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Aussies rally to hold India SYDNEY, Sept 19 — India drew with fancied Australia 2-2 after taking the lead twice in a fast-paced group B Olympic Games men’s hockey league match here today.
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Gopichand bows out Poland stun Spain Kuerten off to a
flying start USA down Kuwait, reach last 8 Romanian lifter
on hunger strike Coach suspended for hugging wife Koreans set for clean sweep Randhawa leads in Xerox Golf
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SYDNEY, Sept 19 (PTI) — India drew with fancied Australia 2-2 after taking the lead twice in a fast-paced group B Olympic Games men’s hockey league match here today. India led 2-1 at half-time before going off the boil in the second stanza. India got off to a flying start in the second minute through a brilliant reverse-hit strike by their star left winger Mukesh Kumar off a pass from their other stalwart Dhanraj Pillay. This was equalised by the hosts in the fifth minute through their veteran Jay Stacy off their second penalty-corner. India went ahead once again in the 25th minute through a drag-flicked penalty-corner goal by Baljit Dhillon off their third set-piece award. The Australians got their second equaliser in the 52nd minute of the match through a field effort when Craig Victory slammed in a rising shot off a centre from the right sent by Stacy playing in his fourth Olympics. The draw put Australia and India level at the top of the group B table with 4 points each. India had beaten Argentina 3-0 in their lung-opener while the home team, striving for their first Olympic gold, slammed Poland 4-0 in their campaign opener. The Indians started the match at a blistering pace, but could not sustain the tempo right through the 70 minutes. The effort of matching the super-fit Australians in pace showed towards the end of the match when the Indians were lucky not to have conceded a goal with their defence having slackened a bit in the face of sustained assault from the home team. Still even a draw against the strongly favoured Aussies was a morale-booster for the Indians who have often come out second best against them in the recent past. The Indians struck paydirt as soon as the match started when Dhanraj, weaving his way down the middle, essayed a pass to the left where Mukesh, diving on the run, hit the ball with his reverse stick to find the far corner of the board. It was a peach of a goal and stunned the vast home crowd into a deathly silence. But the Aussies did not take long to strike back. Off the second of their three penalty-corner awards stacy, with over 300 internationals under his belt, beat Indian goalkeeper Jude Menezes with a solid drive. Australia’s Elmer was, then, given temporary marching orders for an unwarranted charge on Indian half back Mohammed Riaz. The Indian attacking forays, by this time, had become sporadic due to the strict policing of their mercurial striker Pillay. But their third and last penalty corner award, 10 minutes from half-time, helped India surge ahead once again. Baljit Dhillon’s drag-flick brooked no stopping and the Indians were 2-1 ahead. However, the second half was dominated by the Aussies who made the Indians stay back in their own half with repeated forays. The Indian fowards, as well as the half backs, were also guilty of holding on to the ball more than necessary which allowed the Ausssies to snatch it away easily. Sameer Dad, the hero of the win over Argengina, was nowhere in the picture today and on the odd occasion he was fed inside the circle he delayed in taking shots at the goal. It was no surprise when the Indian citadel fell, 10 minutes from the end. Stacy, seeing an unmarked victory near the penalty spot, centred and the latter beat Menezes with a rising shot. India take on Korea in their next match on September 21. |
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Thorpe grabs third Olympic title SYDNEY, Sept 19 (Reuters) — Swimming golden boy Ian Thorpe grabbed his third Olympic title on Tuesday after leading Australia’s relay team in a famous victory that pulverised the opposition and set a new world record. But Thorpe’s rival for title of king of the Olympic pool, flying Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband, kept his challenge very much alive by setting a world record in the 100 metres freestyle semifinals. The hometown “Thorpedo” forged an unassailable lead in the first leg of the 4x200 metres freestyle relay and his team finished a quarter of a length ahead of their outclassed