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FOOTBALL | Page 2 BOXING | Page 3 It’s a great day Filipinos rule for Bahrain the ring at football, says Southeast coach Sousa Asian Games Tuesday, December 10, 2019 CRICKET Rabia II 13, 1441 AH Fans excited as GULF TIMES Pakistan set for fi rst home Test in a decade SPORT Page 4 SPOTLIGHT Qatar’s al-Attiyah wins World Sports Legend Award Barshim nominated for IOC Athletes Commission elections he Qatar’s Olympic candidacy fi le. The IOC is set high jump champion to announce the nominees for Mutaz Essa Barshim the voting process via social has been nominated as media platforms. The candi- Ta candidate to represent Qa- dates have the right to show tar in the elections of the IOC their vision and aspiration in Athletes Commission. The these elections through pro- IOC athletes Commission has motional campaign ran by the been established to serve as an athletes themselves. It is es- integral platform for athletes sential that only the athletes around the world to voice their themselves are responsible in opinions, vision and challeng- promoting their campaigns es, representing their respect- without interference from ed countries. The IOC’s 2020 their National Olympic Com- Olympic agendas mainly focus mittees, National Federations, on placing the athletes at the or any sponsoring company. forefront as the perfect exam- This regulation is set in ple representing the Olympic place to level the playing fi eld movement. and allow for a fair competi- The athletes commission tion between nominated can- consists of world and Olympic didates. The athletes will keep Qatar’s Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah was presented the World Sports Legend Award (WSLA) in Monaco recently. athletes selected by the ath- running their promotional Al-Attiyah is a three-time Dakar Rally champion, 15-time Middle East Rally champion and Olympic bronze lete’s national Olympic com- campaigns leading up to the medallist in skeet shooting. During this year’s edition, the award was also presented to former F1, Indycar mittee who is also responsi- 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Nascar champion Mario Andretti of the United States, three-time MotoGP champion Loris Capirossi, ble of submitting the player’s Games. and multiple Olympic medallist and former women’s 400m world champion Ana Gabriela Guevara. FOCUS Russia banned from Olympics, World Cup over doping scandal ‘Russia was aff orded every opportunity... but it chose instead to continue in its stance of deception and denial’ AFP Lausanne, Switzerland he World Anti-Dop- ing Agency yesterday banned Russia for four years from major global Tsporting events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar over manipulated doping data. WADA’s executive committee, meeting in Lausanne, handed Russia the “robust” four-year suspension after accusing Mos- cow of falsifying data from a doping testing laboratory that was handed over to investigators earlier this year. The toughest ever sanctions imposed on Russian state au- thorities will see government of- fi cials barred from attending any major events, while the country will lose the right to host, or even World Anti-Doping Agency President Craig Reedie (left) arrives for a bid, for tournaments. press conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, yesterday. (AFP) “For too long, Russian doping has detracted from clean sport,” litically motivated. “This is the ken CEO of the US Anti-Doping WADA president Craig Reedie continuation of this anti-Rus- Agency, accused the Internation- said. sian hysteria that has already al Olympic Committee of having “Russia was aff orded every become chronic,” Medvedev told “orchestrated a path for this de- opportunity to get its house in domestic news agencies. cision to be appealed to the Court order and re-join the global anti- The WADA decision was wide- of Arbitration for Sport, thereby doping community for the good ly predicted, with Reedie having setting up CAS as the failsafe of its athletes and of the integrity made a presentation Saturday to to implement even weaker, if of sport, but it chose instead to the Olympic Summit, partici- any, consequences against these continue in its stance of decep- pants of which “strongly con- thugs who have been given re- tion and denial.” demned those responsible for the peated chances to do the right Under the sanctions, Russian manipulation of the data from thing”. sportsmen and women will still the Moscow laboratory”. He accused sports leaders of be allowed to compete at the Ol- “It was agreed that this was bowing “to the Russian money ympics next year and the 2022 In this February 24, 2014, picture, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (centre) poses for a photo with Russian athletes, winners of the Sochi 