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Kenteris, Jones win gold Indian relay teams in action today
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Two diving gold for China Gymnast’s appeal rejected Jayasinghe wins
bronze for Lanka Wang wins gold in
dramatic finish Germany win show
jumping gold Aussies win gold
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Kenteris, Jones win gold SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) —Konstantinos Kenteris emerged from obscurity today to win the first Greek Olympic sprint medal of any colour. Kenteris came from fourth to win the men’s 200 metres ahead of a host of sprinters with more impressive pedigrees in a personal best of 20.09 seconds. Although the 27-year-old Greek’s chances had improved by the absence of defending champion Michael Johnson and world gold medallist Maurice Greene, he was still a rank outsider. An astonishing final surge gave him victory over Britain’s European 100 champion Darren Campbell while Trinidad’s former world champion Ato Boldon again finished in the minor places with the bronze. “As soon as I stepped into this country I knew I could win,” Kenteris said. “I knew they were not better than me.” Kenteris’s upset victory came at the climax of a pulsating long jump competition, won by world champion Ivan Pedroso of Cuba with his last jump of 8.55 metres. Pedroso fouled three times and trailed Australian Jai Taurima by eight centimetres with one attempt remaining. Taurima, roared on by another enthusiastic crowd in stadium Australia, twice improved his personal best but could not eventually deny pedroso an emotional victory. Pedroso in tears “This was my dream,” he said. “The Australian guy was a wonderful athlete. It was very nice for him to have that support but I had in my mind 11 million people cheering for me in Cuba.” Marion Jones was again in a class of her own in the women’s 200 metres, the second stage of her quest for five Olympic gold medals. She won by five metres in a season’s best of 21.84 seconds and now braces herself for Friday’s long jump final and Saturday’s two relays. “I feel relief and excitement,” Jones said. “I’m happy that I have my sprints done. Now I can really concentrate on the challenges ahead.” Estonia’s Erki Nool, reinstated in the discus after his three throws had originally been ruled foul, won the decathlon with 8,641 points after seizing his chance in the final event, the 1,500 metres. Nool finished nine seconds ahead of American Chris Huffins, who had led after each of the first nine disciplines. Nool took silver leaving Huffins with the bronze. Yanina Korolchik of Belarus won the women’s shot put with her last attempt, setting a personal best of 20.56 metres to beat favourite Larisa Peleshenko of Russia. In the morning session, Jane Saville’s dreams of an Olympic gold medal in her home city were cruelly dashed when she was disqualified from the women’s 20 km walk while entering Stadium Australia. Saville, a former swimmer who switched to the triathlon and then to race walking, burst into tears as she was led from the track after a third and final warning for failing to keep continuous contact with the ground. In her enforced absence, Chinese Wang Liping won the inaugural women’s Olympic race in one hour 29 minutes five seconds. The millionth spectator of the Games came through the gates on Thursday, including two prominent reminders of the doping shadow hanging over the sport. C.J. Hunter, world shot put champion and husband of Jones, watched his wife run and Campbell’s coach Linford Christie was there to congratulate his protege. Both men have tested positive for nandrolone well above the accepted limits. |
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Indian relay teams in action today SYDNEY, Sept 28 (PTI) — After a few days of rest the Indian athletes, who have done little of note barring woman quartermiler K.M. Beenamol here, will be back in action in the Olympic track and field events at the Stadium Australia here tomorrow. They will be participating in all four relays (4x100 and 4x400 metres for men and women) and women’s javelin throw in which Gurmeet Kaur is scheduled to participate. However, none of them are given much of a chance in any of the events, pitted as they are against the best sprinters, quarter milers and women spear throwers in the world. Beenamol would be one of the Indian runners in the women’s 4x400 m relay. But even this talented 25-year-old Kerala athlete, who became the third Indian woman to enter the Olympic track semifinals, would find it difficult without sufficient support from other team-mates. The others from whom the women’s longer relay team will be chosen are heptathlete Soma Biswas, Paramjit Kaur, Manjuma Kuriakose, veteran Rosa Kutty and Jincy Philip. This is the last relay scheduled in the programme and the Indian quartet has been drawn in the second heat. The India’s men’s sprint relay quartet here is to be chosen from Rajeev Balakrishnan, C.T. Durai, Piyush Kumar, P Anil Kumar, Anand Menezes and Ajay Raj Singh. It is to figure in the first heat with Britain, Bahamas, Thailand, Cyprus, Guatemala, Ivory