Icardi snatches draw for Inter but Barca through to knockouts THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2018 PAGE 19 McCollum goes for 40 points as EUROPA LEAGUE PAGE 18 Trail Blazers cool red-hot Bucks ARSENAL VS SPORTING LISBON LONGINES GLOBAL CHAMPIONS TOUR 2018 The world’s best showjumping riders and horses were out at the Al Shaqab equestrian arena in Doha on Wednesday gearing up for this week’s Longines Global Champions Tour final which begins on Thursday.(PICS: MOHAMED TINACHIKT) Britain’s Ben Maher brings his top horse Explosion W for Doha final Three-day international showjumping finale at Al Shaqab from today TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK place in the LGCT Super Grand DOHA Each Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) and Global Prix in Prague after winning the Champions League (GCL) event can be separated into two LGCT of Cannes. WHILE the top international categories – CSI 5* and CSI 2* classes. The CSI 5* is the Superbly placed to capi- riders have already revealed top level competition, where the top-ranked riders in the talise on the scoring system is for the Longines Global Cham- Nicola Philippaerts (BEL) and pions Tour (LGCT) of Doha world will compete for the highest prize money, over the big- H&M Chilli Willi. Nicola cur- which begins at Al Shaqab gest fences – up to 1.60m which is the highest in the sport. rently has seven contributing equestrian centre on Thursday, scores which means that 100 a whole host of showjumping The GCL is a team competition, where riders unite to compete per cent of his points in Doha stars are out in force with rid- for points in the overall Championship. All roads lead to the will count towards his overall ers choosing to bring their top innovative new GC Prague Playoffs, which will see the top 16 score! Crowd favourite H&M horses for this week’s final. Chilli Willi arrived in top con- The 2018 champion Ben teams compete in the ultimate showdown in December. dition and will be making his Maher (GBR) has brought his Doha debut at Al Shaqab. young star, Explosion W, a Ludger Beerbaum (GER) equestrian world, Maikel van horse instrumental to his win (112 points) will be out the big der Vleuten (NED) and his stal- this season, as well as Madame guns with Chiara and Casello, lion Verdi TN return to Doha THE SCHEDULE X who has previously shown two of his top horses. for the final leg of the Longines THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 8) good form here. No stranger to pressure is Global Champions Tour. 14:45: CSI 5* Two phases 1.45m (€25.000) Edwina Tops-Alexander last year’s champion Harrie Elegantly trotting up for 17:45: CSI 5* GCL Team Conpetition (Teams- Individuals) Against the clock No Jump off- (AUS) (212 points) must win Smolders (NED) (234 points) this morning’s vet check at the 1.50/1.55m (€60.000 to individual class winners) in Doha to finish third in the who must place within the top astonishing Al Shaqab arena, FRIDAY (NOVEMBER 9) overall championship. A tall 15 this weekend. Harrie and Verdi TN’s confident presence 09:00: National Against the clock No Jump off order that is not beyond Edwi- his steely stallion, Don VHP precedes him. Whilst not at the 14:00: National Against the clock No Jump off 16:30: CSI 5* Against-the-clock 1.45m (€50.000) na’s capabilities especially with Z N.O.P., are no strangers to pointy end of this year’s cham- 18:30: CSI 5* Against-the-clock with Jump-off California and Inca Boy van pressure, winning the LGCT of pionship, the pair will apply 1.50/1.55m (€145.000) 2018 Longines Global Champions Tour champion Ben Maher of Britain on his trusted mount Explosion W. T Vianahof charged to tackle Hamburg and placing third in pressure to the seven riders in SATURDAY (NOVEMBER 10) challenge. Backed by impres- Paris. Emerald adds further fire pursuit of a championship po- 09:00: National Against the clock No Jump off 11:50: National Against the clock with Jump off sive results this year, including power to Harrie’s team placing dium placing. 