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Mohammed delighted with Gamilati’s win
DUBAI: His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai was delighted with the stunning performance of Gamilati in the UAE 1,000 Guineas race held at the Meydan on Friday. “This time Gamilati settled well. The first time she ran this year, she was getting used to the surface and was a bit nervous. The manner of her victory was a pleasant surprise,” he said....
 
 
India cruise to eight-wicket win against Australia
MELBOURNE: India revived their Australian tour with a convincing eight-wicket win over the home side in the second Twenty20 international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday. The tourists dazzled in the field with four run outs to restrict Australia to 131 off 19.4 overs before reaching the target at 135 for two with two balls to spare before 62,275 fans. It was the Indians’ first victory on their tour of Australia...
   
Strong wind swings Qatar Masters off course
DOHA: European Tour officials reduced the Qatar Masters to 54 holes when they called off play on Friday after strong winds moved golf balls and blowing sand reduced visiblity on several holes. Officials initially suspended play at 9:13 a.m. local time after gusts of up to 56 kph (35 mph), and with signs being tossed about safety became an issue. They were hoping to resume play but with no sign of a respite...
 
 
Ferrari unveil new F1 car, Massa warned
LONDON: Ferrari unveiled their 2012 Formula One car via the Internet on Friday after their usual glittering launch had been cancelled due to snow in Maranello, where driver Felipe Massa was given a frosty reminder that he must shape up this year. The Italian glamour team have endured several difficult seasons since Kimi Raikkonen, now back in the sport with Lotus, won their last drivers’ title and helped them to the constructors’...
   
Champions Trophy semis line-up complete
ROSARIO: The Netherlands, Argentina, Great Britain and Germany booked their spots in the last four of the Champions Trophy in Rosario on Thursday. The Netherlands, intent on retaining their crown from a year ago in Amsterdam, signalled their title credentials with a commanding 3-0 victory over New Zealand. The Dutch will face hosts Argentina in the semi-finals after the Argentines scored a late goal to knock off China 3-2...
 
 
England edge ahead
Dubai: England were 104-6 after bundling out Pakistan for 99 on the first day of the final Test match played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday. Abdul Rehman claimed three wickets and Umar Gul two for 21 and 28 runs respectively. At stumps, skipper Andrew Strauss (41) and James Anderson (3) were at the crease. Once again bowlers led Pakistan’s fight back. Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan said, “Batsmen played...
   
Terry stripped of captaincy
LONDON: John Terry was stripped of the England captaincy for the second time in two years on Friday after mounting concern his ongoing racism court case had made his position untenable. The English Football Association confirmed in a statement that chairman David Bernstein had contacted Terry to inform him of the body’s decision to remove him as captain until the allegations were “resolved.” Bernstein had canvassed opinion...
 
 
Manchester City aim to re-establish lead
LONDON: Manchester City will aim to turn the pressure back on their title rivals on Saturday by re-establishing their slender lead at the top of the Premier League table with victory over Fulham. City have endured a wobbly start to 2012, exiting both domestic cup competitions while suffering defeats against Sunderland and Everton to leave Roberto Mancini’s side level on points with second placed Manchester United....
   
Equatorial Guinea face Ivory Coast in quarters
MALABO: Equatorial Guinea admit they did not want to face Ivory Coast on Saturday in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals. The Estadio de Malabo pairing appears to be the mismatch of the last-eight phase with 133 places separating the countries on the FIFA world rankings this month. Ivory Coast are packed with familiar English Premier League names like brothers Kolo and Yaya Toure...
 
 
PSG have not wasted their money, says Ancelotti
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Thursday that the club have not wasted their money and that their aborted move for Carlos Tevez shows that they will not be bullied in the transfer market. “It’s true that we now have money and players at Paris but we haven’t wasted our money,” said the Italian. “We have opportunities to invest. We’ve signed big players, who we didn’t pay much for, so it was good...
   