Coast and Yugoslavia. The 4x100 men’s relay squad was sent to Sydney after it qualified through a specially held trials by the Amateur Athletics Federation of India in New Delhi after the last batch had left for Australia. The corresponding women’s quartet, to be finalised from Anuradha Biswal, Saraswati Dey, Rachita Mistry, Vinita Tripathi, V Jayalakshmi and V Pandeshwari, is to figure in the third heat with teams from the Bahamas, Finland, Ukraine, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The men’s 1,600m relay squad, comprising Lijo David, Manoj K Lal, Ail Rohil, Jatashankar, P Ramachandran and Paramjit Singh, will run in heat two of the 4 x 400 m relay in the company of foursomes from Kenya, Qatar, Algeria, Ireland and Sri Lanka in the afternoon. |
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Netherlands, South Korea book berths SYDNEY, Sept 28 — Holland could not have asked for more. Their experienced goalkeeper, Ronald Jansen, granted them passage into next Saturday’s final against South Korea with a superb save of the last penalty flick in a penalty shootout in the second semi-final at Homebush Hockey Centre here tonight. Earlier, display of defensive hockey notwithstanding, S. Korea made it to the gold medal round with a solitary second half goal win over Pakistan in the first semi-final. While for South Korea, it is their maiden entry into an Olympic final, the defending champions Holland, after an 85-minute goalless epic against the host Aussies, stroked them out 5-4 in the penalty shootout. The Australia-Holland match, though played on a fast pace, witnessed less of exciting moments and more of rough, tough, robust and defensive hockey. The two teams played so safe that for the first 61 minutes, not even a single penalty corner was awarded. The only penalty corner awarded during the stipulated period came in the 62nd minute for Aussies for an intentional infringement by a Dutch player. The award was reluctantly accepted by the Dutch though ultimately nothing came of it. And incidentally it was the only penalty corner awarded throughout the game. Aussies started on an aggressive note as if they would comfortably wrap up the match and a place in the final on their way to their first-ever Olympic hockey gold. But their dream of a hockey gold in Olympics once again turned out to be a mirage for them. For the first 20 minutes, Holland were outplayed in each and every department of the game. Fortunately for them, they survived the initial onslaught without any damage though Jay Stacy, Troy Elder and Stephen Davies, who tormented their defence but were unable to finish their moves. Jazet and Bram Loms, tall and burly deep defenders, had a harrowing time in Dutch defence where goalkeeper Ronald Jansen, came to the rescue of his team on what looked a certain goal. In the13th minute, Troy Elder and Craig Victory worked out an excellent move but were unable to give it a finishing
touch. In the 16th minute, Australia had yet another scoring opportunity when experienced Jay Stacy’s shot landed on the pads of Ronald Jansen. The Aussies continued to attack with vigour even in the beginning of the second half. A brilliant shot at the goal by Stephen Davies was well protected by Ronald Jansen again. Two minutes later, Australia almost gifted away a goal. A serious lapse on the part of skipper Michael York saw him make a feeble push towards goalkeeper Dilleti. And before the ball could reach him, Marten Eikelboom’s shot at the goal was too feeble to beat Dilleti. The Dutch, too, had a story of missed chances beginning with a crisp drive by Van Wijk sounding the side board in the 41st minute followed by a brilliant move between Jap Burma and skipper Veen which saw the ball hitting the net from a side. Run of play did not produce any result even after the two teams were given extended play of 15 minutes. The tie-breaker was applied. While Bram Loms, Wouter van Pelt, Piet-Hein Geeris, Stephan Veen and Marten Eikelboom scored from their penalty flicks, the defaulter for Australia was Brent Livermore whose flick was cut off by Ronald Jansen by diving to his right. Others — Michael Brennan, Adam Commens, Troy Elder and James Elms — scored for the home team. After shuffling Asian Games champions India out of contention for a medal, South Korea today elbowed out its second major Asian rival, Pakistan, by a solitary second half goal to make its maiden entry into the final. The previous best performance for Koreans in Olympics was in Atlanta in 1996 where they had finished fifth. Earlier in the day, a demoralised Indian team went down fighting 1-2 to Great Britain to set a clash for seventh position with Argentina whom they had beaten in their opener 3-0 on September 16. Argentina, on the other hand, squandered a big advantage and 2-0 lead to be beaten hands down by Germany 2-6 in another classification game in the morning. Germany would now meet Great Britain to decide fifth and sixth positions. For Pakistan, Korea has always been a tough opponent to beat. The Koreans, who edged out India in the race for a berth in semi-final on the basis