Rally of Arunachal: Gill favourite

Top Indian driver Gaurav Gill will aim to inch closer to his sixth national title as the Rally of Arunachal, Round 3 of the MRF FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship 2018, unfolds over the weekend. The Mahindra Adventure rallyist has been in imperious form, winning the first two rounds. Gill and co-driver Musa Sherif will have to be ready for the challenge from teammate Amittrajit Ghosh.

AIBA TROUBLES

leading candidate to run the amateur boxing association hinted Friday he will take a leave of absence if elected to calm tensions with the International Olympic Committee.

The IOC has said Gafur Rakhimov’s bid to become president of AIBA could put the association’s place in the Olympics at risk. Rakhimov is on a US Treasury Department sanctions list for alleged ties to organised crime and international heroin trafficking. He has denied wrongdoing.

KASHYAP LOSES

:Eighth seed Parupalli Kashyap exited the $75,000 SaarLorLux Open with a 16-21, 18-21 loss in 38 minutes to French shuttler Toma Junior Popov in the men’s singles quarterfinals at Saarbrucken, Germany, on Friday. Saili Rane and Subhankar Dey, who beat five-time world champion Lin Dan on Thursday, will play their last-8 contests later in the day.

NEHRU HOCKEY

Directorate General NCC (Red) beat Faizabad’s Ram Niwas Singh Inter College 2-0 to enter the semis of Nehru junior hockey . Danapur’s Army Boys Sports Company thrashed Bhilwara’s Govt Sr Sec School 24-0, while Jalandhar’s Govt Sr Sec School fought back to a score 3-2 win over Odisha’s Town Nodal High School.

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