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Judge King submits report CINCINNATI (Ohio), Aug 11 — Britain’s Tim Henman downed a sub-par Pete Sampras for the first time in seven career meetings, taking a 6-3 6-4 victory in the third round of the $ 2.95-million ATP Masters Series here yesterday. Govt decision on predictable lines |
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Abhinav aims at Olympic medal NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — Abhinav Bindra, the new rising star on the shooting horizon, aiming for a medal in the Sydney Olympic Games in September this year, was presented with a cash award of Rs one lakh by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) President, Mr Digvijay Singh, for qualifying for the Olympics, at a simple function at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here today. No cricket ties with Pak, say
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Paes gets wild card for Olympics
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Judge King submits report DURBAN, Aug 11 (PTI) — The interim report of the King Commission of inquiry into cricket match-fixing allegations in South Africa, to be presented to President Thabo Mbeki later today, will only have the findings of the inquiry and no recommendations on the future of the involved players. “I will not be making any recommendations at this stage as I will still have to hear evidence from Hansie Cronje and others again,” commission chairman Judge Edwin King said in an interview today. A copy of the interim report will also be given to the Ministers of Justice and Sports and it will be made public once President Mbeki has studied it. AFP ADDS: Presenting the report to Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour in Cape Town, Judge King said he was sure measures would be taken to eradicate malpractices in cricket. Mr Balfour will in turn present the report to President Mbeki and Justice Minister Penuell Maduna. Judge King said although there were no final recommendations in the report, cricket authorities would be able to convene a hearing on international players Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Williams and Pieter Strydom. The United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) has scheduled a disciplinary hearing for the three players in Johannesburg on august 19. Judge King said he saw no reason why the board should not go ahead with the hearing, subject to the proviso, which he said was purely hypothetical, that further evidence could emerge when the commission reconvenes in October. Gibbs and Williams admitted to the commission in June that they had agreed to an offer of a bribe from disgraced former captain Cronje, while Strydom made an attempt to place a bet on behalf of Cronje during a Test match. Judge King said he had not yet made any finding on whether Cronje had told the whole truth and should therefore receive indemnity from criminal prosecution. Mr Balfour made a veiled criticism of Cronje for granting interviews to “selected media” and his intention to write a book. “While that might be his prerogative, it should be noted that the work of the commission has not yet been finalised,” he said. Mr Balfour said this would happen within two weeks and later said in an interview he expected the release of the report before UCB’s August 19 disciplinary hearing. He said he was convinced South African cricket was not corrupt. Negotiations which had taken place with the Indian Government would enable two of the King Commission investigating team, headed by state prosecutor Shamila Batohi, to travel to India to hear tape recordings of conversations between Cronje and bookmakers, he said. Judge King said it was “probable” some witnesses who had already given evidence would be recalled when the commission reconvened. He said he expected the next hearings to last about two weeks, adding that as a result of the first hearings he had asked for the terms of reference of the commission to be broadened. The commission ended its first stage of hearings on June 27 and will resume on October 2. Gibbs and Williams told the commission that Cronje, sacked as South Africa’s skipper in April, had offered them money to underperform in matches against India this year. Cronje has admitted to the commission that he received thousands of dollars from gamblers and bookmakers on five separate occasions between 1996 and 2000. |
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CINCINNATI (Ohio), Aug 11 (AFP) — Britain’s Tim Henman downed a sub-par Pete Sampras for the first time in seven career meetings, taking a 6-3 6-4 victory in the third round of the $ 2.95-million
ATP Masters Series here yesterday. “This was my biggest win,” Henman said. “It’s my best individual effort. It has been a long time coming. It’s great to finally get a victory against him.” Sampras, the second seed and a three-time champion here, looked well under tone in the contest against his golf and tennis
practice partner. “He played great and served well,” said the disappointed American. “He played some unbelievable passing shots. I was not at my best, but it was just a pain pill that the trainer gave me. “I let the match slip away after a good start. He was too good for me.” The rivalry began in 1994 in Tokyo when Henman was a green
