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Gustafsson enjoying learning curve
Gustafsson won a unanimous points decision over the Brazilian in Stockholm to record his fifth consecutive UFC victory, but was slightly disappoint...
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Comeback kids to clash
Isner beat Spain's Feliciano Lopez 6-7 7-6 6-3 , while Monaco defeated qualifier American Michael Russell 5-7 6-1 6-4....
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Emotional goodbye for Ljubicic
The shaven-headed Croatian had last played in Dubai two months ago and was thrashed by countryman Ivan Dodig 6-0 6-3 in the principality....
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Kerber ends Wozniacki reign
Top seed Wozniacki was unbeaten in 14 matches on home soil heading into Sunday's final, however she came up short against her resurgent German oppo...
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Errani rules in Barcelona
Both women had qualified with emphatic semi-final victories on Saturday, but with Cibulkova the third seed she entered the match as favourite....
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Eagles hit injury ravaged Wolves
The South Coast outfit dominated from the off and never looked like not gaining maximum points, and the fact their lowest scorer was guest Ed Kenne...
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Doherty wins a thriller
In the final qualifying round for the Betfred.com World Championship, 1997 world champion Doherty avoided the fate of fellow Crucible favourites St...
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Hendry books Crucible place
Hendry, 43, succeeded where six-time champion Steve Davis and six-time runner-up Jimmy White both failed this week by coming through the qualifying...
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Tindall: England to the core
World Cup winner Tindall was one of several veterans to see their international careers apparently ended when Lancaster took over in an interim cap...
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Powell targeting Cup run
The Broncos ran in 13 tries as they dominated from start to finish, ruthlessly exposing their part-time opponents....
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Robinson: We deserved it
The Dragons dominated the first-half to lead 20-0 at the break before Hull pulled it back to 20-18 at the hooter, missed conversions from Michael D...
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Griffiths: Tomkins untouchable
The Warriors crossed the whitewash 18 times as they kicked off their defence of the Challenge Cup with a 98-4 win over the Championship One side at...
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Challenge Cup round-up
The Centurions, Cup winners at Wembley in 1971, established a 26-12 half-time lead at Leigh Sports Village, where Brierley, who is on loan from Cas...
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Smith hails McCarthy display
Smith included a number of youngsters for the clash, handing a debut to Jordan Burke at full-back and also fielding Gareth O'Brien, Ben Currie and ...
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Bulls feed off adversity
Speaking after the Bulls thumping 72-6 Carnegie Challenge Cup fourth round victory over Doncaster, Cummings said that the playing staff could only ...
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Giants tempted by Moore return
Moore, who played the best rugby of his career during a season on loan at the Giants in 2009, joined the Vikings from home-town club St Helens at t...
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Berry: Sync loss a huge blow
The Cheltenham Gold Cup hero then took a crashing fall at Becher's Brook and despite getting up and running away, later had to be humanely destroye...
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Fehily set for surgery
Fehily was taken to Fazakerley Hospital in Liverpool after being unseated from the Evan Williams-trained 12-year-old at the fifth fence....
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Williams: Focus on positives
Cappa Bleu did best of Williams' trio, finishing fourth, while State Of Play and Deep Purple both failed to get round....
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Bittar: Don't judge changes yet
Two horses were put down after sustaining serious injuries in Saturday's renewal and in a statement Bittar said everyone connected with the sport i...
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Walsh: Ruby bruised and sore
The jockey has partnered two winners of the world's most famous steeplechase, the first of which, Papillon (in 2000), was trained by his father....
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HQ ground delights Prosser
The ground at Headquarters is currently described as good and conditions look set fare for two quality cards which should give plenty of Classic cl...
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Slow going for Paula
The race had been billed as a clash between the 'Queen' and 'Emperor' of long-distance running over a 21 kilometre (13.1 mile) course in the Austri...
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Team GB fixtures revealed
With all male and female athletes due back at Sheffield's English Institute of Sport over the coming fortnight, pre-tournament plans are about to b...
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Franchitti on Long Beach pole
Australian Ryan Briscoe was the fastest qualifier for the 38th edition of the event by turning a lap in a course record 1:08.6089 over the 1.968-mi...
