MUSCAT — Oman’s experienced volleyball coach Shihab Aldin al Riyami has been invited attend the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Coaches Committee meeting in Beijing. The Omani official, who is among the eight AVC Coaches Committee members scheduled to attend the meeting in the Chinese capita, w

Participants praise OTA for successfully hosting two ITF U-18 tourneys - By Our Sports Reporter - MUSCAT — German’s Alexander Zverev and Romanian wild card Laura Enea created upsets to emerge boys and girls singles champions as the curtains came down on the second of the back-to-back Oman ITF Under-

MUSCAT — Sanad al Rawahi continued his dominance by roaring to yet another win in the Senior MAX 125 in round six of the Al Ain Raceway Kart Club — UAE’s only national kart series — which took place on the high-speed ‘F1 Circuit’ layout at Al Ain Raceway on Friday. Nikita Miliakov was back in secon

LONDON — Football icon David Beckham was shown the red card and ordered out of a park while watching a children's match, he said in an interview screened yesterday. The former England captain was sent off after protesting a decision to send off one of the youngsters, he told ITV television. The Los

LONDON — Robin van Persie scored a hat-trick as Arsenal silenced their critics with a 7-1 thrashing of Blackburn yesterday to record their biggest Premier League win of the season. Disgruntled Arsenal fans had reportedly been planning protests at the Emirates after Arsene Wenger's side had slid to t

BERLIN — Schalke 04 stumbled to a 1-1 draw at home to Mainz 05 yesterday, missing the chance to join Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga and dropping two points off the pace. The visitors took an early lead through new signing Mohamed Zidan — a former Dortmund player — but Schalke complet

ASUNCION — Fifa President Sepp Blatter has slammed 'political interference' in Egyptian football, in the wake of the death of 74 fans in riots following a midweek domestic match. "In Egypt, football has been victim of political interference," he said late on Friday at the opening of a Conmebol meeti

MONACO — Rallying's flagship world championship sank deeper into trouble on Friday when the governing body said it had been unable to find either a global promoter or broadcaster for the series. Previous promoters North One Sport had their contract cancelled last month after the parent, Convers Spo

STUTTGART — Germany lost both their opening Fed Cup single rubbers to defending champions the Czech Republic yesterday as world No 2 Petra Kvitova ensured they finished the day with a 2-0 lead. The Czechs went 1-0 up here after Iveta Benesova stunned Sabine Lisicki by coming back from a set down to

PARIS — Julien Malzieu scored a wonderful try as World Cup runners-up France kicked off their Six Nations campaign with a 30-12 home win against Italy yesterday. Left wing Malzieu handed off three tackles to score a 40-metre first-half try as France made their chances count with Aurelien Rougerie, V