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Soccer: Seoanes Leverkusen loses spectacular game in Mainz
Mainz prevails against Leverkusen, in the middle of the Swiss defender Silvan Widmer.
(dpa) FSV Mainz 05 has stopped Bayer Leverkusen’s impressive winning streak. At the start of the 23rd match day of the Bundesliga, the Rheinhessen inflicted the Werkself’s first defeat of the year in a 3-2 defeat and are now even involved in the fight for international starting places.
In front of 10,000 spectators, top scorer Patrick Schick (35th minute) and joker Lucas Alario (74th) gave the visitors from Leverkusen twice the lead, but Aaron (57th), former FC Basel player Jean-Paul Boetius (84′) and Marcus Ingvartsen (88′) turned the game around in favor of the 05ers, who equaled their club record from 2009 (then under coach Thomas Tuchel) with their fifth home win in a row.
Mainz – Leverkusen 3: 2 (0: 1). – 10 000 spectators. – Goals: 35. Schick 0:1. 57. Martin 1:1. 74. Alario 1:2. 84. Boetius 2:2. 88. Ingvartsen 3:2. – Mainz with Widmer.
Ranking: 1. Bayern Munich 22/52 (70:25). 2.Borussia Dortmund 22/46 (57:36). 3. Bayer Leverkusen 23/41 (60:39). 4. RB Leipzig 22/34 (43:27). 5. Hoffenheim 22/34 (43:34). 6 SC Freiburg 22/34 (34:25). 7. Union Berlin 22/34 (29:30). 8. Mainz 05 23/34 (34:26). 9. 1. FC Cologne 22/32 (34:37). 10. Eintracht Frankfurt 22/31 (33:34). 11. Bochum 22/28 (24:32). 12. Wolfsburg 22/27 (23:33). 13. Borussia Monchengladbach 22/26 (30:40). 14. Hertha Berlin 22/23 (24:45). 15 Arminia Bielefeld 22/22 (21:29). 16. Augsburg 22/22 (24:38). 17. VfB Stuttgart 22/18 (26:42). 18. Greuther Furth 22/13 (20:57).
Soccer: Juventus gives up points in the local derby
(sda) For Juventus Turin, the dream of the championship title should be over with another setback. In the city derby against Torino, the favorite only drew 1:1 and is eleven points behind the leader Milan after 26 rounds.
Denis Zakaria was in the starting line-up for Juventus Turin for the second time and, like national team-mate Ricardo Rodriguez, played through on the other side. Juventus took the lead through a Matthijs de Ligt header; Torino captain Andrea Belotti, who had just returned from a long injury break, deservedly equalized in the 62nd minute.
Juventus 1-1 Torino (1-0). – Goals: 13. De Ligt 1-0. 62. Belotti 1-1. – Juventus with Zakaria. Torino with Rodriguez.
Ranking: 1. Milan 25/55 (50-26). 2. Inter Milan 24/54 (55:20). 3. Naples 25/53 (46:17). 4. Juventus 26/47 (38:23). 5. Atalanta Bergamo 24/44 (46:29). 6. Lazio Rome 25/42 (52:39). 7. Roma 25/40 (42:32). 8. Fiorentina 24/39 (43:34). 9. Hellas Verona 25/36 (47:40). 10. Torino 25/33 (32:26). 11. Empoli 25/31 (38:48). 12. Sassuolo 25/30 (41:44). 13. Bologna 24/28 (29:40). 14. Spezia 25/26 (27:46). 15. Udinese 23/24 (30:40). 16. Sampdoria Genoa 25/23 (33:42). 17. Venice 24/21 (22:43). 18. Cagliari 25/21 (25:46). 19. Genoa 25/15 (21:46). 20. Salernitana 23/13 (17:53).
Athletics: Sprinter Okagbare banned for ten years because of doping
Blessing Okagbare.
(sda/dpa) Nigeria’s top sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been banned for ten years for doping violations. This was announced by the independent integration commission (AIU) of the world athletics association.
The ban is so high because Okagbare was caught with several banned substances (including EPO and human growth hormones) and she also refused to provide the necessary documents to clarify the allegations. According to the AIU, the 33-year-old is said to have been involved in an “organized doping program” in the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics.
Okagbare was suspended at the Summer Games just hours before her 100m semifinal. The 2008 Olympic silver medalist in the long jump can appeal the decision before the International Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS within 30 days.
Ice hockey: Meier breaks the 50-point mark
Timo Meier saves the San Jose Sharks a point.
(sda) The San Jose Sharks lost 4-5 at home to the Vancouver Canucks after overtime. The fact that the Sharks got a point is thanks to Timo Meier, who scored twice and provided an assist.
Meier played the pass to make it 4:4, which came in the last second of regular time. Before that, the man from Herisau had made it 2:3 and 3:3 in the second third and at the beginning of the final section. Meier has reached 50 scorer points in the current NHL season (23 goals/27 assists). In the scorer list he is in 17th place.
Personally, Philipp Kuraschew was also very successful on Friday night. He scored one goal and one assist. But his Chicago Blackhawks lost 7-4 at home to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
A penalty shoot-out had to decide between the New York Rangers and the Detroit Red Wings when the score was 2:2. After every five shooters, the short decision was 1:1. Pius Suter scored as the sixth shooter and secured the second point for the Red Wings.
Timo Meier saves the Sharks in overtime.
Athletics: Jakob Ingebrigtsen achieves a world record over 1500 meters
Runs the 1500 m indoors in 3:30.60 minutes: Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
(sda) The 21-year-old Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen improved the indoor world record over 1500 meters by 44 hundredths to 3:30.60 minutes at the indoor athletics meeting in Liévin (FRA).
Ingebrigtsen thus erased the record of Ethiopian Samuel Tefera, who ran the 1500 meters in Birmingham three years ago in 3:31.04 minutes. Ingebrigtsen became Olympic champion in the 1500 meters last summer in Tokyo.
Another Tokyo Olympic champion, Marcell Jacobs of Italy, beat Americans Cravont Charleston (6.52) and Elijah Hall (6.57) in the 60-meter sprint in 6.50 seconds. Jacobs, the sensational Olympic champion over 100 meters, is aiming for the indoor world title in Belgrade in March.