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Monday, 18 July 2011
Li Shixin wins, China finishes 1-2 in men’s 1-meter diving
Li Shixin slipped into the water with barely a splash on his final dive, then climbed out of the pool and held up his index finger to signal No. 1.
Li won the host country’s third gold medal and fourth overall in diving Monday, leading all the way in the men’s 1-meter competition on a sweltering day at the Oriental Sports Center’s outdoor pool.
“You don’t know how exited I am now,” he said through a translator.
Li’s teammate, He Min, claimed the silver after rallying on his last dive to overtake Pavlo Rozenberg. The German, who had held second, settled for bronze.
Li totaled 463.90 points in the six-dive final of the non-Olympic event. He had 444.00 and Rozenberg 436.50.
Li walked up to the pool deck camera, smiled broadly and saluted as the partisan fans in the stands cheered loudly.
“It’s said that the 1-meter springboard will be canceled as a world championships event, so it means that the gold medal is more precious,” said Li, competing in his first world meet at 23.
Li had problems with his third dive, receiving scores ranging from 6.0 to 7.0, but it didn’t cost him in the standings.
His teammate dropped from fourth to seventh after badly missing his second dive when his legs hit the water upon entry. But He rebounded on his next dive to move into third, where he stayed until the last round.
He’s last dive was much more difficult than Rozenberg’s, which helped him move up to claim silver even though the German’s highest mark on his dive was a 9.0 while He’s highest was 8.5.
“I am making the first appearance in the world championships, so I was a little nervous at the beginning,” He said. “But I gradually relaxed. It’s a precious experience for me.”
American Chris Colwill was fourth — 9.35 points out of a medal — in the highest finish yet for the U.S.
Colwill broke his left hand in January and was out for four months after having surgery that required two screws and four bands of wires to be inserted.
“I didn’t dive to the best of my abilities, but coming back from a hand injury and being able to do this, I’m pretty happy about it,” he said. “I know I can get top-two in this event. I was reallly right there, I just had to polish up a few things.”
His teammate, Aaron Fleshner, botched his fourth and last dives to fall to ninth after being third early on in his debut at worlds.
“I’m not satisfied,” he said. “I was a little nervous.”
Daniel Islas of Mexico drew gasps from the crowd when his right foot struck the board on his last dive. He created a huge splash while landing on his back and receiving all zeros from the judges. Islas walked away under his own power before being helped into a wheelchair as a precaution.
“I was just a little too close to the board. I don’t know whether I will try the same dive next time,” said Islas, who is scheduled to compete Tuesday. “I’m in a little bit of pain, but I’m OK.”
China was the leading qualifier going into the women’s 10-meter synchro final later Monday.
Fate of Pakistan swimmers to be decided today
ISLAMABAD - The fate of Pakistan swimming team to participate in the Fina World Swimming Championship is to be decided today (Monday).
The swimmers have been granted no objection certificate (NOC) by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for participation in the 14th FINA World Swimming Championship which began in Shanghai (China).
The team is due to fly out on July 18. The tournament began on July 16 and will continue till July 31. Pakistan Swimming Federation (PSF), Secretary Majid Wasim said on Sunday that the PSF submitted the application to PSB twelve weeks ago though the period of processing applications is only six weeks, but I cannot understand why it has been delayed so much.
The swimmers have been granted no objection certificate (NOC) by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) for participation in the 14th FINA World Swimming Championship which began in Shanghai (China).
The team is due to fly out on July 18. The tournament began on July 16 and will continue till July 31. Pakistan Swimming Federation (PSF), Secretary Majid Wasim said on Sunday that the PSF submitted the application to PSB twelve weeks ago though the period of processing applications is only six weeks, but I cannot understand why it has been delayed so much.
China's Wu claims fifth diving world title
SHANGHAI: China claimed the first gold medal of the world aquatics championships Saturday as the sport's chiefs tightened their doping crackdown in the wake of a major scandal.
Divers Wu Minxia and He Zi got the hosts off to a roaring start as they bagged the women's 3m springboard synchro in a sunset final at Shanghai's open-air Crescent Lagoon venue.
Wu and He totalled 356.40 points, more than 40 points ahead of Canada's Emilie Heymans and Jennifer Abel, with Australians Anabelle Smith and Sharleen Stratton thirdSehn, Geyson eighth in men's 10-metre
Canadians Eric Sehn and Kevin Geyson believe their Olympic dreams are within reach after placing eighth on Sunday in the men's 10-metre synchronized diving event at the FINA world aquatic championships.
If the duo can match the top-eight performance at a FINA World Cup meet in February, they'll punch their ticket to the 2012 Olympics in London.
"We're really excited by our performance today," Sehn, of Edmonton, said in a news release. "It really puts it in perspective that it is possible for us to get that Olympic spot especially when you consider we did miss a dive in the final. We concentrated really well and our diving was strong overall."
