TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2016 SPORTS Cipriani had alcohol Indonesian football Stosur splits with on breath after crash launches interim league coach Taylor again LONDON: Former Melbourne Rebels star Danny Cipriani’s breath smelt of alco- JAKARTA: Indonesia will launch an interim football league at MELBOURNE: Former US Open champion Sam Stosur will end a second hol and he had “glazed” eyes after crashing his car into a taxi, a court was told the end of this month, an official said yesterday, as the game stint with coach David Taylor after the French Open, local media reported yesterday. The England international, now with Premiership side Sale, has struggles to survive an ongoing crisis in the Southeast Asian yesterday. Australian Stosur, a former finalist at Roland Garros, reunited with denied a charge of drink-driving relating to an incident that took place at 5.15 nation. Indonesia has been without a national football com- Taylor in 2015, two years after parting ways with the coach that helped am (0415 GMT) on Imperial Road in Fulham, west London, on June 1 last year. petition for the better part of a year, after a feud between the guide her to the 2011 title at Flushing Meadows. Europe-based Taylor said it London’s Westminster Magistrates Court was told yesterday that country’s soccer association and its sports ministry saw the was becoming more difficult logistically to keep working with 32-year-old Cipriani’s Mercedes car was travelling “very fast” and “swerving top-grade tournament suspended. Talks failed to break the Stosur, who is based in the United States. “It’s all very amicable and I’m even and swinging” between the left and right hand sides of the road, impasse and in May the sport’s global governing body FIFA working with her at finding a suitable replacement, which she hasn’t and hit a Toyota Prius which had slowed down to try to avoid it. banned Indonesia from international football-a suspension finalised yet,” Taylor told Australian Associated Press. “I know Sam Taxi driver Muhammad Qasim, said he suffered injuries to his that still hasn’t been lifted. The head of the new league, Joko has still got some great tennis left inside her and she continues neck, shoulder and lower back in the crash with Cipriani, who Driyono, told AFP the competition-named the Torabika Soccer to work harder than anyone.” The world number 26, Australia’s will rejoin Wasps-the club where he launched his career-from last grand slam winner, has struggled with consistency in English Premiership rivals Sale at the end of the season. Championship after its main sponsor-would not replace Indonesia’s regular top-grade tournament but was a tempo- recent seasons and always battled nerves playing in front of Prosecutor Katie Weiss told the court that police were called fol- home fans. She lost both her singles rubbers to lower-ranked rary substitute while the crisis remained unresolved. The lowing reports of a collision and that police constable Shane players during the 4-0 Fed Cup defeat at home to the championship will involve 18 teams, including top-flight clubs Elsworth questioned Cipriani, who allegedly admitted he had United States over the weekend, ending Australia’s been out drinking. “Questions were put to the defendant, Arema, Persib Bandung and Semen Padang, and already has hopes of rejoining the top-tier World Group for anoth- he said he was the driver of the vehicle.—AFP the blessing of President Joko Widodo and the sports minis- er year. — Reuters ter, Driyono said. —AFP Marathon bombing survivor to run using prosthetic leg BOSTON: Adrianne Haslet heard all the first woman to complete the Boston talk about taking back Boylston Street in Marathon. Bobbi Gibb sneaked onto the the years after the Boston Marathon bomb- course in 1966 to break the race’s gender ings. Her mind was 26.2 miles away. barrier. She also ran the race in 1967-68 and After losing her left leg in the 2013 fin- has been recognized as a three-time win- ish-line explosions, Haslet decided that she ner in the “Unofficial Era.” Race organizers would return to the course - this time as a said last week they would now acknowl- runner. When the race leaves Hopkinton on edge her accomplishments as part of the Monday, Haslet will be one of 31 members “Pioneer Era.” of the One Fund community - survivors of the attacks, their families and supporters- NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY who will be in the field. Organizers also took time in race week “A lot of people think about the finish to recognize the 80th anniversary of Ellison line,” she said. “I think about the start line.” “Tarzan” Brown’s 1936 victory. A member of More than 30,000 runners are scheduled to the Narragansett Tribe in Rhode Island, head to Hopkinton for the 120th edition of Brown’s 1936 victory is best remembered the race this Patriots Day. Among them are for the coining of the term “Heartbreak Hill.” Haslet and Patrick Downes, a Boston Defending champion Johnny Kelley tapped College graduate who had his left leg Brown on the back as he prepared to pass amputated after the bombings. him, but Brown responded by accelerating Downes, 32, was a runner before the into the Newton hills on his way to victory. bombing, having completed the race in He also won in 1939. 