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FOOTBALL: PARIS: Jacques Santini, who just led Lyon to the French league title and was named as France's national coach, said the team must shine at Euro 2004. French Football Federation (FFF) President Claude Simonet announced that Santini, 50, had been chosen as the successor of Roger Lemerre as France looks to defend its European title and get over its disastrous World Cup performance, in which they were eliminated in the first round after failing to score a single goal. ``I'm thinking of all those whom I'm going to contact immediately after I take the job,'' said Santini, who added that his first task would be to consult with the two men who had gone before him, 1998 World Cup-winning Aime Jacquet and Lemerre. ``The chief goal is to qualify for the Euro 2004 finals,'' he added. ROME: World Cup final referee Pierluigi Collina has made news following his appearance at a fashion show on the Renaissance stairway of Piazza di Spagna. The 42-year-old Italian referee donned a black dinner jacket by designer Laura Biagiotti during the show, ``Woman under the stars,'' where the now-retired cyclist Mario Cipollini also paraded for stylist Roberto Cavalli. ``I have never withdrawn before initiatives that can change the way referees are considered,'' Collina said. ``There is something good about this. Particularly for those referees who get up early on Sunday mornings to officiate kids' games. They are figures with a high social value.'' Collina, whom world football ruling body FIFA acknowledged as the best referee in the world, is known off the pitch for advertising Adidas sports goods and Lorenz watches. Recently he lent his voice to a character in a cartoon movie on football and appeared in ``Shoot the dog,'' the latest cartoon video by singer George Michael., according to Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport. TENNIS: HAMBURG: Boris Becker and his company BCI agreed to take over the marketing for the struggling Hamburg tournament, one of the prestigious Masters Series events in men's tennis. The Hamburg event is without a major sponsor or television coverage this year, due in part to tennis' sinking popularity in Germany since the retirement of Becker and Steffi Graf. Becker, a three-time Wimbledon champion and still one of Germany's most popular sports figures, said he would use his name recognition in designing a marketing plan. ``We can only promise that we will work hard for Hamburg, using every means and possibilities,'' Becker said. Becker said he has a major sponsor in mind, while negotiations for broadcast rights with publicly owned ARD and ZDF are underway.
ATHLETICS: HELSINKI, FINLAND: Thousands of people cheered as former Olympic champions from different countries paraded in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Games that were held in the Finnish capital. The festivities, attended by more than 18,000 people, were preceded by months of special events throughout the country, including exhibitions and competitions. The star of the 1952 Olympics-with 4900 athletes from 69 countries-was Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia who won the 5000 m, 10000m and the marathon-the only person in Olympic history to do so at the same Games. Lindy Remigino of the United States, who was declared the winner of a photo finish, said he felt tears in his eyes when he returned to Helsinki after an absence of five decades. Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic committee, said the Helsinki Games ``have a particular significance for the Olympic movement.'' The ceremony culminated with the lighting of the Olympic flame by three Finnish 1952 gold medalists in canoeing after the torch was brought into the stadium by Lasse Viren (see picture), a Finnish runner who won the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the Olympics in 1972 in Munich, Germany, and the 1976 Montreal.
MONACO: Belgian long-distance runner and European record holder Mohammed Mourhit has tested positive for the banned substance EPO, International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) spokesman Nick Davis said in Monte Carlo. Davis said that both the A and the B tests of the sample provided on May 5 by the 31-year-old Moroccan-born during the world half-marathon championships in Brussels had turned out to be positive. Mourhit now faces a possible ban of up to two years, and his participation in the European Championships in Munich from August 6 to 11 can most likely be ruled out. Mourhit, who received Belgian citizenship after marrying a Belgian in 1997, set the European record of 12:49.71 minutes over 5,000 metres in August 2000.
TABLE TENNIS: MANCHESTER: Huang Wen Guan has spent much of his unusual table tennis career proving people wrong and his decision to enter the Commonwealth Games at the age of 39 suggests he's still at it. Quitting China in the 80s because those in charge of the national squad decided he wasn't good enough for international competition, he renamed himself Johnny Huang, became Canadian, and went on to reach the world's top 10. Now he's trying to win back the Commonwealth title he took in 1991 and 1994 partly because, you suspect, too many people have been hinting he may be too old to do it. ``At his age he's left alone to decide his schedule,'' says Canada men's team coach Dejan Papic. ``Only he decides now the tournaments he really wants to play and he's very picky about them.''
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