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Strong toothache is painful for sprint Olympic champion Shelly -Ann Fraser consequences. The 23 -year-old Jamaican was on after the Diamond League meeting 23rd May in Shanghai tested positive for the banned painkiller oxycodone.

The athletics world governing body IAAF has provisionally suspended from all competitions. The IAAF spokesman Nick Davies confirmed the news agency dpa.

The news of the positive doping test Shelly -Ann Fraser reached in a hotel room , a few hours before its scheduled launch in the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. "She was disappointed and concerned , " Fraser told manager Adrian Laidlaw. " But there are certain rules that make some people become victims. "

Sprinter Fraser had before the show in Shanghai complained of severe toothache that had occurred during the flight to China. Then her coach had given her before the start of a pain , but this does not appear to regulations of the IAAF. Fraser was second behind American Carmelita Jeter . "You forgot to specify the drug. It is as if a child " to go without a pen to school work , "said Laidlaw.

Schänzer Wilhelm , head of the doping analysis laboratory in Cologne , holds the Declaration of Fraser for comprehensible. " The information may be correct. Oxycodone is a potent analgesic , "said the biochemist. However, it was for a Weltklasseathletin Fraser as negligent to have not been intensely knowledgeable about the drug.

"It is a narcotic morphine , which is on the list of banned agents. Meanwhile, there are other ways that seem "as well , said Schänzer . Since oxycodone has no performance enhancing effect could be similar to the abuse of stimulants, vary the penalty low and Fraser can not be banned for two years.

Shelly -Ann Fraser won at the Beijing Games in 2008 the 100 meters in 10.78 seconds . A year later, at the World Cup in Berlin, she became world champion in 10.79 seconds . Last year, she was loud IAAF statistics more than four times visited by inspectors of the International Association for doping -training test.

The fast runner from Kingston now has to a hearing at the Jamaican Athletics Association ( Yeah ) position. "We now have to go through this procedure and see what the recommended Yeah , and what they recognize as a relief , "said Bruce James , president of Fraser’s Association MVP Track & Field Club, the newspaper Jamaica Gleaner . " James added: "I know some do not , and others. "

James Fraser was withdrawn immediately after receiving the news of the positive result from the start in Lausanne. "We want to deal with the case open and transparent , "he said. Fraser, who flew back to their homeland , now wants to do everything to save her reputation. "They wash their name " will, "James said.

In recent years, Jamaican athletes have repeatedly caused a negative doping headlines. So the runners Yohan Blake, Allodin Fothergill, Sheri -Ann Brooks , Marvin Anderson , Lance Ford Spence and Chris Williams for doping offenses were locked. Williams received a two-year ban, the other five athletes were given lower sentences.

Olympic mountain bike champion Sabine Spitz has missed the European Championships in Israel’s Haifa just the bronze medal. The 38 -year-olds were missing twelve seconds to third placed Eva Lechner from Italy.

Took the title in the heat after 35.3 miles Katrin Leumann from Switzerland, who won the sprint against the Polish Maja Wloszczowska . Second best German was occupied by poor circulation Anja Gradl ranked twelve, Hanna Klein 18 Place.

Spitz returned to surgery and eight months of rest from competition until the middle of May in racing and was not particularly unhappy about the lost coin. "I am happy because I am " from the top not far away , "said the German champion from Murg- Niederhof . Spitz was at the end of the race even started a comeback after it was due to a training crash in the meantime moved from their own perspective to be careful.

Among men, the Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy won ahead of Swiss Lukas Flückiger Aurelo Fontana and Marco from Italy. The Freiburg Moritz Milatz finished the race early, not even Robert Mennen from Nörvenich could intervene in the decision.

Bitter blow for the DFB-selection: Germany loses after a sending-off for Miroslav Klose earned against Serbia and now faces a final against Ghana.

Joachim Löw did not seem happy for half an hour before kickoff of the game against Serbia. The coffee cups in hand, absorbed in himself he stood on the sideline. Whether he was in that moment remembered what had happened two years ago at the European Championships? Whether it the 1:2 defeat against Croatia in the head swirling, like a now famous at the World Cup opener, against Poland at that time?

