MILAN - FORMULA One team Ferrari is planning to accelerate its cost-cutting plans for 2009 in the wake of Honda's pullout from the sport.

'This process had already begun over the last few years. But now it's going to have a sharp acceleration,' team director Stefano Domenicali said in an interview with Corriere della Sera on Monday without providing further financial details.

BEIJING - CHINA'S 110m hurdles world champion Liu Xiang could be back on the running track in May after successful foot surgery in the United States, local media reported on Monday.

The 2004 Olympic gold medallist, who was robbed of the chance of defending his title in Beijing in August by injury, underwent a three-hour operation on his damaged right Achilles' tendon in Houston last Friday.

SYDNEY - AUSTRALIAN PGA champion Geoff Ogilvy has urged local tour organisers to push ahead with an ambitious plan to lure Tiger Woods back to Australia.