Australia team face do or die situation in qualifiers
SINGAPORE: Australia have admitted it’s “do or die” for their Olympic chances as they search for their long-lost scoring touch in far-flung Uzbekistan on Sunday. The Aussies, accompanied by their own team chef as they visit the pool leaders, are languishing in third spot in Group B after failing to find the net even once in their three matches so far. However, the “Olyroos” are also yet to concede, leaving them just two points...
 
 
UEFA former president calls on FIFA chief to quit
LONDON: Former UEFA president Lennart Johansson said on Friday that the time had come for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to quit. Johansson, 82, who was UEFA’s president for 17 years and a former FIFA vice-president, fought and lost a bitter 1998 FIFA presidential election to Blatter, who has remained in power ever since. Blatter, who will be 76 next month, secured a fourth term unopposed last year and has said he will retire...
   
Thereau strikes as Chievo down Novara
MILAN: Novara coach Emiliano Mondonico’s return to Serie A proved disappointing as he witnessed his new team lose 2-1 to Chievo Verona on Thursday and look even more certain of relegation. Sergio Pellissier grabbed his 100th goal for Chievo shortly after the half-hour mark and it looked all over when Cyril Thereau doubled its lead 12 minutes from time. But Giuseppe Mascara pulled one back less than a minute later to set up...
 
 
Dodig, Lacko and Youzhny enter quarter-finals
ZAGREB: Lukas Lacko of Slovakia ousted second-seeded Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia 6-0, 6-7 (1), 6-1 to enter the Zagreb Indoors Open quarter-finals on Thursday. Bogomolov, a quarter-finalist last year, rallied after dropping the first set but lost five games in only 14 minutes in the decider to bow out. Third-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia defeated Grega Zemlja of Slovenia 6-1, 6-3 to reach his third quarter-final in Zagreb....
   
Flamengo sack coach Luxemburgo
Flamengo: Flamengo sacked coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo on Thursday despite steering the team through to the group stage of the Libertadores Cup the night before. The former Real Madrid and Brazil coach, who had been in charge since Oct.2010, overcame internal squabbles to steer Flamengo to a 2-0 home victory over Real Potosi of Bolivia on Wednesday for a 3-2 win on aggregate in their preliminary round tie.Luxemburgo said after...
 
 
Sydney seek new coach as Lavicka leaves
SYDNEY: Sydney FC announced on Friday it will be looking for a new coach after deciding not to extend the contract of Vitezslav Lavicka beyond the end of the current A-League season. The club said the split with the Czech coach was amicable. “The Sydney FC board has decided not to renew the contract of Vitezslav Lavicka beyond the 2011/12 Hyundai A-League season,” Sydney chief executive Dirk Melton. “At the same time,...
   
New Zealand beat Zimbabwe in ODI opener
DUNEDIN: New Zealand defeated Zimbabwe by 90 runs in the first one-day international at Dunedin on Friday as poor batting by the tourists undermined a creditable bowling effort. Zimbabwe, reeling from a humiliating innings-and-301-run defeat in a one-off Test in Napier last week, were set an achievable target of 249 after winning the toss and sending New Zealand in to bat on a seaming wicket. But the hard work by Zimbabwe...
 
 
Paes eyes Olympic medal in doubles
New Delhi: India’s veteran tennis player Leander Paes, a singles bronze medallist in Atlanta, has set his sights on winning his second Olympic medal in the doubles event at the 2012 London Games.” My next aim is an Olympic medal in doubles. It would be the epitome of my career. I want to win the medal for my flag and my people,” said the 38-year-old after returning home from Melbourne. Paes became the first Indian to complete...
   
‘Isles of Wonder’ to be London ceremony theme
LONDON: The theme of the opening ceremony of the London Olympics will be “Isles of Wonder”, film director Danny Boyle revealed on Friday. Boyle, who directed the Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire”, told reporters the theme for the ceremony on July 27 was taken from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. He said it would be about a land that has been poisoned by industrial legacy and the way that land had been recovered....
 
