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The Spanish Fernando Verdasco, the Argentines Federico Coria and Francisco Cerúndolo and the Serbs Miomir Kecmanovic and Dusan Lajovic qualified this Monday for the round of 16 of the Argentine Open, the ATP 250 that is played in Buenos Aires and ends on Sunday.
Verdasco beat Bolivian Hugo Dellien 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen arrived at the English club Brentford’s training camp on Monday for the first time since his transfer was made official, reached on the last day of the transfer market last January.
Eriksen joins the club seven months after he suffered a cardiac arrhythmia during his team’s match against Finland at Euro 2020.
The Spanish Ander Mirambell marked the times twenty and twenty-first in the two official skeleton training sessions at the Beijing Olympic Games,
The Catalan rider set a time of 1:02.96 on his first run, by 1:00.42 of the German Christopher Grotheer, who was also the fastest on the second descent, 1:00.79, in which Mirambell did 1:03.02, twenty-first record .
The Swiss Beat Feuz was proclaimed Olympic downhill champion by winning the queen event of alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Games on Monday, which was held on the demanding Yanqing track, in which Frenchman Johan Clarey captured the silver medal – with 41 years – and the Austrian Matthias Mayer, the bronze.
Feuz, 34, winner of the last four editions of the World Cup of the discipline and world champion in front of his fans in St. Moritz 2017, covered the 3,152 meters of the colorful ‘Rock’ track -starting at 2,179 meters of altitude and a drop of 894- in one minute, 42 seconds and 69 hundredths, one tenth less than Clarey, who, at 41, became the oldest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing history.
The Dutch Irene Schouten won gold today in the 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Games with a mark that also helped her break the Olympic record.
Schouten, with 3 minutes, 56 seconds and 86 tenths, surpassed the mark set by German Claudia Pechstein (3:57.70), unbeaten since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.
The Uruguayan Sebastián Cáceres, defender of the Mexican soccer team, considered this Friday that the competition with his compatriots who are in European football has kept him from being called up to the national team.
“The competition that I have in my position is tough. All those who have been called are in Europe, from there they get that advantage because the level they are playing is a little higher and it is one of the biggest factors why Diego Alonso takes the decision,” he explained at a press conference.
Valencia, February 4 (EFE). – Valencia winger Dimitri Foulquier was aware of the difficulty facing Athletic Club in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey and assured that at this point it is not a significant advantage to play the second leg at Mestalla.
“That doesn’t mean anything anymore. We have to compete in both games”, said the Frenchman in statements to the club media, in which he was also convinced that Mestalla will record a great atmosphere.
The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, attended this Friday as a guest the act of inauguration of Lieutenant General Manuel Busquier Sáez as Inspector General of the Army and highest military authority in Catalonia.
At the event, held at the Barcelona Captaincy, Busquier promised to strengthen the Army’s ties with state, regional and local authorities and improve society’s knowledge of the armed forces.
The opening ceremony of the JJ.OO. Beijing Winter Games 2022 began today at the National Stadium in the Chinese capital, which thus became the first city in history to host both these games and the Summer Games (2008).
The stadium, popularly known as “El Nido” and which was also the scene of the inauguration of the event in 2008, has extremely limited capacity due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has also caused the opening to last one hundred minutes, much shorter than usual.
Valencia, after the recovery session that the starters had on Thursday in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals, trained this Friday to jointly prepare for Real Sociedad’s visit to Mestalla this Sunday, but they did so even without Yunus Musah, who has not rejoined yet after being with his national team, and without the three injured he has.
It is expected that the American midfielder will arrive in Valencia this Friday and that on Saturday he may be in the last training session for José Bordalás’ team to prepare for the league match.
Manny Pacquiao, boxing legend and presidential candidate in the Philippines for the elections next May, promised this Friday to promote the recovery of billions of dollars allegedly stolen from the State during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, whose son is the top favorite in the elections. elections.
During a forum with several presidential candidates, Pacquiao affirmed that the Presidential Commission for Good Government (PCGG in English), a body created to recover the illicit fortune of the Marcoses and their allies, will have the power to increase the 3,410 million dollars recovered to date. moment.
The United States, with 28 points, took the lead in the provisional team figure skating classification for the Beijing Games, ahead of the favorite Russia, which added 26, after the execution of the first three programs.
China and Japan, with 21 and 20 points, occupy the third and fourth position. In the pairs short program, locals Sui Wenjing and Han Cong broke the world scoring record with a score of 82.83.
The Jacksonville Jaguars announced Doug Pederson, champion with the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII, on Thursday as their new coach for the 2022 NFL season.
“Four years ago Doug won a Super Bowl, I hope he can replicate that magic here in Jacksonville, but what is certain is his proven leadership and experience as a winning coach in the NFL,” was the welcome message from team owner Shad Khan.
The Venezuelan soccer coach César Farías will continue on the bench of the Bolivian team until the end of the South American qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar, with two days remaining, the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) reported on Thursday.
The president of the FBF, Fernando Costa, explained in a press conference that he has convinced Farías to remain in office until the Green play their remaining matches with the Colombian and Brazilian national teams.
The Spanish team, which was chasing its third consecutive title, lost the 2022 European handball final when it fell in the final against Sweden 26-27 with a penalty conceded with time served.
The Spanish team, which was winning 13-12 at the break, overcame two goals from a deficit that they had three and a half minutes from the end and even had a ball to beat. He did not take advantage of it and in the final action the Nordics forced a penalty that they did not miss.
In one of the most intense and exciting games of the season, the Toronto Raptors stormed Miami by beating the Heat after three overtimes on a day in which the Golden State Warriors suffered a lot to beat a Brooklyn Nets without the injured Kevin Durant and James Harden.
HEAT 120 – RAPTORS 124
The Miami Heat remained at the top of the Eastern Conference this Friday by beating the Clippers at home (121-114) with a display of triples by Gabe Vincent and security from Jimmy Butler’s free throw that prevented a new great comeback of the Los Angeles team.
Before a team depleted by not being able to count on Paul George again, who with the Miami team has already been away from the courts for 25 games, the Heat were once again led by Butler, with 26 points, 9 assists and 16 of 16 free throws , which finally gave the victory to the locals.
The Korn Ferry Tour 2022 will make its third stop of the year in the Panamanian capital so that 144 professional golfers will fight for the title of the 18th version of the Panama Championship, which gives a place on the PGA Tour and $750,000 in prize money.
“It is important for us to bring an excellent level of golf to Central America, in this case to Panama, and to be a bridge for South American players seeking to join the PGA Tour,” PGA representative Rob Keller from the United States told EFE.
The Golden State Warriors and the Philadelphia 76ers extended their upward trends on a Thursday day with only two games in the NBA and in which the Los Angeles Lakers missed a LeBron James who was low at the last minute.
Outside the court, the news was in the announcement of the ten starting players for the All-Star that will be played on February 20 in Cleveland (USA).
Atlético de Madrid is not willing to loan out striker Álvaro Morata, who is currently serving his second season on loan at the Italian Juventus and whom Barcelona intends to incorporate, so they would only be willing to negotiate with a club if it is for the sale of the player, sources from the rojiblanca entity told EFE.
The Spanish international striker is one of the requests made by Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández to reinforce the squad in this winter market whose deadline ends on January 31, in which he has already obtained the arrival of another striker from the ‘Roja’, Ferrán Torres , coming from English Manchester City.
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