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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2016 SPORTS Worley wins second Atletico Nacional to Bilic praises Sturridge straight giant slalom honor Chapecoense before Liverpool trip OSAKA: Colombia’s Atletico Nacional arrived in Japan for LONDON: West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic has admitted his team SESTRIERE: Tessa Worley won her second the Club World Cup yesterday, still dealing with the trauma need to improve in front of goal and praised Liverpool striker Daniel straight World Cup giant slalom yesterday of the recent airplane crash that caused the cancellation of Sturridge who has been linked with a move to the Premier after first-run leader Mikaela Shiffrin strug- the Copa Sudamericana final. Atletico was to play League strugglers. West Ham, who travel to Anfield today, gled in her second trip down the 2006 Turin Chapecoense in the final but the plane carrying the Brazilian are 17th in the Premier League table, having scored 15 Olympics course. With her 10th career giant team to the game crashed on Nov. 28, killing almost all on goals in 14 matches so far. “The strikers didn’t score slalom win, Worley matched the French board. Nacional qualified for the Club World Cup by winning enough goals or as many as we expected but it is not record set by Carole Merle between 1988 and the Copa Liberdatores in July, and vowed to honor the mem- only down to them,” Bilic told British media. “I never 1993. Worley finished 0.15 seconds ahead of ory of its rivals when it faces either South Africa’s Mamelodi want to divide the team into strikers and the rest. rising Italian skier Sofia Goggia, while defend- Sundowns or Japanese champions Kashima Antlers on Although it is the strikers’ job to score goals, it is also ing overall World Cup champion Lara Gut was Wednesday. “The best tribute we can give them is to play a the responsibility of the whole team.” West Ham have third, 0.29 back. Worley also won a GS in great tournament and reach the final,” Nacional coach been linked with a move for Sturridge in the January Killington, Vermont, two weeks ago. Shiffrin, Reinaldo Rueda said at Kansai International Airport. The transfer window, and Bilic said he admired the the American who won the slalom at the 2014 directors of Atletico asked the governing body of South England international’s natural ability. “He’s one of the Sochi Olympics, lost a big chunk of time early American football to award Chapecoense the Copa biggest talents, he’s a great player,” the manager said. in her second run after getting thrown off Sudamericana championship. Atletico is hoping to advance “The talent is there, the touch, the finishing, every- course and finished sixth. Shiffrin’s lead to a final against Spanish giants Real Madrid on Dec. 18. “We thing is great. The only thing that’s stopped him over Gut in the overall standings was cut to know the responsibility we have to South America,” Atletico being regular for club and country are the eight points. — AP captain Alexis Henriquez said. —AP injuries.” —Reuters Russia faces ban calls after damning doping revelations LONDON: There were growing calls yesterday for Russia to be banned from the Winter Olympics and other major international events after the latest startling revelations of state- sponsored doping across Russian sport. Richard McLaren described on Friday how Russia “hijacked” sport by involving more than 1,000 athletes in an “institutional conspiracy” to win by mass doping at the Sochi 2014 Winter and London 2012 Olympics and other global competitions. The Canadian lawyer, who detailed in a previ- ous report how Russian security services were involved in the nefarious scheme, said in a sec- ond report for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that at least 30 sports were implicated and that salt and instant coffee were used to manipulate Russian samples. Russia’s sports ministry-said to be central to the ruse to cheat its way to success over several years-again denied state backing for doping, saying that it “will continue the fight against doping with zero DUBAI: Shanshan Feng of China holds the trophy after she won the Dubai Ladies tolerance”. Russia’s track and field team was Masters golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, yesterday. — AP already banned from international competition for doping and was barred from the Rio Olympics in August, but there is now growing pressure-not to mention anger-for more sanc- Feng clinches record tions. The United States, Britain and Germany all LONDON: World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren speaks during a press con- swiftly condemned Russia, while the ference in London on Friday. A new report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-rang- Dubai Ladies Masters International Paralympic Committee, which ing “institutional conspiracy” that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 banned Russia completely from the Rio sports, including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Paralympics in September, called the McLaren Winter Olympics. — AP DUBAI: Defending champion Feng Eight-under was a pretty good score.” findings “astonishing”. Liz Nicholl, chief execu- Shanshan won a record fourth Dubai Hull, who won her first LPGA Tour title tive of UK Sport, which is tasked with helping against the Olympic movement when the values Russian athletics and weightlifting, but his Ladies Masters title yesterday following a three weeks ago at the CME Group Tour Britain to Olympic success, said that the of the movement are dragged through the mud report found evidence of banned substances brilliant eight-under par final round 64. Championship, had a similar story to Feng. International Olympic Committee (IOC) should by a country.” The IOC responded to McLaren’s being used in football too. The 27-year-old from China started the After two quiet days, the 21-year-old from exclude all Russian competitors from the Winter latest damning report by announcing it would “We didn’t really have a chance to look at day five shots behind overnight leader Woburn caught fire and posted a bogey- Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018. reanalyse all 254 urine samples taken from Russian soccer across the board, to look at differ- Felicity Johnson of England. But she free 65. “Today, I kind of woke up and got “Absolutely. Until there’s evidence that Russian athletes at Sochi. The report, the IOC ent teams and what’s going on,” McLaren told claimed back-to-back titles finishing on a into my golf game. I’ve been a bit lazy all Russian athletes are competing clean,” The Daily declared, showed that there “was a fundamental AFP after presenting his report findings in 10-under par total of 206 as the leaders fell week on the golf course, but today I got in Telegraph quoted her as saying. “All the evi- attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games London. “I think there are 33 footballers listed in by the wayside on a windy day at the Majlis there and kind of concentrated,” said the dence that we’ve got is that they’re not likely to and on sport in general”. the report. Not all of those are Russian by the course of Emirates Golf Club. world No18. be doing so. So, yes, I think the IOC should be way-some are foreigners.” That led British MP Feng, the highest ranked player in the “I holed a few putts today and I missed a taking a very strong stance and should be WORLD CUP QUESTIONED Damian Collins to question whether Russia was field at world No4, was chased home by lot of putts. I hit it pretty well and it was excluding Russia until such time as they’ve put Several major international sporting events fit to host the 2018 World Cup. England’s Charley Hull second at eight- really windy today. So I’m quite happy with their house in order.” Clemens Prokop, president are on the calendar in the coming months, “FIFA now have to look very seriously at the under par following a 65. India’s Aditi my score in them conditions.” of the German athletics federation (DLV), called including the IAAF (athletics) World way in which the World Cup is going to be Ashok signed off a brilliant season tied for Ashok, who shot a third consecutive for a total ban on all Russian competitors. Championships in London in August next year. staged,” Collins, of the Culture, Media and Sport third place with England’s Florentyna round of 70 with four birdies and two “Russian sport should be excluded from all The Winter Olympics take place in Select Committee, told the BBC. “How can Russia Parker at six-under par 210 in the tourna- bogeys, was happy with her finish, international competitions, including the Pyeongchang in February 2018 and Russia is due give confidence to FIFA and to the world that ment that was reduced to 54 holes follow- although disappointed that she could not Olympic Games, until its credibility is restored,” to hold the football World Cup that summer. there will be proper anti-doping measures in ing the death of caddie Maximilian make the most of the first four holes that said Prokop. “This is a fundamental attack McLaren identified doping as being rife in place during the World Cup?” — AFP Zechmann on the opening day Wednesday. played easy yesterday. “It was pretty solid. I American Beth Allen won the LET Order actually didn’t start very well today. I was of Merit crown, while Ashok was the Rookie one-over in the first four holes when all of the Year.

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