Sports Sunday, September 8, 2019 15 , Powell named ambassador France in last Oz sniff win eight as US for IAAF World Athletics beat Greece reuters Championship Doha 2019 BEIJING in fourth Test Australia and France Cummins’ QNA reached the basketball World DOHA Cup quarter-finals with a double leaves match to spare after tight World long jump record-holder and two-time wins over their respective ri- England with a world champion Mike Powell has been named vals while holders the United huge target after the ambassador for the IAAF World Athletics States edged closer to the last Championships Doha 2019. eight with the 69-53 defeat of Smith hits 82 Powell joins multiple world and Olympic Greece on Saturday. decathlon champion Ashton Eaton and Brianne The Czech Republic also reuters Theisen-Eaton, the 2016 world indoor pentath- boosted their hopes of ad- MANCHESTER (England) lon champion, as an ambassador for the cham- vancing to the knockout stage pionships’ 17th edition. of the competition with an Australia took a giant step With three weeks to go to the IAAF’s pre- World long jump world record holder and two-time impressive 93-71 victory over towards retaining the Ashes miere showcase event, set for September 27 to world champion Mike Powell Brazil thanks to an efferves- in the fourth Test at Old Traf- October 6, Powell said he can’t wait for action cent performance by their ford on Saturday after they left to get underway at the Qatari capital’s state- But over the past 15 months, Cuban sen- Chicago Bulls guard Tomas England needing 365 runs to of-the-art Khalifa International Stadium. sation Juan Miguel Echevarria has electrified Satoransky. win with eight remain- “I’m very excited to be attending my 11th the event with wind-assisted jumps of 8.92m Australia overcame a ing heading into the final day. World Championships - three of those as an (+3.9m/s) and 8.83m (+2.1m/s), performances strong challenge from the Do- After declaring their sec- athlete and eight as an IAAF Ambassador,” said produced before he celebrated his 21st birthday, minican Republic in an 82-76 ond innings on 186-6, with a Powell, whose appearance at the 1991 edition illustrating that he could be the jumper to finally win over the Caribbean na- lead of 382, Australia heaped in Tokyo, his first at a World Championships, unseat Powell as the event’s standard-bearer. tion while France ground out a the pressure on England as Pat resulted in one of the most legendary long jump “I’m obviously looking forward to the long dramatic 78-75 victory against Cummins took two wickets in competitions of all time. jump as Echevarria has said that he may be go- Lithuania. two balls to leave Joe Root’s In the ensuing 28 years since he broke the ing for my record after his impressive showing The Americans enjoyed side reeling, before the hosts world record, only two jumpers have come in Zurich of 8.65m,” Powell said. plain sailing although Giannis regained some composure to within 21 centimetres of his mark - Erick Wal- “But also, the 400m hurdles, both men and Antetokounmpo, last season’s reach 18-2 at the close. der in 1994 and Dwight Phillips in 2009, when women, the 200m, the 400m. There are so most valuable player in the Victory for Australia, who they sailed 8.74m. many things to follow, I can’t wait!” NBA regular season, made a bowled England out for 301 Australia’s walks after making 82 during the second bright start as he netted sev- early in the day, would ensure innings in the fourth Ashes Test match against hosts England in en of Greece’s opening nine they retain the urn, taking a 2-1 Manchester on Saturday. (Reuters) points. series lead into the final Test at The U.S. had six players The Oval next week. Rashid keeps World Beach Games in double scoring digits, with Although England’s as- Scoreboard Kemba Walker leading the way tounding comeback win at Australia (1st innings): 497-8 decl M. Labuschagne lbw b Archer 11 on 17 points. Harrison Barnes Headingley will give them some England (1st innings, overnight 200-5): S. Smith c Stokes b Leach 82 website launched got 15 and Myles Turner add- hope, the winning target looks R. Burns c Smith b Hazlewood 81 T. Head b Archer 12 J. Denly c Wade b Cummins 4 M. Wade c Bairstow b Archer 34 on top vs ed 14 while Jaylen Brown, Joe well out of reach for the hosts C. Overton c Smith b Hazlewood 5 T. Paine 23 Tribune News Network AWBG2019) accounts have