RIO DE JANEIRO， Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iurii Cheban from Ukraine bagged the gold in the men's C1 200m in canoe sprint competition of the 2016 Olympic Games here on Thursday.
Valentin Demyanenko from Azerbaijan settled for silver. And the bronze went to Ayala Alfonso de Benavides Lopez from Brazil.
BERLIN， Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Raul Bobadilla and Augsburg have agreed on contract extension ahead of schedule， the Bundesliga club confirmed in an official statement on Saturday.
The 29-year-old striker， whose running contract was stipulated until June 2018， penned a two-year contract extension， which keeps him with the "Fuggerstaedter" until June 2020.
"Raul is a player who can make the difference and who increases the quality within our squad，" Augsburg's sport director Stefan Reuter told the club's official homepage.
Bobadilla joined Augsburg from Swiss outfit FC Basel in the summer 2013 to provide 18 goals and nine assists in 82 competitive appearances.
"I am happy about the confidence that I feel at Augsburg，" the Paraguayan international said. "I feel incredibly comfortable and I would like to see many more victories and successes with this team，" Bobadilla added.
Augsburg sit currently on the 13th place of the standings. They will encounter Wolfsburg at the 18th round of Bundesliga on Saturday.
BERLIN Cheap Air Max 2018 , March 22 (Xinhua) -- Due to the huge influx of refugees, German federal police officers accumulated 2.7 million hours of overtime from September until the end of February, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Tuesday.
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The German police union GdP has also complained about the heavy workload of officials.
Approximately 40,000 German federal police had already accumulated half a million hours of overtime after the reintroduction of border controls within one month, said GdP.
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The German government has promised that federal police will receive 3,000 additional external staff this year.
SAN FRANCISCO Cheap Nike Air Max 2017 Clearance , Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- What caused the Zika virus, which had lain low since its discovery in the forests of Uganda in the 1940s, to trigger such severe outbreaks in recent times?
A group of researchers say a gene mutation detected after 2012 could have enhanced the virus' power to overcome immunity in the Aedes mosquito, its main carrier Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Clearance , and increase its power to infect.
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Zika, spread mostly by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito, can be passed on by a pregnant woman to her fetus.
Olivier Giroud is primed to join Chelsea from Arsenal for ￡17.5m on deadline day, a move that will allow the completion of a chain of transfers that takes Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to the Emirates Stadium and Michy Batshuayi to Borussia Dortmund.
Agreement was reached in principle between the two London clubs after a day of exhaustive talks Cheap Air Max 2017 Clearance , with Arsenal anxious to conclude their own club record ￡55.5m move for Aubameyang. Even so, Giroud had still been included in Arsène Wenger’s 19-man match-day squad for Tuesday’s Premier League game at Swansea, which the France international began on the bench.
The 31-year-old’s priority has long been to enjoy greater playing opportunity before the World Cup, having started a solitary top-flight game this season following the ￡52.7m arrival of his compatriot Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon last summer.
Giroud will back himself to make a mark at his new club in what promises to be a fight for minutes with álvaro Morata as Chelsea are in effect scrapping their established policy of not signing players in their 30s on long-term deals. Giroud is understood to have verbally agreed personal terms on the switch and is set to undergo a medical on Wednesday.
Arsenal Cheap Air Max 2018 Clearance , who have already taken Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Manchester United this month in exchange for Alexis Sánchez, had not been inclined to sell Giroud to a direct rival for a top-four Premier League finish. But their determination to set in train the deal for Aubameyang has forced them to compromise.
They have also had to take a hit on the fee, having originally wanted closer to ￡30m. Talks had appeared to hit an impasse on Monday evening but resumed on Tuesday in an attempt to smooth the wheels of the various deals. The ￡17.5m fee for Giroud is inclusive of add-ons.
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