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GAGAH... Azhar buktikan kehebatan selepas mengungguli Kejohanan Mr. Penang buat tahun ketiga berturut-turut di George Town semalam. Pelari Kenya Kuasai Larian Hari Olimpik Mcdonald's KUALA LUMPUR, 29 Jun (Bernama) -- Pelari Kenya menyapu bersih tiga tempat teratas kategori terbuka 10km lelaki pada acara Larian Hari Olimpik McDonald's kelima di Dataran Merdeka, di sini hari Ahad. Bungai Elvis Kipruto mencatat masa 24.28s untuk mencul sebagai juara, manakala Junus Kimtai menduduki tempat kedua (24.30s) dan Geofrey Yego menang tempat ketiga (24.38s). Bagi kategori wanita, pelari tempatan menguasai tiga tempat teratas, dengan Amutha Arugugan dari Power Team mencatat masa 32.20s untuk meraih tempat pertama, Norhasyikin Mohd Din (Polis) mencatat masa 36.44s di tempat kedua dan Lau Pui San (Selangor) di tempat ketiga dengan catatan masa 38.40s. Marcus Sherwood dari Kuala Lumpur, yang mencatat masa 28.34s, muncul juara lelaki veteran, manakala Peter Lessin dari J...

Yao Ming's Bed, Olympic Items Go Under Hammer BEIJING, June 26 (Bernama) -- Basketball star Yao Ming's extra size bed, electronic equipment and furniture for the Beijing Olympic Games are already up for grabs even before they have been used. About 200 million items from the Olympics and ensuing Paralympics Games would be auctioned, and online bidding started yesterday, the China Daily said. The auction, by China Beijing Equity Exchange (CBEX), is expected to fetch one billion yuan (RM1 = 2.10 yuan) which will go to the Games organisers. "Obviously, the bidding will be hot. People will be looking for memorabilia," CBEX president Xiong Yan was quoted as saying. "This is not the first time Olympic organisers are auctioning memorabilia. But as far as I know, this will be the biggest," he said. About 200 types of furniture, including closets and coffee tables in the Olympic Village, have been listed online and more items including electro...

Sports Associations Laud RM1 Mln Incentive KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 (BERNAMA) -- "A good and timely move". This was the general reaction from officials from sports associations to the government's announcement that Olympic-bound athletes would be rewarded RM1 million for each gold they could bring back from the Beijing Games in August. "It (incentive) will certainly fire up the Malaysian Olympians," National Archery Association of Malaysia (NAM) secretary-general Hamid Hasan told Bernama. Three national archers -- Muhammad Marbawi Sulaiman, Cheng Chu Sian and Wan Mohd Khalmizan Wan Abd Aziz -- have qualified for the recurve event at the Beijing Games. Tuesday, apart from the RM1 million reward for the Olympic gold, which Malaysia has never won to date, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak also announced incentives of RM300,000 and RM100,000 respectively for each silver and bronze won at the Games apart from a slew of other incen...

ROSLINDA SAMSU dan Wong Meng Choo (atas). RM1 Million Incentive A Great Motivator, Says M. Jegathesan KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 (Bernama) -- The RM1 million incentive announced by the government for the Olympic-bound athletes who bag the country's first-ever gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, is a great motivator for them to excel, said Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) deputy president Datum M. Jegathesan. He said the handsome incentive would further motivate the athletes who will be competing in ten sports at the world's biggest games. "With the announcement, I firmly believed our athletes will strive harder to win the country's first-ever gold medal," he said, adding the incentive was considered to be the highest if compared to other countries. M. Jegathesan told this to reporters after attending an OCM Selection Committee meeting held at Wisma OCM here Tuesday. On top of the RM1 million incentive announced by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Naj...