Dwain Athletics Chambers may run at London 2012 - Athletics

Association chairman Colin Moynihan for British Olympic insists the way will be unoccupied for Chambers to run at London in 2012.

Colin Moynihan has stated the British Olympic Association will "vigorously defend" their lifetime ban for drug cheat after approving to a request by WADA to dispute their position before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Under the British Olympic Associations current position Chambers is unable to try to win at the Olympics having served 2 years suspension for difficult testing positive for steroids in 2003.

If CAS finds in the WADA's favor Cyclist David Millar and shot putter Carl Myerscough get the profit.

The British Olympic Association is the only national Olympic committee to put into effect a lifetime ban for doping offender.

At last month the WADA wrote to the British Olympic Association requesting the matter to be taken before CAS, a suggestion that was ignored.

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2011 Hall of Fame was announced by Longwood Athletics

At the luncheon in Blackwell Hall the new inductees were added to the Longwood University Athletics Hall of Fame.

In Longwood the first inductee was Darryl Case and he was a member of the men's soccer team. He was the first and till date four-time All-American in Longwood soccer history. At Longwood over the 4 years he secured 15 goals and 7 assists while playing as a defense. Darryl Case backstopped the Lancers to a 50-15-12 record and also he was the one of the champion at Virginia state championships during the year 1982 and 1984.

He described the introduction as a "great honor, but not possible without my great team". He was also thanked to the former his coach Rich Posipanko, for taking over his team with a 0-14 record and spinning us into a winning team. At the end of Darryl Case speech, said that it all done by our "hard work, dedication and teamwork."

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Athletic department cut eight varsity teams and it was recommended by Maryland commission

According to a report released by the panel on Monday evening “The Maryland commission charged with tackle the multi-million dollar shortage in University of Maryland athletics recommends that the school drop eight of its 27 varsity teams to preparation the shortfall “
The teams were targeted for taking away from the squad:

• Men’s track teams
• Men’s swimming and diving.
• Women’s swimming and diving
• Men’s tennis
• Women’s water polo
• Aerobics and tumbling

The Maryland commission recommendation would affect nearly 166 student-athletes, based on these years.

The recommended panel also calls for a 10 % reduction in athletic administration costs and also noting that since 2006 Maryland’s Commission revenue from football, men’s basketball and fundraising has steadily decreased.

The final decision about whether to prepare the number of Maryland varsity teams from 27 to 19 or to some other number - belongs to Maryland President Wallace D. Loh, who appointed the 17-member President’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in July.

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Strong Competition for Malaysian Athletes

Malaysian athletes will not prevent their full effort or best performance in the Indonesian SEA Games which will be going to open officially tomorrow.
Harun Rasheed said that “All the incidents involving for the track and field events had been put aside and they were now focusing on the face to bring wonder to the nation in the biennial games and our focus now it’s come true. Athletes put up an excellent performance any they have to prove that the Malaysian athlete’s mission is the best region in the Region. Fitness level in facing the Indonesian SEA Games is at 100 % preparedness and we expect six gold medals aimed by Malaysian Athletics Union “ he said when approached by Bernama.

The National athletics squad comprising 33 athletes and led by team manager Rajemah Sheikh Ahmad.

The six gold medals targeted by Malaysian Athletics Union:

• Roslinda Samsu (Women's pole vault)
• Noraseela Mohd Khalid (400m hurdles)
• Tan Song Hwa (women's hammer throws),
• Lee Hup Wei (men's high jump),
• Teoh Boon Lim and Lo Choon Sieng (men's walk)
• Yuan Yufang (women's walk).

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Brain Cardinal has joined the Purdue athletics staff

NBA champion and Purdue athletics alumnus Brian Cardinal joins Purdue Athletics staff intern as an athletics administration for his alma mater.

Cardinal's internship will include roles with the Purdue's John R and John Purdue Club. Wooden Leadership Institute, as well as monitoring student-athletics and non-coaching, day-to-day activities in various areas within the department and he also going to help coordinate championship events at Purdue Athletic.


Matt Painter said that “Brain Cardinal have known for him for a long time and he is always been a good ambassador for Purdue Athletic. “

"Brian is someone I've known for a long time, and he's always been a great ambassador for Purdue," basketball coach Matt Painter said. "His work ethic and dedication reflect the values of our department, and we're excited to have him as a member of the staff."

