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 Drug cheats may thrive at Sydney OlympicsDESPITE the latest efforts of some of Australia’s elite athletes to continue the public push towards drug-free sport, Australians. Swimming president Terry Gathercole has “no doubt” that drug cheats will compete, and possibly win medals, at the Sydney Olympics. Mr Gathercole admitted the absence of blood testing would allow drug cheats into the Olympics. No foreign teams
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Kenya discards marathon team Punjab shooting
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John Capel shocks Greene, Johnson SACRAMENTO (California), July 24 (Reuters) — Former collegiate champion John Capel has surprised world record holder Michael Johnson and rival Maurice Greene in their semifinal of the men’s 200 metres at the US Olympic trials. Capel clocked 20.03 seconds yesterday with Johnson, who had suffered a cramp in his right quadriceps on Saturday, second in 20.14 seconds, Greene was third in 20.30 seconds. All advanced to the final later in the day. Johnson spent almost two hours at the warm-up track, striding and receiving massages, before he and his coach, Clyde Hart, decided he would run in the semifinal. AP: The exhausting preliminaries are over. It’s on to Sydney and a quest for five Olympic gold medals for Marion Jones. ‘‘It’s a relief,’’ Jones said. ‘‘As everybody knows, coming to the US trials and getting through in all three events, and winning all three events, is tiresome.’’ ‘‘I think the best word I can use to describe it is ‘I’m glad it’s all over’ and that’s more than one word. But now I can go home and relax.’’ Jones added the 200-metre title yesterday to her triumphs in the long jump and 100. Her goal is to win those three events in Sydney, and add gold medals in the 100- and 400-metre relays. She won the 200 Sunday in a tight race with longtime rival and defending world champion Inger Miller. Miller was gaining on Jones with about 80 metres to go but couldn’t close any ground in the last 40 metres. Jones’ winning time of 21.94 seconds was the fastest in the world this year. Miller was second in 22.09. Jones expects to get faster. ‘‘It’s only my third 200 of the year,’’ she said. ‘‘To come out here and run pretty good — it’s been a long week and I’m glad could come out of here with a victory.’’ Jones was a runaway winner in the 200 semifinals at 22.08. ‘‘I think so much emotion went into the semis that it felt like a finals to me,’’ she said. ‘‘When I was finished with the semis, was pooped. To have to regroup and refocus in an hour and half and come back and run in the finals was a little difficult. Perhaps it was the heat and whatever else, but I’m just glad it’s over.’’ Miller, who won the 200 at last year’s World Championships after Jones went out with back spasms in the semifinals, feels she, too, can do better. ‘‘It was a good race,’’ miller said. ‘‘I have a lot of work to do between now and Sydney. That was not anywhere near perfect, but it was a good time.’’ Asked if her performance at the trials boosted her confidence, she just smiled. ‘‘I don’t think it can be bolstered any more than it is,’’ Jones said. ‘‘The goal was to come here and primarily qualify in all three/events. Without a doubt, I’ve always said it’s not going to be easy in Sydney. I’d be the first to tell you it’s going to be quite difficult.’’ ‘‘But the fact that I can come here and get through all three of these and all sorts of different things is motivating for me. I’m glad I’ve gotten through it.’’