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Biffle blasts through in Texas
Biffle broke through to pass Jimmie Johnson's Chevrolet with 30 laps to go and claim victory for owner Jack Roush after the latter had led for 156 ...
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Lowry tops after maiden win
The Ulsterman had been on the pace throughout the weekend and he harassed reigning champion Tommy Hill for much of the first race....
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NHL: Capitals level series
Nicklas Backstrom scored in double overtime to seal the victory after Troy Brouwer put the Capitals ahead in the second period only for Benoit Poul...
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Pit mistake puts Schumi out
One of the Mercedes mechanics appeared to have trouble with the original wheel gun, and when he went to switch to a back-up, the German driver was ...
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Chinese GP: Rosberg joins the elite
Confounding the widespread belief that the team would be unable to match their qualifying pace in race trim in a car considered to be a tyre eater,...
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Brawn: We weren't bluffing
Although the team capitalised on their season-long single-lap pace to lock-out the front row on Saturday, most observers expected the silver cars t...
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Driver reaction - Chinese GP
Sebastian Vettel: "I had no tyres left at the end of the race. Sitting in the car, I was reacting with brake balance, diff, everything to tr...
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Button rues pit-stop mistake
Though Button's boss Martin Whitmarsh was later heard to doubt whether his driver would have been able to challenge Nico Rosberg for victory even w...
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Vettel slams straightline speed
The World Champion's troubled start to his title defence continued in Shanghai as he failed to make the qualifying top-ten shootout for the first t...
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Rosberg never doubted himself
The German driver had gone 110 races without either a pole position or race victory prior to the start of the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, with many...
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Hamilton: Nico was too strong
Starting from pole position, Hamilton's former karting team-mate stormed into the lead and through to his maiden grand prix victory while behind hi...
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Eredivisie round-up
Frank de Boer's side are now well on course to retain their Dutch title with just four games remaining....
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Di Matteo targets weaknesses
Caretaker Blues boss Di Matteo will attempt to mastermind a victory over a team billed by some as the greatest of all time when the sides meet in W...
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Fergie - It was a pen
Seven days ago, the former Aston Villa man was at the centre of a diving row when he went down under minimal contact from QPR's Shaun Derry....
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McLeish targets six points
Villa went down 4-0 at Old Trafford to sit on 35 points, six points above third-from-bottom Bolton, who have a game in hand....
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Administrators deny delay blame
Duff and Phelps were expected to name the chosen bidder last week but said the publication of SPL proposals on sanctions for clubs going into admin...
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Walcott welcomes Ox emergence
Oxlade-Chamberlain, who followed Walcott's lead in joining the Gunners from Southampton, has burst onto the first-team scene at Emirates Stadium th...
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Tevez - Title still possible
It has been suggested that the title could already be City's had Tevez not gone AWOL for three months after suffering a falling-out with manager Ro...
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Big-money buys please Dalglish
Both men were brought in to Anfield for big money, with a combined outlay of over £50million required to acquire their services....
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Neville looking for response
The Toffees suffered an agonising 2-1 defeat to Merseyside rivals Liverpool at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, with the Reds hitting back late on to t...
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Jones heading back to bench
With the Reds having seen Jose Reina and Alexander Doni pick up red cards to leave them facing a keeper crisis, Kenny Dalglish has been forced to t...
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Fans gather for Morosini
The Livorno midfielder, on loan with the club from Udinese, died on Saturday after collapsing on the pitch during his team's Serie B game at Pescar...
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Everton explain Drenthe axe
The on-loan Real Madrid midfielder, 25, was not selected in manager David Moyes' 18-man party for Saturday's 2-1 Wembley defeat to Liverpool....
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Sergio - Win for supporters
A dramatic 2-1 semi-final victory over Celtic on Sunday means the Jambos will be heading back to Hampden Park on 19th May for a derby date with Hib...
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Thompson irked by officials
Having wrapped up the league title, the Hoops were hoping to complete a memorable Double this season....