In June, Brain Cardinal had completed his 11th NBA champion, helping lead Dallas to its first world championship. Brain Cardinal has averaged 5.0 points and 2.5 rebounds for six franchises by Detroit.

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Webber - An Australian Won German Grand Prix

"Mark Webber you are a Grand Prix winner. Well done! Brilliant drive!" Those words, from Red Bull's engineers, told you all you needed to know about Sunday's German Grand Prix. No matter what they threw at the Australian, including a drive-through penalty for a brush off the startline with Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, Webber came through and delivered in devastating style.

After that brush he shadowed Barrichello as they stormed away while fast-starting Heikki Kovalainen in the McLaren held up Brawn's Jenson Button, Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel. And even with his penalty stop on Lap 14, when Barrichello refuelled, Webber kept the lead.

His second stop, five laps later, dropped him down to eighth, but he was back in the lead by Lap 33 when all of the main first pit stops had been made, and he controlled it easily from there. Barrichello lost time in his second stop with a refuelling rig problem, and later, like Button, struggled to warm his tyres. Both were on three-stop strategies, which dropped them from second and third places with 10 laps left.

Thus it was Sebastian Vettel who came through to grab second, in Red Bull's third one-two of the season, after a weekend in which his team mate completely eclipsed him. Massa was strong all day for Ferrari and took third ahead of Nico Rosberg, who drove superbly early on with a high fuel load and thoroughly deserved fourth for Williams.

The Brawns switched places in their final stops, as Button made his a lap later, and they finished fifth and sixth, hounded to the finish by Fernando Alonso's Renault, which set fastest lap. Behind them, Kovalainen clung on for the final point for McLaren, with Toyota's Timo Glock, BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld, Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella and Williams' Kazuki Nakajima in his wheeltracks.

It was, after all, a terrible day for Force India's Adrian Sutil, who ran as high as second before his first refuelling stop, but then lost it all through a clash with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen as he exited the pits. He needed another stop for a new front wing and finished a tearful 15th, behind Renault's Nelson Piquet and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica. Stewards looked into the Raikkonen incident, but decided no action was necessary.

Toyota's Jarno Trulli was delayed after a brush in traffic on the opening lap and finished 17th, behind Sebastien Buemi in the sole Toro Rosso to finish. And right at the back, the only lapped runner was McLaren's Lewis Hamilton. The world champion made a brilliant start, led fractionally on the outside at Turn One, but then got his right-rear tyre clipped by Webber and had to pit at the end of the lap with a puncture. That was all she wrote.

The day, however, belonged to Webber as Advance Australia Fair played at the end of a Grand Prix for the first time since Alan Jones won in Las Vegas back in 1981. It was superb victory in the most trying circumstances, and Webber thoroughly deserved his maiden success.

Button still leads the championship, with 68 points, but now Vettel is second with 47, Webber third with 45.5 and Barrichello drops to fourth on 44.

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British & Irish Lions Lost Their First Test To World Champions South Africa

Last Saturday in Pretoria, Brian O'Driscoll (British & Irish Lions) has demanded that his team-mates hit the floor running in their must-win second match with South Africa.

O'Driscoll was a stable threat along with his centre colleague Jamie Roberts in the Lions' narrow 26-21 loss to the Springboks last weekend, and has acknowledged that they could not afford to claw back a new big lead at Loftus Versfeld. The host side raced in to a 26-7 lead at Kings Park last time out before a late rush by the tourists, but O'Driscoll knows that they have to play from the opening whistle in order to take the spoils.

"Some of the rugby played at the weekend showed some confidence and that we can play the game we want to. We have to bring that out from the kick-off this weekend because we can't afford to give them a 19-point lead and chase it back," said O'Driscoll. "We probably didn't play early enough last weekends and that was to our detriment. Hopefully we can play earlier in the first-half tomorrow, cut off the Springboks and make them work for their scores a little bit more than we did last weekend."

"Obviously we were hopeful to win that game but it's done now and we are out to win matches two and three, and it is as simple as that."

