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p16 2_Layout 1 6/25/14 9:45 PM Page 1 THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2014 SPORTS Mancini early favorite Giro stage winner Promising Pollard gets to be next Italy coach Ulissi fails drugs test Bok cap against Scots CAPE TOWN: IRB Junior World Player of the Year Handre Pollard will receive his RIO DE JANEIRO: Former Inter Milan and Manchester City manager PARIS: Italian rider Diego Ulissi failed a drugs test conducted during this first South Africa cap when he starts at flyhalf in the one-off test against Scotland Roberto Mancini has emerged as the early favorite to be the next Italy year’s Giro d’Italia for the banned substance salbutamol, his Lampre- in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. The rising Bulls star, who recently captained South coach after Cesare Prandelli resigned following the Azzurri’s World Cup exit Merida team said yesterday. on Tuesday. Italy’s 1-0 defeat by Uruguay sent them out of the tournament “The results of the test from the UCI (International Cycling Union) Africa to second place at the Junior Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, is one of following a loss to Costa Rica and a win over England in Group D and report the presence in the urine of the athlete of an abnormal amount of five uncapped players in the 23-man matchday squad announced by coach Prandelli said he took responsibility for the failure. salbutamol (1900 ng/ml), higher than the limit allowed by the regula- Heyneke Meyer on Wednesday. Influential daily newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport tions, which sees the limit at 1000 ng/ml,” Lampre-Merida said in a state- “Handre is a very talented player and has a big opportunity cited Mancini as the most likely to be offered the ment. The test was carried out after the 11th stage in the Giro last month. this week, but he’ll have (scrumhalf) Fourie du Preez’s experi- job along with former AC Milan coach Massimiliano Ulissi, 24, won the fifth and eighth stages before dropping out of the ence next to him, while he’s played a lot with (centre) Jan Allegri. Mancini is available after leaving Turkish race after the 17th stage. Lampre-Merida said the rider had declared, pri- Serfontein before,” Meyer said in a statement. club Galatasaray this month and he has the back- or to the test, having taken Ventolin, an asthma treatment that contains The other four uncapped players are on the bench and con- ing of Sampdoria coach Sinisa Mihajlovic. salbutamol. “Ventolin is permitted and was necessary because Ulissi was sist of prop Marcel van der Merwe, lock Stephan Lewies, “I think of the names being mentioned, Mancini suffering from bronchospasm,” the team statement added. “As usual, all loose-forward Teboho Mohoje and fyhalf Marnitz is the most appropriate - he is relatively young but previous inhalations of Ventolin had been correctly declared. Boshoff. Other changes to the starting lineup from the has experience. He has coached in Italy and interna- “The rider, as per internal team sanitary code, will be provisionally side these squeezed a fortuitous 31-30 victory over tionally, he has won in Italy and abroad,” Mihajlovic, suspended. Consequently he will not be attending the (Italian) nation- Wales last weekend see wing Lwazi Mvovo, flank who was a team mate of Mancini’s at Lazio, told al team training camp, and he requests the opening and analysis of Schalk Burger, lock Lood de Jager and prop Coenie Gazzetta.—Reuters sample B.—Reuters Oosthuizen all return to the team.—Reuters VIVA organizes Murray dumps Rola as exciting World Cup #VIVAVespa draw Li Na, Venus advance at 360 Mall LONDON: Defending champion Andy three-time quarter-finalist at the All KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most Murray handed out a tough Wimbledon England Club, swept to a 6-2, 6-2 victory developed telecom operator, announced that it will lesson to Slovenian grasscourt rookie Blaz over Austria’s Yvonne Meusburger, hitting hold the upcoming draw for both its postpaid and pre- Rola yesterday as Li Na and Venus Williams 33 winners to just four from the world paid customers to win Vespa scooters with World Cup struck early blows for the thirty-some- number 38. designs at 360 Mall today at 6pm. things. Murray, the third seed, coasted to a Second seed Li, 32, goes on to face The 360 Mall prize draw will be for a Manchester 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 mauling of 23-year-old Rola Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech United branded Vespa scooter, where VIVA’s customers who was playing just