JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The president of South Africas Olympic committee repeated his countrys intention Wednesday to bid for a Summer Games, saying the upcoming IOC session is a chance to impress.
Gideon Sam said the International Olympic Committee meeting July 4-9 in Durban was “another opportunity to show world leaders in sport what we can put together in this country.”
South Africa intends to bid to host the Olympics, but Sam stopped short of saying it would be the next available Summer Games in 2020.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – This was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for the Alabama track and field program at the Drake Relays, with Tide mens coach Harvey Glance and womens coach Sandy Fowler getting inducted into the meets Hall of Fame.
That changed after dozens of tornadoes swept across the South in recent days, killing about 300 people, chiefly in Alabama.
Now the Tide are competing in Des Moines with heavy hearts, struggling to focus on their events while thinking about those in storm-ravaged Tuscaloosa and beyond.
An all-Portuguese Europa League final looks likely after Radamel Falcao’s four goals gave FC Porto a 5-1 victory over Villarreal as Benfica secured a 2-1 lead over Braga in the first leg of their semifinal on Thursday.
Falcao took his Europa League tally this season to 15 with his latest goal burst, while Freddy Guarin added another for Porto, the newly crowned Portuguese champions.
Villarreal went in front on the stroke of halftime when Ruben “Cani” Garcia scored for the only non-Portuguese side still in the competition.
The first all-Portuguese semifinal in a European competition saw Jardel and Oscar Cardozo clinch Benfica’s win over Braga.
Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat trick as Real Madrid followed up its Copa del Rey victory with a 6-3 drubbing of third-place Valencia on Saturday.
Kaka scored twice and Karim Benzema also added to the tally as Madrid returned to Mestalla Stadium three days after hoisting its 18th domestic cup and first trophy in nearly three years with a 1-0 extra-time victory over Barcelona.
Madrid became the first visiting team to score six goals at the Mestalla and maintained pressure on Spanish leader Barcelona, which can restore its eight-point lead over Madrid in the standings with a victory against Osasuna later Saturday.
St. Paul, Minn. — Cities have potholes. Potholes damage cars. Does that mean cities are liable for damage caused by potholes?
Not necessarily. Sam Hardman found that out the hard way.
Hardman was running errands in St. Paul on a Saturday in January when it happened.
“Just a really loud bang, and, then the next thing I know, I’m running on the rim of my tires,” he recalled.
Hardman pulled into the first empty parking lot he saw. It took him about 40 minutes to change the tire.
“It was freezing out, and I couldn’t do it with my gloves on, so I had to get my hands warm every few minutes and then go back to it,” he said.
Hardman took the car to a garage where his tire was replaced and the bent rim fixed. T
Shane Doan can add something else to his resume. The Phoenix Coyotes captain beat the “Mantracker.”
Doan, 34, and his 23-year-old brother Brook survived a manhunt on “Mantracker” television show.
On the episode that aired Sunday night, the start of Season 6 of the OLN show, the Doans had to elude “Mantracker” Terry Grant and local hunting guide Russ Floyd in B.C.’s southern Chilcotin Mountains.
Equipped with a compass and a map, the brothers had to get to the finish point some 37 kilometres away without being caught.
Using the mountainous terrain to their advantage of their pursuers on horseback, the Doans eventually did so. Although ther