Kenya’s world javelin champion and Olympic medallist Julius Yego said he was “lucky to be alive” after a car crash. The 27-year-old athlete was driving to his Eldoret home when his brand-new four-wheel SUV collided with a trailer lorry on the busy Nairobi-Eldoret highway on Sunday night. He was detained in hospital overnight from where he told reporters: “The driver of the trailer made a sudden U-turn in the middle of the road – there was no way I could have avoided him. I slammed so hard on the car brakes while hooting at the driver, that I thought I had broken my leg. I am lucky to be alive.”
 “Yego did not suffer any serious injury, but we decided to keep him in the hospital overnight for further observations,” said a doctor at Mediheal hospital in the western city of Eldoret.
 Yego became the first Kenyan athlete to win a major field event gold medal at the world championships in Beijing in August 2015. Two years ago another Kenyan athlete Asbel Kiprop, the 2008 Olympic 1500m gold medallist, was left hospitalised after a near fatal accident when his car went off the road near Eldoret as he was driving home at night. Road accidents account for the highest number of deaths in Kenya. The poor state of the roads, coupled with speeding are blamed for the heavy toll.
Horton on way back after cancer scare
Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton (pic right) expects to be back in the pool training this week after having a suspect mole removed from his chest. Horton, who won the men’s 400 metres freestyle at the Rio Olympics, was alerted to the potential skin cancer by a fan who saw it on television and e-mailed the Australian team swim doctor. He posted a picture of himself on social media last week with a bandage covering the area of his chest where he had the mole cut out, thanking the anonymous fan for their “very good call”.
 The swimmer, who became the target of online trolls this year after calling Chinese swimmer Sun Yang a “drug cheat”, said he had 10 stitches but planned to be back in training soon.
 “It’s a bit less dramatic than some people made out,” he told The Australian newspaper in comments published yesterday. “But it did have to come out because it could have developed into something, so it’s a nice reminder to get your skin checked. “I had noticed it changing but I hadn’t done anything about it. That guy telling the team doctor made me think that I should get it checked out,” he added.
 Australia has one of the highest rates of melanoma in the world, with more than 1,500 people dying from skin cancer every year. Horton said he still intended to contest the Australian national short course championships in Brisbane from November 3-5, the newspaper reported.
Korea event expands PGA Tour’s Asian leg
Asia will host three consecutive PGA Tour events starting from next year, after the announcement of a new, permanent South Korean stop on the association’s global tour schedule. The event, to be called the CJ Cup, will be held for the first time from October 16-22, 2017, at the Nine Bridges course on the southern resort island of Jeju. “This announcement is a historic landmark for the PGA Tour as we add another tournament in Asia,” said the tour CEO Jay Monahan.
 The event will feature a combined purse of more than $9.0 mn dollars, and expands on the PGA’s CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur and the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.
Monahan said the choice of South Korea was partly down to the success it had with hosting the President’s Cup in 2015 – the first time the event had been played in Asia.
 “The addition... gives us three strong tournaments in consecutive weeks in Asia, and they will play a significant role in shaping the early part of the FedExCup season and the FedExCup chase overall,” he added.
The 78-man field for the CJ Cup
will comprise the top 60 players available from the previous year’s FedEx Cup, and 18 others from a number of different exemptions to be named at a later date.