Latvala is sixth with the first 27 points he scored in Mexico

2. Sébastien Ogier (FRA / Volkswagen Polo R WRC) at 1: 10.4

3. Mads Østberg (NOR / Ford Fiesta RS WRC) at 5: 27.9

4. Dani Sordo (ESP / Hyundai New i20 WRC) at 5: 37.9

Finn Jari-Matti Latvala (Volkswagen) was confirmed as leader of the Rally Mexico, with more than half a minute and a half ahead of French world champion Sebastien Ogier, when the short day of this Sunday remains.

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This Saturday, in Guanajuato, central Mexico, Latvala prevailed in six of the nine stages contested and extended his advantage with which he has come one step away from eliminating the undefeated Ogier, winner of the first two stops of the season (Montecarlo and Sweden).

Ogier, who started as the leader on Thursday and lost first place yesterday, was the best in the final two stages and kept second place ahead of Spaniard Dani Sordo, from Hyundai, the best in the penultimate stage this Saturday.

Yesterday, Saturday, the Norwegian Andreas Mikkelsen (Volkswagen), who had started the day in fourth place, quit in the fifteenth stage, and was the great victim of the day. This Sunday the rally will conclude with the final two stages.

Dani Sordo returned to the podium. And he did it in a Rally Mexico that Jari-Matti Latvala won ahead of his teammate, World Championship leader Sébastien Ogier. The Finn thus ended a fatal start to the season after his fiascos in Monte Carlo and Sweden, where precisely Ogier had risen with victory to lead the WRC World Championship alone.

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Ogier, who tried everything to unseat Latvala by winning the last four stages, had only to wait for a problem from the Finn this Sunday in the Guanajato stage, 80 kilometers long and the longest in the World Cup by far. But nothing happened. The Frenchman won this stage that counted as a Power Stage, where extra points are given and it is televised live, but the podium was decided.

Latvala was winning again after last year’s Rally de France. And he did it to perpetuate one more rally the unbeatenness of Volkswagen, which they have not lost since the Rally de Portugal in 2015.

Sordo, for his part, finished third to add his 39th World Cup podium. The last time he got into the box was when the Catalunya-Costa Daurada Rally finished third last year. This time Sordo had no major setbacks, although he did have minor problems.

With two victories and a second place, Ogier continues to lead the drivers’ championship with 77 points followed by a distance by the Norwegian Mads Ostberg (Ford), fourth in Mexico with 39, while Andreas Mikkelsen (Volkswagen), who left in Guanajuato, He is third with 33 points and Sordo fourth with another 33, although Mikkelsen’s best results in Monte Carlo and Sweden put him on the virtual podium of the World Cup. Latvala is sixth with the first 27 points he scored in Mexico. The next round of the World Championship is the Rally Argentina from April 21 to 24.

The long and hot dirt tracks are once again the protagonists of the World Championship thanks to Rally Mexico, a test in which the Cantabrian Dani Sordo will return to competition after being absent in Sweden due to injury.

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The Hyundai driver broke two ribs a little over a month ago while training with the mountain bike and returns in a test in which the Korean brand will debut a new engine system to try to alleviate the loss of performance – close to 30% – suffered by the power units in the Mexican heights.

The test, which will once again have Sébastien Ogier as the great favorite for victory, will take place at more than 2,700 meters above sea level. Here Hyundai achieved its first podium last season and now, a season later, it arrives in Mexico in second place overall after the intractable Volkswagen.

Leader Sébastien Ogier faces the challenge of continuing to accumulate victories on terrain that is not easy and prone to surprises. The Frenchman has 26 victories in the World Rally Championship, the same as Carlos Sainz achieved at the time and only four from another myth like Gronholm. Reaching Sebastien Loeb is another story since the best rally driver in history has accumulated nothing more and nothing less than a total of 78 victories throughout his sporting career.

Ahead, Ogier, Sordo and the rest of the World Rally Championship riders will have 21 intense competition stages and almost 400 timed kilometers. The first contact will begin this Thursday. 

