A lamentable run followed in the King George VI Chase at Kempton over Christmas, when Macaire’s charge started 2-1 favourite was eventually pulled up after losing all chance with an early blunder. “He showed it to them and said: ‘These are the kind of goals you have been scoring for me. Go out and do it again’ and I do believe they were listening,” Whittle added.. Some of the goals were outstanding, fantastic, and we have now got to build on that.”Whittle revealed prior to the game that coach Jason Lee had instructed his backroom staff to compile a video of all the goals the squad had scored during his brief five-month reign. A hat-trick from penalty corners by Ben Hawes helped Great Britain to anastonishing 6-0 victory over South Africa here yesterday, and salvaged their Olympic qualification dream.
Britain went into their final pool game at the men’s Olympic qualifying competition needing to win by four clear goals to progress to the second-phase play-offs.

The youngest member of the side will be the 24-year-old Louise Damen. Radcliffe, subject to a full recovery from a recent virus, has also been chosen to run the 4km race.A silver medallist over the short distance three years ago, Radcliffe will link-up with the British 3,000m indoor record holder, Jo Pavey, and the Commonwealth 1500m bronze medallist, Helen Clitheroe. Three of the country’s brightest prospects, the European Under-23 1500m silver medallist, Lisa Dobriskey, Kate Reed and Freya Murray – the British and Scottish 4km champions respectively – are also included.There is a welcome return for the former European champion Jon Brown, who will be joined by the trial winner Glynn Tromans, in his eighth successive World Cross-Country.. Kathy Butler and Hayley Yelling finished first and third in the Inter-Counties Cross Country. Liz Yelling missed the trial in Nottingham but Radcliffe’s Bedford team-mate is one of Britain’s most experienced cross-country runners.Natalie Harvey, who represented Australia six times in the championships, makes her British debut after finishing second to Butler in the trial.

Paula Radcliffe, the two-time champion, will lead Great Britain’s medal-chasing eight-kilometre team at the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships later this month.
It is six years since the British women stood on the podium, when Radcliffe nursed them to the bronze medals.Joining her in Brussels on 20-21 March will be three of the side who won the European cross-country title for the first time last December. He added that 90 per cent of the public had voiced opposition to the technology when they were questioned as part of last summer’s GM debate.Tony Juniper, director of Friends of the Earth, said the Government “has given the thumbs-up to GM maize and shown two fingers to the British”.But Professor Chris Lamb, director of a plant research establishment, the John Innes Centre in Norwich, said: “The lesson we must learn from GM is that if society is to reap the benefits that plant science can bring, we need long-term policy-making that identifies what it is society requires from agriculture and new plant-based industries.”. Mrs Beckett said the Government intended to look at all applications to grow GM crops case by case.The shadow agriculture minister, John Whittingdale, warned that despite the Government’s decision, more than 40 regions in Britain wanted to declare themselves GM-free, including Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and the Lake District. A much-raised objection to GM maize “passing its test” in the trials is that the weedkiller used with the conventional crops for comparison, atrazine, is such a deadly chemical that it is being phased out across Europe, and therefore the comparison was invalid.Mrs Beckett indicated that the GM maize and other crops would only be grown under a legal liability regime by which organic farmers could seek damages if their own crops were contaminated with GM pollen, and that would have to be funded “by the GM sector itself, rather than by Government or producers of non- GM crops”. On this basis, Mrs Beckett told MPs yesterday, the Government would oppose the cultivation of the particular varieties of GM beet and oilseed rape throughout the European Union but would agree “in principle” to the growing of GM maize.She said GM growers would be expected to monitor changes in herbicide use on conventional maize. But with maize the opposite was true, and the GM crop was less damaging.

Reporting last autumn, the trials found that in the case of beet and oilseed rape, the GM crops and their associated weedkillers were more likely to harm farmland wildlife such as insects, wild flowers and birds than their conventional crop equivalents. Michael Howard is championing small government and fat people. Presumably the Lib Dems will soon offer us a happy medium?PHIL JANES Coulsdon, Surrey. The FARC wages war in order to turn Colombia into a rotten mix of North Korea and Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Meanwhile, their actions produce intense poverty that affects specially those they are supposed to help, since no development can take hold in places where your life is someone else’s toy.ANDR? HOYOS Bogota, Colombia Political heavyweights Sir: Let me make sure I’ve got this right The nanny-state Government is worried about our health We’ve got big government that wants slim people. Marulanda has killed, kidnapped or ordered the death of many thousands of Colombians.