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SPORTS Fengtai District, Beijing 100055, China 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 20, 2007 Woolmer death shocks cricket Chinese get gold Pakistan coach on surreal night DIVING “It’s unusual that they dies day after made two mistakes in the His job coaching there has MELBOURNE: China scored fi nal competition. Their dive team’s surprise been incredibly stressful. dominating victories in the is a bit harder compared to men’s 3-meter and women’s ours, maybe they felt pres- GILL WOOLMER World Cup exit 10-meter synchronized diving sure and made a big mistake Wife of Bob Woolmer fi nals at the world champion- like that.’’ BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Trag- ships at Albert Park yesterday. edy struck the World Cup on Wang Feng and Qin Kai won Strange events Sunday when Pakistan coach the men’s gold medal by 39.84 Russians Aleksandr Do- Bob Woolmer died in a Jamaican points, giving Wang his second broskok and Gleb Galperin led hospital at the age of 58 after he consecutive synchro springboard through the fi rst three rounds was found unconscious in his title. He won two years ago in before things got weird. hotel room. Montreal with He Chong. First, a bank of lights above Woolmer, a classical batsman Jia Tong and Chen Ruolin the boards went dark as brothers who played 19 tests for England earned the women’s gold by Nicola and Tommaso Marconi during the late 1970s and early 37.32 points, with Jia repeating of Italy were preparing to dive, 1980s, pursued a successful the title she shared in Montreal forcing a 25-minute delay. coaching career with South with Yuan Peilin. Then, Dobroskok failed to Africa and Pakistan. Jia and Chen earned three complete two dives, earning He was regarded as one of the perfect scores of 10.0 for syn- zeros and dropping the Rus- most innovative thinkers in the chronization on their opening sians into last place, where game but was expected to part dives of the fi ve-round fi nal. they stayed until the end. company with Pakistan after They totaled 361.32 points “I’ve never seen that before. It the World Cup fi nal on April forcing Australians Briony looked like some kind of break- 28 even before his team’s shock Cole and Melissa Wu to settle down,’’ Despatie said. “It shows loss to Ireland on Saturday. for the silver with 324.00. An- anything can happen.’’ “The first time I knew of nett Gamm and Nora Subschin- “The lights went out in Bob’s illness was when our ski of Germany took the bronze practice this week and they assistant manager rang me with 306.63. said it was going to be fi xed,’’ Sunday morning and said Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer puts his team through their paces during a training session near Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago In the men’s fi nal, Wang and Despatie said. the coach is not feeling well in this March 8 fi le photo. Woolmer died in hospital on Sunday after being found unconscious in his hotel room. Reuters Qin totaled 458.76 points and Dobroskok and Galperin and maybe he is upset,” said benefited from two dramatic went into a reverse 3 somer- a shattered Pakistan captain scribed yesterday the “incred- batsman suffered from diabetes generally coped with the stress chairman Naseem Ashraf errors by the Russians. sault. But Dobroskok bounced Inzamam-ul-Haq, who later ible stress” that her husband and had recently experienced of the job well. said Bob Woolmer’s death Alexandre Despatie and Ar- once, stopped and looked over announced he was retiring had been under as coach of breathing diffi culties. “Like any coach he was never was a “a loss for the cricket- turo Miranda of Canada took at Galperin, who completed from the one-day game. Pakistan. happy to lose a game,” Rajah ing world.’’ the silver with 418.92. Germa- the dive worth a 3.5 degree of “When I went to see him he Speaking to Britain’s Daily Stressful job told reporters. “But he knew “He was a thorough gentle- ny’s Tobias Schellenberg and diffi culty. was lying on the fl oor and it was Mirror, the ex-Warwickshire His death highlighted once how to manage the process of man who instilled team Andreas Wels finished third Aware of the costly mistake, shocking for me. coach’s wife, Gill, revealed the again the huge pressures defeat or adversity. spirit in the team,’’ Ashraf with 414.54. the duo climbed out of the water “I will never forget him. He pressures placed on her hus- associated with top-level “Whenever things weren’t told Pakistani private chan- Wang and Qin were the lead- and went their separate ways was a very good coach and a band as coach of the cricket- sport. going well he would be quite nel Geo Television. “He was a ing men’s qualifiers but they without saying a word. super human being.” mad Pakistan. Television pictures at the composed. He would sit and very popular personality in our immediately fell to fi fth place The same thing happened Woolmer’s death overshad- “His job coaching there has end of Pakistan’s shock defeat talk through things. He didn’t cricket team.’’ after their opening dives, even- again on their sixth and fi nal owed a second tumultuous day been incredibly stressful,” she by Ireland on Saturday showed believe in doing things by half “He was a great cricket man. tually moving up to fourth and dive. Dobroskok bounced once, at the tournament after Ireland said. a visibly upset Woolmer slam- measures, and he was disap- His life was devoted to cricket. then second before gaining the then nearly fell off the side beat Pakistan and Bangladesh No offi cial cause of death has ming shut his laptop and stuff- pointed by the defeat. He played, coached and com- lead for good when the Russians of the board before grabbing upset India on Saturday, al- yet been given, with Pakistan’s ing objects into a bag before “But I would have thought mentated on the game all of stunningly earned zeros twice. the railing to steady himself. though the results were predict- media manager Pervez Mir say- storming out of the room. that he would have come out his life,’’ said International “Under normal circumstances, Galperin went through with able with Australia and England ing: “We are waiting for medical South Africa team manager of it quite strongly in a few Cricket Council chief execu- the Russians may have won this his dive, and the pair earned beating the Netherlands and reports.” Goolam Rajah, however, said days time, he was that type tive Malcolm Speed. competition because they per- more zeros. Canada respectively. But according to reports that Woolmer, with whom he of man.” formed pretty well in the fi rst and Bob Woolmer’s wife de- yesterday, the former England worked closely for many years, Pakistan Cricket Board Agencies and AFP second rounds,’’ Wang said. Agencies.
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