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West Indies fined for slow over rate
CRICKET:West Indies have been fined for their slow over rate for the second consecutive game after being penalised in the drawn second Test against Australia in Antigua.
West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan was fined 10 per cent of his match fee and other players five per cent for falling one over short in the stipulated period in the match.
The captains of both teams were fined half their match fees and the players 25 per cent for slow over rates in the first Test in Kingston, Jamaica.
Meanwhile, Australia have drafted Shane Watson into their squad for the one-day series against West Indies in place of the injured Matthew Hayden.
Watson, who has struggled with injury, has not played for Australia since the World Cup final win over Sri Lanka in Barbados in April 2007.
Australia lead the three-Test series 1-0.
Anstey takes Supersport crown
MOTOR CYCLING:New Zealand road racer Bruce Anstey put Monday's Isle of Man TT heartache to the back of his mind as he scooped the Supersport crown in style.
Despite topping the podium in race one at the start of the week, the 39-year-old was later denied the win for a technical infringement. But the relentless Suzuki rider was on top form again to set a record average speed around the 37.73-mile circuit of 125.359mph and crossed the line in one hour 13 minutes and 35.71 seconds.
"I don't know what to say," said Anstey, who took his TT career wins to seven courtesy of the victory. "After what happened on Monday I just wanted to put that one behind me, get my head down and show everyone what we can do. I wanted to go a bit quicker, and if it wasn't for the windy conditions I could have done. I was really pleased with the team .
"I was a bit too tense at the start but on the second lap I relaxed and went a bit quicker."
Chambers wins, plans court move
ATHLETICS:Dwain Chambers' high court appeal against a lifetime Olympic ban imposed by the British Olympic Association (BOA) could take place next week.
Nick Collins, his solicitor, said that was the intention after Chambers last night won his first 100 metres race since his last appearance over the distance almost 22 months ago.
The 30-year-old drug cheat recovered from a false start at a meeting in Kalamata, Greece, to clock 10.25 seconds.
That easily bettered the 10.85 required for the British Olympic trials in Birmingham next month.
The winner there would normally be guaranteed an automatic place in the British team, but a BOA bylaw bans all former drug cheats from representing their country.
The solicitors hope to get a high court ruling before the trials get under way.
Johnson calls for law change
DOPING:Tougher laws and more government involvement are badly needed in the fight against doping in sport, says former 200 and 400 metres world record holder Michael Johnson.
"When people think 'I could go to jail for just using steroids,' then maybe that would help," Johnson said in San Francisco.
"You can safely say in the last four, five, six years the cheaters have been ahead and they have won."
Chicago now favourites to stage 2016 Olympics
OLYMPIC GAMES:Chicago are the favourites to win the race for the 2016 Olympics after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) narrowed the field from seven hopefuls to four candidate cities.
Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid were included by the IOC's executive board, while Prague, Doha and Baku in Azerbaijan failed to make the cut.
"All the bids were of a very high standard, said IOC president Jacques Rogge. "It is a tribute to the health of the Olympic movement that the field was so strong. I congratulate the candidate cities and I hope that those cities which were unsuccessful this time have benefited from the process."
The IOC executive board took the decision at a meeting in Athens yesterday. The leaders of the Doha campaign will be particularly disappointed.
Doha had hired a high-powered team including London 2012 bid communications chief Mike Lee in the hope of at least making it to the final vote in October next year.
Chicago's hopes will have risen even higher given the small number of candidates and by the fact by then it will be 20 years since a US city hosted the summer Games.
They will have to improve the technical aspect of their bid, however, after an IOC evaluation report ranked Tokyo and Madrid much higher, with Rio a distant fourth. Tokyo remain the strongest rivals as it would be a surprise if Madrid succeeded because that would mean back-to-back Olympics in Europe.
