SOCCER
Team lose 30-0, quit league
Yanick Djouzi Manzizila broke a 60-year-old Swedish scoring record with 21 goals in a game, but they will not be added to his season tally after his demoralized opponents quit the league. The 25-year-old forward scored almost at will for Kongo United as they beat Balrog Botkyrka Sodertaelje — who had three players sent off — 30-0 in their division seven league clash. With twin brother Alex as playmaker, and facing eight players by the end of the match, Manzizila had it all too easy against a team that had failed to earn a point all season. Swedish soccer historian and statistician Claes-Goran Bengtsson confirmed that 21 goals in a game was a Swedish record, but the gloss was taken off Manzizila’s achievement when Balrog subsequently withdrew from the league. Their decision means the 21 goals will be chalked off — as will all the team’s results for the season — although Manzizila’s individual scoring record will stand.
SOCCER
Ebola forces qualifiers move
Guinea and Sierra Leone have been ordered to move their African Nations Cup qualifiers next month to neutral territory following the outbreak of the Ebola virus in west Africa, which has killed more than 1,000 people. The Confederation of African Football on Tuesday said that Liberia, who are out of the Nations Cup, must also move matches although there are none imminent at senior, club or junior level. Guinea are due to host Togo on Sept. 6. Sierra Leone have already asked Ghana to stage their game against Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sept. 10, but have been told government permission must be granted.
CRICKET
Hendricks out of ODI series
Fast bowler Beuran Hendricks is out of South Africa’s three-match one-day international (ODI) series with Zimbabwe that starts on Sunday. Hendricks has a back strain, suffered while touring Australia with the A team, Cricket South Africa said in a news release on Tuesday. He will not be replaced in a squad already missing rested pace trio Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander. Kyle Abbott, Ryan McLaren, Wayne Parnell, Marchant de Lange and uncapped Mthokozisi Shezi are to fill the fast bowling roles.
CRICKET
NZ A beat England Lions
Hamish Rutherford led New Zealand A to victory in the triangular one-day series with a seven-wicket win over the England Lions on Tuesday. Chasing a rain-revised target of 220 from 36 overs at New Road, Rutherford struck 95 off 84 balls, including 10 fours and two sixes before Tom Latham’s 48 not out saw New Zealand A to victory. The Lions, England’s second-string side, had defeated Sri Lanka A on Monday, but they struggled in this winner-takes-all clash, and only fifties from Jonny Bairstow and Tom Smith helped them to 255-8, after they had collapsed to 89-5.
FOOTBALL
Scandrick fails drug test
The NFL has slapped Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick with a four-game suspension for failing a drugs test. Dallas owner Jerry Jones acknowledged the ban to reporters on Monday night, saying the 27-year-old Scandrick failed a test. The league confirmed Scandrick violated the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. The violation reportedly occurred while he was vacationing in Mexico. Scandrick started 15 of 16 games for the Cowboys last season, making 64 tackles and grabbing two interceptions. Scandrick will be eligible to return to the Cowboys on Sept. 29.
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