Floersch vows to return after injury
MACAU: German Formula Three driver Sophia Floersch, who fractured her spine in an aerial crash at the Macau Grand Prix on Sunday, reassured fans on Tuesday that she was recovering well and vowed to return to the sport.
Her Van Amersfoort Racing team said on Monday that doctors had ruled out fear of paralysis.
“I’m going to come back,” Floersch said on Facebook.
“I survived the operation which took 11 hours. Hope from now on it only gets better. I have to stay a few more days in Macau until I’m transportable. I want to thank all of my fans for every single get-well wishes, which I now start reading. This really motivates me and gives me courage.”
KIPCHOGE, MAYER FOR IAAF TOP AWARD
PARIS: The world’s fastest marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge and world decathlon record holder Kevin Mayer are among five nominees for the IAAF’S male Athlete of the Year, the federation announced on Tuesday.
The Kenyan and Frenchman are joined on the shortlist by the quickest person over 60m indoors American Christian Coleman, European pole-vault champion Armand Duplantis from Sweden and Asian Games 400m hurdles champion in Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba.
The contenders for the women’s prize were announced a day earlier with Kenya’s 3000m steeplechase world record holder Beatrice Chepkoech, 100m European champion in Great Britain’s Dina Asher-smith, Colombia’s Diamond League long and triple jump title holder Caterine Ibarguen, the Bahamas’ 200m Diamond League gold-medallist Shaunae Miller-uibo and European heptathlon champion in Belgian Nafissatou Thiam all included.
‘OLYMPIC MINDSET AIDED RECOVERY’
LONDON: Sprint great Michael Johnson said that his “Olympic mindset” had helped speed up his recovery from a mini stroke that the 51-year-old suffered earlier this year.
“I knew then the recovery was going to be down to hard work, focus and commitment to the process. That is something I am very familiar with. Almost three months on now from the stroke and I am pretty much back to normal and back to work,” Johnson told the BBC. “For the next few weeks I went back into an Olympic mindset and focusing on having the best training session I can today and using it to be better and get better.”
WALKER SCORES 43 POINTS FOR HORNETS
CHARLOTTE: Kemba Walker scored 43 points help host Charlotte Hornets beat Boston Celtics 117-112 on Monday.
Walker, who struck 60 points on Saturday in a loss to Philadelphia, became only the sixth player in NBA history to follow a 60-point effort with 40-or-more points — putting his name alongside the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Pete Maravich, Wilt Chamberlain and Tracy Mcgrady. BRIEF SCORES
Mumbai 501 (M Khan 215, A Zimare 81) beat Baroda 82 (H Desai 39; A Zimare 5/20 Himanshu 5/22) & 220 (Y Ghunchala 94, A Menon 72; D Singh 3/25, A Zimare 3/67) by an innings and 199 runs.
DIVYAANSH HITS DOUBLE TON VS DELHI
Opener Divyaansh Saxena hit a double ton to help Mumbai stack up 453 in their first innings against Delhi on Day Two of an Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy match at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi on Tuesday. In reply, Delhi were 135 for one at stumps . BRIEF SCORES
Mumbai 453 (Divyaansh 211, P Kanpillewar 56; A Badoni 3/53) vs Delhi 135/1 (P Arya 50*, G Vats 46*).