■ Boxing
David Tua agrees to fight
A third fight between heavyweight contenders Hasim Rahman and David Tua has been added to a Dec. 13 card that features a middleweight title fight between Bernard Hopkins and William Joppy and a welterweight title fight between Ricardo Mayorga and Cory Spinks. The Rahman-Tua fight will be an elimination bout between two of the top three contenders for the WBA title, which is held by Roy Jones Jr. The fight is part of a card from Atlantic City, New Jersey, that includes Hopkins fighting Joppy in a middleweight fight for all three major titles and Mayorga putting his WBA welterweight title on the line against Spinks, the IBF champion.
■ Auto racing
New fuel supplier chosen
Major South Korean gasoline merchant Hyundai Oilbank was chosen Tuesday as the official fuel supplier for 2003 Formula 3 world car racing championship. The contract makes Hyundai the exclusive fuel provider for the F3 car racing championship to be held in Changwon in South Gyeongsang province from Nov. 21-23. The Changwon racing competition is expected to consume about 20,000 liters of gasoline, according to the organizers.
■ Boxing
Frank Bruno is in trouble
Police went to the home of former world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno on Monday to assist medics take him to a psychiatric hospital. Bruno, who won the WBC title from Oliver McCall at Wembley Stadium in September 1995 only to lose it six months later to Mike Tyson, is reported to have suffered from depression since the breakup of his marriage and has been receiving treatment at the Priory Clinic at Chelmsford, east of London.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier