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Kenya’s David Lekuta Rudisha competes in the men’s 800-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Sum-mer Olympics at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Aug 15. (AP)

(From left): Jamaica’s Stephanie Ann Mcpherson, Bahamas’s Shaunae Miller, USA’s Natasha Hastings, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, USA’s Allyson Felix and USA’s Phyllis Francis compete in the Women’s 400m Final during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro

on Aug 15. (AFP)

Reputation damaged by corruption

Ex-FIFA prez Havelange dies at 100RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16, (AP): Joao Havelange, who as president of FIFA for two decades transformed soccer’s govern-ing body into a multibillion-dollar busi-ness and a hotbed for subsequent corrup-tion that damaged its reputation, has died. He was 100.

Havelange, who was suffering from a respiratory infection, died early Tues-day while Rio de Janeiro was hosting the Olympic Games, according to the Samari-tano Hospital.

In 2009, Havelange led off Rio’s bid presentation to the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen by inviting the members to vote to “join me in celebrat-ing my 100th birthday” at the 2016 Games in Brazil.

An IOC statement said its thoughts were with Havelange’s family, adding: “The IOC has agreed to a request from the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee to allow the Brazilian flag to be flown at half-mast during the day in Olympic venues.”

Havelange expanded the World Cup from 16 to 32 teams and made it one of sports’ most important events. He orga-nized six World Cups as FIFA president

from 1974 to 1998, when Sepp Blat-ter replaced him. He secured lucrative broadcast deals, brought nations into FIFA and created the women’s World Cup.

With more cash for football also came widespread financial wrongdoing by its top officials, including Havelange. In 2013, FIFA ethics court judge Joachim Eckert said Havelange’s conduct had been “morally and ethically reproach-able.”

Havelange was never punished. He was allowed to resign his honorary presidency of FIFA in 2013.

Prior to that, Havelange resigned in De-cember 2011 as a member of the IOC just days before its leadership was expected to suspend him and rule on claims that he took a $1 million kickback.

Three of FIFA’s most notorious of-ficials — his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira, Chuck Blazer and Jack Warner — joined FIFA’s executive committee

during Havelange’s presidency. All three were subsequently swept up in corruption investigations by Swiss and US authori-ties last year that also brought the end of Blatter’s 17-year presidency.

Havelange was implicated with Teix-eira in taking millions of dollars in kick-backs from World Cup broadcasting con-tracts. Both left FIFA between 2012 and 2013 to avoid sanctions from the soccer body’s ethics committee. Teixeira has been indicted by the US Justice Depart-ment on corruption charges but has stayed out of reach of American investigators, remaining in Brazil, which typically does not extradite its citizens.

Havelange was cited as a personal hero in soccer by Blazer, the most senior US official at FIFA and his former executive committee colleague. Blazer’s testimony admitting widespread corruption charges was key to the sprawling US investigation implicating FIFA. Blazer is seriously ill and awaiting sentencing.

Warner, a longtime Havelange ally, also is indicted and is fighting extradition to the US from his native Trinidad and Tobago.

Rudisha wins 2nd 800m,Braz scores shock gold

Taylor, Perkovic golden; Brendel, Carrington retain titles

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 16, (Agencies): Kenya’s David Rudisha claimed a majestic Olympic double in the 800m as an unknown Brazilian pole vaulter scored a shock gold medal on a night of up-sets.

Rudisha became the first man in 52 years to clinch back-to-back 800m titles after producing a phenomenal last lap kick to win in 1min 42.15.

Algeria’s reigning Olympic 1500m champion Taoufik Makhloufi took silver in 1:42.61, with American Clayton Mur-phy claiming bronze in 1:42.93.

The biggest shock was scored by un-heralded Brazilian Thiago Braz in the pole vault who conjured the performance of his life to dethrone France’s defending Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie and spark bedlam amongst the fiercely partisan Rio crowd.

As a thrilling duel reached its cli-max, Lavillenie was visibly upset by the crowd’s relentless booing as he prepared for his run-up, at one point wagging his figure in disgust at the catcalls.

