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Unpaid Volunteers Worth Millions to Olympic Games p15_Layout 1 10/25/14 7:53 PM Page 1 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2014 SPORTS Beale not joining Wallabies Three battle for early lead Suarez: Biting is harmless MELBOURNE: New Australia coach Michael Cheika has declined a chance ALICANTE: Three boats were vying for the 6,487-mile first leg honours in LONDON: Biting opponents may be appalling but it is harmless and should not to rush Kurtley Beale into the Wallabies squad for the season-ending tour of the Volvo Ocean Race yesterday with 30 miles separating them at the front be punished as severely as a bad tackle, says controversial Barcelona striker Luis Europe after the utility back was sanctioned for sending an offensive text of the seven-strong fleet. Suarez. The Uruguayan marksmen is set to make his long-awaited Barca debut message about a former team staffer. In global offshore sailing terms that is as tight as it gets and Briton Ian in El Clasico at Real Madrid later yesterday after completing a four-month ban Beale was fined A$45,000 ($40,000) but escaped further punishment Walker, the skipper of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, knows he cannot rest on for sinking his teeth into Italy defender Georgi Chiellini at the World Cup finals after a tribunal heard charges that he had sent ‘deeply offensive’ text mes- his laurels for a moment with a paper-thin 18-mile advantage over Dutch in Brazil. sages about Wallabies’ business manager, Di Patston, who resigned under boat, Team Brunel. It was the third time that Suarez bit an opponent, with previous incidents at stress amid the scandal. Although omitted from Cheika’s 33-man squad, Denmark’s Team Vestas Wind are closing rapidly in third spot on a more former clubs Ajax in 2010 and Liverpool in 2013 punished with seven and 10- announced upon his appointment on Wednesday, Beale walked windy, easterly course than their rivals as they head for the Southern match bans respectively. The 27-year-old said he was getting help to control his away from Friday’s code of conduct hearing with his national Ocean, just over halfway through the opening stage. “impulse” to bite but in his new book “Crossing The Line: My Story”, serialised in contract intact and free to join the tour for matches against The boats are due to complete the first leg from Alicante to Cape Town The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, he said that the offence should not Wales, France, Ireland and England, if called. around Nov. 6, depending on sailing conditions in the meantime. receive severe punishment. “After my 10-match ban in 2013 for bit- “The Australian Rugby Union today confirmed... The fleet also includes boats from China, US/Turkey, Spain and Sweden. ing (Chelsea defender) Branislav Ivanovic (for Liverpool), I had Wallabies head coach Michael Cheika has advised The latter, Team SCA, are the first team of women to enter the race in 12 questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one Kurtley Beale will not join the squad for the Spring years. They were in bottom spot but still in touch, some 120 miles off the actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration,” Suarez Tour,” the ARU said in an emailed statement. lead at 0940 GMT on Saturday. wrote. “The damage to the player is incomparable with that “From time to time there are changes to person- The race, generally reckoned to be global offshore sailing’s toughest suffered by a horrendous challenge. Sometimes English foot- nel during tours, due to injury or other matters, test, takes nine months to complete, visits 11 ports around the world and ball takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in and we will advise if there are any changes to this covers 38,739 nautical miles. It finishes in Gothenburg on June 27, 2015 Europe, but of course it will have if you can take some- position.”—Reuters having begun in Alicante on Oct. 11. —Reuters one’s leg off and still not be booked.—Reuters Unpaid volunteers worth millions to Olympic Games RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio needs 70,000 agreed to pay the IOC $7.75 billion for the unpaid volunteers for the 2016 Olympics rights to six Olympics beginning in 2022, and Paralympics, and Brazilian Olympic reflecting the value of the Olympic brand, medalist Ricardo Prado is making a pitch built partially by volunteer labor. with a deadline for signups just three The IOC also has about $1 billion in the weeks away. “Without the athletes, the bank, a reserve for emergencies. “They games can’t happen,” he says in a recruit- (volunteers) feel it is all wonderful partici- ing advertisement. “But without the vol- pating, when in fact the wonderfulness is