 
Former coach Waqar calls for reduction of Aamer’s ban
DUBAI: Former Pakistan paceman and coach Waqar Younis on Friday called for a reduction of the five-year cricket ban meted out to talented teenage bowler Mohammad Aamer for his role in a spot-fixing scandal. Aamer, 19, was released from a British prison on Wednesday after serving half of his six-month sentence for his part in the scandal during the Lord’s Test between Pakistan and England in August 2010. His team-mates, Salman...
   
Hend takes lead in Myanmar Open golf
YANGON: Australian Scott Hend took advantage of his soaring drives to shoot a five-under-par 67 and edge into the halfway lead at the Zaykabar Myanmar Open on Friday. Overnight joint-leader Hend held a one-shot advantage over Thailand’s rising star Kiradech Aphibarnrat with a two-day total of 13-under-par 131 at the Royal Mingalardon Golf and Country Club. Kiradech, who won his first Asian Tour title last year, shot a solid...
 
 
Rose blooms in Bulls victory over Nicks
NEW YORK: Derrick Rose’s Chicago Bulls edged the New York Knicks 105-102 on Thursday thanks to a balanced attack that saw five players reach double figures. Rose scored 15 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter for the Bulls, who have the best record in the Eastern Conference at 19 wins and six losses. Rose, who also had 13 assists, helped clinch the win by making one of two free throws with 5.3 seconds left in the fourth...
   
Leverkusen boss threatens to ban Ballack’s agent
BERLIN: Bayer Leverkusen’s director of sport Rudi Voeller on Thursday threatened to ban Michael Ballack’s agent Michael Becker from their stadium as an ongoing feud between Becker and the club threatened to spill over. “He should stop attacking us as a club,” fumed Voeller in a press conference ahead of Bayer’s German league match against Stuttgart on Saturday. “He has been shown the yellow card, this is the last time...
 
 
Feverish Greipel pulls out of Tour of Qatar
BRUSSELS: The Tour of Qatar has lost one of its marquee names after Germany’s Andre Greipel pulled out of the race due to illness on Thursday. Greipel, who claimed his maiden Tour de France stage win last year, has enjoyed a blistering start to the season winning three stages and a pre-race criterium at the Tour Down Under two weeks ago. But his bid to test his early season sprinting legs against the likes of British...
   
Semenya to cut down races ahead of Olympics
DURBAN: Caster Semenya, South Africa’s former 800 metre women’s world champion, will scale back her competitive races this year so that she is in perfect shape for the London Olympics, her agent said on Friday. Semenya, 21, the 2009 800m world champion, lost her crown last year in Daegu, South Korea, when her time of one minute 56.35 seconds was good enough only for second place behind Russia’s Mariya Savinova. Jukka Harkonen,...
 
 
Simmonds scores twice as Flyers down Predators
Philadelphia: Wayne Simmonds scored twice to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-1 home victory over Nashville Predators on Thursday, snapping the Predators five-game winning streak in the process. The Flyers were outshot 12-6 in the first period but escaped with a 1-0 lead thanks to Simmonds, who broke free and fired a shot past Predators Swedish goalie Anders Lindback. “Reno (Zack Rinaldo) had the goalie screened,...
   
Saqlain Mushtaq backs out-of-favour Harbhajan
KARACHI: “Too much focus on Twenty20” is harming Harbhajan Singh’s international cricket career but the out-of-favour Indian off-spinner needs to be supported instead of being cold shouldered, feels former Pakistan tweaker Saqlain Mushtaq. Harbhajan, who came a cropper in the tour of England, was dropped from the team for the ongoing tour of Australia. Saqlain, also an off-spinner, said any player can be off-colour for...
 
 
Jadeja and Brendon may attract top bids
BANGALORE: Dashing wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum, all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Sri Lankan master batsman Mahela Jayawardene and R Vinay Kumar will attract top bids when 144 players from eleven countries go under the hammer in the IPL 5 auction on Saturday. Only eight Indian players, including VVS Laxman who is unlikely to win the confidence of the franchisees, figure in the auction. Though the teams have been given...
 
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