the 10th match of Republic. She said she was unconcerned as well as mall visitors can enter this draw through his career having only graduated from uni- about her 21 unforced errors. coupons they receive at the Mall when they go to versity in Ohio last year. “If you want to play more aggressive, attend the event. To be eligible to enter the draw, par- The British star eased to victory in just this is the normal way,” she explained. ticipants must be present at the event wearing any 84 minutes, hitting seven aces and 27 win- Five-time champion Williams, 34, and Manchester United memorabilia. This process will be ners against the world number 92 and playing in her 17th Wimbledon, defeated under the supervision of VIVA’s executives along with goes on to face either Jan Hernych of the pint-sized Japanese Kurumi Nara 7-6 (7/4), the Ministry of Commerce’s Consumer Protection rep- Czech Republic or Spanish 27th seed 6-1 in a battle of little and large on Court resentative. Roberto Bautista Agut for a place in the 3. The American, who is the oldest woman In addition, VIVA will be organizing a treasure hunt last 16. left in the draw, stands at an imposing at 360 Mall to win the remaining two Vespa scooters. “It’s his first year on grass so it was 1.85m (6ft 1in) compared to Nara’s 1.55m The treasure hunt is a social media campaign that VIVA tough for him. But he has a good game (5ft 1n) and the difference in stature-both will launch ahead of the draw event, where partici- and he’ll keep improving,” said Murray. “I physical and sporting-eventually told pants who answer specific questions correctly and fol- took care of my serve for the majority of despite the world number 41 breaking lowing the electronic draw, four winners will be select- the match and I played well. If you can fin- early in both sets. ed to enter the treasure hunt competition at the mall. ish matches as quick as possible then Williams will face 2011 champion Petra Each of the four winners can bring three team- that’s better in the long run.” Kvitova in the third round if the Czech mates, making the four teams of four players compet- French Open semi-finalist Ernests sixth seed beats Germany’s Mona Barthel. ing in the live treasure hunt following the Manchester Gulbis became the highest ranked man to “Feeling good getting into the next United Draw. The two winning teams will win a Vespa lose so far when the 12th seed went down round,” said Williams.”I think we both play each to be given to the team leader. The first of these 2 to Sergiy Stakhovsky of the Ukraine, 6-4, 6- a similar game, really go for it and she’s winners will choose his/her Vespa, the 2nd winner will 3, 7-6 (7/5). one of the kind of players that can get take the other. Stakhovksy, who shocked Roger really hot and every time she plays me, The draw campaign started on 22 May and will last Federer in the second round in 2013, next she plays really well, so I have to be ready WIMBLEDON: Li Na of China plays a return to Yvonne Meusburger of Austria during until 14 July 2014, where postpaid and prepaid cus- faces either France’s Jeremy Chardy or for that.” their women’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships.—AP tomers will earn one point for every KD5 spent on their Australia’s Marinko Matosevic. Polish fourth seed Agnieszka bill payment or recharge usage. Each point will count The colourful Gulbis then denied he Radwanska, the 2012 runner-up, also went only top seed in the history of the tourna- 11th seeded Bulgarian, faces Australia’s as one entry into the draw, so the more points accu- had lost all of his $500,000 winnings from through with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Australia’s ment to lose in the second round when he Luke Saville in a clash of two former junior mulated by a customer, the more chances they will the French Open in a Riga casino. “I went Casey Dellacqua and next meets either was beaten by Peter Doohan 27 years ago. champions. have of winning. to play blackjack, but there was no word Portuguese qualifier Michelle Larcher de Djokovic, the champion in 2011, isn’t likely Meanwhile, 1997 singles champion The upcoming draws will take place on 3 July, 10 how much I won or how much I lost. They Brito or Australia’s Jarmila Gajdosova. to fall into the same trap as he takes a 10-1 Martina Hingis appears at the All England July and 14 July 2014. VIVA invites its customers to par- (reporters) asked me how much I lost. I Later Wednesday, top seed Novak career record over Stepanek into their Club for the first time since 2007 when she ticipate in this exciting draw campaign which is appli- said, A lot.