Pistorius asks top court to hear conviction
JOHANNESBURG: The legal team of Oscar Pistorius says it has asked South Africa’s Constitutional Court to let the team appeal the double-amputee Olympian’s murder conviction for the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. lawyer Andrew Fawcett said on Monday that papers have been filed with the court “asking them to grant us leave to appeal.” It is not immediately clear how long the Constitutional Court will take to decide whether it will hear Pistorius’ case. In December, an appeals court threw out a lower court’s lesser manslaughter conviction and found Pistorius guilty of murder.
‘Reset world records in track & field’
london: All world records in track and field should be reset and lifetime bans should be imposed on serious drug cheats to clean up the sport amid its global doping crisis, the governing body of British athletics said on Monday. UK Athletics published “A Manifesto for Clean Athletes” containing 14 proposals aimed at restoring credibility to a sport battered by allegations of widespread doping, cover-ups and corruption. “The integrity of athletics was challenged as never before in 2015,” UK Athletics chairman Ed Warner said. One of the federation’s proposals is to ‘investigate the implications of drawing a line under all pre-existing sport records ... and commencing a new set of records.”
16 dead in football team’s bus crash
Coatzacoalcos: A bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunged into a river after careening off a bridge in eastern Mexico on Monday, leaving at least 16 people dead, authorities said. Another 10 people were injured in the crash in the municipality of Atoyac in the eastern state of Veracruz, officials said. A preliminary investigation found that the bus was speeding, causing the driver to “lose control” of the vehicle over a speed bump and break through a safety barrier, the state government said in a statement. The bus “fell into the bottom of the Atoyac river,” the statement said, adding that “16 bodies and 10 injured people were recovered.” The bus was taking the players to an amateur football game, local officials said.
‘Recognise polls of AITA, JFI chiefs’
New Delhi: Indian Olympic Association and Sports Ministry is heading towards a collision course with the IOA on Monday asserting that Anil Khanna and Mukesh Kumar will not demit office as presidents of All India Tennis Association and Judo Federation of India respectively despite the government’s decision to invalidate the election of the duo. In a letter to the Sports Ministry, the IOA said that Khanna and Kumar were elected as presidents of their respective National Sports Federations (NSFs) in accordance with the IOA Constitution and they cannot be asked to demit office. The IOA asked the government to immediately give recognition to the duo as presidents of their respective NSFs.