Section:GDN PS PaGe:10 Edition Date:080602 Edition:01 Zone: Sent at 1/6/2008 20:06 cYanmaGentaYellowblack 10 The Guardian | Monday June 2 2008 The Guardian | Monday June 2 2008 11 Cricket Athletics Speed kings How the m world mark has fallen Ankle trouble Slogger gives Ennis A sideways glance at cricket a headache Doctor’s diagnosis Comeback corner sec 1Armin 0Hary (West. Germany)0 for Beijing Flintoff on the phone If Chris Lewis can do it... June 21, 1960 Flintoff Yeah hello, is that NHS direct? Sir Jack Hobbs, Surrey Michael Phillips Götzis Nurse Yes it is. How can I help you The hordes sitting around for a today? fortnight waiting for a twinkle-toed Flintoff I’ve got a number of ailments veteran to score his hundredth Jessica Ennis left this small Austrian but by far the worst is that every time hundred has been good for the brown town at 4am yesterday to head back to I drink a mug of tea I get this terrible caps’ coff ers, but they could do with 9Jim Hines. (US)95 Britain in search of answers to the ankle stabbing pain in my eye the scoring feats of a man who passed Oct 14, 1968 injury which has disrupted her plans for Nurse Righto. Have you tried taking that landmark and went the Olympic Games. Ennis was forced the spoon out? on to raise his bat 97 to withdraw from the heptathlon at the Flintoff I’ll give it a go. The real more times. IAAF Challenge Hypo-Meeting after the reason I’m calling you is that I get this fi rst day, having aggravated the problem dreadful pain in my side when I try to Cricket for during the high jump. bowl fast She had been in second position when Nurse Rest is the best cure for strains. football fans she decided on Saturday evening, after 9Calvin Smith.9 (US) 3 I suggest you take a complete break four of the seven events, that she did not July 3, 1983 from cricket for a month and then see Stuck for a sport to follow want to risk further damage. The Sheffi eld how it goes this summer with no British teams athlete re arranged her fl ights, travelling Flintoff Oh alright, If I have to. But at Euro 2008? Look no further. You’ll back with the UK Athletics physio Neil what happens if it comes back when I fi nd a home from home in cricket — why Black, and she will have a scan today. She start playing again the two national sports are almost the received encouragement from Britain’s Nurse Then I’m afa raida d you mighg t needeed same ... Denise Lewis, who won Olympic hep- surgery tathlon gold in 2000 9Ben Johnson.7 (Canada)9 Flintoff Will I be ableable toto despite achilles play the trombonembone after Football has …David Beckham Sept 24, 1988 and calf injuries the operationn? Former captain, left out (later ruled invalid) that saw her hob- Nurse I don’t see why by a new coach in a media- ble across the not friendly symbol of a fresh line at the end Flintoff That’’s greagreat,t, approach and then recalled of the 800m with I never could before.before. to save his bacon after defeat her leg strapped up. “It reminded me of Toodle-oo what happened going into Sydney,” said Cricket has …Andrew Strauss 9Carl Lewis. (US)8 6 Lewis yesterday. “The difference was I Former captain, left out Aug 25, 1991 couldn’t even walk. It all depends on the by a new coach in a media- diagnosis when Jessica gets the scan. She Hullo. friendly symbol of a fresh scored well on Saturday with an injured NHS Direct? approach and then recalled ankle and she has to remember that. What to save his bacon after defeat Jessica needs is to be calm and listen to what is being said to her. In another life: how Monty would look as a ... “It will be going around in her head, ‘What if this means I can’t go to Beijing?’ 9Leroy Burrell.8 (US) 5 Lollipop man It’s bound to. But if she is told to rest, then July 6, 1994 rest and do not worry about competing in any more events in between now and the Games if the advice is against that. There are lots of times when you are not fully fi t and you still have to go out there and do it. It’s the grit and determination you need to be a champion and Jessica has that.” 9Donovan .Bailey8 (Canada)4 Ennis, who was fourth at last summer’s July 27, 1996 World Championships in Osaka, sustained the injury during training last week. “I spent last night trying to work out if we had made any mistakes and wondering if we could have done anything diff erently,” said her coach, Toni Minichiello, yester- day. “But we don’t really know anything 9Maurice Green.7 (US) 9 until we see the result of the scan. The June 16, 1999 feeling is that it is nothing too bad