Sportsbriefs to 1530 Tuesday, August 22

AAP General News (Australia)
08-22-2000
Sportsbriefs to 1530 Tuesday, August 22

League Broncos (Brisbane)

Injured centre TONIE CARROLL has been named in Brisbane's grand final squad along with
Test prop SHANE WEBCKE.

Coach WAYNE BENNETT has named an 18-man squad to play the Sydney Roosters in Sydney
on Sunday which includes teenager ASHLEY HARRISON.





League Roosters (Sydney)

Sydney Roosters coach GRAHAM MURRAY has named an unchanged lineup for Sunday's National
Rugby League grand final against Brisbane on Sunday.

MURRAY has included lock LUKE RICKETSON, who suffered a small tear to his hamstring
early in Saturday night's 26-20 win over Newcastlem, but he is yet to prove his fitness.





League Grand Referee (Sydney)

BILL HARRIGAN has been appointed to control Sunday's National Rugby League grand final,
a record equalling seventh premiership decider for a referee.

The match between Brisbane and the Sydney Roosters at Stadium Australia will be HARRIGAN's
fourth consecutive grand final.

His record equals DARCY LAWLER who refereed grand finals from 1956-61 and 1963.





Oly Team (Sydney)

Australia is facing a demand by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to name its
Games team by Friday even though a number of selection appeals are yet to be resolved.

IOC executive board member JACQUES ROGGE says no country has ever failed to resolve
so many appeals before the deadline.





Oly Ath Shirvo (Sydney)

MATT SHIRVINGTON's coach admits his star charge has wasted the last year of his Olympic
preparation worrying about breaking 10 seconds over 100 metres.

But MICHAEL KHMEL says SHIRVINGTON has emerged as a better runner as a result and has
tipped him to become the first Australian since HEC HOGAN in 1956 to make a 100 metres
Olympic final, even if he has to break 10 seconds to get there.





Oly Cauldron (Sydney)

One of the Olympics' most zealously protected secrets has been revealed when the cauldron
at Stadium Australia was lit in a top secret trial run this morning.

As police and security guards patrolled to keep television crews and photographers
away from the 2.15am test, the mobile cauldron was lit at the bottom of the northern grandstand,
climbing on rails up between the seating to rest atop the stand overlooking Stadium Australia.





Tri Aust (Durban)

The Wallabies have settled into their training base outside Durban for Saturday night's
Tri-Nations decider against South Africa at Kings Park.

The team will be named before training later tonight Australian time, and it's expected
selectors will stick with the same 22-man squad which beat New Zealand in Wellington earlier
this month.

The Wallabies must beat South Africa to clinch their first Tri-Nations crown, adding
to last year's World Cup triumph.





Golf IBF (Sydney)

Once tormented golfer IAN BAKER-FINCH is planning a low-key return to the tour at this
year's Australian PGA Championship in November.

BAKER-FINCH says he's enjoying playing without the practice grind he put himself through
for years when trying to rediscover his long lost form.





Tennis Men (Commack)

Spain's CARLOS MOYA has scored an easy straight sets win over countryman ALBERT PORTAS
in the first round of the Hamlet Cup tennis tournament in New York.

MOYA won 6-4 6-3 and says he's fully fit for next week's US Open after a back injury
aggravated in this tournament forced him out of the Open last year.

Australia's PAT RAFTER received a bye into the second round.





Tennis Women (New Haven)

DOMINIQUE VAN ROOST has survived a strong challenge from MAGDALENA MALEEVA to take
out their first round match of the WTA tennis event in New Haven.

The sixth seed from Belgium won 7-6 6-4 while fifth seed AMANDA COETZER of South Africa
beat Slovakian qualifier KARINA HABSUDOVA by the same score in the last warm up tournament
before next week's US Open.





SOCCER BRITAIN (LONDON)

Three players were sent off in the English pemier league soccer match overnight as
Arsenal beat nine-man Liverpool 2-0 at Highbury tonight.

Arsenal's PATRICK VIEIRA was sent off for the second successive match but television
replays showed clearly he did nothing wrong in a heavy tackle.

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