope charges expire
Italy's highest court ruled on Thursday that the statute of limitations had expired on sporting fraud charges against a Juventus team doctor and the club's chief executive accused of doping, news reports said. Prosecutors made a final appeal to the Court of Cassation after a Turin appeals court on Dec. 14, 2005, overturned the conviction of physician Riccardo Agricola and upheld the acquittal of chief executive Antonio Giraudo in the case. Agricola was originally convicted of administering banned substances, including the hormone EPO, to Juventus players from 1994-1998. He was handed a suspended sentence of 22 months in November 2004. Giraudo was acquitted in the case, but prosecutors appealed the verdict to the Turin court. The high court said the prosecutors were justified in appealing the previous decisions, but that the statute of limitations on the charges had expired, the ANSA and Apcom news agencies reported. The high court ruling closes a high-profile case that began in 1998 after allegations by then-AS Roma coach Zdenek Zeman.

■ Cycling
UK's Wiggins wins 4,000m
Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins of the UK overtook defending champion Robert Bartko of Germany in the third kilometer to win the 4,000m individual pursuit title on Thursday at the track world championships in Palma de Mallorca. Spain's Sergi Escobar finished third. France won the team sprint crossing the line in 43.830 seconds, two-thousandths of a second ahead of the UK's trio. Germany were third. Alois Kankovsky of the Czech Republic won the omnium event with 19 points. Fernando Walter Perez of Argentina was second with 28 and Charles Huff of the US was third with 37 points.

■ Tennis
Roddick may miss cup tie
Andy Roddick's pulled left hamstring might keep him from playing in next week's Davis Cup quarter-final and his status might not be known until tomorrow, US Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe said. Roddick was forced to retired in the first set of a quarter-final match at the ATP Masters Series event in Miami on Wednesday. "Andy tweaked a hamstring in the upper left part of his leg," McEnroe said. "The good news at least is that it is not torn, but it is a hamstring so that is kind of tricky."

■ Motor Racing
Duno lined up for Indy 500
Venezuelan Milka Duno could join Americans Sarah Fisher and Danica Patrick to make the first trio of women to compete in the Indianapolis 500 in the same year. Duno was entered on Thursday as the driver for a pair of cars by Samax Motorsport for the May 27 race. A cars for Fisher has already been entered and one for Patrick is expected from Andretti Green Racing before Wednesday's entry deadline. Duno has three wins in the Grand American Racing Series for prototype cars and was part of the second-place team at this year's Daytona 24-Hour race.

■ Cricket
Peterson gets reprimand
Robin Peterson has been reprimanded for smashing the stumps in celebration after he hit the winning runs in South Africa's win over Sri Lanka on Wednesday in Guyana. "It was decided to give him an official reprimand, no fine will be imposed," match referee Jeff Crowe told reporters after Peterson attended a hearing on Thursday.

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