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Dakar start was a nightmare for Nandu Jubany, but he will be able to start stage 1: burnt cable ruined day, but his hopes are gone
Nandu Jubany arrived at dakar With big aspirations. After making his debut last year with a car that allowed him to finish on the podium with great pace in the two-wheel drive (4×2) category, the Catalan media chef wanted to take a little more risks this time with his co-driver. Marc Sola. Excitement reached its climax; dakar It was huge. After preparing 2,400 New Year’s Eve menus to take home with your team. He was the last participant to arrive at the encampment by plane. dakarslower than others, but on time.
but, rare He was disappointed in the prologue. What was supposed to be the day I entered the race and started enjoying it turned into a nightmare. At the 7.2km mark of the 22km prologue, his car overheated and stopped. And they didn’t know the cause of the problem. After a failed 4-hour attempt, they had to be towed away, allowing them to reach camp having lost over 4 hours in the prologue.
luckily Nandu, prologue time does not count towards general classification. I was concerned about knowing the cause of the problem and whether I could fix it in order to exit Stage 1. And finally in front of MD, around 9pm. (7pm local time, Spanish time) The mechanic explained to Nandu and Marc what had happened.
A cable near the tube at the back of the car caught fire. It was like finding a needle in a haystack. And they understood that the problem could be solved in time.
Since then, we have had to think again about the race and its new starting point. Juvany and Sola will have to start from 198th place, almost at the end of all the cars, and will have to start behind slower cars, meaning they could lose time and take more risks to overtake.
“We were looking for cable and we were both hooked.”
The problem is, there’s only 30 seconds between when the car in front of them starts and when they start. Therefore, in the first few kilometers you will not be able to fully accelerate due to the huge dust that spreads in front of you. To do so, you need to wait until the distance between the cars increases.
“We start from the back, three people behind, but we are not out of the race. We have to be thankful that something like this happened today in the prologue and not in the first stage tomorrow, because otherwise we would not have finished the Dakar. Now they are protecting the cables. We were there for four hours, but with an electronic problem you never know what it is,” Jubany told MD.
“We were both looking for the cable and we were both going crazy,” said co-pilot Mark Sola.
And we should be grateful. More tomorrow. We’ll have to be a little patient as we’ll start from the back, but in the end it’ll be a race for us to place. I’ll put gas in it, you know.” The cook spoke positively about what will happen in the future, no matter what happened.
“We’ll have to be a little bit patient with starting from the back, but in the end we’ll be in position in the race. We’re going to gas up, as you can see.”
Despite everything, Nandu never lost his smile, a far cry from what many people would do. “There were times when I lost,” he declared. Faced with a broken down car, while the mechanic is fixing the problem that occurred. He smiled because he knew he still had a chance to turn the tables. This race offers a new option: 13 stages to climb each day. Nandu and Mark don’t throw in the towel. on the contrary. After a hard day in the sun and an unexpected start, they maintain their enthusiasm. That’s Dakar.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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Levante midfielder Iker Lozada He has scored twice in his last two games against Sevilla and Espanyol, the same number of goals he has scored in his previous 29 games in just seven days. first division. Losada scored spanish He won 1-1 in Sunday’s final, giving his team one point, and had already beaten the score 0-1 the day before. seville Levante’s 0-3 win in Pizjuan.
These two games were the first games for the coach. Luis Castro It was also Lozada’s first start of the season on the Levante bench. The 24-year-old attacking midfielder is Levant given by him real betis He appeared in August last year, but along with Julián Calero he only featured in five games in the first half of the league season, up until the Christmas break.
it’s the first time Losada He had only scored two goals in the first division so far, so it was the second day in a row that he scored. The first is the top category Premier, Celts of Vigo A light blue youth player, Lozada made a total of 31 appearances in the first division during spells at Celta, Real Betis and Levante.
He left Betic’s team in the summer of 2024 for around €2 million after winning the league in the 2023-24 season. ferol racinghad 9 goals and 7 assists. Number 2. He is currently enjoying his best moment in the highest category of Spanish football.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
Sophia Jhon is a sports journalist and author. He has worked as a news editor for Sportish and is now a sport columnist for the same publication. Alberta’s professional interests lie largely in sports news, with an emphasis on English football. He has also written articles on other sporting topics.
There was a lot of damage mallorca Defeat at the ground this Sunday Rayo Vallecano (2-1), vs. the previous day girona (1-2) and draw valencia In the previous (1-1).
3 games in a row without a win leaguein addition to the previous abolition of Copera, sports (1-0) places the Vermilion team in 17th place in the standings, just one point behind the first relegated team. valencia.
All this leads to the fact that the firing of coaches is practically taken for granted on the island. Jagoba Arasate.
As always happens in cases like this, two candidates are already on the table, even though he hasn’t been fired yet. it is about Francisco Javier Garcia PimientaHe had not been with the team since his departure. sevilleand the Plaza Luis Garcia.
the latter has already been trained mallorca From 2020 to 2022, he was the driving force behind the team’s promotion from Division 2 to Division 1.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
Sophia Jhon is a sports journalist and author. He has worked as a news editor for Sportish and is now a sport columnist for the same publication. Alberta’s professional interests lie largely in sports news, with an emphasis on English football. He has also written articles on other sporting topics.
Orjan Nyland I have a problem. Within a few months, he had established himself as an undisputed player at Sevilla and was able to qualify. world Depending on your choice, Norwaywill not be playing at all and has confirmed that their presence at this summer’s events in the United States, Canada, and Mexico will be impaired. The Nordic goalkeeper is worried as he has been forgotten since the arrival of Vlacodimos and has informed the club that he wants to change his outlook in this market to ensure his presence at the World Cup.
And to reinforce this theory, Norwegian coach Starre Solbakken also weighed in on the issue, asking the footballers to find a solution now. Solbakken wants Norway to arrive fit for the historic event, and to do that he will have to change the scene. There was no continuity at Sevilla, especially after Matias Almeida’s side were eliminated from the Copa del Rey.
“It is clear that Orjan (Nyland) is in a difficult situation and something has to be done about it,” the Nordic coach said in a statement to VG Media. “I spoke to him a few days ago. He is a much better goalkeeper when he is playing than when he is not playing. In that meeting we said that he will hold out until the autumn. Now his time is running out. It is very important for us that he reaches a club where he can play. Right now he seems far from being the goalkeeper he is in Sevilla. I’m sure he thinks the same thing as me, “he asserted.
The matter was clear and Sevilla’s own coach Matias Almeida spoke about the situation at Nervion, but the Argentine did not provide much information. In the press conference before the game against Celta, he recalled the Norwegian coach’s words about Nyland. “I talked to him. I like talking to players and when they come to talk to me, too. He knows what I’m thinking and I know what he’s thinking,” he just said.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
Sophia Jhon is a sports journalist and author. He has worked as a news editor for Sportish and is now a sport columnist for the same publication. Alberta’s professional interests lie largely in sports news, with an emphasis on English football. He has also written articles on other sporting topics.
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