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Action from the inaugural Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker. (Supplied)
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Action from the inaugural Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker. (Supplied)
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Updated 06 March 2024
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Final four set for World Masters of Snooker semi-finals 

Final four set for World Masters of Snooker semi-finals 
  • In the semis, Mark Allen of Northern Ireland — ranked third in the world — will face Luca Brecel of Belgium, who is ranked fourth
  • In the 2nd semi Judd Trump, who holds the number two ranking, will play world number one Ronnie O’Sullivan in all-British fixture
Updated 06 March 2024
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RIYADH: The four semi-finalists are preparing to face each other as they bid to progress to the final round of the World Masters of Snooker Championship.

It is the first time a professional tournament has been held in Saudi Arabia and it features a unique concept called the Riyadh Season golden ball. This is worth 20 points and can be potted by players who make the sought-after maximum 147-point break.

In Wednesday’s semi-finals, Mark Allen of Northern Ireland — ranked third in the world — will face Luca Brecel of Belgium, who is ranked fourth.

Judd Trump, who holds the number two ranking, will play world number one Ronnie O’Sullivan in all-British fixture.

Wednesday is the last day of the championship and features three rounds, starting with the semi-finals and concluding with the final that will determine the overall champion.

Topics: Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker Ronnie O’Sullivan Luca Brecel

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Saudi fencer Hasan Abed wins silver at World Cup meet

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Saudi fencer Hasan Abed wins silver at World Cup meet

Saudi fencer Hasan Abed wins silver at World Cup meet
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RIYADH: Saudi fencer Hasan Abed has won a silver medal at the World Cup in Nigeria.
The Saudi youngster picked up the second place medal after losing to Egypt’s Youssef Shamel in the final of the event in Lagos.
Abed came through a field of 39 fencers taking part in the under 20 championships to reach Saturday’s final.
Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, the Saudi sports minister, congratulated the fencer on social media, saying the youth was a “rising star”.
He defeated Greece’s Artemios Tzovanis in the quarterfinals and Egypt’s Eslam Osama in the semis on his route to the final.

Real Madrid held to high-scoring draw at Rayo Vallecano in La Liga

Real Madrid held to high-scoring draw at Rayo Vallecano in La Liga
Updated 15 December 2024
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Real Madrid held to high-scoring draw at Rayo Vallecano in La Liga

Real Madrid held to high-scoring draw at Rayo Vallecano in La Liga
  • Madrid remained second, one point behind Barcelona
Updated 15 December 2024
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BARCELONA, Spain: Real Madrid was held at Rayo Vallecano to 3-3 in a thrilling derby on Saturday, missing a chance to overtake Barcelona at the top of La Liga.
Rayo set a fast pace and stunned the powerhouse with two headed goals from Unai López and Abdul Mumin to lead 2-0 by the 36th minute.
Federico Valverde struck with a powerful shot from well outside the area to pull one back for Madrid then Jude Bellingham headed the visitors level from a pass by Rodrygo just before halftime.
Madrid looked on course to completing a comeback win when Rodrygo put them in front for the first time with a deflected shot in the 56th.
But Rayo midfield leader Isi Palazón stretched out a boot to steer Florian Lejeune’s shot past Thibaut Courtois in the 64th.
Madrid was without striker Kylian Mbappé, who is nursing a left-thigh injury. Vinícius Júnior went on as a second-half substitute. Goalie Augusto Batalla saved the Brazilian’s best effort in the final period.
Madrid remained second, one point behind Barcelona.
Ancelotti ‘satisfied’
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti admitted his team dropped its guard in defense when his players left López and Mumin unchecked to turn in crosses. But he said he was “satisfied” with his team’s reaction, especially given the injuries to defensive starters Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, and Ferland Mendy.
He also looked to last season, when his team drew twice with Rayo.
“Last year we didn’t win here, we drew, and we won the league anyway,” Ancelotti said. “We are playing well and on the right path. So, we had a draw. We need to look toward the next games.”
Madrid, as the Champions League titleholder, next travels to Qatar to play the Intercontinental Cup final against Mexican club Pachuca.
“We have a great chance to win a title on Wednesday, which would put the cherry on top of a great year,” Ancelotti said.
Bellingham took his league scoring run to six games in a row.
Vinícius will miss the next game at home against Sevilla after picking up his fifth yellow card, this time for protesting.
Rayo was in 13th place. The modest club has also held Atletico Madrid to 1-1 and forced Barcelona to rally for a 2-1 thanks to a late goal.
“Before the game we talked about all our recent games with Real Madrid when we had been close to winning, so we knew that if they weren’t on their game then we could get a good result,” Rayo coach Íñigo Pérez said.
Navas farewells Sevilla fans
Sevilla’s Jesus Navas bid farewell to his home fans during a 1-0 win over Celta Vigo as he nears the end of his 20-year playing career.
Players from both teams wore T-shirts saying “Navas Legend” before kickoff. They gave a tearful Navas an honor guard with trophies he won with the club placed on the pitch. Navas wept again, and kneeled to kiss the turf when he was substituted with 20 minutes left.
“Jesus has always been my role model, I remember watching him when I was a child,” Sevilla goal-scorer Manu Bueno said. “I am so proud to have scored this goal and be able to dedicate it to him.”
Navas announced in May he would retire at the end of the year, midway through this season.
Navas, who turned 39 last month, debuted for his boyhood club in 2004 and played two stints for Sevilla on either side of his spell at Manchester City from 2013-17 when he helped it win one Premier League. He helped Sevilla win two Europa Leagues and two Copa del Reys among other titles.
Navas helped Spain win the European Championship last summer, his second. He was also part of the 2010 World Cup champion squad.
His last game will be at Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Dec. 22.
Larin helps Mallorca win with 10
Cyle Larin scored two goals, one while Mallorca was down to 10 men, to complete a 2-1 comeback win over Girona at home.
Larin scored from an assist by Vedat Muriqi to cancel out Girona’s opener by Donny Van de Beek.
Mallorca went down a man in the 32nd when Muriqi was red-carded for a hard foul of Byran Gil. But Larin got his brace when he pressured goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga and slid to deflect the goalie’s clearance attempt into the goal for the 51st-minute winner
Espanyol held Osasuna to 0-0 at home.

