joi, 4 august 2016

Barcelona 4-2 Leicester: Certainties up, fear down

Barca second test and second relatively convincing victory. Led by a Messi ebullient platinum blonde in the penultimate pass and Suarez who weighs disconnection of summer, those of Luis Enrique thrashed easy in the first half with several fixed on the bench and Neymar in the Olympics. With a sufficiency full, very promising for amateur hurdle at this stage of the season.

True , the Leicester was overwhelmed from the start and lost face to meet soon, when Munir closed with a diagonal shot a distinctive assistance of Messi . The Argentine also participate in the 2-0 looking for a Suarez favored by rebounds and faith and starting the 3-0 relying on the charrúa, which would give the final pass to Munir in a lethal counterattacks solve the Spanish-Moroccan with Exterior. There forequarter. But above all, it is Leo .

The second half was quite another thing: he brought to Mascherano and Busquets , but especially Ahmed Musa . The Nigerian portrayed Sergi Roberto to race in the 3-1 and 66 minutes, just after leaving the field Messi and Arda -very outstanding as he gave the physico, network burst up the game for Leicester and without their main unit (Mahrez, Vardy and Morgan) in the field.

Once without Messi, the Barcelona lost football intention, circumstance that took advantage of the Leicester to hold the party. The display of changes regained the pace of summer football, which did not contribute more than the premiere of juvenile scorer Rafa Mújica , remembering that double culé face that also looked out over the past season: lethal up, vulnerable below.

CAS confirms the suspension to complete the Russian weightlifting team

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reported Wednesday that it has dismissed the appeal by Russian Weightlifting Federation against the decision of the international (IWF) to exclude the entire team of that country of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016.

The Russian Federation appealed to CAS, which has analyzed the case on Wednesday and agreed to dismiss the appeal. The court understands that the rules of the IWF allows you to sanction a national federation "for its related or associated to doping behavior."

On July 29, the IWF excluded the Russian team full of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro therefore involved in doping cases as being mentioned in the report McLaren.

"The integrity of weightlifting has been seriously damaged many times and multiple levels by the Russians, so the sanction has been applied to preserve the status of the sport" he reported that day the IWF in a statement.

The Russian Olympic Committee (COR) had selected eight lifters, two of which were positive (Tatiana and Anastasia Romanova Kashirina) and four others are cited by the McLaren report, which denounced doping state in Russia.

The IWF recalled "the surprising and disappointing statistics Russian lifters" on doping, which is confirmed because seven Russians have tested positive for the repetition of the analysis of the Beijing Olympics and London.

For this reason, the federation nor any Russian referee invited to the Olympic competition in Rio.

On July 27, the IWF eleven new cases reported positive during the London Games, which include Russian Natalya Zabolotnaya, silver in the category up to 75 kilos, and Alexandr Ivanov, silver -94.

In addition to the 67 members of the track team from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) give way to international federations decision on Russian athletes have been excluded, among others, swimmers, cyclists, rowers, canoeists and now weightlifters.

Roberto Martinez, new coach of the Belgian national football team

The Spanish coach Roberto Martinez , who was dismissed last May by The Everton after three seasons at the English club, has been named new coach of the Belgian national football team, the "Red Devils" .

"Our new coach: Roberto Martinez," said the team in his official account of the social network Twitter.

The Catalan coach, 43, was named today by the Royal Belgian Union of Societies Soccer Association (URBSFA) "to take charge of the Red Devils," the institution said in a statement.

Martinez will succeed Marc Wilmots , who left last July 15 being the coach of the Belgian football after failing to reach the goals it had set for Euro.

URBSFA said "is delighted and proud to have found so quickly that level technician to train our team."

"Having created a list of shortlisted candidates with the most interesting for this position profiles, the choice has fallen rapidly in the Spanish coach, who has shown honored to work with a group of players as talented as ours," he said URBSFA.

"This excentrocampista has he led successfully coaching clubs Swansea, Wigan and Everton," he added.

