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Ambitious Al Sailiya ready for challenging THE ashes season, says coach Trabelsi page 14 Third Test at Leeds (Day 1) Kenya’s Obiri to compete in both 5k and 10k in I’m worried because I want to maintain that shape so I will relax a little bit and then aim to peak around August. I have to maintain until October. “I will watch my diet, aim to stay injury-free and will start my hard training from July.” The Olympic silver medal- AFP/TNN my training in these remain- list is not one to shy away from Nairobi ing five weeks before we travel pushing herself as part of her to Doha.” Big task preparations. Kenyan middle-distance Obiri qualified for the 10k I know that this is a big task “When it comes to training champion Hellen Obiri said on race by coming second behind you have to be focused,” said Wednesday she will compete in world bronze medallist Agnes but I am going to intensify the athlete who is coached by both the 5k and 10k races at the Tirop in the Kenyan trials on my training in these Ricky Simms. “Without disci- IAAF World athletics Champi- Wednesday. Rosemary Wan- remaining five weeks before pline you cannot go anywhere onships in Doha next month. jiru finished third in the quali- we travel to Doha. so you need to discipline your- Obiri, 29, the current fying race. self so you can do the workout world 5,000m champion, The Kenyan men’s team Kenyan middle-distance and do the training. aims to become one of the rare will be led by 2015 World champion Hellen Obiri “For me, I like training athletes to win over both dis- 10,000m bronze medallist and with men and having male tances at the same event. three-time World half mara- 25-lap event for the first time. pacemakers. When you train “Since I have a wild card for thon champion Geoffrey Kam- “My main target is to retain with men they will push you the 5,000m in Doha, I feel it is woror, who won the men’s my title and then most prob- so when it comes to racing la- the right time to run both the race, ahead of Rhonex Kipruto Kenya’s Hellen Obiri plans to double up over 5k and 10k at the 2019 IAAF World Championships at the ably I will focus on the double dies competing will be easier. 5k and 10k. The humid weather and Rogers Kwemoi. Khalifa International Stadium in Doha in September. (AFP) – 5000m and 10,000m,” the I like chasing men in training has been favourable to me the Earlier in May, Obiri had re- 29-year-old had said in an in- – when I see someone in front three times I have ran in the vealed that she will target IAAF her plan to bow out from track London two years ago and is switch to road running is in terview. then I want to pass them. Qatari capital,” Obiri told AFP. World Championships Doha competition on a high. focused on retaining her title the offing after next year’s To- “It’s a little bit worrying for “In track, if you train well “I know that this is a big 2019 success over both 5000m The Kenyan won gold in the Qatari capital. She ad- kyo Olympics and, with that in me to be in top shape now be- – you can achieve anything task but I am going to intensify and 10,000m in Doha as part of over the shorter distance in mits, however, that a full-time mind, also wants to tackle the cause it’s a long, long season. you want.” Fahad Badar scales Matterhorn Mountain Al Sadd beat 10-man Wakrah as Al Duhail survive QSC scare Ayeni Olusegun Doha

Champions Al Sadd began their QNB Stars League cam- paign with a 4-1 victory over a resilient at the on Wednesday. Al Duhail on the other hand, needed a late strike to beat Sports Club 2-1 in the late game at the . The scoreline tells a differ- ent tale but Al Wakrah made the champions sweat for the win as Hernandez contin- ues his unbeaten run as coach. Goals from Aziz al Ansari, and a dou- ble from Ahmed Sayyer ensured a winning start for the Wolves who were without last season’s Al Sadd’s being tackled by an Al Wakrah player during the opening QNB Stars League 2019-20 top scorer season match at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on Wednesday. and new signing Nam Tae-hee. The Wolves also suffered an injury scare as Akram Afif was forced off due to an injury in the first half. Qatari mountaineer Fahad Badar successfully scaled the Matterhorn Mountain peak on Sunday. The Al Sadd were on the front nearly 15,000-foot-tall mountain straddles the Swiss-Italian border. Its symmetric pyramid shape makes foot from kick off and got off it the most technically difficult of European mountains to conquer. Earlier in May this year, Badar had to a brilliant start as Ansari made history by becoming the first Arab to scale Mt Everest and Mt Lhotse during the same expedition. scored the opener nine min- utes in after Afif’s pass over the top found the striker in space. It went from bad to worse for the league newcomers Short corner as Ali Karami was shown a straight red card in the 15th England’s Ben Te’o to join Toulon Russian race walker minute after a clumsy foul on as rugby World Cup cover Bakulin receives Afif who was clean through 8-yr doping ban on goal. LONDON: Ben Te’o has agreed a short-term deal with Toulon But the Wolves got them- following his omission from England’s Rugby World Cup squad, Paris: Russian race walker selves back in the game just the French Top 14 club said on Wednesday. Sergey Bakulin, a former world before the half hour mark Sayyer, who scored two of the England coach Eddie Jones left the centre out of his 31-man champion, has been banned when Algerian Mohamed Be- four goals for Al Sadd, being Al Duhail’s (right) and Qatar Sports Club’s Jr. Kabananga selection when the squad was announced last week. for eight years for doping, the nyettou found the back of the congratulated by teammates. in action during their QNB Stars League clash at Al Janoub Stadium. The 32-year-old was excluded from the final week of England’s Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) an- net with a crisp finish. training camp in Treviso following an altercation with team mate nounced on Wednesday. Al Sadd however, made Duhail overcome QSC scare the net from a counter attack comeback for the Amir Cup Mike Brown. It was a second doping ban for their one man advantage after good work from Abde- champions in added time with New Zealand-born Te’o, a former rugby league player in Australia, Bakulin, who is 32, and runs count when a tired Wakrah In the late match, Almoez Ali nasser El Khayati. a clean strike down into the was made to apologise to his teammates in March after a late-night until April 2027. defence failed to deal with scored his first goal fir Al Du- Carlos Alos’s men however bottom corner of net after be- drinking session at the end of the Six Nations. That could mean the end of his Ansari’s cross as Hassan fired hail in as many games as the were no match for Duhail’s qual- ing set up by Msakni. He will bolster Toulon’s ranks for the next three months, providing career, although he can appeal home from close range in the Red Knights avoided a shock ity and Yousef Msakni started RESULTS: Al Sadd 4 (Abdulaziz cover while the World Cup runs from Sept. 20-Nov. 2 to the Court of Arbitration in 74th minute. start to the season. the late comeback two minutes al Ansari 9’, Abdelkarim Hassan The experienced centre, who has been capped 18 times by Eng- Sport. Despite Saoud Mubarak’s Al Duhail dominated the from time. The Tunisian slot- 74’, Ahmed Sayyar 84’, 90’) bt land, will undergo a medical on Friday before joining the squad for The decision is based on best efforts, Sadd extended game but it was Qatar Sports ted in a rebound after Edmilson Al Wakrah 1 (Mohamed Benyet- training next week. Te’o left English Premiership side Worcester anomalies in Bakulin’s biologi- their lead 10 minutes later Club who took the lead on the Junior’s shot was spilled by the tou 26’); Al Duhail 2 (Youssef Warriors at the end of the 2018-19 campaign season after three cal passport between April when Sayyer stroked home his hour mark after a goalless first otherwise impressive Adel al Msakni 88’, Almoez Ali 92’) bt seasons at Sixways. (Reuters) and June last year. (AFP) first of the night before sealing half. Congolese striker Junior Hail in goal for Al Wakrah. Qatar Sports Club 1 (Junior the tie in the 90th minute. Kalonji rifled into the roof of Almoez completed the Kabananga 60’).