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Sweden whitewash India BASTAAD (Sweden), July 24 (PTI) — Former champions Sweden completed the formalities yesterday demolishing a second string Indian team 5-0 winning both the reverse singles in their World Group qualifying Davis Cup rubber here. After having assured themselves a place in the elite group of nations for 2001 championship, Swedish players — Andreas Vinciguerra and Mikael Tillstrom — went about the job in a flawless fashion much to the humiliation of India. Viniciguerra scored an effortless 6-2, 6-1 win over India’s No 1 singles choice player Prahlad Srinath and then Tillstrom rounded off the tie with a 6-3, 6-0 thrashing of debutant Harsh Mankad. Aiming to gain entry into the 16-nation World Group after more than two years in the oblivion of Asia-Oceania Zonal competition, India crashed to another agonising loss — their third straight 0-5 thrashing by Sweden. The win took Sweden back in the Davis Cup elite after the former champions were relegated for the first time ever last year from the World Group. India had made it to the World Group qualifying play-off after beating South Korea 4-1 in the Asia-Oceania Zone Group I second round in Delhi in April. Despite a gutsy showing by top Indian doubles player Mahesh Bhupathi in company of Syed Fazaluddin, the visitors lost the doubles tie earlier on Saturday. Bhupathi and Fazaluddin took experienced Swedish pair of Nicklas Kulti and Tillstrom to the distance on the slow red claycourt before losing 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 3-6. NEW YORK (AP): Belgium earned the final berth in next year’s Davis Cup World Group, winning both singles matches against Italy yesterday to win their qualifier 4-1. At Mestre in Italy, Christophe Rochus stepped in for his younger brother, Olivier, and beat Davide Sanguinetti 6-2, 7-5, 6-7 (8), 1-6, 7-5 in the first reverse singles match to clinch the best-of-five series. |
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Els resigned to being 2nd best ST ANDREWS (Scotland), July 24 (AP) — While Tiger Woods is around, Ernie Els is golf’s No 2. The South African has been second to Woods six times now, more than any other player, and twice in a major championship this year alone. He was placed second, though 15 strokes behind Woods, at last month’s US Open and his second place finish at the British Open yesterday even set up a change in the world rankings. Woods stays No 1. Guess where Els is? The South African, who moved above David Duval, is resigned to being No 2 to Woods as long as the young American maintains his phenomenal game. “I’m playing a different tournament,” Els said. “I play the regular tour event and Tiger plays his own.” Els’ final-round 69 gave him a share of second place yesterday with Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn, but eight shots behind Woods who made golf history by becoming the youngest player to complete a Grand Slam of majors. Runner-up to Vijay Singh in this year’s Masters and to Woods in the US Open, Els meanwhile became the first player to finish second in three consecutive majors. He finished second in the Open mainly because of Duval’s collapse. Duval, who started the day in second, needed four shots to get out of the road hole bunker on No 17 and wound up with a 75 for a share of 11th place. That left Els in his customary position — seeing Woods take home the trophy. “In one way it is incredible to watch a guy play so much better than the rest of the world,” he said. “And it is tough to sit down and talk about him every time. I might have to get used to it but I guess that’s the way it goes.” A two-time winner of the US Open, Els went into the Open rated the player most likely to beat Woods. As well as his two second-place finishes at majors this year, he won the Loch Lomond tournament last week. But his 15-stroke loss to Woods at the US Open illustrates the gulf between the two players and it was the same story at St Andrews. “I guess I could play as good as I can this week but I wasn’t going to win,” Els said. “If I really played as good as I could I don’t think I would have got to 20 under like Tiger. So, second is nice.” Woods finished 19 under after dropping a stroke at the 17th, but he still wound up with a record Open victory score in relation to par. “To be so far behind the winner is tough to take,” Els said. “But what can you do?” |
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USA go down to Costa Rica NEW YORK, July 24 (AP) — The USA lost a World Cup qualifier to Costa Rica while Trinidad and Tobago