American Sam Hendricks took bronze with a vault of 5.85.

Another stunning upset marked the conclusion of the women’s 400m, where world champion Allyson Felix was beat-en by a spectacular head-first dive for the line by Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas.

Shericka Jackson of Jamaica claimed bronze in 49.85.

Meanwhile, Christian Taylor of the United States retained his Olympic men’s triple jump title on Tuesday, recording the longest jump of the year to claim the podium top spot.

His American team mate Will Claye took silver and China’s Dong Bin went home with bronze after they recorded 17.76 and 17.58 respectively, also at their first attempts.

Usain Bolt roused a quiet morning at the Olympic stadium as only he can on Tuesday, remaining firmly on course for his historic ‘triple triple’ by coasting through the 200 metres heats in 20.28 seconds.

Racing in the ninth heat and cheered every step of the way by the sparse but vocal crowd, the Jamaican led coming off the bend and was able to take his foot off the gas to progress comfortably to Wednesday’s semi-finals.

Bolt secured the 100 metres title on Sunday to take another step on the path to an unprecedented third successive sweep of all three Olympic sprint titles -- 100, 200 and 4x100 metres.

Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic flirted with disaster before snatching gold in women’s discus on Tuesday, success-fully defending her London Games title despite fouling five of her six throws in the final.

The 26-year-old Croatian was the hot favourite heading into the final but was on the brink of early elimination after fum-bling her first two throws.

France’s 37-year-old Melina Robert-Michon set a national record of 66.73 metres to take silver, becoming the Eu-ropean country’s oldest ever Olympic medal winner in athletics.

Cuba’s Denia Caballero, who won a

surprise victory at last year’s world cham-pionships, had to settle for bronze.

Meanwhile, Ferry Weertman won a ferocious battle for the men’s 10km open water swimming gold at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday, edging Spiros Gianniotis in a frantic photo finish to cap a Dutch open water double.

Weertman’s triumph by the narrow-est of margins — both he and Gianniotis were credited with a time of 1hr 52min 59.8sec — followed teammate Sharon van Rousendaal’s victory in the women’s race off Copacabana beach on Monday.

But his win bore little resemblance to van Rouwendaal’s victory by a margin of more than 17 seconds.

Gianniotis, 36, said he couldn’t have wished for a better finale to his career, even if it ended in silver.

Seconds behind them there was an equally tight call for bronze with France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier just beating Chi-na’s Zu Lijun — both being timed in 1:53:02.0sec.

Germany’s Sebastien Brendel in the single canoe 1,000m and New Zealand’s Lisa Carrington in the single kayak 200m retained the Olympic titles they won in London with victories in Rio on Tuesday.

Isaquias Queiroz dos Santos earned sil-ver to give Brazil it’s first Olympic medal in canoe sprint and Serghei Tarnovschi won bronze to put Moldova in the Rio medals table.

Carrington, who won the first wom-en’s single kayak 200 gold ever award-ed in London, continued the dominance she has shown since thine. Undefeated in 13 major races since 2012, she won in an Olympic best of 39.864sec. Po-land’s Marta Walczykiewicz was sec-ond and Azerbaijan’s Inna Osipenko-Rodomska earned bronze — four years after capturing silver when competing for Ukraine.

In other sprint canoe finals on Tues-day, Danuta Kozak and Gabriella Szabo grabbed women’s double kayak 500m gold for Hungary ahead of Franziska We-ber and Tina Dietze of Germany.

Beata Mikolajczyk and Karolina Naga earned bronze for Poland.

Surprise Spaniard Marcus Walz won men’s single kayak 1,000m gold ahead of

Czech Josef Dostal and Russian Roman Anoshkin.

Ana Dabovic scored 24 points and Serbia shocked unbeaten Australia 73-71 Tuesday to reach the Rio Olympic wom-en’s basketball semifinals.

The Serbians, who also had 17 points from Jelena Milovanovic, will face the winner of a later quarter-final between Spain and Turkey on Thursday to decide a berth in Saturday’s gold-medal game.

Five-time defending champion United States will face Japan and France will meet Canada in other quarter-final match-ups Tuesday.