and all this is precautionary.” Her setback adds to what is threatening to become a diffi cult time for Britain’s main Olympic medal hopes as the Games in Bei- jing draw closer. Paula Radcliff e, the mar- athon world record-holder, is battling to recover from a stress fracture while Nicola The future of Twenty20 Four Pimm’s pundit 9Asafa Powell.7 (Jamaica)4 Sanders, the 400m world silver-medallist, New teams revealed Today’s boundary talk Sept 9, 2007 is a doubt for this Sunday’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, because of a Room at the top of the order knee injury and Kelly Sotherton, Britain’s England’s one-day squad was Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist, dull apart from persisting missed Götzis with a kidney problem. with the idea that they can Dave Collins, UK Athletics’ national experiment by making an performance director, said last night: opener out of someone with no track 9Usain Bolt. (Jamaica)72 “ People will get pressurised and they will record of doing it at international level. May 31, 2008 get tweaks, so they will take sensible pre- Yep, Alastair Cook’s still in it. cautions, this year more than ever. I have Where an athlete has broken the world record more than once, only his fastest time is included Main picture: Gary Hershorn/Reuters A town that already uses bits of absolute faith in Toni Minichiello and Neil chopped-up trees to entertain itself is Revealing too much Black; she couldn’t be in better hands. She clearly ripe for its own franchise. England’s Graeme Swann went out and did a lifetime best in the First XI Dickie Bird, Richie Benaud, is singing in a band called shot, so she couldn’t be that bad.” Andrew Flintoff , Salman Rushdie, Dr Comfort and the Lurid Ennis ended the fi rst day with 3,894 Cherie Booth, George Monbiot, Revelations. Perhaps he Bolt’s breathtaking run blows away the clouds over sprinting points, 36 behind the Russian Anna Bog- Christopher Hitchens, JK Rowling, ought to ask Kevin Pitersen to join danova. But it was another Russian, Tat- Fay Weldon, that bloke off Newsnight, after the batsman revealed this week yana Chernova, who established herself as Peter Rabbit that he likes to cook in the buff . favourite for gold in Beijing by winning the Jamaican beats world Justin Gatlin, once the proud occupant of Something special was half expected an initial false start. His height might give The fastest in 2008 was just one race. There is a whole lot be a 200m in Ostrava on Thursday week competition yesterday with 6,618 points, What am I bid for? Flipper’s farewell the title now held by Bolt, will learn if he at this grand prix on a small track at the him a psychological advantage but it can more to go.” before the Jamaican Olympic trials, where ahead of Ukraine’s Lyudmila Blonska with Stuart MacGill’s champion in New York has won his latest appeal against a dop- Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island to the work against him in other respects. A key At 16 Bolt became the youngest per- he will meet Powell, who had taken the Bogdanova third. Ennis has a personal The next IPL superstars announcement of his ing ban. In between comes a performance east of Manhattan as Bolt met the world to classic 100m sprinting is staying low Best 100m in the world this year son to win the 200m at the World Junior world record to 9.74 in Rieti last Septem- best of 6,469 and Sotherton 6,547. retirement shocked Australia Stunning record falls from an athlete whose run will no doubt champion, Tyson Gay. But in the initial drive phase but Bolt never Usain Bolt Jam 9.72 May 31 Championships when he triumphed on his ber. That should be something now. Dwain Chambers now looks set to 2. Robert Croft yesterday. Not the news itself raise eyebrows because of the sham cre- even the meeting organis- looked awkward. He made a fi ne start and Usain Bolt 9.76 May 3 home track in Kingston in 2002. He was so Bolt’s arrival has set up the probability make his return to the 100m in Kalamata, Anyone who lists his interests and but his bowling during the fi rst Test in between drug scandals ated by so many who have hurtled down ers could never have imag- his powerful leg reach and thumping steps Tyson Gay US 9.85 May 31 much the star of the show that supporters of a three-way chase for Olympic gold in Greece, on Wednesday as he chases the relaxations as “everything” has got to Jamaica suggested he had retired from the track before him with the aid of per- ined, when theyy arrananged took him clear at 50m.