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Avinash Sable has been quietly building up for the World Athletics Championships away from home and spotligh stanley becher t this year. The 3000m steeplechase runner has trained in altitude at Colorado Springs and St Moritz, Switzerland ahead of the Budapest championships which start on Saturday. File photo of Avinash Sable during his training session at NIS Patiala. Bharat Bhushan / HT Photo Training alongside two-time Olympic 5000m medallist Paul Chelimo, the Kenyan-born U.S. athlete, Sable is putting his body under severe test. He does not have a good memory of last years World Ch stanley deutschland ampionships in Eugene, Oregon where he finished 11th in the final, unable to deal with a tactical race that was one of the slowest in the history of the world championships. But the Armyman was quick to pick himself up and banish those ghosts at the Commonwealth Games a month later in Birmingham, running his best among a pack of Kenyan runners to win silver. In the process, Sable improved his national record for the ninth time, clocking 8:11.20s after almost chasing down Kenyan Abraham Kibiwot 8:11.15 in the home stretch. This year, Sable, 28, has competed in three Diamond League events in steeplechase. Of them, his best of the season was at Silsea, Poland, where his timing of 8:11.63 saw him qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics much in advance. The good thing for S stanley thermobecher able is that he is closer to the national record early in the year, says coach Scott Simmons. This year, Sable also broke a 30-year-old Inls Eight-goal Bayern condemn St Pauli, secure CL spot
Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb shocked 10-man Arsenal 2-1 at their home ground of Stadion Maksimir on Wednesday to win for the first time in 16 Champions League matches, while reigning champions Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw at Roma and Chelsea thumped Maccabi Tel-Aviv 4-0. Arsenal s Olivier Giroud looks dejected after being sent off in his team s group stage encounter of the Uefa Champions League at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb stanley travel mug , Croatia, on September 16, 2015. Reuters Photo An Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain own goal and a header from Junior Fernandes gave Dinamo three points as France forward Olivier Giroud was dismissed for two first-half bookings for Arsenal. It is not the way we wanted to begin the competition, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told BT Sport. We have enough games to come back. We focus to win our next home game and I m sure we can beat Zagreb at home. Zagreb took the lead from virtually their stanley usa first attack of the game as Leonardo Sigali slipped in Josip Pivaric, whose shot was saved by David Ospina, only to stanley quencher rebound off Oxlade-Chamberlain and go in. By that time Giroud had already hit the post and been booked for dissent, and five minutes before the break he was late and high in a tackle and received his second booking. Dinamo capitalised on 58 minutes as Fernandes headed home a Paulo Machado corner at the near post as Arsenal s defence went walkabout. Theo Walcott gave the Gunners hope 11 minutes from time with a cool, low finish from Alexis