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A SUMMER of sporting events will leave a lasting Olympic legacy for children from across the north of the county.

Youngsters will take part in their own sporting events throughout this year to mark the games.

School sports manager Matthew Peleszok of the Corby, Oundle, Thrapston school sports partnership is already planning a series of events culminating in mass sporting meets this summer.

It is hoped the scheme will ensure that every single child in the area will take part in some competitive sport this year.

More than 200 children from village schools across the north of the county will take part in the Welland Valley Sports event on June 25.

Mr Peleszok said: “We are hoping to organise a baton relay beforehand where all the schools get to carry the torch before it gets brought into the stadium for an opening ceremony.”

In Corby, June 26 marks the 50th year of the schools sports day at Rockingham Triangle which sees pupils from 12 primaries take part in athletics events.

There will be a gymnastics contest at Lodge Park Sports Centre featuring Corby Gymnastics Club, and there will be a rugby tournament at Stewarts amp; Lloyds Rugby Club on March 5.

On May 22, more than 1,000 children will take part in the Steel Kids Triathlon in Corby town centre.

Mr Peleszok said: “It’s important for children to take part in inter-school competition as well as against pupils from their own school. It gives them a good sense of achievement if they do well.”

Then, on July 7, 300 young volunteers will run a huge mini-Olympics called the Northamptonshire Schools Games for 800 county secondary school pupils.

Mr Peleszok added: “They will be competing in 12 different sports, including hockey, athletics, netball, cricket and goalball, which is a disability sport played by Niall Graham from Corby, who is already in the GB team for next year’s Paralympics.

“We are hoping to leave a real legacy with these events. The Olympics are a good opportunity to encourage our youngsters to get involved in sport.”

During the build-up to the games the Olympic torch will travel to Wellingborough, Isham, Kettering, Geddington and Corby and people are planning to celebrate the event in style.

Kettering Council revealed to the Evening Telegraph at the end of last year that it will have talks with schools, sports clubs and businesses to arrange events, activities, and Olympic-themed celebrations.

The council’s community services manager, Pia Bellamy, said: “Having the torch come to Kettering is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We want to maximise this opportunity as much as we can and we’re hoping to get schools, clubs and businesses involved.”

Kettering’s Manor House Museum and Alfred East Art Gallery will also hold special events and exhibitions in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

And everyone in Corby will be invited out on to the streets to welcome the Olympic Torch when it comes to the town on July 2.

Both Clijsters and Williams, the 2010 Australian Open champion, were playing their first tournaments in four months. Clijsters struggled with injuries last season and only played eight tournaments, including the win at the Australian Open which helped her return to the No 1 ranking for one week.

She said her hip had started to go into spasm during the match and she withdrew to avoid a serious rupture.

I felt my left hip was getting tighter and tighter to the point I couldnt move forward with my upper body, she said. So it was the smartest choice to try and not let it get any worse, to be ready for Melbourne.

Players have complained in the past that the Australian Open is too early in the season, with most having limited tournament play after the offseason. The heat in the Australian summer is another issue and the predominance of hard-court tournaments is often cited as contributing to injuries.

Oh, its definitely more demanding, Clijsters said of the hard-courts, but I think every surface has their advantages and disadvantages.

Its just, our sport has evolved into such a strong sport where physically, I mean, its so much more demanding on the body and how we play.

Clijsters said players were spending more time in the gym to build strength to cope with the increasing demands on their bodies and many traveled with a physio.

When I came on tour…nobody was hardly ever in the gym besides warming up with a skipping rope or doing some shoulder exercises and now theres everybody, because its necessary, she said. The tennis that I play is physically so demanding on the body and then…combine that on a hard court.

Murray, who will play in a mens semi-final at Brisbane on Saturday, dropped the opening sets in his first two rounds as he overcame soreness and stiffness from the offseason. He breezed through a quarterfinal against 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis and said hes feeling OK now.

Nadal, who has struggled with a sore left shoulder, was beaten in straight sets by Gael Monfils in the Qatar Open semi-finals on Friday, but did not blame any injury problems for the loss.

There have been several other injury pullouts. Sixth-seeded Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia withdrew from Qatar with a right ankle injury, and at Brisbane, Florian Mayer retired with a groin injury and Tommy Haas with a calf muscle injury.