Harris and Donovan Mitchell who must hope they can some- J. Root lbw b Hazlewood 71 M. Starc not out 3 Doha also been created to maxi- chipped in with 11 each. how bat through the day to foil J. Roy b Hazlewood 22 Extras (b5, lb2, w7, nb1) 15 Bangladesh mize connectivity with ath- B. Stokes c Smith b Starc 26 Total (6 wkts decl, 42.5 overs, 204 mins) 186 the tourists. J. Bairstow b Starc 17 Did not bat: P Cummins, N Lyon, J Hazlewood The Association of National letes, fans, NOCs and Inter- Australia had half an hour at J. Buttler b Cummins 41 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Warner), 2-16 (Harris), 3-24 AFP Olympic Committees (ANOC) national Federations. the end of the day to attack Eng- J. Archer c Paine b Cummins 1 (Labuschagne), 4-44 (Head), 5-149 (Smith), 6-158 Chittagong launched the new ANOC ANOC Secretary Gunilla land’s top order and paceman S. Broad b Starc 5 (Wade) World Beach Games website Lindberg said: “We are de- Nabi retires J. Leach not out 4 : Broad 14-4-54-2 (1w); Archer 14-2-45-3 Cummins had instant success. Extras (b4, lb11, w5, nb4) 24 (1nb); Overton 5.5-1-22-0 (2w); Leach 9-0-58-1. Ibrahim Zadran and As- which will serve as the central lighted to launch the ANOC from Test With the third ball, Rory Total (all out, 107 overs, 504 mins) 301 ghar Afghan hit half-centuries hub of all news, information World Beach Games website Burns found a leading edge and Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Denly), 2-25 (Overton), 3-166 England (2nd innings): while played a and results for the inaugural which will be the go-to re- AFP looped his shot to (Burns), 4-175 (Root), 5-196 (Roy), 6-228 (Bairstow), R. Burns c Head b Cummins 0 quick cameo after claiming multi-sport event in Doha. source for NOCs, athletes, 7-243 (Stokes), 8-256 (Archer), 9-283 (Broad), J. Denly not out 10 Chittagong at mid-off and then, with the 10-301 (Buttler) J. Root b Cummins 0 five wickets in an innings, as The user-friendly web- fans and everyone who next ball, he clean bowled Eng- Bowling: Starc 22-7-80-3; Hazlewood 25-6-57-4 J. Roy not out 8 Afghanistan took command in site (www.awbgqatar.com) wants to learn more about Former Afghanistan cap- land skipper Root. (1nb); Cummins 24-6-60-3 (3nb, 1w); Lyon 36-4-89-0. Extras 0 the one-off Test against Bang- is hosted within the ANOC the Games and be kept in- tain an- With England’s two top Total (2 wkts, 7 overs, 32 mins) 18 ladesh in Chittagong on Satur- website and includes infor- formed on the latest results Australia (2nd innings): Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Burns), 2-0 (Root) nounced his retirement from scorers from the first innings D. Warner lbw b Broad 0 Bowling: Cummins 3-1-8-2; Hazlewood 2-1-2-0; Lyon day. mation on the Games ven- and updates. As we aim to on Saturday after back in the pavilion, Austral- M. Harris lbw b Broad 6 1-0-5-0; Starc 1-0-3-0. The visitors - playing only ues, participating countries, ensure the website is as com- the ongoing one-off red-ball ian tails were up but Jason Roy their third Test in history - the provisional competition prehensive and informative fixture against Bangladesh in kept out the hat-trick ball and Warner lbw for a duck. The But, once again, first in- reached 237-8 at stumps on schedule and the latest news as possible, we will be con- Chittagong. England made it to stumps with left-hander has been dismissed nings double centurion Smith the third day, setting a huge and photo galleries. The web- stantly updating it with new Nabi discussed the de- no further casualties. without scoring by Broad in his took charge and England could target for Bangladesh by tak- site will be continually up- information. cision in a video statement Although Australia were on last three innings. find no way past him. ing an overall lead of 374 runs. dated with more detailed in- “Our social media plat- released by the Afghanistan top for most of the fourth day, Marcus Harris was also leg Wade made 34 in support Debutant Zadran hit high- formation and news over the forms will allow us to interact Cricket Board and said later, there had been moments when before to Broad, failing with his and then skipper Paine added est 87 off 208 balls for Afghan- coming days and weeks in the directly with our NOCs, their “I have served Afghanistan England showed some fight. review attempt, and when Mar- 23, while Smith made his way istan in the