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cases linked to Sydney games SYDNEY, Sept 30: Five competitors have tested positive for banned drugs in competition tests carried .......more Daredevils raring to KUFRI (SHIMLA), Sept 30: The battle between the man, the machine.....more OLYMPICS SYDNEY, Sept 30: Cameroon’s footballers lived up to their indomitable name and Cuban boxers ....more Three
swimmers of Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: Three swimmers of the KC Public School have been selected to represent Jammu and ......more Dungal of
Sanja Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: The wrestling competitions (Dungal) of Sanja Pir Baba will be held at village Chack Murar (Bishnah).........more |
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12-day NCC (Naval) Annual Training Camp
concludes Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: Twelve-day Annual Training Camp of the NCC organised by the I J&K Naval unit of J&K Directorate concluded at NCC camping ground, Nagrota, here............more Salil to
meet Sandeep Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: Salil Rama will take on Sandeep in the final of the Men’s singles in the ongoing District Table Tennis Championship being played, here. Earlier, in the semi-finals, Salil defeated Paramjeet in straight sets of 21-11, 21-14, while Sandeep beat Dalip in a well contested match 22-20, 20-22, 21-19....more 12th
Cluster Games ends Excelsior Sports Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Sept 30: Host Jawahar Navodya Vidyala, bagged the Handball trophy beating JNV Basohli (Kathua) in the finals of the 12th Cluster Games of Senior girls which played here today. In the Kho-Kho girls final, JNV Chamba emerged winner beating JNV Basohli, while in the Kabaddi girls final, JNV Pojewal (Punjab) defeated JNV Nud to claim the title.......more |
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List of drug cases linked to Sydney games SYDNEY, Sept 30: Five competitors have tested positive for banned drugs in competition tests carried out during the Sydney olympics. One was escorted away from the athletics arena on Wednesday after failing a test before the games while several others were forced to leave the olympics after results of their tests were made known. Today the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Russian 400 metres runner Svetlana Pospelova had tested positive for steroids during an out-of-competition test during the games. Following is a list of the main drug cases which have affected the games up until Saturday. Announcements of tests taken during competition September 20: Ivan Ivanov - Bulgarian weightlifter Ivanov, a four-times world champion, is stripped of his olympic 56kg silver after testing positive for a diuretic. - - - September 22: Izabela Dragneva, Sevdalin Minchev - Dragneva, gold medal winner in the women’s 48 kg category, and men’s 62 kg bronze medallist Minchev, also of Bulgaria, lose their medals and expelled after testing positive for diuretic. - - - September 24: Andris Reinholds - Latvian Rower, who failed to make single sculls final, kicked out of olympics after steroid Nandrolone found in his urine. Faces a life ban. - - - September 26: Andreea Raducan - Romanian gymnast Raducan, 16, stripped of her all round gold medal after testing positive for drug contained in a cold remedy. Romanian team doctor expelled. Romanians take case to Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) but appeal rejected on Thursday. Announcements of other tests September 13: Chen Po-Pu - Taiwanese weightlifter, a former world junior medallist, becomes the first athlete barred from the games after a positive test for methandienone in Taiwan in August. Iva Prandzheva - Bulgarian triple jumper, the 1995 world silver medallist, tests positive for Nandrolone. She was also banned for two years for taking drugs at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Yevgenia Yermakova - Kazakhstan freestyle swimmer is barred after failing a drugs test for a diuretic in Monaco in May. - - - September 15 (day of opening ceremony): Traean Ciharean, Andrei Mateias - weightlifters Ciharean, a 1992 olympic bronze medallist, and mateias are withdrawn from the Romanian team after failing tests. A third man, Razvan Ilie, is also removed for doping earlier in the year. - - - September 17: Stian Grimseth - Norwegian super heavyweight weightlifter is suspended after failing a dope test earlier in the month. Anosheravan Nourian - Iranian light-welterweight boxer is thrown out following an out-of-competition test before the games. Cezar Badita - Romanian swimmer Cezar Badita, facing a four-year ban after failing a drugs test for Nandrolone in May, is allowed to swim in the 400m individual medley final because his case is under appeal. He finishes seventh in his final. The case will be concluded after the games and his performances over the preceding six months will be annulled if the positive verdict is upheld by world governing body FINA. - - - September 18: Dieter Baumann - Germany’s 1992 olympic 5,000 metres champion, is banned for two years after testing positive for Nandrolone