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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2014 SPORTS Shoaib eyes coaching career Cancellara sprints to victory Bekele wins Paris marathon BELGIUM: Fabian Cancellara won his third Tour of Flanders in a four-up sprint to PARIS: Three-time Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won the Paris KARACHI: Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has set his sights on a coach- the line following 259km of racing from Bruges to Oudenaarde yesterday. The marathon Sunday on his debut at the distance. Bekele completed the 42-kilometer ing career after agreeing to take charge of a top domestic team. Swiss powerhouse from the Trek team beat Belgians Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), (26-mile) race in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 4 seconds to break the race record set by Shoaib, 38, who retired in 2011 during the 50-over World Cup, was offered the Sep Vanmarcke (Belkin) and Stijn Vandenburgh (Omega Pharma) in a tense sprint Stanley Biwott of Kenya in 2012. Limenih Getachew of Ethiopia finished second, 1:45 position of head coach by State bank for the upcoming domestic season in Pakistan. following some nervous jockeying in the final kilometre. Cancellara, known as behind. Luka Kanda of Kenya placed third. Flomena Cheyech of Kenya dominated “Shoaib has agreed to become head coach of our team and we are very pleased Spartacus in cycling circles, joined five other riders in winning a record three the women’s race in 2:22:44, more than three minutes ahead of Yebrgual Melese of he has shown interest in coaching a domestic team,” Zaheer-ul- Tours of Flanders. Ethiopia. Bekele won the gold medal in the 5,000 meters and 10,000 at the 2008 Hassan, the manager of the bank team, told Reuters. “Contract After six and a half hours of thrilling racing, the 33-year-old proved not only Beijing Olympics, as well as the 10,000 at the 2004 Athens Games. He has struggled papers are being prepared after Shoaib confirmed his interest in the strongest, but the master tactician. Van Avermaet had made an attack 31km with injuries over the past few years and hasn’t won a major title since the 2009 coaching our team.” State bank are one of the leading teams on from home with Vandenburgh, who was working for three-time winner Tom world championships in Berlin. the first-class circuit but have struggled to attain top position Boonen, covering the move. Vandenburgh gave Van Avermaet no help but their “It’s my first marathon, I don’t have experience during the last two seasons. Shoaib, famous during his playing break lasted until the final difficulty of the race, the thigh-busting Paterberg before,” Bekele told France 3 television. “It was very climb 12km from the end. At that point Van Avermaet dropped his compatriot days for his raw pace, has said in the past that he was inter- tough. Anyway, I made the time I but by then, Cancellara and Vanmarcke were closing in. Cancellara had made his expected.” The leading group reached ested in a coaching career. move 5km earlier as he attacked the chase group on the third ascension of the The paceman, who took 178 test wickets and 247 the halfway stage in 1:02:09. tough Oude Kwaremont. That group had been a minute behind the two leaders Bekele accelerated in the 27th kilo- one-day international wickets during his career, had even but Cancellara’s attack, which was followed only by Vanmarcke, proved devastat- meter to break up a small group. Only offered in the past to work with the Pakistan fast bowlers ing and quickly ate into the two leaders’ gap. compatriot Tamirat Tola was able to keep if the country’s cricket board approached him. Zaheer Van Avermaets held on ahead of the trio behind for a few more kilometres pace with him before dropping three said he felt Shoaib was preparing for a full-time coaching but he was reeled in with 7km left. Vandenburgh still refused to help the oth- kilometers later. Bekele had a small career and wanted to start at the domestic level. “Once er escapees but Cancellara bided his time and when it came down to a game scare eight kilometers from the finish the contract is approved by our board of governors, he of cat and mouse inside the final few hundred metres, he was the one who as he felt a strain in his left thigh. will certainly provide a image boost to our domestic took the initiative and used his strength to attack at just the right moment “My hamstring muscle was not cricket,” the former first-class player said. — Reuters and make it stick. —AFP good,” Bekele said. —AP California Chrome wins Santa Anita Derby in style KENTUCKY: California