SPORTS Thursday, September 21, 2017 23 bans Latif for five years Lahore akistan ’s anti- Juwana crashes out corruption tribunal PWednesday banned opener for five years and fined him one million rupees ($9,489) over a spot-fixing case, the second casualty after teammate Sharjeel Khan was Aidan Payne/DTNN [email protected] taekwondo battle banned late last month. “Latif is banned for five years and fined one million Manama rupees after the proceedings ahrain suffered another of the case,” the three- heartbreaking exit member tribunal announced. Byesterday at the Fifth Asian The 31-year-old has played Indoor and Martial Arts Games five one-day internationals in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and 13 T20Is, the last of which when Juwana Mohammed was against the West Indies bowed out in the Round of in Abu Dhabi in September 16 of the women’s 62kg and 2016. under category on the second day of taekwondo events at the Taekwondo DanceSport Arena. Karim Benzema The 17-year old Bahraini extends Madrid lost out 27-10 to Vietnam’s Thi Nguyen Ha and out of the contract battle for medals. In the first round, the Vietnamese held a 9-5 points lead, then extended it to 19-9 following a (10-4) second Shaikh Faisal with the Bahrain Jiu Jitsu team members at a ceremony to honour the team winning gold and bronze medals round and finished off in style winning 8-1 in the third round. on the penultimate day of After the completion of Asia, Oceania and a Refugee host this event. It was an emotional outcome taekwondo competition, when taekwondo today, Bahrain’s last team Elsewhere, Bahrain Olympic Madrid for Juwana, whose elder sister Walaa Al Doseri, Bahrain’s last chance of medal success rests Meanwhile, Bahrain Royal Committee general secretary arim Benzema became Jumana lost out in the quarter hope in this discipline heads with Adam Batirov in the 70kg Equestrian and Endurance Abdulrahman Askar headed the latest Real Madrid finals of the women’s under- into her opening women’s freestyle category, when the Federation president and his nation’s side at the Olympic Kstar to sign a new bumper 73kg category on Tuesday, under-57-kg bout with Chimi former Asian champion coached Bahrain chef de mission Shaikh Council of Asia meetings held four-year contract with the going down to her Philippine Dolma of Bhutan at 7.30am by Mahmood Magomedov is Faisal bin Rashid Al Khalifa in Turkmenistan’s capital on the European champions to opponent Kirstl Alora 17-10 in (Bahrain time). in action on Monday. In total, visited Olympic Council of sidelines of the games. 2021, the club announced the quarter-finals. The trio Bahrainis are being Bahrain has sent nine athletes Asia president Shaikh Ahmed Shaikh Ahmed chaired yesterday. Bahrain stays on two medals, coached by Tawfeeq Nuwaiser in three sports disciplines – Jiu Al Fahad Al Sabah, who is also the meeting, in which he “Real Madrid and Benzema thanks to Ali Monfaradi and of Jordan, who earlier described Jjitsu, Taekwondo and Wrestling present in Ashgabat. commended the efforts of have agreed to extend the Ahmed Shebeeb, who took the the event is a golden opportunity for the 12-day games, being Both sides had discussions Ashgabat in bringing this contract of the player, who men’s under-77kg gold and for his young athletes to acquire organised for the first time in on the games progress and continental gathering on its will remain tied to the club bronze medals, respectively on more experience, improve their a Central Asian country and the tremendous success home soil as well as the opening until June 30, 2021,” Madrid Monday. skills and boost their rating featuring more than 6,000 Turkmenistan achieved so far as ceremony programme, which said in a statement. Action continues today globally. athletes from 65 nations from the first central Asian nation to he described as ‘outstanding.’ Vice- Marcelo, Isco and Dani Carvajal all extended to 2022 over the past week as Real reward key members of the squad Dumoulin bags time-trial world title that became the first side to Bergen, Norway really amazing, it’s such a good raining and I had to take the bike because I thought it would d’Italia, his first retain the Champions League utchman day,” said Dumoulin. corners really slowly, especially be dry.” success. trophy in June. (AFP) took a stunning victory “I thought the power meter in the climb. The 26-year-old is enjoying The finishing climb to the Din the men’s time-trial at was off because it was so high! I “The back wheel was slipping the best year of his career course in Bergen meant the the world championships in felt really, really good. It started because I had a TT (time-trial) having also won May’s Giro race favoured good climbers Hogenkamp Bergen yesterday. and Dumoulin was expected Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic to face stiff competition from sails to finished second almost a Froome and of minute back with Tour de Australia. Korea Open France and Vuelta a Espana Dennis was second behind winner of Dumoulin at the second and quarterfinals Britain third. third time-checks but a crash Seoul Four-time world champion on the slippery, wet course cost ichel Hogenkamp could finish only him a significant amount of beat big-hitting Czech ninth as the punishing final time and he had dropped to DenisaR Allertova 6-4, 6-4 3.4km climb to the finish of 21st by the fourth check. Wednesday to reach the the 31km course penalised the He recovered to finish eighth Korea Open quarterfinals, powerful German. but some 1min 37.39sec behind as she fights to return to the Having finished third Dumoulin. top 100. behind and Froome, who 10 days ago It is the first time the Martin in 2014 and second to completed a Tour-Vuelta Dutch 25-year-old has at last year’s double, seemed a little off reached a quarterfinal on Rio Olympics, this was a first the pace at the beginning. hardcourts and afterwards major global time-trial title Whereas the roads had been said she had been focused for Dumoulin, whose Sunweb dry half an hour earlier, he on keeping her opponent outfit claimed team time-trial ’ Tom Dumoulin competes during the men elite individual time was amongst the final group guessing. (AFP) gold on Sunday. trial at the UCI Cycling Road World Championships that had to contend with rain. “I can’t believe it, wow! It’s (AFP)