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/ 31 October 2003
Rio Ferdinand will almost certainly miss out on Euro 2004, and possibly much more, because of the missed drug test which has turned his life upside down. Although the Football Association has opted against charging him with wilfully evading UK Sport’s drugtesters, it still has the power to ban him for two years.
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/ 31 October 2003
Depending on who you listen to, Bryan Robson is either already the manager of Nigeria, will be soon enough, or it’ll never happen. This level of confusion demonstrates the problem with clarity in African football. Dozens of players are about to become embroiled in the biennial European club versus African country row.
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/ 31 October 2003
At least two top Comrades athletes will be breathing a sigh of relief with the news that the blood samples taken at this year’s race have been destroyed and will not be further tested for the latest designer steroid, tetrahydrogestrinone (THG). But there is little hope for would-be THG junkies.
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/ 31 October 2003
Is it really 13 years since Craig Jameson and Naas Botha marched their sides on to the field at Loftus for the defining Currie Cup final of the modern era? On Saturday the two sides will meet again in the Currie Cup final, having somehow managed to avoid each other in the showpiece event of South African rugby since 1990.
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/ 30 October 2003
The former National Party government was a ”magnificent master or teacher” of the present African National Congress government regarding corruption, according to Federal Alliance leader, rugby supremo and businessman Louis Luyt. He has also voiced his support for the reintroduction of the death penalty.
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/ 30 October 2003
Foreign Affairs official and former death row inmate Robert McBride has been appointed chief of the East Rand municipality’s Metro Police. The announcement was immediately decried by the Democratic Alliance, which said in a statement that it was reacting with ”shock and disgust” to the appointment.
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/ 30 October 2003
The United Nations will pull some staff out of Iraq after deadly bombings at both of its offices in Baghdad, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. The UN joins the International Committee of the Red Cross in leaving the Iraqi capital in the wake of anti-foreign violence.
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/ 30 October 2003
Two Japanese satellites have been in trouble following geomagnetic storms triggered by recent solar flares, one of them the largest in three decades, the Japanese space agency said on Thursday. Adeos-2, one of the world’s biggest earth observation satellites, has lost contact with the Earth.