last November. - - - September 19: Aleksandr Bagach - Ukrainian shot Putter Bagach, 1996 Atlanta olympics bronze medallist, misses the games after failing a drugs test for the third time in his career. The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) sends his case to arbitration after he tested positive for steroids earlier in the year. Emmaunel Magnien - French rider is banned for three months by the International Cycling Union (UCI) after testing positive for corticoids during tour De France and misses games. Simon Kemboi, Dupe Osime - Kenyan Kemboi, a member of the 4x400 metres relay team, and Nigerian woman 800 metres runner Osime are barred after testing positive for Nandrolone after random tests by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). - - - September 20: Vadim Devyatovsky - hammer thrower from Belarus is sent home after testing positive for Nandrolone in an out-of-competition test in the olympic village. Eric Lamaze - showjumper Lamaze fails to get back on to Canada’s olympics team despite winning a reprieve from a lifetime ban for using cocaine last month. The Canadian Olympic Association decides he has breached an agreement he signed pledging not to use narcotics. Jan Hruska - Czech cyclist Hruska is thrown out of the games after testing positive for an unspecified banned substance. - - - September 25: C J Hunter - IAAF announces U.S. shot putter hunter, husband of women’s 100 metres champion Marion Jones has tested positive for Nandrolone. On Sept 26, IOC Medical Commission chief Alexandre De Merode announces hunter tested positive for substance four times in June and July. Hunter had already withdrawn from games citing injury. - - - September 27 - Mihaela Melinte - Romania’s world champion hammer thrower escorted away from athletics arena at games as she prepared to compete because she had failed a test for Nandrolone before the games. - - - September 30 - Svetlana Pospelova - IOC announces Russia’s European indoor 400 metres champion Pospelova tested positive for banned steroid Stanozolol in an out-of-competition test carried out at games. The test cannot be regarded as a complete positive case until all the details have been discussed and analysed. Pospelova had already left Sydney. (REUTERS) |
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Daredevils raring to raid the Himalayas KUFRI (SHIMLA), Sept 30: The battle between the man, the machine and high altitude amidst the snow clad ranges will hit the roads tomorrow with the final security screening of vehicles done today for the ‘Raid De Himalayas’ car rally. The ‘Raid’ which made its debut last year, promises to be an exciting outing for some 70-odd daredevils who have come from as far as even Australia to experience the thrill of driving through the hostile terrain. A timed speed event sanctioned by the world racing body FIA and Federation of Motor Sport Clubs in India (FMSCI), last year was staged at an altitude of 16,000 feet and the organisers are trying to lift the altitude by an additional 2000 feet this year. "We have already applied for a place in the guiness bood of records for the rally to be categorised as the toughest and most challenging in the world," said Vijay Parmar, president of Himalayan Motor Sport Association. The vehicles were divided into two teams - team ‘A’ and ‘N’ as the drivers get ready for the flag-off. Team ‘A’ can carry modifications in the engine such as the cylinder head can be shaved, high performance cam shafts could be used to enhance power of the engine by almost 50 percent. On the other side, ‘N’ category vehicles are restricted from any kind of modifications. The marshalls today marked the vehicles ‘A’ and ‘N’ according to the FIA rules which included painting of group ‘N’ vehicles in a manner that the moment a modificiation is carried out, a crack appears on the paint. Ranjoy Mukerjee, one of the participant in ‘N’ category says "it is the spirit of adventure which has brought me here." About the chances of success, he says nonchalantly "50-50 chances of finishing the race, given the tough route and conditions." Col Tankha, associated with the ‘Raid’ since its inception sums it all about the adventure sports when he says it is the challenge between the man and the machine and the high altitude. (PTI) |
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OLYMPICS
SYDNEY, Sept 30: Cameroon’s footballers lived up to their indomitable name and Cuban boxers were unbeatable, too, but the once apparently invincible Marion Jones proved human again today on the busiest day of the Sydney Olympics. Jones, whose bid for five athletics gold medals in Sydney was thwarted when she finished third in the long jump yesterday, got one more gold in the 4x400m relay. But she had to settle for bronze again in the 4x100m relay after botched baton handovers helped end us hopes. The Bahamas triumphed, and Pauline Davis-Thompson, running her last race, was thrilled to go out with gold. "The Americans never respect us," she said. "Marion Jones was in their team and we beat them. Now they will have to show us some respect." Cuba is a Caribbean nation used to getting a lot of respect in the sporting