The News Review:
- Africa: Snapshot – China’s Verbal Acrobatics On Sports And…
- Ironman winner presents anti-doping program described as model for…
- KPS Gill hits back at Sports Minister
- Balance beam propels Georgia to fourth straight title – College Sports…
- Terps look to continue surprising season in ACC tournament – College…
Africa: Snapshot – China’s Verbal Acrobatics On Sports And…
AllAfrica.com – Apr 25, 2008
It would seem that the Olympic Games hardly come and go without some controversy or scandal to mark the event, but very few have mobilised world attention such as that of 1934 in Berlin during which the founder of Nazi Germany, arch anti-Semitist, Adolf Hitler, who had turned racism into a national religion, refused to shake hands with African-American sprint gold medallist, Jesse Owen. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);Prior to the current Beijing controversy, the 1980 Moscow Olympics was mired by an unprecedented highly vocal campaign for boycott that was championed by the US and some of its allies. The Soviet Union, before Glasnost and Perestroika, was the evil empire which had instituted hundreds of subhuman concentration camps for political prisoners, the gulags, and was intolerant of divergent opinion. Because of its despicable human rights record, the US even dispatched a rather reluctant messenger to Africa, the one and only Mohammed Ali, to campaign for a boycott of the Olympic Games.
Ironman winner presents anti-doping program described as model for…
International Herald Tribune – Apr 25, 2008
“As long as they (sponsors) are only concerned about television exposure and minutes, nothing will change. ” Germany's national anti-doping agency NADA helped develop the program in which both blood and urine samples will be stored and can be analyzed by new testing methods developed later. “This is the most comprehensive anti-doping concept in elite sports,” said NADA business manager Christoph Niessen. “The team will have maximum transparency and it sets the standards for others, including international standards. ” Today in Sports.
KPS Gill hits back at Sports Minister
Hindu – Apr 25, 2008
In a scathing counter-attack, a defiant Gill said that there was no question of stepping down from his post in the wake of the bribe scandal and bluntly told the Sports Minister not to talk about accountability since he knew nothing about sports. “Let younger people first become sports ministers before such suggestions are given. I don’t think age has anything to do with managing sports,” KPS Gill said. “Let not sports ministers talk of accountability or responsibility.
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Balance beam propels Georgia to fourth straight title – College Sports…
ESPN – Apr 25, 2008
– Suzanne Yoculan has one year left to aim for a perfect 10th NCAA championship. Yoculan’s Georgia team capped its fourth straight NCAA women’s gymnastics title with one of its strongest balance beam performances Friday night. The championship was Georgia’s ninth in 25 years under Yoculan, who has said she will retire after the 2009 season. 375 on the beam matched its third-highest score on the apparatus in an NCAA championship.
Terps look to continue surprising season in ACC tournament – College…
ESPN – Apr 25, 2008
Duke used the tournament as a springboard to national prominence in 1995 and won titles in 2000, 2001 and 2007. The Blue Devils are tied with Virginia for the second most tournament titles (four), and will be playing for their second consecutive ACC championship this weekend. The schools are fierce competitors in many sports and share proud academic legacies. It would be fair to say that aside from the NCAA tournament, no other lacrosse event offers more playoff quality competition and intense traditional rivalry matchups, than the ACC tournament.
