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/ 8 September 2004
Elena Dementieva continued her mastery over Amelie Mauresmo in the US Open, spoiling an opportunity for the French star to seize the number-one ranking and beating her for the second time this year in a Grand Slam. Andy Roddick won his fourth consecutive straight-set match, cruising past Spain’s Tommy Robredo.
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/ 8 September 2004
India’s Rahul Dravid has been named the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) player of the year. The right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper was selected by a panel of 50 current and former international cricketers and umpires. He received the inaugural Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy at a ceremony in London on Tuesday.
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/ 8 September 2004
Canada sacked their swim coach, Dave Johnson, after they failed to win an Olympic medal in the pool for the first time in 50 years, the country’s swimming federation announced. The federation president, Rob Colburn, said the axing of Johnson is the first part of the federation’s plan to put in place a winning programme.
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/ 8 September 2004
Innocent Mahlambi and substitute Tumi Ledingwane struck in each half as Dynamos deservedly beat home boys Silver Stars 2-0 in a Limpopo Castle Premiership match at the Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane on Tuesday night. In an exciting match, Dynamos broke the deadlock through Mahlambi.
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/ 8 September 2004
The South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has lauded the Western Province Rugby Football Union’s recent efforts aimed at eradicating violence in club rugby in the province. ”In recent weeks, there has been clear evidence that the province takes the violence matter seriously,” said Sarfu CEO Mveleli Ncula.
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/ 7 September 2004
Tens of thousands of Russians massed outside the Kremlin on Tuesday to express their anger at terror after the Beslan school hostage tragedy, as families pressed on with an agonising search for loved ones still missing. The Interfax agency cited official police figures as saying 130 000 people turned out for the rally.
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/ 7 September 2004
United States President George Bush apparently mixed up his words while delivering his usual campaign speech about the rising cost of health care. The president was speaking to an applauding crowd of thousands of supporters in Poplar Bluff, a south-east Missouri town of 16 500 people.
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/ 7 September 2004
Iraqi Shi’ite militiamen were planting bombs in the street of a Baghdad slum amid echoing machinegun fire on Tuesday, as angry foot soldiers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr cursed the Iraqi government and United States ”occupiers” after deadly fighting erupted overnight, killing as many as 40 people.
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/ 7 September 2004
Hippos in a Ugandan game park are dying of a disease yet to be identified by scientists. Sixty have so far perished in the past two months, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. ”We have been finding the animals dead with saliva oozing out of their mouths,” said John Bosco Numwe, the chief warden of Queen Elizabeth National Park.