world, and in today’s boxing finals they showed why. All four of Cuba’s finalists emerged with gold, led by superman Felix Savon, who won his third consecutive Olympic heavyweight title. Savon nearly missed his coronation when a gash opened under his left eye in the fourth and final round. After a brief examination by the referee, the bout continued, and savon danced his way to the points win. Bantamweight Guillermo Rigondeaux, lightweight Mario Kindelan and middleweight Jorge Gutierrez all won for Cuba, and their women volleyballers also had the midas touch, rallying from two sets down to beat world number two Russia and complete their own unique Olympic volleyball hat-trick. "We are Cubans, we came here to do the best and that meant fighting until the end," said Cuba captain Regla Bell McKenzie of the come-from-behind victory. "I dedicate this victory to the whole country of Cuba," added Regla Torres, like Bell McKenzie a veteran of the 1992 and 1996 gold medal-winning teams. "I hope it will be an inspiration to the women of Cuba." Cameroon’s indomitable lions beat nine-man Spain 5-3 on penalties to retain the Olympic football crown for Africa, four years after Nigeria’s ground-breaking triumph in Atlanta. Spain, reduced to nine men by the time the regulation 90 minutes finished at 2-2, hung on bravely through 30 minutes of extra time to force the match into the shootout. Russia’s Viacheslav Ekimov upset American Lance Armstrong’s plans for Olympic gold and held off Jan Ullrich’s bid for a road cycling double when he came from deep in the field to win the men’s time trial. Ekimov powered through the 46.8-kilometre course in 57 minutes and 40 ahead of silver medallist Ullrich, the winner of Wednesday’s road race, and 34 seconds in front of armstrong — the man he helped to a second tour de france title this year as part of the US postal team. While armstrong goes home empty-handed but for his time trial bronze, Dutch cyclist Leontien Van Moorsel won her third gold of games when she dominated the women’s time trial and grabbed the title of the most successful female cyclist ever to take part in an Olympics. Van Moorsel also took gold in the women’s road race and the individual pursuit as well as silver in the women’s points race. Germany’s Birgit Fischer captured her sixth gold medal, her ninth Olympic medal overall, when she teamed with Anett Schuck, Manuela Mucke and Katrin Wagner for the women’s Kayak four victory, tying the German record for most Olympic gold medals. Tomorrow she can surpass the mark she shares with swimmer Kristin Otto and dressage rider Reiner Klimke when she races in the Kayak pairs. Elsewhere on the water, Iain Percy claimed a third sailing gold for Britain with his victory in the men’s finn class with a race to spare. The United States team of Mark Reynolds and Magnus Liljedahl won the gold medal in the Olympic open star class, and Denmark won the open soling gold. Russia captured two freestyle wrestling titles, Saghid Mourtasaliyev winning the 97kg class with a victory over Kazakhstan’s Islam Bairamukov. His compatriot Mourad Oumakhanov won the 63kg crown, while Germany’s Alexander Leipold won the 76kg gold and Namig Abdullayev of Azerbaijan won the 54kg class. After the football final in Stadium Australia, the athletes moved back in. Algeria’s Nouria Merah-Benida pulled off a stunning upset when she won the women’s 1,500m ahead of Violeta Szekely of Romania and her teammate Gabriela Szabo, winner of the 5,000m earlier in the week. Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia won a gripping women’s 10,000 metre final in a new Olympic record, adding the gold to the one she won in Barcelona in 1992. She finished more than five seconds ahead of her teammate Gete Wami with Atlanta gold medallist Fernanda Ribeiro of Portugal taking the bronze. Russia’s Yelena Yelesina ended a 10-year wait to claim the Olympic high jump gold. The 30-year-old mother last won a major title when she took the European Junior Championship in 1989. Ethiopia’s Million Wolde came of age when he won the men’s 5,000m. The 21-year-old who won the world junior title two years ago and finished eighth at the world championships in Seville a year ago, ran his race to perfection, beating out second placed Ali Saidi-Sief of Algeria and Morocco’s Brahim Lahlafi. There were no mistakes for the United States men’s 4x100m relay, anchored by 100m champion Maurice Greene. They took the gold ahead of Brazil while Cuba finished with the bronze. (AFP) |
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Three swimmers of KC Public named in National Squad Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: Three swimmers of the KC Public School have been selected to represent Jammu and Kashmir state in the national competitions. The selection in this regard was made by the Department of Youth Services and Sports after the completion of the Inter-district Swimming competitions, here yesterday. Selected students are Mayank Goswami, Shray Mahajan and Aditya Beri. He was also declared as best swimming in his age group. Aditya Beri has won three gold medals in the under-14 group in the Free Style events in 50, 100 and 200 meters. While’s Mayank Goswami clinched three medals including one gold and two silvers. Third selected swimmer was Shray Mahajan, who was part of the 4x100 meter relay team which won gold medal. In girls section, Suneha Sharma has been selected for the same competitions after she finished third in 50 meters Free Style in trails. |
