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Al-Ahram Weekly 29 July - 4 August 1999 Issue No. 440 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 29 July - 4 August 1999 Issue No. 440
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Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Profile Travel Living Sports Time Out Chronicles People Cartoons Letters Second American to win Tour
LANCE Armstrong, only the second American to win the Tour de France, was declared winner at the end of the 20th and final stage. The 27-year-old Texan, whose career was abruptly halted by cancer of the testicles two years ago, finished in the main bunch in Sunday's stage, which was a gentle ride along the Champs Elysées.Mercedes Cup upset
SWEDE Magnus Norman fought back from two sets down to edge out local favourite Tommy Haas in five sets in the Mercedes Cup final. Unseeded Norman took three hours and 28 minutes to seal a 6-7, 4-6, 7-6, 6-0, 6-3 victory over the German, seeded seventh in the $915,000 event.Romanian soccer player dies
STEFAN Vrabioru of Romanian club Astra Ploiesti died of a heart attack after playing in a first division match. "Vrabioru suffered the heart attack after he was replaced by his trainer and died in Bucharest's emergency hospital," the team doctor Victor Popovici said.Runner awaits ruling
DENNIS Mitchell, the American 100-metres champion who faces a two-year ban after a positive drug test last year, will know his fate within two weeks, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) said. Mitchell, the 1992 Olympic 100-metres bronze medallist, was tested at his Florida home in April 1998. Analysis showed abnormal levels of the banned hormone testosterone.British challenge to US
BRITAIN'S sprinters, buoyed by their sub-10-second racing already this summer, have issued a challenge to the American 4x100 metres relay squad ahead of next month's world championships in Seville. "The Americans are very arrogant -- they always think they are going to win the sprint relay," Darren Campbell, the European 100-metres champion, said at Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championships.A perfect choice
FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Franz Beckenbauer would be a perfect choice to succeed him as chief of world soccer's governing body, FIFA. "An ideal candidate for me would be Franz Beckenbauer," Blatter told a German newspaper.Changing Olympic bidding
AUSTRALIA'S International Olympic Committee (IOC) board member Kevan Gosper said he would change the Games bidding process if he got the job as IOC president in 2001, when Juan Antonio Samaranch's term expires. In the wake of bribery scandals surrounding bids to host the Olympic Games, Gosper said Samaranch should stay for his term, which ends in July 2001, to see through reform measures.Page keeps welterweight title
AMERICAN James Page stopped compatriot Freddie Pendleton in the 11th round to retain his World Boxing Association welterweight championship. Page, who was rocked in the ninth round by some solid rights from Pendleton, came back and battered the challenger, whose swollen left eye led to the match's stoppage.Doping ban on Mexicans lifted
FIFA President Sepp Blatter lifted the six-month bans for doping on Mexican internationals Raul Lara and Paulo Cesar Chavez, saying tests on them were carried out by unrecognised laboratories. The lifting of the suspensions imposed by the South American Football Confederation (CSF) during the recent Copa America in Paraguay, headed off a threatened boycott of the Confederations Cup by Mexican players.(compiled from wire services)
