Nujoud wins 13th Kuwait Club Cup for 8-km race
Essiala, Wedyan and Adila post victories
France’s Alexis Pinturault competes during an alpine ski, men’s World Cup
combined in Bormio, Italy on Dec 29. (AP)
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 29: The camel ‘Nujoud’ owned by Saud Al-Saleh won the 13th Kuwait Club Cup for eight-kilometer race.
In second place was the camel ‘Wedyan’ owned by Zayed Al-Otaibi, followed by the camel ‘Al-Anoud’ owned by Hamed Al-Merri in third place.
In the rest of rounds, the camel ‘Essiala’ owned by Saud Al-Saleh came first in the 8-km race. The camel ‘Wedyan’ owned by Zayed committee Rabeeh Farraj Al-Ajmi handed over the awards to the winners and congratulated them.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dec 29, (AP): South African cyclist and Olympic hopeful Nicholas Dlamini has suffered a broken left arm while being detained at Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park by rangers who were accused of being unnecessarily aggressive and heavy-handed.
Part of Friday’s incident was captured by a witness on a cellphone video and then circulated on social media. The video appears to show Dlamini being pushed up against a parks vehicle by one of the rangers and his arm twisted behind his back. He’s then shoved into the back of the pickup truck by the same ranger as three others watch on.
The South African National Parks service said Dlamini was riding in the park without a permit or paying an entry fee and that he resisted arrest.
The claim Dlamini resisted arrest was disputed by the witness who took the video. The witness, identified as Donovan Le Cok, said in a statement that the rangers just knocked Dlamini off his bike to check for a permit or ticket.
“Nick was quite upset. He was hurt and his bike was damaged,” Le Cok said.
After a discussion, the ranger then “just laid into” Dlamini, Le Cok said. That’s when he started filming on his phone.
“(The ranger) turned him around and twisted his arm high above his head. You can hear in the video his arm snap and crack at which point Nick was just screaming, saying ‘My arm’s broken, my arm’s broken.’
“They just proceeded to throw him into the back of a van. All the while he is still shouting ‘my arm is broken.’”