Paralympians get to meet PM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Israel's Paralympic delegation this afternoon at his office. Israel is sending 25 athletes to the London Paralympic Games, which will use the exact same facilities as the Games of the 30th Olympiad that ended on Sunday. Israel won five silver medals and one bronze medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. The London Paralympic Games open August 29. (Rami Hipsh and Haaretz Staff)
Shahar Peer suffered her third consecutive defeat with a first round exit at the hands of Julia Goerges at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Monday. Goerges, of Germany, dismissed Peer 6-3, 6-3. The world number 25 went up 5-0 in the first set before Peer enjoyed a mini-rally of three straight games. Peer, ranked 56th in the world, was trounced by Maria Sharapova in the Oympics and then fell to young Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in the Rogers Cup last week. She qualified for the Cincinnati event only after Sharapova withdrew. (Rami Hipsh)
The National Hockey League will learn how wide a gap it faces in labor talks that threaten the 2012-13 season when the players' union delivers a counterproposal on the core economic issues this week. The two sides have scheduled four meetings this week in a bid to avoid another lockout like the one that wiped out the entire 2004-05 NHL season. If a new deal is not reached before the current collective bargaining agreement expires on Sept. 15, the NHL could impose a lockout. (Reuters)
