ABAP’S PICSON BAGS ASIAN BOXING CONFEDERATION CITATION
THE Asian Boxing Confederation named Ed Picson, the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines executive director, as the Best Asian National Federation Executive Director of 2012. JOSEF T. RAMOS

CHAPTER CLOSED AS ARMSTRONG OPTS AGAINST APPEAL
LAUSANNE: Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong missed the deadline to lodge an appeal over being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for systematic doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced. Armstrong has been wiped from the record books with all of his achivements, since August 1998 binned by the International Cycling Union (UCI) after he was accused of being at the heart of sports’ biggest ever doping scandal. The UCI notified the Texan on December 6 that he had until December 27 to appeal his lifetime ban. AFP