WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015 SPORTS Rossi vows to fight Spanish in Valencia ROME: A groundswell of support for come second to clinch the title. to linger over his participation at pleasure from watching the incident as saying Marquez is “making me lose the under-fire Italian rider Valentino Rossi But Rossi insists he is the victim of a Valencia with his comments over a Marquez got what was coming. championship”. Spain’s Dani Pedrosa has led the championship leader to vow Spanish plot. Claiming that Marquez, out Spanish plot against him. “Reading all Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini cruised to victory in Malaysia while to fight on in the season’s final race, the of the running after a broken wrist dur- your messages has allowed me to over- wrote on his Twitter account: “A thought Lorenzo, who is aiming for his third MotoGP of Valencia, on November 8. ing the season, had achieved his aim of come my bitterness and anger and for Valentino Rossi. I hope he wins the MotoGP crown, seized second place, fol- The swashbuckling nine-time world hassling him with his “dirty game”, help- today, we’ll be starting work on Valencia! title.” Prime Minister Matteo Renzi even lowed by Rossi. Lorenzo and Rossi have a champion was sanctioned in Malaysia ing his compatriot Jorge Lorenzo get the Thanks for all your support,” Rossi wrote called him from Latin America to encour- history of tense relations, which erupted on Sunday for kicking defending cham- upper hand in the battle for the 2015 on Twitter. age him. Meanwhile Yamaha have again following the Sepang clash. pion Marc Marquez off his bike. world title. Italian Rugby Union International launched an appeal on the grid decision. The Spaniard said the popular Rossi That means he has to start the race But on Italian social media, sports Mirco Bergamasco said on his Twitter “The championship is not over yet but should have been punished even more from the back of the grid and, should his stars have leapt to Rossi’s support. The account it had been a dubious move this sanction cut me off by the legs,” said severely but that his superstar status chief rival Jorge Lorenzo win, Rossi must veteran speed king had allowed doubts from Rossi, but suggested he’d taken Rossi. He called the punishment unfair, shielded him. —AFP PALMAS: A Brazilian Kayapo Indian takes part in the bow and arrow competition at the World Indigenous Games. —AP PALMAS: An Indian from the United States takes part in the spear throwing competition at the World Indigenous Games. —AP Cultural sharing trumps sports Pioneer spirit toughens Cheika’s at World Indigenous Games WCup campaign PALMAS: Supersized Maori from New pable, Oksasikewiyin said. From ever to roll into the sleepy town of at the event. Small but boisterous TEDDINGTON: Michael Cheika’s father was his harshest Zealand, diminutive Aeta from the Ethiopia to Ecuador, first peoples world- Palmas during its short 27-year history protests against a proposed constitu- critic as a rugby player but his courage in leaving Lebanon Philippines and native peoples of all wide are still reeling from the lingering as the capital of Brazil’s newest state of tional amendment that would give a for a new life in Australia has been an example in hauling shapes and sizes in between tested effects of colonialism and fighting to Tocantins. Non-indigenous locals got in Brazilian Congress largely dominated the Wallabies to the World Cup final. their mettle at the first World preserve their cultures and lands, he on the action, too, filling the bleachers by the agricultural lobby the right to The Australia coach told AFP in an interview that he Indigenous Games, a chaotic, kaleido- said. “We see we’re all in the same boat,” and swarming the handicraft fair. And demarcate indigenous lands erupted at hopes he has given this “no fear factor” to his players going scopic celebration of first peoples from he shouted over the roar of spectators everyone snapped endless selfies. the opening ceremony, where embat- into the fiery atmosphere of Saturday’s encounter with around the globe. Organizers billed the cheering a particularly impressive spear Still, the Games have been ham- tled President Dilma Rousseff was arch-rivals New Zealand. nine-day event as a sort of indigenous toss. “Being here, all together, it pered by technical glitches and allega- booed. The proposal could come up for Cheika’s father Joseph left Lebanon for Australia in 1950 Olympics. becomes so clear.” tions of mismanagement. On opening an initial vote this week. and his mother followed 10 years later. “I think everyone is But for many of the nearly 2,000 par- The event, which kicked off Friday, day, construction workers were still “It would