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SUNDAY 24 MAY 2020 Formula One teams THEN.. NOW.. agree cost-cutting measures: Report

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Formula One’s 10 teams have agreed cost-cutting measures including a budget cap of $145m for 2021, the BBC reported. This combo shows two The measures have yet to be approved offi- construction stages of cially by the governing FIA’s World Motor Sport Al Thumama Stadium, Council, by an e-vote due to the COVID-19 pan- a host venue for demic. Formula One’s managing director for mot- the FIFA World orsport Ross Brawn said this month that the $145m Cup Qatar 2022. figure had been agreed and the sport would look The 40,000- seat for further reductions in future seasons. stadium, inspired The BBC and motorsport.com, citing multiple by the ‘gahfiya’ sources, said teams had agreed to reduce the cap headpiece worn by to $140m in 2022 and $135m for the period men in Qatar and across 2023-25. Formula One’s season has yet to start, the MENA region, is the with the first 10 races postponed or cancelled due first venue designed solely to the COVID-19 pandemic. The budget cap, which by a Qatari architect, Ibrahim does not include driver salaries, had been set ini- Mohammed Jaidah. tially at $175m but some teams had wanted a more PIC: TWITTER / @ROADTO2022 drastic limit closer to $100m to ensure the sport survives the crisis.

When will La Liga gets green light for restart football action return again? AFP – MADRID Atletico Madrid players in action during a training session at Ciudad Deportiva Wanda Atletico de Madrid training ground AFP – PARIS ’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced yesterday that La Liga can in Madrid, Spain. resume from its coronavirus lockdown Sport’s big ticket events, the on the week of June 8. 2020 Tokyo Olympics, “The resumption of major profes- European football champi- sional sporting competitions and in par- onships, Wimbledon and ticular La Liga will be allowed from the the British Open golf tour- week of June 8,” Sanchez told a press nament have either been conference. postponed or cancelled La Liga president Javier Tebas has said because of the coronavirus. the preferred date for games to resume Here is how football is Friday, June 12 and Sanchez’s worldwide make tentative announcement means that plan has been plans to return to action: given the green light from the government. The became “We are very happy with the decision. the first major European It is the result of the great work of clubs, league to resume last week players, coaches,” wrote Tebas on Twitter. under strict conditions. “But it is very important to follow the game back. A compressed calendar would to go out anywhere.” La Liga’s staggered became the first major European league Matches are being played health protocol and respect the trajectory mean teams playing matches both in training programme meant players began to resume behind closed doors last behind closed doors with of the pandemic. We cannot lower our midweek and at weekends while fixtures working individually at training grounds weekend. players elbow-bumping to guard.” More than two months after the will be held behind closed doors, with on May 4 and were able to expand into Tebas has said the chance is low of celebrate goals. COVID-19 pandemic halted the season only 197 people allowed to attend, groups of up to 10 players this week. players infecting each other during The league wants to in Spain, players have begun training in according to a protocol prepared by La The top flight was first suspended on games. complete the last nine small groups as they aim to be as ready Liga. Players will also undergo tests for March 12, the same day Real Madrid went “In the match environment, infection rounds of matches before as possible for the planned reboot next coronavirus the day before games and into quarantine following the positive test is practically impossible because we have June 30 to secure around month. will have their temperatures taken before of one of the club’s basketball players. carried out a study that we will present €300m in television Barcelona sit top of the table, two being allowed to enter stadiums. But Tebas has been adamant the that shows the smallest risk is in matches money. points ahead of Real Madrid. “When you leave the house the risk league must restart, having estimated that if everyone respects the medical pro- Clubs have 11 games left to play to is already there,” Barcelona Lionel a cancellation of the season would cost tocol,” Tebas said earlier this month.  