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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016 SPORTS Bolt to run in London Evans rape appeal Klitschko hopes to box Olympic Stadium verdict due in April for Olympic gold in Rio LONDON: Usain Bolt will prepare for the Rio de Janeiro LONDON: The outcome of British footballer Ched Evans’s appeal against his conviction for raping a 19-year-old BERLIN: Former world heavyweight champion Wladimir Olympics by returning to the site of the last games Klitschko hopes to box for a second Olympic gold in Rio for the London Diamond League meet. The woman is due to be announced in April, said judges at London’s Court of Appeal on Wednesday after a two-day de Janeiro, if the timing of his rematch against Tyson Jamaican will compete in July’s Anniversary hearing. The former Wales striker was released from prison Fury allows. Hamburg-based Klitschko turns 40 on Games, four years after winning three Olympic in October 2014 after serving half of a five-year sentence Friday and would relish the chance to box for more gold medals in the Olympic Stadium in the 100, for raping the woman in a hotel room in Rhyl, north Wales Olympic medals having won the Super heavyweight 200 and 4x100-meter relay races. Organizers say in May 2011. His case was referred to the Court of Appeal gold for Ukraine at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Professional Bolt will appear on July 22, but didn’t specific in by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which boxers are set to be eligible to compete at the Rio which races. In a statement, Bolt says it’s “one of my investigates possible miscarriages of justice in England, Olympic Games this August under radical pro- last races before the Olympic Games in Rio. It will be Wales and Northern Ireland. The CCRC announced last posals being pushed through by the world gov- good to return to the Olympic Stadium on October that it had unearthed new evidence that could erning body, AIBA, and set to be voted on in the Friday night and get more of the have supported Evans’s defence. This week’s hearing saw June. But Klitschko, who has won 64 of his 68 Court of Appeal judges consider the safety of his convic- bouts since turning professional in 1996, says special atmosphere that the fans always tion, but details of the legal argument cannot be reported his priority is to win back the WBA, WBO, IBO produce.” The stadium is being redevel- under English law. However, it can be reported that, if and IBF belts he lost on points to Britain’s oped to accommodate Premier League Evans wins his appeal, the prosecution will seek a retrial. Fury in Duesseldorf last November. A date for club West Ham from August while Evans was present in court for both days of the hearing, their rematch has yet to be confirmed.—AFP retaining athletics facilities. —AP with girlfriend Natasha Massey by his side.—AFP Prototype headband to track athletes suffering concussion SYDNEY: A prototype headband to record fit to remain on the field after a big tackle or ly harmless contact, he said, as the device has record the smaller knocks that can have a ing more about repeated concussions could brain trauma is being designed in Australia, head clash is a subjective matter debated on LED lights to indicate the severity of an cumulative impact. help prevent damaging injuries at every level researchers said yesterday, as sports such as the sidelines. “That’s at the elite level but at impact. “It’s not necessarily the one or two big hits of the game. football and rugby around the world grapple the non-elite level... there’s no one there to “So the idea is that for weekend warriors if but it’s those constant, repetitive knocks to the Rugby union star Israel Folau, who with how to manage knocks to the head. really assess them properly,” Pearce, from the they get a head knock they can actually take head that don’t actually cause any symptoms switched to the sport following stints as a rug- The experimental brainBAND technology Swinburne University of Technology, told AFP. that data... to the hospital and the emergency that are leading to the long-term problems by league and Australian Rules football player, has sensors to record the impact on players of “Using the device can notify in real time physician has some objective data to make a that a lot of the players are having,” he said. said he believed he had been lucky to avoid hits on the field. It aims to transmit that data in that a player has had a head knock so we have more accurate diagnosis,” he said. Pearce, who worked with industrial design- concussion so far in his career. But he told real time to medics, coaches and referees. an objective measure for them to come off the The headband prototype, which has been er Braden Wilson and Samsung on the device, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph that “raising aware- Neuroscientist Alan Pearce said currently field.” The headband could also alert medics to tested in Australia by amateur rugby union said much more testing needed to be done. ness about the subject of concussion in sport the question of whether a player is considered trauma sustained from a glancing or seeming- players to fine tune its design, could also But he said the hope was that understand- is only ever a good thing”. —AFP Australian boxer Browne ‘devastated’ by positive test SYDNEY: Australian boxer Lucas “Big VADA, which provides anti-doping pro- Daddy” Browne protested his innocence grammes for boxing and mixed martial and said he was “devastated” yesterday arts, has said that Browne will have to pay after failing doping test in wake of his vic- for his “B” sample to be tested. tory in a world title fight two weeks ago. Browne said he was seeking legal The 36-year-old former bouncer won advice. the “regular” version of the World Boxing “I wouldn’t be able to live with myself Association (WBA) heavyweight title when deep down if I knew that I had cheated and he knocked out Russian Ruslan Chagaev in tried to get away with it, sort of thing. I Chechnya on March 5. know I’m innocent and that’s all that mat- A letter from the Las Vegas-based ters,” he added. Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) Trumpeted in the Australian media as confirming that Browne’s “A” sample had the country’s first heavyweight world contained traces of Clenbuterol was leaked champion, Browne would have been hop- to ESPN on Tuesday, however. ing that his victory over Chagaev would “I would like to assure all my fans, the have earned him a fight against Briton whole of the boxing world and all of Tyson Fury or Luis Ortiz. Australia that I’m not a drug user or a drug Fury is considered the WBA world cham- cheat,” Browne (24-0-0) told reporters in pion as he also holds the World Boxing Perth on Wednesday. Organisation (WBO) title, while Cuban Ortiz “The news of this positive test has holds the “interim” WBA world heavyweight shocked and devastated me and I’ll be title. fighting for as long as it takes to clear my The WBA, which will change the result of name.” the Browne-Chagaev fight to a “no-deci- Clenbuterol is a performance-enhanc- sion” if Browne’s “B” sample confirms the ing substance sometimes found in weight- positive test, said their tournament involv- loss pills that is on the World Anti-Doping ing the three fighters to “recognise one Agency (WADA) banned list. world champion” was “on hold”. — Reuters Hield’s 36 points lead Oklahoma past VCU 85-81 OKLAHOMA CITY: Buddy Hield let points and Michael Gilmore matched a career Egypt’s El Shorbagy starts Oklahoma’s fans witness one last vintage hot high with 12 for VCU (25-11), which was try- streak. Playing at Chesapeake Energy Arena, ing to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time just a half-hour drive from campus, the senior since its Final Four run in 2011. guard scored 19 of his 36 points in the final “It was a win-win situation. Everyone pret- British Open title defence eight minutes to help the second-seeded ty much counted us out, so our backs were Sooners hold off No. 10 seed VCU 85-81 against the wall, and when your back is Sunday in the second round of the NCAA against the wall, all you’ve got to do is fight,” KINGSTON: Mohamed El Shorbagy admits he failure to get past the third round of the World Swedish Open title last month, overcame his Tournament. Johnson said. Hield scored seven points on 2- got exactly what he didn’t want to begin the Championships at Washington in November. compatriot Omar Mosaad, the fourth seed, in Hield, the nation’s No. 2 scorer, posted at for-8 shooting in the first half, sitting the last defence of his British Open title, but managed to “When I got to world number one I placed a four games. least 30 points for the 11th time this season. four-plus minutes with two fouls. Lewis handle the discomfort anyway. lot of pressure on myself and I didn’t enjoy it at Mosaad failed to capitalise on leads of 7-5 As he stood at the free-throw line late in the scored 13 points in the first half to keep the The world number one from Egypt’s well-tak- all,” he admitted.

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