of their win over their last Asian Games final conquerors in the pool matches, played to a set pattern. They dominated the proceedings against a mediocre Pakistan side in the first half and then late in the second half. Though Pakistanis took command of the game in the beginning of the second half and did force all six penalty corners in the last 32 minutes of the game, they could not break the solid defence of the Koreans. The Koreans were successful in thwarting Pakistan’s penalty corner ace, Sohail Abbas, at the cost of a severe knee injury to their forward Jung-Woo Lim, who had taken the might of a swipe by the latter on his left thigh, a little above the knee. Jung-Woo Lim had to be carried off the field on a stretcher but he had done his job. The all-important goal for Korea came from their third and last penalty corner with 13 minutes of the game remaining. Jong-Hyun Hwang had the ball after the penalty corner push diverted to Woon-Kon Yeo who, in turn, left it for skipper Keon-Wook Kang to deflect it to unmarked Seung Tae Song. Song made full use of the diversion by reflecting it in to the net giving experienced Ahmed Alam no chance in the Pakistan goal. Once in the lead, Koreans wrested the initiative and started dominating the proceedings again, giving India a lesson on how to sustain the lead in competitions like Olympic Games. For the next 12 minutes, they never allowed Pakistan to have a clear vision of their goal except for a penalty corner with six minutes to go. In fact, Koreans were unlucky not to have forged ahead in the first half itself as they missed three great scoring chances in the third minute, 21st minute and again in the 25th minute. These were clear chances for field goals. In the first instance, when Jung Kim backpassed at the top of the circle, there was none to take it with an empty goal in front. In the second instance, Seong-Tae Song, the hero of the day for Koreans, dribbled his way from the central line into the striking circle but fumbled once inside the danger zone. In the 25th minute, Jong-Hyun Hwang’s powerful reverse flick hit the sideboard to the great relief of Pakistani defence. Except for first 10 minutes of the second half, Pakistan were nowhere in the game. The sparkle and vantage of skilful hockey for which Pakistan had been known was conspicuous by its absence at least in today’s game. At no stage, Pakistan looked like coming back into the game. Their only good chance to score a field goal came in the 27th minute when Anis Muhammad had a tough shot at the goal but was unfortunately off the mark. Four minutes later, they did have a chance to take lead but this time Bashir Atif’s shot from the middle of the circle found the net from outside. India lose Deep defender Dilip Tirkey had given India the lead in the 10th minute. But once the rain started, the Indians, shattered at their inability to make the last four grade, lost their rhythm and allowed Great Britain to equalise in the 16th minute when Craig Parnham scored a beautiful field goal. Indians never tried to come back into the game and played lack lustre hockey to allow the advantage drift in favour of their opponents in the beginning of the second half. In the 46th minutes, Great Britain accepted the opportunity gracefully and took the lead with a penalty corner conversion by Calum Giles, the penalty corner specailist.And once the match winning goal came, British players held complete control of the game and did not allow India to come anywhere near their goal. Argentina falter Jorge Lambi pelted home two penalty corner goals in the 13th and 14th minutes to the great dismay of the Germans, who otherwise had a bad tournament here. The Argentines held on to their lead in the first half before succumbing to the German’s pressure in the second beginning with a field goal by Oliver Domke. Once the Germans got their going, there was no stopping them. In the next 25 minutes, they scored five times with Christoph Bechmann, a veteran of many a battle and Michel Bjoren chipping in with two goals each while the fifth one was scored by Emmerling Bjoern. With this defeat, both Argentina and India earned a rare distinction of playing their and last encounter of the tournament against each other. |
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Expert comments THE script was written for two teams — Holland and South Korea — to enter the semi-finals through the back door - thanks to Great Britain and Poland. Now they contest in the final of the men’s hockey event. In the first semi-final, South Korea beat Pakistan by a solitary goal off a superbly taken indirect penalty corner goal by Song. South Korea deservedly entered the final and proved to the hockey world that they are just not Asian powers but also world-beaters. Ever since they won the Asian gold in 1986, they have always been a force to reckon with and have proved it in the Champions Trophy with creditable results. The game was fast paced with South Korea putting together a string of passes on their build-ups, but rather running out of ideas on reaching the Pakistan 25-yard line. Their movement with the ball was