suspense
A.
Hochsprung-Hoffnung Eike Onnen hat am Montagvormittag bei der WM in Osaka (Japan) die erste Hürde genommen. Der Hannoveraner meisterte die für den Finaleinzug geforderten 2,29 Meter im ersten Versuch und hinterließ damit einen überzeugenden Eindruck.
B.
By Simon Turnbull in Osaka
Kelly Sotherton was a woman still on a mission at the World Championships here in Japan's second city yesterday. After securing the heptathlon bronze medal on Sunday and rounding on Lyudmila Blonska, the Ukrainian silver medallist with a doping record, the Birchfield Harrier turned her sights on critics of the Great Britain team – taking aim at John Regis, Colin Jackson and Jonathan Edwards, three GB old boys reported as having dismissed the class of 2007 as a bunch of no-hopers and never-would-bes.
The brunt of Sotherton's broadside was intended for Regis – twice a World Championship 200 metres silver medallist and still the British record holder at the distance – who said on the eve of the championships that an excess of National Lottery funding was being lavished on athletes who did not warrant it. "If you spray peanuts around, you get monkeys," he said.
"I'm fed up with ex-athletes dragging us down and saying we're crap," Sotherton retorted. "I'd like John Regis to come up to me and say, 'Well done'. We're not monkeys chasing peanuts. We're doing our best and chasing medals. He's an agent. He's chasing money. Lottery funding is performance-based and you don't get thousands. If you don't perform, it's, 'See you, goodbye'."
Kelly Sotherton was a woman still on a mission at the World Championships here in Japan's second city yesterday. After securing the heptathlon bronze medal on Sunday and rounding on Lyudmila Blonska, the Ukrainian silver medallist with a doping record, the Birchfield Harrier turned her sights on critics of the Great Britain team – taking aim at John Regis, Colin Jackson and Jonathan Edwards, three GB old boys reported as having dismissed the class of 2007 as a bunch of no-hopers and never-would-bes.
The brunt of Sotherton's broadside was intended for Regis – twice a World Championship 200 metres silver medallist and still the British record holder at the distance – who said on the eve of the championships that an excess of National Lottery funding was being lavished on athletes who did not warrant it. "If you spray peanuts around, you get monkeys," he said.
"I'm fed up with ex-athletes dragging us down and saying we're crap," Sotherton retorted. "I'd like John Regis to come up to me and say, 'Well done'. We're not monkeys chasing peanuts. We're doing our best and chasing medals. He's an agent. He's chasing money. Lottery funding is performance-based and you don't get thousands. If you don't perform, it's, 'See you, goodbye'."
C.
A hot Q round in the long jump with the survivors :
Lyudmila Kolchanova
Anju Bobby George
Tianna Madison
Bianca Kappler
Tatyana Kotova
Maurren Higa Maggi
Tatyana Lebedeva
Naide Gomes
Jana Veldáková
Brittney Reese
Viktoriya Rybalko
Keila Costa
Lyudmila Kolchanova
Anju Bobby George
Tianna Madison
Bianca Kappler
Tatyana Kotova
Maurren Higa Maggi
Tatyana Lebedeva
Naide Gomes
Jana Veldáková
Brittney Reese
Viktoriya Rybalko
Keila Costa
@ night Hammer
Five World titles! Now that’s a coaching partnership in anyone’s estimation. When Ivan Tikhon (Tsikhan) from Belarus with a world season leading mark of 83.63m successfully defended the Hammer Throw title in Osaka which he had won in Paris 2003 and Helsinki 2005 he sealed a formidable hat-trick of World titles which even upstaged his coach’s formidable World championship reputation
@ night
Evora is one of a group of Baha'i professional sportsmen competing at the top levels who have expressed their views about the influence of their faith on their participation in their sport.
Others are tennis player Miles Kasiri (United Kingdom), baseballer Khalil Greene (United States), and footballer Luke McPharlin (Australia).
Mr. Evora, 23, born in Cote D'Ivoire where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Nelson relocated to Portugal when he was five.
Others are tennis player Miles Kasiri (United Kingdom), baseballer Khalil Greene (United States), and footballer Luke McPharlin (Australia).
Mr. Evora, 23, born in Cote D'Ivoire where his parents had come to live from Cape Verde, Nelson relocated to Portugal when he was five.
A surprise winner!!!
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