Maria Sharapova withdrew before the Brisbane tournament with an injured ankle and Venus Williams announced in mid-December that she was pulling out of the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, which was supposed to be her first competitive match since August. The 31-year-old Williams is still recovering from the immune system disease Sjogrens syndrome, which can cause fatigue and joint pain.

There has been no word on Venus status for the Australian Open. Her sisters fitness for Melbourne will likely be in doubt until just before the tournament starts.

Im going to take a couple of days off, not too many, and see how I feel, Serena Williams, the 2010 Australian Open champion said after her withdrawal at Brisbane. Im still hopeful of playing the Australian Open.

– AP

MIAMI Don Carter, the bowling great with the unorthodox style who flourished as a genuine sports celebrity during the games golden age on TV, died Thursday at his Miami home. He was 85.

The Professional Bowlers Assn. announced the death of Carter, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia complicated by emphysema.

Carter, known as Mr. Bowling, was the games original superstar. He became his sports most recognizable name at a time when alleys were thriving across the country and bowling was starting to assert itself as a fixture on television.

He was a leading force in the formation of the PBA in 1958 and became a charter member of the PBA Hall of Fame in 1975.

Carter had a style all his own as he took his steps to the line. With his stooped shoulders and cocked elbow, he made a deep knee bend as he unleashed the ball as if pushing it toward the pins. He helped transform a sport that had been a blue-collar recreational activity.

Don was the greatest bowler of his era, Hall of Fame bowler Ray Bluth said. There was no one like him.

He also became the first athlete in American sports history to sign a $1-million marketing endorsement contract, with bowling ball manufacturer Ebonite in 1964.

He was a pioneer, a champion and will never be forgotten, said Tom Clarke, the PBA commissioner.

The 6-foot, 200-pound Carter bowled five 800 series, 13 perfect games and six 299s in sanctioned play

In 1970, he was inducted into the American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame. The same year Carter was selected as the greatest bowler in history in a Bowling Magazine poll.

Born in St. Louis on July 29, 1926, Carter was introduced to bowling on his 13th birthday.

He played amateur American Legion baseball with Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola. After serving with the Navy during World War II, he signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Athletics as a pitcher-infielder. After a year, he returned to St. Louis and bowling.

Carter married LaVerne Haverly in 1953. After they divorced, he married Paula Sperber in the 1970s. Both women are in the Womens International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.

After retiring from bowling in 1972, Carter moved to Miami. He occasionally competed in pro-am tournaments in the 1990s, and he owned a chain of alleys and a line of bowling apparel.

In addition to his wife, Paula, Carter is survived by sons Jim and John, daughter Caycee, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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                                                                 By Timothy Sichela

THE New Year is with us and the countdown proper to this month’s much-awaited 28th edition of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has truly started.

Obviously the biggest sporting highlight of the year, the London 2012 Olympic Games is in another continent, but I will focus on 2012 AFCON where Zambia has some hope.

The 100 metres Jamaican showdown between world record holder Usain Bolt and world champion Yohan Blake is one of the most anticipated races in 2012. Can’t wait for June!

I shudder to even imagine Zambia winning medals at the world’s greatest show considering our athletes have failed to win any significant medals on the international stage in recent times. Sport associations were probably too busy brawling and forgot London Olympic Games were beckoning.

Thank God the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) spared us some time to at least qualify the Chipolopolo for 2012 AFCON. The women and men U-23 soccer teams flunked the Olympic qualifiers, though.

And with the giants Nigeria, Cameroun and defending champions Egypt absent, everyone thought winning the cup had been easy. But how can that be when Senegal, Ivory Coast and Ghana are available!

The likes of Kalilo Kakonje, Felix Katongo, both who spent most of 2011 without club football, Nyambe Mulenga, who blew hot and cold the whole of last season, and a couple of South Africa-based players past their prime, give me the creeps about this AFCON.

If coach, Herve Renard really wants to win AFCON, he needs to work with in-form and fit players, he should not be rehabilitating tired legs because make no mistake about it- other AFCON finalists have altogether left passengers behind.

Renard may be satisfied with the progress his charges appear to be making in readiness for AFCON, saying the Chipolopolo are now capable of winning AFCON matches. We will see about that in next week’s friendly against South Africa.

