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BCCI proposes ethical code UCBSA chief aims at regaining status Likhovtseva routs Capriati Panel to decide fate of SA players “Make amends, not cash”
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 Radical protest groups to converge on SydneyRADICAL protest groups linked with the anti-world trade riots in Seattle will converge on Sydney on the opening day of the Olympic Games, bringing security concerns for police. The activists will arrive in buses from Melbourne, where they will have spent three days disrupting the World Economic Forum at the Crown Casino. Sotomayor hopes to compete
at Sydney USA’s “dream team” for Olympics IT officials grill Azharuddin
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SA battle to save Test KANDY (Sri Lanka), Aug 1 (Reuters) — Jacques Kallis hit a defiant 87 as South Africa battled to save the second Test against Sri Lanka today. Despite his staunch effort, South Africa were 192 for eight at the end of the third day, just 137 ahead. Kallis hung on for 208 minutes as his team-mates fell to Sri Lanka’s spinners. He hit six fours and a six. The
number three was eventually bowled by wily off-spinner Muttiah
Muralitharan. Muralitharan also removed Darryl Cullinan (6) and Mark
Boucher (15) to finish with three for 65 off 30 overs. Kallis shared a 71-run fourth-wicket partnership with Jonty Rhodes (33) and when the two were together it seemed South Africa might achieve a decent score. But Sri Lanka, who seized the early advantage with the wickets of openers Neil Mckenzie (1) and Gary Kirsten (13) before lunch, never let go and were rewarded with two more after the break. First out in the second session was Cullinan, then captain Sanath Jayasuriya broke the Kallis-Rhodes partnership when he had Rhodes caught by wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara to restrict South Africa to 121 for four at tea. Sri Lanka, 260 for four overnight, lost their last six wickets for just 22. Marvan Atapattu was the top scorer with 120. South Africa captain Shaun Pollock, with a spell of three for 19, and Kallis, two for 18, did the damage. Sri Lanka lead the three-Test series 1-0. SCOREBOARD South Africa (first innings): 253 (L. Klusener 118 not out, M. Boucher 60) Sri Lanka (first innings) (overnight 260-4): Atapattu lbw b Pollock 120 Jayasuriya c Kallis
Arnold run out 28 Jayewardene c Cullinan b Boje 18 Sangakkara run out 24 Ranatunga lbw b Hayward 54 Dharmasena c Boucher
Vaas c Rhodes b Pollock 4 Chandana not out 1 Zoysa b Kallis 3 Muralitharan b Kallis 0 Extras: (b-6 lb-12 nb-7) 25 Total: 308 Fall of wickets: 1-53, 2-109, 3-142, 4-182, 5-286, 6-296, 7-300, 8-303. 9-308. Bowling: Pollock 24-5-83-3 (6nb), Hayward 22-6-67-2 (1nb), Kallis 11.4-4-18-2, Boje 15-2-50-1, Klusener 11-2-21-0, Adams 14-1-44-0, Cullinan 2-0-7-0. South Africa (second innings): Kirsten b Dharmasena 13 Mckenzie b Zoysa 1 Kallis b Muralitharan 87 Cullinan b Muralitharan 6 Rhodes c Sangakkara
Klusener c Sangakkara
Boucher c Atapattu
Pollock c Sangakkara b Vaas 20 Boje not out 0 Adams not out 6 Extras: (b-4 nb-3) 7 Total: (for eight wickets) 192 Fall of wickets: 1/10, 2/37, 3/50, 4/121, 5/28, 6/153, 7/186, 8/186. Bowling (to date): Vaas 11-5-12-1, Zoysa 5-0-17-1, Dharmasena 14-2-42-1, Muralitharan 30-7-65-3 (3nb), Chandana 5.1-0-13-0, Jayasuriya 11-1-39-2. |
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BCCI proposes ethical code NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (UNI) — Contract system of players, payment of fees on the basis of performance, payment of international match allowance and logo money on the basis of gradation and ethical code making it
mandatory for players to report any approach by bookies are some of the recommendations enunciated in the ‘vision report’ of the cricket board submitted to the government today. Prepared in the wake of match fixing allegations, the report has suggested that it should be obligatory for the players to report to the team manager if they are approached by bookies. The chapter on code of conduct makes failure to report such things a punishable offence. It warns that if a player is found guilty of accepting money from a bookmaker, penalty including suspension will be imposed. “Wherever approaches are made to the players on behalf of the bookmakers, the local police should be informed to enable initiation of criminal investigations,” it says. The report was presented to Sports Minister S.S. Dhindsa and Minister of State for Sports Shahnawaz Khan by BCCI president A.C. Muthiah, who headed a seven-member board delegation. While making it mandatory for players to take part in national-level tournaments, the report has recommended that payment of fees to players should be on the basis of their performance. It has also suggested that fees should also be paid to the players on the basis of seniority. It (payment) will be on the basis of gradation. Another important proposal in the report suggests that the BCCI should enter into contract with players. The board also asked the government to take steps for early conclusion to the match-fixing inquiry. “We have decided to work together for the promotion of cricket. We’ll leave no stone unturned to take the same to the grass-root level and redeem its prestige,” BCCI president A.C. Muthiah