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- Rugby: Biarritz leave quarantine after mumps scare
- Rallying: Ex-F1 ace Kubica suffers Portugal blowout
- Golf: Tiger falls from share of Augusta Masters lead after unlucky shot
| Rugby: Biarritz leave quarantine after mumps scare Posted: 12 Apr 2013 06:04 PM PDT BORDEAUX: Biarritz's players were allowed out of quarantine on Friday following a mumps scare, giving them two days to prepare for their next Top 14 clash with Perpignan. The French Rugby League (LNR) had banned the Basques' players and coaches from meeting up for seven days after fly-half Julien Peyrelongue caught the mumps and back-row Benoit Guyot was also suspected of being infected. Biarritz were quarantined immediately after returning from their 41-31 Challenge Cup quarter-final success away to Gloucester, for which both Peyrelongue and Guyot were forced to sit out. Sunday's clash against the Catalans is crucial for the battle for seventh place, and with it a potential qualification for the European Cup next year. Both sides are still in contention to win the Challenge Cup - Perpignan having knocked out French champions Toulouse in their quarter-final - which brings with it a place in next season's European Cup. Should they fail there, though, and another French side wins either the European Cup (Toulon and Clermont are still in contention) or the Challenge Cup (Stade Francais are also in the semis) then seventh place would also be good enough to qualify for the top European competition next season. - AFP |
| Rallying: Ex-F1 ace Kubica suffers Portugal blowout Posted: 12 Apr 2013 05:59 PM PDT LISBON: Ex-Formula One driver Robert Kubica saw his Rally of Portugal hopes crumble on Friday after a series of punctures trumped his total of remaining spare tyres. Kubica, 28, whose F1 career careered to a halt when he suffered a horror crash in an Italian rally in February two years ago, was second in the standings in the production class when his race ended early Friday. His Citroen suffered three punctures on the first four stages, and with only two spare tyres left, the Pole was unable to complete the 206km drive to the final stage in the Portuguese capital. Kubica, making his gravel rally debut in the world championship, had been fourth quickest though Friday's opening stage and went third fastest on the next despite slipping into a ditch. He was second quickest on stage three and again on four, but at the expense of another two flat tyres. "He did a great performance today,"the head of Citroen Racing, Yves Matton told www.wrc.com. "His style is good - it's very similar to the top drivers. He's trying to drive where the grip is the best. "For sure he had some punctures this morning but it's something you have to learn." Kubica, who drove for Renault in the Formula One world championship, suffered life-threatening multiple injuries in an accident at the Ronde di Andora Rally in 2011. His right-hand was partially severed in the crash in northern Italy when he hit a safety barrier and had to be cut free from his car. He also suffered serious injuries to his shoulder and leg. France's Sebastien Ogier, in a Volkswagen, finished the day in the overall lead. The world championship leader was four seconds ahead of Spain's Dani Sordo in a Citroen, and 11 seconds up on Finland's Jari-Matti Latvala in the second Volkswagen. - AFP |
| Golf: Tiger falls from share of Augusta Masters lead after unlucky shot Posted: 12 Apr 2013 05:51 PM PDT AUGUSTA, Georgia: World number one Tiger Woods fell from a share of the lead Friday at the Masters with a bogey at the par-5 15th after his approach struck the flagstick and the ball rolled into the water. Australian Marc Leishman and 53-year-old American Fred Couples share the 36-hole clubhouse lead, Couples firing a one-under par 71 while Leishman shot 73 to leave both men on five-under 139. Also at five-under was Australian Jason Day, who had four holes to play in the day's final group. Woods, in the day's penultimate group, arrived at the 15th with hopes of a birdie to seize the lead. After putting his tee shot into pine straw right of the fairway, he punched out to set up his approach to a water-fronted green. The ball hit the flagstick and rolled back into a water hazard. After a penalty stroke, Woods put his next try at the same shot close enough for a tap-in bogey putt that he made to fall only one back of the leaders. Leishman and Day hope to become the first Aussie to win the Masters. Americans Jim Furyk and Brandt Snedeker and Argentina's Angel Cabrera, the 2009 Masters winner who birdied five of the last six holes, were on 140. In the clubhouse at 141 were Aussie Adam Scott, American Jason Dufner, South Korean K.J. Choi and England's Justin Rose, Lee Westwood and David Lynn. - AFP |
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