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Bangladesh Navy emerge top in
Bangladesh Games swimming
SPORTS DESK
Bangladesh Navy maintained their
supremacy by dominating the medal tally in
Bangabandhu 9th Bangladesh Games
swimming event at Syed Nazrul Islam
National Swimming Complex in the city's
Mirpur, reports UNB.
Bangladesh Navy secured 33 gold, 24 silver
and 14 bronze medals while Bangladesh
Army finished behind them by securing nine
gold, 17 silver and an equal number of bronze
medals. Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan
(BKSP) placed the third position in the medal
tally with one silver and four bronze medals.
Following the ten new national records in the
last three days, one more national record was
set on the fourth and last day of the meet.
Kajol Mia of Bangladesh Navy set the new
national mark in the men's 200m individual
medley clocking 2:13.49 seconds erasing the
old record of 2:14.94 set by Ariful Islam in
2019. Jewel Ahmed of Bangladesh Army and
Polash Chowdhury of Bangladesh Navy
bagged the silver and bronze medal
respectively in his event.
Meanwhile, in the men's 400m individual
medley, Jewel Ahmed of the Bangladesh
Army won gold clocking 4.48.53 seconds.
Kajol Mia and Polash Chowdhury of
Bangladesh Navy bagged the silver and
bronze medals respectively in this event.
In the women's 400m individual medley,
Sonia Akter of Bangladesh Navy won gold
with a time of 5:49.16 seconds while Naima
Akter Sonali and Moriom Akter of Army
bagged the silver and bronze medal
respectively.
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In the men's 50m backstrokes, Ariful Islam
of Bangladesh Navy won gold clocking
00:30.07 second. Sukumar Rajbongshi and
Kamal Hossain of the Bangladesh Army
secured silver and bronze medal respectively
in this event.
In the women's 50m backstrokes, Mahfuza
Khatun of Bangladesh Navy won gold
clocking 00:35.84 second while Moriom
Akter of Bangladesh Navy and Irfana Khatun
of Munshiganj district sports association
bagged the silver and bronze medal
respectively in this event.
In the women's 200m individual medley,
Sonia Khatun of Bangladesh Navy won gold
clocking 2:40.54 seconds while Moriom
Akter of Bangladesh Navy and Naima Akter
of Sonali of Bangladesh Army bagged the
silver and bronze medal respectively in this
event. In the men's 100m freestyle, Asif Reza
of Bangladesh Navy won gold clocking
00:53.33 while Mahfizur Rahman of
Bangladesh anvy and Sifat Ullah of
Bangladesh Army bagged the silver and
bronze medal respectively in this event.
In the women's 100m freestyle, Sonia
Khatun of Bangladesh Navy won gold
clocking 1:04.79 seconds while Junoyona
Ahmed of Bangladesh Navy and Sharmin
Sultana of Bangladesh Army bagged the silver
and bronze medal in this event.
In the men's 4x100m medley relay,
Bangladesh Navy comprising Nore Alom,
Shofikul, Mahmudunnobi Nahid and
Mahfizur Rahman won gold clocking 4:00.74
seconds while Bangladesh Army and Vati
Bangla Swimming Club bagged the silver and
bronze medal respectively in this event.
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BCB to announce squad
for Lanka series soon
SPORTS DESK
Minhazul Abedin Nannu and Habibul Bashar, two selectors of
the Bangladesh national cricket team, are busy and conducting
offices even during the lockdown. On the first day of the
lockdown on Monday, they spent several hours at the Sher-e-
Bangla Stadium in Mirpur. Two selectors were also present at
the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) office on Tuesday morning,
reports UNB.
Amidst lockdown, all the matches are called off. The national
team also has o activities. So, what is the reason for going to the
BCB office in the morning for two days in a row during the
lockdown? Chief selector Minhazul Abedin Nannu's said that
they are busy to finalise the Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka.
On Tuesday morning, Nannu on a phone conversation told
that the work of sorting out the roster for the Sri Lanka series was
nearing completion. They will either submit the team to the
board on Tuesday and if they do so then they will announce the
squad on Wednesday. There are doubts whether a net bowler
will be available in practice in Sri Lanka and whether local
cricketers will be available to play practice matches. So, a few
days ago, the chief selector told that the team will be comprised
of 18 to 20 people. However, on Tuesday he has moved away
from that stance. Nannu said, we are thinking of sending a team
comprised of 16-17 people.
