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After spending 79 days recovering from life, threatening head injuries of fractured skull Felipe Massa tested the Formula 1 car for the first time after the injury. Ferrari said he would not return to competition in 2009. Brazilian was at the wheel of a slick tyred Ferrari at the Italian team’s test circuit Fiorano. Massa is making good progress since his crash and qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix and he tested an F2007 in Italy on Monday.

However, Ferrari has said they want to proceed gradually and do not intend to rush him before he is physically and mentally fit and ready. F1 is ready to wait until the start of 2010. Massa underwent neurological tests in Paris on Friday. According to Ferrari, the outcome was rather positive prompting the decision to allow him to get behind the wheel of a privately owned F2007. Season testing is banned however; the sports governing body gave Massa permission to test using GP2 Tyres at Ferrari’s test track at Fiorano as part of his analysis. Ferrari insisted there is no chance of a comeback in 2009.As per the Ferrari statement this is in no way a proper test session and looking at the stopwatch will not be on the agenda. This opportunity for Felipe will renew his acquaintance with the natural environment namely at the racetrack. Felipa Massa was knocked unconsciously by a loose car part and injured the area around his left eye prompting fears at that time he could have suffered from loss of vision. He is anticipated to return for the final grand prix in Abu Dhabi held on 1 November.

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 with 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.

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 he 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 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 in 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.

Australia second successive victory and became the first team to secure following a six wicket victory over New Zealand at Centurion Park for the ICC Champions Trophy. Century from Shane Watson was mainly responsible for Aussie team success after their success against South Africa three years ago.

Australia limited New Zealand by 200 runs with the lost of nine wickets. It was not at all a smooth and clear victory for Australia. New Zealand decided to bat first and found themselves in big trouble   New Zealand fast bowlers Kyle Mills and Shane Bond claimed a wicket each in the first three over the match. Watson and White batted with intelligence and serenity to secure the world champion trophy. Watson who failed to score in first two matches came back strongly with successive centuries with unbeaten 105 runs while included 10 fours and 4 sixes. His unbeaten century got the title and award of Man of the match. Watson was the second highest scorer in the tournament after Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting with 265 runs. Ponting said after the match that Watson is portraying everybody how good he can be whereas Elliott proved himself with his remarkable performances with both bat and ball. White also batted well with 62 runs with Michael Hussey 11 runs and James Hopes 22 runs ensured Australia to reach the target in 45.2 over. Australia became the first country to win Champions Trophy twice.

Ricky Ponting Australian captain uttered his team needs to be the best to beat New Zealand in the Champions Trophy. Australia won against England in the semi final.Ponting mentioned his team requires playing the best game in the final champion’s trophy.

Ponting added saying team will not be happy until they the peak the achievement. Australia has won three World Cups and the reigning Champions Trophy holder. This year tournament some of their revival team is out of the tournament so it would be interesting to watch as well as play the game against New Zealand. Ponting was fined 20% of his match fee for a slow over rate against England and his teammate fined 10%. Ponting uttered saying winning the game gives a lot of satisfaction. He said this is the first time in few years we have not been ranked the number one team as if for now we are probably world’s number three or four. Aussie team is happy the way we played one-day cricket over the last three to four weeks. The record in these events speaks for itself and expectation has always high. New Zealand beat Pakistan in semi final. Daniel Vettori the captain of New Zealand said his team is hungry to win the competition. He added saying once you reach the immense level you realize an immense desire to go all the way.

Andy Murray ranked world no three British player has been pulled out for Japan Open held in Tokyo due to enduring wrist injury. However, Murray is overwhelmed by this problem over past six weeks, he is paying attention to play at the end of season ATP World Tours finals held in London.

Murray mentioned on his website that ATP is the biggest tournament in London and he need to make it sure about the fitness. He added saying about his disappointment of not challenging for Japan Open. As per the medication, he is advised to give left wrist some more time to get well. Injury is improving on daily basis; full training will be restarted soon, his wrist will be evaluated by this weekend again. He was injured while playing three matches for Davis Cup in Great Britain. Uttering about the Davis Cup defeat said pain is bearable however, decision need to be made. Doctor consulting him said hurt in his right wrist happened two year ago but medication started after three months. Murray added saying that he need to be careful with wrists and not keep playing because such problem does not go away Murray is determined to reach the ATP season finale held at 02 Arena. Champions Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin Del Potro are all qualified for the elite eight-man tournament. Murray mentioned the most freaking thing is not playing the tournament but could not even hold the racquet.

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 descendant 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.