Team Bahrain Victorious All Set for UAE Tour Ride Seven Riders Named for Season-Opening UCI Worldtour Event, to Be Led by Wout Poels and Jack Haig
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2021 12 Williams exits in tears as Osaka, Djokovic reach finals Team Bahrain Victorious all set for UAE Tour ride Seven riders named for season-opening UCI WorldTour event, to be led by Wout Poels and Jack Haig Seven-stage race to feature• biggest stars in We have a strong team cycling, such as 2020 for the first WorldTour Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams embrace after the semi-final match Tour de France winner race of the season. It’s Tadej Pogacar and four- an important one for AFP | Melbourne time Tour de France Bahrain, being in the Middle East. However, apan’s Naomi Osaka brutal- winner Chris Froome The difference today It’s an important race Jly halted Serena Williams’s for all the teams being latest bid for a record-equal- was errors. I made so Team Bahrain the first WorldTour ling 24th Grand Slam title many errors. Honestly, Victorious• to be one of yesterday, as Novak Djokovic it was opportunities race, which shows with wrote the final chapter of qual- the 19 UCI WorldTeams the team line-ups where I could have competing in event, ifier Aslan Karatsev’s fairy-tale won. I could have been TEAM BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS SPORTS DIREC- run. starting on Sunday Team Bahrain Victorious during a training ride earlier this year (File photo) TOR FRANCO PELLIZOTTI Fans returned after a five- up 5-0. It was a big day coronavirus lockdown error day for me TDT | Manama Gino Mader, Jonathan Milan, Alongside Poels and Haig, for all the teams being the first in time to see an emotional SERENA WILLIAMS Wout Poels and Fred Wright. the team is strong, with Caruso WorldTour race, which shows exit from Williams, Jennifer The Bahrain Victorious line- starting his first race after a top with the team line-ups.” Brady’s win over Karolina Mu- ning her 23rd in Melbourne in eam Bahrain Victorious, up will be led by Poels and Haig, 10 finish at last year’s Tour de Regarding the team strategy, chova and top-ranked Djok- 2017, and victory over Osaka founded by His Majesty off the back of strong perfor- France in support of the team’s Pellizotti said: “We’ve struc- ovic preserving his perfect would have given her a gold- Tthe King’s Humanitarian mances at Tour de la Provence. general classification contend- tured the team for all types of semi-final record at Karatsev’s en opportunity against Brady, Works and Youth Affairs repre- They will compete against some ers. stages. Bauhaus is showing good expense. who is into her first major de- sentative and Supreme Council of the biggest stars in cycling, Bauhaus will battle it out for form after his win at Tour de la Triple major-winner Osaka, cider. for Youth and Sports chairman such as 2020 Tour de France the sprint stages after his im- Provence, and there are four 23, again proved Williams’s But after going 0-2 down His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin winner Tadej Pogacar, four-time pressive win on the final stage stages for him to fight for with nemesis with a one-sided 6-3, in the first set, Osaka reeled Hamad Al Khalifa, announced Tour de France winner Chris of the Tour de la Provence last the support of Fred Wright and 6-4 win which heightened off five straight games to take yesterday their seven-member Froome, and last year’s winner week. It will also be Milan’s first Jonathan Milan. questions about whether the charge against a despairing squad that will be competing in of the UAE Tour Adam Yates. WorldTour race and an exciting “We then have an ITT on Stage American, 39, will ever match Williams and canter into the next week’s UAE Tour. The race will feature four flat test for the 20-year-old Italian 2, an important stage for the GC Margaret Court’s all-time re- final. The seven-stage race is the stages for the sprinters, two eyeing the individual time trial and a good test for Milan. For cord for Slam singles titles. The soft-spoken Osaka has season-opening event of the climbing stages and a 13km in- on stage two. our leaders, Wout is in good Williams put her hand on never lost a Grand Slam match 2021 UCI WorldTour. It will be dividual time trial, which will be Team Bahrain Victorious shape after his fourth place her heart as she acknowledged after reaching the quarter-fi- held from Sunday to Saturday critical at deciding the general sports director Franco Pellizot- overall at Tour de la Provence a standing ovation on Rod La- nals, and Brady can expect the next week. classification. ti commented on the impor- and Jack is a great climber who ver Arena, and later walked match of her life