US Rivals. In the process Australia smashed their own world record, finishing in seven minutes 7.05 seconds. It was 17-year-old Thorpe’s third world record of the games, sealing his place in Australian hearts. The victory restored Thorpe’s pride after he lost the 200 metres final on Monday to van den Hoogenband, who equalled the world record he had set only the previous day. Van den Hoogenband’s rivalry with Thorpe has become one of the great duels of the Sydney Olympics. The Dutchman has now set his sights on denying Russian Alexander Popov an historic third Olympic gold in the 100 metres freestyle on Wednesday. After four days of breathless action, the Sydney pool has seen 10 new marks and an equalled world record compared with the four broken during the whole of the swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. The excitement in the pool eclipsed all the other sporting action but the unstoppable Chinese women’s weightlifting team took two Olympic gold medals. One of their lifters, Chen Xiaomin, smashed two world records in the 63 kg category. Women’s weightlifting is making its first appearance at the Olympics. The scourge of drugs, which Olympic chiefs are anxious to erase from the Games, continued to make an unwelcome appearance. Officials said two African track athletes would miss the Olympics after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in random tests. International Amateur Athletic Federation spokesman Giorgio Reineri identified them as Kenyan runner Simon Kemboi and Nigerian woman Dupe Osime, also a runner. The IAAF also decided to send the drugs case of Ukrainian shot putter Aleksandr Bagach, the 1996 Atlanta bronze medallist, to arbitration, effectively preventing his participation in the Games. The IAAF said German former Olympic 5,000 metres champion Dieter Baumann had no right to take his doping case to another arbitration panel in an attempt to be reinstated at the Games. Baumann was banned for two years on Monday after officials rejected his defence that his toothpaste had been spiked with nandrolone. Shamed Romanian weightlifter Traian Ciharean went missing after being kicked out of the Olympics for failing a drugs test. Team spokesman Alex Epuran said Ciharean had refused to return home on a flight booked by his country’s Olympic committee and left on Monday night. A South Korean Olympic team official and three volunteers escaped a dramatic carjacking when two convicts on the run commandeered their van at traffic lights near Sydney’s Olympic park. Police said the two men and two women, one of whom is pregnant, managed to get away unharmed while a prison guard grappled with the fleeing inmates as they tried to seize the van. The two convicts had scaled the fence surrounding the minimum security section of Silverwater prison, Australia’s biggest jail, with guards in Pursuit. The jail is within sight of Olympic park. The convicts later abandoned the vehicle and were seen heading for a railway station, police said. Meanwhile officials said staff at Olympic venues were urging spectators at events like weightlifting and gymnastics to switch off their cellphones because calls were breaking the competitors’ concentration. “The media appear to be one of the chief culprits,” a spokesman for the Games organisers said. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 19 (AFP) — Pieter van den Hoogenband broke his second world record in as many events today, leading the 100m freestyle semifinals with a time of 47.84 seconds. The dazzling Dutch swimmer erased the mark of 48.18, set just four days earlier by Michael Klim in leading off Australia’s triumphant 4x100m free relay. Then he said he was saving himself for the 4x200m free relay final later today! “I didn’t give it my best,” he said. “I still have the relay. I think I can go one-tenth faster tomorrow.” Klim was the second straight Australian record-holder to fall prey to Van den Hoogenband’s record-setting exploits. On Sunday he eclipsed Ian Thorpe’s world record in the 200m free in the semifinals, then went on to match his new world mark of 1:45.35 in beating Thorpe to Olympic gold in yesterday’s final. “I didn’t get any sleep last night,” Van den Hoogenban said. “I stayed up thinking about the 200m. When I got back to the village everyone was congratulating me.” Susie O’Neill gave Australians something to cheer about in the first final of the night, winning the 200m freestyle in a time of 1:58.24. However, she said the adoring chants of “Susie, Susie, Susie” didn’t really improve her swim. “I tried not to listen because they were putting