Croatian striker Nikica Jelavic (pictured, right) has become the latest player to leave European football for China. The 30-year-old Jelavic has joined Chinese second-tier club Beijing Renhe from Premier League side West Ham. Jelavic has spent less than six months at the London club after previously playing in England for Hull and Everton. Jelavic’s task will be to return Renhe to the Chinese Super League where the financial clout of clubs has this year seen Jiangsu Suning pay USD56 million for Brazilian midfielder Alex Teixeira and Colombian striker Jackson Martinez join Guangzhou Evergrande for $47 million.
Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic talks with her coach Nigel Sears
Tennis | Sears blames bad sushi for Australian Open collapse
Tennis coach Nigel Sears says his collapse at the Australian Open was down to some bad sushi, not heart problems. Sears, who coaches Ana Ivanovic, blacked out during the Serbian player’s third-round match last month with Madison Keys of the United States. Sears, whose daughter Kim was expecting a baby with husband Andy Murray, was taken to the hospital in Melbourne. Tests in Australia and Britain, where he lives, indicated his heart is fine. He told The Times [London] yesterday: “I had sushi for lunch 10 days in a row in Melbourne and was fine. But I suppose the law of averages dictates you get one dodgy bit of raw fish in that time.” Murray lost to Novak Djokovic in the final before dashing home for his daughter’s birth.
Swimming| Prosecutors raid South Korea’s swimming federation
South Korea’s swimming federation says prosecutors have searched its Seoul headquarters and confiscated computer hard disk drives and paper documents. Federation officials gave no further details, and the Seoul prosecution office couldn’t immediately confirm yesterday’s raid. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says the raid was related to suspicions that swimming officials misappropriated official funds and engaged in other unspecified misconduct. Yonhap says some 20 other organizations linked to the Korea Swimming Federation were also raided by prosecutors and reported, without citing a source or giving further details, that some officials had been detained.
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