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Our goal has always been to win the gold medal at the Paris Olympics next year.” </p>nn<p>China have ruled the Hangzhou pool — and the Games in general. Olympic bronze medallist Li Bingjie won the women’s 400m freestyle to add to the medal haul. </p>nn<p>However, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey has been a bulwark of resistance to China’s dominance. </p>nn<p>The former British colony’s first Olympic swimming medallist stormed to victory in the blue riband 100m freestyle with an Asian record swim of 52.17 seconds, a day after taking the 200 title. </p>nn<p>“I haven’t swum a [personal] best time since Tokyo,” said 25-year-old Haughey, who took the 100 and 200 silvers at the Olympics. “It just proves that I’m not at my peak yet.” </p>nn<p>China took four of the six golds on the night. The other went to Tomoru Honda, who stunned exhausted Japanese team-mate Daiya Seto in the 400m medley. </p>nn<p><strong>CHINESE GAMERS RULE</strong></p>nn<p>Gaming is making its debut as a medal event in Hangzhou in what is seen as a major step towards Olympic status one day. </p>nn<p>Audiences of overwhelmingly young spectators have packed out the 4,500-capacity Hangzhou Esports Center in the hope of catching one of their heroes, especially South Korea’s Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok. </p>nn<p>He will lead the Koreans in League of Legends — and controversially earn an exemption from military service if they win gold. </p>nn<p>Medals are up for grabs in seven gaming titles, with China grabbing the first gold when they defeated Malaysia in the final of smartphone game Arena of Valor. Malaysia take home silver and Thailand bronze </p>nn<p>“The audience who loves eSports and the veterans in the eSports industry have been looking forward to this for a long time,” China’s captain Luo Siyuan said after his team’s historic victory. “I believe that eSports will develop more and more in the future.” </p>nn<p>Underlining just how popular eSports is at the Games, it is the only competition in Hangzhou where tickets were allocated through an initial online lottery. </p>nn<p>China’s place in the Games record books helped the home nation stretch their lead atop the medals table with golds in their usual strengths of gymnastics, table tennis and shooting to increase their overall tally to 53 at the end of three days of action. </p>nn<p>They are way ahead of South Korea (14 golds), Japan (eight) and Uzbekistan and Hong Kong (both five). </p>nn<p><strong>SECOND GOLD</strong></p>nn<p>China’s all-powerful table tennis squad swept past rivals Japan 3-0 in the women’s team final. They also claimed men’s team gold over South Korea by the same scoreline. </p>nn<p>In artistic gymnastics, home favourite and twice world champion Zhang Boheng grabbed his second gold, adding the all-around individual title to his men’s team triumph on Sunday. </p>nn<p>Unbeaten in every rotation, Zhang stuck the landing in the horizontal bar to finish with a total score of 89.299, over two points clear of Japan’s runner-up Takeru Kitazono. </p>nn<p>But China were dethroned by Japan in the men’s team sprint at the Chun’an Jieshou Sports Centre Velodrome on the first day of action on the cycling track. </p>nn<p>Japanese rider Yoshitaku Nagasako said his team thrived on the partisan crowd. “When I heard ‘China’ I just thought ‘Japan’. So the crowd was amazing,” he said. “I’m really proud to win this one.” </p>nn<p>China’s women made no mistake in their team sprint final, beating South Korea to the title. </p>nn<p>In other action, Hong Kong retained their men’s rugby sevens title when they beat South Korea 14-7 in the final, as hosts China won the women’s gold. </p>nn<p><strong>ROYAL TOUCH</strong> </p>nn<p>The Games had a royal touch when Thailand’s Princess Sirivannavari Mahidol rode in on a horse named ‘Es Fangar’s Samba King’ in the dressage team event. </p>nn<p>With Thailand finishing fifth — behind gold-winning India — the 36-year-old daughter of King Vajiralongkorn was unable to add a medal to the crown jewels </p>nn<p>“Luckily our father is supporting us,” said the princess, who played badminton at the 2006 Asian Games and competed in equestrian at the 2014 edition. “He knows that what drives my heart is horses and badminton.”</p>nn<p><em>Published in Dawn, September 27th, 2023</em></p>
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Shehbaz is also expected to leave London in the next few days to return to Pakistan ahead of his brother’s arrival.</p>n<p>Similarly, the PML-N issued directives for all its senators, former lawmakers and ticket-holders on Monday to make sure that they remain in the country and those abroad should return within three days to consume their energies only for mobilisation of the people for ‘historic homecoming’ of their self-exiled leader Nawaz Sharif.</p>n<p>“All party senators, former MNAs and MPAs and ticket-holders must remain in country and those abroad return within three days, and all those planning to go to London to meet Nawaz Sharif drop their programme and only focus on mobilisation of the people in their constituencies to accord historic welcome to him,” said the president’s directive.</p>n<p><em>Atika Rehman in London also contributed to this report</em></p>n<p><em>Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2023</em></p>
