AIBA Denies Bid to Take Over the Sport
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TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016 SPORTS All Blacks coach Hansen signs on for 2019 World Cup WELLINGTON: All Blacks coach Steve was due to expire next year, when the Blacks chasing three World Cups in a 2011 after serving as assistant coach sion gave NZR time to look for a long- Hansen yesterday re-signed with the British and Irish Lions tour New Zealand. row. “I love what the All Blacks are, the under Graham Henry for eight years, term successor to Hansen, ideally one New Zealanders until 2019, giving him He said the recent 3-0 Test series win history that comes with them and the including the All Blacks World Cup victo- who would work under him at the 2019 the chance to defend the World Cup in over Wales had confirmed he still had legacy that they’ve created. I’m really ry on home soil in 2011. World Cup. Japan. Hansen has already been the passion for the job and he decided grateful and love being part of it.” During He signed a contract extension in “We’ve got an opportunity now lead- involved in two World Cup wins with the to continue after discussions with his Hansen’s tenure as All Blacks head coach, 2014 and repaid NZR’s faith in him last ing through to 2020 to make sure that All Blacks, as assistant coach in 2011 and family. Hansen added that support from they have won 52 Tests, drawn two and year by guiding the All Blacks to their we do a really good job around succes- head coach in 2015, overseeing a spell of the players and management for him to lost just three, giving him a winning per- first World Cup title outside New sion planning,” he said. unprecedented success. stay in the job was unanimous. centage of 92.1 percent. “We’ll need to Zealand. Hansen, a former policeman “You can see with what’s going on in “It’s good news for everyone involved “Once I got over those discussions it be better if we want to continue to who played in the South Island rugby Super Rugby and with some of our Kiwi in rugby in this country,” New Zealand was a real no-brainer because it’s the improve as a team... we’re capable of stronghold of Canterbury, also coached coaches around the world that we’ve got Rugby chief executive Steve Tew told best job going,” he said, adding that he doing that,” he said. Wales to the quarter-finals of the 2003 some very, very good New Zealand reporters. Hansen’s existing contract was relishing the prospect of the All The 57-year-old was appointed in late World Cup. Tew said the contract exten- coaches.” — AFP England’s World Cup hopes boosted by deal with clubs LONDON: England’s hopes of dominating players instead of 33 for the England Elite world rugby under Eddie Jones were given Player Squad (EPS), with up to 36 players a boost yesterday with a new eight-year able to be selected for training camps. agreement between the Rugby Football Jones will also be able to select his Union (RFU) and Premiership Rugby squads later than before. The additional Limited (PRL). training camps will take place in early English clubs will take £2million ($2.6m, October ahead of the autumn internation- 2.4m euros) per year-double the amount als and in January during the build-up to compared to the previous eight-year the Six Nations. agreement-from the £200million sum The clubs will also rest players from the agreed between the two parties. England squad who play above a certain In return, England coach Jones will gain amount of minutes in the November Tests greater access to players, who will also be and during the Six Nations. rested more often by their club teams. Mark McCafferty, the chief executive of “This is a true partnership focussed on PRL, said Jones-who guided Australia to the making English rugby the best in the world 2003 World Cup final when they lost to for club and country,” said RFU chief execu- England-had explained his case very clear- tive Ian Ritchie. ly. “Eddie has come to meet with our board Ritchie, who had to put off the two-year- on a couple of occasions to explain his view old talks when he had to deal with of the English game and where he was England’s first-round exit from last year’s hoping to take it,” said McCafferty. World Cup, said Jones had highlighted “One of the things he explained very areas he felt he needed to be strength- clearly having worked all over the world ened. “We feel we’ve got the balance right was that we have the best set-up in the and Eddie is very happy with the access it world in terms of facilities, back-up and gives him to players,” said Ritchie. support. “But he also explained his frustra- Jones, who led England to a historic 3-0 tion that because of that, and with the series whitewash of World Cup finalists player base we have, that we need to be Australia after also winning the Six Nations more successful at club and international Grand Slam, will now be able to select 45 level.” — AFP SHANGHAI: (L to R) Xia Xiaoyan, Managing Director of YunFeng Capital, Ching Kuo-Wu, AIBA President and Zhang Dazhong, CEO of Alisports, pose for photos during a press conference between AIBA (International Boxing Association) and Alisports (Alibaba Sports Group) in Shanghai yesterday. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) denied accusations it intends to take over the sport, following a controversial decision Bitter London lesson drives to allow professional boxers fight at next month’s Rio Olympics. — AFP Yadav on path to Rio Games NEW DELHI: Vikas Krishan Yadav has pared to deal with any such heartbreak.” learned from the bitterest experience He is, though, determined to ensure he AIBA denies bid to that he can leave nothing to chance in does not have to deal with anything simi- the Olympic ring and it is a lesson the lar in Rio. “I have an unfinished business in Indian boxer will carry with him to the the Olympics,” he said. “My dreams were Rio Games. shattered in London. I want to fulfill them take over the sport Four years ago, the then 20-year-old in Rio.” welterweight thought he had clinched a place in the quarter-finals of the London ON COMPETITION MODE SHANGHAI: The International Boxing Olympic tournament after beating Yadav secured his Rio spot only at the Association (AIBA) yesterday denied accusa- American Errol Spence 13-11. end of last month at an Olympic qualifier tions it is trying to take over the sport, follow- Paddler Florence accepts Rio His joy turned quickly to outrage in Baku, where he settled for bronze after ing a controversial decision to let professional when amateur boxing’s governing body a cut he sustained rendered him med- boxers fight at the Rio Olympics. mission to win double gold AIBA, after reviewing video footage, ically unfit for his semi-final bout. At an AIBA congress in Lausanne in overturned the result and awarded the “I qualified for London eight months Switzerland last month, 95 percent of dele- American four additional points for fouls before the Games and probably got a bit LONDON: British canoe slalomist David current and the clock. In London he was a gates voted to allow professional boxers for Florence never got to blast off into space but medal favourite in C1 but did not even make committed by Yadav. India subsequently too casual,” said the boxer who is sup- the first time ever to enter the competition. the 33-year-old Scot will try to go where no the final. took the case to the Court of Arbitration ported, among others, by JSW Sports. The decision was met with widespread Olympic paddler has gone before by winning So would he be applying his mathematical for Sport (CAS), which rejected the “This time I could not qualify from derision in the boxing world, with many mak- the C1 and C2 gold medals at the Rio Games. brain to the task awaiting him in Rio? appeal. (last year’s) world championship, so the ing their views clear even before the change Had things gone to plan for the mathematics “I don’t apply much science to it,” he said. Yadav has since moved up to the 75kg pressure was building. It helps in a way, was made. AIBA president Wu Ching-Kuo said and physics graduate it could have been “There is not much point when every gate is category, but the feeling of being for I’m now in competition mode and I’m the organisation had no plans to take over Florence rather than Tim Peake who became different and the water changes all the time, wronged in London has never left him. not going to relax.” the sport and allowing professionals to com- the first Briton to walk in space this year. it’s more about using your subjective experi- “London taught me a big lesson,” the For Yadav, who claimed the light- pete in Olympic boxing was a great step for- Instead he stayed on terra firma, or to be ence.” The British team will be one of the best softly-spoken boxer told Reuters in an weight gold at the 2010 Asian Games ward for it. The official, who is Taiwanese, more precise, on white water, establishing prepared in Rio having been to the venue interview, sporting a mosaic of bruises and the middleweight bronze in the next made the comments at a press conference to himself as one of the world’s top paddlers.