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Dungal of Sanja Pir Baba today Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: The wrestling competitions (Dungal) of Sanja Pir Baba will be held at village Chack Murar (Bishnah) tomorrow. Likewise last year, this Dungal is being held on the fourth Navratra every year. The organisers have send an open invitation to the wrestlers of the Jammu region for the participation. A large number of people are expected to witness the competitions, a handout issued, here today informed. |
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12-day NCC (Naval) Annual Training Camp concludes Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: Twelve-day Annual Training Camp of the NCC organised by the I J&K Naval unit of J&K Directorate concluded at NCC camping ground, Nagrota, here. Throughout the period various Naval training activities were undertaken to provide ample exposure to the 450 cadets hailing from different school and colleges all over the state. The Camp Commandant, Cd V K Jamwal and the Deputy Camp Commandant Col. M N Khan drew up the programme of the training systematically and ensured at every step that the cadets benefited the maximum from the available resources. During the camp, the cadets were taken to Mansar lake for water bourne training in boat pulling, sailing, Kayaking and Swimming, besides functioning of Jack stay, firing and first aid. They were also taught making of operational ship models. On the final day, the Camp Commandant declared the Sainik School, Nagrota cadets as best contingent in discipline and parade. First Officer, Ravi Singh of Model Academy, Jammu was commended for his remarkable role as the best ANO in the camp. While, the troupe of Government High School, Muthi led by First Officer, P L Dubey was adjudged best troops in the tent lay out. Cadet Sachin Sharma of the same school was declared first in Semaphore and also best JD Cadet of the Camp. Cadet Ishwant Singh of the SPMR College of Commerce was adjudged best SD Cadet. The Camp Commander had special mention about Second Officer, Mr Vijay Kumar of SRML Higher Secondary School, Jammu. He congratulated him for taking drill classes of Senior Division troops in a professional way. |
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Salil to meet Sandeep in
Men’s final in Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Sept 30: Salil Rama will take on Sandeep in the final of the Men’s singles in the ongoing District Table Tennis Championship being played, here. Earlier, in the semi-finals, Salil defeated Paramjeet in straight sets of 21-11, 21-14, while Sandeep beat Dalip in a well contested match 22-20, 20-22, 21-19. In the Junior boys group, Paramjeet and Ravinder have sailed into the final. Paramjeet defeated Dalip in the semi-finals 21-19, 21-17, while Ravinder defeated 21-14, 21-19 to qualify for the title clash. Ravinder and Randhampreet have reached the Sub-junior boys final. Ravinder defeated Saket 21-10, 21-17, while Randhampreet beat Navjot 21-17, 21-19. In the cadets final, Navjot will meet Vimal Preet. In the women’s singles, Paramjeet Kour and Jyoti Jamwal have qualified for the final. In the Men’s doubles, Salil and Sandeep will be fighting against Ravinder and Dalip for the title. Salil and Sandeep beat Ricky and Sachin 21-18, 21-11 and Ravinder and Dalip outplayed Manjeet and Saket in the second semi-final. Men’s doubles quarters: Salil and Sandeep beat JS Vir and Dr Charak 21-14, 21-18; Ravinder and Dalip beat Prince and Rinku 21-8, 21-11; Ricky and Manmeet got walkover; Manjeet and Saket beat Rohit and Sachin 21-14, 21-18. |
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12th Cluster Games ends Excelsior Sports Correspondent UDHAMPUR, Sept 30: Host Jawahar Navodya Vidyala, bagged the Handball trophy beating JNV Basohli (Kathua) in the finals of the 12th Cluster Games of Senior girls which played here today. In the Kho-Kho girls final, JNV Chamba emerged winner beating JNV Basohli, while in the Kabaddi girls final, JNV Pojewal (Punjab) defeated JNV Nud to claim the title. In all, 149 girls drawn from eight JNVs participated in the two-day competitions. Mr Naresh Gour, DIG (STC, BSF) was the chief guest, while Mr Ashok Kumar, District Youth Services and Sports Officer, Udhampur presided over the final function. Earlier, Mr R K Verma, Principal of the host school welcomed the chief guest and other distinguished invitees, who were present in the final. During the competitions, Mr Ashok Kumar, DYSSO extended full cooperation in making this tournament a success and also assured the same cooperation in the near future also. The eight participants Vidyalayas were JNV Kathua, JNV Jammu, JNV Rajouri, JNV Poonch, JNV Udhampur, JNV Chamba, JNV Pathankot and JNV Pujewal (Punjab). |
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