The English Premier finish the season, with the proposed final Messi told Mundo Deportivo earlier this clubs around €1bn ($1.09bn). Spain has been in lockdown since League’s Chief Executive round to be completed by the end of July. month. ’s Ligue 1 has been cut short, March 12 and is one of the worst-affected Richard Masters expressed The Andalusian derby between Real “So I think you can’t think about it too with Paris Saint-Germain declared cham- countries by coronavirus, with 28,628 confidence on Friday the Betis and Sevilla is likely to be the first much because otherwise you’ll not want pions, while the Bundesliga in Germany deaths according to the Ministry of Health. top-flight season will resume in June, with the remaining 92 fixtures com- pleted by August. Bayern see off Frankfurt to stay on title track Matches will be played behind closed doors, but Masters said the Premier AFP – BERLIN Thuram levelled for Gladbach League want games to be just after the break. staged at clubs’ normal Bundesliga leaders Bayern Havertz netted a penalty stadiums rather than Munich resisted a second-half soon after when the video neutral venues, which was fightback by assistant referee spotted a foul the original suggestion. to claim a 5-2 win behind closed on Bellarabi in the area. doors ahead of Tuesday’s top- Defender Sven Bender Spanish Prime Minister of-the-table clash at Dortmund. unwittingly sealed the win when Pedro Sanchez announced Bayern cruised into a 3-0 a free-kick struck his shoulder yesterday that La Liga lead with goals by Leon and flew into the net nine could resume “on the week Goretzka, the league’s top- minutes from time. of June 8”. La Liga Pres- scorer Robert Lewandowski and Second-from-bottom ident Javier Tebas had Thomas Mueller at the Allianz Werder Bremen claimed their already set a tentative Arena before Frankfurt rattled first victory in eight league game return date of June 12 and the hosts. with a 1-0 win at Freiburg. clubs are back in training. Defender Bayern Munich’s Thomas Muller scores their second goal against Eintracht Frankfurt during their Midfielder Leon Bittencourt bagged two quick goals from hit the winner in the 19th minute Bundesliga match played at the Allianz Arena in Munich, yesterday, as play resumes behind closed  successive corners when he vol- doors following the COVID-19 outbreak. with a long-range shot. In Italy, Sports Minister leyed home, then headed in to In the dying stages, Bremen Vincenzo Spadafora has make it 3-2 on 55 minutes. had defender Philipp Bargfrede said that a decision will be Canadian teenager Alphonso hiatus, as the first top European opened the scoring in the 32nd Monday’s drubbing of Werder sent off for a second yellow card made on May 28 on Davies settled Bayern’s nerves league to resume during the minute when he tapped home a Bremen by moving up to third and Freiburg had a goal ruled whether the Serie A season by reclaiming a ball he lost in the pandemic. cross. place with a 3-1 win at Borussia offside. can resume. area to fire home the hosts’ A minute’s silence was The visitors had a let-off Moenchengladbach, who The result leaves Bremen fourth goal with an hour gone. held before the day’s five early in the second-half when dropped to fourth. two points from 16th -- which  In France, the season Hinteregger then claimed an matches to remember the Wolfsburg winger Renato With the terraces at Borussia carries a relegation play-off at has been declared over and unwanted hat-trick when he victims of COVID-19, which Steffen clipped the crossbar. Park decked with 13,000 card- the end of the season -- but six Paris Saint-Germain were turned a shot into has so far claimed 8,216 lives England winger Jadon board cut-outs of home fans, points from 15th, which guar- awarded the Ligue 1 title. his own net to make it 5-2 on 74 in Germany. Sancho helped sealed the win Leverkusen’s rising star Kai antees safety. minutes. Dortmund claimed a 2-0 when he dribbled at the Havertz, who scored twice in the Bottom side Paderborn are  South Korea had the The win re-establishes Bay- win at Wolfsburg with goals by Wolfsburg defence, then laid a 4-1 rout of Bremen, again netted now nine points from safety with honour of being the first ern’s four-point lead before Raphael Guerreiro and Achraf pass off to Hakimi, who fired a brace. seven games left after their 1-1 elite league back in action travelling to second-placed Hakimi. Dortmund coach Lucien home 12 minutes from time. With seven minutes gone, draw at home to Hoffenheim. on May 8 but there were no Dortmund. Favre said the lack of fans’ noise Wolfsburg had replacement Havertz, 20, darted onto Karim On Friday, Hertha Berlin crowds or wild goal cele- This was the second in the stadium helped him give Felix Klaus sent off for fouling Bellarabi’s pass into the area and drubbed neighbours Union brations -- even talking weekend of the Bundesliga’s instructions. Hakimi. fired home. Berlin 4-0 at the Olympic was discouraged. restart, following a two-month Dortmund winger Guerreiro Bayer Leverkusen built on French forward Marcus Stadium in the derby to go 10th. SUNDAY 24 MAY 2020 SPORT 07 NBA: Bash’s Athletics takes buzzer-beater Woods vows victory lifts Kings a leap in the to 2K sweep in charity showdown dark in search AGENCIES – LOS ANGELES AFP – MIAMI Television commentators goinggoing out of their comfort zone of spotlight include major winners Trevor on national TV to showcase their Rookie Matthew “Bash” Robles Tiger Woods couldn’t resist a little Immelman and Jordan Spieth, golfgolf game,” Mickelson said.said. sank a buzzer-beating last-minute needling before along with Charles Barkley, the “That’s“That’s not an easy thing to AFP – PARIS 3-pointer to seal Kings Guard today’s charity showdown with NBA great turned outspoken do.do. Gaming’s two-game sweep of Phil Mickelson, with a deadpan broadcaster who is the owner of a “F“Foror them to do that aandnd With traditional competition shut down by the Grizz Gaming in NBA 2K prediction that he and partner famously disjointed golf swing. create a fun, entertainingentertaining coronavirus pandemic, athletics has begun exper- League action yesterday. Peyton Manning would dominate. Woods and Manning