Category: Sports

ABU DHABI: Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Presidential Court, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Arabian Horse Society (EAHS), the competitions for the fourth round of the Emirates Arabian Horse Global Cup 2024 will begin on 1st June at the Equestrian Arena Le Grand Parquet in the French city of Fontainebleau.

This is the first tournament in the series of Emirates Arabian Horse Global Cup in Europe, in conjunction with the ‘City of Kings Show’ Championship.

The Emirates Arabian Horse Global Cup was launched in September last year under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed and close follow-up of Sheikh Zayed bin Hamad Al Nahyan, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of EAHS. The tournament include ten rounds held in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Australia, and South and North America in coordination with the competent authorities in each country, with valuable cash prizes
allocated for the first five winners of each round.

The first leg of the 2024 Emirates Arabian Horse Global Cup was held last February in Australia through the 2024 Australasian International Arabian Championship, which took place over two days at Willinga Park in the Bawley Point area. The second leg of the tournament was held in Manama, Bahrain, from 14th to 16th March. The third leg of the tournament, which was held in conjunction with the Breeders World Cup, was held last March in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.

Source: Emirates News Agency

ROME: Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar of the UAE Team Emirates claimed his third stage win yesterday in the Prati di Tivo stage of the Giro d’Italia, finishing in 4:02:16 hours.

Stage 8 extended from Spoleto and ended at the top of Prati di Tivo with a length of 14.7 km.

The cyclists competed over a distance of 152 km, which included crossing two uphill climbs, Forca Capistrello (category 2) and Croce Abbio (category 3).

The upcoming ninth stage is the longest in the Giro, stretching for 214 km and starting from Avellino and ending in Naples with a final section on the hills.

UAE Team Emirates managed to control the 14-rider breakaway group, gaining them around two minutes to gradually close the gap at the front of the race on the final climb until the pink jersey holder was able to win the race in the final sprint.

Source: Emirates News Agency

ITALY: The pink jersey of Tadej Pogacar is shining even brighter after the individual time trial of 40,6 km from Foligno to Perugia.

The Slovenian rider won the stage thanks to an amazing performance on the final hill of the course (6,6 km at 4,1%) which allowed him to close the time split of 47′ from Filippo Ganna at the second timepoint at -7 km to the arrival.

After having managed his effort on the flat part, an impressive climb by Pogacar gave him the victory number 72 in his career with the time of 51’44’ (Ganna +17′) and made even more solid his leadership in the GC: Geraint Thomas (Ineos-Grenadiers) had a gap of 2′ in the ITT and he’s now 3rd in the GC (+2’46’), while in second place there’s now Daniel Martinez (+2’36’).

Pogacar clocked a blistering average speed on the 40,6 km course of 47,088 km/h.

Pogacar said: ‘After the time trial at the World Championships of the past year I worked a lot in order to be as efficient as possible on my TT bike: today I was 100% comfortable and efficient on it, a
nd so I’m very happy about the victory.

There will be another time trial in this Giro d’Italia, I will look forward to it because I feel I could still improve.

For what concerns the competition for the pink jersey, during the stage I received the info I was faster than Thomas at the first timepoint, this gave me even more morale to push harder, then I gave my all on the final climb and so the day became beautiful for me’.

Stage 8 will start from Spoleto and will finish with a summit arrival at Prati di Tivo.

Source: Emirates News Agency

Real Madrid CF celebrated on Sunday winning their 36th La Liga title for the 2023-2024 season.

Thousands of fans have gathered all around the city as the team’s bus paraded through the streets reaching their traditional spot at the Cibeles square to celebrate their historic 36th Spanish league title.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) stressed the important role played by its headquarters in Kuwait as it gave it stability and a launch pad for further progress.

This came during the 43rd General Assembly of the OCA, held in Bangkok on Saturday with the participation of Kuwait Olympic Committee’s board members Ali Al-Marri and Fatima Hayat.

In a statement to KUNA, Al-Marri said that the council voted to keep the headquarters in Kuwait, praising Kuwait’s efforts, for the past 42 year, in the development of the Asian Olympics.

OCA expressed their appreciation to His Highness the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for keeping the headquarters’ location in Kuwait.

Al-Marri also said that 46 Asian countries participated in the council’s meeting, held in Bangkok, where they discussed various topics, adding that the council voted on changing almost 70 percent of their constitution.

Source: Kuwait News Agency