Flavio Briatore has been let off a lifetime ban from Formula One by a French court.

It's been a funny old year for sport. Paul Lewis looks at some of the oddest, most bizarre and brightest moments of the year across all sports.

From Tiger Woods to the All Whites, Chris Rattue names his top sports stories that surprised and shocked in 2009.

As the Tiger Woods saga lurches on Paul Lewis wonders if the golfing superstar will do what other sportsmen have done in his shoes – recover win adulation again.

It's been another glorious year of sex, drugs, cheating and generally offensive behaviour from our sporting 'heroes'.

The butterfly chaos theory (according to wikipedia) refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere.