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Former ManU player PAUL SCHOLES has been brought on to ManU’s coaching staff for the club’s final four matches of the season. He will coach under interim Manager RYAN GIGGS, who was installed in the wake of DAVID MOYES' sacking. Scholes "is expected to be in the dug-out on Saturday for the visit of Norwich City to Old Trafford" (LONDON TIMES, 4/23). ... Six-time Olympic archer ALISON WILLIAMSON "announced her retirement from the sport." The former world No. 1 and Olympic Bronze Medalist "called time on her international career at the age of 42." She "became only the third Briton to take part in six consecutive Olympics" when she competed at the 2012 London Games (SHROPSHIRE STAR, 4/23). ... Spanish handball club Guadalajara coach MATEO GARRALDA announced that he will leave the club at the end of the season to become the coach of Romanian side Stiinta MD Bacau (AS, 4/23). ... Argentine first division side River Plate President RODOLFO D'ONOFRIO is suing his predecessor, DANIEL PASSARELLA, for fraudulent activity after receiving a report into the previous regime from auditor PwC. D'Onofrio said, "With my responsibility as President of River, if there was any crime we will report it in the proper setting: the court. One has to end the impunity at River" (EFE, 4/23). ... Liga MX side Querétaro defender YASSER CORONA wrote on his Twitter account that Querétaro execs had paid players for two weeks of the three months for which they are owed payments. Corona tweeted, "¡Ya depositaron!" ("They paid!") (LA AFICION, 4/22).

HOPEFUL RETURN: Australian cyclist MICHAEL ROGERS hopes to return to racing as soon as possible after the world body ruled that he would not be "sanctioned any further" for his positive reading of the drug clenbuterol in the end of season Japan Cup that he won last year. After his positive test, Rogers, 34, an Olympian and nine-time Tour de France starter with a personal best overall finish of ninth in '06, "was provisionally suspended, but maintained his innocence." On Wednesday, the Int'l Cycling Union said in a statement that "it had accepted the Tinkoff-Saxo rider’s explanation that his positive was due to contaminated meat he had eaten when he was in China where he raced in the Tour of Beijing" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 4/23).

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