me off,” she said. “I just closed my eyes and tried to swim my own race.” Slovakia’s Martina Moravcova was second in 1:58.32 and 1996 gold medallist Claudia Poll had to settle for bronze in 1:58.81. The men’s 200m butterfly gold went to America’s world record-holder Tom Malchow, in an Olympic record of 1:55.35. Yana Klochkova of Ukraine completed a medley double with a victory in the women’s 200m. Her time of 2:10.68 was an Olympic record. It came four days after her world record-setting victory in the 400m medley, the first final of the games. Romania’s Beatrice Caslaru added a silver to the 400m medley bronze she won on Saturday, and American Cristina Teuscher was third. Australia smashed their own world record and scored a runaway win over their American arch-rivals in the Olympic men’s 4x200 metres freestyle relay final today. Ian Thorpe, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson and Bill Kirby completely dominated the race and clocked seven minutes 7.05 seconds to beat the mark of 7:08.79 set by the combination of Thorpe, Kirby, Grant Hackett and Klim on August 25, 1999, at the Pan Pacific Championships in this pool at Homebush Bay. They finished a quarter of the length of the 50-metre pool clear of the rest to win the event for the first time since Australia last staged the Olympics, in Melbourne in 1956. The USA were silver medallists in 7:12.64 and the Netherlands, anchored by Pieter Van Den Hoogenband, bronze medallists in 7:12.70. Thorpe failed to reclaim the 200 freestyle world record from the Dutchman as lead-off swimmer for the Australians. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 19 (AFP) — Germany shattered the world record Ukraine had set just hours earlier on its way to winning gold in the men’s 4,000m team pursuit cycling final at the Dunc Gray Velodrome today. The Germans, brimming with confidence, smashed the magic four-minute barrier for the first time in history to see off the Ukrainians in 3.59.71. Earlier, in the semi-finals, Ukraine had smashed Italy’s four-year-old world record with a time of 4.00.83 to beat Britain, who regrouped to take the bronze with a four-second victory over France. It was the second gold of the Games for an ecstatic German anchor Robert Bartko who beat pursuit team mate Jens Lehmann to win the 4,000m individual pursuit on Sunday. “It’s magnificent. We are so strong as a team, it doesn’t matter who we ride against,” he said. The conditions at the velodrome were warm and conducive to fast times and Germany took full advantage. Danel Becke said the team couldn’t believe it had toppled the four-minute barrier. “It’s indescribable. To describe in any words is impossible on how we felt to ride a world record,” he said. “We knew we were going to win . Our confidence as a team is strong, no one can beat us.” It was the first competition in which the German squad had ridden together. “We have had a good squad together for more than a year but this is the first time we’ve ridden togther as a team of four,” said Lehmann, adding that he had been suffering from a cold for the past few days. The Ukrainians were content with silver, recognising the strength of the German team. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 19 (PTI) — India’s Olympic campaign continued to stutter along without much conviction on the fourth day with their rowing duo of Kasam Khan and Inder Pal Singh ending sixth and last in the men’s coxless pairs repechage 1 at the Sydney International Regatta Centre today. India’s lukewarm challenge, thus, came to a miserable end despite the two rowers having had the benefit of a four-month coaching stint at New Jersey under American coach Ted Bonanno in the run-up to the Games. The American, three other Indian coaches and a manager for rowing, who were all here as part of the team, could not inspire the country’s oarsmen to perform any better. Kasam Khan and Inder Pal Singh, who were selected for India’s maiden Olympic appearance at the cost of two other oarsmen — Johnson Xavier and Surinder Singh — who had fetched the country the quota entry in the last Asian championship at Nagano, were totally out of sorts here. In the repechage this morning, the Bangkok Asian Games bronze medallists ended at rock bottom in a field of six teams by finishing the race in a slow 7 minutes 16.10 seconds, more than six seconds off the time clocked in the heats held on Sunday. The duo had failed to make the final directly from heat one in which they finished last in 7:09.94 in a five-boat race but fluffed their chance in the repechage too. Their abysmal show