told reporters soon after the meeting. Mr Dhindsa echoed the views saying henceforth he expected greater interaction between the board and his ministry. “We have decided to cleanse the game and work towards regaining the past glory that India enjoyed,” he said. To have the future plan put in place, Mr Muthiah said “we’ve requested that there should be quick conclusion of the inquiry about the match-fixing scandal. “It is very demoralising for the team (when it goes out on official tours) to play when you have a sword (of the probe) hanging over your head,” Mr Muthiah said. Mr Muthiah, who led a seven-member BCCI delegation to submit the “Vision 2000 report”, said they discussed the new code of conduct, which is being prepared, and sought the minister’s views. The board president said he told the minister that the BCCI’s new code would be based on the International Cricket Council’s code with few additions considering Indian conditions and challenges that have come in the wake of the match-fixing scandal. |
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UCBSA chief aims at regaining status JOHANNESBURG, Aug 1 (IANS) — The new president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, Mr Percy Sonn, says his primary objective during his term of office is to regain the status of the South African cricket team as a world leader. “We have to get our team back to the position where they were regarded as one of the best in the world,” Mr Sonn said after being elected to the position unopposed. “We also have to continue on the road that we started on two years ago of broadening the base of cricket in the country so that it truly becomes our national summer sport.” He said the third priority for him would be preparing for the cricket World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2003. “We will have an African World Cup that is well-organised — slickly oiled but an African one, without trying to be too glitzy. We’ll be simple, efficient and effective,” he said. Mr Sonn also commented on the poor performance by the South African team in Sri Lanka at the moment and the lack of confidence in the team from the South African public after the King Commission heard evidence by former captain Hansie Cronje of collusion in match-fixing. “We must just play well, perform on the field and show commitment. People believe much more easily what they see and experience than what they hear or others say. We just have to commit ourselves to honesty and sincerity in the playing and administration of cricket.” Mr Sonn said in terms of the transformation charter, it had been agreed today that every team representing South Africa would have to contain at least two players of colour. This was an increase from last year’s requirement of one player only. On the King Commission, which is currently in recess pending delivery of its interim report to President Thabo Mbeki on August 11, Mr Sonn said any action required by the commission would be taken immediately. |
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Likhovtseva routs Capriati CARLSBAD, Aug 1 (Reuters) — Unseeded Russian Elena Likhovtseva took advantage of a meltdown, reeling in the final nine games to bounce error-plagued Jennifer Capriati 6-4 6-0 on Monday night in first-round play at the $ 535,000 women’s tournament in Carlsbad. Capriati won the hardcourt event in 1991 and 1992 in the sleepy beachside town just North of San Diego, but the world’s 17th-ranked player showed few signs of that form in her 67-minute loss to the Russian, who posted her first career win in three meetings. “She played well the whole match,” said Capriati of the steady baseliner. “I don’t think it was my fault, really. There was not much I could do. It was like playing against a wall to where I completely lost it.” The hard-hitting Capriati led 4-3 on the strength of a service break in the seventh game but could not capitalise. She lost her own serve after going 40-0, plagued by two of her 10 double faults. That proved to be the beginning of the end for the 1992 Olympic gold
medallist. Ahead 5-4, Likhovtseva broke again in the final game with a forehand pass on set point, ending the 45-minute opener. From there, Capriati was blanked the rest of the way, smacking forehands long and spraying backhands wide while scoring just nine points in the 22-minute second set. “I was in control the first set, then I lost it and had a letdown,” Capriati said. “It boosted her confidence. She just came out rolling in the second set and it was hard for to get back.” Likhovtseva was asked if her opponent gave up in the final set. “I don’t think she was tanking,” the Russian responded. “She played a really good first set, then she had a lot of unforced errors in the second. I think she was rushing it. She definitely had trouble with the serve.” In other matches involving non-seeded players, Dominique Van Roost of Belgium used five service breaks to brush aside Japan’s AI Sugiyama 6-2 7-6 (7-4)while Nathalie Dechy outlasted French compatriot Anne-Gaelle Sidot 4-6 6-4 6-2. Van Roost, ranked 15th in the world, has victories under her belt against Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport and Venus Williams, the top three on the WTA Tour. But Van Roost knows it will be no easy task to beat Hingis for the second time in five career meetings in a second-round match today. |
