 | French player Sagna all
praise for Aspetar Qatar ARSENAL and French international
football player Bacary
Sagna on Wednesday paid tributes
to Aspetar Qatar Orthopedic
and Sports Medicine Hospital
after completing 10 days of treatment
in Doha.
Sagna was treated by Dr Hakim
Chalabi, assistant chief...
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| | Heat beats Thunder 101-98 in game 4 |  RUSSELL Westbrook shone
for the Oklahoma City
Thunder for almost all of
Game Four with a spectacular
offensive display on Tuesday,
but a rash blunder in the closing
seconds left his team on
the brink of an NBA Finals
defeat.
Westbrook scored a gamehigh
43 points, including all
13 of Oklahoma City´s points
during a late fightback that
tied the score at 90-90 midway
through the fourth quarter.
He sank 20-of-32 shots to
keep the Thunder close but
with 17.3 seconds remaining
and Oklahoma City trailing
101-98, a jump ball was called
between Udonis Haslim and
the Thunder´s James Harden,
and the shot-clock set at five
seconds for Miami.
As the ball was tipped
toward the corner, Miami´s
Mario Chalmers scrambled to
... | | | Four from Qatar
win Visa trip to
London Olympics |  VISA, a worldwide Olympic
Games sponsor for more than
25 years, announced Ettol
Kandathila Khalid, Kolla
Mohammed Kaleem Pasha,
Dr Zafer Aziz Esmandar and
Nader Saeed Hassan
Mahmoud as the winners of a
nationwide cardholder promotion
"Go World". Michael
O´ Neill, the British
Ambassador to Qatar joined
guests of Visa to congratulate
the winners at a reception at
the British Embassy on
Tuesday night.
By simply using their Visa
card, the winners will be travelling
to London for the
Olympic Games, courtesy of
Visa. Along with travel and
accommodation to the
Games, the winners will also
receive tickets to cheer on
Olympic athletes and experience
one of the world´s greatest
sporting events first-hand... | | | Ronaldo gets team support
ahead of Czech Rep clash |  PORTUGAL has rallied
around captain Cristiano
Ronaldo ahead of Thursday´s
Euro 2012 quarter-final
against the Czech Republic in
Warsaw.
It will be the third meeting
between the two sides in the
last five championships, with
each side having won one
apiece — the most important
belonging to the Czechs in the
1996 quarter-finals on its way
to losing to Germany in the
final. Paulo Bento´s Portugal
have got where they are
thanks to their team ethic and
after seeing Ronaldo finally
click into gear in Sunday´s
game against the hapless
Dutch to score both goals in
the 2-1 win.
They have been accused of
creating a cult of personality
around their 27-year-old captain
but the team has circled
the wagons in the face of what
they see as... | |
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