WORLDSPORTS
DECEMBER 2013
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Campbell cleared
to compete again
sportsbrief
TWO-TIME Olympic
200m champion
Veronica CampbellBrown has been
cleared to compete
again five months
after a controversial
positive doping test
this year.
The Jamaican
who won gold at Athens 2004 and Beijing
2008, tested positive
for a banned diuretic
at the Jamaica International Invitational
in May.
The 31-year-old was
suspended pending a
Jamaican disciplinary
committee review.
Mayweather has
‘dislocated elbow’
deficit that is a big gap,” he said.
“Webber stopped in the last lap, if this happens to Sebastian one weekend we have to be
there in second place. But being realistic we
know we need to be very, very lucky.”
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said
they would keep pushing to try to secure the
title as early as possible - and admitted for the
first time they were likely to do so before end of
the season.
“It’s my job to worry,” Horner said. “You
can’t become complacent in any way.
“We never have yet and we won’t this year.
Our approach is one race at a time.
“Next challenge is Korea, get the most out
of that venue and after that Suzuka. If we do
that, then the championships tend to take care
of themselves.” THE GAME
haunts ace designer
problems the car was suffering from at the time.
“The steering column failure, was it the
cause, or did it happen in the accident?” said
Newey, speaking in an exclusive interview to be
broadcast on 5 live F1.
“There is no doubt it was cracked. Equally,
all the data, all the circuit cameras, the on-board
camera from Michael Schumacher’s car that
was following, none of that appears to be consistent with a steering-column failure.
“The car oversteered [when the rear tried to
spin] initially and Ayrton caught that and only
then did it go straight.
“But the first thing that happened was oversteer, in much the same way as you will sometimes see on a superspeedway in the States –
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the car will lose the rear, the driver will correct,
and then it will go straight and hit the outside
wall, which doesn’t appear to be consistent with
a steering-column failure.”
Three-time world champion Senna was
killed in his third race for Williams
Newey said he was still upset by the knowledge Senna joined Williams to win a fourth title
and the car they gave him was not initially up to
the job. He was killed in his third race for the
team.
“There was an aura about him, something
that's difficult to describe. He most certainly
had a presence,” Newey said of Senna.
“I guess one of the things that will always
haunt me is that he joined Williams.” THE GAME
CURRENTLY undefeated
Floyd Mayweather says
he suffered a suspected
dislocated elbow halfway
through his one-sided
defeat of Saul Alvarez in
Las Vegas.
The five-weight world
champion, 36, secured
the World Boxing Council
(WBC)and World Boxing
Association (WBA) lightmiddleweight titles and
stretched his unbeaten
professional run to 45
fights.
Gough excited
FORMER Wales Grand
Slam winner Ian Gough
says he is excited about
his move to London Irish
for what he believes could
be his last season playing
top-flight professional
rugby.
Lock-forward Gough,
36, joins the Exiles after
nearly two decades playing
club and regional rugby
in Wales.
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