Raikonnen left over money issue

Kimi Raikkonen made the decision to rejoin Ferrari next season after Lotus failed to pay his salary.

* Kimi Raikkonen made the decision to rejoin Ferrari next season after Lotus failed to pay his salary,the Finn admitting he would still fulfil his duties over the final seven races of his contract because he loved to race. Last week,the 33-year-old agreed to replace Felipe Massa as Fernando Alonsos team mate at Ferrari,with whom he won the title in 2007. Its unfortunate but I want to help the team as much as I can and as I just like to race, he said. Raikkonen also said that age and experience will be a key factor in making his relationship with Alonso at Ferrari a good one. I can see plenty of reasons why it will work. We are old enough to know what we are doing and the team is working to make sure everything is fine, he said.

International fixing ring busted

* A man suspected of being the international ringleader of a global match-fixing network was among 14 people arrested in Singapore in what appears to be a major breakthrough in the battle against corruption in football . Singapore police and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said in a joint statement that authorities arrested 12 men and two women in raids lasting 12 hours across the city-state,ending early Tuesday. Interpol,the police body based in Lyon,France,confirmed the arrests in a statement released late Wednesday. A high-level police official said that those arrested include Tan Seet Eng,widely known as Dan Tan. Prosecutors in Italy have accused Dan Tan of coordinating a global crime syndicate that made millions betting on rigged Italian matches and other games across the world.

Yuki makes quarters

* Yuki Bhambri avenged his two previous defeats against Yuichi Sugita as the Indian pipped the Japanese in straight sets to move to the singles quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger event. Yuki edged past his seventh seed rival 7-6 (5) 7-5 in the second round of the $125,000 hard court event. Yuki had lost both his previous matches against Sugita in USA last year and in Japan in 2011. Yuki won the game in three minutes short of two hours. Later in the day,Yuki and his Taipei partner Chieh-Fu Wang reached the doubles semifinals after beating Japanese pair of Arata Onozawa and Yuichi Sugita 6-3 6-4 in one hour and 15 minutes.

Deadlock over 2022 WC switch

* Though UEFA’s 54 member countries on Wednesday supported switching the Qatar 2022 WC from summer to winter,its influential policy advisory body has refused to agree to anything before detailed consultation with FIFA. Clubs,leagues and players’ unions which join national federations in the Professional Football Strategy Council declined to give UEFA President Michel Platini approval for the change,which FIFA President Sepp Blatter says his board should decide on next month. Van Seggelen,secretary general of the FIFPro group of unions strongly opposes a summer World Cup in Qatar,though a move to winter could raise health issues if it forced hundreds of clubs to alter league calendars and play through the hot southern European summer. We will not play in Qatar but also not play in other (hot) places,so for us it’s simple, he said. We don’t play in the heat because it’s not in compliance with our policy.