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P25 Layout 1 Established 1961 25 Sports Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Sunwolves cull a blow to Asian rugby before WCup Empty seats in Singapore underline the scale of challenge in expanding rugby in football-mad Asia TOKYO: The decision by Super Rugby organisers to might of companies such as Kobe Steel and Panasonic, give Japan’s Sunwolves the boot six months before the can attract rugby greats like Dan Carter and Sonny Bill country hosts the World Cup has sparked concerns Williams, the Sunwolves were trawling for Super Rugby about the sport’s growth prospects in Asia. rejects in the run-up to their inaugural season. The axe will fall on the Tokyo-based franchise after next season following a chastening first three years in EMPTY SEATS the southern hemisphere’s elite competition. Critics subsequently called for the team to be kicked Last week’s announcement by Super Rugby organis- out, pointing to their woeful record and the fact they ers SANZAAR comes as a humiliating blow to Asian rely so heavily on imports-with players from New rugby as Japan gears up to host the continent’s first Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Fiji, Tonga, Georgia World Cup later this year. and South Korea having pulled on the red shirt. “It is clear that this is going to cause quite a lot of That volume of foreigners, dissenters argue, defeats damage,” admitted Sunwolves CEO Yuji Watase after a a key objective for including the Sunwolves in the first 37-24 defeat by South Africa’s Lions at the weekend. place-to help grow rugby in Asia. “It’s obvious we had a responsibility to expand rug- The Sunwolves divide their home fixtures between by in Asia. We have tried to do that and to an extent I Tokyo-where they largely sell out-and fly-away games believe we achieved that aim-but in pure economic in Singapore, where they don’t come close. terms, the reality is not that simple.” The swathes of empty seats in Singapore underline The Sunwolves were brought into Super Rugby in the scale of the challenge in expanding rugby in foot- 2016 to tap into new Asian markets but SANZAAR said ball-mad Asia. Japan Rugby Football Union chairman it wasn’t prepared to bankroll the perennial whipping Noriyuki Sakamoto called on Sunwolves fans to follow boys after Japan’s rugby board withdrew financial sup- Top League teams or the Japan national side, who have port. Another reason for establishing the Sunwolves maintained the feel-good factor since the 2015 World was to create a de facto Japanese national team-after Cup. Organisers for this year’s tournament are confi- SINGAPORE: File photo shows Sunwolves’ Ryohei Yamanaka (centre L) is tackled by Lions’ players during the Super Japan stunned two-time champions South Africa at the dent the impressive form the “Brave Blossoms” have Rugby match between Japan’s Sunwolves and South Africa’s Lions in Singapore on March 23, 2019. — AFP 2015 World Cup. shown under Jamie Joseph will boost ticket sales, and In reality, many Japan players stayed with their Top expect a large turnout for Asia’s debut World Cup. League teams, while others such as World Cup hero “We feel like this will be the most impactful Rugby would have done in England or New Zealand or ing rugby now in Japan that weren’t there a year ago, Ayumu Goromaru and Japan captain Michael Leitch World Cup we’ve ever had,” tournament director Alan France,” he added, pointing to 4.5 million ticket appli- let alone five years ago. We are somewhere new, the initially opted to play for other Super Rugby sides. Gilpin told AFP in a recent interview. cations, 70 percent of those from Japan. opportunity is to leave a bigger legacy in this World While Top League teams, backed by the corporate “We will have taken the sport forward more than we “There are a couple of hundred thousand kids play- Cup than we’ve ever done before.” — AFP Sindhu, Srikanth eye consistency ahead Suspicion surrounds of 2020 Olympics boxing decisions at 2016 Rio Olympics NEW DELHI: India’s badminton stars PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth said yesterday they are looking for a PARIS: An internal investigation by amateur consistent run leading up to the 2020 Olympics, start- boxing’s world body AIBA has raised serious ing with the India Open tournament this week. questions about the judging at the 2016 Rio Olympic silver medallist Sindhu suffered a first- Olympics, with particular suspicion falling on a round exit in the women’s singles of the All England French official, French newspaper Le Monde Open early this month. Former world number one reported yesterday. Srikanth lost in the men’s quarter-finals