excellent showing great speed, and the ball carrier always having more than one option of a pass every time. This meant that their players without the ball were working hard running into space. The South Korean defence used the Spanish tactic when defending by channelling the Pakistan forwards close to the sideline on either side and then closing them down quickly and regaining possession. On the contrary, Pakistan build-ups were not fast enough as the speed on the ball was rather slow giving the South Korean defence time to reorganise. The Pakistanis wasted quite a number of free hits around the top of the circle by hitting directly into the goal and looking for deflections instead of using an option of moving the ball wide. Ten minutes into the second half, South Korea had four goal shots saved by the keeper before taking the lead through their third penalty corner. South Korea’s basics and team play was excellent but the key factor that got them through was their defence of the six penalty corners they gave away. Facing one of the best flickers of penalty corners in Sohail Abbas, South Korea’s first runner did extremely well in applying pressure and was successful each time. Towards the end of the game, South Korea seemed to lose concentration through excitement and started to lose possession of the ball but held on and deservedly entered the final. The second semi-final between Holland and Australia was played to a packed stadium and there was never a dull moment throughout the match before Holland beat Australia on penalty strokes. I thought Australia played the match of the tournament and did not deserve to go out through penalties. But then penalties can go either way. In a fast paced end-to-end game, both teams displayed good tactics, marking of players, interchanging, power, skill, stamina and at times physical play. The irony of such a good match was that there was not a goal scored throughout the match and extra time. This was because the defences of both teams played superbly and the fact that there was only one penalty corner awarded to Australia goes to prove it. There were quite a few shots on both goals which the keepers did well to save and kept the packed stadium on their toes. I thought that the Dutch should have slowed down the game which they normally do instead they played the same pace as the Aussies. The point that I would like to mention is the terrific understanding there was in the Australian mid-field when defending by interchanging their defensive duties and at the same time overlapping and joining in their attacks. I guess this was the best match of the tournament so far and the fact that Australia had an edge over the Dutch, it was sad to see their exit decided by penalty strokes. |
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Gold for Kafelnikov, Williams sisters SYDNEY, Sept 28 (AFP) — Former world No 1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov outlasted Germany’s Tommy Haas in a marathon Olympic final to claim the men’s singles gold medal for Russia here today. After a see-saw, sometimes scrappy, battle that lasted three hours, 35 minutes, Kafelnikov finally triumphed 7-6 (7/4), 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Haas (22) went into the final set looking the more likely winner but just as victory looked within his grasp he stumbled. Two unforced errors in the eighth game of the final set handing Kafelnikov the chance to serve out for the match. The big Russian, who had failed to reproduce the blistering form he displayed en route to the final, made no mistake, powerfully killing off the match to secure an Olympic gold medal he has said will mean more to him and his country than his 1996 French Open and 1999 Australian Open titles. Kafelnikov’s win completes a fantastic month for Russian tennis after Marat Safin’s triumph in the US Open. It also marks a remarkable renaissance for Kafelnikov who had arrived in Sydney in total despair about his form after failing to win a singles title all year - a remarkable statistic for a player who plays more tournaments than almost any other top player and has won at least three titles every year since 1994. Haas was left to rue what might have been if he had taken the numerous opportunities he had in a cagey 1 hour 10 minutes first set in which both players had their service broken twice. The German was the first to break serve in the fifth game of the match. But he squandered the advantage in the very next game by blasting a simple forehand long with the court at his mercy. He then had another golden opportunity when he took a 3-0 lead in the tie-break but Kafelnikov produced the big shots when he needed them to edge the set. Haas levelled things up after claiming the only break of the second set for a 5-3 lead. Kafelnikov, who until then had not come close to the kind of form he displayed on the way to the final, switched gears in the middle of the third, breaking in the sixth and eighth game to take the set 6-2. But the momentum immediately swung back behind the German at the start of the fourth, a solitary break in the first game being enough to set up the