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Zimbabwe team sports out of 2008 Olympic Games

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Zimbabwe will not be represented in any of the team sports at next year’s
Olympic Games after the national women’s hockey side ended the African
Zone qualifying tournament winless in Nairobi, Kenya, at the weekend, The
Herald reported on Tuesday.

The Zimbabwe women’s side found the going tough at the week-long
tournament where they only managed to score one goal and conceded 14 in
four matches against hosts Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Ghana.

The women’s Olympic Games qualifying tournament was held simultaneously
with the men’s competition in Nairobi.

Zimbabwe were not represented in the men’s qualifiers after the Hockey
Association of Zimbabwe failed to raise enough money to send a team.

The Zimbabwe women’s team were only able to travel to Nairobi after they
received some financial assistance from the Olympic Solidarity through
the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee.

The failure by the team to make the grade at the Nairobi tournament will
leave Zimbabwe without a representative side in any of the team sports
during next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

Source: Xinhua

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Zimbabwe team sports out of 2008 Olympic Games

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09:46, July 25, 2007

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Zimbabwe will not be represented in any of the team sports at next year’s
Olympic Games after the national women’s hockey side ended the African
Zone qualifying tournament winless in Nairobi, Kenya, at the weekend, The
Herald reported on Tuesday.

The Zimbabwe women’s side found the going tough at the week-long
tournament where they only managed to score one goal and conceded 14 in
four matches against hosts Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Ghana.

The women’s Olympic Games qualifying tournament was held simultaneously
with the men’s competition in Nairobi.

Zimbabwe were not represented in the men’s qualifiers after the Hockey
Association of Zimbabwe failed to raise enough money to send a team.

The Zimbabwe women’s team were only able to travel to Nairobi after they
received some financial assistance from the Olympic Solidarity through
the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee.

The failure by the team to make the grade at the Nairobi tournament will
leave Zimbabwe without a representative side in any of the team sports
during next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing.

Source: Xinhua

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F1 title race too tight a tussle to pick, tips Spaniard Alonso

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08:03, July 24, 2007

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NUERBURGRING, Germany: McLaren’s Fernando Alonso declared the Formula One
title race too close to call after slashing team mate Lewis Hamilton’s
lead to just two points on Sunday.

Spain’s double world champion was the big beneficiary of a wet and
chaotic European Grand Prix that left 22-year-old British rookie Hamilton
and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen empty handed.

Hamilton has 70 points, Alonso 68, Ferrari’s Felipe Massa 59 and
Raikkonen 52.

Alonso and Raikkonen, who started on pole position on Sunday, have now
won three races each while Hamilton and Massa have two victories apiece.

“In the next seven races I would not put any money on any driver. Anyone
can win because the races are a bit unpredictable,” said Alonso, who
celebrates his 26th birthday before the next race in Hungary.

Hamilton, who seemed to attract a season’s worth of bad luck in just one
race, said he had learnt more in one nightmare afternoon at the
Nuerburgring than from his nine successive podium finishes before that.

He pointed out also that, despite everything going wrong for him
including one of the heaviest crashes of his career in Saturday’s
qualifying, he was still in front.

“With seven races left there’s still a long way to go,” he told reporters.

“I still feel quite positive going into the next race. I’m still leading
the world championship, which I find quite amusing considering it was
such a bad weekend.”

“It just shows how hard everyone else is having to push to catch me up.”

Parisian microscope

Even if he managed to emerge still smiling, the momentum is now with his
teammate in what is an even tighter four-way battle for the crown.

That, at least, is how it looks at present. By Thursday afternoon, thanks
to events far removed from the racetrack, the situation may be different.

All eyes are now on Paris, and a hearing of the governing International
Automobile Federation (FIA)’s world motor sport council into a spying
controversy involving McLaren and Ferrari.

McLaren, who have suspended chief designer Mike Coughlan, are accused of
unauthorised possession of Ferrari technical information that was
allegedly found in the Briton’s home.

If found guilty of fraudulent conduct, the penalties could undermine
everything that Alonso, Hamilton and the team have achieved so far this
year with talk of points deductions and even race bans.

McLaren, who stretched their lead over Ferrari from 25 to 27 points, say
there is nothing on their car that can be traced to Ferrari.

But they are still being made to sweat.

“Whilst it would be wrong to say I look forward to Thursday, because I’m
not particularly looking forward to it, nevertheless I am keen to get
into the process of putting this behind us,” team boss Ron Dennis said.

“We have sent a full dossier into the FIA, and the FIA is going through a
process, and after that if there are any unanswered questions then we
will answer them.”

Source: China Daily/Agencies

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