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Avalanche in Iran Kills Iran’s Kashan Win World 8 Climbers Wrestling Clubs Cup be crowned the champion of the (Easy Pipe) df. Franklin GO- prestigious international sports MEZ (Titan), 2-2 event. 74kg- Nazariy Kulchytskyy Easy Pipe beat the American (Titan) df. Hossein Elyasi (Easy team 6-4 in the final game. Pipe), 5-4 Iran participated in the compe- 79kg- Kyle Dake (Titan) TF. tition with three teams, namely Reza Afzali (Easy Pipe), 12-0 Easy Pipe Kashan, Bimeh Razi 86kg- David TAYLOR (Titan) and Setaregan Sari. df. Alireza Karimi (Easy Pipe), A total of 10 foreign countries 3-1 participated in the two-day com- 92kg- Hossein Shahbazi (Easy Iranian mountaineers posed for a photo ahead of climbing Oshtorankouh. petition in the Iranian capital. Pipe) df. Nickolas Heflin (Ti- FINAL tan), 4-2 (Dispatches) – ing to reach a shelter Thursday 57kg- Reza Atri (Easy Pipe) 97kg- Kyler SNYDER (Titan) Iran’s state-run media says when the avalanche struck on df. Thomas Gilman (Titan), 6-4 TF. Vladislav Baitsaev (Easy eight climbers have died in an Oshtorankouh mountain, in 61kg- Vladimir Khinchegash- Pipe), 11-0 avalanche and a ninth is miss- the country’s southwest. Iranian freestyle team Easy Pipe Kashan defeated Titan Mercury (USA) in vili (Easy Pipe) df. Alan Waters 125kg- Geno Petriashvili ing. Oshtorankouh is one of the Tehran’s Azadi Hall to win the 2017 World Wrestling Clubs Cup on Friday. (Titan), 7-0 (Easy Pipe) df. Nick Gwiaz- 65kg- Farzad Amoozadeh dowski (Titan) 6-5 The media reported Satur- highest peaks in the Zagros Tehran (Dispatches) - The awe-inspiring performances at Khalili (Easy Pipe) df. B.J. Setaregan Sari also defeated day that they were part of a mountains, part of what is Iranian Easy Pipe Kashan the fourth edition of Freestyle Futrell (Titan) 6-4 Mongolian team Khimori 9-1 in 15-member team and were try- known as the Iranian Alps. Wrestling Club has featured World Wrestling Clubs Cup to 70kg- Mohammad Naderi the third-placed match. Chelsea Stunned by West Ham, Title Chances Dwindle Pacers Halt Cavs’ Win Streak, LONDON (Dispatches) - vic finished off a flowing move Durant Rises Again Chelsea’s attempt to retain its with a fine left-footed strike. Oladipo made six of 13 from Premier League title was dealt From then on West Ham re- beyond the arc and Myles Turner another blow Saturday as it lost treated, often defending with all finished with 15 points for Indi- 1-0 at West Ham. 11 players inside its own third ana. Marko Arnautovic’s early of the pitch at the Olympic Sta- LeBron James paced the Cava- strike was backed up by a resil- dium. liers with 29 points on 12-of-22 ient defensive display that ended The approach worked for the shooting and also had 10 rebounds an eight-game winless run for most part as Chelsea rarely test- and eight assists. the hosts and provided a first ed goalkeeper Adrian, picked Kevin Love added 20 points and victory under David Moyes. ahead of England’s Joe Hart. J.R. Smith 15 for the Cavaliers. Chelsea appeared to have over- The Blues’ best chance came Cleveland dropped to 18-8 on come a slow start to the season in the closing stages as Alvaro the season but they will get an op- as it moved up to third with a Morata dragged his shot wide, portunity to regroup Saturday at seven-game unbeaten run. With having been put clean through home against Philadelphia, a team they beat 113-91 for win number that run over, the Blues trail on goal. Victor Oladipo of the Indiana eight of the streak. leader Manchester City by 11 West Ham remains in the rel- Pacers made six of 13 from be- Marko Arnautovic of West Ham United (obscure) scores his sides first Elsewhere, Kevin Durant carried points — a gap which could be egation zone but the win takes yond the arc as Indiana snapped goal past Thibaut Courtois of Chelsea the undermanned Warriors on his extended to 14 points when City the Hammers to 13 points, level the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 13-game back for the second straight game, faces second-place Manchester West Ham’s intensity was too stages and it was rewarded after with 17th-place West Brom, win streak with a 106-102 victory. United on Sunday. much for Chelsea in the opening just six minutes when Arnauto- which plays at Swansea later. finishing with 36 points as Golden LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Vic- State defeated the Detroit Pistons tor Oladipo has tallied 33 points 102-98. as the Indiana Pacers snapped the Durant also flirted with his sec- Zidane Confident Ronaldo Will Remain at Real Cleveland Cavaliers’ NBA-leading ond straight triple-double by add- 13-game win streak with a 106-102 ing 10 rebounds and seven assists MADRID (Xinhua) - Real Madrid in this season’s Liga Santander has scribe him. A player could spend 15 expected Ronaldo to remain at the victory. as the Warriors won their sixth coach Zinedine Zidane has said that been well below his normal level years here