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Mignolet targets top eight
The Black Cats passed up an opportunity to reduce the gap to Liverpool, the current occupants of eighth place, to just a single point on Saturday w...
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Martinez - Maloney needed time
The Scotland forward has been one of the inspirations behind Wigan's recent resurgence and curled home the winner against Manchester United in midw...
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Baines - Not good enough
The Toffees took the lead in Saturday's semi-final at Wembley via Nikica Jelavic on 24 minutes and held their advantage until just after the hour m...
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Gasparotto claims Amstel Gold
The Astana rider followed in the wheel of defending champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing) who attacked early on the famous Cauberg climb but was u...
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Bangladesh to play in Pakistan
No full-member international side has toured Pakistan since a terrorist attack on a Sri Lanka team bus in March 2009 that left six police officers ...
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Rios targets Marquez
However it was far from straightforward for Rios who edged to a split-decision victory over Cuban Richard Abril....
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Boxing News
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NBA: Spurs clinch Division
The Spurs also got 14 points apiece from Kawhi Leonard and Tony Parker as they kept within a game of the Oklahoma City Thunder, who beat the...
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BBL: Riders feel Wolves' bite
The Wolves made a strong start, opening up a nine point lead over their nearest rivals before the Riders, who have a game in hand closed the gap to...
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Cibulkova responds in style
Cibulkova will play Romanian Sorana Cirstea in the last four after Cirstea, the world number 57, also rebounded from a poor start to see off Olga G...
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Isner through in Houston
Isner, the world No 10 and second seed, fired down 11 aces and saved all six break points that he faced in the all-American quarter-final....
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Capriati into Hall of Fame
The three-time Grand Slam champion, a former world number one, joined some of the biggest names in tennis in earning a place in the ITHF on Friday....
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Wozniacki eases into final
Denmark's former world number one produced a strong performance to see off unseeded Croatian Petra Martic in their semi-final, winning 6-3 6-2....
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Cibulkova faces Errani in Barca
Cibulkova routed Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-1 6-1, while seventh-seeded Italian Errani was a 6-1 6-2 winner over home hope Carla Suarez Navarro....
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Andujar on course to defend
Both players enjoyed straight-sets wins in the semi-finals, Andujar defeating Italian Flavio Cipolla 6-3 7-5 and Ramos winning 6-3 7-6 (9-7) agains...
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Stars claim Coventry point
Coventry lost their opening match with Poole Pirates, and now they have dropped yet more points to The Stars....
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Hendry closes on Crucible
The seven-time former world champion is having to go through qualifying this year for the first time since 1988, after falling outside the top 16 i...
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Victory delights Sale boss
Three penalties apiece from Nick Macleod and Olly Barkley meant the scores were finely poised at 9-9 with eight minutes left in the match....
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Falcons good for Gold
The Falcons gave their survival hopes a real boost as they claimed their first away win in the Aviva Premiership since February last year....
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McCall - It will be tough
McCall watched his side secure a hard-earned 28-19 away win over London Irish but then insisted that plenty of hard work lies ahead for the reignin...
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Baxter joy at Euro qualification
The Chiefs trailed 26-19 with less than two minutes remaining before tries from Phil Dollman and Sireli Naqelevuki and a conversion from Gareth Ste...
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Chiefs catch up with Cheetahs
Sonny Bill Williams scored his first try for the franchise and Arizona Taumalolo crossed twice in the first meeting between the two teams since 201...
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Young - Bad end to awful week
Tries from England captain Chris Robshaw, Ugo Monye, George Robson and Jordan Turner-Hall earned Quins a bonus-point victory and secured them a sem...
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Betts welcomes cup clash
The Vikings are back in the big-time in 2012, although they have secured only two wins from their opening 11 league matches in the top flight....
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Burrow worry for Leeds
Burrow was forced off just three minutes into the fourth-round tie at Headingley after a challenge from Wildcats loose forward Paul Aiton and will ...
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Minnows ready for cup Crusade
Griffths will be in charge of North Wales Crusaders when they tackle the Warriors at the DW Stadium in a true David and Goliath fourth-round tie....