ATP rookie aged 20. Their most recent prior meeting came in the 1999 Wimbledon semifinals. Coming in, Sampras had won 15 sets against his rival while losing just three. “I tried to go in positive,” Henman said. “You can’t think about the six previous defeats. You cannot dwell on the losses. I took my chances and got the victory, it was very satisfying.” The victory was a massive confidence boost for Henman, without a title this year from two finals. The Briton has bounced back smartly from a first-round defeat last week in Toronto at another Masters hardcourt event. Defending champion Sampras, in the past three finals here, went into the contest having won 16 of his last 18 matches with setbacks coming only in the final at Queen’s and the Toronto quarter-finals. Sampras must now decide his programme running up to the US Open, which starts in little more than a fortnight. But he will be regretting his play against his longtime rival. “I never found any rhythm on serve. It was not my best day,” Sampras said. “I came out a little flat and paid the price. Tim’s capable. He’s got a very complete game. It’s just a matter of putting it together.” Henman saved two break points in the first set but double-faulted to drop the opening game. In the sixth, Henman got the break back as he passed Sampras with a winner for 3-3. Henman held a game later and then broke the second seed to love to move into 5-3 command. He then produced a second love game and swept the set as Sampras reeled from the change in fortune against a man who had never beaten him. “I didn’t get the start I wanted. But my serving rhythm got better and I was able to put pressure on his serve,” Henman said. In the second, the hard times continued for Sampras, playing in his second event since winning a seventh Wimbledon crown last month. The 28-year-old faced two break points to start and saved them both to start the set with a 1-0 margin. The set stayed on serve, but Sampras called for the trainer after the third game when he led 2-1. ATP
Tour trainer Bill Norris dispensed a pill and the second seed got quickly back on to court. But the medicine didn’t seem to do much good as Sampras dropped serve for 2-3 and Henman quickly pounced for 4-2. Henman moved into winning position 5-3 on the American’s serve as Sampras fought against the tide to hold for 4-5. A game later, Henman rolled through the following game, earning a match point from a Sampras return long. The Briton completed his win on his first chance with a volley winner to the forecourt out of the Sampras reach. Hemnan had four aces and four double-faults, while maintaining an 87 per cent first-serve percentage. He won three of 10 break points and produced 25 winners to only 10 unforced errors. |
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Govt decision on predictable lines CHANDIGARH, Aug 11 — The decision of the Union Government not to grant permission to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to field a team in the five-match one-day Sahara Cup friendship series against Pakistan at Toronto from September 9 to 17, must be welcomed by all lovers of the game (that is if they still exist) as also those who have been clamouring for a ban on all international cricket till the issue of match-fixing and betting— which has cast a shadow on the very existence of Indian cricket — was not solved. In any case playing Pakistan in a one-day series as mayhem continues in Kashmir can, by no stretch of imagination, be called an act of friendship. This, in fact, will be the second year running that the series is not being played. This is the first time that the Union Government has refused permission to the cricket team to participate in an overseas tournament. And going by all indications it is quite possible that permission of the Union Government will also not be granted for the proposed forthcoming series against Pakistan in Pakistan this winter for a three-Test, five one-dayer series until and unless there is a dramatic change in India’s relations with Pakistan which seems unlikely at the moment. At the best of times a tour of Pakistan depends a lot on the political situation. India last toured Pakistan way back in 1989 while Pakistan had come to India last winter. This decision of the government, which has been according to predictable lines, hinted time and again by the Union Sports Minister, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, should now give some more time to the CBI to complete its probe into the issue of match-fixing and betting. By its very nature the CBI probe into the issue of betting and match-fixing is going on at a very slow pace with very little “evidence” available. So far the CBI has been questioning players and former players but it is doubtful whether it has made much headway. But hopes have been revived with the promise made by Mr Dhindsa recently at Amritsar that the enquiry should be completed by the end of September. And only after that should India think of playing international cricket again. In the current atmosphere of distrust with the needle of suspicion pointing to senior players as well as the cricket coach, it is worthwhile to note that by not fielding a team at Toronto the government has done signal service to the cause of Indian cricket. With so many senior players as well as the cricket coach under a cloud for their alleged role in match-fixing as also the outcome of the income tax raids conducted at the houses and business premises of many leading players and former players still awaited it might have proved very difficult for eleven individuals to play as a team with every action of theirs on the ground being put under a microscope. It is quite apparent that the BCCI has not accepted the decision of the government gracefully. Otherwise why, according to certain media reports, should the president of the board, Mr A.C. Muthiah, ask whether India should also abstain from playing against Pakistan in the Sydney Olympics? Mr Muthiah must be able to differentiate between an off-shore bilateral series against Pakistan which in any case is being played to fill the coffers of the two boards as also giving the players an opportunity to pick up some easy money and major games like the Olympics, the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games. Mr Muthiah must also remember that India did play Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup in England when the Kargil conflict had already started as also the Asia Cup in June this year. But a bilateral offshore series really has very little meaning, now or earlier. |
