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Tel: 86-10-63373598 Fax: 86-10-63373599 www.chinaitc.com.cn www.chinaitc.cn F9, 10, 11, Genertec Plaza, No. 90, Xisanhuan Zhonglu SPORTS Fengtai District, Beijing 100055, China 24 TUESDAY MARCH 27, 2007 INBRIEF TENNIS Hansen edges out archrival Kitajima Murray eyes top 10 MIAM: With a repeat title in 2:10.13 with Kirsty Coventry and a fi nal this season, Briton Lenton storms 100m butterfl y; of Zimbabwe second and Aussie Andy Murray believes he is Stephanie Rice third. on the cusp of a top 10 place China claim 9 of 10 diving golds Dutch star Pieter van den as he advances at the Sony Hoogenband came close to Ericsson Open. MELBOURNE: Brendan Han- big races are.” cracking Ian Thorpe’s 200m The 19-year-old, who retained sen won his battle with frus- An irked Kitajima said he freestyle world record, below San Jose crown last month, trated rival Kosuke Kitajima expected to win and had un- the pace for the fi rst 100m in reached the fourth round in yesterday to take the 100m derestimated the American. his semi-fi nal before fading. Miami on Sunday, beating breaststroke world title as “I am really frustrated to lose. He still finished fastest, American Robert Kendrick Libby Lenton stormed from I can’t beat him, I was supposed ahead of Michael Phelps in 6-3, 6-1. behind to sneak the 100m but- to win,” he said. “I knew how second. South Korea’s Park “My game’s been going pretty terfl y gold. different Hansen was from Tae-Hwan, who won the 400m well this year, so whatever Popular South African Roland me, but I didn’t know he good freestyle title on Sunday, quali- I’m doing on court I’d like Schoeman touched fi rst in a fast he was.” fi ed fi fth. to think is more my tennis,” and furious 50m butterfl y fi nal to Lenton, a former 100m free- “I think I am in good shape. he told reporters. “I’d say again deny America’s Ian Crocker style world record holder, was Michael Phelps is also very I’m pretty close (to a break- while Katie Hoff swam the fourth a surprise winner of the 100m good, and we have Park and through).” fastest time ever to win the 200m butterfly, outkicking defend- some other guys, so it will be Murray’s victims this season individual medley. ing champion and teammate an exciting fi nal on Tuesday,” include Top 10 threats Tommy American world record hold- Jessicah Schipper in a new said the Dutchman. Haas, Nikolay Davydenko and er Hansen, beaten by Kitajima championship record time of China, meanwhile, grabbed Andy Roddick. at the Athens Olympics, was a 57.15 seconds. the final two diving titles for “The ones I haven’t beaten stroke ahead at the 50m turn Schipper took silver in 57.24 a big confidence booster in (Rafael Nadal, Ivan Ljubicic and out-touched the Japanese and versatile American Natalie their hunt for all eight gold and rival Novak Djokovic) star to become the most suc- Coughlin was third in 57.34, a at the Beijing Olympics next I’ve lost close matches to. cessful breaststroke swimmer new American record. year. “I’m close to the top 10. I’m in championship history. “It’s an unbelievable feeling Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia 12th in the world, so I guess He has now won four gold, I have. I think things have re- won China its fourth consecu- I’m getting close to it.” one silver and one bronze. ally changed for me tonight. tive 3m synchronized spring- Both men went under one You cannot ask for a better start board gold while Lin Yue and SOCCER minute with Hansen clocking from me,” said Lenton, who has Huo Liang took the men’s 59.80 seconds and Kitajima been working on her kick with synchronised 10m platform Romario nets goal number 59.96secs. Brenton Rickard took coach Stephan Widmer. crown. 999 in Vasco win the bronze in 1:00.58 to become Schoeman successfully It gave the powerhouse nation RIO DE JANEIRO: Former the fi rst Australian to ever win defended his butterfly title nine out of 10 diving gold here Brazil striker Romario took a medal in the event. in 23.18 seconds, to give his and made Guo the most suc- his self-declared career tally “I put a lot of effort this year country their first medal of cessful diver in world champi- to 999 goals on Sunday, scor- into this race,” said Hansen, the meet ahead of Crocker onships history with eight gold ing the third goal in Vasco da who took the world mark off and Denmark’s Jakob Schiott and one silver. Gama’s 3-0 win over arch-ri- Kitajima at the 2003 Barce- Andkjaer. Guo said China’s team was vals Flamengo. lona