14 Sports Monday, May 31, 2021 wins Italian MotoGP shaken by Jason Dupasquier’s death

MUGELLO: Fabio Quartararo dominat- qualifying. Doctors rushed to the scene ed the Italian MotoGP yesterday at a and after attending to him for 40 minutes shaken by the death hours on the circuit had him airlifted to hospital. earlier of Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier. He underwent chest surgery overnight Quartararo crossed the line with plenty of “for a vascular lesion” and had suffered daylight back to reigning world champion “severe brain damage”, a hospital Joan Mir in second, with Portugal’s spokesman told AFP earlier yesterday. Miguel Oliveira completing the sombre Motorcycling’s governing body the podium. Yamaha’s French world champi- FIM, the team’s IRTA umbrella associa- onship leader dedicated the win to tion, and the sport’s commercial rights Dupasquier, 19, who died in hospital of holder DORNA issued a joint statement injuries sustained in a multi-bike crash in on the tragic news. “Following a serious qualifying on Saturday. Dupasquier died incident in the Moto3 Qualifying 2 session from injuries sustained in a crash in quali- at the Gran Premio d’Italia, it is with great fying at the Italian Grand Prix, organizers sadness that we report the passing of had announced yesterday. “We’re deeply Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier,” it read. MUGELLO: Riders observe a minute of silence in tribute to Swiss Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier who died aged 19 from injuries sus- saddened to report the loss of Jason It said after Dupasquier’s crash med- tained in a crash in qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix, before the start of the moto world championship Italian Grand Prix MotoGP Dupasquier,” MotoGP said on Twitter. ical officers “arrived at the site immedi- race at the Mugello racetrack yesterday. —AFP “On behalf of the entire MotoGP fami- ately and the Swiss rider was attended to ly, we send our love to his team, his family on track” before his transfer to hospital. and loved ones. You will be sorely missed, “Despite the best efforts of circuit med- all our thoughts are with him.” Tom Luthi, had dedicated his pole-clinching qualify- to his second season in the lightweight Jason. Ride in peace,” the statement ical staff and all those subsequently a Swiss rider who races in Moto2, also ing lap to Dupasquier on Saturday. class of Grand Prix racing, consistently added. The Careggi hospital in Florence attending to the Swiss rider, the hospital withdrew from yesterday’s grand prix to Dupasquier, whose father Philippe was scoring points and within the top ten in treating Dupasquier confirmed to AFP has announced that Dupasquier has sadly be close to Dupasquier’s family at the a former rider, was in his sec- the standings. “The FIM, IRTA, MSMA that the teenager had suffered brain succumbed to his injuries,” the statement hospital, his team SAG Racing ond season in Moto3. Racing for his and Dorna Sports pass on our deepest injuries “incompatible with life” in the continued. announced. German team he finished his rookie Moto3 condolences to Dupasquier’s family, multi-bike accident at Mugello on His team, Pruestel GP, had already Japan’s and Spaniard campaign last year pointless in 28th in the friends, team and loved ones.” The last Saturday. pulled out of yesterday’s race, posting on Jeremy Alcoba were the others involved overall standings. After five races in 2021 fatality in the motorcycling world champi- Dupasquier, in his second season in Facebook: “PruestalGP decided not to in the horrific accident. Organizers he was placed 10th with 27 points. onship was Spain’s , who died Moto3, fell and was struck by at least one race today in the #italianGP. The situation reported that both were “fine”. MotoGP The FIM joint statement noted: in practice at the Catalonia Moto2 Grand bike, before sliding along the track, during of @jasondupasquier50 is still critical and championship leader Fabio Quartararo “Dupasquier had made an impressive start Prix in Barcelona in 2016. — AFP Andersson saves Cologne from Brentford end 74-year drop wait for promotion BERLIN: Swedish striker to struck twice in a chaotic first half to help Cologne avoid relegation from the Bundesliga with a 5-1 win LONDON: Brentford were promoted to the over second-tier side on Saturday. Premier League for the first time in 74 years Andersson, a marquee signing last summer who had on Saturday as they beat Swansea 2-0 in a been injured for much of the season, stepped up in Championship play-off final worth around the second leg of the promotion play-off tie to £180 million ($255 million) to the winners. spare Cologne a third relegation in 10 years. Thomas Frank’s side completed their fairytale Amid a flurry of four goals in the first 15 minutes, rise thanks to first-half