The Volkswagens continue to dominate the World Rally Championship at will. When he is not Ogier, Latvala or Mikkelsen take over. On the second day of Rally Mexico, it was the Finn who took the lead over the rest of the teammates with Dani Sordo as a luxury spectator.

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Latvala cemented his leadership by winning five of the seven stages contested this past dawn. The Finn ousted Ogier from first place in the provisional classification. It is not the first time that this situation occurs this season and finally the French Volkswagen has ended up winning the first two appointments, Monte Carlo and Sweden.

Dani Sordo (Hyundai), meanwhile, got in the middle of the Volkswagen fight but from a distance, 1: 15.6 behind Latvala but less than a minute behind Ogier. This time Neuville got the bad taste of bad luck. The Belgian was forced to retire after breaking the suspension on the left front wheel.

Sordo will face the third day with the aim of maintaining his podium options but with Mikkelsen just over half a minute away and with nine stages ahead, including three super stages.

17-year-old Kenyan athlete Angela Ndungwa Munguti has been suspended for four years after testing positive for norandrosterone in a doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit announced Wednesday.

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Munguti, an 800-meter runner with a personal record of 2: 06.21, has been suspended with effect from last October 7 and her results canceled from that same date, although the resolution is actionable, according to the Unit’s bulletin.

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Munguti’s positive brings back to the present a recent report by the German television channel ZDF in which the alleged complicity of the Kenyan Athletics Federation in the doping of some of its athletes was investigated.

The Ugandan athlete Joshua Cheptegei has broken the world record of 10K in Valencia, a race that is held in parallel to the Trinidad Alfonso-EDP Valencia Marathon, with an unofficial time of 26:38 minutes.

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The African runner, who is the current world champion in cross country and 10,000 meters on the track, made a spectacular race in which he struck the world record that since 2010 the Kenyan Leonard Patrick Komon had with 26:44 minutes marked in the 10K of Utrech.

Cheptegei, who arrived in Valencia with the aim of achieving the world distance record, found ideal weather conditions for it and even in the first kilometer he was ahead of his "hares" to indicate that he wanted them to set a higher pace.

Halfway through the course, with a time of 13:22, the reigning Diamond League champion in the 5,000 meters had already been just two seconds above the world record and took command of the race.

With a very loose rhythm and consulting the chrono on his wrist, Cheptegei reached the last 1,000 meters knowing that he was going to achieve his challenge and even missed a small gesture of celebration before breaking the finish line, reducing the previous one by six seconds. world record.

Cheptegei wanted to thank once at the finish line for the work done by his team and his coaches "the good work we have done", and confessed that he had been affected his last training sessions in Valencia due to a cold.

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"It is one of the most important moments of my life and without a doubt it can be said that Valencia is the city of running", he concluded.

The players and the coach of the FC Barcelona first team support with their image the ‘No matter where we come from’ campaign to help refugees promoted by the Club Foundation in collaboration with the Red Cross and which was presented on Friday September 18 on Friday first vice president of the club Jordi Cardoner.

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Iniesta, Messi, Neymar Jr, Piqué, Sergio Busquets and Luis Enrique are the protagonists of the videos and photographs in support of the campaign, which aims to help raise funds and sensitize society to the serious problem suffered by the displaced who arrive in Europe, as well as contribute to their integration into the territory.

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FC Barcelona wants to take advantage of its media presence and the capacity of the entity and the stars of the first team to reach thousands of citizens and help make them aware how do i use the bonus in my 1xbet account of the importance of collaborating and helping to alleviate the drama that refugees are suffering.

The video that the players have recorded follows the line of the first institutional video of this solidarity project that was made public during the press conference on Friday, and which takes as its common thread the phrase that gives the campaign its name, ‘Tant se val d ‘on venim’ (‘It doesn’t matter where we come from’), and that is one of the verses of the Barça anthem.