Whether he knew that history would repeat football, here and now in the sunny and warm whale watching stronghold of Port Elizabeth in the quaint Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in the Indian Ocean? "

Not active enough

Time and again the national coach and team manager Oliver Bierhoff their young players in the past week had warned of too much laissez-faire. Before running a reduced readiness. In front of a tick arrogance. All Dunning did not help. His players, many of them deserves still wet behind the ears, lost 0-1.

Arrogant occurred yogis kicker, not against the Serbs, who lost the first game against Ghana 0-1 and had to win today. That phlegmatic. Far too passively dragged Schweinsteiger, Özil & Co. in the first half, the ball through the midfield. The Serbs withdrew far and relied on quick counter-header and the strength of their 2.02-meter giant Nikola Zigic from Valencia. And were this simple strategy just right.

Referee with coated deck

A through-ball for the Red-White played the pedantic Spanish referee Alberto Undiano who was forced in the first 30 minutes into a true festival tickets. As a result Miroslav Klose was flying at 36 Second minute after a foolish foul on the center circle from the square. His selection decimated conceded shortly after the 0:1. The blond Milos Krasic put on the right side against Serbia by Holger Badstuber, as he had previously done a few times. Krasic’s cross, the giant Zigic laid the ball with a header in the Fünfmeterraum, and Milan Jovanovic met in the fall. The striker, who will move from Standard Liege for Liverpool FC hailed his strike with the colleagues at the corner flag frantically.
The Germans had before half-time nor the opportunity to compensate. Sami Khedira struck the crossbar. It was one of the few possibilities of Loew-Eleven. Worth seeing only loss was a volley of Lukas Podolski, who was passing close to the target.

Well with morals

In the second half, fought to the team that had collected after the 4-0 against Australia praises en masse, into the game. Schweinsteiger boosted the offensive, supported by some clever passes Özil, who had caught but by far not the Sahnetag as on Sunday. The unfortunate part in the German team played Podolski. The Cologne ran at several times the slow right-back of the Serbs, but failed with his hasty shots in series. To make matters worse, he scored from one hand playing Vidic penalty caused so weak that the goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic dipping to the left had no trouble keeping the ball. Schweinsteiger had to console his old pal.

The final phase brought Löw Cacau and Mario Gomez. Without effect.

Big chances were only countering the Serbs. In 66th Minutes Jovanovic met the posts after good work from Krasic. Zigic came after Klasic-Assist nor the crossbar. This duo has shaped the encounter with a simple but effective recipe: flank, headed, dangerous. Per Mertesacker had the often left behind.

Joachim Loew in the second half saw no more thoughtful. He was just angry. Loew motzte, screamed, threw water bottles. He is again in the coming days to persuade his young team, this time hopefully with more success. In order for the final against Ghana on Wednesday played in Soccer City Stadium.

Following the embarrassing 0-2 defeat by France runner-pack against Mexico Franck Ribery and his colleagues in the spirit before the last World Cup preliminary competition match the trunk. The Mexicans, however celebrated their first victory over the Grande Nation as an "historic success".

"Against South Africa we are playing for the honor," admitted captain Patrice Evra a small voice. With the French seems after the preliminary round-off and sealed at the World Cup 2002 Euro 2008, the third giant fiasco of the "Équipe Tricolore" in just eight years. "Imposters"! Cursing the sports paper L’"Équipe. People idol Zinedine Zidane, World Cup winners in 1998 and Vice 2006, was outraged: "We did not have" a shot on goal.

Bayern star Ribery has been identified as one of the main culprits. As against Uruguay, he came into the game against Mexico barely. In midfield, was the high-speed dribbler ineffective at the gate of the enemy he was not practical in appearance. Ribéry was "like a top: it revolves around itself, makes a hole in the grass and falls at the end. Broken, "wrote the left-liberal newspaper" Libération ". The soul of the people in France did the cooking. "These blue in South Africa have not much" to seek the balance sheet, "Le Parisien". "Le Figaro noted that France was reaching" deep in the abyss. "

Lethargic, ideas and passion have provided a supposed favorite for the title to his fate. No bite in the duels, no uniformity, no Torgefahr. The controversial and unpopular coach Raymond Domenech stood emotionless in front of his bench and struggled afterwards shocked for words. "I am deeply disappointed and sad. I have no words. I have not yet digested the defeat, "said the" crazy professor who takes his hat after the World Cup. Now go "for the pride. The new beginning under Domenech’s successor Laurent Blanc will be very difficult.