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Panel to decide fate of SA players JOHANNESBURG, Aug 1 (Reuters) — A panel of legal experts will decide the future of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Williams and Pieter Strydom after publication of an interim report on match-fixing next week, United Cricket Board
(UCB) Managing Director Ali Bacher said yesterday. Judge Edwin King is due to submit an interim report on his commission of inquiry into match-fixing to South African President Thabo Mbeki on August
11. Bacher said cricket’s controlling body had been told the report would make reference to Gibbs, Williams and
Strydom, who told the commission that they were approached by former captain Hansie Cronje and asked to help influence the outcome of matches. Gibbs and Williams both admitted in June that they had accepted offers to under-perform in a one-day international in
March. Strydom said he had been approached twice by Cronje during the two-Test series in India in February but had turned down both approaches. He said he also tried to establish, at Cronje’s request, what odds were available on a South African victory in the rain-affected fifth Test against England at Centurion in January with a view to placing a
bet. Bacher said that if the three were named in the report the UCB would ask them to meet a disciplinary committee, likely to comprise retired Judge Mervyn King and two lawyers, one of them named as Michael
Kuper. The committee would make recommendations to the board on what action should be taken against the players. “The final decision rests with the United Cricket Board,” said
Bacher. He said Cronje’s position would not be addressed until the commission, due to resume hearings in October, had run its course. He said Gibbs, axed from the team currently touring Sri Lanka, Williams and Strydom were anxious to know their futures. |
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“Make amends, not cash” JOHANNESBURG, Aug 1 (AFP) — Hansie Cronje’s spiritual advisor today urged the sacked South African cricket captain not to cash in on the match-fixing scandal which led to his downfall, but to make amends. Pastor Ray McCauley, head of South Africa’s Rhema Church, told public SABC radio he was “shocked” to learn from news reports that Cronje had hired leading British celebrity agent Max Clifford to secure lucrative interviews and book deals for him. Mr McCauley said he would call Cronje, (30) to urge him to reconsider. “My advice to him would be stop, stop right now,” said Mr McCauley, to whom Cronje broke his silence in a tortured early-morning confession in April about his involvement with bookmakers. He urged Cronje to rather “put back into the country something that will help you ... give some dignity to your life and to be a role model again.” “He should spend a year or two at least going into the disadvantaged areas and helping kids that are underprivileged and so forth,” he said. “I think that at this time ... it is important for him to be seen as somebody that is very repentant for what’s happened and also that he needs to put back into the nation something other than just the fact that he’s going to walk away from it,” Mr McCauley said. “I hope he just reevaluates the whole thing and begins to understand that maybe he needs to put (first) the people of South Africa and what he needs to do for them and for his fans in particular ... rather than the money.” Mr McCauley said Cronje’s self-confessed love of money had come as a “complete shock” to him and the cricketer’s family and he should “change that.” “That’s the root of all evil and if that dominates his life, he is going to go down the wrong path again.” Cronje, South Africa’s most successful Test captain, was fired in April after his confession. He has admitted to the ongoing King Commission into corruption in South African cricket that he received more than $100,000 between 1996 and 2000 from gamblers for forecasting. The commission was appointed after Cronje’s admission, which devastated South Africa and the cricketing world. |
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Radical protest groups to converge on Sydney RADICAL protest groups linked with the anti-world trade riots in Seattle will converge on Sydney on the opening day of the Olympic Games, bringing security concerns for police. The activists will arrive in buses from Melbourne, where they will have spent three days disrupting the World Economic Forum at the Crown Casino. The protest in Melbourne by the S-11 Alliance (named because the summit begins on September 11) will be made up of more than 70 groups, including student union and environment organisations. Some of the international groups involved in the violent protests in Seattle last year will also attend. An Olympic security source said concerns were growing about and volatility of the 10,000-plus protesters bound for Melbourne, and as a result security was being stepped up to avoid a repeat of the violence that erupted in Seattle. Others being watched by Olympic police security are the Anti-Olympic Alliance, Aboriginal activists, Greenpeace —which will have its flagship Rainbow Warrior berthed in Sydney — and Jewish Australian survivors of the Maccabiah Games bridge disaster. Three groups