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/ 30 October 2007
The Asian Tour has more potential for growth than any other tour in the world, according to some of the world’s most successful stars who have seen big improvements in recent years. Lee Westwood, Michael Campbell and Vijay Singh have all been regular visitors to Asia over the past decade and they are impressed with what has been happening.
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/ 23 September 2007
Ruthless defending champions Germany and the top-ranked United States stormed into the Women’s Soccer World Cup semifinals on Saturday, leaving North Korea and England to rue missed chances. The Germans beat the Koreans 3-0 in Wuhan with Kerstin Garefrekes pouncing in the 44th minute.
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/ 2 September 2007
Tyson Gay joined an exclusive club on Saturday in Osaka, Japan, by becoming only the third man ever to win three gold medals at a single world championships, overshadowing Meseret Defar’s 5 000m victory. Only fellow Americans Carl Lewis (1983 and 1987) and Maurice Greene (1999) have achieved the feat before.
Tyson Gay romped to the 200m world title on Thursday, giving him a rare sprint double at the World Athletics Championships. He joined an exclusive club that includes fellow Americans Maurice Greene and the disgraced Justin Gatlin as the only men to win both the 100m and 200m crowns.
Pole-vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva won gold on Tuesday but failed in a world record attempt, as Kenyan runners held sway on the track at the World Athletics Championships. Kenya’s formidable men’s 3 000 m steeplechasers toyed with the opposition before delivering the expected clean sweep.
From three grands prix four years ago to six today, Asia has become the new focus for the movers and shakers who drive Formula One (F1). The announcement of Singapore as a host city last week reinforces F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone’s belief that the region is a key cog in the sport’s future development.
The remarkable Michael Phelps shattered his third world record of the Swimming World Championships in Melbourne on Thursday to bag a fourth gold medal and stay on course for an ambitious tilt at eight titles. The American marvel took apart his own world mark in the 200m individual medley, lowering it by almost a second.
Michael Phelps, Laure Manaudou and Leila Vaziri obliterated world records in Melbourne on Wednesday on another sensational night at the World Swimming Championships, but Grant Hackett’s reign as king of the 800m freestyle ended. Phelps (21) carved a huge 1,71 seconds off his own 200m butterfly world record to set a new mark of one minute 52,09 seconds.
A Ukrainian swimming coach has been banned from making contact with his daughter after they were filmed fighting in Melbourne in what a leading athlete called another example of ”that ugly parent syndrome”. Mikhail Zubkov (38) was thrown out of the World Swimming Championships and police issued a domestic violence order against him.
The Russian Federation’s Vladimir Dyatchin held off a charging Thomas Lurz to win the men’s 10km open-water world title in a photo finish on Wednesday in Melbourne, Australia, as ”massive” jellyfish again took their toll. China, meanwhile, continued their push for more diving gold at the world championships.