OLYMPICS
Thai shooting bosses believe Jakkrit Panichpatikum could be a surprise at the Olympic Games at Beijing and bring home a medal. There will be four Thai shooters at next month's 2008 Games with the other three being Sasithorn Hongprasert, Thanyalak Chotphibunsin and Thanyaporn Prueksakorn.
Sutiya Jiewchaloemmit has already made history as Thailand's first skeet shooter to have qualified for the Olympics. Although Thailand are pinning their hopes on boxing, weightlifting and taekwondo, Sutiya could become a surprise package.
BOXING
Thailand's Interim Youth bantamweight champion, Fahpetchnoi Sorchitrpatana, registered a lucky points victory over North Korea's Kim Hyok Jun yesterday at the open-air ring of the Santirat Vitayalai in Bangkok, before a large crowd of students and boxing fans. The fight was presided over by Chusak Sirinil, Minister of the Prime Minister's Office.
England coach Fabio Capello arrived in Bangkok yesterday to give a lecture to the Thailand Premier League teams today and open a football clinic tomorrow. Capello, who arrived yesterday with his wife and English FA technical chief Simon Johnson, declined to talk to the press.
EXTRA TIME
The Olympic football tournament may be just an Under-23 event but it has been one of the most popular sports at the Games since professional players were first allowed to take part.
YACHTING
PHUKET : Not even the rain could dampen the enthusiasm of the record fleet of 45 craft which took principal race Officer Simon James' starting signal to open the Six Senses Phuket Raceweek 2008 regatta, sailing off the Evason Six Senses Resorts and Spas, on Phuket's southeast coast. At the end of the first day, results were not confirmed but it was, provisionally: Australian sailor Peter Ahern, winning the Racing Class 1, British sailor Peter Dyer, Madame Butterfly (IRC 2), another Aussie, Andrew de Bruin Awatea (Club Charter Class), Frances Bernard Chapus Chamarai (Ocean Multihull), Bill Phelps, (Thailand, Twin Sharks, Raimon Land Firefly 850) and USA's Mark Myking, Idiom, Classic Class, winning their respective classes.
CYCLING
ST ETIENNE, FRANCE : German rider Marcus Burghardt beat Spain's Carlos Barredo in a sprint finish to win the 18th stage of the Tour de France, as Carlos Sastre retained the race's overall lead. The 25-year-old Burghardt was part of every escape group from the beginning of the 196.5km course from Le Bourg-d'Oisans to the city of Saint-Etienne, eager to score a stage win.