be a disaster for us,” said inspired by their parents,” said 48-year-old Cheika.”There ticipants from some 20 countries who comes one year after Brazil played host busily working on the installations. The protester Merong Tapurama, of the you have someone who left his country with nothing and converged last week on host city to soccer’s World Cup and ahead of sporting events got off to a late start Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae people, adding that then rocked up in another country-and it was seven days Palmas, a remote agricultural outpost in next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. after a wall in the cafeteria collapsed, he saw the Games themselves as a bid on an aeroplane way back then-and then said ‘right okay Brazil’s scorched heartland, the sports The indigenous event’s hypnotic open- slightly injuring several workers and to paper over the dire reality of Brazil’s I’ve got to start from nothing,’ after being dropped off in Redfern Park (in Sydney). themselves took a back seat to what ing ceremony swirled with eye-popping leaving many without breakfast and beleaguered indigenous people. “Well that sort of no fear factor is something I have real- they said really matters - cross-cultural feather headdresses, sumptuous silk unable to compete on Saturday. Estimated at between 3 million to 5 ly taken from my Dad and I like that quality and hope I’ve sharing and learning. robes, buttery suede dresses and The debut competitions were million in pre-Columbian times, Brazil’s succeeded in passing that on to the lads.” “This restores your faith in humanity,” revealing loincloths as the 40-odd dele- pushed back to Sunday, which saw a indigenous population is now under a Cheika, the only coach to have won the Northern and said Lamarr Oksasikewiyin, a 46-year- gations melted into one chanting, surprise upset in the blistering tug-of- million people, making up just 0.5 per- Southern Hemisphere continental club trophies with Irish old schoolteacher from the Nehiyaw dancing, pulsating mass of humanity. war event: New Zealand’s fierce Maori cent of the country’s 200 million inhabi- province Leinster and NSW Waratahs respectively, said people of Canada’s Saskatchewan The far-flung cultural mash-ups multi- warriors lost a battle of the titans tants. They continue to suffer from there is a touch of Lebanon in the cultures in the Australia province, as he followed round one of plied over the following days. against the fridge-sized Bakairi people racism, poor education and health care, squad. the spear-throwing competition. “An Mongolian archers in velvet mantles of central Brazil. The Javae women, also and remain locked in sometimes- Cheika-who once had to pick out potential greyhound elder once told me that our culture will traded tips with their feather-crowned from central Brazil, made short shrift of bloody battles with loggers, miners, winners for a Sydney newspaper because the professional save us. I think this is what he meant.” brethren, the Xerente people, reputed the Mexican women, in their Crayola- cattle-grazers and soy farmers intent on tipster was on strike-remarked a few years ago how Despite the obvious differences to be among Brazil’s most-skilled hued circle skirts, and a hefty combined pushing them off ancestral lands. Lebanon was one of the rare places where there was such a between participants - Brazil’s Tapirape archers. A knot of Tarahumara women U.S-Philippines team outweighed the “It’s great that the world is getting to crossover of cultures and churches could be found beside wore only body paint and tiny loin- from northern Mexico haggled merci- forest-dwelling Macuxi people. see our culture, see how rich it is,” said mosques. “Well it (the squad) is certainly a diverse bunch of cloths while the sole Russian delegate lessly over the price of a gourd-and- Native Brazilians representing Timbira Pataxo, who travelled from cultures no doubt about that,” said Cheika, who has a was covered in Siberian furs in defiance palm leaf headdress with an equally around two dozen of the country’s Bahia state to sell knickknacks at the Zimbabwean in David Pocock, his captain Stephen Moore of the sweltering tropical heat - the hard-nosed group of artisan women more than 300 tribes make up the lion’s entrance to the Games. “But the world was born in Saudi Arabia of Irish parentage and several commonalities that unite indigenous from the Amazonian state of Para. share of participants at the Games - and also needs to know about the real exis- Pacific Islanders including Papua New Guinea-born scrum- people from around the globe are pal- The Games are the biggest thing their problems have taken center stage tential threats we face.”—AP half Will Genia.