Monday, 20 May 2013 01:47
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LE MANS: Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Sunday from a hobbling Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in qualifying 24 hours earlier to notch up his best ever MotoGP result.In third came pole-sitter Marc Marquez, who struggled for grip on the slippery Bugatti circuit in the early stages before fighting back strongly.Pedrosa now leads the overall standings on 83 points with MotoGP rookie Marquez second on 77 points and defending champion Jorge Lorenzo eleven points adrift in third."It was a very good race for me," said Pedrosa after his first MotoGP win at the Le Mans circuit."I'm so happy ...
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LE MANS: Honda's Dani Pedrosa won the French MotoGP at Le Mans on Sunday from a hobbling Cal Crutchlow to take the lead in the world championship standings.The Spaniard, following up his win in Spain last time out, made light of the tricky early wet conditions to cross the line five seconds clear of Crutchlow.The Briton manfully shrugged off a fracture to his right shin in a crash in qualifying 24 hours earlier to notch up his best ever MotoGP result.In third came pole-sitter Marc Marquez, who struggled for grip on the slippery Bugatti circuit in the early stages before fighting back strongly.Pedrosa now leads the overall standings on 83 points with MotoGP rookie Marquez second on 77 points and defending champion Jorge Lorenzo eleven points adrift in third."It was a very good race for me," said Pedrosa after his first MotoGP win at the Le Mans circuit."I'm so happy ...
PARIS: Carlo Ancelotti has asked to leave Paris Saint-Germain for Real Madrid, PSG's sporting director Leonardo said Sunday.Ancelotti, who has long been rumoured to be a target for Real, whose current boss Jose Mourinho is tipped to return to Chelsea next season, had a meeting with club bosses earlier on Sunday.A subsequent report on television channel BeInSport, whose Qatari owner Nasser al-Khelaifi is also PSG president, said Ancelotti would be leaving PSG.But Leonardo denied that, ...
VALLOIRE: Giovanni Visconti won the 15th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday after a mountain finish in the snow following a 149km ride from Cesana Torinese to Col du Galibier.The Italian from the Movistar team held off a charge from the depleted peloton, made up of race favourites, to take his maiden Giro stage by 42 seconds from Carlos Betancur and Prezemyslaw Niemiec.Ahead of the second and final rest day, Vincenzo Nibali held onto ...
KAVARNA: Graeme McDowell again displayed the traits that has made him a feared Ryder Cup competitor in defeating Thongchai Jaidee 2 & 1 in the final of the Volvo World Match-Play Championship in Bularia on Sunday.McDowell had been 2 down after just four holes to Thongchai but sensed near the turn his 43-year- old rival was starting to tire in the hot and cloudless conditions on the Thracian Cliffs course.The Northern Irishman, who had beaten ...
LONDON: Liverpool gave retiring stalwart Jamie Carragher a fitting send off by beating the Premier League's bottom club QPR 1-0 at an emotional Anfield on Sunday.The game brought down the curtain on the 35-year-old defender's illustrious career, and he was afforded a guard of honour from both sets of teams before being handed a memento from the opposition's Liverpool-born captain Clint Hill. Supporters on the Kop created a mosaic in tribute to the popular defender, ...
ROME: Spain's Rafael Nadal dominated his 30th meeting with Swiss rival Roger Federer to secure his seventh title in nine years at the Rome Masters on Sunday.Nadal's 6-1, 6-3 triumph means he now leads Federer 20-10 in their series, with 13 of his wins coming on clay.The Spaniard, winning his sixth title from eight finals this season after returning from a seven-month injury absence, showed he is back to his best on his preferred surface ...
PARIS: Taiwan claimed an historic first world title as the pairing of Chuang Chih-Yuan and Chen Chien-An won the men's doubles at the Table Tennis World Championships in Paris on Sunday.Chuang and Chen defeated Chinese duo Ma Lin and Hao Shuai 9-11, 12-10, 11-6, 13-11, 9-11, 11-8 to secure the country's maiden world crown.Taiwan's previous best result at the event had been a silver medal won by Chen Jing in the women's singles 20 years ...
