FOOTBALL((INTERTOTO CUP))

First roundElfsborg 0, HB Torshaven 0Elfsborg wins 4-1 on aggregate

Rhyl 2, Bohemians 4Bohemians wins 9-3 on aggregateTrans Narva 0, Ekranas 3

Ekranas wins 4-0 on aggregateEthnikos Achnas 1, Besa 1Besa wins on away goals ruleFC Tiraspol 0, FC Mika 0

FC Tiraspol wins on away goals ruleLokomotiv Tbilisi 2, Etzella 2Etzella wins on away goals ruleNitra 3, Neftchi Baku 1

Neftchi Baku wins on away goals ruleRenova 2, Rijeka 0

Renova wins 2-0 on aggregateGrbalj Radanovici 2, Celik 1Grbalj Radanovici wins on away

goals ruleBudapest Honved 4, Zhetisu 2

Budapest Honved wins 6-3 on aggregateGorica 0, Hibernians FC 0Gorica wins 3-0 on aggregate

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Men's 100mQuarterfinals Heat 1

1. Tyson Gay 9.77 seconds2. Jeffery Demps 10.013. Walter Dix 10.024. Leroy Dixon 10.02

Heat 21. Travis Padgett 9.892. Rodney Martin 9.953. Mark Jelks 9.99

4. Chrisdon Hargrett 10.12Men's Shot Put

1. Reese Hoffa 22.102. Christian Cantwell 21.713. Adam Nelson 20.89

Women's 100m1. Muna Lee 10.85 seconds2. Torri Edwards 10.903. Lauryn Williams 10.90

Women's Heptathlon1. Hyleas Fountain 66672. Jacquelyn Johnson 63473. Diana Pickler 6257

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WNBADetroit 59, Chicago 76

Minnesota 65, San Antonio 73Indiana 61, Houston 75

New York 78, Sacramento 82

MLB((INTERLEAGUE))Toronto 9, Atlanta 5

Chi White Sox 6, Chicago Cubs 5NY Yankees 3, NY Mets 2Cincinnati 5, Cleveland 0St. Louis 5, Kansas City 1Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 1Arizona 6, Florida 2Detroit 7, Colorado 6

San Francisco 1, Oakland 0Pittsburgh 4, Tampa Bay 3 (13 innings)

Houston 11, Boston 10Baltimore 9, Washington 1

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The 2008 European Football Champi-onship, or EURO 2008, endedwith yes-terday night’s final between Germanyand Spain. The champion was crownedas the king of European football, but thetournament was not just about sports.

EURO 2008 also featured an anti-discrimination program run by anti-racism group Football Against Racismin Europe, or FARE, supported byUEFA, the governing body of the Euro-pean football.

The FARE program included adver-tising spot broadcasts at every EURO2008 game, pitch-side boards, and ac-tivities to encourage intercultural ex-changes between fans. One that activitywas the peace camps, organized by thecampaign’s partner organization inSwitzerland, the National CoalitionBuilding Institute, or NCBI.

“Our main purpose here is toshow people the real face of discrim-ination and prejudices,” Andi Gue, amember of NCBI’s Bern branch, told

the Turkish Daily News.Football pitches have recently wit-

nessed cases of racist behavior, espe-cially against black players, the mostfamous being the one against Barcelonastriker Samuel Eto'o on Feb. 25.

Eto’o threatened to leave the pitchafter being subjected to racial abuse by

home team supporters in the Spanishleague game against Real Zaragoza. Hewas eventually persuaded to continueplaying by then-coach Frank Rijkaardand several teammates.

Racist behavior by football support-ers has its roots in prejudices, accordingto Gue. “Here we have dummies repre-senting the teams playing games inBern; Italy, Netherlands, Romania andFrance,” he said. “We ask people whatcomes to their minds when we say, forexample, Italian. And as you can see,what they tell us is mostly a prejudiceagainst that nation.”

On the dummy representing anItalian, one could read the words“macho,” and “mafia,” while a Ro-manian one had “thief.”

“That’s what happens if you judge awhole nation by only the bad exam-ples,” said Emine Sar›aslan, anothermember of NCBI Bern. Sar›aslanmovedto Switzerland 27 years ago from Turkeyand has beenworking for the organiza-

tion for six moths. “Every nation con-sists of good people and bad people, it’snot the nation that is bad, it is the indi-viduals,” she added.

Sar›aslan said the Turkish commu-nity in Switzerland, just like the otherimmigrant groups, was the victim ofprejudicial behaviors. “Some parties inSwitzerland blame the immigrants forall the bad things in the country, whichsometimes results as anger against theimmigrants,” she said.

Sar›aslan is also an activemember ofthe Green Alliance (Grünes Bündnis,GB) and holds a post in Bern’s citycouncil. She said one should be “activein politics to be heard.”

“What we are trying to do here ispromote the similarities between thenations to create a way of living to-gether,” she added. “And I am here toplay my part in this effort.”

The NBCI has plans of adding apartner in Turkey to its long list ofmember organizations. “We will havea workshop in Ankara in earlyNovember,” said Sar›aslan. “We wantto expand our studies to Turkey,where I think they are needed, if ev-erything goes as we plan.”