on the fourth day of the Games came as a big dampener for the Indian contingent whose medal hopes, however optimistic to start with, are slowly dissipating with each passing day. The services pair of Khan and Inder Pal were part of the first batch of the Indian contingent which left New Delhi for Sydney on September 1. “We will fight for the country’s honour at Sydney. Our motto is to ‘die on our stretcher’ until work is done,” C.P. Singh Deo, their manager, had said before the Games. The oarsmen, who trained under Bonanno at the New Jersey lake, had also won a gold medal in the coxless pair event in the US National Rowing Championship, but their performance here came as a big disappointment to the Indian camp. Khan and Inder Pal were selected to represent India at the Olympics instead of last year’s Nagano Asian Championship silver medallists Johnson Xavier and Surinder Singh, who had actually earned the quota place for the Olympics. “We were given the best of facilities and now we are ready to prove ourselves,” the oarsmen had said prior to the Games. Khan, a native of Rajasthan, and Inder Pal of Haryana, were assisted here by their American coach Bonanno along with three Indian coaches Ismail Baig, Surinder Singh and Jasbir Singh. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 19 (PTI) — Badminton ace Pullela Gopichand belied all hopes of a stirring fight when he crashed in straight games 9-15 4-15 against the second seeded Hendrawan of Indonesia in the Olympic Games badminton men’s singles here tonight. Despite a stiff fight, the world ranked 10th Indian, was simply outclassed in all departments of the game by the experienced Indonesian in a matter of just 35 minutes. The beginning of the match certainly was promising for Gopichand as he took twice 3-1 and 5-3 lead before the classy Hendrawan reeled off seven points to establish a 10-5 lead. The Indian did not give up with the fight and he took the next four points to come closer at 9-11. But, that was all Gopi could do as Hendrawan closed off the first game 15-9. Though Gopichand put up a strong fight in the second game which laster 19 minutes, the Indonesian packed too many guns for him and took it with a very comfortable 15-4 score. “He was too good for me,” an exhausted Gopichand said after the loss. The Indian ace, known for his ability in covering the court, also conceded that he was a bit slow tonight. India’s lone representative in the women’s singles, Aparna Popat had lost in her very first round to Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kelly Morgan of Britain. After getting a bye in the first round, Gopichand had beaten Vladislav Druzchenko of Ukraine in straight games 15-7, 15-12 in the second round yesterday. |
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SYDNEY, Sept 19 (UNI) — Minnows Poland created one of the biggest upsets in the Olympic hockey competitions today as they trounced Atlanta Games silver medallists and World Cup runners-up Spain 4-1 in a pool ‘B’ league match. The winners had established a decisive 3-0 lead at half time. If Spain were out to display how the game of hockey is played, Poland showed how to win it. The unfancied Poles, who were surprise qualifiers to the Olympics, stunned fancied Spain to record their first win at the competitions after having lost 0-4 to Australia in the opener. This was Spain’s first defeat in two outings, having drawn the first tie against South Korea 1-1. The Poles displayed brave hockey, showing no sign of nervousness against their formidable rivals, and went into the attack mode right from the word go. Spain, expecting it the least, were rattled as Poland launched a flurry of attacks not allowing the Olympics runners-up to settle down. The Poles adopted unorthodox methods. They never held on to the ball. It was ‘hit and run’ strategy for them and the Spaniards who held the pretension of a ‘hockey power’, suddenly found themselves besieged. Poland exploited the situation as it had nothing to lose while stakes were high for their rivals. Spain just could not get their act together as the Poles started pounding their defence. The Spainish backline was breached in the 15th minute as striker R Grzeszczak shot home a super goal (1-0). As one expected Spain to hit back, tey seemed to have lost steam, too stunned by the goal to react. The Poles added to their woes in the very next minute, when P. Mikhula, taking advantage of the panic and confusion in the Spanish defence, sent the ball into the cage to increase the lead (2-0). The red-faced Spaniards did not know how to react as the Poles were not only relentless in their attacks, but also blocked all counter attacks. All attempts by the World Cup runners-up to dribble past their rivals failed. Spain earned one penalty corner in the first half while Poland had more dominance in the session. |