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Abhinav aims at Olympic medal NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — Abhinav Bindra, the new rising star on the shooting horizon, aiming for a medal in the Sydney Olympic Games in September this year, was presented with a cash award of Rs one lakh by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) President, Mr Digvijay Singh, for qualifying for the Olympics, at a simple function at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here today. Abhinav, who has been awarded a “hardship quota” by the International Shooting Sport Federation in air rifle event, keeping in view of his excellent performance during the Munich World Cup held in June, where he equalled the world record in the junior event, scoring 596\600, has become the youngest-ever shooter to qualify for the Olympics. The NRAI will also present a Rs one lakh cash award to Anwer Sultan, who earned a quota place during the ninth Asian Shooting Championship at Langkawi, Malaysia, in January, 2000 in trap event. He shot 119 and won a silver medal and a quota qualification berth in tie shoot. Anwer Sultan is presently training in Italy under coach Marcello Dradi, and will remain there till August 21. Mr Digvijay Singh said Sultan’s cheque would be presented to him in Sydney. The NRAI chief said he had announced during the national championships at Phillaur in Punjab last year that any shooter qualifying for the Olympic Games would be given a cash award of Rs one lakh. “We have fulfilled our promise, and now it’s upto the shooters to live upto their promise (at Sydney)”. NRAI secretary-general Baljit Singh Sethi told The Tribune that “we are expecting another ‘hardship’ quota for Anjali Ved Path, for her excellent showing in air pistol in various
international competitions”. Mr Sethi said secretary-general of the International Shooting Sport Federation Horst Schrider had promised to favourably consider India’s request for a hardship quota berth for Anjali Ved Pathak “for scoring very, very consistently.” Abhinav Bindra, who will be leaving for Bangalore on August 15 to resume his training under coach Laszlo Suczak, said he was not surprised when he was awarded the hardship quota for the Olympics. “I have been training very hard for the last two years, and had competed in a lot of tournaments, and shooting being a technical sport, it took a lot of hard work to stay in form (till the world record happened). I was mentally prepared (for the Olympic berth)”, said the 17-year-old Chandigarh youngster, oozing a lot of confidence. Abhinav, who will be shifting base to Delhi, to pursue a three-year degree course in Bachelor of Business Administration at the International Institute of Learning Management (ILLM) in New Delhi, which is a subsidiary of the University of Bradford, said “at Sydney I have to compete with myself, as there is no man to man competition”. He said at the Olympic level, there were no weak shooters, and shooting being a very, very demanding sport “one has to be very focussed” to hit the bull’s eye. He said his first job in the Olympics would be to qualify for the final round. “Then I will think of the medal”, he said with a deadpan expression, very well knowing that a medal in the Olympics would make him a “crorepathi”, in all respects. “I will try to do well. It all boils down to a given day’s form, to make or mar your chances. I have to take things as they come”, noted the sharpshooter. The Indian shooting team will leave for Sydney on September 2, and Abhinav felt that the few days they would get for acclimatisation, would enable the shooters to get adjusted to the conditions, and do better in the competitions. “We have great hopes in our shooters”, said chef-de-mission-designate of the Indian contingent, Ashok Kumar Mattoo. Mr Mattoo, who is also the president of the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation, has great hopes in his “own boys” too, as the boxing squad returned to Delhi after a 40-day training-cum-competition trip to Cuba. Bantam weight Dingko Singh, on whom India are pinning a lot of hopes, said his wrist injury had completely healed and whatever little pain he had been feeling was mostly “psychological” in nature. “It was in the mind”, he said simply. He said he would leave for Patiala tomorrow, to continue his training, in pursuit of an Olympic medal. |
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No cricket ties with Pak, say ex-cricketers NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (UNI) — Former India captain Bishen Singh Bedi and ex-all rounders Kirti Azad and Manoj Prabhakar yesterday approved the government’s decision of disallowing the team from participating in Toronto against Pakistan and said all one-to-one cricketing ties with Islamabad be put on hold till situation returns to normal in Kashmir.