have applied for permits to protest at Homebush Bay but police — who have powers to move against demonstrators at Olympic venues and in designated areas of Sydney — would not disclose who they were or whether they had been given permission. Olympic security police also fear that extremists and anarchists from the USA and Britain are planning to protest. Another group is Cactus, (Campaign Against Corporate Tyranny (United in Struggle) a Sydney-based group whose aim is to “fight against the corporate priorities which dictate what happens in our society. They are calling the Olympics “the Corporate Games” because they believe that the Olympics have been hijacked by large corporations.” Sports drugs stolenPolice say about 1,000 stolen syringes filled with the banned sports drug EPO, or erythropoietin, could find their way into the hands of Olympic athletes. The syringes, believed to be worth several million dollars on the black market, were stolen from the Alice Springs Hospital last week. Alice Springs police say a quantity of drugs, including steroids, was taken from the hospital’s medical storeroom. The theft has heightened concerns that Olympic athletes will use EPO to boost their red blood cell count to improve performance and escape detection. Burgers, pies and pizzas for athletes Hamburgers, party pies and pizzas will be on the menu when more than 10,000 elite athletes move into the Olympic Village next month. The fatty, kilojoule-rich diet is part of a post-competition menu being refined by the official Games caterers, Spotless Services. The competitors, who eat up to three times as much as non-athletes, will have a choice of 960 daily specials in a dining room as large as the central arena of the Olympic Stadium. Each of the 1,500 dishes on the menu is being analysed by biochemists and sports dietitians who are calculating the nutritional value of each mouthful. All dishes prepared by the team of 250 chefs will have a card detailing the amount of carbohydrates, and whether it is high or low in protein, fat and kilojoules. The menus fit into three categories — food for athletes in training, food while they are competing, and the party food, which will include pizzas, pies, hundreds of desserts and McDonald’s. For the past year, Spotless has been testing menus at SOCOG’s city headquarters. Special menus have been designed to meet particular dietary and religious needs, including ovo-lacto vegetarian, lacto vegetarian, vegan or halal diets. For breakfast there will be a choice of muesli, brioche, crumpets, porridge with fresh fruit, yogurts, roasted nuts and dried fruit. There will be eggs (scrambled, vegetable fritata, omelette) and meats, including grilled lamb, breakfast steak, pork sausage, pasta and much more. For lunch, gazpacho and cream of mushroom soup will be among the starters, followed by roasted topside with onion juice, baked chicken, moussaka, baked snapper, grilled lentil burgers, peas with artichoke, corn on the cob and steamed cauliflower. Desserts include German chocolate cake, cherry pie, peach cobbler, strawberry and pineapple parfitt. The dinner menu will feature lamb madras, chicken tikka, kim chi ( a fermented cabbage dish from Korea) Moroccan bean casserole, the Indonesian rice dish nasi goreng, Bratwurst sausages, Irish stew, pork buns and a Scandinavian speciality, rollmop herrings. The Australians selection includes a barbecued ribs, lamb and beef and tonnes of fish of every kind. The University of Sydney is operating a Web site that will allow athletes to find out the menu at any given time during the Games and what is available if they follow special diets. Pay rate during the Olympics McDonald’s will pay its employees as little as half as much as other Olympic workers during the Games — down to $5.55 an hour — because as a major sponsor it is exempt from an Olympic award rate. Under an agreement reached in January last year between the Labour Council and SOCOG, people working on Games sites, including cleaners, caterers, waste disposal and laundry workers, have a special pay rate for the Olympic period. But a SOCOG spokesman said McDonald’s was exempt from the deal because it was a major sponsor. Labour Council figures show a 15-year-old working on the Olympic site will earn $10.30 an hour, but if he or she works for McDonald’s the pay rate is only $ 5.55 an hour. A 17-year-old can earn $ 8.33 an hour at McDonald’s or $10.30 elsewhere, and a 21-year-old will earn $ 16.60 under the award compared with $13.89 an hour at McDonald’s. A spokesman for McDonald’s said staff for its seven Olympic Park outlets will be drawn from existing outlets and would earn normal rates, including standard penalties. “Working at the Olympic Games in September is just part of their long-term employment with McDonald’s — not just a 16-day job,” Mr Hipsley said. “After the Olympic Games they will return to their (existing) store with an outstanding Olympic experience.” A spokesman for the Labour Council said Games sponsors should not be able to remain outside the award. “When people buy their food at the Olympics, they should remember who the McMeanies are,” the spokesman said. McDonald’s “crew” — about 1,200 of whom will work in the McDonald’s Olympic venues for the public, the media and athletes — are paid under a shop assistants’ pay scale.
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Sotomayor hopes to compete at Sydney HAVANA, Aug 1 (AFP) — Cuba’s high jump champion Javier Sotomayor, banned for two years after testing positive for cocaine, is still hoping to compete in the Sydney Olympics.
The 32-year-old world record holder is counting on the IAAF, athletic’s world governing body, accepting his pleas of innocence and scrap the ban which runs until July 30 next year. “I’m hoping they’ll take account of my arguments, that they’ll take a close look at my career and the 300 jumps I’ve achieved over 2.30m and that they’ll realise I’ve got no need for drugs”, he said here yesterday. Sotomayor failed a drug test at the Pan-American Games in Winninpeg, Canada, on July 31, 1999. Exonerated by the Cuban Athletic Federation, he was eventually sanctioned by the IAAF’s arbitrary commission based on what they termed the weight of incriminating evidence against the Cuban athlete who has always maintained he is a drugs-free zone. He will hear whether he has been granted his wish when the IAAF announces its ruling tomorrow. |
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USA’s “dream team” for Olympics NEW YORK, Aug 1, (AFP) — Wimbledon winner Venus Williams, Australian Open champion Lindsay Davenport, us open champion Serena Williams and former number one Monica Seles were named to the United States Olympic women’s tennis team. The announcement here yesterday confirmed the four players had agreed to make the trip to Sydney next month. Their positions were already known as a result of their rankings after Wimbledon. Serena Williams will play only doubles, alongside her sister Venus, while the other three will compete in singles. The four have combined for 14 career Grand Slam titles, including four of the past five. “Any of the singles players can win the gold medal and we’re looking for a gold medal in doubles,” us coach Billie Jean King said. “A sweep of medals in singles and a gold in doubles in Sydney is not entirely out of the question.” Davenport is the reigning Olympic champion and the daughter of a 1968 us men’s volleyball Olympian. Serena, who turns 19 on September 26, has won the past three Grand Slam doubles titles that she and sister Venus have entered — the 1999 us and French Opens and this year’s Wimbledon crown. “We’re the best doubles team America has because it’s impossible to beat two of us. It really is,” Venus Williams said. |
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IT officials grill Azharuddin HYDERABAD, Aug 1 (PTI) — Income tax sleuths grilled former skipper Mohammed Azharuddin and his wife Sangeeta Bijlani for over five hours here today as a follow-up to the country-wide raids in connection with the match-fixing scandal.