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Kuerten off to a
flying start SYDNEY, Sept 19 (AFP) — Brazil’s Gustavo Kuerten won the fastest match of his professional career here today to get the Olympic tennis tournament off to a whirlwind start. Australia’s double US Open champion Pat Rafter and team-mate Mark Philippoussis’ joined Kuerten in the second round, with both men insisting they had ended the feud that marred the Olympic hosts preparations for the Games. The first seed to fall was former Australian Open finalist Amelie Mauresmo. The powerful Frenchwoman, who has been out since July with a back injury, paid the price for a lack of match practice as Colombia’s Fabiola Zuluaga claimed a 6-3 3-6 6-2 victory. Nicolas Kiefer of Germany, the ninth seed in the men’s singles, also went out, a leg injury that required repeated on-court treatment contributing to his defeat at the hands of France’s Arnaud Di Pasquale. Kuerten showed no mercy to wildcard entrant Christophe Pognon of Benin, sweeping him aside 6-1, 6-1. |
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MELBOURNE, Sept 19 (AFP) — The USA defeated Kuwait 3-1 in the Olympic men’s football tournament here today to qualify for the quarter-finals ahead of their group C rivals. Cameroon could only draw with the Czech Republic, meaning the Americans finished top of the group on goal difference. They next meet the second-placed side in group D — either Japan, Brazil or South Africa — for a place in the last four. Both sides played a dour game in the first half an hour after which the USA suddenly sprang to life. Kuwait goalkeeper Shehab Kankone was forced to acrobatically palm away Jeff Agoos’ cross then the ball was played back into the centre and Chris Allbright’s downward header brought a superb save out of Kankone. Almost immediately Ben Olsen charged through the middle and fired at Kankone’s legs before poking the rebound wide. And the USA were duly rewarded for their new-found attacking enterprise two minutes later when an unmarked Danny Califf nodded Agoos’ corner past the exposed Kankone. The Kuwaitis were unable to repeat Saturday’s second-half performance which saw them come from two down to beat the Czech Republic and Allbright added a second in the 66th minute, slipping the ball under Kankone from an acute angle. US keeper Brad Friedel was finally called into action in the 78th minute, brilliantly denying Naser Alothman before Bader Najem pulled one back. But substitute Landon Donovan restored the US’s two-goal advantage, slotting into an empty net on the break in the dying minutes. Nigeria hold Italy ADELAIDE: Defending champions Nigeria drew 1-1 with Italy to join the Italians in the quarter-finals of the Olympic soccer tournament today. But their chances of going further were hit when defender Azubuike Oliseh was sent off after an hour of their group A match at an 18,340 sold-out Hindmarsh Stadium. Utrecht defender Oliseh, who already had one previous yellow card to his name after being booked against Australia, picked up another after only nine minutes for a foul on Roberto Baronio. He was then shown another yellow and then the red card by Mexican referee Rizo Ramos for a blatant bodycheck on Ighli Vannucchi after 60 minutes. He will now miss Nigeria’s quarter-final which is most likely to be against either Chile or Spain in Melbourne on Saturday and will probably be banned for the semifinal as well if Nigeria get that far. Nigeria will also be without their skipper, Chelsea defender Celestine Babayaro, in the quarterfinals. He was banned for two matches after being sent off against Australia, and after sitting out this match completes his ban after Saturday’s game. Those absences could prove costly for Jo Bonfrere’s squad who were booed loudly long before the end of the game for playing out time. Although this match captured the attention of thousands of Italian fans in the South Australian capital, it rarely caught alight as far as entertainment value was concerned. Nigeria took the lead when Garba Lawal, who plays for Roda JC Kerkrade in the Netherlands, blasted home a 39th minute penalty after AC Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati hauled down Victor Agali following a briliant run by Pius Ikedia. Italy equalised after 63 minutes when Roberto Baronio’s astonishing 30-metre volley from a Andrea Pirlo corner took a wicked deflection off Gbenga Okunowo and left goalkeeper Gregg Etafia helpless. Italy coach Marco Tardelli will also have to do without Baronio in their quarter-final as he picked up his second yellow card of the competition for a 31st minute foul on Nigerian forward Bright Igbinadolor. With Italy already assured of a place in the quarter-finals whatever the result, Tardelli made six changes to his starting line-up, although only two were enforced because of suspensions — Sampdoria’s Alessandro Grandoni and AC Milan’s Gennaro Gattuso. |
