Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 18 - 24 July 2019 Issue 1776
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SPORT<br />
40<br />
27 June - 3 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Real Madrid bear arch rivals Barcelona to win the 20<strong>18</strong>-<strong>2019</strong> Liga Endesa<br />
basketball title in the championship play-off on Friday. The 74-68 win made them<br />
champions for the 35th time.<br />
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Triumphant return<br />
By Dilip Kuner<br />
ALEJANDRO VALVERDE<br />
has made a triumphant return to<br />
competition two months after<br />
suffering a fall, which forced<br />
his withdrawal from the classic<br />
Liège-Bastogne-Liège.<br />
For the second consecutive<br />
year he has won the Route of<br />
Occitania (France). It is some<br />
recompense for the Spaniard,<br />
who lost out on the Giro d’Italia<br />
as a result of that fall.<br />
On Sunday he started the<br />
fourth and final stage of the<br />
cycling road race with a narrow<br />
eight-second advantage<br />
over Colombian Iván Ramiro<br />
Sosa but the Movistar team<br />
had no problem defending<br />
Valverde’s first place.<br />
The last stage victory was<br />
taken by Frenchman Arnaud<br />
Demare (Groupama FDJ),<br />
who won the sprint, ahead of<br />
Sacha Modolo.<br />
The Spaniards David<br />
González and José Rojas were<br />
WINNER: Valverde retained his title.<br />
fourth and fifth to the finish<br />
line. Valverde will now go to<br />
the Spanish Championships in<br />
his hometown of Murcia with<br />
more confidence.<br />
He said: “I feel very well,<br />
and as I said the other day, you<br />
can see that the preparation<br />
and rest in these two months<br />
after the injury have been very<br />
good. Now it’s time to think<br />
about the Spanish Championships<br />
and, above all, the<br />
Tour de France.”<br />
Credit: Aubin Lipke / La Route d'Occitanie /Movistar<br />
He added: “My objective is<br />
to help (teammates) Nairo and<br />
Mikel and to make the best<br />
possible Tour together. At no<br />
time will I be a leader; my job<br />
will be to help them 100 per<br />
cent.”<br />
EMBARRASSING: Clement Berardo ran out of balls.<br />
Bogey course<br />
FRENCHMAN Clement Berardo was disqualified<br />
on the first day of the Andalucia-Costa del<br />
Sol Match Play 9 after he ran out of golf balls.<br />
He was on hole 16 when the embarrassing incident<br />
happened at the Valle Romano course.<br />
Tournament director Federico Paez explained:<br />
“It was very windy, the fairways are narrow and<br />
the rough is very thick vegetation.”<br />
Berardo had a bad day with a quadruple bogey<br />
nine on the first hole, a double bogey, two more<br />
bogeys and two dropped balls on holes 14 and<br />
15.<br />
Credit: Trophee Hassan II/YouTube