Sehn and Geyson could have qualified on Sunday had they placed in the Top 3 at the worlds, but their score of 386.70 came up about 50 points short.
Bo Qiu and Liang Huo of China won the gold medal in dominating fashion, scoring 480.03. Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein of Germany placed second with a score of 443.01 and Oleksandr Gorshkovozov and Oleksandr Bondar of Ukraine were third at 435.36.
"We are progressing really fast," Geyson, of Winnipeg, said. "It's an amazing result today considering we've been together for less than a year and other teams have been together for many years. This was my first worlds and I was really happy we kept it together and picked it up in the final."
Also Sunday, Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., was 14th in the women's one-metre springboard preliminaries and failed to advance to the final.
Friday, 15 July 2011
Faisal leaves for Germany to attend FIFA Women’s Football
ISLAMABAD, July 14 (APP): President Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat and Chairperson Women Committee Rubina Irfan left here for Frankfurt, Germany on Thursday to participate in the 5th FIFA Women’s Football Symposium.
The three-day conference will kick off in Frankfurt on Friday and conclude on Sunday (July 17), a day when the Japan-US final showdown of 6th Women’s World Cup will be held there.
According to a press release issued, as many as 196 FIFA associations out of the total 208 are taking part in the event. About 150 countries chose to send their presidents, general secretaries or both for the event. While as a whole around 500 delegates are expected to attend the symposium.
Before his departure for Frankfurt, Faisal Saleh Hayat said that women’s football had become a worldwide sporting phenomenon. “Today, some 26 million women and girls play football and one in every ten football players on this planet is a female,” he said
He said women football was growing not only in absolute terms each year but also in parts of the world where it had perhaps not been traditionally strong. But the development process requires a combination of policies and proactive measures for their implementation, he said.
Chairperson Women Committee Rubina Irfan said that football was a beautiful game and women should take part in it.
According to a press release issued, as many as 196 FIFA associations out of the total 208 are taking part in the event. About 150 countries chose to send their presidents, general secretaries or both for the event. While as a whole around 500 delegates are expected to attend the symposium.
Before his departure for Frankfurt, Faisal Saleh Hayat said that women’s football had become a worldwide sporting phenomenon. “Today, some 26 million women and girls play football and one in every ten football players on this planet is a female,” he said
He said women football was growing not only in absolute terms each year but also in parts of the world where it had perhaps not been traditionally strong. But the development process requires a combination of policies and proactive measures for their implementation, he said.
Chairperson Women Committee Rubina Irfan said that football was a beautiful game and women should take part in it.
FIFA Under-20 World Cup: Obuh pins hope on attackers
Flying Eagles are currently in Panama fine tuning strategies for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup starting July 29 in Colombia. The Nigerian team are top contenders and one major survival strategy to be employ by the coach John Obuh, is a fast forward attack.
Obuh plans to field an offensive team that will attack with confidence. This was what propelled the Nigeria Under-17 team to the final of the 2009 FIFA World Cup. Most of the silver medal winning team are in the Flying Eagles with Obuh is having little trouble passing down his philosophy to the players.
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“In most of the competitions we have taken part in, we have usually emerged as the top scorers,” Obuh declared.
However, coach Obuh cautions that the the Under-17 and Under-20 are “quite a different ball game” and that the Flying Eagles are going to have to up their performance to reach such heady heights again. “Players at U-20s have mostly all had experience playing at senior level for their clubs, and some have even played for their national teams, which makes it a lot more intense of a competition in comparison to the U-17s,” he explained.
It means, as Obuh insists, that past form is nothing to go by, as well as explains why his reaction to the seemingly favourable draw for his side in Colombia lacked the expected enthusiasm. “I had no different a reaction to this draw than I had to all the other draws,” he said from Nigeria’s pre-tournament training base in Portugal.
“I have always maintained that football these days is so unpredictable and there has been so much development that no opponent can be seen to be weaker than any other.”
I try as much as I can to emphasise to the players they must learn to take one step at a time. They really need to concentrate on the job at hand at the tournament and then worry about getting a contract overseas.
Nigeria coach John Obuh on players using the World Cup as a showcase to find new clubs Obuh, who continued to add to his list of achievements by winning the African Youth Championships in South Africa in May, will see his charges go up against Guatemala first in Group D, in the town of Armenia, and then play Croatia and Saudi Arabia.
It seems a promising draw, but Obuh has concerns over the focus of his players. “We are always seeking the best out of everything we do and there are players who have the added motivation of using the world championship as a stage to tidy up offers of contracts with clubs in Europe. None of them want to stay in the local league,” he explained.
Sao Paulo will host the opening match of the Brazil 2014 World Cup
(WFI) FIFA tells INSIDER that reports suggesting Sao Paulo will host the opening match of the Brazil 2014 World Cup are pure speculation.