stunned Mexico in their regional group semifinals yesterday. In San Jose, Costa Rica, the USA had yet another tough time, losing a World Cup qualifier 2-1 on a disputed penalty kick in the 89th minute against the hosts. The decisive play came when Gregg Berhalter was called for using his hands inside the penalty box, a ruling contested by the Americans. Hernan Medford beat goalkeeper Kasey Keller with the penalty kick and the game ended shortly after that with the US players shouting at the referee. The USA have not won in six attempts in Costa Rica, who handed the Americans their only two losses during qualifying for the 1998 World Cup. Two games into the semifinal round of qualifying for the 2002 World Cup, the USA are last in their four-team group. They tied Guatemala 1-1 a week ago. The USA fell behind Costa Rica in the ninth minute on a goal by Rolando Fonseca. The score came after Medford intercepted a US corner kick and passed to Fonseca. The USA came back in the second half, with Earnie Stewart scoring in the 65th minute on a pass from Ante Razov. The win gave Costa Rica the much-needed three points. Costa Rica qualified for the 1990 World Cup but have not returned since. They were upset 2-1 at Barbados a week ago, a decision that did not sit well at home. In San Salvador, El Salvador, the hosts devastated St Vincent 7-1, reviving them chances of advancing to the 2002 World Cup’s final qualifying round. Despite getting off to a strong start with Jamar Ballantyne scoring in the 9th minute, St Vincent never scored again. Still stinging from their 5-2 defeat with Honduras, El Salvador aggressively sought the win. Led by Mauricio Cienfuegos, the Salvadorans relentlessly attacked before a home crowd of 20,000 at the Cuscatian stadium. Elias Montes scored in the 19th minute of, Carlos Castro in the 35th minute; Guillermo Rivera in the 49th and 61st minutes, and Raul Dias Arce in the 71st, 83rd and 84th minutes. El Salvador and St Vincent join Honduras and Jamaica in group D. The top two teams in each group will advance to the regional final qualifying round. |
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Drug cheats may thrive at Sydney Olympics DESPITE the latest efforts of some of Australia’s elite athletes to continue the public push towards drug-free sport, Australians. Swimming president Terry Gathercole has “no doubt” that drug cheats will compete, and possibly win medals, at the Sydney Olympics. Mr Gathercole admitted the absence of blood testing would allow drug cheats into the Olympics. “I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there will be [drug cheats at the Olympics], “said Mr Gathercole. “Even if we began blood testing now, I don’t think that will cure it. But if 12 months ago the IOC had announced that we were in a situation with our research where we will be able to take blood — which for all sorts of legal reasons they probably couldn’t do — [we might have prevented it]. But we needed the deterrent factor, and we needed it in time.” “There are a lot of things that have gone on with our drug testing and it’s very sophisticated, but the cloud is EPO [erythropoietin] and HGH [human growth hormone].” “Even if there was a way of freezing those samples for later testing that would be a great deterrent, but at the moment that is not possible. Hopefully, the people who are doing this research will be able to make it possible.” EPO and HGH are the two main drugs undetectable in normal urine testing, and history has proved that swimming is a target for users. Imaginitis In a refreshing attitude towards coaching in modern sport, Australian head swimming coach Don Talbot has dismissed injuries to key members of his Olympic team, suggesting it may be a case of “imaginitis”. Dual Olympic 1500m freestyle champion Kieren Perkins and Daniel Kowalski (who won two bronze and a silver over 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle at the Atlanta Games.) have all pulled out of this weekend’s Brisbane grand prix meet with injuries. Perkins has a strained vertebral joint, Kowalski’s shoulder injury has flared again. But Talbot said the “tales of woe, ills and chills” were not unusual in sport. “It’s just a typical athlete crying because they’re working hard,” he said. “Things like that happen to you. In every sport that you know, they get they way. I don’t have any fears or worries about it.” “You’ve got to be really careful that you don’t get distracted by these things. I could lay there on the ground and tell you how bad I feel but who wants to listen to that?” The 26-year-old Perkins has spent four hours a day on the physiotherapist’s bench in a bid to overcome the injury just weeks before the last race of his career. He has not been able to train at “full bore” for almost two weeks but Talbot seemed unperturbed. “When you are at this stage now and you’re feeling the tension, you are nervous about it. You are sensitive to things going on around you and you get a little bit of imaginitis about yourself. “You’ve got to read that correctly as a coach and you’re got to be really careful you don’t over-react.” “While you’ve got to be conscious of it and you’ve got to adjust training for it, to get into a major trauma about it would be a big mistake.” At the Sydney Games, Perkins will attempt to become the first male swimmer to win the same event at three Olympics when he lines up in the 1500m freestyle. But the injury is clearly a setback to his chances so close to his third Olympics.