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Romanian lifter
on hunger strike SYDNEY, Sept 18 (Reuters) — Romanian weightlifter Andrei Mateias, facing expulsion from the Olympics as a drugs cheat, said today he had gone on hunger strike in the fight to clear his name. A second Romanian lifter already kicked out of the Games for doping offences, Traian Ciharean, said he was staying in Sydney to pursue legal action. Ciharean, a 56 kg class lifter, and mateias were named by the International Weightlifting Federation on Sunday after they both tested positive in pre-Games tests. “I am on hunger strike now and if I don’t get new tests I will go to the courts in Lausanne,’’ Mateias told Reuters. He denied published reports that he had also threatened suicide. The court of arbitration for sport is a panel which rules on disputes between athletes and governing sports bodies. It has bases in Lausanne, Switzerland, and New York. Heavyweight lifter Mateias is still awaiting analysis of a second urine sample. The result is expected today. Ciharean, a bronze medallist at the 1992 olympics, was expelled from his team’s quarters yesterday after testing positive for banned anabolic steroids. |
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Coach suspended for hugging wife SYDNEY, Sept 19 (AFP) — An Australian Olympic judo coach was suspended here today for hugging his wife on the mat after she clinched a bronze medal, officials said. Overjoyed coach Gabor Szabo let his emotions get the better of him yesterday when wife Maria Pekli won Australia’s first judo medal for 38 years. He jumped onto the judo mat to hug and congratulate her but has now been slapped with a 24-hour suspension for violating judo’s strict rules. The martial art’s governing body, the International Judo Federation, has rules forbidding any coach from setting foot on the competition mat. He was one of several coaches hit with a one-day ban for violating strict IJF rules. Szabo was one of several coaches who were suspended for 24 hours for the offence, including coaches from Georgia and Cuba. |
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Koreans set for clean sweep SYDNEY, Sept 19 (AFP) — Korea are guaranteed a clean sweep of the medals in the women’s individual archery after the North’s Ok Sil Choe joined a trio from the South in the semifinals here today. Choe eased past Italy’s Natalia Valeeva 107-103, setting a new personal best score for 12 arrows, to book a clash in the last four with Kim Nam-Soon. Choe’s quarter-final was evenly poised at 79-79 after nine arrows but the 26-year-old held her nerve to score 28 points in the final quadrant as Valeeva faltered in the burning afternoon heat. The other semifinal is a mouth-watering match-up between triple Olympic gold medallist and world number one Kim Soo-Nyung and Yun Mi-Jin, who smashed Kim’s 18-arrow Olympic record in the previous round. Kim was pushed hard by Poland’s Joanna Nowicka, who she led by just three points after nine arrows, but away in the final section to triumph 106-100. Yun saw off Russia’s Natalia Bolotova 110-105 after an early scare. Bolotova hit two bullseyes in her opening three shots as Yun struggled to adapt to the windier conditions to lead after the first quadrant. |
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Randhawa leads in Xerox Golf GURGAON, Sept 19 — Jyoti Randhawa marked his return to the Jack Nicklaus-designed Classic Golf Resort course with a superb display of controlled golf as he took the lead at the end of the first day of the Rs 6-lakh Xerox Open Golf Championship, which started here today. Randhawa, who won the Wills Indian Open at this very venue, shot a four-under 68 and led by one stroke over joint second placed Harmeet Kahlon and Wills Southern Open winner Indrajit