Hungary snatched gold from return-ing Olympic champions Tina Dietze and Franziska Weber of Germany by a breath-takingly slim margin on Tuesday in the women’s K-2 500-metre sprint.

Danuta Kozak and Gabriella Szabo won in 1:43.687 as Germany nipped at their heels, claiming silver less than a 10th of a second behind. Poland took bronze, as they did at London 2012. Marit Bouw-meester of the Netherlands won the laser radial women’s dinghy gold at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday.

Ireland’s Annalise Murphy took silver while Denmark’s Anne-Marie Rindom earned bronze in a final postponed be-cause of high winds on Monday.

Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Verniaiev won Olympic gold on the parallel bars on Tuesday.

Verniaiev, 22, the all-around silver medallist in Rio, took gold with 16.041.

American Danell Leyva took silver (15.900) with Russia’s David Belyavskiy taking bronze (15.783).

It is the first time a Chinese gymnast has not won the title since 2004. Deng Shudi finished fourth after a wobble and You Hao last in the eight-man final after falling on his dismount.

It means the Chinese men will return from Rio without a gold.

Meanwhile, Japan’s 15-year-old Mima Ito won the game that secured her country a women’s team bronze medal, triggering an emotional reaction from her team mate on Tuesday. The world number nine de-feated Feng Tianwei in the fourth singles to complete the 3-1 win.

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This file photo taken on Aug 6, 1997 shows then President of the Federation International Football Association (FIFA) Joao Havelange speaking during a press conference where he announced Aug 7 in Rio de Janeiro, the participation of the the Brazilain national soccer

team in the 1998 World Cup competition in France. (AFP)

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Medals Table

Nation G S B TUSA 27 25 26 78Britain 16 17 8 41China 15 14 18 47Russia 11 12 14 37Germany 9 7 6 22Italy 8 9 6 23Netherlands 8 2 3 13France 7 10 10 27Australia 7 7 9 23Japan 7 4 17 28South Korea 6 3 5 14Hungary 6 3 4 13Spain 4 0 2 6New Zealand 3 6 1 10Croatia 3 2 0 5Brazil 2 4 4 10Kazakhstan 2 3 5 10North Korea 2 3 2 7Kenya 2 3 0 5Canada 2 2 9 13Poland 2 2 3 7Colombia 2 2 0 4Cuba 2 1 4 7Switzerland 2 1 2 5Belgium 2 1 1 4Greece 2 1 1 4Thailand 2 1 1 4Uzbekistan 2 0 4 6Jamaica 2 0 2 4Iran 2 0 1 3South Africa 1 5 1 7Sweden 1 4 1 6Ukraine 1 4 1 6Denmark 1 3 5 9Belarus 1 2 2 5Czech Republic 1 1 5 7Romania 1 1 2 4Slovenia 1 1 1 3

Nation G S B TArgentina 1 1 0 2Bahrain 1 1 0 2Slovakia 1 1 0 2Vietnam 1 1 0 2Ethiopia 1 0 3 4Taiwan 1 0 2 3IOA 1 0 1 2Bahamas 1 0 0 1Fiji 1 0 0 1Kosovo 1 0 0 1Puerto Rico 1 0 0 1Singapore 1 0 0 1Azerbaijan 0 2 2 4Indonesia 0 2 0 2Ireland 0 2 0 2Turkey 0 2 0 2Lithuania 0 1 2 3Georgia 0 1 1 2Mongolia 0 1 1 2Algeria 0 1 0 1Armenia 0 1 0 1Grenada 0 1 0 1Malaysia 0 1 0 1Philippines 0 1 0 1Venezuela 0 1 0 1Norway 0 0 3 3Egypt 0 0 2 2Israel 0 0 2 2Estonia 0 0 1 1Kyrgyzstan 0 0 1 1Morocco 0 0 1 1Rep of Moldova 0 0 1 1Portugal 0 0 1 1Tunisia 0 0 1 1UAE 0 0 1 1Total: 187 187 212 586

Note: Table reads as gold, silver, bronze and total.

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