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JOHANNESBURG Xavier Woods Color Rush Jersey , Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- South African soccer team captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead late Sunday near Johannesburg, local police spokesman said Sunday.

Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale said Meyiwa, 27, was gunned down at a house in Vosloorus, a township about 30 kilometers south of the city, and declared dead on admission to hospital.

"We can confirm that Bucs (Pirates) goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa has been shot and sadly declared dead on arrival at hospital Jourdan Lewis Color Rush Jersey ," the South African Police Service (SAPS) said on its Twitter feed.

PARIS, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Paris became the fourth city having confirmed to bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games after an official announcement here on Tuesday.

Rome, Boston and Hamburg have already declared their candidacies to stage the 2024 Games, while Budapest is also expected to enter the running.

The French capital, which last hosted the Olympics in 1924, narrowly missed out to London for staging the 2012 Games Chidobe Awuzie Color Rush Jersey , following failed bids for the 2008 and 1992 editions respectively to Barcelona and Beijing.

Bernard Lapasset, the head of World Rugby, has been appointed to lead the campaign.

"Paris is delighted to officially confirm its bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games - an important first milestone as our host city campaign journey commences," he said in an official statement.

"We believe that this bid and our goal to host the 2024 Games will excite, unite and enthuse the people of Paris, our entire nation and lovers of Olympic and Paralympic sport all over the world Taco Charlton Color Rush Jersey ," added the chairman of Paris 2024.

According to the project launched Tuesday, Paris' infrastructure budget for hosting the 2024 Games has been estimated at 3 billion euros, with operational costs of 3.2 billion euros.

The city's existing infrastructure would be at the heart of the project, including the Stade de France, a new cycling track on the outskirts of Paris, the Roland Garros tennis center and many Parisian landmarks like the Grand Palais and Champ de Mars.

Paris may need to build a new swimming pool Connor Williams Color Rush Jersey , an Olympic village and a media center as required in main constructions if bidding for the Games.

Denis Masseglia, president of the French national Olympic committee (CNOSF), confirmed the bid would be planned in line with the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s 2020 Olympic Agenda, which aims to deliver more flexible and less costly Games.

"In line with the IOC's Agenda 2020 strategy, Paris 2024 promises a feasible and flexible Games concept that will be an authentic reflection of the diverse and dynamic cultural, social Leighton Vander Esch Color Rush Jersey , environmental and sporting traditions of our local communities, the city and the French people," said Masseglia.

The IOC will decide on the shorlist of the candidate cities in 2016, before select the host city in summer 2017.

CHANGCHUN, China, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Beijing Ducks downed Jilin Northeastern Tigers 111-92 to get its fifth victory in the sixth round of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) league here on Friday.

Beijing were unstopped in the second half thanks to Randolph Morris who scored 13 points in the third quarter Dak Prescott Color Rush Jersey , and the team kept a 17-point edge.

During the first five rounds of regular matches, the three foreign players contributed 78 percent scores of the whole Jilin team, which is unprecedented in the CBA league. Whereas there is a gap between the two teams' strength. Jilin lost the game with a 19-point margin.

Jilin will take on Shanghai in the next round while Beijing play against Shandong.

Hunting deer on the far flung Kodiak Archipelago

KODIAK, Alaska — We took off on a slightly damp day, heading from town of Kodiak to a bay on Afognak Island simply to the north, hoping to harvest some Sitka black-tail deer Aug. 30 and 31.

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After a touchdown involving a stomach-shedding quick descent in a good bank, we unloaded our gear and watched the aircraft depart.

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We chose to hunt on Afognak on account that it’s off the road system. Looking in recreation administration Unit eight is divided into two components: the whole lot close to the street approach in and across the city of Kodiak, and everything else. On the road system, folks are confined to one buck. Off the street approach, people can take three bucks from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30 and three deer from Oct. 1 to the top of the 12 months. The deer are small, and it takes several to get a full wintry weather’s meat.

We had unsuccessfully hunted on the street system for deer in fall 2014 toward the tip of the season when the deer were skittish from being hunted for weeks already.

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