look too environment that’s helpinghelping imenting with imaginative and unusual ways to After winning the opener “At the end of the day, our have the edge going in. others, I have a lot ooff ensure that, somehow, the show goes on. 82-68, the Kings trailed 53-40 team’s going to win, it’s just a Woods is a regular at Medalistist respect for it.”it.” The Olympics and European Championships heading to the fourth quarter matter of how much we’re going golf course in Hobe Sound, Florida,da, have been postponed and there no traditional of the second game, but they to win by,” 15-time major and Manning boasts a slightlyhtly meetings are scheduled until the Diamond League rallied to trail by one point champion Woods said in an better handicap than Brady -- whwhoo in Monaco on August 14, yet there has been a with 1.1 seconds remaining. interview posted on Golf Digest’s has had less time to focus onn his steady stream of creative initiatives to allow Yusuf “Yusuf_Scarbz” Abdulla YouTube channel. golf game as he adjusts to life wiwithth competition. fired the inbounds pass to Bash “Do we keep it close, do we a new team amid the COVID-19D-19 There have been long-distance pole-vault at the top of the key, and Bash blow them out ... we don’t want to pandemic. showdowns and solo races against the clock. hit the decisive shot to give the have viewers turn off if we’re 9-up For the legion of Woods-oods- Micro meetings are planned and, in a sport Kings a 60-58 win. through nine, that’s probably not watchers around the globe, iitt will built on direct competition, promoters of tradi- In other matches as Week going to be good. So we’ll just be be a chance to see just how fafarr the tional meetings are looking at ways to stage mean- 3 concluded, Knicks Gaming 8-up through nine -- something 44-year-old’s fitness hass come ingful one-runner races in arenas where no hands spoiled Celtics Crossover like that.” since he lurched to a 68th-placeh-place are clapping. Gaming’s season debut, Reigning Masters champion finish at Riviera Country Club in “In this period when nothing is happening, posting a 2-1 series win, and Woods will team with Manning, a Los Angeles in February. there is no bad idea, apart from taking health Wizards District Gaming superstar NFL quarterback who Continuing trouble wwithith his risks,” Remy Charpentier, the organiser of the dumped Hornets Venom GT retired in 2016 after winning his balky back saw him skipp the WGC Monaco meeting, told AFP. 2-0. second Super Bowl title. Mexico Championship,, tthehe The postponed London Marathon launched The scheduled match Five-time major winner Mick- Honda Classic and thehe the 2.6 Challenge in which participants between Heat Check Gaming elson will team with Tom Brady, Arnold Palmer Invita-- attempted solo events based on that and Jazz Gaming was post- who recently signed with the tional, as well as the . poned due to technical diffi- Tampa Bay Buccaneers after Players Championship Some sat in cornflakes, Mo Farah culties. No make-up date was winning six Super Bowl titles in 20 -- which was shut swung from a climbing frame but announced. years with the New England down early by coro- others ran or rolled. Originally due to begin its Patriots. navirus concerns. Three of the world’s leading pole season March 24, the NBA 2K The 18-hole match will include Woods said in vaulters managed to compete while League postponed play nine holes of four-ball and nine April he would havee staying at home with the Ultimate because of the coronavirus holes of modified alternate shot, been ready for hiss Garden Challenge on May 3 as Swede pandemic. On April 27, the with on-course challenges for Masters title defensese Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, the world league announced an initial charitable funds in addition to the -- which is now sett to record holder, took on Frenchman six-week, online-only $10m pledged. come in November.er. Renaud Lavillenie, and two-time US schedule, with all 23 teams With the US PGA Tour and “Night and day,”ay,” he sasaidid world champion Sam Kendricks. playing eight total matches European Tour on hiatus amid the of the improvementment since Watched, World Athletics estimated, from their home markets. coronavirus pandemic, the made- February. by more than a million people worldwide, Action finally began May 5. for-TV event will be a welcome While the WoWoods-Mick-ods-Mick- Duplantis, jumping in his back garden in his Each match is a best-of- glimpse of live sports action, and elson rivalry maymay have lostlost native Louisiana and Lavillenie, in Clermont- three, with the outcome of the long rivalries among the some of its sizzle,zle, ManninManningg Ferrand, both cleared a bar set at 5 metres 36 each three-game series players promise a little intensity and Brady couldd add intrigue. times in 30 minutes while Kendricks, in Missis- counting as one win or one even if it’s only a battle for bragging “They greww up playingplaying sippi, managed 26. Tiger Woods loss in the standings. rights. football, not golf,f, bubutt they’rthey’ree “It’s already huge even to be able to do exhi- bitions again,” Lavillenie told AFP, adding that he was surprised to have felt “a little bit of adren- F1 drivers fully aline” with this ersatz competition. The format was duplicated by three of the Ferrari-bound Sainz aims world’s top women vaulters jumping at their support ‘ghost training grounds