Author: Abdul Rahim
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South Africa v Pakistan, 2nd Test Cape Town
Cape Town – South Africa, Feb 15, 2013: Pakistan cricket continues to confound. In the morning, South Africa’s ruthless pack of quick bowlers ran through the opposition top order yet again and all the fears over Pakistan’s brittle batting seemed to have come to pass. Younis Khan and Asad Shafiq, however, showed there was plenty…
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Press Conference on KMC Cup day & Night Futsal
By Mohammad Ahmed, Our Special Correspondence, Karachi – Pakistan, Feb 14, 2013: We all here as everybody in us know very well that Department of Culture Sports & Recreation Karachi Metropolitan Corporation KMC has been carried out many sports activity in Karachi in last couple of years. Knowing the order of Administrator KMC, Mohammad Hussain…
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National Junior & U-16, Hockey Trials
Lahore – Pakistan, Feb 14, 2013: TRIALS, The 2nd edition of the U-16 Boys Asia Cup will be held in Singapore from 4th to 7th April 2013, which will be a Qualifier for the Youth Olympic Games Boys Hockey Tournament to be held in Nanjing/China in 2014. To pick the talented boys from KPK Province, Open Trials…
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Table Tennis Remains Popular according to CSM
Lausanne – Feb 14, 2013: MEDIA REPORT, With 967 million cumulative viewers in 2012, Table Tennis is one of the most-watched sports on CCTV-5, China’s main sports broadcaster that is part of the China Central TV family of network. “It seems that the Chinese population’s appetite for Table tennis continues to increase”, said Adham Sharara,…
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Lapasset and Rogge Excited About R7s YOG Debut
Dublin – Ireland, Feb 14, 2013: IRB Chairman Bernard Lapasset is confident Rugby Sevens will be a hit with players and fans when it makes its Youth Olympic Games debut in Nanjing in 2014 ahead of its Olympic introduction at Rio 2016. The competition in China will bring together the finest up and coming Sevens…
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Over 86% of assigned tickets in public hands
Zurich – Switzerland, Feb 14, 2013: More than 86 per cent of the 426,343 assigned tickets for the FIFA Confederations Cup have been directly distributed to the general public following the ballot triggered by the first public sales phase. The lottery after the first public sales phase, scrutinized by an official notary, allocated 209,692 tickets…
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11th National Men’s Netball Championship
Karachi – Pakistan, Feb 14, 2013: Mudassar Arain, Secretary General, Pakistan Netball Federation has informed that the 11th National Men’s Netball Championship 2013 will be held at Hamidi Hall, PSB Sports Complex, Islamabad from 18th to 21st February 2013, organized by Pakistan Netball Federation & Higher Education Commission (HEC). The 12 netball teams will take…
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Decision in the case of Barbora Zahlavova Strýcová
London, Feb 14, 2013: The International Tennis Federation announced today that Barbora Zahlavova Strýcová has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (presence of a Prohibited Substance in a player’s sample). Ms Zahlavova Strýcová, a 26-year-old tennis player from Czech Republic, provided a sample on 16 October 2012…
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FIG Academy and AGP Working Groups
Lausanne, Feb 14, 2013: A two-week series of meetings held between January 29 and February 12, 2013, at the FIG Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI) reviewed all aspects of the FIG Academy and Age Group Programmes. Each of the meetings was led by FIG 1st Vice President Slava Corn (CAN) who has the responsibility for the FIG…
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Major Challenge for ITTF World Tour Champions
Lausanne – Feb, 14, 2013: A total prize fund of $300,000 in an overall ITTF World Tour worth over $2,500,000, the first Super Series tournament of the year, the Kuwait Open, provides a major challenge for celebrated names. No less than four men and three women, who during their careers have won singles titles on…