14:30: CSI 5* GCL Team Competition Against the a win in Miami Beach, Cali- second in Rome and fourth in Meanwhile Sweden have Clock Qualification for LGCT GP- 1.55/1.60m fornia has scope and agility to Cannes this year. high hopes for Peder Freder- (€95.000 to individual class winners) navigate her way to the podium Known for a partnership icson (SWE) (167 points) and 17:45: CSI 5* Longines Global Champions Tour this weekend. that is revered around the Hansson WL who booked their Grand Prix of Doha – 1.60m (€375.000). O France: Roger-Yves Bost, Julien OIsrael: Danielle Goldstein. OSri Lanka: Mathilda Karlsson. The Riders Epaillard, Megane Moissonnier, Jeanne Sadran, Kevin Staut. OItaly: Piergiorgio Bucci, Lorenzo O Sweden: Peder Fredricson. O Australia: Edwina Tops-Alexander de Luca, Alberto Zorzi. O Germany: Christian Ahlmann, O Switzerland: Jane Richard Philips. O Belgium: Niels Bruynseels, Karel OThe Netherlands: Marc Houtzager, Ludger Beerbaum, Daniel Deusser, Cox, Pieter Devos, Jerome Guery, Gerco Schroder, Harrie Smolders, O Turkey: Derin Demirsoy. Nicola Philippaerts, Cindy van der Marcus Ehning, Philip Houston, Leopold van Asten, Eric van der Straten, Jos Verlooy, Gregory Christian Kukuk, David Will. Vleuten, Maikel van der Vleuten. O United Kingdom: Scott Brash, Ben Wathelet, Brazil, Yuri Mansur Maher, Emily Moffitt, Michael O Greece: Athina Onassis. Guerios, Marlon Modolo Zanotelli. ONorway: Geir Gulliksen. Whitaker. O Bertram Allen, Shane O Colombia: Carlos Lopez. Ireland: OQatar: Hamad Nasser al Qadi, Breen, Michael Duffy, Shane Sheikh Ali bin Khalid al Thani, O United States: Laura Kraut, Sheikh Ali bin Khalid al Thani and his teammate of Doha Fursan Qatar during their warm-up for the Golbal O Denmark: Emil Hallundbaek. Sweetnam. Bassem Hassan Mohammed. Jessica Springsteen. Champions League Doha Leg at Al Shaqab on Wednesday. Doha Fursan have already qualified for the Playoffs to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in December. (PIC: LOTFI GARSI) Fares bags a bronze at IWF Worlds in Ashgabat Adel Abdulla seals last-miute deal to drive Ford Fiesta R5 in Manateq International Rally of Qatar TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Qatar International Rally. It DOHA is a good time of year, good weather and I think it will ADEL ABDULLA has pieced be good experience for me. together a last minute deal to There are no more races in the drive a powerful Ford Fiesta Cross-Country this year, so R5 in next week’s Manateq the timing is ideal. International Rally of Qatar, “There are no plans to the final round of the FIA Mid- fight to win. I will do my best. dle East Rally Championship It is my first time to drive this (MERC). type of car. I did my first race The former FIA T2 World here in 1990 and now I have a Champion has been tackling chance to do it as a driver af- rounds of the FIA World Cup ter three years driving in the for Cross-Country Rallies in Cross-Country World Cup,” recent seasons, but has held he added. the ambition of tackling his Adel’s challenge for suc- home round of the regional cess comes with the support rally series since taking part in of the Qatar Motor and Motor- the event for the first time as a cycle Federation (QMMF) and navigator in 1990. Ooredoo Qatar. The Doha-based driv- While he is realistically er will drive a car under not out to challenge the likes the management of Roger of 14-time regional cham- Feghali’s Autotune operation pion Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and is hopeful that the expe- Adel Abdulla, a former FIA T2 World Champion has been tackling rounds of the FIA World Cup for and his season-long Czech rienced Lebanese navigator Cross-Country Rallies in recent seasons, but has held the ambition of competing in his home round of the rival Vojtĕch Štajf in the R5 Qatar’s 20-year-old Asian Games medallist weightlifter Fares Ibrahim Joseph Matar will accom- regional rally series since taking part in the event for the first time as a navigator in 1990. battle, Adel is hopeful that a is interviewed by a television channel on Wednesday after he claimed pany him to the official start podium finish is the realistic a bronze medal in the 96kg competition of the 2018 IWF World at Souq Waqif in downtown Thursday (November 15). were a lot of drivers entering part. I made the deal very goal against a strong field of Championships being held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Doha from 19.00hrs next Adel said, “I saw that there the rally and I wanted to take late. It is my dream to do the MERC 2 entrants. Sports Thursday, November 8, 2018 17 Foakes, spinners put England in command in opening Test Sri Lanka concede 139-run lead ‘See ball, hit AFP GALLE (SRI LANKA) ball’, New ENGLAND spinners led by Zealand duo Moeen Ali helped dismiss Sri Lanka for 203 and build on their belt 43 runs advantage after wicketkeeper- batsman Ben Foakes’ debut ton off single over in the first Test on Wednesday. The islanders conceded REUTERS a 139-run lead in response WELLINGTON to England’s 342 after being bowled out in the final session CENTRAL DISTRICTS of play on Day Two on a turn- medium pacer Willem Lu- ing Galle pitch notorious for dick earned an unwanted its low scores. place in the record books on Ali claimed four wickets Wednesday when Northern and was ably supported by fel- Districts took 43 runs off low spinners Jack Leach and one of his overs in a domes- Adil Rashid who took two each.