Chrome stamped himself the top of the points leaderboard that will as the likely favorite for next month’s Kentucky decide the final 20 runners for the May 3 Derby with a runaway win in Saturday’s $1 mil- Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. lion Santa Anita Derby. Hoppertunity finished second and also has The three-year-old colt lived up to his big enough points to qualify while Candy Boy bat- reputation when he blew away his rivals to win tled on for third and is likely to make the top 20. one of the last major lead-up races before the An hour earlier, Wicked Strong clinched his 140th Kentucky Derby. Jockey Victor Espinoza, place in the Kentucky Derby with an upset win who won the 2002 Kentucky Derby with War in the $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in Emblem, allowed odds-on favorite California New York. Chrome to settle just outside the early leader Patiently ridden by Rajiv Maragh, the 9-1 before taking over entering the final straight. chance unleashed a devastating late sprint to Once he got his nose in front, California Chrome win by three and a half lengths from the previ- instantly shot clear of the field and cruised to ously unbeaten Samraat and the race favorite victory by five and a quarter lengths despite Social Inclusion. being eased down by Espinoza over the final “I let the horse dictate where he wanted to half furlong. be early and when I called on him, he respond- “It’s kind of spooky, I’m not used to that,” ed,” said Maragh. “He did everything so perfect California Chrome’s trainer Art Sherman told today.” The build-up to the first leg of US racing’s NBC. “I’ve seen horses win by a length or two but Triple Crown continues next weekend with the nothing like what he’s been doing.” running of the Arkansas Derby and the Blue California Chrome’s eyepopping win was his Grass at Keeneland - the last big lead-up races fourth in a row this season and propelled him to before the Run for the Roses. — Reuters Masters memories inspire Scott at Augusta National AUGUSTA: Reigning Masters champion Adam Scott had also played Augusta National Scott spent the weekend going down last month after the Arnold Palmer Memory Lane and all it took was a trip down Invitational, almost a get-reacquainted tour of NEWARK: Gregory Campbell of the Boston Bruins clears the puck against Damien Brunner of the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center. — AFP Magnolia Lane, the driveway at famed the famed layout. “It was nice to come here Augusta National Golf Club. and have a hit and not do too much,” Scott The first Australian to capture the coveted said. Masters tradition dictates the reigning green jacket symbolic of Masters supremacy champion takes his jacket wherever he likes made the scene Sunday outside the club- for the 12 months after his triumph, but it Bruins down Flyers house at Augusta National, where he defeat- then is kept on the grounds at Augusta ed Angel Cabrera in a playoff last year with a National. 12-foot birdie putt at the 10th hole. Scott says he has not spent nearly enough BOSTON: Johnny Boychuk scored the tiebreaking with 23 saves. Benn produced all of his points in the Pavel Datsyuk, Luke Glendening and Niklas “I’ve walked down the 10th hole four or time wearing it around in public and he really goal with 6:06 left in the third period, Milan Lucic first period, and assisted on Seguin’s score late in Kronwall scored for Detroit, which snapped a four- five times. It’s wonderful every time,” Scott does not want to leave it in the champions had two goals and the Boston Bruins clinched the the period that made it 3-0. After the Lightning game win streak. Jonas Gustavsson stopped 19 said yesterday. Bubba Watson, the 2012 win- locker room when he leaves after this week’s Eastern Conference’s best record with a 5-2 win over pulled within 3-2 in the second, Fiddler and Roussel shots. With the score tied 3-all, Gionta was credited ner who slipped the green jacket onto Scott’s 78th Masters. the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon. sealed the win in the third period. with his second goal of the game when his shot, shoulders, was also at the course practising “I’m quite determined not to leave it here,” David Krejci also scored for the Bruins and which was initially saved by Gustavsson, bounced on a cool and overcast yesterday along with Scott said. “I probably haven’t taken advan- Patrice Bergeron extended his consecutive point SENATORS 3, RANGERS 2 off defenseman Brian Lashoff’s skate and into the such fellow past champions as Vijay Singh of tage enough of wearing it out.

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