ALPINE SKIING
Vonn out of hospital
US skiing sensation Lindsey Vonn is recovering at her home after being released from a Colorado hospital on Wednesday, her spokesman Lewis Kay said. The four-time overall World Cup champion was discharged two days after being treated for “severe instestinal pain.” Kay said Vonn underwent a number of tests while in hospital and was feeling well enough to go home. “Lindsey is feeling much better today and has been released from the hospital,” said Kay, a vice president of entertainment with PR agency PMK-BNC. “She is resting comfortably at home. Doctors are still working to determine what specifically was the cause of her illness, but thankfully she has responded well to their treatment.” Kay did not go into details about what type of treatment she received or the reason for the hospitalization.
BASKETBALL
Bogut to nurse ankle
Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut is to rehabilitate his surgically repaired left ankle in the Los Angeles area during part of the team’s upcoming road trip. The team said on Wednesday that Bogut would be under the supervision of Richard Ferkel, the doctor who performed the surgery on the 2.13m Australian on April 27. The Warriors begin a three-game road trip at Minnesota today. The team had said last week that Bogut would be out for seven to 10 days. Instead, Bogut, who sat out his third straight game on Wednesday night against Atlanta, is to be out even longer. The 2005 No. 1 overall draft pick fractured his ankle on Jan. 25 while playing with Milwaukee and missed the rest of the season after being traded to Golden State.
CRICKET
No pressure, Warner says
Australian opener David Warner yesterday denied he was feeling the pressure after a lean run and said it was only a matter of time before he hits his explosive best again. The left-hander, whose stunning 180 against India this year prompted comparisons with batting great Adam Gilchrist, has struggled since then and failed again in the first Test against South Africa. However, the 26-year-old said he was not concerned, despite watching fellow opener Ed Cowan, captain Michael Clarke and Mike Hussey all help themselves to big scores in Brisbane, while he was out for four. “I don’t think so at all,” Warner said when asked if he felt under pressure heading into the second Test in Adelaide next week. “As long as we are winning games and we are on the way to becoming No. 1 ... that’s all that counts. I’m feeling good, I’m nice and refreshed. I’m ready to go again.”
SOCCER
Sex couple lose appeal
Italy’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by a couple who said they should not have been convicted of obscene acts in public because they had sex outside while the rest of their town was inside watching a soccer match. The couple, then a 60-year-old man and a 40-year-old woman, were caught having sex outside in southern Italy in 2006 while the national soccer team was playing in the World Cup quarter-finals in Germany. Their defense at a previous trial was that they had timed their tryst under the stars so they would not offend anyone, because everyone else would be watching the game on TV. They were convicted and brought their case to Rome’s Court of Cassation, the highest appeals court, where they lost again. For the record, Italy played Ukraine that night and won 3-0, going on to win the tournament in the final against France.
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