The couple, who arrived here from London, were whisked away from the airport to their Banjara Hills residence by a team of 10 IT officials. Azhar was asked to open the lockers and cupboards, which were sealed during the July 20 raid at his house, and the officials later scrutinised the documents and tax returns, official sources said. Income Tax authorities today conducted a raid on cricketer Ajay Jadeja’s posh south Delhi residence in connection with the probe into match-fixing allegations. Jadeja, who was present during the search, told reporters at his two-bedroom flat in Greater Kailash, that IT personnel had searched him at the airport and even took his laptop computer when he returned from London last night. |
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Haryana to have sports academy CHANDIGARH, Aug 1 — The Union Sports Minister, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, has announced the setting up of a sports academy in Haryana to improve the skill of promising players in the state. Mr Dhindsa was speaking at Sirsa today where he laid the foundation stone of a Rs 1.5 crore sports complex to be developed over an area of 29 acres. Mr Dhindsa was all praise for the number of incentives being given to the sportspersons in Haryana. He said the state had made tremendous progress in all spheres including sports, adding that sports would get due attention of the Central Government. He regretted that the state governments, as also the Central Government had inadequate budget for the promotion of sports, but said that he would try his best to get the budget allocation for sports enhanced. Earlier, while speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister, Mr Om Prakash Chautala regretted that the political interference had lowered the standard of games in the country. He said that the Haryana Government had been giving a number of incentives to the players so as to encourage them. He said that if any player from Haryana bagged a gold medal in Olympic Games, he or she would be awarded Rs 1 crore, for winning a silver medal the prize money would be Rs 50 lakh and in the case of a bronze medal the prize money would be Rs 25 lakh. |
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Saravanan, Ramesh score victories BIEL, Aug 1 (PTI) — International Masters V. Saravanan and R.B. Ramesh scored emphatic victories in the seventh round of the Biel Open Chess Tournament while S. Kidambi and T.S Ravi settled for draws. The fifth Indian in fray IM konguvel lost his game against IM pelletier of Switzerland. Saravanan defeated IM Handke Florian in a Kings Indian Bayonet variation with black pieces. After earning equality in the opening, Saravanan managed to get his pawn to ‘h3’ square in a complicated endgame. Florian, under pressure of time, blundered a piece on the 39th move. Sarvanan then exchanged the queens and converted his material advantage into a well-earned win. Ramesh had an easy game against Bazinovic of Croatia as he obtained a huge space advantage in the opening. He sacrificed two pawns in the endgame to push his ‘d’ pawn and forced Bazinovic to give up on the 51st move. Both Saravanan and Ramesh have 4.5 points. Kidambi was well on course to stage an upset when he won a pawn from the white side of the Grunfeld Russian System against GM Tseitlin of Israel. He then went for the exchange of queens but the experienced Grandmaster managed to block Kidambi’s all entry points and escaped with a draw in a double rook and bishop versus double rook and knight endgame. Kidambi, with four points, now requires 1.5 points from two rounds to get his final
IM norm. T.S. Ravi won a pawn quite early in the Catalans opening with black pieces against Kuemin of Switzerland. However, his opponent got a lead in development as compensation. When Kuemin threatened to win back the pawn, Ravi was forced to repeat the position thrice and draw the game in 20 moves. Ravi has 3.5 points. Konguvel faced the Sicilian Najdorf opening from the white pieces of IM Pelletier of Switzerland and castled on the queenside. In an unclear position, the Indian sacrificed two minor pieces for a rook and some initiative. Pelletier defended well at this stage and managed to coordinate his pieces together to win the game in 50 moves. Konguvel remains on four points. On the second board, GM Shariyazdanov of Russia played an unusual form of Benko gambit and crushed overnight leader GM Burmakin to join GM Sturva in the lead with 5.5 points. Other important results: Tukmakov (5) drew with Sturva (5.5) Burmakin (4.5) lost to Shariyazdanov (5.5) Aurukh (5) drew with Huzman (5) Galkin. A (5) drew with Kempinski (5). |
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Dokic refuses to sign team agreement SYDNEY, Aug 1 (Reuters) — Wimbledon semifinalist Jelena Dokic has refused to sign a player’s letter of agreement for the Sydney Olympics, saying the document contains “some really ridiculous things”.
Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) media director Mike Tancred told Reuters on Tuesday the teenager wanted her clothing sponsor Fila to be able to use her image on billboards during the Games. |
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Randhir Singh bereaved NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (UNI) — Maharani Harminder Kaur, wife of former ruler of Patiala, late Raja Bhalendra Singh, died here today after a brief illness.
She was 68 and is survived by three daughters and Mr Randhir Singh, secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association and Olympic Association of Asia. Mrs Kaur, who suffered a stroke, was rushed to hospital where she breathed her last. She was cremated at the electric crematorium in Nigambodh Ghat this afternoon. |
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