on Saturday. This year’s UAE Tour is its Action will start in the town tance of the race. He said: “We is capable of a good result. We out of her post-match press “For me, I have this mentali- third edition, and it will see all of Al Ruwais through Abu Dhabi have a strong team for the first also have Caruso, who is a good conference in tears, saying: ty that people don’t remember 19 UCI WorldTeams competing. and move through four more WorldTour race of the season. climber and time trialist and has “I’m done.” the runners-up. You might, but Team Bahrain Victorious’ of the seven independent city- It’s an important one for Bah- had two good training camps at The American has lost four the winner’s name is the one line-up includes Phil Bauhaus, states of the UAE before finish- rain, being in the Middle East. Altea and Teide, and so we can Grand Slam finals since win- that’s engraved,” Osaka said. Damiano Caruso, Jack Haig, ing back in Abu Dhabi. However, It’s an important race expect a good race from him.” Undefeated young stars Kadimagomaev, Eldarov Gets hero’s welcome, sparks Kyun Kim to clash at BRAVE CF 47 KHK MMA year of hunting belts TDT | Manama TDT | Manama ombat Kingdom will host Kan exciting match between HK MMA head coach and two undefeated young top KBRAVE CF Super Light- fighters as Switzerland’s Hu- weight World Champion Eldar sein Kadimagomaev will take Eldarov was welcomed back on South Korea’s own Tae Kyun upon his return to Bahrain af- Kim in an explosive Feather- ter defending his world title at weight bout that will serve as BRAVE CF 46 that took place in the co-main event of BRAVE CF Sochi, Russia last January. 47: Asian Domination. In accordance to the current With a professional record of COVID-19 regulations in the 7 wins and no losses, Kadimago- country, Bahrain’s KHK MMA maev boasts a combined record team held a small socially-dis- of 18-0, including 11 amateur tanced welcome back surprise wins. The Swiss star never saw for Eldarov outside of the Bah- the judges scorecards, as all his raini Fighters Gym to commem- Eldar Eldarov wins came by way of knockout orate his triumphant return to or submission. ‘’Lamen Borz’’ is the kingdom and celebrate his Several other KHK MMA fight- seen as one of the biggest rising #AndStill moment. ers also expressed how they feel stars in Europe. Eldarov took the opportunity about Eldarov’s accomplish- Kadimagomaev hopes to live to give a motivational speech to KHK MMA will have ment and the importance of up to the high expectations left his students and inspire them to more belts by the watching him defend and bring by his first BRAVE CF appear- continue advancing within the end of the year back the belt to Bahrain. Most ance, back in August, 2020, correct direction in their train- ELDAR ELDAROV notably, the 20 year old rising when he knocked out Sven round. series of four consecutive cards ing and preparation. Eldarov KHK MMA fighter, Muhammad Fortenbacher in the second His opponent, Tae Kyun Kim, held by the truly global promo- also shared that this is only the more accomplishment. When Mokaev. also boasts a record of 7 pro tion in its home nation, culmi- beginning for KHK MMA and a team sees their coach accom- “We are all proud of Eldar, wins and no losses to his name. nating in a historic BRAVE CF 50, 2021 will be a year for hunting plish great things, it makes that he came back with the belt Kim has a 71% finish-ratio, with on April 1st. for belts and world titles. them want to do the same. It’s and was able to defend his belt. 3 submissions and two knock- The event will be headlined The Pride of Bahrain Hamza different than having a coach I believe we will have more KHK 18-0 outs. The South Korean pow- by a Lightweight title elimi- Kooheji expressed the impor- who only talks and never does. champions in BRAVE CF and I is the combined record of erhouse beat Erick da Silva and nator between Kyrgyzstan’s tance of Eldarov’s victory to He’s a leader by action. Now believe many guys will be able Husein Kadimagomaev Arturo Chavez in his two BRAVE Abdysalam Kubanychbek and Bahrain and the KHK MMA that he has defended the BRAVE to defend it. This is for BRAVE who boasts a professional CF bouts so far. Philippines’ own Rolando Dy. team. belt, the next step will be for and our team is our motivation record of 7 wins and BRAVE CF 47 will take place The winner of the ‘’Omok’’ vs “Eldar’s accomplishment is us to start collecting all BRAVE to get the belts, defend the belts, no losses along with 11 on March 11 in the Kingdom of ‘’Dy Incredible’’ match-up will a pride for us as Bahrainis and CF belts one at a time.” Hamza and bring them to Bahrain.” amateur wins Bahrain, also known as Kombat be next in line to take on Amin as the KHK team.