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If he goes, he goes.”Harrison said he is under no pressure from the Scottish public but will try to put a smile on their faces again by reclaiming his crown at the Braehead Arena.”It’s not even about pressure,” he said. Scott Harrison yesterday attempted to spark a war of words with Manuel Medina ahead of Saturday’s World Boxing Organisation world featherweight title re-match by claiming Medina does not have the power to hurt him.
The Glaswegian is desperate to regain his crown after the Mexican took it from his grasp in July to become the world champion for the fifth time.”Medina looks good doing nothing and slaps a lot and tries to spoil the fight,” said Harrison, who revealed after the first fight that he was suffering from a virus and vomited just minutes before the bout. Susan Partridge and Liz Yelling will make up the six-strong team.The men’s side will be led by trial winner Chris Thompson, winner of the European junior 5,000m title in the summer. Chris Davies, who dropped out of the trail race with an ankle injury, is also expected to be fit.Meanwhile, Bergen in Norway will host the first Golden League meeting of 2004 because a new stadium is being built in Oslo, the traditional host city for the premier series.Rome, Paris and Zurich follow the series opener on 11 June with a break for the Olympics from 13-29 August. Brussels re-starts the series on 3 September before the Berlin finale nine days later.The discus will be included as a regular Golden League event for the first time..

Her husband and manager, Gary Lough, said: “Paula will reflect on things for a few days before deciding whether she will take a place in the team for Edinburgh.”Last year’s junior champion Charlotte Dale will defend her title – but also has to assure the selectors she has recovered from a calf injury.If Radcliffe runs she will have strong support from Jo Pavey, a finalist in the 1500 metres at this year’s World Championship, the English cross country champion Hayley Yelling and the former European Cup 3000m gold-medallist Kathy Butler. Paula Radcliffe is yet to confirm whether she will compete at the European Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh but has been provisionally selected for the Great Britain squad.
Radcliffe asked the selectors for more time to confirm her fitness for the championships on 14 December after feeling unwell in Monday’s Chiba International Ekiden Road Relay in Japan, where she finished a disappointing third on the opening 10km stage. The government wants racing to show itself to be beyond reproach. The Panorama and Kenyon Confronts documentaries did racing no favours and no-one wants to see those incidents repeated.”RICHARD EDMONDSONNap: Hiers de Brouage(Chepstow 3.50)NB: Macaroni Gold(Lingfield 3.30).

“We are all aware of the cases that have come to light of highly-fancied horses drifting on the exchanges,” Lord McIntosh said.”The term ‘unusual betting patterns’ has now firmly entered the vocabulary of the racing world This is not a happy state of affairs. However, the Minister did insist that it would be introduced “as soon as Parliamentary time allows. If it isn’t in the Queen’s Speech, then we would hope to be making an announcement about it within a very short time indeed,” he said.The minister also touched upon the recent publicity surrounding betting exchanges, which are becoming subject to a new ‘betting intermediary licence’. The clock, however, is ticking and most observers expect the trust to be granted a licence for a maximum of between five and seven years.Upon the completion of that licence, the trust would continue to oversee the running of the Tote’s business.The Horseracing Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill – under which the Tote would be transformed – is now not expected to be mentioned in today’s Queen’s Speech, despite recent hopes that its implementation could be expedited.