HONG KONG: Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldo dodged questions about the new blonde in his life, Milene Domingues, whom he has taken on a tour to Tokyo and Hong Kong.

The media had been invited to snap the footballer promoting a new watch called the `R9' after him, that will cost between $ 3,000 and $ 34,000 (about Rs 1.29 lakh and Rs 14.6 lakh).

Ronaldo admitted in June he was going through a difficult time in his private life and confirmed his three-year relationship with Rio de Janeiro model Susana Werner was over.

Christie sample

LONDON: Dr Wilhelm Schanzer, the doctor who tested Linford Christie's positive urine sample, has said that the British sprint legend's nandrolone level was 100 times above the legal limit, according to a report in The Sunday Telegraph.

Former World and Olympic 100 metres champion Christie, suspended by the IAAF because of the test at an indoor meeting in Dortmund in February, says the positive test must be the result ofproducts produced naturally in his body.But Dr Schanzer, in charge of the International Olympic Committee accredited laboratory in Cologne where the sample was sent, told the newspaper ``of all the nandrolone cases that we have had recently, this was one of the clearest. It was absolutely clearly above the limit. I have no doubt that it has not come from indigenous production.''

-- Agencies