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Updated 14 December 2024
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Goalkeeper struck by object so Bundesliga teams finish game without attacking

Goalkeeper struck by object so Bundesliga teams finish game without attacking
  • Patrick Drewes was preparing to take a goalkick at 1-1 in added time when he was hit by an object
  • Hofmann added Drewes was being treated by Bochum staff and that he didn’t know his condition
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BERLIN: Bochum’s goalkeeper was struck on the head by an object apparently thrown from the stands at Union Berlin and both Bundesliga teams left the field on Saturday.
When the game resumed, they ran down the clock without trying to score.
Patrick Drewes was preparing to take a goalkick at 1-1 in added time when he was hit by an object with a similar size and shape to a cigarette lighter. He sat down and was given medical treatment.
The referee suspended the game and led both teams off the field.
Nearly half an hour later, the game resumed and Drewes was replaced by striker Philipp Hofmann. With about three minutes left of the game, both teams agreed to not try to score.
Players passed the ball around the field, walked and had conversations with opponents while waiting for the referee to declare the game over.
“Our coach and their coach, they discussed it together and the coach told us that we’ll go out there and bring the game to an end, and that’s what we did,” Hofmann told broadcaster Sky.
He indicated more than one lighter had been thrown around the time of the incident. Hofmann added Drewes was being treated by Bochum staff and that he didn’t know his condition.
“It’s not acceptable. No matter how hard he was struck, whether he’s bleeding or not, it’s just not appropriate,” he said.
Bochum chief executive Ilja Kaenzig said his club would file a formal protest over the result of the game, arguing that the referee should have it called after the incident. Union are likely to face disciplinary action over their hosting of the game, too.
Bochum had already made substitutions at three different points in the game, meaning it would not have been possible to bring on another goalkeeper to replace Drewes. Bochum finished the game with nine players because of Drewes’ absence and an earlier red card.
Union were 12th and Bochum last in the 18-team Bundesliga.

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Saudi Jockey Club hosts inaugural Crown Prince’s Cups at Riyadh Racing Season

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Updated 14 December 2024
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RIYADH: The Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia, under the patronage of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, hosted on Saturday the inaugural Crown Prince’s Cups, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

The prestigious event, part of the 66th Riyadh Racing Season, featured high-stakes races for locally bred horses and internationally classified entries in the “produced and imported” open-grade category.

Held at the King Abdulaziz Equestrian Square, the competition brought together the Kingdom’s elite horses over a distance of 2,400 meters, vying for a total cash prize of SR2 million ($532,000).

Yemken, ridden by Silvestre de Sousa won the race for locally bred horses. 

In the Crown Prince Cup (Listed) event, Wootton’Sun took the glory under jockey Ricardo Sousa.

Prince Bandar bin Khalid, chairman of the Equestrian Authority and the JCSA, thanked the crown prince for his support of Saudi equestrianism. He highlighted the leadership’s commitment to developing horse racing as a sport of both national pride and global significance.

