Sport Short: Nimir Abdelaziz exchanges club Trentino for Modena | Sport

sport">So always stay up to date with all the sports news. For football, tennis, skating, motorsport, cycling and darts news, we have set up special pages on our website, on which the most important things in these sports are highlighted. This section Sport Short mainly deals with the other messages.

Volleyball: Abdelaziz exchanges club Trentino for Modena

sport">00:18 hours Dutch volleyball player Nimir Abdelaziz has exchanged his Italian club Trentino Volley for another Italian top club, Modena Volley. His new club and the Dutch international confirmed the news via social media.

sport">Manager Andrea Sartoretti was very happy with the arrival of Abdelaziz. “We are honored that Nimir Modena chose from all the offers he had, and there were many. He is one of the strongest players in the world. ”

sport">Abdelaziz had been playing with Trentino since last summer and had renewed his contract there not long ago. “A week after the last match with Trentino, after I had signed for 3 years 3 months earlier, it was announced that the club has money problems and the guys with the big contracts had to get out,” said Abdelaziz at volleybalrant.nl. “Fortunately I had a number of options, including this one. I think Modena is the best club to play as a player. ”

Cycling: Wiebes wins second stage in Tour of Thuringia

sport">7:14 PM Cyclist Lorena Wiebes has won the second stage in the Tour of Thuringia. The sprintster of Team DSM was the fastest in a 125 kilometer stage with start and finish in Gera. She was far ahead of the Danish Emma Norsgaard and the Luxembourg Christine Majerus.

sport">Norsgaard, who had won the first stage, remains the leader in the general classification. The Tour of Thuringia lasts until Sunday.

sport">For Wiebes it is the fourth stage victory of 2021. She previously won the Scheldeprijs, among other things.

Do not play an item with sports federations for cancellations

sport">3.55 pm: While the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbum on Wednesday called for the Tokyo Olympics to be canceled due to the corona situation in Japan, the preparations of Dutch athletes continue as usual. “What can you do with it, as a sports association?”, Says Ad Roskam, technical director of the Athletics Union. “The signals I get from NOC * NSF or the IOC do not indicate a cancellation,” says Thorwald Veneberg, general director of the KNWU cycling association. “I hardly hear worried noises from athletes.”

sport">Asahi Shimbun, one of the sixty official domestic partners of the Games in Tokyo, thinks the risks to public safety and the pressure that the Games place on concern because of corona is too great. The article was widely shared, probably by concerned opponents of the Games. Surveys also show that more and more Japanese people are no longer interested in the continuation of the Games due to an increase in the number of corona infections.

sport">“But I don’t know whether that applies to most Japanese. It is often the silent majority that you do not hear ”, says Veneberg, whose association hopes to travel to Tokyo with many medal candidates. “I also think that the opponents of the continuation of the Games are not aware of the consequences, especially financially.”

Volleyball: Dutch women down in five-set against Germany

sport">1.11 pm: The Dutch volleyball players lost their second game in the Nations League on Wednesday. The German team was just too strong for the team of national coach Avital Selinger in five sets: 18-25 25-18 28-30 25-23 15-12.

sport">The volleyball players play a total of fifteen Nations League games in Rimini, Italy, for four weeks, where they are in a ‘bubble’ because of the corona measures. Permanent employees such as Laura Dijkema, Maret Grothues, Yvon Beliën and Nicole Koolhaas skip the Nations League and only join the Orange later.

sport">On Tuesday, the Netherlands had won the opening game with Belgium 3-0, Russia will be the next opponent on Thursday. The Russians were clearly too strong for Germany on the opening day with 3-0.

Cycling: Stage winner Campenaerts no longer starts in Giro

sport">11.05 am: Belgian cyclist Victor Campenaerts will no longer start on Wednesday in the seventeenth stage of the Tour of Italy. His team Qhubeka Assos has reported this. Campenaerts, who won the fifteenth stage on Sunday by beating the Dutchman Oscar Riesebeek in the sprint, is suffering from a leg injury.

sport">Campenaerts (29) got pain in the right knee during the sixteenth stage, which the riders had to finish on Monday in cold and wet conditions. The Belgian still reached the finish, but will not take action after Tuesday’s rest day. “The team’s medical staff have decided that he should withdraw to reduce the risk of further aggravation of the injury,” the team said.

Basketball: Brooklyn Nets Way Too Strong for Boston Celtics

sport">07.37: Brooklyn Nets has won against Boston Celtics in the playoffs of the American professional basketball league NBA. It became 130-108, in a game in which the Nets realized a difference of 33 points at one point. The score between the two is now 2-0.

sport">Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden were the usual star players at Brooklyn Nets. Joe Harris contributed with a few three-pointers that the club took an early distance. Boston Celtics never knew how to make up the difference. After the first quarter it was already 40-26, halfway 71-47.

sport">“We made a difference in the opening phase,” said Durant. “Much of that was due to Joe. Because of his good play, we could initially more or less outplay the opponent. ” Durant even scored 26 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assist.

General: Official Olympic Games sponsor calls for cancellation

sport">07.00 am: The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, an official partner of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, has called in an article on Wednesday to cancel the sporting event this summer. According to the newspaper, the risks to public safety and the pressure that the Games are putting on health because of the corona pandemic are too great.

sport">“We ask Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to calmly and objectively assess the situation and decide not to let the event go ahead this summer,” the article headed “Decision to Cancel.” Wednesday morning (local time) the headline of the article had already been tweeted more than 21,000 times.

sport">Much of Japan, including the host city of Tokyo, is currently under a state of emergency due to an increase in the number of corona infections. The state of emergency is expected to be extended again at the end of this month, less than two months before the start of the sporting event. Many polls show that the majority of the Japanese do not want the Olympics to take place this summer.

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