goals from the 1.90-metre Swede scored twice with his head to KIEL: Cologne’s players celebrate their 1-5 win during the German second leg play-off relegation Bundesliga and Emiliano Marcondes at Wembley. put Cologne on course and bury Kiel’s hopes of a football match between second division team Holstein Kiel and first division team 1 FC Cologne in Kiel on Swansea’s Jay Fulton was sent off midway first ever promotion to the German top flight. “If Saturday. —AFP through the second half to put the result Andersson had been available more often, then my beyond doubt in what is widely regarded as predecessor would have won more games,” said football’s single most lucrative game, mainly Cologne coach , who took over we gave everything today to make sure we stayed front from a corner. The hosts hit back straight because of the broadcast revenues that from Markus Gisdol in April with Cologne stuck in there,” said goalkeeper . from the kick-off, with South Korea international Premier League clubs receive. After decades the bottom three. Having avoided automatic relegation with just Lee Jae-sung heading in the equalizer. Yet stuck in lower league obscurity, unfashionable “I’m so happy for the club, the fans and the four minutes to spare on the final day, Cologne had Andersson immediately restored Cologne’s lead at Brentford will be one of the smallest clubs ever city of Cologne. I stink terribly, I’ll need a change slumped to a surprise 1-0 defeat in the first leg on the other end, before making it 3-1 with another to play in the top tier. of clothes,” the 67-year-old told broadcaster Wednesday. So second-division underdogs Kiel headed goal on 12 minutes. In just their second season at the new DAZN after his jubilant players showered him in had high hopes of an upset as they took to the Kiel’s promotion hopes seemed dead and buried Brentford Community Stadium, the Bees will beer on the pitch. German media estimated that field in front of 2,500 raucous fans in the bright just a few minutes before half-time when their for- welcome the likes of Manchester City, relegation would have cost Cologne more than 25 evening sunshine. mer player sent a sweetly struck Manchester United and Liverpool to west million euros ($30.5 million) in income from Yet they were left shellshocked after an explo- half-volley sailing into the top corner. Goalkeeper London. The riches earned from the victory broadcasting rights. sive first half which began with three goals in the Ioannis Gelios kept the minnows clinging on with will be transformative for Brentford, who have They would have been the third iconic German first six minutes. Kiel’s narrow first-leg advantage several fine saves in the second half, before Ellyes finally erased the painful memories of their club to go down this year after Werder Bremen was cancelled out after just three minutes as Skhiri slammed in a fifth to seal survival for wretched play-off past. and Schalke. “Cologne belong in the top flight, and Cologne captain headed his side in Cologne six minutes from time. — AFP Beaten by Fulham in last season’s Championship final, Brentford had failed to earn promotion in all nine of their play-off appearances before this term. No team had Suspended IPL lost more play-off finals than Brentford’s four, but Frank had insisted the bad omens would count for nothing. moved to UAE The Bees boss was proved right as he NEW DELHI: The Indian Premier League, sus- became the first Danish coach to win a pended as a new coronavirus wave hit India, will be Football League promotion. “I don’t know if finished in the United Arab Emirates in September I can describe it. It’s been such a long jour- and October, India’s national cricket board said ney,” Frank said before his players gate- Saturday. The Board of Control for Cricket in India crashed the interview to throw him into the also said it will ask the global governing body for air in celebration. more time to make a decision on whether the “This group of players is incredible. Twenty20 World Cup should be held in India in Everyone has played a major part,” Frank October and November. added, once he was back on his feet. “The The IPL, the world’s richest cricket tournament, feeling was calm and relaxed and ready to was half finished when it was halted on May 4 after be ruthless. Right now I want to get drunk and then worry about the Premier League a number of players and team officials caught coro- tomorrow!” navirus despite being in bio-secure bubbles. The Brentford’s rise has captured the imagina- board has since been in tough negotiations with tion of neutrals after they spent 59 out of 60 other countries and the International Cricket seasons in the third or fourth tiers before Council on when to squeeze the remaining matches reaching the Championship in 2014. They have into the crowded international calendar. climbed