with Greek Olympic champion races’: GPDA Ekaterini Stefanidi beating American Katie to leave McLaren on a high Nageotte and Canadian Alysha Newman. As the lockdown eases in some parts of Europe, Chairman ‘Flight Night’ involving four German pole vaulters, REUTERS – LONDON makes me feel very happy and very is planned at a drive-in cinema in Dusseldorf on REUTERS – LONDON thankful to Zak and his team.” June 12 while six micro-meetings have been Ferrari-bound Spanish driver Sainz joined McLaren from scheduled in the . Formula One drivers fully Carlos Sainz Jr (pictured) has said Renault at the end of 2018, replacing Those will start in Kladno on June 1 with three support plans to start the season he is determined to leave McLaren double world champion Fernando The key of this process events -- women’s javelin, men’s shot put and with “ghost races” behind closed on a high at the end of the Formula Alonso, and took the team’s first has been the clarity men’s 300m -- on the announced schedule. doors, according to Grand Prix One season. podium since 2014 with third place In addition to “private” initiatives, the big Drivers’ Association (GPDA) In an interview with the in . and the openness of meetings are looking for a way to keep the show chairman Alex Wurz. Formula One website (www. He finished sixth overall in the all parties involved to going, which is a problem in events where ath- The sport aims to kick off a formula1.com), the 25-year-old 2019 championship, the highest make it happen. That letes compete at the same time. season delayed by the driver thanked team bosses for their driver from outside the top three makes me incredibly The Oslo Diamond League event, on June 11, COVID-19 pandemic with two understanding and not standing in teams, with McLaren ending the has been renamed “the Impossible Games” and back-to-back races without thehe way of his move to year fourth.fourth. proud, and the wwaya it will operate “in full observation of Norway’s coro- spectators at ’s Red Bull Maranello.aranello. TheThe move to Ferrari, hashas aallll beenbeen managedmana navirus regulations and social distancing rules.” Ring in July. “The“The moment I feltfelt llikeike replacingreplacing ffourour times makesmakes me feel veveryr The hour-long made-for-TV event will again More races under similar therehere waswas anan interestinterest fromfrom worldworld championchampion happyhappy and ververyy thankfulth feature Duplantis who will be at the Bislett stadium conditions will then be held in Ferrarierrari in hhiringiring me fforor SebastianSebastian Vettel,Vettel, was as will Norwegian Sondre Guttormsen while Lavil- Europe with the sport also 2021,021, I went straistraightght to announcedannounced on May toto ZZakak anandd hihiss team:tea lenie will vault in his French garden. hoping some races can happen (McLarenMcLaren bossboss)) ZakZak 14 andand SainzSainz saidsaid CarlosCarlos Sainz Jr.Jr. Two Norwegians will make solo attempts at in Asia, the Middle East and (Brown),”Brown),” he said. records in little-run distances. Americas. Wurz, an Austrian, ““AndAnd he had a positive Double 400m hurdles world champion Karsten told Sky Sports television the feedbackedback in terms of ‘OK,‘OK, this McLaren, who have signedsig Aus- Warholm will try to break the world 300m hurdles drivers would rather race in opportunitypportunity is coming to you, traliantralian Daniel RicciardoRicciardo,, congrat- mark and Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal attempt a front of a crowd but understood we’llwe’ll let youyou talk to Ferrari and ulatedulated himhim.. 3,000m record with her pace set by a lights why that was not possible in let’st’s stay in touch to see how eve-eve- “They“They said: ‘You deservedese it and embedded in the side of the track. such ‘strange times’. rythingything develops’.” I’mI’m sure you will do greatgr there’, There is also a plan for two hurdlers to race “I think no one in motor- “The“The key of this andand tthathat coconfidencenfidence boost is each other over 200m. sport, no driver, and personally processrocess has been the always nice to hearh from Meanwhile, Monaco is hoping to run a normal me definitely not, is a fan of clarityarity and the openness youryour bosses,”bosses, said the event. ‘ghost races’,” added the former off all partiesparties involved to Spaniard.Spaniard. “We hope to stay with a traditional meeting, Benetton and McLaren driver. makemake it happen,”happen,” added “There’s“ T we still have three months left,” said “However all the drivers I thehe Spaniard.Spaniard. nothingnothi that I Charpentier. have spoken to, and I’m con- “That“That makesmakes me wouldwou love “You don’t have to be innovative at all costs stantly in talks with all of them, incrediblyncredibly proud, and moremor than but you have to do what works for you. If 22 no one has said ‘No, I don’t want thehe wayway it has all sayingsaying goodbye players can play football in the Bundesliga, then to do it’ or ‘I feel it’s the wrong beeneen to MMcLarencL on a 10 runners should be able to compete together.” thing to do’. mmanagedanag e d high.”high.” Amyr Du Soleil - a champion in the making for Al Shahania

