Minardi changes name for 2002 season
Minardi changes name for 2002 season
KUALA LUMPUR: Italian-based Formula One team Minardi has
changed its name to KL Minardi Asiatech for the 2002 season to
strengthen links to Malaysia, Bernama news agency reported on
Saturday.
Minardi principal Paul Stoddart said the team's new image
would be unveiled in Kuala Lumpur next month while its new F1 car
for next season would be launched here in February.
Stoddart, together with Youth and Sports Minister Datuk
Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, had a 10-minute meeting with Prime
Minister Mahathir Mohamad at his office on Saturday.
At a news conference later, the Australian aviation magnate
confirmed that Malaysia's first F1 driver Alex Yoong would have a
full season with the team next year. -- Reuters
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Ex-European champion gunned down in Spain
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Former champion shot in Spain
MADRID: Former Spanish judo champion Jesus Somolinos Guzman
was shot dead by police after becoming involved in a fracas in a
supermarket here.
Police chief Leonardo Lafuente said that the 45-year-old
judoka, who had suffered a series of psychiatric problems in
recent years, became embroiled in an argument in a shop in the
Madrid suburb of Alcobendas.
He threatened customers and attacked two policemen with a
sharp metal instrument.
As a result, Somolinos was shot in the side and in the leg and
died from his wounds despite attempts by paramedics to
resuscitate him. -- AFP
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Seles slightly hurt in traffic accident
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Seles slightly hurt in traffic accident
MIAMI, Florida: Tennis star Monica Seles and her mother Ester
were slightly hurt in a traffic accident near Sarasota in western
Florida, police said here Friday.
The accident happened overnight Wednesday when the 28-year-
old, four-time Australian Open champion Seles' vehicle was in a
collision with another car driven by a woman whom police named as
Cynthia Baumman, who was detained on suspicion of driving under
the influence of alcohol.
Yugoslav-born Seles, a naturalized American, lives near
Sarasota. She and her mother had hospital treatment for slight
injuries. -- AFP
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No seedings for UEFA Cup quarterfinals
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No seedings for UEFA Cup quarterfinals
NYON, Switzerland: The draw for the fourth round and
quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup will take place on Wednesday Dec.
12, UEFA said on Friday.
The remaining 16 clubs have been split into two groups of
eight with the eight seeded teams guaranteed to face unseeded
opposition in the fourth round.
The quarterfinals draw, which will be a "free draw", will take
place immediately afterwards when the seedings will be scrapped.
The eight seeded teams are Italian trio AC and Inter Milan and
Parma, last season's Champions League runners-up Valencia, Leeds
United, Borussia Dortmund, Feyenoord and Olympique Lyon. --
Reuters
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Olympics-Berlin parties agree to back 2012 Olympic bid
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Parties agree to back 2012 Olympic bid
BERLIN: Germany's Social Democrats and the former communists,
who are set to share power in the city-state of Berlin, agreed on
Friday to back a bid by the city to stage the 2012 Summer
Olympics.
A spokeswoman for the local Social Democrat (SPD) party said
both the SPD and the Party of Democrat Socialists (PDS), heirs to
the East German communist party, wanted to carry on with the bid.
The two left-wing parties have started coalition talks and
hope to form a government for the reunited German capital by mid-
January.
The German Olympic Committee (NOK) voted unanimously last
month in favor of a German candidacy for 2012. Five other German
cities -- Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Stuttgart
-- are expected to bid. -- Reuters