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NBA | Page 6 OLYMPICS | Page 8 Hawks Greeks, overpower Brazilians Celtics for ready for 2-0 lead Oly fl ame Thursday, April 21, 2016 CRICKET Rajab 14, 1437 AH Pollard blast GULF TIMES sets up 6-wicket win for Mumbai SPORT Page 5 SEALINE CROSS-COUNTRY RALLY Al-Attiyah, Casale stay clear as Sunderland, Quintanilla set up motorcycle showdown Nissan’s Adel Hussein Abdullah maintains slender T2 lead over Saudi’s Yasir Seaidan By Sports Reporter 3. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Doha Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing (3hr 38min 07sec) 4. Ricardo Porém (POR)/Tom Colsoul atar’s Nasser Saleh al-Atti- (BEL) Mini All4 Racing (3hr 44min 50sec) yah, Chile’s Ignacio Casale 5. Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Dmytro Tsyro and a tied Sam Sunderland (UKR) Hummer H3 III (3hr 49min 33sec) and Pablo Quintanilla lead 6. Jutta Kleinschmidt (DEU)/Philipp Beier Qtheir respective car, quad and motor- (DEU) X-raid CBRA (4hr 06min 16sec) cycle categories after the third and Bikes longest selective section of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally yesterday. 1. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI) Husqvarna 450 Al-Attiyah and Quintanilla recorded Rally (4hr 03min 10sec) stage wins in very diff erent circum- 2. Sam Sunderland (GBR) KTM 450 Rally stances. Overnight motorcycle leader (4hr 05min 08sec) Toby Price retired with a back injury 3. Helder Rodrigues (POR) Yamaha before the restart and that enabled WR450 (4hr 14min 15sec) Sunderland and Quintanilla to utilise 4. Adrien Van Beveren (FRA) Yamaha their favourable starting positions to WR450F (4hr 15min 23sec) catch their rivals and edge into a shared 5. Jose Cornejo (CHI) KTM 450 Rally lead, with both riders tied to second. (4hr 18min 04sec) Quintanilla claimed the stage win 6. Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) KTM 450 by 1min 58sec, although the nature of Replica (4hr 27min 26sec) cross-country motorcycle racing dic- Quads tates that he may give some or all of that 1. Ignacio Casale Catracchia (CHI) Yamaha back to his KTM rival today. Raptor 700 SE (4hr 55min 49sec) Al-Attiyah and French navigator Mat- 2. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 thieu Baumel led from the front of the (5hr 17min 08sec*) car fi eld and progressed in a sensible (*Subject to FIM Jury meeting) manner to win the special by 40 seconds and propel their Toyota Hilux Overdrive to an outright lead of 8min 36sec over Overall positions (Unoff icial) Saudi Arabia’s Yazeed al-Rajhi. Cars The two rivals remain in a class of their 1. Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu own after three days of competition and Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive were separated by seconds throughout (8hr 28min 37sec) the entire stage, a minor navigational er- Qatar's Nasser Saleh 2. Yazeed al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk ror near the end costing the Saudi a po- al-Attiyah clears a (DEU) Mini All4 Racing (8hr 37min 13sec) tential stage win. Third-placed Vladimir dune on his Toyota 3. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Konstantin Vasilyev is now 53min 29sec adrift of the Hilux Overdrive. Zhiltsov (RUS) Mini All4 Racing Qatari in his Mini All4 Racing. (9hr 22min 06sec) “I lost the way a little, but we had a 4. Ricardo Porém (POR)/Tom Colsoul good run without any problems,” said (BEL) Mini All4 Racing (9hr 42min 30sec) al-Attiyah. “I am quite happy. This is Qatar’s Qatar’s Adel Hussein 5. Yuriy Sazonov (KAZ)/Dmytro Tsyro our plan. We do same speed and we remarkable maintains his T2 lead (UKR) Hummer H3 III (9hr 50min 42sec) keep everyone behind. Just one slow Mohamed in his Nissan Patrol . 6. Jutta Kleinschmidt (DEU)/Philipp Beier puncture for the last 100km, but we al-Harqan (DEU) X-raid CBRA (10hr 07min 09sec) kept on going.” battles on . 7. Marek Dabrowski (POL)/Jacek Czachor Al-Rajhi said: “We do it well until the (POL) Toyota Hilux Overdrive end. Then, at a junction, we went more (10hr 48min 00sec) left and no right and that’s where he lost 8. Yerdan Shagirov (KAZ)/Vitaliy Yev- the time, maybe more than one minute. tyekkhov (RUS) H3 Evo V A lot of cap. If you follow sometimes it (11hr 02min 32sec) is not a good idea. A lot of times the cap 9. Hernan Garces (CHI)/Juan Pablo Lat- is not there. I think we can still drive rach (CHI) Ford Ranger (11hr 19min 20sec) hard tomorrow. We were leading at the 10. Adel Hussein Abdullah (QAT)/Nasser PC before the fi nish.” al-Kuwari (QAT) Nissan Patrol (T2) Motorcycle stage winner Quintanilla 11hr 23min 06sec said: “Today was really diffi cult for me. 11. Yasir Seaidan (SAU)/Sébastien Delau- I damaged the rear wheel on a big jump nay (FRA) Toyota Land Cruiser (T2) near the