tense finale. Despite his defeat, Haas will leave Sydney happy after rediscovering the kind of form that helped him to briefly break into the world top 10 at the end of last year. His form here has been astonishing given that this was only his second tournament back in action after a month out with hip and back injuries. Having got here early after a second round loss at the US Open, Haas had time to work on his strength and fitness and gained a much-needed confidence boost when he upset South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira, the 14th seed, in the first round and went on to claim the scalp of Spanish sixth seed Alex Corretja on his way to the final. Reuters adds: Sisters Venus and Serena Williams of the USA crushed Dutch pair Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans in straight sets to win the Olympic women’s doubles title. The unseeded Americans won 6-1, 6-1 to give Venus her second gold medal of the games. On Wednesday, she beat Elena Dementieva of russia to win the singles title. It was the 22nd straight match victory for the Williams sisters in doubles and the most one-sided women’s final in Olympic history. Venus Williams joined compatriot Helen Wills — who achieved the feat in 1924 — in becoming only the second player to win women’s singles and doubles titles at the same games. The Williams’ victory means the USA has swept the women’s singles and doubles titles at the last three Olympic Games. Els Callens and Dominique Van Roost of Belgium won the bronze medal on Wednesday when they beat Natasha Zvereva and Olga Barabanschikova of Belarus 4-6 6-4 6-1 in the third-place playoff. |
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Two diving gold for China SYDNEY, Sept 28 (AFP) — China added a third Olympic diving gold to their collection here today as hosts Australia end their 76-year medal drought by winning bronze in both the men’s and women’s synchronised diving events. Veteran Xiong Ni, who retained his Olympic springboard title on Tuesday, teamed up with Xiao Hailiang to win the men’s synchronised 3m springboard and score his second victory over arch-rival Dmitry Sautin of Russia. “Our leaders had found the key to the doors which lead to the gold medals,” said Xiong of his individual springboard victory over Sautin, which had given the Chinese diving favourites their first gold of these games. The Chinese dominated the eight-team field from the outset to achieve 365.58 points after five dives, ahead of silver-medallists Sautin and Alexandre Dobroskok (329.97) and Australians Dean Pullar and Robert Newbery (322.86). An ailing Sautin, who also won gold in the synchronised platform with team-mate Igor Loukashin and bronze in the springboard, said that he now wanted to concentrate on defending his Olympic platform title. “I’ve had it tough here. My back is hurting and my hand is hurting. But I’m happy with my two days’ results,” said Sautin. Earlier Li Na and Sang Xue routed their rivals in the women’s synchronised platform with 345.12 points, a lead of 33.09 points on Emilie Heymans and Anne Montminy, who won Canada’s first Olympic diving medal, a bronze, in the individual platform earlier in the week. Rebecca Gilmore and Loudy Tourky won bronze, giving the hosts their first Olympic diving medal since Dick Eve, won the gold medal for the plain high dive at the 1924 Paris games. |
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Gymnast’s appeal rejected SYDNEY, Sept 28 (AFP) — The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today dismissed an appeal by Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan to have her gold medal returned after she was disqualified for failing a dope test. The CAS said there were no grounds for returning the medal to Raducan, who tested positive for the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine following her victory in the individual all-around competition on September 21. “The panel is aware of the impact of its decision on a fine, young, elite athlete,” CAS acting Secretary-General Matthieu Reeb said. “It finds, in balancing the interests of Miss Raducan with the commitment of the Olympic Movement to drug-free sport the Anti-Doping Code must be enforced without compromise,” he said. Raducan (16), tested positive for the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine after clinching her gold on September 21. The drug entered the petite gymnast’s system after Romania’s team physician Ioachin Oana gave her an over-the-counter cold pill on the evening before the competition. Oana was banned for four years by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday. The IOC had accepted the drug entered Raducan’s system innocently and that she had gained no competitive advantage by having the drug in her body. But the IOC refused to make an allowance in the case under its “rules are rules” policy, and stripped Raducan of her gold. The Romanian team had argued that Raducan’s diminutive size and weight had contributed to the positive test, and that a physically bigger athlete might have tested negative. They had also argued Raducan could not be blamed, and therefore should not be punished, because she was entirely dependent on the team doctor’s advice. |
