 | Lorenzo grabs Qatar Grand Prix pole
YAMAHA´S Jorge Lorenzo
returned to the pole position in
the Commercial bank Grand
Prix of Qatar after a gap of
three years.
The 2010 World Champion
nudged reigning World crown
holder Casey Stoner of Repsol
Honda to the second spot in a
pulsating.
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| | Edwina Tops wins Qatar GCT |  LEADING Australian rider
Edwina Tops- Alexander
won the first leg of the lucrative
Global Champions Tour
(GCT) 2012 Qatar Grand
Prix with 148,500 euros
prize at the Racing
Equestrian Club in Rayyan
on Saturday.
She rode her formidable
horse Cevo Itot du Château
in the barrage for the third
time and trumped clear the
rounds with a time of 40.99
seconds, ahead of German
Marco Kutscher (Cornet
Obolensky) and the Swiss
Pius Schwizer (Verdi III).
Earlier in the day, French
rider Roger-Yves Bost hit
the accelerator and took top
spot again in the 5* international
event over 1.45/1.50m
against the clock.
France took first and second
places with Roger... | | | Cudlin wins second race
of QIRRCH event |  ALEXANDER Cudlin defied
pain and won the second
race also of the Qatar
International Road Racing
Championship Round Fifth,
organised as a support event
to the MotoGP week.
At the Losail International
Circuit, most of the riders
produced more competitive
times.
Cudlin, who revealed that
he had an elbow dislocated
last week during a practice
session in Qatar, was in
extreme pain during the racing.
But his determination to
push himself paid off and
fetched another win on
Suzuki GSXR.
Nina Prinz, a German
woman rider using the
Suzuki machine, repeated
first race performance and
earned second place again.
Qatari star Mahel al Naimi,
who had... | | | Celtic routs Kilmarnock
to clinch Scottish title |  CELTIC won the Scottish
Premier League title for the
first time in four years with a
6-0 thrashing of Kilmarnock
at Rugby Park on Saturday.
Neil Lennon´s side needed
one point from the match to
end its long wait to be
crowned Scottish champions
and it did it in style, as Gary
Hooper and Charlie Mulgrew
both netted twice, with Glenn
Loovens and Joe Ledley also
on the scoresheet.
It is the first title of
Lennon´s two-year reign at
Parkhead, although some will
always remember it as the
season their arch rivals
Rangers were deducted 10
points for going into administration
— a punishment
that effectively handed the
crown to Celtic weeks before
they actually... | |
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