second innings build up to the multi-sport athletes and beach sports for the last 18 years. It was my With a handsome first- nus Labuschagne was trapped to his ninth straight Test half- while former skipper Afghan event. During the Games, fans around the world. With dream as well to help Afghani- innings lead of 196, there was in front by Archer, Australia against England. made 50 off 108 balls, his sec- fans wanting to watch the just over a month to go until stan obtain Test status and little pressure on the Australian were wobbling at 24-3. He was within sight of be- ond fifty, adding to Bangla- competitions live will be able the first-ever ANOC World that dream is realised now.” batsmen but there would have There was no debate about coming the first batsman to desh’s frustration. to do so through the website’s Beach Games there is a huge The 34-year-old all-round- been some concern after Stuart Travis Head’s departure, as score a double century and a Rashid added 24 off 22 live stream and will be able amount to look forward to er said he would like emerging Broad made early inroads. Archer sent his middle stump ton in an Ashes encounter and balls before wicketkeeper- to find all competition results and our digital platforms young players get chances in Broad, the pick of England’s flying and Australia headed into only the eighth to do so in any batsman Afsar Zazai’s unbeat- on the new digital platform. will be keeping everyone up- the long-format of the sport bowlers in this Test, made the tea with Steve Smith on 14 and Test match, but he mis-timed a en 34 runs extended Afghani- New Instagram dated every step of the way,” instead of him perfect start, trapping David on eight. big shot off spinner Jack Leach. stan’s lead. (awbg2019) and Twitter (@ she added. Mohammed’s golden Younousse, Tijan double in GCC aquatics finish ninth in WTFs Tribune News Network to the rivals. Only once, You- DOHA nousse and Tijan had been able to take the Brazilians into three Qatar’s Cherif Younousse sets – their first clash during and Ahmed Tijan secured an- the Gstaad Major in July. other ninth-place finish on This was also the third suc- the FIVB Beach World Tour cessive top-10 finish for the Qatar’s Ahmed Tijan dives for a dig during a match in the World Tour as their World Tour Finals Qatari duo after managing the Finals in Rome on Saturday. campaign was ended by 10th same place in the Tokyo Four- seeded-Brazilians Evandro Star and Vienna Major. round of the knock-out stage with world champions Viache- Goncalves and Bruno Oscar Earlier, Younousse and Ti- with a 23-21, 21-15 triumph. slav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoy- Schmidt Brazil at the Foro jan faced a spirited resistance This was the second win in a anovskiy from Russia, while Italico in Rome on Saturday. in the opening set during their row for the Qatari pair. Germans Julius Thole and Cle- The 17-21, 13-21 defeat in straight win over Polish Piotr Second seeds Anders Mol mens Wickler, the fifth seeds, 37 minutes for the Qataris was Kantor and Bartosz Losiak and Christian Sorum from Nor- will take on Americans Taylor their fourth successive loss before getting into the second way set up a semi-final clash Crabb and Jake Gibb.

Qatar, Australia win in 4-nation volleyball tourney in Doha

Qatar and Australia posted Tribune News Network victories in the Four-Nation DOHA International Friendly Vol- leyball Tournament at the The Qatari swimming team QVA Indoor Hall in Doha on won eight medals, including Saturday. Australia overcame five gold, in the GCC Aquatics India in a five-setter, win- Championships in Kuwait. ning 25-23, 23-25, 25-15, Abdulrahman Mohammed 26-28, 15-12 in two hours won the 1,500m freestyle and and six minutes. Later, 400m freestyle races to take Qatar downed China 25-19, his tally to three gold medals 25-16, 17-25, 25-19. This after winning 800m freestyle. tournament is a part of the Waleed Rafiq won the gold build-up for the participating medal in 100m breaststroke teams ahead of the Asian and a silver medal in 200m Men’s Volleyball Champion- breaststroke event. tally to three medals after Mohammed won the gold of ship, to be held in Tehran Abdulaziz al Obaidli se- winning the 200m on Thurs- 200m individual event, while next week. cured a gold medal in 200m day. Saad al Sulati claimed a bonze breaststroke and to raise his Qatar’s Abdulrahman medal in 50m breaststroke.