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Motor racing chief Max Mosley claims he is under pressure to stay on as head of Formula One’s governing body after opponents rushed to write his obituary following a peace deal last week.

“They made the mistake of dancing on my grave before I was buried,” the 69-year-old Briton told the Mail on Sunday newspaper in an interview.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) president suggested …  Details

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Big-wave surfing pioneer Jeff Clark broke his silence Friday morning, saying “the reality is I was ousted” as director of the Mavericks Surf Contest and announcing that he has severed most ties with the company that runs it.

Mavericks Surf Ventures CEO Keir Beadling announced last week that Clark — who began surfing Mavericks solo as a Half Moon Bay 17-year-old, and continued to do so for 15 years — would be stepping down as director but staying on as member of the company’s board. Beadling said it was time to “democratize the process” — including …  Details

Whatever you think about him, he is the biggest story in sport this summer. OSM talks to Armstrong’s friends, enemies and rivals about his controversial comeback

Virtually everyone I run into is asking me, “Can he do it again?” People want to know whether Lance Armstrong, after an almost four-year absence, can win the world’s greatest bike race an eighth time. I tell them that everything is stacked against him.

At 37 years and 10 months, he is 18 months older than the oldest previous winner, the 1922 champion, Firmin Lambot of Belgium. And Armstrong has not won a single race this year in his return to cycling that began at January’s Tour Down Under. Yet I am confident that he will be a leading contender at the 2009 Tour starting in Monaco on 4 July. I even think he could win…  Details