Games a profile boost Like many of the 200 or so nations expected to attend the Sydney Games, Slovenia is using the occasion to raise its international profile, both as a tourist destination (the self-styled “green piece of Europe”) and as an investment opportunity. During the Olympics a little bit of the Sydney CBD will be authentically Slovenian. At a premises in the heart of Sydney, there will be a traditional Slovenian “gostilna”, a place where people gather for good food, good drink and a good chat. Alfred Breznik, Sydney-based Consul-General of the Central European Republic of Slovenia — is determined that by the end of the Olympics, the world will be able to tell “-akias” from “-enias” when it comes to identifying “Slov-” countries. “It’s easy,” he suggests. “Slovenia has ‘love ‘ in he heart.” “There’ve been times when a Slovenian athlete has won first prize and the band has played the Slovakian national anthem,” says Mr Breznik, who has lived in Australia for 41 years. “How would Australians feel if they won a gold medal and the Austrian national anthem was played?” he asks. Slovenians are still basking in the international publicity they received after their unfancied soccer team reached the European Championship finals recently. Their Olympic team of 64 athletes hopes to win medals, especially in water sports such as sailing and rowing. “We hope to celebrate gold at the gostilna,” says Mr Breznik, who is also team attache. Meanwhile, the Consultate-General in Sydney is awaiting delivery of a banner, 32 metres high, which it hopes to hang on the side of Slovenia Olympic House. A highly visible sign of a tiny country thinking,walking tall.
Countdown heats up As the Games countdown begins, Michael Knight, Sydney’s controversial Olympic Minister, has emerged this week from months of self-imposed exile to publicly flick the switch — the planning for the Olympics is over and the running of the Games is about to begin. He held the final meeting of SOCOG’s board before the beginning of the Games period at Sydney Olympic Park so the media could see the growing mass of tent cities and temporary pedestrian bridges all erected in recent weeks. And after the meeting he addressed reporters in the new 800-seat Press conference room, where the world’s media will gather in eight weeks whenever there is a big Games wtory. He began with an outline of the new highly centralised command structure to run the Games which takes effect in 10 days, before imploring the country’s media to join him on this trip to the higher plane. Thou shalt be kind to Australia is the plea the Olympics Minister made to the local media: “The world really is watching from here on in. Their views, their impressions of the Games, what they see, what they feel, what they hear will form a more general impression about Australia as a whole. This is now the time to put the interests of one’s country first,” he said. Knight has less than eight weeks now to transcend the endless scraps that are part of organising any event the size of the Games and that have dogged his period in charge. He’s likely to need all that time. — PMG |
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BCCI to seek govt approval MUMBAI, July 24 (PTI) — Diluting its autonomy in the wake of the match-fixing scandal, the cricket board today decided to enforce the new code of conduct for players only after getting approval from the government. After the first meeting here of the special committee, formed by the board, its convenor Kishore Rungta told reporters: “The draft of the code will be submitted to Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on August 1 and once the minister approves the draft we will implement it in the very next series India takes part”. “There is nothing much I can tell you at the moment as the committee would be meeting again in Delhi on July 30 before the draft is submitted to the minister on August 1,” he added. “The draft will be discussed at the Delhi meeting and its contents and the changes, if any, would be disclosed to the press by the minister,” Rungta said. The other committee members who attended today’s meeting were board Secretary Jayawant Lele, Shankar Mohan, legal expert V.B. Subbarao and special invitee and former board president Raj Singh Dungarpur. Another member, Ashok Khumbat, could not attend the meeting as he was not well. Lele did not speak to the press. |
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Kumble, Ganguly excel LONDON, July 24 (PTI) — Indian leg spinner Anil Kumble captured three wickets for 29 runs as Leicestershire prevailed over title holders Lanchashire by seven wickets in the Norwich Union National League first division match yesterday.
