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Tosha: “When I was in the air, I saw a tree out of the corner of my eye and said, ‘Hmm, don’t hit the tree.’ The airbag will save us.”
“Our mission today was to win. We knew we were going to be fifth. We were in a very good position to attack, so we did that.” Tosha Chalayna said as she arrived at the AlUla bivouac as the new winner of the third stage of the 2026 Dakar. This allowed him to take an important step forward in the overall standings to fully participate in the battle to win the world’s toughest race. Shalayna is in second place, 1 minute 07 seconds behind the leader Saunders.However, while the track has to be opened for the first half of tomorrow’s marathon stage, it will have to be opened for tomorrow’s stage 4 without any mechanical support from the team at the end of the special. I might have been able to reach it if I had made more cuts or been in the lead in the overall standings, but I was unable to reach it due to a very dangerous and strong fall, and I was able to escape safely from there.
“The mission was to win, and at this stage it was also the mission to be the leader. But, well, the crash made it a little bit more complicated for me, and it dusted me up a little bit, but, well, that’s no excuse, because at the end of the day it’s all pilots’ problems.”commented.
“When it comes to fall, it’s all about live shows. I was pushing it, but it felt good, but something seemed to have happened, so I landed right next to the shade of a tree, and there were rocks, roots, and something not very nice, and before I knew it, it was already up in the air. But hey, it’s a live thing.”he said that the Spanish media present at Dakar 2026, among them MDs.
“I landed right next to a tree in the shade, and there were rocks, roots, and not-so-good things, and before I knew it, I was already in the air.”
“When I was in the air, I saw a tree out of the corner of my eye and said, ‘Oh, I hope I don’t hit it.’ In the end, I don’t know if I hit it or not, but I didn’t notice. The airbag, in other words, saves us. It saves us all, and, well, things can always happen, but it helps tremendously.” In an interview with this newspaper, he revealed that the accident could have been much worse.
“I feel fine, actually, I’m fine, I mean, I just got up right away and I mean, I didn’t have my bike, I didn’t have it, so I was surprised, and, oh my gosh. “I saw my visor fall to the ground and I put my hand on my head.”he added about that, explaining how he was able to get up and accelerate again so quickly and what he thought when he fell.
“Well, it’s survival. The first thing is to get back up as soon as you fall, if you can, of course. Then you’ll know if you’re okay or not. And then you go to the bike and, first of all, you pick it up. We’ve already seen that everything is fine, the handlebars were bent, but like all previous falls, it’s time to carry on,” he commented.
saved in the first place
“Of course, I can’t say that things went smoothly in the first few days. Of course we wanted to win the prologue and we didn’t, but we knew that we had to be a little more calm in the first few days. This is not just a World Cup race, it’s only five days and there are 14 days, so we had to take it step by step. So today we understood that we were in a position to achieve that, it was going to be a complicated stage, and we did that.”
Marathon stage open track
“Of course, the Dakar with complicated navigation, but tomorrow the philosophy will change a little, but not for me or for everyone. In the end it is a marathon stage, protect the bike and body, try not to fall, get to the tent as completely as possible and I don’t have to do any work on the bike. That’s the goal in the end. Of course I can’t lose a lot of time, but I’ll try to arrive in good condition and arrive at the bivouac in the second half of the marathon stage with everything it should be. ”
Importance of bonuses when opening a track
“Of course, it’s very helpful because we have a bonus. We don’t know exactly how far we’re going to go per kilometer, but we have to take advantage of it and that’s the mission now. When you open a track, you try to open it from start to finish, so when you open it and waste time wondering which road to take, try to get that bonus.”
He is good at opening the track and attacking
“Yes, I remember in Argentina we won a stage with an open track and no bonus. So this is very different terrain, more sand, the track looks better, so I don’t want to say anything either. But, well, we’ll see what happens tomorrow, it’ll be a different terrain again, I think we’ll probably get off the rocks a little bit, so we’ll see.”
