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Seven-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will seek to narrow the gap on championship leader Marco Bezzecchi at Brno this weekend with a boost from a mighty comeback to racing.The 33-year-old Spaniard on a Ducati sat out two Grand Prix in May with a broken foot, but he returned in style with a race-spint double at the Balaton Park circuit in Hungary in early June.He capitalised on an early crash as championship runner-up Jorge Martin on an Aprilia had taken out his teammate Bezzecchi and three other riders in the first corner.Both Martin and Bezzecchi withdrew and Martin will serve a double long-lap penalty at Brno as a result – a penalty Aprilia Racing head Massimo Rivola said could have been even ‘stronger and harsher’.Ahead of the Czech MotoGP, Bezzecchi sits atop the overall rankings with 180 points from eight of the season's 22 races of which he has won four, while Martin in second has managed 160.Third-placed Fabio Di Giannantonio with 138 points was also involved in the crash, but he rejoined the race and finished 12th.Marquez in fifth overall has collected 108 points after his 100th MotoGP win in Hungary, which was also the 100th top-class win for Ducati.’I'm a believer, I try to do my 100 percent and I need to try. I feel I'm still far from my performance, the way I want to ride, but I'm still fast,’ Marquez told MotoGP after his first win of the season.But he admitted the latest injury – on the heels of recurrent problems with a broken arm that plagued him for years – did not allow him to race the way he wants.’The comeback is still not finished,’ Marquez said.’It depends a lot (on) Brno and Assen and then on the summer break. I still need to reach my new 100 percent… but of course, you know me: if I'm here, it's to fight — every race, every practice.’ 'Close the chapter'Bezzecchi made it clear his motivation had grown following the Balaton Park crash from which he emerged with bruises.’What a shame,’ the 27-year-old Italian wrote in his blog ‘Simply the Bez’.’I watched the race about ten times – I didn't remember much of it because of the adrenaline, so I had to go back and watch everything from the start. Nice to do, but then you close the chapter and move on.”Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt, just a few bruises. We'll make up for it at Brno,’ Bezzecchi added.Last year, Marquez took a double at Brno, the Czech Republic's second largest city after Prague, beating Bezzecchi in the race for his fourth MotoGP victory there.Marquez's younger brother Alex, ninth overall, is planning a return at Brno after missing two Grand Prix with a broken collarbone and a ‘marginal’ vertebra fracture following a crash in the Catalan GP in May.Brno returned to the MotoGP calendar last year after a five-year break due to financial woes and following a revamp of the track that made it much faster.The MotoGP circus has three races to go before the summer break. Source link
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Orly Airport Wednesday. (AFP) US President Donald Trump said Wednesday the United States will leave its military in the Gulf “for a while” after Washington struck a deal with Tehran to end its nearly four-month conflict in the region.While speaking to reporters in Paris, Trump added it would be unfair for Iran not to have ballistic missiles if other countries have them.”I’m saying that if other countries have them, it’s a little bit unfair for them not to have some,” Trump told reporters in Paris.”If Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and they all have some, I would say in relative proportion, I think it’s okay.”Earlier Wednesday, he also said his new ceasefire agreement with Iran was not final and he could resume the war if he is unsatisfied, even as Israel launched fresh airstrikes in Lebanon where fighting threatens the wider truce.”It’s a memorandum of understanding. And if I don’t like it, we’ll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head,” Trump said at a G7 summit in France of the agreement, reached three days ago.”If I don’t like it, if they don’t behave, we’ll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head, OK?”Leaders hailed the agreement at the summit, held in the French town of Evian-les-Bains, an hour’s drive along the shore of Lake Geneva from where the Iran ceasefire memorandum is due to be signed at a ceremony across the Swiss border tomorrow.Tehran’s foreign ministry Wednesday said it was considering a plan for the presidents of the US and Iran to sign the deal ending the Middle East war, ahead of an expected ceremony in Switzerland.”So far, our plans for the Geneva meeting have not changed,” ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said.”Regarding the signing of the memorandum of understanding, one idea is that it be done by the presidents of the two countries, which is currently under review.”If the presidents were to sign the document, he added, “in principle it would be done remotely.”Tehran has previously said the United States and Iran would be represented at the meeting in Switzerland by Vice President JD Vance and parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, respectively.US President Donald Trump said at a G7 summit in France on Wednesday that he expected the accord with Iran to “be signed shortly, tomorrow, maybe the next day”.Trump added that he “might” stay in Europe for the signing but added that as a memorandum of understanding “it might not be the kind of a document I should be signing”. Related Story…
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President Donald Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Wednesday that talks with Iran must continue, rebuffing the Israeli prime minister’s push for a tougher stance against Tehran.”There was nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a Deal can be consummated,” Trump said on social media after their three-hour meeting.”If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be,” said Trump, adding a reminder of last year’s US strikes against Iran’s nuclear program.Seeking to push for the Islamic republic’s ballistic missile program to be included in any deal, Netanyahu had rushed to Washington for his seventh meeting with Trump since the US leader returned to power.Netanyahu’s office said that during the talks with Trump the Israeli premier had “insisted on the security needs of the state of Israel in relation to the negotiations” on Iran.Trump has hinted at US military action against Iran following Tehran’s deadly crackdown on protesters, but at the same time Washington and Tehran restarted talks last week with a meeting in Oman.So far, Iran has rejected expanding its talks with the United States beyond the issue of its nuclear program, though Washington also wants Tehran’s ballistic missile program and its support for regional militant groups on the table.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Wednesday that Tehran would “not yield to excessive demands” on its nuclear program.But he insisted his country was not “not seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.” Source link
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