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2012 clock starts ticking ahead of ticket sales” plus 3 more- London 2012 clock starts ticking ahead of ticket sales - Chris Smalling confident of Man Utd progression - Sebastian Vettel extends Red Bull contract until 2014 - Murray, Ferrer and Tsonga lead exodus from Indian Wells London 2012 clock starts ticking ahead of ticket sales Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:08 PM PDT A giant clock counting down to the start of the London 2012 Olympics has been unveiled in Trafalgar Square hours before tickets go on sale. Over six million tickets will become available on Tuesday morning marking 500 days until the Games begin in the capital, and fans have a six-week window in which to apply online. The clock was revealed by four Olympic gold medallists from Team GB – rowers Pete Reed and Andy Hodge and sailors Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson. Lord Coe, winner of two Olympic golds, said: “It [the clock] will be a daily and hourly reminder to everyone who visits Trafalgar Square that the countdown to the start of London 2012 has well and truly begun and that the greatest show on earth is soon coming to our country. “Athletes’ careers are based on timing and I hope that this milestone moment excites and inspires them to compete at the highest level in 2012.” Mayor of London Boris Johnson added: “The countdown begins right now in the very heart of the capital as we gear up to stage the best Games in living memory and the excitement spreads outwards from Trafalgar Square to every corner of our great city. “In 500 days time the atmosphere will be electric as the Olympic Cauldron bursts into flames signalling the beginning of the world’s greatest sporting event and London 2012′s glorious legacy unfolds.” Chris Smalling confident of Man Utd progression Posted: 14 Mar 2011 02:37 PM PDT Defender Chris Smalling is confident Manchester United will overcome Marseille to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League – but has warned his side they cannot afford to concede an away goal. Sir Alex Ferguson's men take on the French champions at Old Trafford on Tuesday night following a goalless draw in the first leg in France three weeks ago, and Smalling believes United have enough to see off Didier Deschamps' side to seal a place in Friday's quarter-final draw. “It’s a bit of a dangerous scoreline with the way the away goals rule works,” said Smalling, 21. “It makes things interesting for the neutrals, but a bit nerve-wracking for the players and the fans. “You could see that Marseille wanted to keep a clean sheet and they were well set up in that sense. “They’re a good side. It was an edgy game over there with neither side wanting to give the other too much encouragement.” He added: “From our point of view we need to keep things tight at the back because if they score it’ll mean we need to score twice. “You don’t want to risk conceding the away goal, but I think the manager will want us to go at them. “Being at home is a massive advantage for us and we’re confident of going out there and getting the result.” Smalling has featured regularly for United since Rio Ferdinand has been sidelined with a calf injury and is again expected to partner captain Nemanja Vidic at Old Trafford on Tuesday. Sebastian Vettel extends Red Bull contract until 2014 Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:06 AM PDT World champion Sebastian Vettel has agreed a new contract with Red Bull Racing to keep him at the team until the end of the 2014 season. The 23-year-old would have been out of contract at the end of the forthcoming season, but with reported interest from rivals Ferrari and Mercedes the Austrian team has moved quickly to tie down their prize asset with a new deal until 2013, with an option for 2014. While the financial details have not been made public, the deal is reported to be worth a reported £8.5m for 2013, rising to over £10m in 2014, with Red Bull continuing its policy of offer significant bonuses for performance and points. “Sebastian feels very comfortable within the team and the team feels very comfortable with him,” team boss Christian Horner told the BBC. “We started to talk about it earlier in the year and it came together quickly.” Vettel got his first taste of F1 with BMW Sauber in 2006 before making his debut as a stand-in for the injured Robert Kubica at the 2007 US Grand Prix where he finished eighth to become the youngest driver to score a world championship point. The German has raced for Red Bull in Formula 1 since 2009, but has been a part of the Red Bull young driver development programme since 1998, joining junior team Toro Rosso from the middle of 2007. He stormed to victory at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix to become the youngest driver to win an F1 race before becoming the youngest world champion with his win at the final race of the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi. As Red Bull evaluates their plans for the team's long-term future, other key personnel, including chief technical officer Adrian Newey, who has led the evolution of the team’s cars since his appointment in 2006, are believed to have agreed new deals as well. Discussions over a deal for Vettel's 35-year-old team-mate Mark Webber are expected to be put back until after the season has begun later this month, with the Australian recently saying he has not thought about his future in the sport beyond the 2011 season. Vettel begins the 2011 