unteers, it’s the same.” of their own creation,” said Chalip, who The International Olympic Committee studies sports policy at the University of promotes volunteers as the spirit of the Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “They feel games, recalling a time when athletes like it’s a gift, when it’s actually something were unpaid amateurs. They do thou- they are giving.” Chalip said working sands of jobs - greet fans, escort athletes “backstage” motivated volunteers, offer- and give directions around town - and ing a glimpse of what most see from afar. many deliver specialized services. They’re “Some who had worked their allotted the smiling faces of the host nation, often hours in Sydney were angry they couldn’t praised at the opening and closing cere- keep working,” he said. Dr. Arin Saha, a monies by monarchs, presidents and surgeon who volunteered at the 2012 prime ministers. They also save organizers London Olympics, termed his service at least $100 million in salaries - and pos- “unforgettable.” “I found the experience of sibly more. volunteering fantastic and would have “There is a question to be asked: Is the been one that I would happily have paid exchange really even, or is it unequal?” for,” he said in an email. said Laurence Chalip, who conducted a Every recent Olympic host has a differ- study for the IOC on volunteers at the ent challenge finding volunteers. Britain 2000 Sydney Olympics. and Australia had engrained cultures of Volunteers are not only unpaid, but volunteering. Greece and China did not. ANAHEIM: Hampus Lindholm No. 47 of the Anaheim Ducks knocks the puck out of trouble with his glove in the final minute. —AFP they pay their own lodging and trans- Brazil is more like China or Greece. The portation to the host city. They get trans- country lacks a volunteer-philanthropic portation to venues and meals only on tradition, partially because of its stark the days they work, some training and economic inequality. This means the poor Ducks thrash Blue Jackets uniforms to treasure. Chalip calculated can’t afford to work for free. That narrows their value in Sydney at $60 million, and the pool, leaving the better-off to work that was for only 40,000 volunteers. A without pay. Flavia Fontes, Rio volunteer ANAHEIM: Corey Perry and defenseman Sami record for shootout losses to 18 straight. who have rebounded from a difficult start to the Vatanen scored power-play goals in the first Kari Lehtonen had 25 saves for Dallas. It didn’t season. Ben Scrivens finished with 30 saves. very conservative estimate suggests it manager, said she was recruiting from the period as the Anaheim Ducks beat the appear as if he had to stop any in the shootout, Riley Nash, Jeff Skinner and Jay Harrison had would cost at least $100 million to pay city’s slums (favelas), hoping to give the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Friday for their with Mike Cammalleri’s shot going over the net Carolina’s goals. The Hurricanes are the only win- Rio’s 70,000 volunteers a minimum wage poor a chance. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes seventh consecutive victory. on the first attempt and Jaromir Jagr losing con- less team in the NHL, off to a franchise-worst 0- to work two weeks at the games. Many said months ago the poor would be giv- John Gibson, starting in net for the first time trol of the puck on the second. 5-2 start. Edmonton grabbed control with four will work much more. Anything above en “subsidies” for Olympic tickets. Surveys since losing 6-4 in his hometown of Pittsburgh Spezza scored after Cammalleri missed with a goals in the third. the minimum wage and the bill doubles show they were priced out of this year’s on opening night, faced just 17 shots as the two- dancing backhander in front. Benn beat Cory or triples. It would rise further if highly World Cup. time defending Pacific Division champions Schneider skating across the crease from right to LIGHTNING 4, JETS 2 skilled volunteers, such as doctors and “We really want to have a mix,” Fontes improved to 7-1. Last season, the Ducks also left. Benn scored for the fifth straight game and Jonathan Drouin, Vladislav Namestnikov and other medical professionals, were paid told The Associated Press. “We don’t really won seven straight after a season-opening loss Patrick Eaves got Dallas’ other goal in regulation. Ondrej Palat scored in the second period, lead- normal wages. Rio plans to use about want it just to be the whites. We really at Colorado. Eric Gelinas and Damien Brunner scored for New ing the Lightning to the win. Ben Bishop made 1,000 medical volunteers. want it to be a mix of what Brazil is all Scott Hartnell had a power-play goal for the Jersey, which has lost four in a row.
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