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Osmond, Jin Lead in Beijing SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2016 SPORTS Injured Broad doubtful Kane dreams of being Gutknecht in hospital for third India Test England, Spurs skipper after Groves loss LONDON: Prolific striker Harry Kane is proud of his leader- LONDON: Kazakhstan’s Eduard Gutknecht has undergone surgery after VISAKHAPATNAM: England fast bowler Stuart Broad is doubtful to feature in ship skills and dreams one day of captaining both boyhood falling ill following his super-middleweight defeat by George Groves at the third Test against India after a foot injury forced the team management to club Tottenham Hotspur and England. Kane, who came London’s Wembley Arena on Friday. The English boxer beat review his fitness. Broad, who underwent a scan on his right foot after Friday’s through the ranks at the north London club, has become a the 34-year-old Gutknecht on a unanimous decision, play in the ongoing second Test, has suffered damage to a tendon. “Stuart key figure for Mauricio Pochettino’s side after scoring 49 with the losing fighter then taken to hospital. Broad has strained a tendon and one of the small joints in his right forefoot. The Premier League goals since his breakthrough 2014-15 cam- Gutkneckt, based in Germany, has been sedated injury will be reviewed further at the end of the Test,” an England paign. The 23-year-old remains an influential figure for and will continue to be monitored, according to media statement said yesterday. However Broad, who rattled England, despite failing to live up to expectations during the the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC). He the Indian top-order with his twin strikes in the final session country’s woeful Euro 2016 campaign. “It’s my personality. took plenty of punishment before Groves, 28, on day three, will “continue to bowl” in the rest of the innings. I’ve always been a leader, on and off the pitch. I don’t think a was declared a 119-109, 119-109 and 119-110 Broad, 30, also got Indian opener Lokesh Rahul for a duck in captain is just having the ability to shout on the pitch, or winner on the three judges’ scorecards. Victory the second over of the match but struggled as the game pro- moan at someone,” Kane said in an interview with the Times. left Groves on course for a fourth shot at a world gressed. Broad’s injury scare has added to the woes of a team “It comes with a whole package ... meeting with the fans and title some time next year. A cut opened round already missing leading paceman Chris Woakes who is nursing having that aura in the dressing room. I’ve managed to cap- Gutknecht’s swollen left eye in the ninth round a knee injury. Woakes’ replacement James Anderson has just tain Spurs a couple of times. It would be a dream to captain but he made it through to the final bell and returned to action after recovering from a shoulder injury. Spurs full time and captain England. Who wouldn’t want to appeared to be taking everything in as the England have Steven Finn and Jake Ball in the squad as do that?” Kane also lauded Pochettino’s bravery for giving judges’ scores were announced. But his con- pace backup for the marathon five-match series. The youth a chance rather than taking the easy route of buying dition worsened in the dressing room and he first Test at Rajkot ended in a draw. —AFP experienced players.—Reuters was then taken to hospital. — AFP Omar Sulaiman Alkazi Fuhaid Al-Dihani Abdullah Al-Tarqi Mutawa Alkazi honors Kuwaiti Olympic champs KUWAIT: In appreciation for their achieve- sion of their historical achievements. petitions for men. Omar Sulaiman Alkazi, CEO of Mutawa pleased millions of Kuwaitis and Arabs for ments in the sports arena and for encour- Fuhaid Al-Dihani was awarded the gold The Group held a party at its showroom Alkazi Group and its affiliates and the sole their magnificent achievement. They aging the Kuwaiti youth for persistence and medal in Olympiad Rio 2016 in Double Trap located in Rai Area on Monday, 12 agent of BAIC Motor, GAC Motor and DFM proved for the whole world that the Kuwaiti innovation in all areas, Mutawa Alkazi competitions after defeating the Italian November, which was attended by the Motor, presented for each a BJ40 4WD vehi- youth is capable of exerting efforts, inno- Group and its affiliates celebrated two contestant 28-27, while Abdullah Al-Tarqi group management and its administrative cle as a present, in appreciation for such vating and glorifying Kuwait and holding Kuwaiti Olympic champions, Fuhaid Al- Al-Rashidi was awarded the bronze medal staff and executives, besides a