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THE Rotary Club of Manama hosted its annual ‘Kick For A Cause’ Six-A-Side Football tournament, with more than BD22,000 being raised for charity.
Lewis Hamilton’s world championship defence got off to a flying start on Sunday with a crushing victory for Mercedes in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix as Formula One rivals succumbed to a farcical rash of reliability problems.
No sooner had Mercedes cruised to the chequered flag at Sunday’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix, their rivals were all but conceding the 2015 Formula One championship was as good as over.
MERCEDES (Lewis Hamilton 1, Nico Rosberg 2)
Double world champion Hamilton picked up where he left off. His 34th career win, second in Australia, and from pole position. Mercedes have now won the last eight races and started the last 12 on pole. The two Mercedes finished more than 30 seconds ahead of Ferrari’s third-placed Sebastian Vettel.
Another busy weekend has just flown by with the normal flurry of hooves. The Dilmun Riding Stables staged its inaugural Open Dressage Show on Friday. There were three classes held across the morning, with 50 entries starting out in the Introductory A class.
Batelco is sponsoring the 2015 King Hamad Horseracing Festival to be held on Friday at the Rashid Equestrian & Horse Racing Club in Sakhir. The day is one of the main events in the kingdom’s annual horseracing calendar.
THERE were goals galore this week in the Bahrain Ladies League, sponsored by GulfWeekly. With the last few fixtures ending in low-scoring draws the league was crying out for a net-smashing bonanza … and both matches last week delivered.
A stunning yet gritty Welsh victory over reigning champions and previous Six Nations leaders, Ireland, has created a nerve-wrangling finale to the championship that means any one of four sides can technically still win the title.
FOOTBALL-LOVING schoolchildren and their parents are in a club v coach quandary after a popular director of a soccer school quit and announced plans to launch a rival sporting operation.
Colin Montgomerie, the man who designed the championship course at the Royal Golf Club (RGC), is hopeful Bahrain will become part of a ‘desert swing’ for senior tournament players.