Did you want to attack an open track on stage 4 or would stage 5 be better?
“At the end of the day, we go from day to day. You can keep everything in your head, you can follow what the organization says a little bit, but at the end of the day every stage is difficult. So yesterday we looked at the position we were in and thought, ‘Today is the time to attack,’ but it’s not like we had that in mind from home.”
They will sleep in tents wearing sleeping bags and eating military rations.
“How do you deal with this? Well, make the most of today’s day and night, eat as much as you can, rest as much as you can, and try to get to tomorrow as best you can.”
We don’t bring any food to the Bibo shelter.
“You can take things with you. I mean, you can take everything you carry with you, but in the end you have to carry it 400 kilometers (on a bike). So I don’t think you’ll carry anything beyond energy bars and gels.”
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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Motorsports
‘Three’ VAR interventions for Leganes vs Valladolid
what happened there yesterday Leganes-Valladolid The second-division match ended in a 3-0 victory on home soil, but required intervention three times. VAR. Two of them also included Jose Antonio López Toca in the VOR room, called by Manuel Jesús Orellana Cid for two consecutive penalties immediately after the start of the game.
The first incident occurred five minutes into the match, following a handball by Iván Alejo in the area that was not initially seen by the referee. That’s when he received a notification from VAR. “Manuel, would you recommend a review so that we can assess the possibility of a penalty for handball?” When he got to the monitor, he said, “Okay, it looked perfect. Make it dynamic, Jose, I already saw him shake hands.” From the VOR, they provided him with another camera “also from behind the goal.” Once there was no doubt in the vision, he said, “OK, perfect, we’re going to restart with a penalty, OK, Jose.”
The penalty was taken by Juan Cruz, but it was cleared by Valladolid goalkeeper Guilherme. However, as the Leganés striker attempted to grab the rebound, he was tackled from behind by Jaouab and was brought down, receiving another warning from the VOR. “Manuel recommends a review so we can assess the possibility of a penalty. Please let us know when you get to the screen.”
In the background, a voice can be heard shouting “Out, Mr. Out” as the referee reaches the monitor. And he stood in front of it and he said, “Okay, Jose, it’s on the screen. One second, one second. Okay, I want to see the number of the guy who’s doing that…Okay, yes, it’s very clear.” And he claimed, “I want to know this player’s number, because it’s yellow, so who’s going to penalize it?” From VAR they confirm, “Yes, we understand, number 23.” To which the referee replied: “Okay, number 23, perfect. We’ll restart with a penalty and a yellow card, understand Jose?”
VOR is wrong about Guilherme
And the final intervention occurred in the 89th minute of the match as a result of Valladolid goalkeeper Guilherme leaving the area in an attempt to put Naim ahead. The referee directly punished him with a red card, but because they understood that it was not a sending off, again from the VOR: “Manu, we recommend that you reconsider so that we can assess the cancellation of the red card, okay?” Arriving in front of the monitor, López Toca requests to be shown the moment from VAR, López Toca explains from VAR. “Okay, look, I thought the reason I called you was because the goalie touched the ball. Okay, first of all, the impact is the lower back. You evaluate that and make the decision that you think is appropriate.”
The referee replied, “Okay, let’s see. I know how he touches the ball. I’d like to see how he moves.” They don’t let go of the ball, so the referee asks, “I want to see the touch of the ball, see how it moves when it touches the ball, etc.”
They then provided him with the images, but he requested that the camera be brought closer to him. “Let’s look a little further back, Jose, a little more back.” And then he understood: “All right, he touched the ball. All right, again, all right. All right, Jose, what I saw was that he obviously touched the ball. It’s true that the contact came later. I’ve never played rough. It’s not even a foul for me. All right, I’ll pick up where I dropped the ball. All right, because to me it’s not even a foul. All right, Jose.”
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.
Motorsports
Iker Lozada is enjoying his best moments in the First Division
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.
Motorsports
Jagoba Arrasate crisis: There are already two candidates to replace him
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.
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