The Bangladesh team has recently returned to the country
after a three-match ODI and T20 series in New Zealand. About
half of the cricketers in that team were present in the last Test
team against the West Indies. Besides, there were 8-9 more
players from that series, who remained in the country and did
not take part in the New Zealand tour. Now it remains to be seen
whether there will be major changes or not from Test squad of
the West Indies series.
Meanwhile, two rounds of the National Cricket League (NCL)
have been conducted. Will anyone be considered for doing well
there? Cricket analysts are raising such questions. The chief
selector did not say a word about it. However, he explained that
they will not go for a big experiment with the team now. The idea
of sorting out the team with established and tested performers is
going on, which gives us a hint that there might not be any major
changes from the West Indies series to the test squad, that will
travel to the island nation.
Vinicius double puts Real Madrid
on top against Liverpool
SPORTS DESK
Vinicius Junior scored twice
as Real Madrid made
Liverpool pay for more
defensive errors on Tuesday,
a 3-1 victory putting them in
sight of the Champions
League semi-finals, reports
BSS. Vinicius and Marco
Asensio both profited in the
first half after darting behind
Liverpool's makeshift backline
before a simple move
from a throw-in gave Vinicius
a simple finish in the second.
Mohamed Salah's strike
shortly after the interval
briefly made it a contest at
Valdebebas, with an away
goal certainly a significant
consolation for Liverpool to
take into the second leg at
Anfield next week.
But without fans and with a
miserable recent record at
home, Jurgen Klopp will
know his side have it all to do
to avoid his team's season
becoming solely about
scraping into the Premier
League's top four.
"We didn't play well
enough, that's my first
concern," said Klopp. "We
didn't deserve to win tonight,
but the good news is that
there is another match.
"We are going to fight, 3-1 is
not good, but we have a
chance." Except for two spells
after half-time and at the
finish, when their opponents
were holding on to what they
had, Liverpool were
overpowered by Real Madrid,
whose only disappointment
might be missing out on a
clearer margin ahead of the
return in eight days' time.
Before then, they go up
against Barcelona on
Saturday and this result, their
fifth consecutive victory,
should be another huge boost
to morale going into what will
be a crucial fixture in La
Liga's title race.
"Nothing is close, nothing
is won," Madrid coach
Zinedine Zidane said. "We
are alive in two competitions
and we will keep fighting. We
will start the second leg like
it's 0-0 because it will be
another very difficult game."
Madrid were without
Sergio Ramos, who
throughout was bellowing at
his team from the stands,
while Raphael Varane testing
positive for Covid-19 on
Tuesday morning meant
both sides were fielding
patched-up back fours.
The last time these two
clubs met, Ramos dislocated
Salah's shoulder and Madrid
went on to win their 13th
European Cup but Klopp
insisted there was no desire
for revenge in the minds of
his players.
They could have done with
some extra fire because
Madrid were superior in the
first half, more controlled in
possession and more
aggressive out of it. Liverpool
seemed caught between
trying to match Madrid's
intensity and slowing the
game down to gain a
foothold.
Kroos runs the show -In the
end they did neither, as the
openings came early. Luka
Modric wanted a penalty afer
being clipped just outside the
box and Trent Alexander-
Arnold was beaten too easily
by Ferland Mendy, whose
cross was headed just wide by
Vinicius. The excellent Toni
Kroos was given space at the
base of midfield to dictate the
tempo and it was a pair of
arrowed balls forward from
the German that put Madrid
in charge.
The first he fired between
Alexander-Arnold and Nat
Phillips for the scampering
Vinicius, who did brilliantly
to chest the ball beyond his
opponents and shoot low into
the Liverpool net.
Seven minutes later, Kroos
did it again, this time with the
aid of a badly misguided
Alexander-Arnold header,
locating Asensio, who lifted
over Alisson Becker to leave
himself with an open net.
A full stadium would have
sent a surge of momentum
through Madrid but there
was still a simmering buzz, as
their substitutes were
cheering louder and the
players pressed quicker and
passed harder.Liverpool.
