They were going wild every lap and I was only in fourth or fifth place.”Pier Francesco Chili won a thrilling opening race on his Ducati after a wheel-to-wheel battle with Anthony Gobert’s Kawasaki. Replacements: L Strydom (Transvaal) for Ackermann 37; J van der Westhuizen (N Transvaal) for Roux 57.AUSTRALIA: M Burke (NSW); B Tune (Queensland), [...]

An attempted lob and two tame finishes, comfortably saved by Edwin van der Sar, was the sum total of his expensive creative contribution. Vialli recovered from the strain of mad calf disease which has also afflicted his new manager to earn his week’s pounds 20,000 wages with a second-half introduction at the City Ground. Substitutes [...]

The punch followed elbowing and shoving by several players in a tight game.. Germany’s Ulrich Kirchhoff won the individual gold showjumping medal at Georgia’s International Horse Park yesterday after a dramatic contest in which seven riders – including Britain’s Geoff Billington – had to jump off for the silver and bronze medal positions. We were [...]

“Absolutely delighted.”As for the Games themselves, Reedie is refreshingly candid in admitting that the Atlanta organisation has left much to be desired.”There are three crucial areas which the Olympics have to get right,” he says. Perhaps, I ask, as he is an independent financial adviser, he could be hired by the Government to arrange the [...]

There is no longer any doubt that this would save the lives of dozens of children each year. But how many drivers would support such an inconvenient though life-saving measure, and not even a crusading journalist would dare call those who opposed such a move “irredeemable loonies”.
D EADSFORTHWinchester. I would also hope that the appetite [...]

To take another example, Mr Howard is under pressure to cut his department’s expenditure. He decides to reduce the compensation paid to the victims of crime by changing the regulations. It is inconceivable that his officials failed to point out that Parliamentary approval would be required. But presumably the Home Secretary did not fancy explaining [...]