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GABORONE – Briton Colwyn Rowe has been appointed national coach of Botswana on a three-year contract, the Botswana Football Association said.

Rowe has worked as an English FA instructor and technical director for the Jordanian national team. He replaces long-serving Veselin Jelusic, who has taken charge of youth development for Botswana football.Rowe’s first match in charge will be the Cosafa Castle Cup semi-final against Zambia later this month.NEW YORK – Some of the testosterone found in Tour de France winner Floyd Landis’s ‘A’ sample is from an external source and not his body, The New York Times said Tuesday, quoting an unidentified International Cycling Union official.The carbon isotope test on the first of Landis’s two urine samples taken after his 17th stage win in last month’s tour contains synthetic testosterone, said the official with knowledge of the results from France’s Chatenay-Malabry anti-doping laboratory.The results, if confirmed by Landis’s ‘B’ sample, which the newspaper said the laboratory has agreed to test Thursday through Saturday, could make Landis the first Tour champion to be stripped of his title.The 30-year-old American, who could also be banned from the Tour for two years, has protested his innocence to the UCI.PARIS – French striker David Trezeguet is staying with Juventus but the path has been cleared for compatriot Patrick Vieira to join Inter Milan, the Turin club’s director general said.Juventus were last week stripped of the Serie A titles they won in 2005-06 and in 2004-05 and relegated to the second division with a 17-point penalty for match fixing.Players Emerson, Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta have all already quit the club.But Trezeguet is set to join Alessandro Del Piero, Pavel Nedved and Gianluigi Buffon in sticking with the crisis-torn Turin outfit.MANCHESTER – Michael Carrick will carry a little extra weight on his shoulders at Manchester United.United manager Alex Ferguson handed his new 18.6-million-pound signing the No.16 shirt yesterday.It hasn’t been worn since November 2005, when former captain Roy Keane left the club.The 25-year-old England international midfielder completed his move from Tottenham after passing a medical at Old Trafford on Monday to become United’s first new signing of the summer break.Nampa-Reuters, AFPHe replaces long-serving Veselin Jelusic, who has taken charge of youth development for Botswana football.Rowe’s first match in charge will be the Cosafa Castle Cup semi-final against Zambia later this month.NEW YORK – Some of the testosterone found in Tour de France winner Floyd Landis’s ‘A’ sample is from an external source and not his body, The New York Times said Tuesday, quoting an unidentified International Cycling Union official.The carbon isotope test on the first of Landis’s two urine samples taken after his 17th stage win in last month’s tour contains synthetic testosterone, said the official with knowledge of the results from France’s Chatenay-Malabry anti-doping laboratory.The results, if confirmed by Landis’s ‘B’ sample, which the newspaper said the laboratory has agreed to test Thursday through Saturday, could make Landis the first Tour champion to be stripped of his title.The 30-year-old American, who could also be banned from the Tour for two years, has protested his innocence to the UCI. PARIS – French striker David Trezeguet is staying with Juventus but the path has been cleared for compatriot Patrick Vieira to join Inter Milan, the Turin club’s director general said.Juventus were last week stripped of the Serie A titles they won in 2005-06 and in 2004-05 and relegated to the second division with a 17-point penalty for match fixing.Players Emerson, Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta have all already quit the club.But Trezeguet is set to join Alessandro Del Piero, Pavel Nedved and Gianluigi Buffon in sticking with the crisis-torn Turin outfit. MANCHESTER – Michael Carrick will carry a little extra weight on his shoulders at Manchester United.United manager Alex Ferguson handed his new 18.6-million-pound signing the No.16 shirt yesterday.It hasn’t been worn since November 2005, when former captain Roy Keane left the club.The 25-year-old England international midfielder completed his move from Tottenham after passing a medical at Old Trafford on Monday to become United’s first new signing of the summer break.Nampa-Reuters, AFP