Unseeded Japanese Kenichi Tago shocked Danish seventh seed Joachim Persson 16-21, 21-14, 21-13 in the men’s singles first round at the world badminton championships yesterday.
Tago fought back from a game down to win in 57 minutes on a day when the championships were hit by an (A)H1N1 virus threat, with a Malaysian coach quarantined with swine flu symptoms.
Eight people have died of swine flu in India, with hundreds infected. The southern state of Andhra Pradesh, of which Hyderabad is the capital, has recorded 76 positive cases.
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Ninth-seeded Hsieh Yu-hsing of Taiwan scraped past India’s Arvind Bhat 21-14, 19-21, 24-22 in just over an hour in another first round match.
Indonesia’s former Olympic and world champion Taufik Hidayat and Chinese second seed Chen Jin were scheduled to open their campaigns later.
Also yesterday, Chen Hsiao-huan of Taiwan lost to Hong Kong’s Wang Chen 21-14, 19-21, 24-22, and in mixed doubles play, Taiwan’s Fang Chieh’min and Cheng Wen-hsing were defeated by China’s Zhang Yawen and Xie Zhongbo.
The championships are being played under tight security after England pulled out citing a “specific terrorist threat,” following media reports the event could be targeted by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The group has been blamed for the raid on Mumbai in November in which 166 people were killed.
Taiwan suffered its first defeat of the 2024 World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier12, losing to defending champion Japan 3-1 at the Taipei Dome last night. Japan’s victory put Taiwan’s score at two wins and one loss in WBSC Premier12 championship Group B play. In the top of the first inning, a sacrifice fly from Japanese batter Shota Morishita allowed Masayuki Kuwahara to score a run on Taiwan’s starter Chen Po-ching (陳柏清). Taiwan’s attempt to catch up in the bottom of the first ended to no avail and an uneventful second inning saw the score
Taiwan last night defeated Cuba 2-0 in their World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier12 Group B game at the Taipei Dome and finished the group second. At the Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium, South Korea yesterday defeated Australia 5-2, while Japan last night won 11-3 against the Dominican Republic. On Sunday, Taiwan scored two three-run homers in an 11-3 blowout win over Australia at the Taipei Dome to advance to the Super Round. Fresh off a defeat at the hands of defending Premier12 champions and Group B winners Japan the previous day, Taiwan’s offense came out slugging against Australia from the
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A debate over the soul of soccer is raging in FIFA World Cup holders Argentina, pitting defenders of the social role of the beautiful game against the government of libertarian Argentine President Javier Milei, who wants to turn clubs into for-profit companies. Argentina, which gave the world Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi, is home to some of the world’s most devoted soccer fans — a fact attributed by supporters like Gabriel Nicosia to the clubs’ community outreach. Nicosia is a lifelong supporter of San Lorenzo, a more than 100-year-old first division club based in the working-class Buenos Aires neighborhood of Boedo where
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