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Madappa joins Gill in K’taka jrs lead

National champion Viraj Madappa carded the day’s best round — a two-under 70 — to move into the joint lead at the midway stage of the Usha Karnataka junior golf tournament in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Football

Nadal back to old routine

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Watching Rafa Nadal churn his way through the claycourt season over the past few weeks, it seems nothing much has changed since his French Open triumph a year ago despite a lengthy injury layoff.

The visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang from May 19-22 had to compete for space with the unfurling Indian Premier League scandal — an admixture of the sublime and the ridiculous.

It is now customary to affix “gate” to all scandals.