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| Heartbroken squash suffers rejection Posted: 08 Sep 2013 11:36 AM PDT Squash had been pitted against wrestling and a joint baseball and softball bid, at a vote in the Argentine capital. It had always appeared a mammoth task to oust the 3,000-year-old wrestling, a sport which had only found itself in this precarious position due to senior Olympic members linked with other sports protecting their Games status. Members have said it had never been the intention to eliminate wrestling from the programme, with other sports seen more at risk including Modern Pentathlon and Taekwondo. In the vote, out of 95, wrestling polled an outright majority straight off with 49 votes, with baseball and softball polling 24 and squash earning 22 votes. World Squash Federation President N. Ramachandran vowed to be back. "Today's decision is heartbreaking for the millions of squash players around the world," he said. "Particularly given the 10-year journey we have been on to join the Olympic Games sports programme. "As the only new Olympic sport on today's shortlist, we believed squash offered something for the future and I still hope that our inclusion may still be possible. "We have much to offer the Olympic Movement and I am hopeful that today is not the end of our Olympic journey." "What we've done over the last few years, with the campaign, has really made women's squash stronger and it's brought the whole squash community together in a huge way," the Penang-born Nicol said. "We've proven that we can be up there as an Olympic sport and the fact that we were shortlisted shows what a great sport we are. We need to use that and move forward." Wrestling is now assured a spot at both the 2020 and 2024 Games, while both squash and baseball/softball are free to bid again for 2024. Under current rules the number of sports at a Games is capped at 28. - Reuters, September 9, 2013. |
| Lewis Hamilton concedes F1 title bid is over Posted: 08 Sep 2013 11:24 AM PDT The 28-year-old Briton, who had qualified 12th after a disappointing qualifying session on Saturday, was hit by more problems on Sunday as defending triple world champion German Sebastian Vettel claimed his sixth win of the year for Red Bull. Vettel now leads third-placed Hamilton by 81 points in the title race. Hamilton said: "It's awful when you are just empty of energy and have given everything for just two places - and that's it for the championship now. "It was a very difficult weekend. Ninth. I should have been much further ahead and I am very disappointed with myself. I blew it in qualifying and it was impossible to make up the places. "Overall, it has been a nightmare, a disaster of a weekend. "Of course, I will keep on pushing and give it my best and try to win some races and take some points here and there but in that car he is so fast." Hamilton, who had slid off the circuit at the Parabolica and damaged his car during qualifying before being blocked by German Adrian Sutil's Force India, suffered similar ill fortune on Sunday. He lost the use of his radio and picked up a slow puncture that forced him to switch strategy, adding a pit-stop, during the race. He said: "It was almost like driving blind, you don't know when to pit, when to push and what is going on." The team had to use old-fashioned pit-boards to signal instructions to him to pit for tyre changes. - AFP, September 9, 2013. |
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