world championships and “That was one breath, I’m a still young and had more to Romario, performing on his shaved the record again last little out of breath now but there offer. favourite stage at the Mara- year to 59.13sec. were no tactics,” he said. “The “Overall China are young div- cana stadium, scored Vas- “I was relying on my experi- sky is the limit at this point in ers with a very high standard. co’s third goal in the 79th ence from the past. I knew I had time.” Even though they’re young they minute and was agonisingly to swim my own race and that’s They were under world have enough ability to compete close to reaching the 1,000 what I did. record pace for 150m of the on the world platform,” she milestone eight minutes US swimmer Brendan Hansen powers to win the men’s 100m breaststroke fi nal yesterday in “This is a good thing but women’s 200m individual med- said. later. Melbourne at the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships. Hansen won the gold medal it’s just motivation for the ley but tiredness scuppered a The 41-year-old was left with ahead of Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima and Australian swimmer Brenton Rickard. AFP Olympics – that’s where the new mark as Hoff came home AFP only Bruno to beat from close range but the Flamengo goal- keeper managed to save the shot with his foot. Vasco’s next game is against Bangladesh Americano in their own and We have nothing to hide, insists China’s swim coach more modest Sao Januario stadium on Wednesday and SWIMMING from the sport in China. became angry with persistent win knocks Romario said he would ask “There are no doping prob- We learned from questions about China’s dop- club president Eurico Miranda MELBOURNE: Head coach lems now. China takes this America and ing record, and particularly India out of to transfer the game to the Zhang Yadong has hit back at problem seriously. If you have former head coach Zhou Ming, Maracana. rumors that China is secretly a doping problem you will be European countries, who oversaw the worst period of World Cup training 50 swimmers to un- prohibited permanently in especially Germany. China’s doping history. Arsenal have fl opped this leash on the Beijing Olympics, China,” he said. Zhou was banned for eight CRICKET season, says Fabregas and insisted doping was no Speculation about a secret We learned both years after the 1998 scandal LONDON: English Premier- longer a problem. training camp resurfaced last ways, the positive but has since reappeared as a PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: ship giants Arsenal’s season He appealed for the inter- week when Australian coach and the negative coach in China. India were knocked out of the has been a failure their stylish national community to give Ken Wood said he suspected Zhang said China developed World Cup on Sunday after young Spanish midfi elder Cesc his swimmers a fair go as he China was grooming a group of ways. a drugs problem in the 1980s Bangladesh beat debutants Ber- Fabregas claimed on Sunday. attempted to halt persistent swimmers no-one knew about because it “learned from muda in a fi nal Group B match The 19-year-old told the News speculation that China was not so they could blitz the medals ZHANG YADONG America and European coun- to reach the Super Eights. of the World that fi nishing being transparent. at the Olympics. tries, especially Germany. We India, the 1983 champions the season without a trophy “I have read about a secret But he stopped short of Head coach of China’s swimming learned both ways, the positive and finalists four years ago, was sad and the past few training camp where children suggesting the Chinese were team and the negative ways.” were condemned to their earli- weeks had been really hard are treated inhumanely (to evading drug testers by not But he said it was in the past est exit since 1992 when Ban- after seeing themselves prepare for the Beijing Olym- sending them to the world and China was now a clean gladesh clinched a seven-wicket knocked out of the Champi- pics),” Zhang told yesterday’s championships. Schubert, meanwhile, made China won only one swimming country. win in the rain-marred match at ons League, FA Cup and los- The Australian newspaper. “When they identifi ed those clear last week that sport gold at the Atlanta Olympics “The reports always say Queen’s Park Oval. ing in the League Cup fi nal to “That’s a joke, it’s not true, 100 swimmers 18 months ago, would not tolerate a repeat of two years later.