In Mexico, moved to the final whistle of the game tens of thousands of people cheering in the streets. President Felipe Calderón congratulated coach Javier Aguirre "to a" historic victory. Public life in Mexico came to a virtual standstill. The fans were mainly the "prodigy" Javier Hernández cheers that had begun with his goal to make it 1-0 (64th) success. The 22-year-old was the bench after only nine minutes on the pitch because he used a "deadly pass" from Rafael Marquez to the opening goal.

Thus he succeeded in something that his grandfather had succeeded 56 years ago: Tomás Balcázar, the grandfather had his mother in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, also shot a goal against France. At that time Mexico but lost 2:3.

Hernandez is the latest addition to a football dynasty. His father was in Mexico at the World Cup squad 1986th The son, a smart attacker and likely to score, is considered the greatest football talent in his country. In the coming season he will play for Manchester United as the first Mexican. The also has come into play as the joker Cuauhtemoc Blanco (79) scored by a penalty kick 2-0. The 37-year-old veteran brought to the trick of being the first Mexican to score in three World Cups.

The miserable performance of the French is the logical consequence of intrigue and noise in the exclusive World Cup base in Knysna on the Indian Ocean. William Gallas sulking because Evra was given the captaincy. Playmaker Yoann Gourcuff has been cut by most of his colleagues, so that Domenech took the talented 23 – age against his conviction, on the STARTING. "That was a mistake," complained Zidane. The "enfant terrible" Nicolas Anelka, who could play his first World Cup with 31, smiled after the shower at all, as would disgrace him in anything.

Purely mathematically, the French can still make the leap into the Fourth Round: All they need to beat South Africa is high enough, and the meeting of group leaders Mexico-Uruguay may not end in a draw. But would be "a miracle, midfielder Jérémy Toulalan, alluding to a possible white" nonaggression pact "between the Latin Americans.

Only the crash in Istanbul, now the rivets in the tire lottery Montreal: Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber are sitting in the best car in the Formula 1, but Red Bull gives the Victory currently has competition from McLaren.

By the second double strike in a row, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, the proud British racing has taken over the command in the premier class. While clearly the better with the English national team is on the way in Formula 1, Mercedes star Michael Schumacher had a frustrating ride for 11th place just enjoy sovereign opening victory of the German soccer players in South Africa.

Both Vettel and Schumacher looked for the Grand Prix of Canada to the positive aspects, which fell to the Red Bull pilots easier. "There is no reason to panic," said Vettel, although he had lost a fifth World Cup with 90 points further ground on the new top two Hamilton (109 points) and Button (106). "A couple of points but we have got, which can still be important in the championship," said the 22-year-old, who had fallen through an unfortunate tire strategy in the early stages from first to fourth place.

Before the race in Canada are not his team but has just been awarded many opportunities, "Vettel said:" We were not the favorites. But our pace was good, we were perhaps the fastest. Unfortunately, we were able to show not because the strategy and the race were not so, as we wanted it. "Furthermore, stood for the ninth of 19 World Championship races on June 27 on the on the characteristics of the track in Montreal similar street circuit of Valencia" some improvement in us. "

Hamilton, who was celebrated for his second victory in a row, even the Italian press even as a "King Hamilton" (Gazzetta dello Sport) and "the new Lord of the Formula 1" (Corriere dello Sport), but enjoyed his triumph, but remained with view of the duel with Webber and Vettel careful.

"In terms of pure speed, the Red Bull still bit of a faster than our car," said the Briton, his second victory in the third Canadian race and GP success number 13 again with his girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls celebrated. "Our total package is better now," said Hamilton, who is after the two Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso and his team-mate Button and Webber had the fifth championship leader this season. The 25-year-old is the first time since his World Cup triumph on 2 1st November 2008 again at the forefront of the formula

Of these returnees Schumacher is far away. The 41-year-old, whose team mate Nico Rosberg at the end at least, landed in sixth place, seemed indeed to have a better strategy than the "bull", but a puncture after a collision with Renault driver Robert Kubica dropped back hopeless. "On the other hand, I think I would have been in a good position, and therefore we take something positive with the next race," he said.

