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| 2014 World Cup to start on June 12: FIFA Posted: 27 Jul 2011 08:44 AM PDT
The exact match and venue schedule will be announced later he told a news conference, adding that the 2013 Confederations Cup, the World Cup dress rehearsal tournament, will run from June 15 to June 30 in 2013. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
| Chinese teenager Sun secures first world title Posted: 27 Jul 2011 05:12 AM PDT  China's Sun Yang celebrates after winning the men's 800m freestyle final at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai July 27, 2011. – Reuters pic The 19-year-old Sun, fast emerging as the heir apparent to the now retired Grant Hackett's mantle as the world's dominant long-distance swimmer, clocked seven minutes, 38.57 seconds to win ahead of Canada's Ryan Cochrane, who took silver in 7:41.86. Hungary's Gergo Kis won bronze in 7:44.94. "I'm happy with today's performance, especially winning the gold at home," Sun told reporters. "I swam at my own rhythm and my last 400 is better than the other swimmers so I sped up at the 700 mark. "It's my personal best and it gave me more confidence for the remaining races and next year's London Olympics." Sun's victory was only the second gold medal won by Chinese men in the pool at the world championships – Zhang Lin won the same event at the 2009 edition in Rome. The gangly Sun, who stands just under two metres tall, also took silver behind Park Tae-hwan in the 400 freestyle final on Sunday and still has the 1500 freestyle to come in Shanghai, where he should be a hot favourite after he almost broke Hackett's 10-year-old world record at last year's Asian Games. Despite his victory today he will need to concentrate on the 1500 next year in London with the 800 freestyle not on the Olympic programme. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search. |
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 27 – The 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil will start on June 12 with the final on July 13, FIFA's secretary general Jerome Valcke said today.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Sports To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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