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NAIROBI – Lack of experience cost Kenya medals in events they were tipped to dominate at the world championships, the country’s Olympic 800 metres champion Wilfred Bungei said.

Kenya finished third in the medal table, behind the United States and Jamaica, with a haul of four gold, five silvers and two bronze but Bungei said it could have been an even better return for the east African nation.

“The overall performance was good, but I think they should have done better,” Bungei, who was not selected for the Berlin event which ended on Sunday after missing the Kenyan trials through injury, told Reuters on Tuesday.

“Asbel Kiprop was a favourite in the 1,500m, but the decision to also run in the 800m made him lose concentration. He lost both.

“It was experience which carried (South Africa’s Mbulaeni) Mulaudzi to victory in the 800m, but which our team lacked,” he said. “This was also the case with the women’s marathon which we have dominated in the past, but in which none of our girls finished in the top 10.”

Catherine Ndereba, who won the global title in Helsinki in 2005 and Osaka two years ago, opted out of the team to Berlin.

Bungei said Kiprop and fellow 800m team member David Rudisha were typical victims of inexperience. Rudisha, who won the Kenyan trials and was tipped to get a medal, failed to reach the final.

“These are world championships, not Kenyan trials. Competitors train hard for them. Kiprop should have concentrated on one event and planned for it. By running two races, he probably did not know where to concentrate,” he said.

“Rudisha had not run at the global stage and certainly did not know how to handle pressure at that level.”

ROME: Asia’s contingent of Olympic boxing champions will be confident of adding world titles to their glittering collections when the World Championships get underway in Milan today.

China’s Zou Shiming (light flyweight), Somjit Jongjohor of Thailand (flyweight) and Mongolia’s Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan (bantamweight) will all start among the favorites.

Zou is actually aiming for a third straight world title while Somjit and Badar-Uugan won silver medals at the last World Championships in Chicago in 2007.

Asians won five of the 11 Olympic gold medals in 2008 and another strong
Italian fighters will be looking to lead the challenge to Asia, particularly in light of the decline of traditional powerhouse Cuba.

The Cubans did not compete in Chicago and then stunningly failed to pick up a single gold medal at the Beijing Olympics last year.

The second most dominant country in amateur boxing, the United States, only managed a single medal – a bronze – in China while Russia, having dominated the European Championships, managed just two golds at the Olympics.

In fact, that competition had such a spread of medals that many countries will arrive in Milan with realistic hopes of coming away with a new world champion.

Leading the European charge will be the Italians, who won two gold medals in Chicago and followed that up with an Olympic title as well.

They also performed well in recent team matches, beating the US and China, drawing with Cuba and only narrowly losing to Russia. Those results can be misleading, though, as Italy has a wide gap between their better fighters and the rest.

The top man is super-heavyweight Roberto Cammarelle, the current world and Olympic champion.

If things go to the form-book, Cammarelle, a Milan local, should come away with yet another gold medal before heading into retirement.

“This is my home and even if the worlds are tougher than the Olympics, I can only wish good luck to my opponent because for sure I will be the other finalist,” he boasted.

Cammarelle’s main rivals should be European champion Kubrat Pulev of Bulgaria and China’s Zhang Zhilei, who the Italian stopped in the Olympic final.

Italy’s other main hope is Clemente Russo, the reigning heavyweight titlist and a silver medalist in Beijing.

His conqueror there, Rakhim Chakhkiev of Russia, has since joined the professional ranks, where Russo intends to follow him after this competition.

“I respect all my opponents from the best to the worst but the only person to fear is me because I’m the reigning champion,” he said.

LONDON: Formula One’s governing body was made aware last year of allegations that Renault had fixed the Singapore Grand Prix by ordering Brazilian Nelson Piquet to crash, a British newspaper reported on Friday.

The Daily Mirror quoted the driver’s father and namesake, also a triple world champion, telling investigators that he had spoken informally to FIA race director Charlie Whiting at the season-ending Brazilian race in November.

Piquet and Whiting worked together at the Brabham team in the 1980s, with the Briton acting as the champion’s chief mechanic.

“When this thing happened in Singapore I couldn’t believe it,” the Brazilian declared in excerpts from an interview that the paper said was conducted by private investigators Quest in London on Aug 17.

Anyway, in Brazil I talk to Charlie,” he continued.

“I got him and said ‘Look what could happen to Nelson if I bring this up? And I was afraid to screw up the career of Nelson.”

Piquet added later: “In the race in Brazil I called Charlie and I told the whole story to Charlie.”

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) was not immediately available for comment.

The body began investigating the allegations after Piquet junior was dismissed by Renault and then made a statement to the FIA alleging he had been ordered to crash to help team mate Fernando Alonso win.