Schumacher was also a new retrospective punishment, as in Monte Carlo spared. Its hard outbraking against his friend Felipe Massa, in which the front wing was damaged by Massa’s Ferrari evaluated, only the race commission as a normal racing incident.

A triple triumph Audi celebrated at the legendary 24-hour race in Le Mans. Mike Rockenfeller, Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas were able to secure the victory.

Triple success for Audi in the 24-hour race at Le Mans

Audi has the famous 24-hour race at Le Mans three times a triumph celebrated. The victory secured Mike Rockenfeller (Neuwied), Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France), for it was the first ever success at Le Mans. The Audi trio, the 17th in the Hours drew first taken the lead in the diesel-powered sports car R15 plus the sister car with Marcel Fässler (Switzerland), Andre Lotterer (Duisburg) and Benoit Tréluyer (France) on the second place.

For the total triumph of the Ingolstadt were caused in more than 200,000 spectators Rinaldo Capello (Italy), Allan McNish (Britain) and record winner Tom Kristensen (Denmark) in third place. Arch-rival Peugeot, which had won the home game last year, experienced a disaster this time around the line. All factory cars 908 HDi FAP of the French fell victim to the high pace and dropped out.

After the accident in a Formula 1 team Red Bull at the race in Turkey a weakness of the system comes to the fore: the crisis management. The truth you get at best told in whispers.

The theme makes the formula 1 as soon ignore. The collision between the Red Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel also provides ten days after the crash in Turkey have enough substance to the first exercise, trips to the Grand Prix of Canada to outshine. Heal The World atmosphere, rife since the beginning of the season in the paddock is out of joint.

And all the parties have difficulty in the cracks in the system to heal again. Crisis management was never the strength of a business that wants to sell preferred only good news. The truth you get in the best formula one told in whispers. Who wants to come near her, has to read between the lines, interpret gestures and words. Only one must not: believe what is being communicated officially.

Vettel (left) and Webber demonstrate the great freedom in her team

A visit to the Red Bull camp next to the rowing regatta train from Montreal shows the difference between what is worn out, and what is thought by the parties really. Team boss Christian Horner appears to be the first. It makes for good mood again. "Mark and Sebastian have invited the whole team yesterday for the Italians in the city," says the 36-year-old Englishman and tries a joke: "I have ordered the most expensive on the card, because I know how hard the drivers from their money . Disconnect

Only a second verbal conflict

The accident, oh, of course, there was still this accident. "We have resolved in a conversation among men in Milton Keynes," said Horner. An hour had taken the debate between Vettel, Webber, Horner, team advisor Helmut Marko and chief designer Adrian Newey. Everything had expired in a quiet atmosphere, "so harmonious that we have spoken again at the end of the car’s set in Montreal. And what will change now? "Nothing," Horner insists. "Our drivers can drive on one another, we only ask them to give themselves more space and a little more to think about the team."

According to Horner, the drivers turn. Mark Webber slips uneasily in his chair. Only now, no second verbal conflict. He had been through worse moments than this, tells the 33-year-old Australian, "but I am on the Monday after the race and woke up better. I knew what we had done to the team. "The greater the relief that he was the boss Dietrich Mateschitz not the sole responsibility, as it had done after the race the Schnellrichter in the team.

In the future free travel

"It was a good phone call. Mr. Mateschitz was very fair and very loyal. "That should be roughly translate as: Red Bull stands for the great freedom. The slightest suspicion of stable government would lead the company motto to absurdity. Therefore Webber’s contract was extended for one year (2011). "I feel comfortable in this team, there was never a reason to orient myself otherwise." His new contract was his aged. There was no statement that anything would change his status in the team.

The driver got from the top of the absolution granted to continue to have free travel. Please just a little more sense. "The whole scene lasted seven seconds," said Webber, "there can ever go wrong. Duels among teammates are always a balancing act. "The opinion may even join Sebastian Vettel, as if his guilt is made. "You’re in such a situation, not hours to make a decision. All this took place at 310 (miles per hour from) ".