THE PENINSULA – DOHA "He is a very high-class colt”, said He was last seen winning Fourcy, “and he was ready for the race Starting as the hot favourite, H E the Qatar Arabian Trophy today. He will have to compete with Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al des Poulains (Gr1 PA) at the older horses this year, a category Thani’s champion colt Amyr Du Soleil where his owner has other first-class (GB) (Amer) landed his fourth consec- Saint Cloud, in October. competitors, such as Ebraz.” utive Group victory in the Prix Nefta- Amyr Du Soleil is by the champion Dormane (Gr2 PA) at Bordeaux, Named Champion sire Amer. He began his racing career France. in the colours of his breeder, Lisa and He was last seen winning the Qatar 3-year-old Purebred Pierre Deymonaz, before transferring Arabian Trophy des Poulains (Gr1 PA) Arabian colt in 2019, to those of H E Sheikh Mohammed, at Saint Cloud, in October. Named Amyr Du Soleil is following his maiden debut when he Champion 3-year-old Purebred probably the best colt finished second. Arabian colt in 2019, Amyr Du Soleil He then promptly went on to win is probably the best colt that has been that has been seen in his first Group race, the Prix Tidjani seen in France for years. France for years. (Gr.3 PA). In the hands of Julien Augé, he He is out of Balladore (Dormane), Amyr Du Soleil in action. PICTURE: ROBERT POLIN went straight to the lead in this a full sister to Dormah de Brugère, a 6-runner race for 4-year-old Purebred seven-time winner including the Arabians over 1,900m and there he half-length margin. In second was Mohammed, trained by Elisabeth that bodes well for Amyr Du Soleil’ 2020 Jumeirah International Stakes (Gr2 PA) stayed. The race was a walkover. Artemis (Azadi), also carrying the blue Bernard and ridden by Olivier Peslier. campaign, when he takes on his elders, and the Arabian International Stakes Amyr Du Soleil won by a four and a and white stars of H E Sheikh This was a display of dominance as noted by trainer Thomas Fourcy. (Gr2 PA). 08 SPORT SUNDAY 24 MAY 2020 Buttler says Hales deserves ‘second chance’: Woakes he was AFP - LONDON Woakes, asked In this file photo taken on February 07, 2018, England batsman Alex Hales Alex Hales deserves a “second about the attempts to pull a away against ’s bowling during their desperate chance” with England after prospect of being sent into international Hales playing match at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Hales deserves a “second exile as a result of recreational for England chance” in the England side according to Chris Woakes if he has put the to play drug use, according to Chris again, told off-field problems that led to his international exile behind him. Woakes. reporters yes- the IPL Opening batsman Hales terday: “I don’t was dropped from the World know 100 Cup squad shortly before last percent if it’s IANS - LONDON year’s tournament after it the right emerged he had tested positive decision, it’s not England batsman for drugs. my call. feels England went on to win the “I’m a (IPL) has helped in the growth event on home soil in dramatic believer that of English and that’s fashion without him and he has people serve why for him, the T20 league is not played international cricket their time, so to the second-best tournament since. speak. He’s after the World Cups. Despite his months in the gone through a “There’s no doubt that it wilderness, there is speculation tough time (IPL) has helped English Hales could be in line for a being left out of cricket grow and the numbers white-ball recall. the World Cup of players who were involved England are set to and going on to England’s T20 history, Nevertheless, Woakes said the team. I don’t 100 percent in the last few years,” Buttler announce separate Test and see that team lift the trophy including the highest of 116 not there was no questioning the know what will happen but I’d said in the BBC Podcast ‘The one-day squads as they bid to must have been difficult for out against Sri Lanka. 31-year-old’s talent, adding be happy to see Alex back in Doosra’. complete a full international him. His 171 against Pakistan at that Hales could be re-inte- England colours.” “It was something I was home programme against the “I think if people have gone Trent Bridge in 2018 is second grated into the England squad. He added: “We have a desperate to play. For me it’s West Indies, Pakistan, Australia away for a time and worked on only to Jason Roy’s 180 as Eng- “Alex is a world-class culture and an environment in the best tournament in the and Ireland despite the coro- their weaknesses they should land’s highest individual score player,” Woakes said. “I have the England squad where we world, taking out the World navirus pandemic. be allowed a second chance.” in one-day internationals. played a lot of cricket with him all try to pull in the right Cups,” he added. And the Twenty20 World Nottinghamshire’s Hales It was only earlier this from a young age actually. direction. Buttler has been a part of Cup in Australia is still was the second-highest run- month that England white-ball “In a way I felt sorry for “If Alex is willing to do that, two franchises in the IPL. He scheduled to take place later scorer in Australia’s most captain Eoin Morgan said him but I understand the then I imagine everyone would played for Mumbai Indians in this year. recent Big Bash and has three Hales’ behaviour had been decision from the man- be happy to see him back the 2016-17 season and then Warwickshire all-rounder of the five highest scores in “extremely harmful”. agement, captain and rest of playing for England.” moved to in 2018.According to the World Cup winner, the league is like Bowlers the fantasy cricket he aspired to play as kid, with top crick- require eters playing against each other. minimum two We’ll be ready for Kohli's “Some of the match ups you get to see in the IPL areare months’ great. 