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Salomon Kalau Signs A New Deal With Chelsea

Salomon Kalau Chelsea striker signed a new three-year contract with the Stamford Bridge club, which should keep him in west London until 2012. Carlo Ancelotti Blues Manager told at an official website that Salomon an important player for the club and he is pleased that Salomon has signed a new contract.

Ivory Coast star £8m signing from Feyenoord in 2006 was set to become a free agent next summer. Chelsea was currently appealing against a transfer ban imposed by Fifa, which prevents them from registering new players until January 2011. Later punishment was cancelled after the club was found guilty of suggesting Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens in 2007. Kalou follows Didier Drogba, Salomon KalauAshley Cole and John Terry in vowing his future with the Premier League outfit and banned from signing any new players for the next two transfers window. Kalau was often used as a substitute since his move to west London with five of his 10 appearances this season coming off the bench. In total, he has made 93 starts, 66 substitute appearances for Chelsea and scored 31 goals. Ancelotti added saying Salomon is very well motivated and work hard for his game and he is sure of Salomon becoming an important player in future. Kalou is likely to play at next summer’s World Cup finals after Ivory Coast sealed their qualification with a 1-1 draw against Malawi.




Coach Steve Meehan Extended His Contract

Steve Meehan Bath head coach has signed a two-year contract extension that is set to keep him at the Guinness Premiership club until 2012. Deal is a major endorsement for Meeham‘s tenure despite of the club difficult start to the season with just one win and a draw from five Guinness Premiership games.

Meehan said he is very happy staying and continue working with these players for the club and its supporters. Bath has struggled to emerge from the shadow of drug scandal that rocked Steve Meehanthe club last season. Bath chief executive Nick Blofeld said we are delighted has Steve pledged another two years to Bath Rugby and the whole team on and off the pitch are keen to keep improving. Meehan joined Bath from Stade Francais in summer 2006 initially as backs coach. He soon became head coach after the departure of Brain Ashton. Bath had a slow start to the season winning only one of their six games including the defeat of Ulster in the Heineken Cup on Friday. However, Queenslander brought Bath their first silverware in 10 years when the club won the European Challenge in 2008. Meehan said Guinness Premiership kept on throwing up challenges to them, as does the Heineken Cup. Meehan decision to extend his stay at Bath comes shortly after the arrival of new executive who took over on 1 September.




Tiger Woods Win Presidents Cup For US

Tiger Woods at his best in team tournament took the Presidents Cup for the sixth time in eight events by beating the International team. He was an inspirational in San Francisco as 19.5-14.5 defeated Greg Norman’s International team. In pervious President Cup appearances, Woods had 13 victories and 11 defeats while on the other hand Ryder Cup record is 10 wins, 13 defeats, and 2 draws.

Woods won all five of his matches as the US triumphed. US are now unbeaten in five Presidents Cup matches on home soil. Open champion Cink beat Australian Adam Scott 4&3 in the second match out before Mahan came from two down after four holes to edge Colombian Camilo Villegas 2&1. In the ninth match, Woods was against Yang the South Korean who had come from two shots behind American to win USPGA championship at Hazeltine. Yang’s victory the first Asian born male ended Tiger Woodswith Woods 100 percent record winning all 14 of his majors when leading into the final round. However, Woods was too strong at Harding Park. Woods said all he knew was he was trying to get his point and he was five up trying to make it six. He added saying he did not look at any board just saw six matches and his aim to extend his own lead. We played great as a team and the captain did some great pairings. His six US tour titles included one BMW championship, US Tour’s Fed Ex Cup playoff series; two runner-finishes in the elite series take the title and 10 million dollar bonus.




Iwan Thomas Desires A Comeback

Former European and Common wealth 400m champion Iwan Thomas said he is not bearing in mind a comeback. He added saying he trains for enjoyment under the clarified comment that suggested he was tempting to return to competition. Thomas said he still love training however not thinking about a comeback. He recalls about returning as a competitor was asked at a charity dinner that was blown a bit.

Thomas won Commonwealth and European titles in 1998 unfortunate fall in career in recent years was due to injury, which forced him to miss out the last Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006. He remains as the 400m record holder setting this in 44.36 seconds in 1997 at Birmingham. Thomas mentions Iwan Thomashe would love to run quickly again and never know about the future however, he has other commitment, which is going on. Thomas added saying he would be happy to offer any assistance to the team as a squad for the 2010 Common wealth Games in Delhi. He was semi tempted glancing at the timetable charts and did planned to participate at the Common Wealth. Thomas was unable to defend the individual title in 2002. He also participated at the Great Britain for the Sydney Olympics in 2000. If he happened to be injury free then running seems to be his passion. Thomas said he never got a chance to say goodbye from his career. He never was retired went out from ground due to injury.