Martinez will be officially presented Thursday to the media and Belgian fans 10.30 GMT at the headquarters of the URBSFA.

The new coach of the Red Devils began his career as a technician in Welsh Swansea in 2007, before joining Wigan Athletic two years later.

With the 'Latics' he won a FA Cup and went down to the Championship.

With the 'toffee', the former player of Zaragoza , Balaguer, Wigan, Motherwell, Walsall , Swansea and Chester, he played 143 games, of which won 61, drew 39 and lost 43, with 227 goals for, 180 against and a winning percentage of 42.7 percent.

Walker takes the PGA and sits among the greats in Baltusrol

American Jimmy Walker gets the win the Championship Professional Golf Association (PGA), played in Baltursol, after holding the lead until the final day of the tournament. Walker finished with a birdie on the penultimate hole and 14 strokes under par, ahead of Australian Jason Day (-13), which was about to give chase with a prodigious eagle on the last hole.

The victory golfer Oklahoma in the last major of the year culminates an unusual season in which all the greats have fallen into the hands of first - timers, as England 's Danny Willett, who won the Masters, American Dustin Johnson, winner of the Open States States , and Swede Henrik Stenson, recent winner of the British Open.

Brooks Koepka (-9), which had threatened the leadership of his compatriot during the first days, failed to keep pace and stayed within a group of pursuers consisting fellow American Daniel Summerhays (-10), South Africa's Brendan Grace (-9) and Hideki Matsuyama (-9).

The PGA Championship was the last of the big four a calendar much more loaded than usual, due to the Olympic Games in Rio, which returns the golf after almost a century, and the biennial Ryder Cup between teams in Europe and the US, to be held in late September in Minnesota.

Pizza to an euro When Higuain is injured!

Naples still enraged by Pipita pass to Juventus. A trader offered a unique promotion when the Argentine hurt.

The pass of Gonzalo Higuain to Juventus was a dagger in the heart for all Naples. Passion like few others in Italy , fans will not spare the Pipita they have gone right Turin club. And they burned t - shirts, others threw them down the toilet and almost lacked declare the traitor of the century. Now, the new vendetta came at the initiative of an angry businessman who sell pizza A euro! for 48 hours after the Argentine was injured.

Show Pizza margarita pizzas to that offer promotional price to celebrate Higuain is injured playing for Juve. The wound does not close ...

Australian delegation was robbed during the fire Friday

The Olympic delegation of Australia reported today have been robbed last Friday while he was outside the building where it is housed by a small fire that forced to evacuate, according to media reports local.

"An official laptop cycling team and some shirts, which were on the fifth floor were carried. It happened during the fire and just communicate what happened to the organization," said the adviser to the Australian Olympic Committee, Mike Tancred, the Globoesporte website.

This theft would be the last chapter so far in a long list of disagreements between the delegation of the southern country and the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee since they arrived in the Olympic village last Sunday, when it officially opened its doors.

Upon arrival at the set of buildings built to accommodate the various international delegations, Australians reported having detected up to 200 problems in your building, such as loose cables or problems with health.

As a result, the Australian delegation refused to take their apartments and preferred to accommodate athletes in hotels close while the Organizing Committee resolved failures.

The controversy was fueled by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, who said then that would put kangaroos in the Australian building for athletes feel at home.

This controversy was overcome Thursday when the Organizing Committee, which hired 630 technicians to solve the problems reported, said to have completed all repairs and apartments impeccably delivered the more than 200 delegations.

However, last Friday, there was a cloud of smoke in your building as a result of a bad unlit cigarette, forcing entire delegation to vacate the building.

In a press conference held yesterday at the Olympic Park, the head of the delegation, Kitty Chiller, he reported that during the fire alarms were disconnected because of reforms that were being made in some adjacent buildings.

Chiller also said he protested to the Organizing Committee by the presence of garbage and by the fact that someone had smoked in the Olympic Village, where it is forbidden, and requested that steps be taken to prevent these circumstances could trigger new problems the future.