2005 with his wife, who lost both legs in At the time, Native Americans were the attacks. Haslet, 35, was a professional widely perceived as lazy, according to Mikki ballroom dancer who received a prosthetic Wosencroft, who will serve as an honor blade to the quickstep and the jive, and runner for Brown this year. only then decided to take up running. “He broke a lot of barriers in the way Haslet overcame a hip flexor injury while Native Americans were perceived,” training; running with the blade also Wosencroft said, “and he did it with ease.” requires extra energy, because one leg is slightly longer than the other. She will run AMERICAN HOPEFUL with a team of four people on behalf of the Meb Keflezighi, who in 2014 became the Oklahoma City-based Limbs for Life first American man or woman to win the Foundation, which provides prosthetics for race since 1985, is resting up for the Rio BOSTON: Defending champion Lelisa Desisa, of Ethiopia, center, runs at the head of the pack in the 120th Boston Marathon yesterday, in those who can’t afford them. Olympics. So are Desi Linden (fourth last Hopkinton, Mass. — AP “It was about finding another challenge, year) and Shalane Flanagan (ninth), with and finding a new day,” she said. “There was Amy Cragg. a point in my life I wasn’t a ballroom That leaves Neely Spence Gracey, who is Ethiopians complete first dancer, either.” Three years after the attacks, making her marathon debut, as perhaps the Boston Marathon is returning to its new the best American hope to reach the podi- normal, with more security and more run- um. Gracey, 26, of Superior, Colorado, is an ever sweep of Boston Marathon ners but the focus returned to the race eight-time NCAA Division II national cham- itself. Here are some more things to look for pion who decided last fall to try the 26.2- in this year’s race. mile distance. A problem with her left foot BOSTON: Ethiopians nearly swept the Kenyans off the kept her from running in the trials, putting podium at the Boston Marathon yesterday, winning BACK FOR MORE her on schedule instead for Boston. both the men’s and women’s races for the first time in Defending champion Lelisa Desisa of The daughter of 1991 world champi- history and taking five of the six spots on the victory Ethiopia, who also won in 2013, is running onship bronze medalist Steve Spence, stand. again, along with women’s winner Carolina Gracey was almost destined to run Boston. Lemi Berhanu Hayle won the men’s race in 2 hours, Rotich of Kenya. Defending wheelchair Her father finished 19th - the No. 2 12 minutes, 45 seconds, pulling away from defending champions Marcel Hug and Tatyana American overall - in the 1989 Boston champion Lelisa Desisa as they crossed over the McFadden will also return. But most of the Marathon, and Gracey was born on Patriots Massachusetts Turnpike heading into Kenmore Square. top Americans will sit out the race, having Day in 1990 while her father was running Hayle won by 47 seconds, with Yemane Adhane Tsegay run in the US Olympic Trials in Los Angeles the race. another 30 seconds back to round out an all-Ethiopian in February. “I grew up hearing all about that story,” men’s top three. she said. “I always knew once I started run- Atsede Baysa won the women’s race, coming from 37 50 YEARS OF WOMEN ning competitively that I was going to be seconds behind with less than five miles to go. The two- The Boston Athletic Association is com- running Boston. But I didn’t know it would time Chicago Marathon champion finished in 2:29:19 memorating the 50th anniversary of the be this soon.” — AP hours, 44 seconds ahead of fellow Ethiopian Tirfi Tsegaye. Joyce Chepkirui was third in the women’s race, the lone Kenyan to medal in a race that had been dominat- ed by her countrymen for decades. The results come as the World Anti-Doping Agency put Kenya on probation after more than 40 athletes tested positive for perform- ance-enhancing drugs since the 2012 Olympics - nearly one a month.