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Athletic rout Getafe 5-1 Bale scores as Tottenham recover to oust Wycombe WYCOMBE, England, Jan 26, (AP): Gareth Bale scored only his fourth goal since returning to Tottenham in Inter coach Conte leading a comeback to beat Wycombe 4-1 in the FA Cup. banned 2 matches Playing his fi rst full match of the season, Bale netted before halftime to MILAN, Jan 26, (AP): Inter Milan cancel out Fred Onyedinma’s shock coach Antonio Conte was suspend- opener for the second-tier side. ed for two matches on Tuesday fol- With extra time looming, Harry lowing a clash with referee Fabio Maresca over the weekend. Winks put Tottenham in front with a Conte was sent off in stoppage curling strike in the 86th minute then time for protesting at the end of Tanguy Ndombele netted twice. Saturday’s Jose Mourinho’s side plays Everton 0-0 draw at in the fi fth round to maintain its chal- Udinese. lenge in four competitions. There was a further alter- cation in the SOCCER tunnel and the league’s sport- Mourinho named a strong team and ing judge report this was a chance for Bale to show why states that Con- he should be in the team more often te confronted while back on loan from Real Madrid. Maresca “in He wasted a chance after fi ve min- Conte a threatening utes by heading wide and dragged an manner, shout- effort wide from another good position ing a seriously offensive expres- sion at him.” on the edge of the area. Conte, who has also been fined Those misses proved costly as Wy- 20,000 euros ($24,000), will miss combe took the lead in the 25th minute. upcoming league matches against Uche Ikpeazu got the better of Tot- Benevento and Fiorentina. tenham defender Toby Alderweireld Inter is second in Serie A, two down the right and his cross was not points behind city rival AC Milan. cleared by Davinson Sanchez, who Team manager Gabriele Oriali could only divert it into the path of was suspended for one match and Onyedinma to fi re home. fined 5,000 euros ($6,000) for his Spurs went for a quick response and part in the protests. He approached the chances continued to rack up. Japhet Maresca at the end of the match on Tottenham’s Gareth Bale (right), kicks the ball during the English FA Cup 4th round soccer match between Wycombe Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur Tanganga headed over from a corner im- the field “shouting disrespectful ex- at Adams Park stadium in High Wycombe, England, on Jan 25. (AP) mediately after, Bale hit the side-netting pressions at him.” with another good chance, and Moussa Sissoko’s defl ected effort from the edge ing Getafe 5-1 in the Spanish league. of the area cannoned into the crossbar. Yeray Álvarez, Álex Berenguer and Mourinho may have been fearing the Óscar de Marcos also scored for Ath- worst when he saw Tanganga head an- letic, which a week ago celebrated the other golden chance against the crossbar, Spanish Super Cup title after beating Worley profits from Gisin, but his side fi nally levelled in fi rst-half Barcelona in the fi nal and Real Madrid stoppage time. Lucas Moura found space in the semifi nals. On Thursday, it ad- on the left and Bale broke the offside trap vanced past third-division club Ibiza in to hook home from close range. the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey. That ought to have been the plat- The home victory against Getafe left form for Spurs to go on and win the Athletic in ninth place in the Spanish game comfortably in the second half league, closer to the qualifi cation spots Shiffrin ‘errors’ to win GS but a raft of missed chances caused un- for European competitions. necessary stress. Getafe, sitting in 13th place, opened Meanwhile, in Madrid, Raúl García the scoring through Marc Cucurella in scored twice as Athletic Bilbao main- the fi rst minute but was already down Vlhová struggles, but still holds lead in overall standings tained its recent impressive run by rout- 3-1 by halftime.

