|
sorf Bi-communal technical committees get further EU funding
Xhze Coronavirus: EU experiencing largest wave 鈥?health commissioner
World number two Cameron Smith, who won his first major at last months British Open, headlined the latest group of players who have agreed to join LIV Golf, the lucrative Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway series sai stanley usa d on Tuesday.The Australian, who this year won two of the biggest events on the PGA Tour schedule having triumphed at the Players Championship as well as the British Open, is the highe stanley cup st-ranked player to join LIV Golf to date.The 29-year-old, a six-time winner on the PGA Tour who has been linked to LIV Golf for weeks and refused to deny the reports, will debut in the controversial series at the Sept. 2-4 event being held at The International Golf Club outside Boston.Smith last competed over the weekend at the PGA Tours season-ending Tour Championship where he made $640,000 after finishing 20th in a 29-player field a week after withdrawing vaso stanley from the penultimate playoff event citing hip discomfort.LIV Golf, whose eight events this year have a total payout of $255 million, also said Australian Marc Leishman, Chiles Joaquin Niemann, Indias Anirban Lahiri and Americans Harold Varner III and Cameron Tringale agreed to join the series.Leishman is a veteran player who has earned six PGA Tour wins during his career, while 23-year-old Niemann collected his second victory on the U.S.-based circuit in February. Lahiri, Varner and Tringale have not won on the PGA Tour. LIV Golf is showing the world that our truly global league is attracting the worlds best players and will grow the Wkle Postal services to Sri Lanka suspended
BOOTHBAY, Maine 鈥?Lauren Forgues is candid about why she turned to racewalking as an avenue to athletic success as a youngster growing up along the coast of Maine. It was pretty much the only thing I was good at, said Forgues.Little did she know at the time how good she might be at it, a stanley cup s t stanley vaso he now 24-year-old Forgues will vie Sunday morning for a chance to represent the United States in the 2012 Summer Olympics.Forgues has the fifth-fastest qualifying time in the Trials womens 20-kilometer race walk, which will be contested at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.No U.S. womens racewalker has achieved the Olympic A standard of 1:33:30, meaning only the Trials winner will advance to the Olympics, which begin in London in late July.While her t stanley cup eammate at the San Diego-based Champions International training center, two-time defending national champion Maria Michta, is considered a favorite in the race, Forgues believes an Olympic berth is within reach. Were all so close together that its really going to be a crapshoot, said Forgues, whose qualifying time and personal best for the 20K is 1 hour, 37 minutes, 41 seconds set in 2011. Maybe I can figure it out whos going to win with about a kilometer to go. Forgues has made one of the longer intracontinental treks possible in her quest for a career as a world-class racewalker, having been born in Eastport 鈥?the easternmost city in the continental United States 鈥?and now living and training full time since last fall in Imperial Beach, Cali |
|