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Jayasinghe wins
bronze for Lanka SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) —Sprinter Susanthika Jayasinghe ran a sparkling race today to snatch a bronze in the women’s 200 metres final behind Marion Jones for Sri Lanka’s first Olympic medal in five decades. “I am very happy and very proud to have won for my country tonight,” Jayasinghe said. It was also the first Sri Lankan Olympic medal won by a woman and just the second after Duncan White took a silver in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1948 London Olympics. Jayasinghe was just nudged out of second place by Pauline Davis-Thompson of the Bahamas, with both several strides behind Jones. |
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Wang wins gold in
dramatic finish SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) — Jane Saville’s dreams of an Olympic gold medal in her home city were cruelly dashed today when she was disqualified from the women’s 20 km walk while entering Stadium Australia. Saville, a former swimmer who switched to the triathlon and then to race walking, burst into tears as she was led from the track after a third and final warning for failing to keep continuous contact with the ground. |
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Germany win show
jumping gold SYDNEY, Sept 28 (AFP) — Germany emerged triumphant from a close battle in the equestrian team show jumping today, two clear rounds for Otto Becker letting them defend the Olympic title they won in Atlanta. The Germans won with 15 faults to Switzerland’s 16. Brazil grabbed the bronze in a jump-off with France. The Swiss claimed their first jumping medal since 1924, but their final rider, Willi Melliger on Calvaro V, couldn’t erase the one-penalty deficit. “If you look at the points, it was a mad competition,” said Swiss head coach Martin Walther. “At one point it went to and fro between the teams, but at the end of the day we won a medal and we are very happy with that.” |
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Aussies win gold SYDNEY, Sept 28 (AFP) — Australia ended a 28-year sailing gold medal drought here today winning both the men’s and women’s 470 dinghy classes. Belinda Stowell and Jenny Armstrong stormed to victory in the final race of the women’s 470 series for Australia’s first Olympic sailing success since 1972, and were followed soon after by world champions Mark Turnbull and Tom King in the men’s race. Turnbull and King led by five-points going into the final race but a poor start left them down in 10th place after first mark with Americans Paul Foerster and Bob Merrick in the lead. But the Australians worked their way up through the fleet occupying third place by the third of the seven marks and moving into second by the penultimate mark. Argentinean pair Javier Conte and Juan de la Fuente took the bronze medal. |
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Medal tally SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) — Olympic medals table at the end of the 13th day today: Country G S B USA 31 18 26 China 26 15 15 Russia 19 18 21 Australia 15 22 14 France 12 13 8 Italy 11 6 11 Romania 10 4 4 Germany 9 12 20 Netherlands 8 7 3 Britain 6 9 5 Cuba 5 8 2 South Korea 5 7 9 Japan 5 7 4 Bulgaria 5 3 2 Greece 4 5 1 Poland 4 4 1 Sweden 4 3 1 Ukraine 3 7 7 Hungary 3 2 1 Belarus 3 1 10 Spain 3 1 4 Turkey 3 0 0 Canada 2 2 5 Czech Republic 2 2 3 Finland 2 1 1 Austria 2 1 0 Lithuania 2 0 2 Slovenia 2 0 0 Iran 2 0 0 Switzerland 1 6 2 Indonesia 1 3 2 Slovakia 1 3 1 Norway 1 2 1 Mexico 1 2 0 Kazakhstan 1 1 0 New Zealand 1 0 3 Ethiopia 1 0 2 Estonia 1 0 2 Latvia 1 0 1 Croatia 1 0 1 Mozambique 1 0 0 Colombia 1 0 0 Azerbaijan 1 0 0 Brazil 0 4 3 Denmark 0 3 1 Belgium 0 2 3 Jamaica 0 2 2 Nigeria 0 2 0 Taiwan 0 1 4 South Africa 0 1 3 North Korea 0 1 2 Trinidad 0 1 1 Kenya 0 1 1 Argentina 0 1 1 Yugoslavia 0 1 0 Uruguay 0 1 0 Saudi Arabia 0 1 0 Moldova 0 1 0 Ireland 0 1 0 Bahamas 0 1 0 Georgia 0 0 4 Algeria 0 0 2 Costa Rica 0 0 2 Armenia 0 0 2 Thailand 0 0 1 Qatar 0 0 1 Portugal 0 0 1 Morocco 0 0 1 Sri Lanka 0 0 1 Kuwait 0 0 1 Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 Iceland 0 0 1 India 0 0 1 Barbados 0 0 1 |
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India’s
schedule today SYDNEY, Sept 28 (PTI) — India’s schedule at the Olympic Games tomorrow. (All times IST) Athletics: 0515 — Women’s 4x100m relay heats, Ist round 0730 — Men’s 4x400m relay heats, Ist round 1310 — Women’s 4x400m relay heats, Ist round Hockey |
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Karnataka eves
triumph SHIMLA, Sept 28 — Karnataka women beat Maharashtra 25-5, 25-5, 25-5 in the India Telecom Volleyball meet held here. In another match Tamil Nadu beat MTNL, Mumbai, 25-17, 25-23, 25-17. In the men’s section Tamil Nadu beat Bihar 25-23, 25-21, 17-25, 25-23 and Karnataka beat MTNL, Delhi, 25-17, 25-23, 25-17. Karnataka then beat Tamil Nadu 25-17, 25-16, 24-26, 25-14. |
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