“The crown prince’s patronage is a tremendous honor for the equestrian community and reflects the leadership’s vision to elevate Saudi Arabia’s role in global horse racing,” he said.

He added that the Cups would serve as critical benchmarks for future competitions and reinforce the Kingdom’s position as a major player in the international horse racing arena.

Ziad Al-Mugrin, CEO of the JCSA, echoed those sentiments, emphasizing the transformative progress in Saudi horse racing enabled by the crown prince’s support.

He said the JCSA’s forward-looking strategy aimed to further solidify the Kingdom’s status as a hub for equestrian excellence.

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Record-breakers Atalanta maintain Serie A lead as Napoli lurk

Record-breakers Atalanta maintain Serie A lead as Napoli lurk
  • Nicolo Zaniolo made sure Atalanta stayed top of Serie A this weekend with the goal which decided a hard-fought encounter in Sardinia
  • Atalanta, guided by veteran coach Gian Piero Gasperini, have emerged as genuine Scudetto challengers for the first time in their history
Updated 14 December 2024
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MILAN: Atalanta’s bid for a first Serie A title continued on Saturday with a club-record 10th straight league win, 1-0 at Cagliari, which was followed by closest challengers Napoli staying on their heels with a 3-1 win at Udinese.
Nicolo Zaniolo made sure Atalanta stayed top of Serie A this weekend with the goal which decided a hard-fought encounter in Sardinia, the Italy international forward stroking home the winner from Raoul Bellanova’s cut-back in the 66th minute.
Atalanta, guided by veteran coach Gian Piero Gasperini, have emerged as genuine Scudetto challengers for the first time in their history and stay two points clear at the top of the league.
However, Gasperini was not happy with his players’ performances as, after impressing in Tuesday’s 3-2 defeat to Real Madrid, they struggled against Cagliari who are 15th and only two points above the relegation zone.
Atalanta, who also struck the post through Ademola Lookman almost straight after Zaniolo’s winner, only came away with all three points thanks to a brilliant performance between the sticks from Marco Carnesecchi.
Goalkeeper Carnesecchi pulled off three sensational stops in the six minutes before the break and saved the win in stoppage time by keeping out Leonardo Pavoletti’s header.
“A good chunk of this team, not everyone, needs to grow up a bit and get the same mentality as the core group of the squad,” said Gasperini. whose decision to make three substitutions at half-time was a sign of his dissatisfaction.
“We’re up there, but winning 10 matches in a row doesn’t really mean anything.”
Zaniolo’s strike was his third of the season and a further sign of new life after a difficult last few years.
The 25-year-old was once the rising star of Italian football after coming to prominence at Roma, where two serious knee injuries in 2020 stymied his development as a creative playmaker.
He won the inaugural Europa Conference League with Roma in 2022 under Jose Mourinho, but fell out with the Portuguese coach and last year was packed off to Galatasaray, from where he was loaned to Atalanta in July.
Gasperini later criticized Zaniolo for being booked while celebrating his goal, calling “intolerable” him whipping his shirt as it fired up the home crowd.
Zaniolo did the same thing when netting against Roma earlier this month, enraging his former supporters with his behavior.
“We cannot afford that every time he scores a goal he fires up the crows and turns our advantage into a disadvantage,” Gasperini told reporters.
“Cagliari were stunned and we managed to create a situation where the crowd fired them up again... it’s already the second time that he’s done it.”
Napoli, missing injured star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, came back from a goal down to secure the three points at the Bluenergy Stadium where they sealed a historic third league crown last year.
Trailing at the break after Florian Thauvin netted on the rebound from his own saved 22nd-minute penalty, Napoli roared back in the second half to delight their large and loud traveling support.
Romelu Lukaku levelled five minutes after half-time, bursting through to collect Scott McTominay’s pass, holding off Lautaro Giannetti and firing in his sixth Napoli goal.
The unfortunate Giannetti inadvertently put Napoli ahead in the 76th minute when he shinned in David Neres’ miscued shot and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa sealed the points by coolly finishing off a fine team move.
“I said after we lost to Lazio (last weekend) that we’re on the right track,” said Conte to DAZN.
“The team needs to keep playing this kind of football, dictate the game, keep the ball and press when we don’t have it.”
Napoli are four points ahead of Lazio and third-placed Inter, who face off in Rome on Monday night, and Fiorentina with the Viola at Bologna on Saturday.
Juventus are 10 points behind Atalanta ahead of their home clash with bottom club Venezia, Sunday’s late fixture.

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