The Barcelona club member who accused former president Sandro Rosell of tax evasion over Neymar's transfer wants his successor and the club vice-president also named in the case.
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News24.co.ke | Mieno searches for positives
AFC Leopards midfielder Humphrey Mieno believes Sunday's draw against Gor Mahia highlighted the fact the side are improving as the Kenyan Premier League season goes on.
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Doping shock for Nigerian weightlifter gold winner
The 16-year-old Amalaha provided an ‘A’ sample on July 25 which revealed traces of diuretics and masking agents.
She will have a ‘B’ sample tested at a laboratory in London on July 30.
Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper said: “We [have] issued a formal notice of disclosure to an athlete following an adverse analytical finding as a consequence of an in-competition test.
“That athlete is Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha who was tested on July 25th. That athlete has now been suspended from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.”
Amalaha snatched a best of 85kg before managing 111kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 196kg, to become the youngest Commonwealth weightlifter gold medallist.
It was the first doping case of the Glasgow Games and will likely once again call into question the legitimacy of weightlifting as a Commonwealth Games sport given its history of drug-related incidents.
Hooper though insisted that the sport had its place in multi-sport events.
“I think weightlifting is a fantastic sport and a strong Commonwealth and Olympic sport,” he said.
“I think the issue here is about showing we have a robust anti-doping programme in place. We want to send a message to anybody in any sport who would go down the route of taking any substance to enhance performance that they will be caught.”
Nigerian weightlifting also has a history of drugs offences.
The Nigerian Weightlifting Federation was suspended for repeated doping violations by the International Weightlifting Federation in 2001 and banned from competing in the following year’s Manchester Games.
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Rudisha cruises, Wasike bows out
Kenya will have her trio of two-lap runners in Wednesday’s semis as hopes of replicating the podium sweep in Delhi remain alive after Ferguson Rotich and Evans Kipkorir joined Rudisha in qualifying.
The world record holder set the fastest qualifying time of 1:46.89 to underline his favourite status in the preliminary round.
“Today was all about qualifying for the second round tomorrow,” said Rudisha, whose staggering 800m run in just shy of 101 seconds was the stand-out performance on the track at the 2012 London Olympics.
“I tried to reserve as much energy as possible,” he said, adding: “I’m very happy to be here. I only started training in March. It’s been a tough year and I know I’m going to struggle, but my focus is next year.
“That said, this is not the Diamond League, this is a championship,” the Daegu 2011 Worlds and two-time Africa champion told AFP.
Rotich, a gold medal winner at the Bahamas World Relays for Kenya in March, finished second in Heat 3 with 1:48.70 on the clock while Kipkorir finished third in the next race in 1:50.88 behind Olympics silver winner from Botswana, Nijel Amos; another medal favourite.
Boaz Lalang led cousins Richard Kiplagat and Abraham Kiplagat to the clean sweep in Delhi with the three medallist not making Glasgow.
Former national champion, Florence Wasike crashed out of the women 400m Hurdles after finishing last in her heat in 52.29.
Earlier on the track adds Agence France Presse, the men’s 110m hurdles was blown wide open when England’s defending champion Andy Turner pulled up and Jamaica’s Olympic bronze medallist Hansle Parchment was a non-starter.
Turner was off-kilter out of the blocks, clipped the first two hurdles and pulled up before stumbling into the third to bring a premature, and angry, end to his Games’ participation.
“I got too close to the first hurdle and hit the second one and that was it,” said Turner, also a world bronze medallist from Daegu in 2011.
“It was a schoolboy error. I’m gutted as I have been training well coming into the Games.”
With Parchment failing to even make it to the start line, the field has now been opened up, and Jamaica’s Andrew Riley, Barbadian 2009 world champion Ryan Brathwaite and England’s William Sharman will all fancy their chances in the final at Hampden Park later Tuesday.
Canada’s Damian Warner remained atop the decathlon as teammate and world silver medallist Brianne Thiesen-Eaton kicked off the heptathlon as massive favourite.
Warner, with an overnight score of 4378 points, raced the 110m hurdles in an impressive 13.50 seconds and managed a season’s best of 41.31m in the discus to sit on 6109pts with just the pole vault, javelin and 1500m to come.
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News24.co.ke | Sturridge ready to step up at Liverpool
Daniel Sturridge has said he is confident he has the ability to keep the Liverpool goal machine running in the new season despite the transfer of Luis Suarez to Real Madrid.
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News24.co.ke | Shaw made to train alone as not fit enough for Van Gaal
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has ordered full back Luke Shaw to train alone, saying the 19-year-old is "not very fit" and unable to meet the Dutchman's expectations.
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China puts former security chief under investigation
BEIJING, July 29 – China’s ruling Communist Party has put former security chief Zhou Yongkang – one of its most powerful men – under investigation, it said Tuesday, the most senior official to fall for decades. Zhou, who retired from China’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) in 2012, is being probed for “serious disciplinary violation”, […]
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News24.co.ke | Zaha gets a nod for United, Rafael sent home
Wilfried Zaha will start at striker in the second half of Manchester United's friendly Tuesday against Inter Milan while back Rafael da Silva has returned to England with a groin injury.
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News24.co.ke | Ronaldinho leaves Atletico Mineiro
Former world player of the year Ronaldinho has left Atletico Mineiro, the club said Monday.
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10,000 kilometres of road to be built over 3 years
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 29 – The government has announced plans to roll out construction of 10,000 kilometres of roads in various part of the country within the next three years. Infrastructure Principal Secretary John Mosonik says the government will be seeking funding from banks and other private financiers under a new annuity model and will […]
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