Put into bat, Lancashire barring India captain Sourav Ganguly faltered and could score only 162 for 9 in 45 overs. Only Ganguly batted with fluency making 58 from 93 balls while losing two partners for a duck. Former England cricketer Neil Fairbrother was caught at slip seventh ball and Graham Lloyd run out by Lewis after facing only two balls. Leicestershire commenced the reply in a none-too happy fashion losing two wickets with only nine runs on the board but a 133-run third wicket partnership between A Habib (63) and B F Smith (54 not out) enabled them to romp home with 8.1 overs to spare. Brief scores: (Lancashire 162 (S Ganguly 58, W K Hegg 24, Kumble 3/29 and Ormond 2/25) lost to Leicestershire 165 for three in 36.5 overs (A Habib 63, B F Smith 54 no, Ganguly 1/28 and Chapple 1/22). |
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Vijayalakshmi 1st WGM of country HYDERABAD, July 24 (UNI) — Twenty-year-old Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi of Indian Airlines became the first woman grandmaster of the country when she drew her ninth round game with Wipro’s P. Harikrishna in the Wipro International G M Chess Champion-ship played at Taj Residency here today. Four-time national champion Vijayalakshmi needed just nine game norm to become India’s first women grand master. A tense Vijayalakshmi, or Viji as she is fondly called, was seen walking with a brisk pace in the tournament hall. When she trapped Harikrishna’s queen, she asked for a glass of water from the arbiter, a rare move from her, and it was obvious she was not herself today. “It is a great day for me. My father, who called me up, said in a choked voice that he was proud of me,” said the champion player. She was initially trained by her father A.S.Subbaraman. Viji’s performance average rating of 2503 in this category-11 FIDE event was the best result. Confirming that she had become the first WGM of the country, all India Chess Federation (AICF) General Secretary P.T.Umer Koya, also chief arbiter of the tournament, said her feat could boost up women’s chess in the country. Talking to UNI over telephone from Calcutta, Koya said: “Let’s see if we can figure out what makes this emerging star tick.” He said Viji would get Rs 2 lakh for her brilliant achievement. Vijaylakshmi said: “I was very tense this morning and played a safe game with Harikrishna and my opening game was not good. Before coming to the hall I read Bhagvad Gita and decided to play my own game as in the earlier tournaments I had become woman GM in mind and lost most of the matches. Today I just wanted to play my game and achieve this rare honour of becoming the first-ever Indian woman grand master.” |
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Stumps for him? PATIALA
July 24 — Navjot Sidhu. The name was enough to conjure up visions of a brilliant sportsman, an enigma of Indian cricket and an articulate personality whose numerous comebacks in international cricket have become part of Indian cricket’s folklore. After income tax sleuths scaled the walls of Navjot’s posh Yadvindra Colony house to yank the cricketer out of his slumber two days ago, the entire area was teeming with activity. Now, barely 48 hours after the Income Tax Department’s search and seizures operations have ended, a stunned silence greets one in the vicinity of Sidhu’s residence. His neighbours dare not speak, so dazed they are, and those who have something “sensationally exclusive” up their sleaves to disclose, belongs to the “off-the-record” category. Till a couple of years ago, Navjot Sidhu was a role model to hundreds of the city’s young cricketers, his full-blown posters used to adorn rooms of his fans. And Navjot Sidhu was the single biggest factor in putting Patiala, once again, on the cricketing map of the country. City residents, from the layman to the elite, after the CBI inquiry and the recent income tax raids, are not only stunned and dazed, but also surprised that Navjot Sidhu, the man who could do no wrong, has been caught in the rapid crossfire of murky match-fixing allegations. After speaking with a cross section of city residents, one thing is clear that the people have passed their own judgement, even before the court of law has to pronounce one. A former hockey Olympian, on condition of anonymity, said” In the court of the people, not