Golf And Rugby An Additional Games From 2016 Olympics

Golf and rugby sevens are hoping that the International Olympic Committee will include them in Olympics from 2016. Olympic committee executive board voted to include both games at a meeting held two months back. Sanctioning must be rubber stamped by the entire IOC in Copenhagen.

Golf player Padraig Harrington and Michelle Wie and Kiwi Rugby player Jonah Lomu will be also present and participate at the final presentation on Friday. IOC congress will have a yes/no vote on the inclusion of each sport. Olympic will guarantee them a solid future and millions of dollars in improved TV deals, sponsorship and state funding. Softball, squash, baseball, roller sports, and karate were in disputation for being involved in Olympic after being eliminated by the executive board in the month of August. One of the main problems would be whether top players would compete Golf And Rugbyin Olympics when they already have tight schedule however, Tiger Woods revealed to play. Ty Votaw executive director of International Golf Federation Olympic Golf Committee said golf has been demonstrated as an Olympic sport has received exceptional support from golf organizations and leading players. International Rugby board would scrap its Sevens World Cup to ensure in Olympics as the top event. Seven Rugby is already a part of Commonwealth Games.




Harlequins Hunting For Coach

Mark Evans chief executive of Harlequins said the club had received numerous wounds regarding the vacant director of rugby at Stoop. Evans added saying we are still searching, conversing with few people and have approached few. In the month of August, Dean Richards resigned from the post after supporting and planning the use of fake blood in Heinken Cup during the quarterfinal last season.

Ian Mc Geechan director of rugby who coached the British and Irish Lions during their tour in South Africa refused to take the position even if his role could allow him to get back into the game. Evans continued to careful regardless of their failure to win the Four Premiership games this season. He added saying he are moving on, not whispering about anyone in or out of the frame. He needs to select an appropriate candidate and the process has just started and Ian Mc Geechan has got an extreme record of accomplishment. Mark Evans claims Richards Harlequins Rugbydescendant will work on coaching led by John Kingston. Evans uttered saying if you put an ideal person then likely he would have an experience of the game indeed we have got a lot of English players Our experiences with coaches are wide and John was into the game from the day he went professional and before that. Colin Osberne was into various roles with the club for more than 15 years. Tony Diprose is also an outstanding coach with a wide knowledge about rugby.




Leicestershire Proud Of James Taylor

James Taylor batsman of Leicestershire honored with the Young Cricketer of the year by the Cricket Writers Club. Taylor 19-year-old accepted his prestigious award in London.He became the youngest Leicestershire player since George Dawkes in 1983 and is likely to be added in winter’s England Academy programmer to be added to the England Under-19 honor he won earlier this year.

Taylor played in this abundant James Taylorseason with his bat scoring 1,177 runs in 16 matches with an average of 58.88. He scored three centuries, six half centuries, and 207 highest score not out. He became the first teenager to make a double century for the county. Former winner included are Fred Trueman, Sir Ian Bothman and Andrew Flintoff. David Smith county chief executive uttered as a special moment for the club and a special story, lot of people can be proud of James achievement.




Athletic Chief To Be Sacked Says South Africa

Athletics chief Leonard Chuene need to be dismissed for renouncing the facts of athlete Caster Semanya gender tests. He confessed on Saturday that he overlooked the opinion to pull out athlete Semanya from challenging the IAAF Championships in Berlin and deprived of the fact of sex test done on her before the world title won of 800m.

The ministry of sports was stunned to here the disclose lie and  ordered to sack him from his current job designation said Gert Oosthuizen, he added saying if they fail to do so then they run the risk of being led by a liar. This intimate fact of gender Caster Semenyatest was revealed to the press. Gert added saying the department had asked for the report twice before and after the game but did not get anything as per the request. Chuene intension was just to protect her privacy and he apologized for his measures. However, his confusion is not acceptable the statement declares that he lied not only to the ministry but also to the entire country. The confident denial of knowledge of test added up uninterrupted harm of her rights and dignity by both local and international media. Semanya has an interex status of revealing both female and male individuality as per their understandings of tests done.