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Loeb in Monte Carlo with 47 years oldest winner in World Rally Championship
5:22 p.m.: The Frenchman Sébastien Loeb has won the famous Rally of Monte Carlo at the age of 47. He is the oldest ever winner of a rally in the world championship. He passed in age the Swede Björn Waldegård, who won the Safari Rally of Kenya in 1990 at the age of 46.
Loeb is an icon in rally driving. He has won the world title nine times and can also be found at the front in the Dakar Rally in recent years. The Frenchman does not participate in all rallies this season, but showed in Monte Carlo that he is still one of the best racing drivers. He won a rally from the World Cup for the eightieth time. It was his eighth victory in Monte Carlo, this time with Isabelle Galmiche as navigator.
Loeb started the final day in second place 20 seconds behind compatriot and eight-time world champion Sébastien Ogier. He took the lead after the penultimate stage, in which Ogier suffered a flat tire and lost a lot of time. Loeb held out in the final test.
Pieters wins Abu Dhabi opening tournament, supporting role Huizing
4.36 pm: Belgian golfer Thomas Pieters has won the opening tournament of the new DP World Tour in Abu Dhabi. He won by one stroke over Spaniard Rafael Cabrera Bello and Shubhankar Sharma from India. It was the biggest victory in Pieters’ professional career. The 29-year-old from Antwerp, former winner of the KLM Open, earned 1,175,000 euros with the victory.
Daan Huizing was the only Dutchman who made the cut on the Yas Links golf course and was allowed to finish the four rounds. He finished well with 71 strokes and finished in joint 53rd place with a score of 2 over par. That was 12 more than winner Pieters, who finished -10 after a final round of 72 strokes.
Joost Luiten and Wil Besseling did not survive the selection after the second round and were already eliminated on Friday.
Swiss skier Feuz again the best in Hahnenkammrennen
3:42 pm: Beat Feuz has won the famous Hahnenkammrennen. It was the third time in the Swiss alpine skier’s career that he won the downhill for the World Cup in Kitzbühel, Austria. With 140 kilometers per hour, Feuz dived the last part of the infamous Streif and clocked the best time of 1.56.68.
His compatriot Marco Odermatt set the second fastest time. The overall World Cup leader was 0.21 second slower at the finish. Austrian Daniel Hemetsberger finished third at 0.90 seconds behind Feuz.
Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who won the first descent on the Hahnenkamm on Friday, finished sixth on Sunday. He remained the leader in the downhill World Cup standings.
The 34-year-old Feuz booked his thirteenth World Cup victory on the downhill. Despite being a veteran of the circuit, the Swiss is a contender for gold at the Beijing Olympics. He won silver in the super-G and bronze in the downhill four years ago in Pyeongchang. “It was a neat descent and I was especially happy that I came down without making any mistakes,” said Feuz.
Italy’s Elena Curtoni won the super-G at the World Cup in Cortina d’Ampezzo. She was 0.09 seconds faster than Austria’s Tamara Tippler, who finished second. The Swiss Michelle Gisin clocked the third time.
Italy’s top favorite Sofia Goggia slipped halfway through the race on the Tofane track and crashed hard. She was able to ski down on her own, but went straight to the hospital for a medical check-up. Goggia is the reigning Olympic champion on the king’s number. She won the downhill in Cortina on Saturday. That was her sixth win of the season.
Chess player Doebov back in Tata Steel Chess after refusing a mouth cap
3.15 pm: Chess player Daniil Doebov is back in Tata Steel Chess. The Russian grandmaster tested negative for corona on Sunday morning and will sit down again in Wijk aan Zee. He plays in the eighth round against the Pole Jan-Krzysztof Duda.
Doebov was missing in the seventh round on Saturday because he refused to play with a face mask. Someone from the Russian’s close environment was infected and for that reason the tournament management had asked him to take a seat behind the chessboard with a mouth cap to protect his Dutch opponent Anish Giri.
Doebov refused on principle and pointed out that before the start of the tournament, the chess players had been informed that a mouth cap was not mandatory while playing. The tournament management indicated that they can take necessary measures in unexpected situations. Since Dubov did not show up, Giri was declared the winner by regulation.
Football players FC Twente beat PSV and take the lead
2:25 pm: The football players of FC Twente have taken the lead in the Eredivisie Women. The defending champion defeated PSV 3-1 at Sportcampus Diekman in Enschede. FC Twente thus came to 30 points, 2 points more than Ajax, which was unable to play against sc Heerenveen due to a number of corona cases within the selection this weekend.