Vettel: "This was no sudden movement"

The 22-year-old from Heppenheim is looking for the right words when English journalists to demand an apology from him for driving errors, which they wish to attach it. You can change it now, and if they did, then had both made a mistake, which was a gift for McLaren. "I was ahead more than half a car length and tried to slow a bit longer to come to the right. This was no sudden movement, "said Vettel. What does he think actually learns behind you. A bit of give in the other could have been. In addition, the stubborn in lane from Webber had made little sense. "He indeed had something to lose. Mark had me take off together. "

Vettel now know at least what it blooms when it gets involved with his teammates on a wheel to wheel duel. To expect from him no presents. "I will reckon with, we should again come in such a situation." Webber doubts that we could set up for a duel with team-mate clear rules. "This is the situation. The worst thing would be to forbid us to ride a race. What would the fans say to that? "

Zero points are zero points "

It is perhaps a matter of character, how far you want to go in Ohata encounter. Jenson Button had Mark Webber in Istanbul to model also the strong man can, as team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the end of the straight restored by force the old order: "If I had draufgehalten, it would have cracked. Since I was on the outside, with worse consequences for me. In a situation like me eighteen points rather than a crash. "

The Defender does not matter who he fights on the track, "I will arrive in the first place. Zero points are zero points, no matter if you mess up with your teammates or with another driver. "Hamilton has a more aggressive stance:" In the fight with your stable mate you have to weigh the risks better. Basically, I reach but always when it contains the chance. "

The English football is not just a goalkeeper problem. Regularly also the captain gets into trouble. John Terry’s problem is having an affair, Rio Ferdinand, his broken knee. Now Steven Gerrard is the Vulnerable.

The big story of the British failure has been told often enough. Virtually everything that has made the football mainland since winning the 1966 World Cup home to once again be world champions went wrong. Sometimes, just like that, though sometimes dramatic as in the lost penalty-duel with Germany in 1990 and 2006 with Portugal.

Less known, but still almost unbelievable but a Nebenstrang this story, the British media has recently spread from time to time: the curse of the captains. Since 1966, the English have not played a single World Cup, without her husband would have been restricted by the binding to this or that way in his work. (Though they were not qualified in 1974, 1978 to 1994.) Protocol: 1970 Bobby Moore before the tournament briefly detained for allegedly stealing a bracelet in Bogota (he had not).

1982 Kevin Keegan was able to intervene because of a back injury in the fifth game. 1986 was the end for Bryan Robson after the second game with a shoulder injury, four years later at the same time because of an injured Achilles tendon. 1998 dragged on Alan Shearer, the EM-champion shot in 1996, and remained posted through the tournament without much effect, much like David Beckham 2002nd The weeping Star after his injury in the quarterfinals against Portugal in 2006 was one of the defining images of this World Cup.

Who closes the gap by Ferndinands From?

In this year, the English captain was given the same drama in two acts. First it was John Terry, who taught himself to the office – and that, in keeping with his reputation not just in the style of a gentleman. Terry’s affair with the girlfriend of his team-mate Wayne Bridge had besmirched the honor of the binding such that national team coach Fabio Capello had no choice but to depose him.

His successor Rio Ferdinand is caught in a very profane way, delicate but at a time: If one of the first training session in South Africa he drew in a duel with Emile Heskey ligament damage in his knee, so that Capello just before the tournament, for his Team this Saturday with the game against the United States (20.30 clock / FAZ.NET World Cup Live Ticker) Begins immediately stood with two problems: Who is the new captain? And who plays alongside John Terry in central defense?

From a sporting point of view the latter is the more urgent question, after Ferdinand was considered the leader of the defensive. Admittedly, both candidates, the 29-year-old Ledley King of Tottenham Hotspur and the 32-year-old from Liverpool’s Jamie Carragher, well experienced, and whether they can close the gap in quality is uncertain. The fact that England – have to say it? – Again without any convincing number one in goal stands, makes the situation in the defense is not reassuring.

"Can I lead a team to the finals?"

