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| Ecclestone hopes F1 will return to Bahrain Posted: 10 Dec 2011 06:10 AM PST  F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone (left) and Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa (right) speaks to journalists at Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. — Reuters pic This year's race had to be cancelled, after first being postponed, due to civil unrest in the Gulf kingdom and a subsequent crackdown that triggered accusations of rights abuses. A government appointed commission of international jurists found evidence of systematic abuses against detained protesters. "I hope we go to Bahrain and there's no trouble — the race goes on, the public are happy and there are no dramas. That's what I hope," Ecclestone told the Guardian newspaper in an interview. Asked what he would do if he had 'incontrovertible evidence that unacceptable things were still happening,' Ecclestone said: "We'd have to give it some serious thought then. "But we've been to Argentina when there's been big dramas. There's been dramas in Brazil. Bad things happen there. I think you can look anywhere now and it's not all good. "You can't really hold England up as being all good, can you? There have been some terrible atrocities that we committed." The Grand Prix has been scheduled for April 22. In an interview focused largely on his daughters' lavish lifestyles, the 81-year-old Briton touched on the situation in Bahrain whose race was confirmed on the calendar this week. Ecclestone said the Bahrainis he had met were "lovely people" and questioned reports about doctors being jailed for treating demonstrators: "Do you know that? Do you actually know that?," he asked. "If that's right, it's wrong. Obviously. Doctors are doctors. They're there to help people. It doesn't matter who it is they are helping. We have been assured that this is not what's happening. "I wanted to go out there. I was happy to go...I'd like to go into the prison or the hospital or whatever and ask 'what actually happened?'," he added. Asked what he would have done had he been the head of the International Olympic Committee before the 1936 Berlin Games in Nazi Germany, Ecclestone said it would have depended on the advice he was receiving. However, he said other peoples' religion, ways of life and customs had to be respected. "It's not correct to go moving into somebody's country and try to change them. Don't go. If you know something's wrong, stay away," he declared. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Quiros and Donald on course for Tour firsts Posted: 10 Dec 2011 05:45 AM PST  Alvaro Quiros of Spain shakes hands with Peter Hanson of Sweden during the third round of the Dubai World Championship in Dubai. — Reuters pic While Donald was taking a giant stride towards adding the European order of merit title to the US PGA Tour money-list win he clinched in October, Quiros was forging a two-shot lead at the season-ending tournament in the United Arab Emirates. No one has won the Dubai Desert Classic and the Dubai World Championship in the same year but the big-hitting Spaniard was well placed after returning a two-under-par 70 for a 14-under total of 202 at the Greg Norman-designed Earth course. Britain's Paul Lawrie (66) eagled the 620-yard 18th to take second place on 204, one ahead of 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (66) of South Africa and two shots in front of Donald (66). Briton Donald needs to finish no worse than equal ninth with one other competitor here to be crowned Europe's top golfer for the first time in his career and become the first player to win the order of merit titles on both sides of the Atlantic. His only rival for the European honour, fellow countryman Rory McIlroy, managed only a 71 for 208 despite being watched for the last nine holes by girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki, the world's number one female tennis player. — Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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