With some of the most important games in football played in the mind, next Wednesday’s friendly is a must-win especially now that it is against a makeshift Bafana Bafana.

After losses to Nigeria and Angola, the Chipolopolo need a confidence-boosting victory before heading to Equatorial Guinea.

Away from AFCON, Chilangisha B Changwe writes: I agree with you that we did not perform well in most sports disciplines. The current FAZ executive (thought) scored many successes in the just ended soccer season raising the standards of football and qualifying for the AFCON 2012.

The Under-20 national team also defended the COSAFA Cup in Botswana.

The standards of football which have been plummeting the past few years took an upward swing. The performance by most Premier teams was relatively higher and the league was very competitive.

This led to an increase in match attendance by almost 30 per cent. In my own opinion the current executive deserve a pat on the back. The following could have been reasons behind the success.

From where this column stands, it is not easy applauding FAZ for its achievements including training of coaches at high level courses, sponsorship of league and televising of live matches by Supersport since the deals were sort of shrouded in secrecy. Catch me next week.

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Elite sport should pay its own way

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Simon Tatz

The Federal Government has just found a spare $50 million to fund the redevelopment of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).

This is terrific news for all Australians who attend the one or two cricket matches held in Sydney each year. The SCG members will be chuffed.

As we watch the dark clouds descend over the European financial system and a budget surplus thinner than Shane Warnes original thatch, its heart-warming that Ms Gillard has been able to conjure up 50 mill to redevelop the Bradman, Noble and Messenger Stands.

The Feds will get some help getting the seats all comfy. Barry OFarrells mob are chipping in $86 million while the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust will deliver $50 million.

Good announcement. Delivered on the first day of the 100th Test at the SCG. Thatll boost their polling numbers, which currently sit on a par with Gautam Gambhirs batting average this series.

Australian governments love investing in sporting infrastructure and elite sport. They think it is meaningful in a vote-winning way.

In terms of elite sport we should be asking a simple question – why do governments use taxpayers money to fund what is in most regards a private concern?

Why should elite sport, with its massive TV revenue, advertising investment and highly paid players who do myriad commercial endorsements, also receive government handouts so that their playing pavilion is improved? After all, the SCG isnt a public utility like a hospital or school. It doesnt provide a service to the nation like a defence force or transport system.

Given that a telecommunications company and a TV network are currently displaying their brand names all over the field, maybe they should contribute to the upgrade? After all, they benefit just as much from the redevelopment as the ordinary Australian who would be lucky to get near a Test match in their lifetime.

We hardly ever question government investment in elite sport. While participatory sport and well-being programs get crumbs, governments continue to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into elite sport so we can finish higher than England at the Olympics or have wonderful state-of-the-art stadiums that are filled a few days every year.

How many times has the SCG been filled over the past few years? How many times do 48,000 people attend this ground? By contrast, how many kids play on dirt riddled ovals with an old wooden stand that hosts a minivan full of parents?

Its an interesting political dichotomy currently going on in Australian sport. On the one side we have the poker machine lobby and the clubs screaming blue murder that any restrictions in the amount of money folks can lose on the pokies would be detrimental to community sport; while concurrently federal and state governments (well, NSW at least) are using up their apparently limited budgets investing in an elite stadium redevelopment.

What would be the political and social outcome if governments funded community sport and let the clubs and their billions in poker machine profits fund elite sport?

Governments mistakenly think that funding sporting infrastructure wins them approval. It didnt help former ACT chief minister Kate Carnell, who was forced to resign after the debacle of the Canberra Stadium upgrade. Sinking money into Newcastles football stadium didnt help their former Number One fan Kim Beazley, although Im sure Kim is just as interested in the privately owned Newcastle Knights now theyve bought the best coach and a team full of top players. The Sydney Olympics didnt save the NSW Labor government and I doubt the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games will keep Anna Blighs team in office. 

But back to the SCG. Look, in the great scheme of things, $50 million probably isnt that much. However, whenever the federal or state treasurer or a minister stands up and says they cant afford something, such as new drugs on the PBS, dental health care, major road works in black spots and the like, then it is easy pickings to point to the millions spent so that a cricket oval looks good.