SAN VIGILIO DI hind Italian teammate Sofia Goggia, Egypt hosts World Cup the speed specialist who swept two MAREBBE, , Jan 26, downhills last weekend. (AP): First-run leader Mi- Overall leader Petra Vlhová strug- Asian shooting Championship chelle Gisin nearly came to gled in both runs and finished 12th. a complete stop. American Still, Vlhová holds a 100-point lead witnesses wider participation over Gisin in the overall standings. standout The second run was made more KUWAIT CITY, Jan 26, (Agen- from February 22 until March 5 had a series of uncharac- difficult by a contrast in light, with cies): Secretary-General of Arab with the participation of 31 coun- teristic bobbles. And de- the top half of the course bathed in and Kuwait Shooting Federations tries including Kuwait. fending overall champion sunshine and the steeper bottom part Obaid Al-Osaimi said that the Minister of Youth and Sports in the shade and much darker. number of participants joining the Ashraf Sobhi said in a statement was It was the third consecutive Asian Championship, which will on Tuesday that the participating wild from start to finish. podium result for Gut-Behrami, kick off next Friday, is rapidly in- countries are Kuwait, Saudi Ara- creasing. bia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, the 2016 overall champion, after “More than 20 national teams Libya, Sudan, Argentina, , SKIING coming second in a downhill and have participated in the champi- , Denmark, , India, first in a super-G. Gut-Behrami’s onship so far, which will be held Kazakhstan, South Africa, Hol- previous podium in GS came more online for the fi rst time, including land, Russia, , Slovakia, French veteran than four years ago. She’s now just Olympic skeet, trap, air pistol and United States, Senegal, Ukraine, 136 points behind Vlhová in the rifl e for both genders,” said Al- Canada, Croatia, Czech, England, took advantage of second-run er- overall standings. rors from the early leaders to win Osaimi. Ireland, Luxemburg, Norway, Po- Bassino, who claimed her sixth “A number of 24 shooters have land in addition to Egypt. a World Cup Tues- podium result of the season, is fourth been chosen to represent the Ku- day on a challenging course with France’s Tessa Worley celebrates winning an alpine ski, women’s World Cup giant slalom, in San Vigilio di Marebbe, Italy, on Jan 26. (AP) overall and 168 points behind Vl- waiti national team for the cham- SHOOTING a name, Erta, that lives up to its hová. pionship, 3 shooters per game, meaning – steep. No spectators were allowed at the are training hard and intensively Moving up from fifth after the and with 14 the final World Cup race of his ca- race because of a nationwide ban on according to a schedule in the up- Sobhi reassured all delegations opening leg, Worley finished 0.27 career GS wins for third place all reer in Schladming, . attending sports events in Italy amid coming days,” he added. and missions that will acccompany seconds ahead of Lara Gut-Behrami time. Swiss great Shiffrin dropped from second to the coronavirus pandemic. “The tournament is held under the teams to abide by strict medi- and 0.73 ahead of , holds the record with 20 GS wins, fourth, a distant 1.08 behind Worley, The women’s circuit moves to the patronage of President of the cal precautionary measures, set by this season’s giant slalom leader. followed by Annemarie Moser-Pröll while Gisin came sixth after holding Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a down- Asian Shooting Confederation the Egyptian Health Ministry. Worley had a flawless second run with 16. a big lead over the entire field after hill and super-G this weekend – the Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem President of the Egyptian and and was pushing the entire way. Worley also claimed world cham- the first run. final races before the world cham- Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, and have African Shooting Federations, “This place is incredible and pionship gold medals in GS in 2013 “Congrats to these girls for put- pionships open in nearby Cortina been working with international Major General Hazem Hosni, clar- very challenging, a beautiful GS for experts to assure the application ifi ed that the championship will in- and 2017, but her previous World ting on an impressive show,” Shif- d’Ampezzo. of health precautions in the light clude 10 competitions adding that women,” Worley said. “The second Cup victory came back in 2018 at the frin wrote on Instagram. “Gonna “I’m entering the worlds in good run I really gave everything. It was of the spread of the Coronavirus,” organizing this tournament is quite season opener in Soelden. go shake the rattle out of my brain form,” Bassino said. “I’ve been ski- he noted. crucial Egyptian players before dark, it was bumpy, it was great.” It was already going to be a spe- now.” ing well since the start of the season. Meanwhile, Egypt will host their participation in Tokyo Olym- Worley matched , cial day for Worley with longtime Likewise, Brignone fell from third … I’m going to arrive ready and I shooting on choppers World Cup pics next June. Lise-Marie Morerod, boyfriend skiing in to eighth and finished one spot be- hope to have a good time.”