well above their traditional status About 160,000 people have died in India since thanks to innovative owner Matthew Benham. April 1 in a devastating wave that has seen hospitals Benham has introduced an analytics-influ- FORT LAUDERDALE: Brendan Hines-Ike #4 of DC United and Ian Fray #24 of Inter Miami vie for the ball at DRV overwhelmed. There are fears that the country enced approach overseen by two directors of PNK Stadium on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. — AFP could be hit by another surge later this year. The football, ensuring the club make the most of BCCI said it was moving the remaining matches to their resources, which are meager in compari- the UAE — which staged all of last year’s IPL — son with the Championship’s wealthier teams. sible, as NYCFCs seized upon because of the monsoon season and did not men- Tajouri-Shradi nets an errant pass from the Angelenos and found the tion the pandemic. The board said a special general Prolific Toney Paraguayan striker. meeting had “unanimously agreed” for the remain- Fittingly, it was Championship top scorer winner as NYCFC NYCFC coach called it “by far the ing matches to be held in the UAE “considering the Toney who put Brentford on course for the biggest win” of his tenure in New York. “Last monsoon season in India in the months of top-flight for the first time since 1947. Toney, year when we played Toronto away, Columbus September-October this year.” signed from third tier Peterborough last year, rally to beat LAFC away, I think we haven’t been close to winning. The monsoon season is generally considered to fired Brentford to a third-place finish despite We had Orlando last year, we improved. We made run from June to mid-September. The World Cup is the close-season sales of star forwards Ollie LOS ANGELES: Ismael Tajouri-Shradi scored the it an even game and this year now we beat due to be held in India from October but it is also at Watkins and Said Benrahma to Aston Villa and game-winner in the 90th minute as 10-man New Philadelphia away and Orlando draw (away). risk from the pandemic threat. The BCCI said the West Ham respectively. York City FC rallied to beat Los Angeles FC in Now win here in LA, that’s saying something general meeting authorized its leaders “to seek an Now the 25-year-old, rejected by on Saturday. Alfredo Morales about the group and that we’re coming far now to extension of time from the ICC to take an appropri- Newcastle as a youngster, will get the chance flicked on a corner by Jesus Medina and Libyan for- work together as a group.” ate call on the hosting of ICC T20 World Cup 2021.” to show he can thrive in the Premier League. ward Tajouri-Shradi, unmarked at the back, fired It was a deflating defeat for LAFC, who had The tournament is due to be discussed by the Six of Brentford’s team started last season’s home the winner with his left foot. Mexico international Carlos Vela in action for a full ICC tomorrow, though no decision is expected to be final and they quickly seized the initiative in Four minutes earlier, NYCFC had been reduced 90 minutes for the first time this season as he taken. No deadline to announce whether the tourna- the 10th minute. to 10 men when Uruguayan midfielder Nicolas returns from a quadriceps injury. Among other ment will be moved has been publicly set, but crick- Bryan Mbeumo made a clever run behind Acevedo was sent off after a reckless tackle on matches Saturday, a brace from Ola Kamara fueled et officials say a decision will have to be taken in the Swansea defense to reach Sergi Canos’s Latif Blessing. “It’s a game that we should not lose,” DC United to a 3-0 victory over Inter Miami in the “weeks”. The ICC has meanwhile given details of the superb pass into the penalty area, prompting said LAFC coach Bob Bradley, whose team went Florida club’s first match since they were hit by a pandemic precautions that players will take before Freddie Woodman to race off his line and crash up 1-0 in the 56th minute, when Corey Baird slot- record $2 million fine for violating roster and salary going to the World Test Championship final against into the Brentford striker. Referee Chris ting home form the near post. NYCFC equalized in rules in the signing of French World Cup-winner New Zealand starting on June 18 in Southampton, Kavanagh pointed to the spot and Toney the 70th through Medina, who curled in a left- Blaise Matuidi. Paul Arriola also scored for DC, England. The British government has given a special stepped up to slot the penalty past Woodman footed shot that eluded goalkeeper Pablo Sisniega. who spoiled Inter’s first home match with a full- exemption from its coronavirus rules so that the for his 33rd goal of the season. — AFP It was LAFC’s error that made Medina’s goal pos- capacity crowd at DRV PNK Stadium. — AFP inaugural championship can be held. — AFP