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P17 Layout 1 SPORTS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2013 Photo of the day Wrestling Takes A Stance, Will IOC follow? NEW YORK: Magic Johnson took a stance to save Olympic wrestling. So did Mickey Mouse. Rulon Gardner took his on the Great Wall of China. The less famous hunkered down in front of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower and mosques in Iran, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and even in the shadow of Touchdown Jesus. If the swells who run the International Olympic Committee have lingering doubts about the lengths people would go to save the sport, well, let ‘em check out how many Jordan Weaving (RSA), Scott Deroue (NED) and Marcos Ramirez (ESP) race at Red Bull Moto GP Rookies Cup brides and grooms around the world 2013 at Autodrom Brno in Brno, Czech Republic on August 24, 2013. —www.redbullcontentpool.com posed for “ready, set, wrestle” snap- shots - view them at (hashtag) TakeAStance - just moments before exchanging vows. When the IOC served notice last February that it was prepared to toss Waller, Raza put wrestling out of the Olympic rings by the 2020 Games, rather than its clout- heavy competitors, modern pen- tathlon and field hockey, the uproar Zimbabwe ahead was swift and loud. Wrestling had more fans, more viewers, more mem- ber nations and millions more partici- HARARE: Half-centuries by Malcolm Waller and Sikandar Raza pants around the globe, if only enabled Zimbabwe to take a first innings lead on the second day SCOREBOARD because you don’t need a javelin or a of the first Test against Pakistan at the Harare Sports Club yester- horse to compete. But the IOC did the day. HARARE, Harare Province: Close of play scores on the sec- sport a favor. Zimbabwe were 281 for seven at the close, a lead of 32. ond day of the first Test between Zimbabwe and Pakistan at Wrestling resembled your cranky, Waller changed the tempo of the match with an aggressive 70, the Harare Sports Club yesterday. know-it-all uncle who always shows up while Pakistan-born Raza made 60 on his Test debut. The pair late at the family dinner - bloated, SYDNEY: In this Sept. 27, 2000, file photo, United States wrestler Rulon Pakistan, first innings (overnight 249-9) added 127 for the fourth wicket. They came together after bombastic and still determined to live Gardner celebrates a gold medal victory at the Summer Olympics in Zimbabwe lost two wickets off successive balls. Khurram Manzoor lbw b Panyangara 11 Sydney. Gardner is among those around the world who posed for ‘ready, Mohammad Hafeez c Sibanda b Chatara 5 off a glorious past. The purest of sports With only one run added to the lunch score of 67 for one, had grown flabby, piling on layers of set, wrestle’ snapshots in an effort to save Olympic wrestling under the Vusi Sibanda was caught behind for 31 off the last ball of an over Azhar Ali c Sibanda b S. Masakadza 78 campaign #TakeAStance. — AP Younis Khan b Panyangara 3 rules and a convoluted scoring system from Junaid Khan. Captain Hamilton Masakadza was deceived that made it hard to follow. Yet those at Ortiz, and more than a few of them “We have done everything possi- by a Saeed Ajmal doosra and bowled for 19 by the first ball of Misbah-ul-Haq c Sibanda b Utseya 53 the top of the international federation joined the (hashtag)TakeAStance cam- ble in this time frame,” said FILA presi- the next over. Asad Shafiq c Mawoyo b Utseya 4 - known by the acronym FILA - paign as it rolled out. dent Nenad Lalovic, who took over Waller hit a boundary off the first ball he faced from Ajmal Adnan Akmal b Chatara 18 shrugged off every warning or propos- and continued to go for his shots as he reached his third Test Abdur Rehman lbw b S. Masakadza 7 Unlike those competitions, though, from the imperious Raphael half-century off 63 balls with 11 fours. Saeed Ajmal b Chatara 49 al for even modest changes, certain wrestling still looks like your father’s Martinetti just days after the IOC’s Raza, who was a late inclusion in the side when regular cap- Junaid Khan c Mutumbami b Panyangara 17 they knew what was best. sport. What’s different, in addition to action in February. “We were limited tain Brendan Taylor withdrew because of the birth of his first Rahat Ali not out 0 Seven months later, those men are the compressed Olympic version now by the time between, (but we did) child, started his first Test innings cautiously and contributed Extras (lb3, w1) 4 gone, replaced by a leadership group on offer - two rounds instead of three; everything possible, and implement- Total (90.1 overs) 249 only 11 in the first 50 runs of the partnership, although he that is smart, inclusive and willing to more incentives in the new scoring ed it.” If the IOC needs more proof, Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Hafeez), 2-21 (Manzoor), 3-27 (Younis), 4- picked up the pace either side of tea, reaching his fifty off 98 listen. The rules and scoring system system for wrestlers to take chances - is here’s a suggestion: Check out the 120 (Misbah), 5-132 (Shafiq), 6-157 (Akmal), 7-173 (Rehman), balls. have been overhauled, and Gardner’s that it could become your mother’s photo op from New York City in mid- 8-182 (Azhar), 9-249 (Junaid) Ajmal, Pakistan’s most successful bowler with four for 74, had rallying cry from February - “If we don’t sport, too. In addition to adding May, when the wrestling communi- Bowling: Chatara 22.1-6-64-3, Panyangara 20-2-71-3, S. Waller caught at slip after an innings which lasted 100 balls and fight, we’re going to die” - has been women and former athletes to the fed- ties from the United States, Russia Masakadza 22-8-40-2, Chigumbura 2-0-15-0, Utseya 23-1-55- included 14 boundaries. Raza, 27, whose family moved to heard and heeded in the farthest-flung eration’s leadership, FILA is proposing and Iran united in a combined appeal 2, H. Masakadza 1-0-1-0 corners of the globe. two more weight classes for women, to save the sport. There’s likely not Zimbabwe in 2002, also fell to the off-spinner, mistiming an (1w) attempted lofted drive to be caught at midwicket. He batted for The IOC votes Sunday among taking one each from men’s freestyle another cause on the planet at the wrestling, squash and a combined bid 118 balls and hit ten fours. Zimbabwe, first innings and Greco-Roman. moment that could do that. — AP Elton Chigumbura (40 not out) and Prosper Utseya (16) took T. Mawoyo c Adnan Akmal b Junaid Khan 13 from baseball-softball to determine Zimbabwe into the lead with a seventh wicket partnership of 43 V. Sibanda c Adnan Akmal b Junaid Khan 31 which sport gets the final spot in 2020, before the latter was bowled by Rahat Ali in the penultimate H. Masakadza b Saeed Ajmal 19 and it isn’t expected to be close. Most over of the day. Sikandar Raza c Misbah-ul-Haq b Saeed Ajmal 60 observers believe the IOC has already Cup heartache It took Zimbabwe just two balls to wrap up the Pakistan M. Waller c Mohammad Hafeez b Saeed Ajmal 70 been pinned. innings at the start of play, with the tourists losing their last E. Chigumbura not out 40 It’s not hard to understand the wicket without adding a run to their overnight 249 for nine. R. Mutumbami lbw b Saeed Ajmal 13 timeless appeal of wrestling, but what motivates Heremaia Ajmal was bowled by the first ball he faced from Tendai P. Utseya b Rahat Ali 16 the IOC is looking for nearly three mil- Chatara on his overnight score of 49, one short of his second Test S. Masakadza not out 2 lennia after the original Olympics is LONDON: The disappointment of “We were really disappointed with half-century. Extras (b5, lb10, w2) 17 what they got in the closing days of Wembley defeat is still all too raw for how we performed but the good thing Tina Mawoyo and Sibanda put on 25 for Zimbabwe’s first Total (7 wkts, 87 overs) 281 last summer’s London Games. That’s Hull FC but Aaron Heremaia insists his is that normally you lose the big final wicket. After bowling four overs from over the wicket, the left- Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Mawoyo), 2-68 (Sibanda), 3-68 (H. when a smart, cocky bundle of US side have been given a shot at redemp- and the season is over. “But with the armed Junaid switched to around the wicket and the change of Masakadza), 4-195 (Waller), 5-212 (Raza), 6-235 (Mutumbami), energy named Jordan Burroughs faced tion they cannot afford to waste. Challenge Cup coming earlier we have angle brought immediate success as Mawoyo nudged tentative- 7-278 (Utseya) Iran’s Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi in the Heremaia came off the bench and a chance for redemption. And we owe ly at the first delivery of the new over and was caught behind by Bowling: Junaid Khan 20-6-61-2, Rahat Ali 18-3-53-1 (1w), middleweight freestyle gold medal was one of the few Hull players to it to the fans but most importantly we Adnan Akmal for 13. Abdur Rehman 19-5-56-0, Saeed Ajmal 26-3-77-4, Younis final.
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