Globalsport — Ronaldo pays to quit Barcelona

“From today Ronaldo has ceased to be a Barcelona player,” Rey said.

Bookies foiled

KUALA LUMPUR: Police arrested a number of suspected bookmakers after they attempted to contact players at the World Youth Football Championships here, a newspaper reported today.

The New Straits Times quoted an unnamed member of the organising committee as saying the suspected bookmakers tried to check into a hotel in Kuantan where teams from Spain, Paraguay, Japan and Costa Rica were staying.

They were denied permission to stay at the hotel but when the same men also turned up at the teams’ training sessions in the past week they were quickly detained by plainclothes policemen.

Perec opts out

PARIS: Double Olympic champion Marie-Jose Perec of France has decided against running in the 400 metres hurdles at the World Championships in Athens in August.

The 400 and 200 metres Olympic gold medal winner, who trains in California, has given up plans for a 400 metres and 400 hurdles double.

She has decided to take part only in the flat race in Athens, said today’s L’Equipe quoting the organiser of this weekend’s European Cup in Munich.

Tyson privilege

INDIANAPOLIS: Mike Tyson will be able to travel more freely, including overseas, under a modification of the terms of his probation, court records show.

Local judge Patricia Gifford signed an order this week modifying Tyson’s probation and transferring jurisdiction over the former heavyweight boxing champion from authorities in the state of Ohio to the Marion County probation department. Tyson, now will be required to check in by telephone once a month with Marion county’s Chief probation officer, George walker. His probation is scheduled to continue through March 1999.