only Navjot Sidhu, but all others in match-fixing stand condemned”. However, a former Vice-Chancellor of Punjabi University, Prof Gursewak Singh, was more defensive in his tone. “Let the allegations against Navjot be first proved, before anyone pronounce him guilty of betraying the nation. Navjot surely belongs to a class which is cultured. However, cricketers were known to play with straight bats but this belief has been shattered. The present-day tribe of cricketers has been reduced to characters in a circus troupe”. For the Punjabis, Navjot was widely seen as the carrier of the indomitable Punjabi spirit. But as a renowned Sikh scholar says,” Navjot is in danger of falling from the eyes of the very same community which idolised him. Obviously, if there is smoke, there has to be some fire.” One thing is clear. That after the CBI inquiry and the recent raids, there has been a sharp dip in Navjot’s popularity graph. Whether the ratings rise again is any body’s guess. And as a close friend of Navjot says,” Navjot has proved numerous times that he has the ability to rise like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes as and when the occasion demands”. Now, for once destiny has provided Navjot one last occasion to straighten the record, so that the city may heave a sigh of relief that one of its proud sons has nothing to do with match fixing. |
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Kenya discards marathon team NAIROBI, July 24 (Reuters) — A huge row has erupted in Kenya over a decision by national athletics chiefs to dump the three-member strong marathon team for the Sydney Olympics because of alleged complacency. The team has been replaced by an entirely new one. Kenya Amateur Athletic Association (KAAA) general secretary David Okeyo said the team of twice Boston Marathon winner Moses Tanui, reigning Boston champion Elijah Lagat and Japheth Kosgei, the Tokyo Marathon winner, had been scrapped. The new team will be Rotterdam Marathon winner Kennedy Cheruiyot, 1996 Atlanta Olympics marathon bronze medallist Eric Wainaina and Osoro Ondoro, fourth in the Boston Marathon in April. Okeyo said the team had been changed because the trio selected earlier were training inconsistently and that complacency had set in. He said the move was recommended by a panel of coaches appointed to monitor training. But athletics insiders said the motive was political, given Tanui’s repeated demands for greater transparency and accountability in the running of athletics in Kenya. Kipchoge Keino, Chairman of National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK), condemned the move. “As Chairman of the Olympic body, I am not going to utilise public funds to take a weak team to Sydney,” Keino told Reuters today. Keino said he would personally present the case to Kenya Olympic Games steering committee at their next meeting tomorrow. “You can’t drop (Elijah) Lagat and (Moses) Tanui when they had proved themselves that they are capable of doing well,” said Keino, a winner of two Olympic gold medals himself. Officially, Kenya’s marathon team is selected from performances in the London and Boston Marathons. Qualifiers for all other events have to finish in the top three at the national championships in Kenya, which concluded on Saturday. The Kenyan trials confirmed the vulnerability of established names who were floored by little-known runners. World 3,000 metres steeplechase champion Christopher Kosgei saw his dream for Olympic gold go up in smoke as he trailed at the very end in a race won by Reuben Kosgei (no relation). Olympic and twice world 10,000 metres silver medallist Paul Tergat took a gamble by switching to 5,000 metres but squeezed his way into the Olympic team, having finished third. The race was won by Julius Gitahi. World silver medallist Benjamin Limo was a poor fifth while world 3,000 metres record holder Daniel Komen could not cope with the searing pace and did not finish. |
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No foreign teams
for match practice NEW DELHI, July 24 — Having failed to get the national teams of South Africa, South Korea, Egypt and Russia, the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF), in consultation with SAI, has decided to give match practice to the Olympic Games-bound Indian squad against home teams.
