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FOOTBALL | Page 7 RUGBY | Page 6 Pochettino Kolbe magic hopes to stay as Boks put with Spurs one foot in for 5 years quarter-fi nals Saturday, October 5, 2019 ATHLETICS Safar 6, 1441 AH Katarina ends GULF TIMES years of pain with victory in Doha SPORT Page 3 ATHLETICS Worlds gold safe in hand, Olympics next for Barshim ‘For me, it was just a dream. At home, it was just amazing. Everybody was there – my family, friends, His Highness the Amir himself’ By Mikhil Bhat Doha ome advantage is a thing, after all. Just as high jumpers be- gan going through their paces Hahead of the fi nals yesterday, a mere warm-up jump by the man named Mu- taz Essa Barshim sent the packed capac- ity at the Khalifa International Stadium into a rapturous roar. By the looks of it, this was going to be Barshim’s night. By the end of it, it indeed was. Of course there were moments of scare in between; when he failed to clear the 2.33m mark twice, even as neutral athlete Mikhail Akimenko and Belarus- sian Maksim Nedasekau cleared the bar to move up the order. “I could only keep my fi ngers crossed. No technique I could have advised,” Barshim’s coach Stanislaw ‘Stanley’ Szczyrba told Gulf Times after the win. From where Barshim could see, Szc- zyrba was “touching his heart”, before adding, “but sometimes you need to get it the hard way”. Not just Szczyrba, but the entire Kha- lifa International Stadium must have skipped a heartbeat.
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