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Strauss makes Ashes rallying call

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Oval Ashes Fifth Test: England against Australia
Dates: Thursday August 20 to Monday August 24 Start: 1100 BST
Term: Live Test Match Special commentary (from Paris in 1025, the first day on the 1045 BST rest days) on BBC Radio 4 LW, 5 Live Sports Extra, the red button and the website of BBC Sport. Live text commentary on BBC Sport website and mobile phones. Similarly, live on Sky Sports.
England captain Andrew Strauss wishes to top the lessons learned Headingley preparation for Australia in the fifth Ashes Test.

England were beaten by an innings 80, and runs in the fourth test and win oval, the ballot box.

Merrien loses her World Cup semi

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Guernsey’s Alison Merrie was beaten in the semi-finals of the World Cup bowls in Australia.

Merrie title lost 7-5, 10-2 to New Zealand’s Jo Edwards at Warilla bowls, the club Wednesday.

“I’ve already played, but played much better than me,” she told BBC Radio Guernsey loss.

“My performance was not as good as I hoped. It has in the past two days, but he simply at the end of cooking. ”

She added: “I came with a bronze medal is still a good performance, I’m still here and I hope it is far from my ranking points.”

Merrie again later on the island next week and was involved later in the month of Swansea, when she sees the strength to jump back.

Tony O’Shea is World Masters favourite

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Tony O’Shea is the number one seed for the Winmau World Masters 2009, the year after the success of his career.

The England international bouts of the British Darts Organization and the World Darts Federation rankings.

The Lakeside Runner-up, O’Shea said so far, three titles in 2009 - the Scottish Open, BDO International Open and the Welsh Classic.

England team-mate Scott Waits is the second seed at the World Masters, from 4-6 September at Bridlington.

The other six men of seeds, competition for the BBC TV-finals of the Masters are: 3 Darryl Fitton (Eng), 4 Ted Hankey (Eng), 5 Martin Adams (Eng), 6 Montgomery Ross (SCO), 7 Steve West (Ang), 8th Joey Ten mountains (Ned).

The eight women seeds: Trina Gulliver (Eng), Irina Armstrong (Rus), Julie Gore (Wal), Tricia Wright (Eng), Francis Hoenselaar (Ned); Dee Bateman (Eng), Karin Krappie (Ned), Lisa Ashton ( Eng).

Team Bath dominate England squad

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Bad team provides seven of the 12 players of England Framework for the World Youth Netball Championships.

Super League winners Eboni Beckford-Chambers and Serena Guthrie, the team captain and vice-captain.

“Playing for your country is one thing, but the captain, I am privileged,” said Beck Ford rooms.

The sub-21-event is in the Cook Islands in August and the team of former players and coaches Bad Jess Garland Anna Mayes and lead frames.

Kirsty Delver, Monique Wood, Stacey Francis, Sam Allison Perry and Rosie are the other players bathroom, which the England team after a season selection.
The team was in the hydrotherapy pool area at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village as well as wearing sweat the west to prepare for the heat and humidity.

Garland said: “Anna and I believe heavily in the capacity of the team, we have selected. All that is now on what we know, and our forces even more.”

The competition, which begins on Monday 10 August, includes 20 teams in England and in the pool with the hosts, Malaysia, Wales, and Vanuatu.

Contrite O’Sullivan handed fine

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Worldwide the number Ronnie O’Sullivan was fined £ 300 for World Snooker prematurely accept a framework during the last season of the UK Championship in Telford.

The Mercurial 33 years flicked the white ball with the queue, the framework 12 of a second round with Joe Perry, if he is only 23-0 behind.

O’Sullivan was 5-3, but fell from this time and in a 9-5 defeat.

He had it adopted the rules and World Snooker has been said, to pay costs of £ 1,000.

Folkard Archery teams miss out on medals

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Men and women of the United Kingdom RECURVE both teams not to the final shake-up on the archery range in the World Cup in Shanghai.

The men of the team of Larry Godfrey, Simon Terry and Alan Wills lost 213-209 in Germany in the first round.

The women’s team Naomi Folkard, Alison Williamson, Charlotte Burgess and a good start with 203-197 victory over Japan through the opening.

But they were then hit by a strong 216-208 Korea page during the last eight.

Jackson sets new freestyle record

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United Kingdom Jo Jackson broke the world record 400 m free short course Grand Prix British Gas in Leeds.

It has from the beginning to win in three minutes 54.92 seconds, Laure Manaudou in 1.17secs mark so far.

Then, Jackson said: “The world was a moment he was in my head.

“I took all my (other) fleet here. My Coach, I want to do, and he said, if the 400 meters, give a good step, it is your last season of swimming.”

Jackson, won two silver and bronze among the youth of the world to Rome, added: “I can be a bit of relaxation and chill-out with my family and friends and then again in training in September and get ready for next year. ”

She is the former world long course, the proprietor of the mark, before returning in March was Federica Pellegrini, Italy.

Previously, it had two stars and colleagues Go Liam Tancock said it welcomed the return of Low-tech bath in 2010.

Welsh pair Richard Vaughan and Sarah Thomas

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Welsh pair Richard Vaughan and Sarah Thomas was beaten in the first round of mixed doubles of the World Cup in India on Tuesday.

A draw against the last seven the number of seeds from Denmark, Thomas Laybourne and Kamilla Juhl rytter saw Thomas Vaughan lost 21-15 and 21-12.

Thomas has also lost in collaboration with sister Rachel Wednesday Ladies Doubles.

Women Welsh seventh seed Wen Hsing Cheng and Yu-Chin Chien of Chinese Taipei 21-9 and lost 21-3

The tournament, the England team, who say they are concerned about security after a terrorist threat.

But Wales and Scotland have chosen the tournament in Hyderabad.

Olympic hopeful opens NZ brothel

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An Olympic hopeful in New Zealand has a brothel in a bid for money for a passion for the glory of Taekwondo in 2012.

Logan Campbell, 23, compete in Beijing in 2008, but now has 14 rooms “Gentlemen’s Club” too tired to seek funding from their parents.

New Zealand decriminalized prostitution, six years ago, brothels and enables it to operate with few restrictions.

But NZ Olympic officials say, Campbell’s Business Venture can be against him when selecting a team of London 2012.

British star Paul Drinkhall

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If the Mayor of London Boris Johnson was the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and called “Ping Pong’s coming home”, he was on the roots of the sport as a game played by the British company “and their new domination of the Chinese players.

During his statement champion ping-pong has appeared in the United Kingdom, UK Sport addresses a blow to the game by reducing its capacity for half of £ 1.2 million in January.

The decision was taken after UK Sport £ 100m suffered in their lack of funding, having not attract private investment.