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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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SPORT - ATHLETICS
| 2013-08-12
Kiwi legend bids for fourth world title
FAVOURITE ... New Zealand’s Valerie Adams competes during the women’s shot put event at the 2013 IAAF World Championships at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia yesterday.
MOSCOW - New Zealand athletics legend Valerie Adams will be looking to win her fourth successive outdoor shot put world title today, the third day of the athletics world championships in Moscow.
Happily for the 28-year-old, her qualifying process here was smoother than it was for the Olympics last year.
Her second Olympic victory was soured first when it took an 11th hour appeal to allow her to compete after New Zealand Olympic officials forgot to enter her.
She then got the gold only after the winner Belarusian Nadezhda Ostapchuk was stripped of the title after testing positive for steroids.
Adams, who eventually received the gold medal at an emotional ceremony in Auckland last September, will start favourite as she topped qualifying in Moscow with a mark of 19,89 metres.
The strongest challenge to her title hopes should come from Russian Yevgeniya Kolodko, who was promoted to Olympic silver medalist when Ostpachuk was disqualified.
Kolodko, 23, believes she can up her performance in the final and make it an emotional home win.
“I know that my friends and relatives are coming to Moscow from my native region, Yakutia, to support me, so I really want to reward them for that and make them happy,” she said.
There will be a fair amount of emotion around too in the men’s pole vault final.
French brothers Renaud and Valentin Laveillenie will become the first siblings to appear in the final of the event since legend Sergey Bubka and his brother Vassily did in Stuttgart in 1993.
Renaud, at 27 five years older than Valentin, will start firm favourite to add the world title to his Olympic one.
“We have the opportunity to write a wonderful chapter of history and in the history of our sport,” said Renaud.
However, Renaud, who took bronze in the 2011 world championships, emphasised that once they are out competing there will be no room for sentiment.
“In no way will the presence of Valentin be a distraction for me: We will be in the final but not really in the same competition,” he said.
There are four other finals on the card including the men’s 110 metres hurdles and the women’s 100m with the semi-finals also this evening.
The hurdles looks like it could be a clean sweep for the United States, with Jason Richardson defending his title against Aries Merritt, who deprived him of Olympic gold last year and then went on to set a new world record to boot.
David Oliver, though, believes that this could be his moment when he finally wins a major title after several disappointments during the 31-year-old’s career.
“I think my chances of winning the title are pretty good and a USA clean sweep is definitely possible.”
The women’s 100m sees Jamaica’s two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price bid like her legendary compatriot Usain Bolt to regain her world crown.
Her chief opponents should be America’s defending champion Carmelita Jeter and the latter’s 21-year-old team-mate English Gardner, who was impressive in her heat on Sunday.
-Nampa-AFP
Her second Olympic victory was soured first when it took an 11th hour appeal to allow her to compete after New Zealand Olympic officials forgot to enter her.
She then got the gold only after the winner Belarusian Nadezhda Ostapchuk was stripped of the title after testing positive for steroids.
Adams, who eventually received the gold medal at an emotional ceremony in Auckland last September, will start favourite as she topped qualifying in Moscow with a mark of 19,89 metres.
The strongest challenge to her title hopes should come from Russian Yevgeniya Kolodko, who was promoted to Olympic silver medalist when Ostpachuk was disqualified.
Kolodko, 23, believes she can up her performance in the final and make it an emotional home win.
“I know that my friends and relatives are coming to Moscow from my native region, Yakutia, to support me, so I really want to reward them for that and make them happy,” she said.
There will be a fair amount of emotion around too in the men’s pole vault final.
French brothers Renaud and Valentin Laveillenie will become the first siblings to appear in the final of the event since legend Sergey Bubka and his brother Vassily did in Stuttgart in 1993.
Renaud, at 27 five years older than Valentin, will start firm favourite to add the world title to his Olympic one.
“We have the opportunity to write a wonderful chapter of history and in the history of our sport,” said Renaud.
However, Renaud, who took bronze in the 2011 world championships, emphasised that once they are out competing there will be no room for sentiment.
“In no way will the presence of Valentin be a distraction for me: We will be in the final but not really in the same competition,” he said.
There are four other finals on the card including the men’s 110 metres hurdles and the women’s 100m with the semi-finals also this evening.
The hurdles looks like it could be a clean sweep for the United States, with Jason Richardson defending his title against Aries Merritt, who deprived him of Olympic gold last year and then went on to set a new world record to boot.
David Oliver, though, believes that this could be his moment when he finally wins a major title after several disappointments during the 31-year-old’s career.
“I think my chances of winning the title are pretty good and a USA clean sweep is definitely possible.”
The women’s 100m sees Jamaica’s two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price bid like her legendary compatriot Usain Bolt to regain her world crown.
Her chief opponents should be America’s defending champion Carmelita Jeter and the latter’s 21-year-old team-mate English Gardner, who was impressive in her heat on Sunday.
-Nampa-AFP
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