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The ICC advised teams to use larger squads and exercise Coach has responsibility for success of team caution over bowlers’ work- loads, saying Test cricket would require a minimum of eight to 12 week preparation and not only individuals, says with the final four-five weeks involving match intensity IANS - LONDON recruitment, contracting, This can take time and to win “It is becomingcoming bowling. strategy, recruitment and man- these players over, requires trust, more importantant to Preparation time of six Former batsman agement of support staff, practice transparency and good connec- decode, especiallycially weeks was recommended for Gary Kirsten believes coaching and training facilities, media tions. We expect too much from in T20 cricket.ricket. bowlers returning to the is a leadership position which commitments, team logistics, coaches in a short time,” he said. Every teamam is shorter 50-over and Twenty20 requires an in-depth under- team feedback loops and Kirtsen, who has also served looking for a comcom-- internationals. standing of how teams and indi- debriefs, consultants and all as a coach in the Indian Premier petitive advantagevantage The ICC advised its viduals thrive and what sort of other services linked to a high League as well as the Big Bash and the moree advancedadvanced aandnd member boards to consider environment is needed for this. performance professional sports League in his coaching career, relevant the datadata ppoints,oints, the appointing a medical advisor Kirsten has served as the team,” he added. pointed out the difference more the coachescoaches willwill or bio-safety official to help head coach of the Indian team as The 52-year-old also believes between coaching a national side embrace them.em. with planning for a safe return well as South Africa. that a coach must be able to suc- and a franchise team. Kirtsen also openedopened upup to training and competition. It was under his tenure that cessfully manage different types “A national team requires about his relationshiprelationship with The Dubai-based ICC this the Men in Blue won the 2011 of personalities within a team. extensive travel because of all the Paddy Uptonn -- who served as week announced a ban on World Cup, when they defeated “Coaches need to be able to touring which makes it difficult for the mental healthhealth andand condi-condi- using saliva to shine a cricket Sri Lanka in the final in Mumbai. successfully manage all different families. A franchise team tioning coachh of the Indian team. ball to try and achieve the “Coaches require a variety of types of personalities so that each coaching job is tough in terms of Upton was apappointedpointed fabled ‘reverse swing’. skillsets which allow them to player has an opportunity to building a culture and a ‘way of mental conditioningditioning and stra-stra- Players and umpires would have oversight in every segment thrive. The coach is also trying to doing things’ in an eight-week tegic leadershiprship coach of the need to maintain social dis- of running a professional cricket set a high performing team envi- tournament, with high expectation team in 2008.8. UnderUnder KirstenKirsten tancing and cricketers must team,” Kirsten told daily The Sun ronment and has a responsibility on short term results,” he said. and Upton,n, the team avoid unnecessary body in an interview. for the success of the team and In modern-day cricket, tech- attained the ICC toptop Test contact and not hand over “This includes season and not only individuals. Every new nology is playing a huge role. And team rankingng for the items like cap, towels, sun- tournament preparation, man- coach needs support from the former Proteas opener first time in 20092009,, and glasses to umpires or team management, building a team players who can drive the new believes vairous aspects of went on to wwinin tthehe 20112011 Gary Kirsten mates, the ICC said. culture, managing relationships, culture or way of doing things. cricket have been affected by it. World Cup. SUNDAY 24 MAY 2020 SPORT 09 : French Open organisers working NBA is talking with authorities to avoid US Open clash with

REUTERS - PARIS how it’s going to be like for the Disney US Open.” Drone the way forward? French Open director Guy Meanwhile, Forget is con- Forget said he was working fident the French Open will be about hand in hand with tennis played in good conditions. authorities to make sure the “We’ll see how the situation resuming dates of the claycourt Grand is in a couple of months. We will Slam tournament and those of adapt to what the government the US Open do not clash, will say. We have to be ambi- season adding that Flushing Meadows tious and optimistic,” he said. would make an announcement France has banned events AP - NEW YORK next month. involving 5,000 or more people The French Open had orig- until the end of August. ) The NBA is in talks with The inally been due to start today, Meanwhile ice hockey Walt Disney Company on a but the new coronavirus crisis legend Wayne Gretzky has single-site scenario for a forced organisers to postpone hailed