Bedi said the government must have taken the decision after taking all aspects in mind. “There was no point in playing when there is so much tension in Kashmir. Besides, the CBI and income tax inquiries are also going on.” Kirti Azad, who led the
campaigning against the team’s participation in Sahara Cup in Toronto, said there should not be any one-to-one cricketing relations with Pakistan till it stopped abetting terrorism in the valley. “Playing in multi-nation tournaments was different, but participating on one-to-one basis in Sharjah, Toronto or any other friendship cup should not be allowed at all.’’ “Terming the government’s decision as the ‘right move’, Kirti criticised the BCCI for showing its intention to send the team to Toronto when Kashmir’s situation was deteriorating and said the board should be a bit more patriotic. |
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Anil Mann wins 2nd gold for India NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — Anil Mann won the second gold for India when he overwhelmed Khaleghi Farmh of Iran in a battle of strength and wits in the 97kg free style title bout of the third Asian Junior Wrestling Championships at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here today. This was only the second gold won by India in this championship. Naresh Kumar had won the first ever gold for India in the championship when he won the 50kg free style title yesterday. But Mann’s triumph was a lot more tougher as the Iranian had almost snatched the gold from the grasp of the Delhi grappler. A trainee of former Asian Games gold medallist Satpal from the Chhatsal Stadium akhara in Delhi, Anil Mann, who had won a gold in the World Cadet Championship at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here in 1997, took a 1-0 lead in the first round with a leg hold, but the Iranian, in a tit-for-tat attack, made it 1-1, and then it was 3-3, and 4-3 in favour of the Indian before it became 4-4, but Mann got back his lead with a quick leg hold point to make it 5-4, and kept the lead till the gong, to walk away with the gold. It was a great relief for the hosts, as Shokinder Tomer, from whom India had expected a gold in the 63kg category, went down rather tamely to Ghorbani of Iran. In the only event decided in the women’s section, India drew a blank as Ngang Bani Bech went down tamely to Hattoj of Japan in the 50kg free style bout for the bronze. Kaowei of Japan won the gold beating Jariya L N of Thailand. |
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Athletes’ village the fifth largest city in the state THE athletes’ village at Homebush Bay is the only one in Games history to accommodate every athlete. Inside its high-security perimeter are 800 houses and 350 apartments serviced by an army of 9,000 staff. When fully occupied, the village will be the fifth largest city in NSW. “Apart from a few minor details, like making 15,000 beds and providing the final spit and polish, our village is essentially in ‘athlete mode’,” SOCOG’s General Manager of Villages, Maurice Holland said. Australia will field a team of 623 athletes, edging out the 600-strong US team as the biggest at the Games. And the numbers for Australia don’t end there, with 447 support staff pandering to the athletes’ every whim. Australia will be represented in nearly every sport, thanks to a relaxation of the team qualifying rules for the home country. The Australian team includes 145 coaches for the 28 sports, 41 technical support staff, 106 section managers, 12 athlete services personnel, 26 media liaison officers, 25 central administration officers and a medical team. The medical team, under Dr Brian Sando, has ballooned to 92, and includes doctors, physiotherapists, a nutritionist and masseurs. Olympic legend Dawn Fraser is the team attache, while high-profile athlete liaison officers include Herb Elliot. Entertainment, shopping and pampering facilities Officials want all athletes to remain within the village, so an enormous range of entertainment, shopping and pampering facilities have been provided — most of them free of charge. There is a cinema, dance club, a games hall filled with electronic games, a surf shack, video viewing rooms and a music listening lounge as well as a hairdressing salon and a huge gym with saunas and spas. There is a beauty and relaxation centre where athletes will be pampered with aromatherapy and massages to relieve stress and jet lag. A restaurant as large as the central field of Stadium Australia will run 24 hours a day, churning out more than 1.5 million meals over 33 days. There will be 1,500 main course meals to choose from - 170 each day - and the cuisine’s from most of the world’s countries and religions are represented. Every day eight semi-trailer loads of food will arrive at the village to be prepared by a team of 250 chefs. Athletes will have to clear their own