According to a SAI official, the Indian team will play a series of practice matches against India B team, who are also currently training in Bangalore alongwith the senior team, and the Air India and Punjab and Sind Bank teams have also been asked to spare a few days to play some invitation matches. All the matches will be played in Bangalore. The IHF has decided not to invite the Russian team as it felt that no purpose would be served by bringing an average foreign team at considerable cost, and instead thought it fit to pit the Indian squad against other strong Indian institutional outfits, and the juniors who would provide better competition to the Olympic team. The Indian team will leave for Brisbane either on August 18 or 19 to practice at a hockey academy there till the time of the start of the Olympic Games. |
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Other goals ahead, says Woods ST ANDREWS (Scotland), July 24 — Tiger Woods proudly surveyed his place in the golfing history books after winning the British Open here and said he had other goals ahead of him. Asked if he would ever tire of winning golf tournaments and do a Michael Jordan by switching sports Woods said firmly “No !” “I guess I’ve exceeded a few of the goals I set for myself, but I’m behind on a couple of others. So far I’ve had a wonderful, young career, and hopefully I can continue to have the success I have. “I am going to keep working in my game, keep trying to get better and we will see what happens,” he said. Woods’ eight stroke triumph over the Old Course made him just the fifth player to have won all four Majors after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogen, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus. And at just 24, he is the youngest ever, eclipsing the great Jack Nicklaus, the player he seems certain to dethrone from the mantle of being considered the greatest golfer all time. “Those are true champions right there,” said Woods. “Everyone is a true champion: they have won numerous countless tournaments really, they are the cream of the crop. They have been the elite players to ever play the game. “And to be in the same breath as those guys, it makes it very, special, very special,” Woods, who is acutely aware of the traditions and history which surround golf, said that joining the immortals by winning the British Open at St Andrews made the victory all the sweeter. “To have the chance to complete the slam at St Andrews where golf all started ... to come out here in this event and just play as well as I did this entire week, make the long putts from a hundred feet or so, and that’s just part of this golf course, I thoroughly enjoyed it,” he said. Woods said he couldn’t care less about his beating the British Open aggregate score low of Nick Faldo, but said that he had been bent on carding four rounds in the 60s. “That was something I did not do at Pebble Beach and I did not do it at Augusta. And to finally get the job done with four straight 60s in a major championship is very special, especially when par is 72,” he said. Turning to the future again, Woods said he had yet to begin his preparation for the final major of the year at the Valhalla course in Louisville, Kentucky in August where he will be the defending champion. “To be honest I don’t know really much about it,” he said. “I saw a telecast when Mark Brooks won there, that’s about it. I don’t really know what to prepare for yet. Hopefully I can get out there before the tournament starts. In the meantime, he added, “I think my body and my mind deserve a little rest.” |
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Punjab shooting
from July 28 CHANDIGARH, July 24 — The Punjab State Rifle Shooting Association will hold 36th Punjab State Shooting Championship from July 28 to 30 at Patiali ki Rao shooting ranges, Sector 25, according to Raja KS Sidhu secretary general of the association. The three-day meet will witness competitions in rifle and pistol events in national rules (NR) and in International Shooting Sport Federation
(ISSF) categories.
The events will be held for sub-junior, junior and seniors in both men’s and women’s section. Entries close at 12 noon on July 28 at the venue. On the basis of this championship those who attain minimum qualifying score in each section will represent Punjab at the ninth GV Mavlankar Shooting Championships to be held at Chennai from September 1 to 12. Meanwhile, PRSA has congratulated renowned shooter Abhinav Bindra for his maiden entry to 2000 Olympics at Sydney. The association also complimented the untiring efforts of Lt Col. JS Dhillon for groming Abhinav to this level. It was Colonel Dhillon who gave the first lesson to Abhinav on July 7, 1996. |
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Karthikeyan 9th MUMBAI, July 24 (PTI) — India’s ace Formula-3 driver, Narain Karthikeyan, had a disastrous weekend finishing ninth and earning just two championship points in the British Formula-3 championship at Croft. According to information received here today, in the qualifying sessions, the Chennai-based racer had to battle with a car which had slowed down due to inadequate fuel pressure after starting 13th on the grid. |
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Other goals ahead, says Woods