Former champions Renault will face the FIA’s world motor sport council in Paris on Monday to answer charges of fraudulent behaviour that could see them kicked out of the championship or fined heavily.

Team boss Flavio Briatore and his engineering head Pat Symonds have already left the team and Renault have said they would not contest the charges.

LONDON: Corruption runs deep in Formula One and the only way to stop the rot is for a total break from the existing system, the man hoping to succeed Max Mosley as FIA president claimed yesterday.

Ari Vatanen, the former rally champion who is in a run off with Mosley’s preferred candidate Jean Todt in next month’s FIA presidential election, made the accusation on the eve of today’s ‘crashgate’ hearing in Paris.

The World Motor Sport Council is holding an extraordinary meeting to investigate what some are calling the worst case of cheating in the history of sport – conspiring to cause Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr’s deliberate crash at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix to help teammate Fernando Alonso win the race.

“What is happening here with Renault is more than just the tip of the iceberg, it is symptomatic of a wider problem,” Vatanen told Britain’s The Sunday Telegraph.

“The image of the sport has been battered recently.
Look at all the leaked dossiers. We have gone from ‘Spygate’ to ‘Crashgate’ with many other things in between. What the public see is a corrupt sport. They do not trust it and who can blame them.”

Vatanen told the paper that the WMSC was not the right body to hear the Renault case as members of the board like Formula One rights holder Bernie Ecclestone have “vested interests”.

“For me we must introduce an absolutely independent body to arbitrate in these proceedings. The entire structure of motorsport justice must change,” said Vatanen.

With three of the key characters in the plot that has fascinated and appallad F1 watchers in equal measure – former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore and chief engineer Pay Symonds and Picquet Jr – all guaranteed immunity, it remains to be seen what punishment the WMSC will mete out today.

Renault are not planning to contest the charges and Vatanen hopes the Franco-British team will not be banned.

“I’m never going to win,” Mayweather, 32, told a post-fight news conference after dominating his first bout since coming out of a 21-month retirement.

“When am I going to get my just due and people just acknowledge that Floyd Mayweather is a great fighter?”

The American has been criticized in the past for avoiding some dangerous opponents and he was loudly booed by a majority of the 13,000-strong crowd as he made his way to the ring in the wake of the hugely popular Marquez.
Although Marquez was a world champion at three different weights, there was criticism of Mayweather’s selection of a former featherweight champion, who had most recently fought at lightweight, as his opponent for a welterweight bout.

That criticism intensified when Mayweather failed to make the contracted weight of 144 pounds on Friday, instead tipping the scales at 146 pounds, four pounds heavier than Marquez.

“To be the best, you got to beat the best in your era,” said Mayweather, who was back in the ring for the first time since his 10th round stoppage of Britain’s Ricky Hatton in Dec 2007.

“It’s not about weight classes. I came from a small weight class too.”

Mayweather won his first world title in 1998 at junior lightweight, 17 pounds lighter than the welterweight division in which he now competes.

The smaller and lighter Marquez, 50-5-1 (37 KOs) said: “I tried my best but the weight was a big problem.

Weight advantage

“I think there was a 20-pound difference in weight,” he said, referring to the fighter’s respective weights. “The weight was an advantage but Floyd’s a great fighter.
He’s very fast and a very good counter puncher. I came to fight 12 hard rounds and a lot of people thought I was going to get knocked out. But I wasn’t and I hope I made Mexico proud.”

Mayweather, who improved his career record to 40-0 with 25 knockouts, paid tribute to the gutsy display by the Mexican.

“Marquez is tough as hell,” he said. “I hit him with a couple of shots and I thought: ‘I know he’s going to go from this one’, but he kept coming.”

Immediately after the fight ended, Mayweather was challenged by fellow American and WBC welterweight champion Shane Mosley.

“I’m hoping that the best will fight the best,” said Mosley. “That’s what the sport of boxing needs.

“I’m the No 1 welterweight champion out there right now and I’m the type that’s willing to fight anybody. I want to clean up the division so everyone will know I’m the best fighter.”

Mayweather refused to be drawn into any speculation about his next opponent.

“Tonight’s not Shane Mosley’s night,” he said. “No disrespect to Mosley, but he’s supposed to be in training camp, not worrying about me. All roads lead to Floyd Mayweather. Everybody wants to fight me. I can’t fight everybody.”

The ICC Champions Trophy bowls off tonight (Beijing time) with the limited-overs cricket game under as much pressure as the host side, South Africa.

Increasingly squeezed between Tests and the juggernaut known as 20/20, the 50-over per side version of the sport faces an unofficial moratorium in SA. If the fans stay away, it could signal the beginning of the end of a game which has already been dumped from the English County schedule.