The captain said question in England – in stark contrast to the German team after Michael Ballack’s injury – no one of them, the leadership could be done collectively. Pecking order and hierarchy because there traditionally play a larger role, it was no wonder that the bandage was passed on to Steven Gerrard: The midfielder from Liverpool in the match with 80 missions, the senior professional squad.

And as they stand, he stood in front by a strong dose of pathos. "For me the challenge: Can I lead a team to the finals?" Said Gerrard, speaking of the "special motivation" by the new office: "I have to think of it, that there were only nine men before me, have the England captain cited in a World Cup – and I want to be a successful captain. "In the Premier League has Gerrard his outstanding abilities as a engine with Torgefahr often shown in the jersey of the" Three Lions "but the lasting impression is pending .

"I’m going to show presence and open my mouth"

The World Cup would be of course a good opportunity. "To be recognized as a truly great player, one must have shown it at this level," said Gerrard. A remote analysis, why it has so far not yielded quite work out, meanwhile, Michael Ballack. Captain Gerrard and his representatives said Frank Lampard, Ballack, in his World Cup column for the British "Times" should withdraw "their egos." They could play in the English midfield is not just the way they did in their clubs. "When you play for a big team, you have nothing but good players around him. Since you can not always think, ‘I, me, me’. "

Sounds as if in the leadership structure in the English team has not spoken the last word. Finally, since even John Terry. In defense, he leads after Ferdinand from the floor again anyway. But perhaps not only there. "I was indeed deposed as captain, but I told Fabio Capello that will change anything," he said. "Whether in the cabin or on the field – I will open my mouth and show presence." If it does not go well with the real and secret leaders, would allow the British to devote so again their other favorite subject: the drama of failure.

Benjamin Becker has missed at the Gerry Weber Open and the next surprise is eliminated in the semifinals. The 28-year-old Lleyton Hewitt defeated just three sentences.

Benjamin Becker has missed at the Gerry Weber Open and the next surprise is eliminated in the semifinals. The 28-year-old, who was defeated in the fourth round at position two set ATP champion Nikolay Davydenko defeated in the Westphalian town hall to the former world ranked Lleyton Hewitt of Australia with just under 7:6 (7:4), 6:7 (3:7) , 2:6. For the rankings-52. from Orscholz it would be the first semi final since his only tournament win was in s’Hertogenbosch.

Hewitt, the 2002 Wimbledon champion is true now in the finals of either the top-seeded Swiss Roger Federer or Philipp Petzschner from Bayreuth.

In the first round dominated both Hewitt and Becker their service games and had almost no points of the enemy at its own service. In the tie-break the 28-year-old Germans succeeded early on a "mini-break" and he defended his small lead up to the set win.

Also changed in the second pass, the image is not initially only at the rank of 3:4 allowed Becker to break balls. Although the Australians won the game, but the Germans managed to re-break immediately. In the second tie-break of the game but then Hewitt kept the upper hand.

"Elephant" Didier Drogba has broken elbow after his first training again on Friday and wants to accelerate the healing process, apparently because of the high expectation of pressure in the home. "The expectations at home are greater than in England. We all play for big teams abroad, with the national team but we have never won," said Drogba the British broadcaster the BBC and announced as soon as possible to fit be.

The Ivorian national coach Sven-Goran Eriksson expects to light the unity of Drogba anyway so that the 32-year-old attacker from Chelsea in the World Cup opening game of the Ivory Coast but is available. "Didier could play against Portugal," Eriksson said four days before the duel in Port Elizabeth on 15 June (16.00 clock / ZDF and Sky live): "Had the game been today or tomorrow, it would be impossible. But we still have a couple of days."

Eriksson: "He is one of the best players in the world"

The star striker from Chelsea had in a friendly against Japan (2-0) broke the elbow and then announced: "The World Cup is over for me." Now again it is hoped that in addition to club colleague Drogba, Michael Essien (Ghana) and John Obi Mikel (Nigeria) is not yet another star of the African continent will be missed in South Africa.

During practice on Friday wearing a splint on his right forearm Drogba, but was still far not charged full again. Not only for the Ivorians, for the whole of Africa would be a World Cup participation Drogba of immense importance. "He is one of the best players in the world," said the Swede Eriksson.