in Birmingham. France basked in the glow of six boxing But 23-year-old Sindhu, who claimed the World Tour medals in Rio, including golds for super heavy- Finals in December last year, said she has put the All weight Tony Yoka and his now wife Estelle England loss behind her to focus on qualifying for the Mossely. But three days before the end of the Olympics. Olympic tournament, boxing federation AIBA Qualification for next year’s Tokyo Games will removed its then executive director Karim depend on badminton world rankings between April 29, Bouzidi from his role because he was accused of 2019 and April 26, 2020. favouring fighters from certain countries, Two players each from men’s and women’s catego- according to Le Monde’s report. ry will be allotted an Olympic berth if they are ranked Le Monde, which carried out the investigation in the top 16. with Bulgarian newspaper Bulgaria Today, said it “2019, it wasn’t a really good start. I have been had seen the internal AIBA report and emails that losing and winning,” world number six and top seed PV Sindhu showed the body was concerned Bouzidi had Sindhu told reporters ahead of the India Open start- influenced the decisions of so-called five-star ing today. judges in Olympic bouts. “It is these three tournaments (India, Malaysia and takes,” said the lanky star. Srikanth, who has endured a title drought for the last An email from AIBA’s then-president Wu Singapore) and then the Olympic qualifications will Sindhu will open against compatriot Mugdha Agrey 17 months, remains a firm favourite on home turf. Ching-Ko dated November 18, 2016 said the also start. I have to be mentally and physically fit to and is expected to face a sterner test later in the week Last year’s champion, Shi Yuqi of China, withdrew body suspected Bouzidi of acting with another give my best. with Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon and Chinese third just ahead of the tournament. senior official to influence the judges, in particular “I felt bad for a few days (after the All England seed He Bingjiao also in contention. “The results haven’t really come my way but happy those featuring boxers from France and loss) but then I thought it’s not over with this and Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen-top seed and world num- with the way I have been playing. (I am) working on to Uzbekistan. there is a lot more to come. Every time you can come ber four-leads the men’s field in the $350,000 tourna- be more consistent and looking to do well at the Bouzidi did not reply to AFP’s request for a back much more stronger and learn from your mis- ment that will see many Indian players in action. Olympics,” said world number seven Srikanth. — AFP comment yesterday. Andre Martin, the head of the French boxing federation, told Le Monde: “The results in Rio were not ‘stolen’, they are McIlroy having taken The Players honest. It’s true that we knew Bouzidi but we nev- Casey holds on Championship last week and Italy’s Francesco er blackmailed him.” Record scorer Folau Molinari taking the Arnold Palmer Invitational AIBA’s internal investigation found that Bouzidi late to repeat as two weeks ago. had the power to appoint the referees and offi- cials for competitions, but added there was no wants more high kicks WOES FOR NO. 1 JOHNSON direct proof that these changes influenced the PGA Valspar Top-ranked Dustin Johnson, one adrift at results of fights. the start, failed to make a birdie and shot 74 to Bouzidi’s arrival in the senior AIBA ranks coin- SYDNEY: Soaring record try scorer Israel Folau wants his champion share sixth with Spain’s Jon Rahm and cided with a campaign by France to try to NSW Waratahs teammates to kick him more high bombs after American Ryan Armour on 279. The poor improve its Olympic boxing results after disap- the fullback’s aerial power set up a shock 20-12 win over cham- round snapped Johnson’s run of 14 consecutive pointing performances at the 2008 Beijing and pions Canterbury Crusaders. MIAMI: Britain’s Paul Casey won his second rounds in the 60s, the longest such streak of 2012 London Games. Folau twice rose above the Crusaders defence to gather high consecutive Valspar Championship on Sunday, his career or by any tour player this season. One part of the strategy involved setting up a kicks, one setting up a try for Cameron Clark and the second holding off South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen Casey opened with a birdie but stumbled franchise to take part in World Series Boxing, an enabling the fullback to score a 59th Super Rugby try to match and American Jason Kokrak for a one-stroke early.
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