and never achieve what club. The Pacers drained 15 three straight. On Wednesday against he believed Cristiano Ronaldo would and with rumors this could be his Cristiano has. He’s made history at “I think he’s going to finish his point shots to end the run by the Charlotte, he finished with 35 end his career at the club. last campaign in Spain, Zidane this club and I hope he continues in career here; he’s happy at Real Cavaliers, who were trying to set points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. Speaking the day after the Portu- backed the player who will be 33 the same vein until he retires here,” Madrid, he’s at the best club in the a franchise record with 14 straight The Warriors became the 11th guese striker received his fifth Ba- years old in two months. said the coach, who replied “forev- world and there’s no doubt,” com- wins. team in league history to sweep a lon d’Or at a time when his form “There are no more words to de- er” when he was asked how long he mented Zidane. “It was a good streak. We came six-game road trip. The last team in here and got beat, so it’s time to to achieve that feat was the Los start a new one,” said coach Ty- Angeles Lakers during the 2008- Bottas Shrugs Off His Low Rating by F1 Bosses ronn Lue. 09 season. ning three races this year and ending up third in the championship. The placing was one lower than the Finn had managed with Williams in 2016. Klaebo, Nilsson Win Sprints in “There’s always all kind of polls and stuff,” Bottas, who joined Mercedes in January as a replacement for Nico Rosberg after the 2016 champion re- tired, told reporters at the governing FIA’s end-of-year prize-giving. Cross-Country Ski World Cup “I don’t really think about it, if I’m under-rated or things like that. The Finn jokingly hoped his own team boss Toto Wolff had not voted him 10th in the poll conducted by motorsport.com. Bottas also took three pole positions and ended up on the podium 13 times but he also suffered something of a slump after the August break and in some races he was comprehensively out-performed by team mate Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton, who topped the poll by a huge margin, won nine times and took his fourth world championship. The Briton has praised his team mate for bringing a new harmony to the (Reuters) – Valtteri Bottas has shrugged off a poll of Formula One team after a prickly time with Rosberg and emphasised how well the pair team bosses that rated the Mercedes driver in only 10th place despite him win- get on. Formula One Reports Bigger Crowds, Mexico Best Race Again PARIS (Reuters) - Formula One that the season’s global average at- aging director Sean Bratches. Azerbaijan saw the biggest per- saw an eight percent rise in the num- tendance per three-day event was The 2017 season was the first un- centage rise, up 58 percent with a Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway reacts after winning the sprint ber of fans attending races in 2017 203,570 and 76,722 on race Sunday. der new U.S.-based owners Liberty reported crowd of 71,451. That was final run at the cross country World Cup in Davos, Switzerland, on with 13 of the 20 races reporting The total attendance over the 20- Media. still the smallest of any race. Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017. bigger crowds, according to figures race season was 4,071,400 and is set Canada reported the biggest over- Japan saw the biggest drop, down DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - Jo- ahead of third-place Alexander Bol- published by the sport’s commercial to grow next year with an extra race all attendance of 360,000, an in- to 137,000 from a previous 145,000. hannes Hoesflot Klaebo extended his shunov of Russia. rights holder. added to the calendar. crease of 60,000 on 2016, followed Malaysia, which has fallen off dominating run in cross-country ski- In the women’s sprint, Stina Nils- Monaco and Abu Dhabi reported “An attendance of more than by the British Grand Prix at Silver- the calendar after this year’s race, ing’s World Cup with a 1.5-kilometer son of Sweden edged Norway’s no change while five, including two 200,000 per event means that for stone on 344,500 and Mexico with pulled in a total of 110,604 -- a sprint win on Saturday - his sixth vic- Maiken Caspersen Falla by 0.08 of the races with the biggest over- 20 weekends per year, the popula- 337,043. 19.69 percent rise on 2016. tory in seven events this season. seconds. all turnout, saw slight decreases on tion of a medium-sized city visits a Formula One said the attendance The Mexican Grand Prix was The 22-year-old Norwegian fin- Kikkan Randall of the United 2016. race track to watch a Formula One figures were provided by promot- named the best race of the season ished 1.80 seconds clear of Fed- States was third, 2.53 behind Nils- Formula One said in a statement Grand Prix,” said commercial man- ers. for the third year in a row. erico Pellegrino of Italy, and 4.64 son.