Football fighting racismboth on and off the pitch

DUMMY: The volunteers are a huge help in National Coalition Building Institute’s organizations (upper photo.) The photo on the left is a dummy representing a Dutch. Prej-udices about the Dutch people, such as ‘weed smokers’ and ‘wearing wooden shoes,’ are written on the papers attached to the dummy. TDN photos, Özgür KORKMAZ

PEACECAMP: National Coalition Build-ing Institute’s peacecamp in Bern.

World football’s governing body FIFA and UEFA step upefforts to keep the game clear off racism and racist acts.National Coalition Building Institute’s Bern branch is justone of the many organizations supporting these efforts

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BERN - Turkish Daily News

NCBI: Fighting toeliminate racismThe NCBI is an international,non-profit, organization basedin Washington. Since 1984,NCBI has worked to eliminateracism and all other forms ofprejudice and discriminationthroughout the world.NCBI takes a proactive ap-

proach that begins with one ormore people from a variety oforganizational settings, includ-ing schools, colleges and uni-versities, foundations, lawenforcement agencies, govern-ment offices, and labor unions.Over the past 20 years, NCBI

has developed an internationalnetwork of resource teams.NCBI currently is representedby over 100 teams in cities, oncampuses, and in organizations.For more information on the

organization, you can visitwww.nbci.org

SPORTSP A G E 0 8MONDAYJUNE 302008

Lievremont to keep faith withthe French side despite defeatFrance coach Marc Lievremont has ruled out making wholesale changes for the second test againstAustralia next weekend despite his side's 34-13 loss to the Wallabies in Sydney Saturday. The French,missing a string of first choice players due to club commitments, face Australia in Brisbane next Sat-urday. Lievremont said he did not anticipate many personnel changes following a second half capit-ulation, which saw the Wallabies score 24 unanswered points in a 15-minute period. "Unfortunately,there is only one week before the next test and less time for recuperation," Lievremont said. "Weshowed that we need to play more together and there won't be too many changes.” BRISBANE - Reuters

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Turkish Daily News

It has been less than a week sinceGalatasaray's new coach MichaelSkibbe launched training sessions withhis team, but the German is quick topraise his players.

The former Bayer Leverkusen han-dler took the helm two weeks ago fromcaretaker coach Cevat Güler, who ledthe Istanbul side to the Turkcell SuperLeague title last May, after 73-year-oldKarl-Heinz Feldkamp left the teamwithsix weeks left in the season.

Skibbe only had a few weeks to getused to his new team, but even missingtraining his key players, who are nowon holiday recovering from a tiringEURO2008 campaign, does not preventSkibbe to voice his happiness.

"I am getting high performancesfrom all my players, and I think that thetraining sessions are going really well,"said the 43-year-old, whose squad doesnot include Turkish defenders Emre

Güngör, Servet Çetin, Emre Afl›k, wing-backs Sabri Sar›o¤lu and Hakan Baltaand midfielder Ayhan Akman, as wellas the wonder boy Arda Turan, who isamong the highlight men of the tour-nament with two goals. Add Sweden'sTobias Linderoth to the bill, and it isclear that Skibbe is now training withonly a shadow of the team that he willmanage this season. However, he cameup with his solutions.

"Of course I feel the lack of interna-tional players," the German said. "But Itook eight players from the reserveteam, and I can closely watch their con-tribution, which is pretty satisfactory."

Another player missing in action isBrazilian Lincoln, who was not backfrom the holidays at the right time andskipped the first week of the trainings.

"Brazilian players are somewhattend to be late, unfortunately that is thesame everywhere," said Skibbe. "I amsure that the board will take the re-quired measures, and then I'll talk to

him, andwant to give the best he can."Lincoln's late showing upmay be a

signal of his desire to return to Ger-many, as Bild am Sonntag reportedyesterday. The German newspaperwrote that Wolfsburg's coach FelixMagath is chasing the Brazilian play-

maker, also quotingMichael Skibbe assaying that he may do well withoutLincoln. However, the club released astatement yesterday, saying that Lin-coln will be in Istanbul tomorrow.

Skibbe's main goal is to find agoalkeeper, actually. Turkish duo

Orkun Uflak and Aykut Erçetin partlyserved as the Lions' keeper last sea-son, but despite the fact thatGalatasaray finished the league withleast number of goals conceded lastyear, German coach was somehownot impressed. Swedish keeper An-ders Isaaksson, who was tired to waitfor a spot in Manchester City was oneof Galatasaray's targets, but recentlythe Turkish and English press are re-porting that Liverpool's backup goal-keeper Charles Itandje has signed adeal with the Turkish champion.Skibbe denied that the deal is done,but admitted that the Frenchman isone of the options.

"I don't confirm that deal, and it isnot my job to talk about transfer is-sues, the board will do it. Itandje isonly one of the players that we are in-terested in," said Skibbe. "Orkun andAykut were highly successful last year,but in a club like Galatasaray, youneedmany players for the same spot."

Skibbe happy despite the shorthanded squad

HAPPY: Skibbe (C) is still as happy as he was when he first signed the deal with Galatasaray.

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