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<p>ALGIERS: Algeria has pulled out of the running to stage the Africa Cup of Nations in either 2025 or 2027, the Algerian Football Federation (FAF) said on Tuesday, a day before the announcement of the host nation for each of the two tournaments.</p>nn<p>The FAF said in a statement that it had “sent a letter to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) informing it of its decision to withdraw its bids to host the Africa Cup of Nations” in 2025 and 2027.</p>nn<p>Algeria was due to come up against its North African neighbour Morocco as well as Zambia and a joint Nigeria-Benin bid for the hosting of the 2025 tournament.</p>nn<p>It had also entered the 2027 contest, up against Botswana, Egypt, Senegal and a combined Kenya-Tanzania-Uganda challenge.</p>nn<p>“This withdrawal can be explained by a new approach from the FAF related to its strategy for developing football in Algeria,” the federation added.</p>nn<p>The announcement came on the same day as a new president, Walid Sadi, took over the running of the FAF.</p>nn<p>It was understood that Algeria, like its political rival Morocco, would have preferred to host the 2025 AFCON.</p>nn<p>Earlier this year, leading Moroccan and CAF official Fouzi Lekjaa caused a stir when he told local politicians that the kingdom would be chosen for 2025.</p>nn<p>Algeria had successfully staged the African Nations Championship, for which only domestically-based players are eligible, at the beginning of this year.</p>nn<p>CAF’s executive committee will meet in Cairo on Wednesday when it will announce the hosts of the two editions of the Cup of Nations in question.</p>nn<p>Earlier, CAF president and South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe has hailed the organisational abilities of both countries, who have each staged the Cup of Nations once with Morocco doing so in 1988 and Algeria two years later.</p>nn<p>“Morocco has often flawlessly hosted major competitions while the CHAN in Algeria this year was the best ever,” he said.</p>nn<p>During the CHAN, Motsepe said he wanted each region to host the Cup of Nations: “We cannot assign the organisation of the CAN successively to the same region.”</p>nn<p>However, several months later, CAF secretary general Veron Mosengo-Omba said regional rotation may not always be possible.</p>nn<p>“Today, only five or six countries out of the 54 CAF members are able to apply to host the African Cup. Consequently, it will not be possible to make this alternation,” he said.</p>nn<p>The next AFCON will be held in the Ivory Coast in January and February 2024, after it was postponed from June and July this year in order to avoid the West African rainy season.</p>nn<p><em>Published in Dawn, September 27th, 2023</em></p>
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<p>OpenAI’s ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple’s Siri.</p>n<p>The voice feature “opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications”, OpenAI said in a <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="link–external" href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak">blog post</a> on Monday.</p>n<p>Similar AI services like Siri, Google voice assistant and Amazon.com’s Alexa are integrated with the devices they run on and are often used to set alarms and reminders and deliver information off the internet.</p>n<p>Since its debut last year, ChatGPT has been adopted by companies for a wide range of tasks from summarising documents to writing computer code, <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1773372">setting off a race</a> amongst Big Tech companies to launch their own offerings based on generative AI.</p>n<p>ChatGPT’s new voice feature can also narrate bedtime stories, settle debates at the dinner table and speak out loud text input from users.</p>n<p>The technology behind it is being used by Spotify for the platform’s podcasters to translate their content into different languages, OpenAI said.</p>n<p> <figure class='media sm:w-1/2 w-full media–right media–embed media–uneven'>n <div class='media__item media__item–newskitlink '> <iframen class="nk-iframe" onload="setInterval(()=>{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)"n width="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="height:400px;position:relative"n src="https://www.dawn.com/news/card/1775773"n sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms"></iframe></div>n n </figure></p>n<p>With image support, users can take pictures of things around them and ask the chatbot to “troubleshoot why your grill won’t start, explore the contents of your fridge to plan a meal, or analyse a complex graph for work-related data”.</p>n<p>Alphabet’s Google Lens is currently the popular choice for gaining information on images.</p>n<p>The new ChatGPT features will be released for subscribers of its Plus and Enterprise plans over the next two weeks.</p>
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