tables and sort their garbage into different bins, but most other chores, such as washing, bed-making and all room-cleaning, will be done for them. And if you rolled out all the toilet paper to be used, it would stretch 14,960km, more than four times the distance from Sydney to Perth. They will be ferried around the village and to and from the stadium by a fleet of free buses which arrive at bus stops every three minutes during peak times. There is a medical clinic where athletes can obtain free treatment for medical or dental ailments. At the village at the western edge of the Homebush Bay Olympic precinct, athletes will be able to hear the roaring crowds at the stadium Olivia Newton-John, featuring at the opening ceremony. In a little over three weeks, the first guests will move in - the chef’s de mission of each national team. Within a week of their arrival on August 26, the 10,000 athletes will have taken up residence, with 6,000 expected to move in on one day. Pampering volunteers With just five weeks to go until the Olympics, organisers have offered free public transport and free tickets to more than 40,000 volunteers in a move to “support them, nurture them”. In recent weeks many volunteers had been distressed by the confusion over their transport entitlement. Games organisers have now reached agreement to allow volunteers at the Olympic and Paramedic Games free travel on ferries and public and private buses. In addition, they will still be entitled to free transport on all trains and buses on Olympic routes. Many volunteers will also be given a ticket to an opening ceremony dress rehearsal following a decision by organisers to abandon plans to sell these tickets publicly. Volunteers working at the stadium, superdome and the common domain at Olympic Park will be given a ticket to one of the two opening ceremony dress rehearsals or a morning session of athletics where 250,000 tickets are still unsold. Volunteers at other competition venues will be given free admission to one of the two dress rehearsals. Volunteers who don’t work at sporting venues but help with duties such as driving or uniform distribution will be given a ticket to a morning session of athletics worth between $35 and $85, depending on the classification. Organisers will honour a commitment to provide two free dress rehearsal tickets to all performers in the ceremonies and to volunteers who help stage the ceremonies. Families who agree to take part in the host family
programme — billeting the families of international athletes — also will be entitled to two free tickets to the opening ceremony dress rehearsal. In Atlanta, organisers lost large numbers of volunteers who simply walked off the job or failed to turn up for their
shifts. But SOCOG’s manager of the volunteer program, Mr David Brettell, said these initiatives were about acknowledging the importance of volunteers rather than attempting to ensure they stayed at their posts. All Olympic volunteers, including those working at interstate football venues, will go into a draw for six trips to the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and for three cars donated by a sponsor. Gold for Aussie dollar Olympic gold may rub off on the Australia dollar in the wake of the Games, delivering a windfall to those taking an overseas trip after September, according to currency pundits. The dollar has been wallowing below the $ 60 mark for most of the year, but an “Olympic effect” is expected to give it a boost. If history is any guide currencies of most Olympic host countries rose after their Games, including the Spanish peseta and the US dollar after Barcelona in 1992, Los Angeles in 1984 and Atlanta in 1996. The Canadian dollar which, like the Australian dollar, is traditionally seen as commodities-driven, jumped two per cent during the Montreal Olympics and finished the year much higher. But the fickle Aussie has put in anything but a gold medal performance of late, hitting a near-record low of $ 56.50 against the greenback in May. There are good reasons for the dollar to benefit from the Games. The Olympics will boost exports by about $1.5 billion in the September quarter, including $1 billion in TV rights. In addition, the Olympics will attract an estimated 130,000 overseas spectators, media workers, athletes and officials all laden with foreign currency that must be converted to local dollars. This export bonus will reduce the current account deficit — the gap between the value of our exports compared to imports — and support the dollar. Some currency experts also expect the dollar will benefit from an Olympics recognition factor. They hope that with the eyes of the world focused on Sydney for those two weeks in September, the dollar will attract overseas investors simply because we are in the spotlight. But like all forecasts, there is a risk the “Olympic effect” might not materialise.