Clement Genty has been researching the story of Albert Corey and here
holds up a photograph of the French marathon runner. Photo: Collected
France chases two medals
from the 1904 Olympics
SPORTS DESK
It has taken 117 years, but long-distance
runner Albert Corey may finally be nearing
home, bringing his two Olympic silver
medals with him, reports BSS.
Corey was declared an American by the
organisers when he won silver in the
marathon at the 1904 Olympics in St Louis,
Missouri. But now the French want him,
and his medals, back.
A local councillor in his home town of
Meursault is seeking to correct the record,
asking the French Olympic Committee to
press the issue with the International
Olympic Committee.
Clement Genty, a councillor, engineer
and amateur historian holds up a faded
black and white photo, in which Corey
looks like the archetypal amateur in his
oversized sleeveless vest, crumpled shorts
and laced leather shoes.
Yet this penniless son of Burgundian
winegrowers collected what should have
been France's only Olympic medals of the
1904 Games.
"A beautiful story," says Genty. "I learned
of his existence in a newspaper and did
some research."
Absent without leave -
Corey was born in Meursault in 1878, the
year that the village became the first in the
Cote d'Or area to be hit by phylloxera,
which ravaged the vines.
Etienne Corey, Albert's winemaker father
moved to the Paris suburbs and in 1896,
Albert enlisted in the French army.
There he discovered a talent for
endurance running. He broke the 160km
record in 1899 but on January 2, 1903, he
went absent without leave. A year later, he
turned up as a strike-breaker in the huge
Chicago slaughterhouses.
Getting into local athletics was not easy
for a man with broken English who had
arrived in Chicago, The Washington Times
wrote in 1905, "practically a tramp".
When he learned that the Olympics were
going to be held on American soil, he said
he had run the "Paris Marathon" in 1900.
This was true, but he played on the
confusion with the Olympic Marathon of
the same year to make people believe that
he had participated in a much more
prestigious event. Strychnine -
The ploy worked and he went to St Louis
representing the First Regiment Athletic
Association of Chicago.
Because the St Louis Games were so hard
and expensive to reach from outside North
America, they attracted few international
entrants. Corey would have been the only
Frenchman. "But he belonged to an
986
American club. He was therefore
considered American, according to the
rules of the time," Genty told to AFP.
These were the first Olympics at which
gold, silver and bronze medals were
awarded. The marathon was run in the
hottest part of a sweltering late August day
over a hilly, dusty course that, because the
race distance had not yet been
standardised, was 40km long.
With only one water stop along the
course, more than half of the 32
participants dropped out.
Corey, on the other hand, boasted "I
could have done one more lap".
He crossed the line third but the 'winner',
Fred Lorz, was disqualified for hitching a
lift in a car.
Gold instead went to British-born
American Thomas Hicks who, fuelled by
strychnine mixed with brandy, completed
the course in 3hrs 28min 53 sec to beat
Corey by six minutes. Corey was almost 13
minutes ahead of the bronze medalist.
Corey also won a silver with four
Americans in a team that won a 20-mile
relay - although he is not referred to as
American in the records for this one and the
medal was assigned to a 'mixed' team.
'Funny story' -
The US media was under no illusion that
Corey was anything other than French.
They hailed the "success story" of this
"Frenchman", a "slaughterhouse worker",
who became the "New Star for Marathon".
In October, 1908, the Buffalo Evening
Times wrote: "It must be nice to train like
Corey. The Frenchman who won the
Marathon race declared that he owed his
success to having trained on champaigne
(sic)."
Olympic historians have long classified
Corey as French but his marathon medal is
credited to the United States and the IOC
appears unwilling to change that.
"There is no question of changing the
country to which these medals are
awarded," its press office told AFP.
Corey's bid to win another medal at the
1908 Olympics in London failed, however,
when he declined France's invitation to
represent them in favour of opting to run
for the US, who then proceeded not to
invite him. He won the 1908 Chicago
Marathon but the following year, Corey was
hit by a car and never regained his former
level of performance.
He returned to France in the summer of
1910 and resumed a military career. He
died in 1926 in Paris, probably of
tuberculosis.His great-grandson Serge
Canaud, 69, learned of Corey's unknown
past, thanks to a phone call from Genty.
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