Also feeling heat are the Proteas, probably the best side in the world in all forms of the game but yet to translate that into serious hardware. Anything less than the trophy would further ‘enhance’ their reputation as big-stage chokers.
Here’s is a brief look at the eight teams chasing the ‘mini-World Cup’.

South Africa (5-2): Hosts and solid favorites to lift their second title. Tremendous batting and bowling depth but the Proteas have a habit of underachieving when the spotlight is on. Now’s the time for Graeme Smith’s side to step up. AB de Villiers may be the world’s in-form bat and Dale Steyn the quickest with the ball. Toss in the likes of prolific Jacques Kallis, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs and veteran ‘keeper Mark Boucher and you have the team to beat.

Australia (4-1): Defending champions are coming off a 6-1 thumping of England in their just-concluded ODI series. Ricky Ponting leads a new-look side sans match-winners Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden and Glenn McGrath but it does include two extremely quick bowlers in Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson and emerging talents like Cameron White, Shane Watson, Ben Hilfenhaus, Tim Paine and Callum Ferguson. The team in gold usually performs well on the big stage.

India (4-1): Batting by the bucketful but the bowling is, as usual, a potential Achilles’ heel. The little master, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and skipper MS Dhoni form an intimidating batting line-up. However, it has been exposed by the short ball and the likes of Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh and RP Singh are going to have to excel to keep opponents’ totals down.

Sri Lanka (5-1): Dangerous side when its batting clicks. Sanath Jayasuriya, who apparently wants to play cricket until he’s 70, remains a dangerous striker but the team also needs consistent performances from Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene, skipper Kumar Sangakkara and Chamara Kapugedera to support a strong bowling attack which boasts spin twins Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis as well as the slingy Lasith Malinga.

Pakistan (6-1): The world 20/20 champions are the joker in the pack. Younis Khan’s maverick side boasts world-class talent in Mohammad Yousuf, Shaoib Malik and enigmatic all-rounder Shahid Afridi but it’s a hard team to trust.

New Zealand (10-1): The cricketing opposites of Pakistan who often punch above their weight. Won the title in 2001 but victory No 2 looks beyond Daniel Vettori’s outfit in SA. Paceman Shane Bond’s return to the fold boosts an otherwise ordinary attack but the Kiwis will make their mark if inconsistent batsmen like Ross Taylor and Jesse Rider can strike form.

England (14-1): Coming off an Ashes hangover and a dreadful 6-1 whipping by the Aussies in the subsequent ODI series. Without game-changers Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Strauss’s side looks lame but simply can’t keep performing so poorly, or can it? Bowlers Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Graeme Swann will be the keys to any England success.

West Indies (25-1): World cricket’s great embarrassment. With the region’s best players absent due to an on-going feud with their cricket board, the Windies have sent out a third-rate side to compete for the trophy. Could not beat mighty Bangladesh in home Tests and ODIs so have no chance in SA.

SEPANG, Malaysia: Defending world champion Valentino Rossi claimed his seventh MotoGP title in a thrilling race in wet conditions yesterday at the Malaysian MotoGP.
Australian Casey Stoner won the race but the 30-year-old Italian secured the title by coming in third on his Yamaha. Spain’s Dani Pedrosa was second.

Rossi said he was delighted to seal the championship title with one race to go, in Valencia on Nov 8.

“With one round to go, I have clinched the world title. I thank all the people who helped me achieve this. We fought hard,” he said.

Heavy rain delayed the start of the race by 35 minutes and played a major part when the action got underway.

Rossi started on pole but failed to hold his lead and went wide into the first corner with a pack of riders, led by Pedrosa and Stoner, who had overtaken him with ease.

Stoner, fresh from victory at Phillip Island, passed Pedrosa and never looked back, romping home with something to spare.

The 2007 champion here in Sepang, Stoner won in 47min 24.834sec, while Pedrosa was adrift at 14.666sec and Rossi narrowly behind him. Rossi’s Yamaha teammate Jorge Lorenzo was fourth.

“I got a good start,” said Stoner, who began in the second row on the grid.

“I did not expect to pull such a gap. I am happy with the pace. I am looking forward to the race in Valencia.”

Pedrosa admitted it was tricky to keep second position with Rossi snapping at his heels.

“It was a tough race until the end because Rossi was pushing me hard,” he said.

Earlier, Japan’s Hiroshi Aoyama, riding a Honda, led from the start to win the 250cc race.

Birthday boy Aoyama, who now leads the 250cc championship standings with 252 points, clocked 42 mins, 55.689 seconds in the 20-lap race after starting from pole position.

Spain’s Julian Simon won the 125cc on an Aprilia.

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