Maybe its time that elite sport paid its own way, as it does in the USA, with privately built stadiums run as commercial entities with little or no government funded assistance.

Maybe its time for governments to redirect funding to community sport, to wellbeing and wellness programs, and to sporting infrastructure in rural, remote and Indigenous Australia.

Simon Tatz is the director of communications for the Mental Health Council of Australia.

She is known for her beach blonde locks and never messes with her signature locks too dramatically.

But Paris Hilton decided to dabble with a darker hair shade today as she headed out for a shopping trip in Beverly Hills.

While on first glance it might seem like the Hotel heiress dyed her long locks following her shop trip she told fans she was getting her hair done later in the day.

The following video is part of our Motley Fool Conversations series, in which Austin Smith, consumer-goods editor and analyst, and Brendan Byrnes, industrials editor and analyst, discuss topics around the investing world.

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On the second day of Auto Expo 2012 the first pair of hot wheels on display was the revamped Toyota Etios and Liva concept race cars.

The series would feature the current Liva and Etios, currently seen on the roads, with several modifications to ensure that these cars are track worthy. The 1.2-litre Liva engine and the 1.5-litre Etios engine would see significant modifications as well.

Toyotas venture into the Indian motor sport scene comes months after India hosted its maiden Formula 1 race in October 2011.

Electric power
For those feeling the pinch of rising fuel prices, Mahindra brought some good news. On Friday it introduced Rev NXR, a two-door hatchback powered by an electric motor which reaches a decent top speed of 104 km per hour.

The Reva NXR represents a new generation of tree hugging vehicles of the lines of Nissan Leaf toeing the line of this years environment friendly Auto Expo.

Mean machines
Moving to the sports utility vehicle (SUV) section, the global automakers seem to be aggressively targeting this segment of Indias underdeveloped car bazaar. Carmakers have unveiled over a dozen new rugged, full-powered SUVs at the Auto Expo this year.

Following the opening days trend of big wheels, General Motors India unveiled a refreshed version of the Captiva on Friday. The new model includes a powerful 2.2 litre engine along with a six-speed automatic transmission.

The new Captiva also has a fresh new sporty and muscular exterior design and a jet-black interior. It would have cruise control, a dual-row heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, an electric parking brake, rain-sensing wipers and a sunroof.

Ratan Tatas Tata Motors is also ready to take the SUV market by storm. He unveiled the new Tata Safari Storme, a face-lifted version of the existing Safari with a new front grille, bulge in the bonnet and different side panelling. Safari Storme features the same 2.2-litre 16-valve common rail engine with a variable geometry turbocharger.

The Ertiga marks Suzukis entry into the multi-utility vehicle (MUV) segment. It has a newly developed 1.4 litre gasoline engine as well as a 1.3 litre diesel engine. The seven-seaters diesel variant claims to have fuel efficiency of an impressive 20.77 km per litre. Its commercial roll out is scheduled by April with the hope of boosting Suzukis sales amid intensifying competition in its key business of small cars.

Earlier, Maruti Suzuki had unveiled its compact SUV hybrid concept — XA Alpha — on Thursday with a bang even as virtually all competitors revved up to put out smaller and more compact SUVs.

Mahindras premium SUV Rexton, Hyundais Hexa Space and Fords compact SUV EcoSport were among some of the other cars unveiled on the opening day of the show.

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Three years ago on November 25th, 2008, Rhonda and Brian Swan left behind their material things and embarked on an Endless Summer Journey with their daughter Hanalei. Since that day, their travels have taken them to countless countries including Hawaii, Bali, Australia, Fiji, Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and now Brazil. With a passion for surfing, they have travelled far and wide in search of the best waves.

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They realised that although they were supposedly living the American Dream with multiple luxury homes and fast cars, it wasn’t necessarily their dream. Their jobs left them feeling emotionally hollow, so they decided to radically change their lives and set up a mobile business in personal development, teaching people to create wealth and live their dreams.

Like many successful entrepreneurs though, the Swans have had to overcome major obstacles. They invested money in a golf course and property development, but the money disappeared and the golf course was never built, resulting in an expensive court battle. The Swans lost a lot of money, sold their homes and decided that they could either stay and rebuild their lives in San Diego, or pursue their dream to travel the world and let go of their material things.

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