The Lions have bulked up their pack for the second Test, with their front-row ranks bolstered by hooker Matthew Rees and prop Adam Jones, while expert lock Simon Shaw has been called in to aid in the protecting of the Springboks' fearful rolling maul.

In spite of the focusing on the forwards and the increased power in protection, Lions captain Paul O'Connell believes that his side has to go out and play daring rugby if they are to secure a series decider in Johannesburg next weekend.

"We have to go out and play," he said. "That is when we have been at our best, when we have retained the ball and put it through the hands. That is when we have really put teams under pressure. We conceded a lot of penalties during the first 40 minutes last week. When you concede penalties, you concede possession, territory and points. We need to get rid of that."

The second match will be played at altitude, but the Lions have selected to remain at sea-level for their preparations. From their base in Cape Town they will head to Pretoria, hoping that the effects of altitude do not have time to take hold. The tourists struggled at altitude in their opening game against a Royal XV in Rustenberg, but O'Connell believes that they can handle the change this time around.

"I think we are well prepared. We had a very good period of time at altitude at the start of the tour," he said. "We've done plenty of training at altitude and we have every confidence in the doctors. It is not all in the mind. There is something there, but it is not massive."

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Phew! That was close. Very rarely do major championship decathlons serve up such a spectacular finale in the 1500m - but German Jan Felix Knobel and Eduard Mihan of Belarus take a bow. You produced a classic.

In the final reckoning just 2pts - approximately 0.20 of a second in the 1500m - separated the pair as they produced a pulsating three-and-three-quarter lap duel which will linger long on the memory.

Going into the tenth and final event Knobel held a 107 point advantage – roughly 17 seconds in the 1500m – from Mihan who had led the competition from event two until the ninth event।

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A new champion for the 800m

Speaking of Maria Mutola - and Australia - the ageless Mozambican came up short in the end in her quest for an astounding eighth World Indoor Championships gold medal.

Mutola, who first won the 800m in 1993 and was competing in her ninth consecutive World Indoor Championships (she placed second in 1999) struggled to stay in touch with the front when Australian Tamsyn Lewis and Ukrainian Tetiana Petlyuk forced the pace late in the race.

Mutola tried, but it was Lewis, who was not on anyone's list of potential winners, who became only the fourth woman ever to win the 800m at this event. Lewis's time, 2:02.57, was unimpressive, but the result was incredible even to her. "This is amazing. I still can't believe it," she said afterward.

Clay dominates but Sebrle meets disaster

Bryan Clay's (USA) dominating day one lead in the Heptathlon seemed invincible as day two started, and the championship was practically handed to him when his primary challenger, Decathlon World record holder Roman Sebrle (CZE), cramped up during the 60m Hurdles and crashed to the track between the third and fourth hurdles. Clay held his own in the Pole Vault and left no room for the new second-placer, Andrei Krauchanka (BLR) to close in, finishing with 6371 points, a new heptathlon PB.

Krauchanka himself, only 22, was the revelation of the heptathlon at 6234 points, a new national record for Belarus.

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What is the IAAF Green Project?

The rapid deterioration of the global environment in recent years has gradually affected our lives in various ways. There is no exemption for the world of sport where already several skiing competitions have been cancelled due to a shortage of snow. The changing environment affects us all in every walk of life.

Athletics, in which human beings compete with their most basic skills of “running,” “jumping” and “throwing,” does not require any special environment. The IAAF World Championships in Athletics is a venue for determining the very best from among humanity.

However, if the deterioration of the global environment goes on, some day in the near future we won’t even be able to practice Athletics. That is the reason why we have decided to launch this project.

The IAAF Green Project is an IAAF initiative that reflects a commitment to find ways to contribute to the global environment through events such as the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. We hope this project will contribute in some way to a healthier earth, one that supports a future in which everyone can enjoy athletics. We believe the IAAF World Championships in Athletics should continue to be a venue for determining world champions not only from among a few who are blessed by their environment, but from among all humanity.

The IAAF Green Project, introduced for the first time in Osaka 2007 will continue on at the next Championships in Berlin and in the future Championships as well. We will work to ensure that our efforts become a valuable index for future sports events in Japan and around the world.

As the baton of hope for a healthier earth is passed on from Osaka to the world, we hope more than anything that the themes of this project will be taken up by everyone, and continued on into the future.

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