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school to help Mauritius Bangalore: The Mauritius
Badminton Association has sought the expertise of Bangalore-based Prakash Padukone
Badminton Academy (PPBA) to prepare their national badminton team for the coming
Indian Ocean Island Games to be held in Mauritius during August-September. Accordingly,
a PPBA team consisting of six juniors led by Vimal Kumar, left for Mauritius on
Monday to train with the Mauritius national team for two weeks, a PPBA statement
said. Meanwhile, 24-year-old Marko Kroflic, and Tadej Seme (22) of Slovenia have
joined the PPBA for a six-week training stint to improve their game in doubles
and singles. Greene to run only
200 Palo Alto (California): Triple world 100m champion
Maurice Greene will run only the 200m at this week’s US championships but will
seek gold in both events at the world championships in August, his coach said
on Monday. “Maurice is right on track in the 100m,” coach John
Smith said in a statement. “Knowing his goals, I need him to completely focus
on the 200m this weekend.” Greene has the fastest 100m time by
an American this year (9.94 seconds). He had earlier said he wanted to compete
in one round of the 100 at the US championships at Stanford University which begin
on Thursday “just to give people a show”. Now he will run only
the three rounds of the 200 at the meeting, which serves as the American qualifier
for the world championships in Paris. Acosta
new Bolivia coach La Paz: Bolivia named former Chile
boss Nelson Acosta as their new coach on Monday in place of Carlos Trucco, who
walked out after two months in the job. Acosta, born in Uruguay
but a naturalised Chilean, took over amid a background of internal bickering after
the La Paz clubs Bolivar and The Strongest refused to release players for last
week’s 0-4 friendly defeat in Portugal. “We want to qualify for
the World Cup, as I did with Chile in 1998,” Acosta said. “I hope it’s a long
time before I leave Bolivia,” added Acosta after quitting his job with Chilean
provincial club Cobreloa. “I will do everything possible for Bolivia to get to
a World Cup once again.” Jordan
files for $252m claim London: Formula One team boss
Eddie Jordan launched a £150 million ($252.5 million) damages claim against mobile
phone giants Vodafone in the High Court on Tuesday. Jordan claims Vodafone wrongly
pulled out of a three-year deal to sponsor his team’s cars, only to back rivals
Ferrari. The legal claim, which takes into account the 100 million
pounds Jordan claims Vodafone agreed to pay as well as interest and other losses,
will take three weeks to argue. It centres on four words that
Jordan claims were spoken to him on the telephone in 2001 by Vodafone’s global
branding director David Haines: ‘You’ve got the deal.’ Freed
from jail Rome: A Russian accused of fixing the figure
skating pairs gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City has been
released from jail and is a free man, his lawyers said on Tuesday. Italy’s
highest appeals court ruled against extraditing Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov to the
US late on Monday, overturning the decision of a lower court in Venice last January.
Final in Carson Washington:
The 2003 Women’s World Cup soccer final will be played in the new 27,500-seat
Home Depot Center in Carson California, US soccer officials said on Monday. At
a news conference announcing the schedule for the 16-nation tournament, US Soccer
Federation president Dr S. Robert Contiguglia defended the choice of the stadium
for the October 12 final after the 1999 decider was held in the 90,000-seat Rose
Bowl. SPORT ON SCREEN
Cricket, Pakistan in England
— First ODI, highlights from 8 am on STAR Sports, Cricket, UK domestic season
— Twenty20 Cup, Hampshire vs Sussex from 5.30 pm on ESPN , Tennis, Wimbledon Library
Films — Official film 2000 from 10.30 pm on STAR Sports
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