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  YOUTH GAMES

  Taiwanese vie for medals

  A team of 151 Taiwanese are competing for medals across 16 sports at the Asian Youth Games, which opened on Wednesday in Bahrain. The delegation attended the opening ceremony led by flag bearer Lin Li-wei, a volleyball player, and taekwondoin Wang Chieh-ling. Lin, 16, was a member of the team who finished third at last year’s FIVB Boys’ Under-17 World Championship in Bulgaria, marking the country’s best-ever result. Wang, 15, took gold in the women’s under-44kg division at last year’s Chuncheon World Taekwondo Junior Championships in South Korea and the World School Sport Games in Bahrain. The Asian Youth Games runs through Oct. 31.

  

  Photo courtesy of the ministry of Sports

  TENNIS

  Chan Hao-ching exits

  Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching yesterday exited from the women’s doubles at the Toray Pan Pacific Open (Japan Open). The Taiwanese and her Chinese partner Jiang Xinyu were beaten 6-4, 6-4 by Taylor Townsend of the US and Ellen Perez of Australia at the US$1,064,510 hard-court tournament at Utsubo Tennis Center in Tokyo.

  

  Photo: Reuters

  CYCLING

  French rider freed

  A Russian court yesterday freed a French long-distance cyclist after finding him guilty of illegally crossing the country’s border with China while trying to break the world record for cycling across the Eurasian landmass. Sofiane Sehili, a French citizen who describes himself as an “ultra-endurance racer and adventure cyclist,” was freed by the court in Russia’s Far Eastern district and exempted from paying a 50,000-ruble (US$615) fine, a court in Primorye said. The court said Sehili had admitted his guilt. Sehili’s posts on social media showed that he was cycling from China to Russia early last month. He did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Sehili began his odyssey on July 1 near Lisbon. He intended to finish in the Russia’s Vladivostok. He was trying to beat the record for cycling across Eurasia held by Jonas Deichmann from Germany, who did the vast journey in 64 days, 2 hours and 26 minutes, according to Guinness World Records.

  

  Photo: AP

  CHESS

  Kramnik faces probe

  Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik is facing disciplinary proceedings over public attacks on US grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, whose death this week at age 29 has prompted outrage and calls for action, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) said on Wednesday. The cause of Naroditsky’s death has not been made public. Naroditsky was accused by Kramnik of cheating online last year. “I, along with the FIDE management board, will formally refer all relevant public statements made by GM Vladimir Kramnik — both before and after the tragic death of GM Daniel Naroditsky — to the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission for independent consideration,” FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement. Naroditsky denied any wrongdoing.
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