start and drove like that until 11hr 27min 12sec the refuel. I did not think I could make it. Then, at the refuelling, I stop and the Bikes team changed the wheel. I was lucky to 1. Sam Sunderland (GBR) KTM 450 Rally fi nish the race. I am happy. It was good (10hr 58min 38sec) stage. We have two more days to go. For 1. Pablo Quintanilla (CHI) Husqvarna 450 sure, it is going to be really tough.” Rally (10hr 58min 38sec) “In the end it seemed to be quite pre- 3. Juan Carlos Salvatierra (BOL) KTM 450 dictable. I arrived with Pablo together,” Replica (11hr 19min 36sec) said Sunderland. “We are fi ghting for 4. Helder Rodrigues (POR) Yamaha seconds. It’s becoming tricky with the quad category, although the Pole over Saudi’s Yasir Seaidan in the T2 cate- had passed PC4 at 3pm in 18th overall. the heart of Qatar between Dukhan and WR450 (11hr 24min 54sec) other riders coming in between us. I’m stopped at the scene of a crash involv- gory for Series Production Cross-Coun- French girl Charlotte Berton and Span- Doha. The closing kilometres then ven- 5. Pierre Alexander Renet (FRA) just happy to stay safe. I had six months ing fellow Sonik Team rider Julian Vil- try Vehicles in his Nissan Middle East- iard Cristina Gutierrez were progress- ture through the dunes on the eastern Husqvarna 450 Rally (11hr 30min 18sec) off with my broken femur. I don’t want larrubia near the stage start. That time supported Patrol. He ceded 4min 40sec ing well after massive early delays and side of the country to fi nish close to the 6. Scott Britnell (AUS) Husqvarna FE 450 to take too many risks, especially now should be returned to the recent Abu of that hard-earned lead on the day’s were 21st and 25th overall through PC3. former bivouac at Sealine. (13hr 17min 51sec) that Toby has stopped, Laia is out and Dhabi Desert Challenge winner at the stage and heads into the fi nal two spe- Today is the penultimate day of this 7. Mohamed al-Balooshi (ARE) KTM 450 another rider had a crash this morning evening’s FIM Jury meeting at Losail. cials with an advantage of 4min 06sec year’s event and competitors will face Positions after SS3 (Unoff icial) (13hr 44min 40sec) at a dangerous place. Pablo damaged Behind Vasilyev, Mini colleague Carlo Cinotto pipped Michele Ci- the rigours of a 354.75km selective sec- Quads his rear wheel there. It was marked as Ricardo Porém holds fourth overall, notto to the T3 stage win in his Polaris tion that starts at Al-Shabana (fi rst bike Cars 1. Ignacio Casale Catracchia (CHI) Yamaha danger three in the road book at the top Kazakh Yuriy Sazonov is fi fth and the RZR 1000s and holds the class lead at @ 07.15hrs) and fi nishes close to the 1. Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Raptor 700 SE (12hr 32min 32sec) of the crest, but the track dropped away experienced former Dakar winner Jutta the end of the day. former bivouac at Sealine. The stage Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 2. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 by three metres.” Kleinschmidt is driving well in sixth. It was a fraught day for the three fe- initially heads north towards Al-Jam- (3hr 19min 33sec) (13hr 08min 10sec*) Ignacio Casale maintained a com- Local driver Adel Hussein Abdullah male QMMF-supported rookies in their ilaiya, using some of the terrain from 2. Yazeed al-Rajhi (SAU)/Timo Gottschalk (*Subject to FIM Jury meeting) fortable lead over Rafal Sonik in the began the stage with a solid advantage T1 Nissan Patrols. Kiwi Emma Gilmour the fi rst day, and then cuts back across (DEU) Mini All4 Racing (3hr 20min 13sec) Gulf Times 2 Thursday, April 21, 2016 FOOTBALL AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OUSTED Champs Evergrande crash out of Asia Lekhwiya climb to AFP in front in the 78th minute. Sydney Koroki ran onto a slick back- heel from Lee but his low shot was brilliantly saved by Sydney efending title-holders goalkeeper Vedran Janjetovic to Guangzhou Evergrande ensure the game fi nished 0-0. crashed out of the AFC China’s Shandong Luneng Champions League af- also progressed from Group F af- second with win Dter group rivals Sydney FC and ter Diego Tardelli’s 10th-minute Urawa Red Diamonds played out header from a long-range free- Goals from Boudiaf and Muntari help Djamel Belmadi’s boys score a crucial 2-0 away a goalless draw yesterday. kick was enough to eliminate Luiz Felipe Scolari’s Chinese Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1-0. win over Bunyodkar and maintain their push for a place in the Round of 16 giants won their fi rst game a day Group F leaders FC Seoul beat earlier but it proved futile as Syd- Thailand’s Buriram United 2-1 to AFC ney and Urawa secured the top confi rm their place in the last 16, Tashkent two spots in Group H with one but Group E will go down to the match to spare.