2014 an attack on sport and that these and infl uence in failing to ad- Beijing Winter Olympics, but Winter Olympics, in Sochi. (AFP) actions should lead to the tough- equately deal with this sullen af- only as neutrals and only if they est sanctions against those re- fair years ago”. can demonstrate that they were Russian federation”. notably between 2011 and 2015, the Moscow laboratory was a key his country had “no chance” of sponsible,” the IOC said, asking The former head of Russia’s not part of what WADA believes Russia’s participation in Euro was revealed in the independent condition of Russia’s controver- winning an appeal. that the Russian authorities de- anti-doping agency, Grigory was a state-sponsored system of 2020 — and Saint Petersburg’s report by sports lawyer Richard sial reinstatement by WADA in “There is no chance of winning liver the “fully authenticated raw Rodchenkov, who fl ed Moscow doping. hosting of four matches — is not McLaren, released in 2016. September 2018. this case in court,” Ganus said. data”. after turning whistleblower, wel- Russia will still be allowed to aff ected by the ban because it is It led to the Russian Anti- RUSADA’s supervisory board “This is a tragedy,” he added. Positive doping tests contained comed the ban imposed on his compete in qualifi ers for the 2022 not defi ned as a “major event” for Doping Agency (RUSADA) being is set to meet on December 19 to “Clean athletes are seeing their in data leaked by a whistleblower country. football World Cup, but WADA anti-doping purposes. suspended for nearly three years take a decision on whether to ap- rights limited.” in 2017 were missing from the “Finally, fraud, lies and fal- director general Olivier Niggli previously over revelations of peal the ban at the Court of Arbi- laboratory data supplied in Janu- sifi cations of unspeakable pro- added that should they progress ‘A TRAGEDY’ a vast state-supported doping tration for Sport. ‘ANTI-RUSSIAN HYSTERIA’ ary 2019, which prompted a new portions have been punished in to the fi nals in Qatar, “the team The signifi cant extent of state- programme. Yury Ganus, the head of RU- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry inquiry. full swing,” Rodchenkov said in a there will not be representing the sponsored doping in Russia, Full disclosure of data from SADA, told AFP yesterday that Medvedev said the ban was po- Travis Tygart, the outspo- statement. Gulf Times 2 Tuesday, December 10, 2019 SPORT FOOTBALL / ARABIAN GULF CUP SPOTLIGHT Reaching FIFA It’s a great day for World Cup next goal: Saudi Bahrain football, coach Renard By Sports Reporter team tried to break any escala- Doha tion in performance by stopping the game. This was their strate- gy, and they succeeded in the end audi Arabia coach Herve in getting what they wanted.” says coach Sousa Renard congratulated Renard stressed that taking the Bahraini team for precedence over the score al- winning the 24th Arabian ways gives the winning team the ‘I think everyone is a believer in this team and the players who made history’ SGulf Cup title, and praised the comfort and confi dence to con- performance of his players, and tinue the match in the appropri- By Sports Reporter the technical and administrative ate format, and said: “Bahrain Doha staff for their work during the scored fi rst, and played the way championship. they wanted. Our players tried to “We lost a penalty kick, and progress and score and provided s Helio Sousa prepared another ball in the crossbar at the best, and they performed to answer the journal- the start of the fi rst half,” Renard well. I congratulate them on it, ists’ questions after said after the 0-1 loss in the fi - but in the end they were un- their historic win in nal on Sunday. “Bahrain players able to come back in the result, Athe 24th Arabian Gulf Cup win were waiting for us, but we re- because the Bahraini team has against Saudi Arabia on Sunday, ceived the fi rst goal. This is foot- strengthened its defences.” Bahrain players stormed into ball, if you do not score from the Regarding the absence of Has- the conference hall and began opportunities, you have to ac- san and Mohamed Khubrani chanting the Portuguese coach’s cept the possibility of accepting in the match, he said: “Hassan name for his eff orts that saw goals, and this was what really did not recover from the injury, them lift the title in nearly half happened. We played and fought as well as he told me he was in a century. to score the equaliser, but we did pain and was not ready for this It was a moment of achieve- not succeed.” match. The two players we gave ment, celebration and apprecia- He added: “We tried to change great performances in this tour- tion. And Sousa knew it. the course of the match after nament.

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