as resumption of play in the start to September 20, one "one of the hardest working Central Florida in late July, week after the scheduled final athletes" he has ever seen in a the clearest sign yet that the of the 2020 US Open, leading glowing tribute to his fellow league believes the season to criticism within the tennis Canadian. can continue amid the world. The NHL icon, along with coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this month, the former NBA superstar Steve The National Basketball French tennis federation said it Nash, joined co-host Vasek Pos- Players Association is also was in talks with the ATP, WTA pisil this week for a - part of the talks with and the International Tennis themed episode of Tennis Disney. Games would be Federation (ITF) over a revised United, which aired on WTA held at the ESPN Wide calendar for the season. and ATP digital platforms World of Sports Complex, “The official announcement yesterday. a massive campus on the has not been made yet. It (the In the three-way interview, Disney property near French Open) will probably be Gretzky recalls attending the Orlando. between the end of September 2019 BNP Paribas Open in NBA spokesman Mike and the beginning of October. Indian Wells when Andreescu A drone is seen in the air recording of the US as she walks to the court for her match Bass said the conversations We’ve been working closely stormed to her breakthrough against compatriot Alison Riske during the UTR Pro Match Series Day 2 in West Palm Beach, Florida. were still “exploratory,” and with the ATP, the WTA and the title success - before subse- Following new COVID-19 safety guidelines to limit the number of people on the court, drones and that the site would be used ITF to make a global quently beating Serena Wil- remote-controlled cameras were used to broadcast live to the Tennis Channel. not only for games but for announcement on what the liams in the final of the US practices and housing as circuit will be like until the end Open. well. of the year,” Forget told French “I remember watching her those fans and everyone tennis fans over the course of is or how hard she works but “Our priority continues radio Europe 1 yesterday. first match (at Indian Wells) and cheering the American girl - the 20-minute discussion with how she handles herself with to be the health and safety “There are so many thinking that's one of the and one of the greatest athletes ATP star Pospisil. The segment the media. She handled herself of all involved, and we are question marks. hardest working athletes I've of all time - was pretty special. focused on Andreescu comes with such poise, she was so working with public health “The city of New York is ever seen in my life," said “My hat goes off to her for around halfway through the humble, so appreciative. experts and government more affected by the corona- Gretzky in a report posted on how she handled herself and video (above). “I don't think we could have officials on a compre- virus than France. They also www.wtatour.com. how she handled the pressure,” Gretzky added: "The thing a better hero in our country for hensive set of guidelines to have a lot of organisation “She went on to win the he said. that impressed me most about young kids. She's truly ensure that appropriate problems, they will make an tournament and then, at the US Both Gretzky and Nash her - and I've said this to a lot remarkable and deserves all the medical protocols and pro- announcement mid-June to say Open, to play in front of all reveal themselves to be true of people - is not how good she credit she's getting.” tections are in place,” Bass said. The ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex is a 255- Thousands of replica acre campus with multiple arenas that could host games simultaneously and fans take over has been home to, among other things, the Jr NBA World Championship in Bundesliga stadium recent years. ESPN is primarily owned by Disney, one of AP - DÜSSELDORF the NBA’s broadcast partners. Even when German fans are stuck at home, they can still be seen Space won’t be an issue, in the stadium. even if Major League Soccer Around 13,000 cutouts filled the stands yesterday as Borussia - which is also in talks to Mönchengladbach hosted Bayer Leverkusen in a Bundesliga game resume its season at Disney which could help decide Champions League qualification. - is there at the same time Gladbach fans took pictures at home in a shirt or scarf and as the NBA. paid 19 euros ($20.70) to be turned into one of the “Pappkam- The entire Disney eraden” or “cardboard companions.” Season-ticket holders have complex is roughly 40 their cutout placed in their usual spot, though some fan groups square miles, with nearly denounced the idea. 24,000 hotel rooms owned “It’s better to play in front of dolls than nothing at all,” or operated by Disney Leverkusen coach Peter Bosz said before the game. within the campus. It was Gladbach’s first at home since the Bundesliga restarted The NBA suspended its without spectators amid the coronavirus pandemic. season March 11, becoming The cutouts didn’t do Gladbach much good yesterday. the first of the US major pro Eintracht Frankfurt’s and Gelson Fernandes react after their first goal during a Leverkusen won 3-1 to overtake Gladbach for third in the table, leagues to do so after it Bundesliga match against Bayern Munich at Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany, yesterday. as Gladbach missed good chances to score late on. became known that All- “Despite that it still looks really super,” Gladbach right back Star centre Rudy Gobert of said. “It creates a certain atmosphere.” the Utah Jazz tested positive World Cup winner Coach Marco Rose and some of his players were also in the for COVID-19. stands in two-dimensional form, along with greats of the club’s The list of NBA players past. They include Günter Netzer, who won the West German title who were known to test Goetze to leave with Gladbach in 1970 and 1971 and the World Cup in 1974. positive eventually grew to There’s even an away end with pictures of supporters from 10 - not all were identified Leverkusen and other clubs. Gladbach said it was a nonprofit ini- - and Commissioner Adam tiative with proceeds going to charity. Silver said last month that Dortmund: Club Gladbach’s form this season has echoed its golden age from the actual total was even the 1970s. The club led the table early in the season and is still higher. But the league has AFP - BERLIN fighting for a Champions League spot. been working on countless Not all of the real-life fans like their cutout counterparts. Some return-to-play scenarios sports director Michael Zorc confirmed groups oppose continuing the season without spectators and feel for several weeks, all with yesterday that Mario Goetze, who scored the winning goal in the the cutouts legitimize that. the caveat that testing 2014 World Cup final, will leave at the end of the season. “Football without fans is nothing,” read a large banner placed would be an integral part “We will stop working together with Mario Goetze in the at one end of the stadium yesterday. of any resumption of the summer,” Zorc told Sky before Saturday’s Bundesliga game away “For Borussia, against ghost games,” read another. season. to Wolfsburg. “It is a joint decision after a constructive conver- “The bleak backdrop of empty stadiums is exactly what these Teams have been sation. Mario is a really good guy.” games represent and deserve,” the Sottocultura group of Gladbach allowed to welcome players The decision caps a frustrating season for the 27-year-old fans said in a statement. “We consider the initiative with the card- back to their training facil- In this file photo taken on attacker, who has made only five league starts this term. board figures to be counterproductive. We understand the well- ities for voluntary sessions December 20, 2019, Dortmund’s Goetze wrote himself into German football folklore by vol- meaning, charitable idea behind it, but we consider the signal to since May 8, and more than leying home a cross during extra time in the 2014 World Cup final German midfielder Mario Goetze be the wrong one.” half of the league’s fran- to seal a 1-0 win over Argentina at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana celebrates scoring a goal during Gladbach isn’t the first club to try replacing fans with doppel- chises have taken stadium. Six years on, Goetze has struggled to replicate the dis- a Bundesliga football match gangers during the coronavirus pandemic. advantage of that oppor- plays that once prompted former German FA technical director against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Before the Bundesliga restarted, Belarus was the only country tunity. The next steps would Matthias Sammer to describe him as “one of the best talents we’ve Dortmund confirmed yesterday in Europe playing league games. Champion club Dynamo Brest likely include a loosening ever had”. that Goetze will leave at the printed off photos sent by supporters abroad and attached them of the government restric- Having come through the academy, Goetze helped Dortmund end of the season. to shop mannequins wearing a motley variety of old shirts. tions for those voluntary win the league and cup double in 2011 and 2012 before he left for workouts - no more than Bayern Munich in 2013. four players are currently However, he failed to hold down a first-team place in Munich A banner reading allowed inside any facility and returned to Dortmund in 2016. The following year he was “For Borussia, against at a time - and then a plan then sidelined for several months by a debilitating metabolic dis- ghost matches” is for when training camps order. Goetze made his 200th appearance for Dortmund on the pictured during could open. opening day of this season, but he has featured sparingly since the German first If the league plans to the arrival of Erling Braut Haaland in January. division Bundesliga resume play in late July, On Friday, Dortmund coach Lucien Favre admitted it would football match then camps conceivably be “difficult” for Goetze to win a place, while Germany legend between Borussia could open around the start Lothar Matthaeus last month urged him to quit the Bundesliga to Moenchengladbach of that month. Resched- reboot his career. and Bayer 04 uling at least some regular “Today, his way of playing football is no longer in demand,” Leverkusen season games could be a Matthaeus wrote in a column for Sky. “Above all, he lacks the yesterday in major perk for players, speed to keep up with the football that Dortmund and many other Moenchengladbach, even though some teams top clubs play. It’s quite possible that Italy would be a suitable western Germany. are out of the playoff mix. league for him,” added Matthaeus.