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Scorpions stung by Halifax
The Scorpions, who conceded home advantage due to the unavailability of their ground, took the lead after just two minutes when full-back David Jam...
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Rush hits out at sloppy Saints
Saints looked to be coasting to a one-sided victory as they pulled 40-16 ahead, but they were left hanging on in the closing stages as they allowed...
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Powell proud of troops
Powell acknowledged that the win over Super League neighbours Cas ranked amongst his greatest coaching achievements....
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Kinane the Aintree legend
The 13-times champion Irish Flat jockey, who retired at the end of 2009, took the Paul Nicholls-trained grey into the lead about two furlongs out....
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Frankel not retired
Winner of all nine of his starts to date, including the 2000 Guineas, St James's Palace Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes last year, Sir Henry C...
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National marred by tragedy
There was a pulsating climax to the four-and-a-half-mile marathon, with Neptune Collonges (33-1) getting up by a nose in the hands of Daryl Jacob t...
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Aintree and BHA issue statements
Julian Thick, the Managing Director, said: "We are desperately sad at these two accidents and our sympathies are with the connections of both horse...
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National: Jockeys' reaction
Richie McLernon (Sunnyhillboy, second): "He really travelled well for me and I wasn't sure whether I had won or not. He didn't deserve to be...
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Jenkins second in Sydney
Jenkins was at the head of the pack following the swim, which she completed in 19 minutes 35 seconds, but was overhauled during the cycle phase....
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Smith wants mental edge
Smith, a bronze medallist on the pommel horse at the Beijing Games four years ago, admits winning will not be everything in Montpellier, but says i...
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Silver for Daley
The 17-year-old again dispelled criticism his Olympic bid was not on track with a gritty rather than spectacular display in the absence of China's ...
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Headache for Hill on pole
Hill's forgetfulness did not hamper the Swan Yamaha rider's performance though, as he set the best lap with a time of one minute 15.26 seconds arou...
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Menu lands Morocco pole
After Yvan Muller and then Tom Coronel set the early benchmark times in the final qualifying session, Huff looked set to take pole as he lowered th...
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MLB: Cain almost perfect
Cain gave up just one hit from the mound, striking out 12 and not conceding a walk. His only blemish came via opposing pitcher James McDonald's sin...
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NHL: Hat-trick hero Brown
Brown, who also scored in the opening victory earlier in the week, was on target nine seconds before the end of the first period, before Jannik Han...
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McLaren set P3 pace
Hamilton set the fastest time of the week so far, a lap of 1:35.940 seconds, around the 5.451km Shanghai International Circuit, with Button 0.123s ...
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Rosberg storms to maiden pole
The German star, outperformed by older team-mate Michael Schumacher at the first two grands prix of the season, uncorked a stunning 1:35.121 lap on...
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Driver reaction - China qualifying
Mark Webber: "The Q2 lap wasn't bad, but I didn't get the Q3 lap together as I would have liked. It's a bit all over the place with pulling ...
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Brawn: Rosberg lap 'exceptional'
The Brackley-based squad had proved McLaren's main challengers for pole in each of the first two grands prix and many in the paddock were tipping t...
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Button still targeting victory
Attributing his relatively poor time - Jenson actually qualified sixth, but has been promoted to fifth on account of Lewis Hamilton's demotion - to...
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Schumi: Question mark on race pace
The two Silver Arrows cars will head the grid for the first time at the Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday, with Rosberg producing a blisteri...
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Alonso: Melbourne not Malaysia
The double World Champion, who leads in the Drivers' Championship after his surprise victory at Sepang, qualified ninth at the Shanghai Internation...
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'I'm happy' insists Vettel
The defending World Champion, who has not started a race outside the top 10 since the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, will line up 11th on the grid four...
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Podium chance for Kobayashi
The Japanese set the fourth fastest time in the third session but will line up third owing to the gearbox penalty picked up by Lewis Hamilton....
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Sergio keen to enjoy cup tie
Sergio succeeded Jim Jefferies in August but soon saw things turn sour when owner Vladimir Romanov announced cost-cutting measures at Hearts, leadi...
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