Bolt to Run in Monaco

SPORTS Thursday, June 22, 2017 23 Ascot meeting after a succession of favoured runners ighland Reel produced a courageous had failed to fire. performance to battle back and win the The five-year-old -- who last year won the King featureH race of the second day of Royal Ascot the George Vi and Queen Elizabeth Stakes also at Group One Prince of Wales’s Stakes yesterday. Ascot and the Breeder’s Cup Turf -- looked beaten The multiple Group One winner -- who won as Ulysses and Decorated Knight passed him with the Coronation Cup earlier this month at Epsom two furlongs to race. -- also gave Irish training great Aidan However, jockey Ryan Moore galvanised O’Brien his him again and the horse’s never say first win die spirit saw him surge back into of the contention and draw level so all three were in a line entering the final half furlong. Reel However, it was the other two who cracked and Highland Reel crossed the line first to win at 9/4. Decorated Knight took second under Andrea Atzeni and Ulysses, who had looked prevails all out the winner with a furlong to run, third under champion jockey Jim Crowley. For O’Brien and Moore it represented a huge relief especially after the disappointing run of dual 2000 Guineas winner Churchill in the feature race on Tuesday the St James’s Palace Stakes where he failed to sparkle and finished fourth. (AFP) Ryan Moore rides Highland Reel to win the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (picture courtesy of Guardian) Saudi Arabia Kvitova reaches to host women’s first quarters professional Bolt to run in Monaco of come back Birmingham squash event Paris as a warm-up for the world championships in the 100m for his farewell at the wo-time Wimbledon London ight-time Olympic champion Usain in London that start on August 5. worlds. champion Petra Kvitova audi Arabia will stage Bolt will run the 100 metres at the The world-record holder (9.58sec) won The 30-year-old saw his tally of wasT cheered as if she had a women’s squash DiamondE League meeting in Monaco on his first race of the year in Kingston earlier Olympic gold medals reduced from been the home player, after a tournamentS later this year July 21, organisers announced yesterday. this month in 10.03sec, and is also due to nine to eight earlier this year, when the straight-sets win over Britain’s with world champion Nour The Jamaican sprinting legend is run in Ostrava on June 28. Jamaican team were stripped of their Naomi Broady in Birmingham El Sherbini and eight-time competing in his final season before Bolt, who has won three Olympic 2008 4x100m medals after Nesta Carter’s carried her into a first quarter- world title winner Nicol David retirement and will use the Monaco event 100m-200m doubles, will only compete disqualification for doping. final in eight months. appearing in a rare public The applause was not airing for women’s sport in the intended as any slight to Broady, kingdom. but as acknowledgement of an The Professional Squash encouraging performance by Association (PSA) said the the Czech, whose career may PSA Women’s Masters will be still be at risk from the injuries staged at Princess Nora bint inflicted on her by an intruder Abdul Rahman University in with a knife six months ago. Riyadh from October 29 to Kvitova did serve a few November 2. double faults which briefly “The $165,000 tournament seemed worrying, but hit some will play a crucial role in fine ground strokes and moved inspiring a new generation of better than she used to in a 6-2, Saudis to become active within 6-2 victory.She seemed taken sport,” said a PSA statement. aback when asked after the PSA Chairman and Saudi match if she knew that she was businessman Ziad Al-Turki. widely considered as one of the Princess Reema bint Bandar favourites for the tournament. bin Sultan, under secretary “I didn’t hear that,” she said. president of the Women’s “I don’t really care – it’s too Department of the General early,” she added, mindful of Authority for Sport in Saudi this being only her fourth match Arabia, added: “We look since the trauma of having five forward to growing the female fingers and two tendons of her participation of the sport of left hand damaged. Next up squash. It is a dynamic game could be Kristina Mladenovic, that involves fast thinking and who caused a stir at Roland fast reaction times, skills that Garros two weeks ago by are well reflected in the women Usain Bolt eliminating the defending of Saudi Arabia.” champion Garbine Muguruza..

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