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| Spurs on cusp of NBA title with win over Heat Posted: 16 Jun 2013 08:03 PM PDT Tony Parker scored a team-high 26 points as the San Antonio Spurs beat defending champion Miami Heat 114-104 to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Finals in San Antonio yesterday. Manu Ginobli, who had been the target of criticism for his recent lack of production, added 24 points and 10 assists for his best game of the Finals to help put the Spurs on the cusp of their first NBA title since 2007. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade scored 25 points each for the top-seeded Heat, who have alternated wins and losses over their last 12 games and head home needing two wins to retain their title. Game Six will be played tomorrow in Miami. - Reuters, June 17, 2013. |
| Bolt’s coach calls for anti-doping lab in Jamaica Posted: 16 Jun 2013 07:22 PM PDT The Jamaican government need to establish an accredited anti-doping laboratory to protect their world-class athletes from taking contaminated substances, the coach of world record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt has said. Glen Mills, who mentors Bolt and world 100m champion Yohan Blake, said Jamaican athletes faced a minefield of substances and had little way of checking their validity. "It's definitely a time for (the) nation to step forward and provide a service that athletes can use to ensure the purity of substances that they have to use for treatment or whatever," Mills said in a radio interview yesterday. His call follows reports that Jamaica's most decorated female sprinter, two-time Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown, tested positive for a banned diuretic at last month's Jamaica International invitational in Kingston. Jamaican officials have confirmed an athlete failed a doping test at the meeting but have declined to give a name. "It just re-emphasizes the need for all involved to be extremely vigilant and the great need for Jamaica to establish an accredited lab so that athletes can have substances tested and verified before usage," Mills said. "It's a minefield out there," Samples from doping tests in Jamaica are currently processed in other countries, including the World Anti-Doping Agency accredited laboratory in Montreal. A dozen Jamaican athletes have received sanctions ranging from three months to life for doping violations in the past five years, officials have said. Jamaican 400m runner Dominique Blake was the latest to be sanctioned, receiving a six-year ban last Thursday for a second doping violation. - Reuters, June 17, 2013. |
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