number of honorable achievement. The champs its head and flag high in international cir- Dihani and Abdullah Al-Tarqi, on the occa- in the Olympiad in the shooting skeet com- its customers and visitors. restored the glories of Kuwaiti sports and cles and before all nations. Osmond, Jin lead in Beijing BEIJING: Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond and China’s own Jin Boyang took the lead on the first day of the Cup of China on Friday, the penultimate heat of the ISU Grand Prix of fig- ure skating. Both now edge closer to securing places for next month’s grand final. Osmond landed all jumps cleanly and with a sense of ease, ending her crowd-pleasing programme with a know- ing change foot combination spin, earning 72.20, a couple of points below her season best of 74.33 at Skate Canada. The 20-year-old 2014 Winter Olympic team silver medalist said simply of her performance “there’s a couple small things I wish I could change”. BEIJING: Elena Radionova (C) of Russia celebrates winning the gold medal of the ladies At the end of the first day there was every- free skating on the podium as she stands next to Kaetlyn Osmond (L) of Canada who thing to play for among the women with won silver and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva who took bronze at the Ice Dance short dance scores close in the standings. Osmond has a at the Cup of China ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Beijing yesterday. — AFP slim margin over Russia’s Elena Radionova on 70.75 and Japan’s Mai Mihara in third place with her season best 68.48. After showing off during the warm up, World Championship Best hopes referee bronze winner Jin, 19, gave a flamboyant per- formance to the Spiderman theme, landing a quadruple lutz and high quadruple toeloop to Peyper is on tune rapturous applause. His 96.17 score was over 20 points above his season best (72.93) and gave him a huge 12.70 DUBLIN: Ireland’s hopes of backing up looked down on as colonials-that creat- the historic win over New Zealand a ed a fierce determination for the early point margin over Daniel Samohin in second fortnight ago could rest in today’s All Blacks teams. “Those standards have place with his season best despite a point match referee Jaco Peyper being less created a legacy for today’s All Blacks. deduction at 83.47. The Israeli was in turn just harsh on them than he was in the Six We’re only passing through. 0.06 points ahead of third placed Patrick Chan Nations defeat to France, says captain “None of us earn the jersey. The of Canada on 83.41. Rory Best. responsibility is to make sure the jersey Chan was on track to clean up but a hand The South African official’s penalis- is better than how you found it.” on the floor coming out the triple axle cost ing of the Irish scrum, his error in calling Ireland assistant coach Greg Feek him. Jin’s programme got the night’s only a knock on in an Irish try when the ball knows exactly what Hansen is referring standing ovation as spectators waved came off the midriff not the hands of o as he wore the All Blacks jersey 10 Spiderman banners and hurled Spiderman Robbie Henshaw, and failing in coach times as a prop and was part of the toys. The first skater to perform a quadruple Joe Schmidt’s eyes to sin bin two French 1999 World Cup squad that lost sensa- Lutz-triple toeloop combination at an ISU com- players for a late hit on Jonathan Sexton tionally to France in the World Cup petition, at last year’s Cup of China, Jin has and a high tackle on Dave Kearney left a semi-final. “I remember getting back even more ambitious plans for tomorrow’s free sour taste in the losing side’s mouth after the ‘99 World Cup, a few guys said skate. Afterwards, he said his performance had back in February. However, Best said he what are you coming back here so early been “really not bad” and that he had worked hoped the match would be free of such for because we had failed. “It’s hard after Skate America. contentious issues as the Irish seek to moments like that where you realise the Canada’s two time national champions become the first side since South Africa weight in terms of expectations.” Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje led in the Ice in 2009 to win back to back Tests As if there wasn’t enough emotion Dance category with their season best 73.78, against the world champions. “We had surrounding the game at Lansdowne a few angling issues last time (with Road two late great players for each just 0.55 ahead of second place sister and Peyper) at the scrum,” said the 34-year- side will be prominent in their thoughts.
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