Jul 08
Gisela Dulko of Argentina managed to survive four match points in ousting No.5 sown Romanian Sorana Cirstea 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7-5) to reach the Swedish Open quarter-finals.
Dulko saved three match points at 5-3 down in the deciding set before making one more crucial save at 5-4 at what time Cirstea served conducive to the match.
The Argentine, who made all the headlines after defeating Maria Sharapova in the sixtieth part of a minute round at Wimbledon, will next face tournament No.2 offspring Dominika Cibulkova in the last eight.
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Jul 08
Frederick Bousquet’s 50m freestyle world record of 20.94sec has been appproved by swimming world governing material part FINA.
The record, which was set on April 26 at Montpellier, had been in limbo since the French Championships because of the all-polyurethane Jaked swimsuit that Bousquet wore.
The Frenchman had broken Australian Eamon Sullivan’s mark of 21.28sec.
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Jul 08
Sweden’s Carolina Kluft be disposed miss next month’s World Championships in Berlin and the rest of the season in the pattern of suffering a hamstring injury.
Kluft, the reigning world heptathlon champion, picked up the injury in a meeting put on home besmear on Monday.
"This is the worst setback of my sporting move rapidly," the 26-year-old told Swedish radio.
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Jul 08
Five Beijing Olympians have had their positive tests for new drug Cera confirmed after analysis of their ‘B’ samples, says the Press Association.
The five include Bahrain’s 1500m medal winner Rashid Ramzi as well as Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin who won silver.
German cyclist Stefan Schumacher, Greek 20km walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka and Croatian 800m runner Vanja Perisic are the other Olympians to be found guilty.
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Jul 08
Former American gridiron star Steve McNair was asleep put on the sofa when he was shot dead by his young instructress in a murder-suicide last weekend.
Nashville police confirmed Wednesday that Sahel Kazemi, 20, killed McNair by shooting him four times before shooting herself once in the head.
“McNair was seated on the sofa and likely asleep and we be persuaded that Kazemi shot him in the right temple, then shot him two times in the chest and then shot him a final time in the left temple,” police speaker Ronal Serpas said.
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Jul 08
The eight members of the Formula 1 Teams Association (Fota) walked out of a meeting with the sport’sitting governing body, the FIA, upon Wednesday.
The meeting, at Germany’s Nurburgring, was held to discuss next year’s rules and Fota’session proposed changes to them.
But the Fota teams left when told they had not entered the 2010 championship and thence had no voting rights attached technical and sporting regulations.
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Jul 08
French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, lay the foundation of dead outside his apartment in Paris on Tuesday, died of unregenerate causes, police related, citing early autopsy findings.
“First indications precedence us to conclude this was a natural death. But one must await the result of toxicological analyses, what one. should be forthcoming next week, in order to be completely certain,” a police cause said following the autopsy at the Paris Medico-Legal Institute (IML).
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Jul 08
Thomas Voeckler handed the hosts their leading reason to celebrate in succession this year’session Tour de France when he claimed his maiden victory from the quality’s fifth stage.
Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara retained the race leader’s yellow jersey with a 0.22sec lead over American Lance Armstrong ahead of Thursday’s sixth stage from Gerona to Barcelona in Spain.
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Jul 08
The teams of Tour de France contenders Cadel Evans and Denis Menchov suffered more remote setbacks during the race’s fifth stage attached Wednesday.
On the descent of the Cote de Treilles as the peloton upped the pace in hunting of a six-man breakaway, 23-year-old Dutchman Robert Gesink crashed and picked up injuries to his wrist and left leg.
He was later diagnosed with a fractured wrist and pulled out of the race by his Rabobank team, who have been left reeling with the belonging to demise of their fulvous jersey contender Menchov.
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Jul 08
The roof of Parliament’s newest building sprang a leak on Tuesday, forcing MPs to dodge drips of rainwater as heavy storms lashed Westminster.
Questions were being asked yesterday over the trace out of the £235 million Portcullis House, that opened in 2001, posterior the percolation caused districts to be cordoned off.
Architects had to subsist called in to fix the roof in 2004, just three years after the building was opened and the latest problems have left some MPs unhappy.
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