Turkey's women's basketball team beat Croatia by 70-65 on Sunday to secure their second spot in Group A behind the United States. Out of Group A, the United States, Turkey, China and Czech Republic will go through to the next round. The teams that qualified for the quarterfinals in Group B are France, Australia, Russia and Canada.
The quarterfinals tips off tomorrow with the following pairings:
(A1) USA – Canada (B4)The U.S. women's volleyball team cruised to victory in three straight sets against Turkey's 'Sultans of the Net' on Sunday, closing out the preliminary round of the London Olympics tournament undefeated at the top of Pool B.
Turkey sails out of the competition alongside Britain, Algeria and Serbia after China and Korea went to five sets earlier in the day, giving them both enough points to earn a spot in the knockout round of the quarter-finals.
Turkey's 'Sultans of the Net' played a blinding first set before losing 27-25, and forcing the United States to shore up their defense and raise their game.
"Obviously in the first set Turkey had a lot of success," U.S. coach Hugh McCutcheon told Reuters. "Once we blocked our defense and our reception grooved in a little bit that made things easier."
The world number one team's Destinee Hooker blasted 17 spikes out of 38 attempts, delivered 19 points and had some strong help up front at the net from Foluke Akinradewo to win the last two sets 25-16 and 25-19.Russia will play Brazil in the quarter-finals followed by Japan against China, Italy against Korea and the United States against Dominican Republic on Tuesday.
Intercity’s manger, Vural Ak, who is on the Beşiktaş sports club’s presidency candidate Serdal Adalı’s managerial list, announced the club’s financials. Ak, who manages Istanbul Racetrack said, “We will invest 45 million dollars and enter the 2014 Formula calendar.”
Fenerbahçe lifted up their second Turkey Cup trophy in a row last night beating out Trabzonspor by 1-0 in the Ziraat Turkey Cup final held in Ankara. 
Sports Minister Kılıç brought two star players from arch-rival teams together to discuss the recent surfacing of racial gestures by fans in the Fenerbahçe-Galatasaray derby, the foreign player quota and Turkey’s 2020 Olympic bid. 
English former captain, and footballing legend David Beckham takes his last bow on the footballing stage.
Yesterday the "Derby of Two Continents" was played in Istanbul.
Galatasaray clinched their 19th Turkish league title with a 4-2 win over Sivasspor on Sunday, crowning a successful season in which they reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League and claimed the Super League title two weeks early.
In an exciting, tight and highly energized game, hosts Benfica managed to outscore Fenerbahçe by 3-1 last night and will now be moving on to face Chelsea in the UEFA Europa League final in Amsterdam on May 15.
Tokyo's outspoken governor, Naoki Inose, who heads the city's bid for the 2020 Olympics, apologized on Tuesday for "inappropriate" comments he made about rival candidate Istanbul and Islamic countries. Admitting that he used expressions that may have been misunderstood, Inose said he would never criticize other candidate cities again. 
Egemen Korkmaz's second-half header earned Fenerbahçe a 1-0 win in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final against Benfica and eased the tears of team mate Cristian on Thursday.