After months of funding troubles, planning and construction delays, the 2014 organising committee, led by FIFA Ex-Co member Ricardo Teixeira, has confirmed that the necessary financial guarantees are in place to charge on with construction of Corinthians' 65,000-seat Itaquerão stadium.
But some Brazilian media appear to have interpreted the announcement as confirmation that South America's largest city will stage the first match of the tournament.
A FIFA spokeswoman told INSIDER today that no decision had been taken on whether Sao Paulo's new stadium should hold the prestigious match as originally planned.
Funded by BNDES, Brazil’s state development bank, and private investors, the venue is being built by Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht at a cost of around $500 million.
But building work on the stadium only began last month. Following the catalogue of troubles that have beset the project, FIFA appears keen to wait a few months to check on its progress before committing to Sao Paulo.
She said the final decision would be made by the FIFA Executive Committee at a meeting on Oct. 20 and 21.
Sao Paulo is still favourite to stage the tournament opener but Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia are also lobbying hard to stage the showpiece.
Amid the negative headlines surrounding Brazil's World Cup preparations, most relating to slow progress in upgrading stadia and airports infrastructure, the July 29 meeting of the LOC was postponed.
It means FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who has been critical of Brazil's 2014 preparations in recent months, will not have to face the media on the eve of the preliminary draw in Rio de Janeiro, saving any criticism of World Cup organisers until the draw is over. Valcke is responsible for ensuring World Cup preparations keep on track.
In a statement yesterday, FIFA said: "As has already been announced, with the draw procedures for the 2014 FIFA World Cup preliminary draw having been approved by the FIFA Executive Committee on 30 May 2011, there is no longer any need for a meeting of the organising committee of the FIFA World Cup to take place before the preliminary draw.
"The organising committee will therefore meet in October 2011, some days before the FIFA Executive Committee meeting of 20 and 21 October which will be in charge of ratifying the match schedule of the 2014 FIFA World Cup."
Sao Paulo's stadium will not be ready to host matches in the 2013 Confederations Cup.
With completion scheduled for the start of 2014, there will be no room for slippage on the project and only a few months to test stadium operations before the World Cup.
Rio de Janeiro’s Marina da Gloria is the setting for the 2014 World Cup preliminary draw on July 30.
The national teams of 166 member associations from five qualification zones – Africa, Asia, Europe, CONCACAF and Oceania – will go into the hat. No draw is necessary for the CONMEBOL Zone where teams face each other in a round-robin group.
After months of funding troubles, planning and construction delays, the 2014 organising committee, led by FIFA Ex-Co member Ricardo Teixeira, has confirmed that the necessary financial guarantees are in place to charge on with construction of Corinthians' 65,000-seat Itaquerão stadium.
But some Brazilian media appear to have interpreted the announcement as confirmation that South America's largest city will stage the first match of the tournament.
A FIFA spokeswoman told INSIDER today that no decision had been taken on whether Sao Paulo's new stadium should hold the prestigious match as originally planned.
Funded by BNDES, Brazil’s state development bank, and private investors, the venue is being built by Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht at a cost of around $500 million.
But building work on the stadium only began last month. Following the catalogue of troubles that have beset the project, FIFA appears keen to wait a few months to check on its progress before committing to Sao Paulo.
She said the final decision would be made by the FIFA Executive Committee at a meeting on Oct. 20 and 21.
Sao Paulo is still favourite to stage the tournament opener but Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia are also lobbying hard to stage the showpiece.
Amid the negative headlines surrounding Brazil's World Cup preparations, most relating to slow progress in upgrading stadia and airports infrastructure, the July 29 meeting of the LOC was postponed.
It means FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, who has been critical of Brazil's 2014 preparations in recent months, will not have to face the media on the eve of the preliminary draw in Rio de Janeiro, saving any criticism of World Cup organisers until the draw is over. Valcke is responsible for ensuring World Cup preparations keep on track.
In a statement yesterday, FIFA said: "As has already been announced, with the draw procedures for the 2014 FIFA World Cup preliminary draw having been approved by the FIFA Executive Committee on 30 May 2011, there is no longer any need for a meeting of the organising committee of the FIFA World Cup to take place before the preliminary draw.
"The organising committee will therefore meet in October 2011, some days before the FIFA Executive Committee meeting of 20 and 21 October which will be in charge of ratifying the match schedule of the 2014 FIFA World Cup."
Sao Paulo's stadium will not be ready to host matches in the 2013 Confederations Cup.
With completion scheduled for the start of 2014, there will be no room for slippage on the project and only a few months to test stadium operations before the World Cup.
Rio de Janeiro’s Marina da Gloria is the setting for the 2014 World Cup preliminary draw on July 30.
The national teams of 166 member associations from five qualification zones – Africa, Asia, Europe, CONCACAF and Oceania – will go into the hat. No draw is necessary for the CONMEBOL Zone where teams face each other in a round-robin group.
