free entry for hil fans
lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Wizards on Tuesday announced that entry will be free for spectators for the Hockey India league (HIl) matches to be held here. The home matches of the Wizards will be held at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium here. HIl starts Jan 22 in Bhubaneswar when home team Kalinga lancers take on Ranchi Rays while the first match here will take place Jan 23 when the Warriors face defending champions Delhi Waveriders.
5 F1 Gp’s to start early
Paris: Five F1 races will start an hour earlier this year for safety reasons in the wake of Jules Bianchi's crash at the Japanese GP last year. FIA announced on Tuesday that the races in Australia, Malaysia, China, Japan and Russia have all been brought forward an hour, in accordance with the FIA accident panel's recommendations. After Bianchi's life-threatening crash, the panel proposed that no race should start “less than four hours before either sunset or dusk, except in the case of night races.”
12 Indians in main draw
lucknow: As many as 12 Indians qualified for the main draw of the singles events in the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament on Tuesday. In men's singles category, Satinder Malik, love Kumar, Vikranth Kumar Korukonda, Siddharth Jakhar, Himanshu Saroha, Talar laa, Ankit Chhikara and Rajat Joon made the cut. Ekta Kalia, Riya Mukherjee, lalita Dahiya and Yamini Sharma qualified for the main draw of women's singles competition. Top shuttlers — Saina Nehwal, P V Sindhu, Parupalli Kashyap, K Srikanth and other big names — will start their campaign on Wednesday.
Japan, Iraq advance to QF
Melbourne: Keisuke Honda scored in a third straight Asian Cup game as Japan weathered a determined Jordan 2-0 to advance to the quarterfinals as a group winner on Tuesday. Iraq followed Japan from Group D after Younis Mahmoud and Ahmed Yaseen gave it a 2-0 victory over already-eliminated Palestine. Defending champion Japan will next face the United Arab Emirates in Sydney on Friday, when Iraq plays Iran in Canberra.
capello remains unpaid
Moscow: The latest deadline against the Russian Football Union to pay national coach Fabio Capello has passed without action. Capello last received his wages in June amid financial problems at the RFU, and Russian authorities set a deadline of January 19 for him to be paid before pursuing possible legal action. Under Russian law, RFU president Nikolai Tolstykh could be banned from his post for up to three years for failing to pay an employee. Under the terms of a four-year contract extension signed a year ago, Capello has a reported salary of 8 million euros ($9.3 million) a year.