Fenna Kalma opened the score shortly before half-time with a curious goal. The 22-year-old striker hit hard and high from an indirect free kick 5 meters from the goal, after PSV goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal had grabbed a back pass in her hands.
Desiree van Lunteren scored the equalizer halfway through the second half from a penalty kick, but a minute later Twente took the lead again via Anna-Lena Stolze. The German set up the attack himself and shot well from a distance with the left. Kalma decided the game moments later with her 22nd goal of the season.
As number 3 in the ranking, PSV is now 4 points behind FC Twente.
German ski jumpers to Beijing without two Olympic champions
12:28 pm German ski jumpers Severin Freund and Andreas Wellinger are missing from the Olympics next month. The two Olympic champions have not been given a place in the selection for Beijing. Freund (33) struggled with his form after two serious knee injuries, Wellinger (26) missed the World Cup match in Titisee-Neustadt this weekend due to a corona infection.
Freund and Wellinger were part of the German team that won gold in the Nations Cup at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. Wellinger became Olympic champion on the small ramp four years later in Pyeongchang. On the big jump he took silver behind the Pole Kamil Stoch and in the Nations Cup there was also silver for the German ski jumpers.
Wellinger hoped to get a place in the team with good results in Titisee-Neustadt, but a positive corona test prevented that. The German national coach thinks the risk is too great that Wellinger will have to quarantine in Beijing and therefore kept the two-time Olympic champion out of his team.
The German team for the Games consists of ski jumpers Karl Geiger, Markus Eisenbichler, Stephan Leyhe, Constantin Schmid and Pius Paschke.
René Meulensteen briefly national coach of Australia
10:00 a.m. The Dutch trainer René Meulensteen is currently in charge of the national football team of Australia. Meulensteen will take over from national coach Graham Arnold, who has tested positive for the corona virus and will be in isolation for the next few days. The 57-year-old from Brabant will prepare Australia for Thursday’s World Cup qualifier against Vietnam.
Meulensteen has been Arnold’s assistant at the ‘Socceroos’ since 2018. Alex Ferguson’s former assistant at Manchester United was previously head coach of Fulham and Maccabi Haifa, among others.
According to the Australian Football Association, Arnold, former player of Roda JC and NAC Breda, among others, has been fully vaccinated and he also had a booster shot ten days ago. Although the national coach has no corona-related complaints, he still tested positive. Meulensteen and Tony Vidmar, Arnold’s other assistant, will prepare the Australians for the duel with Vietnam in the World Cup qualifier.
Basketball players Suns strengthen lead with sixth win in a row
09:23 o’clock The Phoenix Suns basketball players have secured their sixth straight win in the NBA’s western division. The Suns defeated Indiana Pacers 113-103. The Phoenix club leads the way with 36 wins against 9 defeats.
Mikal Bridges was the Suns leading scorer with 23 points, his teammate Bismack Biyombo contributed 21 points and grabbed 13 rebounds. Golden State Warriors are second in the west with 33 wins and 13 losses.
In the east, NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks recorded their thirtieth win of the season, against the Sacramento Kings: 133-127. Khris Middleton was the top scorer with 34 points. Giannis Antetokounmpo, usually the Bucks’ best marksman, was out due to a knee injury. The team from Milwaukee has the most victories in the east, but they are also already nineteen defeats. On that basis, the Bucks are in fourth place behind Brooklyn Nets (29-16), Chicago Bulls (28-16) and Miami Heat (29-17).
Belgian Van Uytvanck tests positive before leaving Australia
07:50 am Belgian tennis star Alison Van Uytvanck cannot leave Australia for the time being. The number 55 in the world tested positive for the corona virus just before her return trip to Belgium. “I am now in isolation and follow all requirements,” the 27-year-old Belgian writes on Instagram. “I have very mild symptoms and am looking forward to coming back stronger.”
Van Uytvanck was eliminated in the second round of the singles by the Chinese Qiang Wang. She also stranded on Thursday with the Danish Clara Tauson in the second round of the doubles. Van Uytvanck wanted to fly back to Belgium on Sunday, but the mandatory PCR test before departure yielded a positive result.
Australia has strict rules for participants in the Australian Open. In principle, only vaccinated tennis players are allowed to participate. A lot of players criticized last week what they believe to be a flawed test protocol during the tournament.