season as favourite to retain his title ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, with the first race on 27 March at Melbourne's Albert Park. Murray, Ferrer and Tsonga lead exodus from Indian Wells Posted: 14 Mar 2011 03:13 AM PDT Amid talk from the stars of the show about being No1, becoming No1 again, and hoping soon to become No1—Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in turn—one particular Brit with his own ambitions in that direction was making a shock exit from his first match of the first Masters of the year in Indian Wells. It seems as though Andy Murray is in danger of reprising his post-Australian Open slump of 2010 as he continues to look decidedly lack-lustre a full six weeks after his loss to Djokovic in this year's final in Melbourne. Murray, currently ranked No5 since losing his top-four position to Robin Soderling at the start of 2011, reached the quarter-finals at this tournament last year but won only four other matches between the Australian and the French Opens. This year, thus far, he has lost the opening match in both tournaments he has played since Melbourne, both of them on his preferred hard surface, in Rotterdam and now in Indian Wells. He was beaten, in pretty routine order, by the 21-year-old American qualifier Donald Young, 7-6, 6-3, in around one and a half hours, but there were two other worrying factors about the loss. As he has on occasion before, Murray looked like he may have a knee problem—though he is still playing in the doubles at Indian Wells. The other concern was his response to the media after his loss: "I started the match well, and then when it got close to the end of the first set, I didn’t do anything particularly well…I didn’t serve particularly well, I didn’t move very well." Of even more concern was the tone behind his additional comments: "I didn’t do anything to really lift myself. Kind of the crowd were for him. He started playing better. I didn’t find my way back into the match." Hardly the mind-set of a player who believes he belongs with the elite in his sport. Murray's next tournament is the Masters in Miami. He will hope to draw some much-needed confidence from the closest he has to a home crowd outside the UK. Murray was not the only top-10 player to fall at the first hurdle of the opening weekend in the glorious sunshine of this mountain-set oasis. The lapis-blue court of Stadium 2 had already seen No6 David Ferrer fall to Croatian Ivo Karlovic in an identical scoreline. The 6ft 10in Karlovic, at 32 almost of veteran status, has slipped to No239 in the rankings but has been attempting a comeback from an Achilles injury that forced him to miss the last six months of 2010. He has lost in the first round of three of his last four tournaments, so his win was a real shock for Ferrer, who is enjoying his highest ranking in two and a half years and has already won two titles this year. Ferrer was the first of three seeds to leave the Nadal quarter of the draw. No15 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga lost to Xavier Malisse 7-6, 7-5, and No19 Marcos Baghdatis fell to Indian qualifier Somdev Devvarman 7-5, 6-0. The crowd-pleasing Baghdatis took out Federer at this event last year, but Devvarman's off-season practising with Andy Roddick in Texas reaped some rewards. He did not drop a point on serve in the second set, and won eight straight games in his fourth consecutive straight-sets win at Indian Wells. Also out of the top half of the draw is defending champion, Ivan Ljubicic, who came up against a Juan Martin del Potro beginning to work his way back into his formidable form. The Argentine, coming to this Masters on the back of the title at Delray Beach, had already beaten Radek Stepanek for the loss of just four games, but the No14 seed Ljubicic proved to be an altogether tougher prospect, despite nursing a cartilage problem in his right ankle. The former world No4 Del Potro dropped the first set, 5-7, before coming back 6-4, 6-2. His win throws up the prospect of an exciting third round match against the fast-rising No20 seed, Alexandr Dolgopolov. However, there is a plethora of fascinating matches in prospect in the lower half of the draw. The all-American contest between Andy Roddick and John Isner—both thriving in the hot, dry conditions—will be a battle of the serves, but Roddick's better movement around the court should give him the edge. Michael Llodra and Viktor Troicki will play for the first time since the Davis Cup final when the Serb trounced the Frenchman to seal the trophy for his country. However, the bottom quarter has already featured some of the best tennis of the tournament in a match between No12 seed Stan Wawrinka and a Nikolay Davydenko playing near his best for the first time since the opening week of the season. In almost two and three-quarter hours of aggressive, fast-paced and needle-sharp shot-making, it was again the Stadium 2 crowd that enjoyed a tight three-setter of high quality, low-error hitting in which the Swiss came through, just, 3-6, 7-6, 6-4. Since taking up with Peter Lundgren as coach, there has been no holding Wawrinka's confidence. He won Chennai at the start of the year, reached the quarters of the Australian Open and the semis of Buenos Aires. It looks as though his hard-court game is evolving particularly well, and his mental attitude even better. His next match against Marin Cilic, himself finding some good form in recent weeks, should be a cracker. 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