Bhalotia. Tied for the fourth place at two-under 70 were Jeev Milkha Singh making a comeback to competition golf after a gap of almost six months, Arjun Atwal, Shiv Prakash and Amit Dube. Atwal could have ended the day in joint lead with Randhawa, but finished at two-under 70 after he was penalised two strokes for a rule infringement on the 16th hole. Jyoti Randhawa’s was an error-free round. The twice Hero Honda Masters winner, carded three birdies on his front nine, these coming on the second, fourth and fifth and another on his return journey on the 14th. “The greens here are in a much better condition than they were during the Indian Open and the course managers have grown the rough which pose a real challenge to the golfers,” said Randhawa who is currently ranked second in Asian PGA Tour Order of Merit. Bhalotia started on the 10th tee and dropped only one shot in the entire round — on the first hole where he hit a tee shot. The Calcutta golfer birdied the 14th, 16th, third and fifth. “I am playing even better than I was at the Wills Southern Open, but every day is a new day and I would like to take things as they come, “ said the current leader of the Wills Sport Golf Tour’s Order of Merit. Kahlon’s superb short-game played a major part in his carding a three-under 69 today. He started from the first tee and dropped a shot on the second hole. A superb chip-in from 25 feet on the fourth levelled things out. After this, the Chandigarh-based golfer recorded birdies on the sixth, a 25-feet putt, eighth ninth (a chip-in from 30 feet) and 11th where he made a 30 feet putt from the edge of the green. His only other dropped shot of the day came on the 10th. Jeev Milkha Singh, the only Indian on the European PGA Tour, carded four birdied — on the seventh,ninth 12th and 14th — and bogied the 11th and 16th in a superb comeback to professional golf. Arjun Atwal, winner of the 1999 Wills Indian Open, birdied the third, ninth, 14th and 18th. However, the Calcutta based golfer was penalised two-strokes on the 16th hole. “It was a silly mistake. On the Asian, European and US PGA Tours, we get a free drop from a ball plugged through the green. I thought the same apply here and took the drop,” said Atwal. Amit Luthra led the amateur field with a three-over 75. Ashok Kumar, who shot a level-par 72, accidentally submitted a wrong card and was disqualified after being honest enough to admitting to his mistake. At joint-second spot were the former coach of the Indian cricket team, Kapil Dev and Rahil Gangjee at four-over 76. |
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India’s schedule
today SYDNEY, Sept 19 (UNI) — The Following is the schedule for India at the Olympics tomorrow (all timings IST). Shooting: Anjali Vedpathak (women’s 50m rifle 3 position qualification): 0330 Boxing: Gurcharan Singh vs Choi Ki Soo (81kg, round one): 0730-1030 Tennis: Leander Paes vs Mikael Tillstrom (Sweden): 0530-1130. |
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India at a glance SYDNEY, Sept 19 (PTI) — The following is the summary of India’s performance at the Olympic today. W’lifting: Karnam Malleswari becomes the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games with her bronze-winning lift of 240 kg (110 in snatch and 130 in clean and jerk) in the 69 kg category. Hockey: India hold hosts Australia to a 2-2 draw. Mukesh Kumar and Baljit Singh Dhillon score for India while Jay Stacey and Craig Victory sound the board for Australia. Badminton: Pullela Gopi Chand crashes out of the men’s singles championship after losing to Hendrawan of Indonesia 9-15 4-15 in the pre-quarterfinals. Rowing: Indian pair of Kasam Khan and Inder Pal Singh finishes last in repechage 1 of the coxless pairs event. |
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Medal tally SYDNEY Sept 19 (AFP) — Medals tally on the fourth day of the Olympic Games
on Tuesday (given in the following
order: Country, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total): Country G S B Total USA 7 6 5 18 Australia 6 5 6 17 China 6 2 7 15 France 5 6 2 13 Japan 3 3 1 7 Italy 3 2 3 8 Netherlands 3 1 1 5 Russia 2 4 3 9 Germany 2 3 2 7 Ukraine 2 3 0 5 Bulgaria 2 1 1 4 Romania 2 1 1 4 Turkey 2 0 0 2 South Korea 1 4 3 8 Great Britain 1 3 2 6 Switzerland 1 2 1 4 Cuba 1 1 2 4 Hungary 1 1 0 2 Czech Republic 1 0 2 3 Canada 1 0 1 2 Spain 1 0 1 2 Sweden 1 0 1 2 Croatia 1 0 0 1 Lithuania 1 0 0 1 Mexico 1 0 0 1 Slovakia 0 3 1 4 Belarus 0 1 2 3 Brazil 0 1 1 2 Greece 0 1 1 2 North Korea 0 1 1 2 Chinese Taipei 0 1 0 1 Yugoslavia 0 1 0 1 Belgium 0 0 2 2 Costa Rica 0 0 2 2 Indonesia 0 0 2 2 Estonia 0 0 1 1 India 0 0 1 1 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 1 1 Portugal 0 0 1 1 South Africa 0 0 1 1 Thailand 0 0 1 1 |
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