Tuesday Apr 21, 2009
Fourteen thoroughbred horses dropped dead in a mysterious scene Sunday before a polo match near West Palm Beach, Florida, officials said.
State and local veterinary teams are trying to figure out what happened at the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington, Florida, as team Lechuza Caracas prepared to compete in a U.S. Open match.
Two horses initially collapsed, and as vets and team officials scrambled to revive them, five others became dizzy, said Tim O’Connor, spokesman for the polo club. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kiran | Under Animals, Sports
Monday Nov 17, 2008
The top freestyle soccer players from 44 countries gather for a final training session on the roof of the 23-storey “Bacon” building in Sao Paulo November 16, 2008. The Red Bull Street Style one-on-one freestyle soccer world finals will take place from November 17 to November 18.
Posted by Kiran | Under Photo of the Day, Sports
Saturday Aug 23, 2008
MONTREAL (CBC) – Taekwondo athlete Angel Matos of Cuba faces a lifetime ban after kicking the referee in the face following his disqualification in a bronze-medal match Saturday at the Beijing Games.
Matos’s coach Leudis Gonzalez also faces a lifetime ban in response to the incident that took place at the end of the men’s over-80 kg bout.
“We didn’t expect anything like what you have witnessed to occur,” said World Taekwondo Federation secretary general Yang Jin-suk. “I am at a loss for words.”
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Posted by Ali | Under Sports
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
Images of Spanish and Argentine Olympians doing crude impressions of Chinese people have focused attention on the perceived acceptability of racial slurs in Latin countries.
The sportsmen and women pictured in the photos have said they did not realise the gestures would cause offence, but their light-hearted approach to racial sensitivity is not unique in their countries.
Spanish sport in particular has a poor reputation for taking allegations of racism seriously.
Luis Aragones, then the Spanish football coach, was fined only a day’s wages after being caught on film describing striker Thierry Henry as a “black s***” during a training session.
The British Government demanded “the firmest possible action” against Spanish fans who subjected English players including Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips to monkey taunts during a friendly in Madrid in 2004, after Spanish sporting authorities offered only lukewarm condemnation. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Ali | Under International, Society and People, Sports
Sunday Aug 17, 2008
Michael Phelps won his eighth Olympic gold medal of the Beijing Games to beat Mark Spitz’s 1972 record of seven, with victory in the 4×100m medley.
The 23-year-old American teamed up with Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen and Jason Lezak to claim the historic gold in a new world record time.
They held off Australia and Japan to claim glory in a world record time of three minutes 29.34 seconds.
Great Britain’s quartet finished back in sixth place.
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Posted by Ali | Under Sports
Tuesday Aug 12, 2008
This ad was created by European Soccer fans against racism that had infiltrated into the sport. This ad uses a partially-obscured swastika to make its (very effective) point.
Posted by Kiran | Under Society and People, Sports
Sunday Aug 10, 2008
The Beijing Olympics got off to a rough start as a crazed attacker assailed two American tourists and a Chinese tour guide with a knife this morning, killing a man and wounding two women. The murder victim was a relative of the U.S. men’s volleyball coach. The assailant committed suicide after the attack, according to authorities, throwing himself off the 45-meter Drum Tower. U.S. softball player Laura Berg and USOC spokesman respond to the tragedy after the jump.
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Posted by Ali | Under Crime and War, Sites and Travel, Sports