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Paes gets wild card for Olympics NEW DELHI, Aug 11 (IANS) — India’s tennis ace Leander Paes has got a singles wild card for the forthcoming Sydney Olympic Games, All India Tennis Association (AITA) president R.K. Khanna confirmed today. “We have been told that Paes has got the singles wild card,” Mr Khanna told IANS. “We had applied for the wild card with the International Tennis Federation and they have granted it,” said Mr Khanna, who will soon hand over charge as AITA president to Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha. Earlier, India’s doubles pair of Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi had made it to the September Games and both AITA and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) have confirmed that the two would play despite their recent differences. Mr Khanna also said Paes and Bhupathi were practising together. “Paes’ father Vece told me that these days both are practising together at Long Island, New York,” Mr Khanna said. Paes (27) had won the bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. He had lost to eventual winner Andre Agassi in the semifinals. The other singles wild card for Asia has gone to Thailand’s Paradorn Srichapan, while Na Li of China, Indonesia’s Wynne Prakusya, Japan’s Shinabu Asagoe and Uzbek Iroda Tulyaganova got the women’s singles wild cards for the continent. The Olympic tennis competition will be played on Rebound Ace, a synthetic, hard court surface at the Tennis Centre in the Sydney Olympic Park from September 19 to 28. |
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Dolan, Moses book Sydney berths INDIANAPOLIS, Aug 11 (AFP) — Tom Dolan returned and Ed Moses officially arrived and Jenny Thompson showed she’s not going anywhere but to Sydney here at the US Olympic Swimming Trials. Dolan, the 1992 Olympic champion and world record holder in the 400m individual medley, signalled he is recovered from knee surgery and ready to defend his title in Sydney, winning the 400m in a season’s fastest 4:13.72. Moses, who was still swimming in the junior ranks in 1998 after teenage flirtations with other sports, won the 100m breaststroke in a national record of 1:00.44 and immediately threw down a challenge to world record-holder Roman Sloudnov, promising to give the Russian a run for his money Down Under. Dara Torres also cemented her return to the elite ranks — after a seven-year layoff — finishing runner-up in the 100m butterfly to Thompson — who showed she has no plans to go anywhere until she adds that elusive individual Olympic gold to her cache of honours. Relief was among the many emotions flooding through Dolan, Thompson and Moses after their victories. Dolan, who has been taking antibiotics this week to combat a bug that left him with a fever and aching muscles, was lying third after the penultimate breaststroke leg behind Tom Wilkens and 19-year-old Erik Vendt, but battled back in the closing 100m freestyle for the victory. “Going into the last 100 was a little scary,” admitted Dolan, even though the freestyle has always been his greatest strength. “I was third. I pulled that last 100m out of a place I didn’t know I had.” Dolan still trailed Wilkens by a hair at the final turn with Vendt a close third, and the three contenders were virtually even with half a lap to go. “The last 50m, I just kind of put my head down and tried to get to the wall,” said Dolan, who swam the last lap in 28.08sec. Vendt was an impressive second in 4:13.89, ninth-best on the all-time list. Thompson and Torres were matching each other stroke for stroke over the final half-lap, Thompson finally eking out the win inside the last two metres. She won the 100 fly at the Pan Pacific Championships last year, breaking Mary T Meagher’s 18-year-old world record. But her mark has since been eclipsed by Ingede Bruijn of the Netherlands. More unsettling, her Stanford club teammate Torres has improved so rapidly since her return in July of 1999 that she broke Thompson’s 100 fly national record in the heats here. Although the two are still teammates, coach Richard Quick has been training them separately citing too much “intensity” in their joint work-outs. That tension showed in the race, Thompson said, so that each was slower than in earlier rounds. “When I dove in the pool, I was very centered, I felt within myself,” Thompson said. |
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Haryana swimming
from today CHANDIGARH, Aug 11 — The 34th Haryana State Swimming Championship will be held at War Heroes Memorial Stadium, Ambala Cantonment, on August 12 and 13.
Stating this here today, a spokesman said teams from all districts and Moti Lal Nehru School, Rai, HAP Madhuban and Sainik School, Kunjpura, had confirmed their entries. Competitions for men and women will be held in 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500/800m (freestyle), 50m, 1000m, 200m (back stroke), 50m, 100m, (breast stroke) 50m, 100m, 200m (butterfly), 200m, 400m (individual stroke), 4x100m free style relay and 4x100m medley relay. He said competitions for boys in the age group of 15-17 years and girls in the age group of 13-14 years and boys and girls of 11-12 years and 9-10 years, respectively, would be conducted in 50m, 100m, 200m (free style), 100m (back stroke), 100m (breast stroke), 100m (butterfly), 200m medley, 4x50m freestyle relay and 4x50m medley relay. The state team for the Senior National Championship would be selected on the basis of performance of swimmers in this meet. Mr Ram Niwas, Deputy Commissioner, Ambala will inaugurate the meet while Mr Abhey Singh Chautala, president, Haryana Olympic Association will distribute the prizes on the closing day. Mr M.S. Malik, general secretary, Haryana Olympic Association and Director-General of Police, Haryana, will preside over the closing function. |
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