Bayern Munich will face Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal on Tuesday
UAE’s Rashid Al Mulla says he is confident of extending one of the longest winning sequences in competitive international water sport in Italy at the weekend.
The Team Abu Dhabi star and three-time world aquabikes freestyle champion has been unbeatable since his first of 11 consecutive overall Grand Prix victories stretching back to November 2017.
Al Mulla has since then won 24 successive motos, the back-to-back events which make up each round of the UIM-ABP Aquabike Class Pro World Championship, and can add to his tally in the Regione Sardegna Grand Prix of Italy in Olbia.
The Emirati recorded his last Grand Prix success in Kuwait in February 2020, less than a month after breaking his right shoulder in a training accident, before the championship was put on hold due to the pandemic.
With the series now resuming in Italy at the weekend, and other rounds to follow in Kuwait in November and Sharjah in December, Al Mulla has a chance to set a record which may prove unbreakable.
“I’ve been training very hard physically to stay at my best level and I’ve also been doing a lot of technical work to get the best out of the ski,” he said. “If there are no technical problems with the ski I’m 100% confident that I can win again.”
Al Mulla says he has spent months perfecting a series of new tricks which will be seen for the first time by judges and spectators when he returns to action in Olbia, the coastal city in northeast Sardinia.
His biggest rival could again be the Italian Roberto Mariani who finished runner-up in seven motos during the 2019 world championship.
The Grand Prix of Italy has attracted a powerful international line-up of competitors for three days of intense competition involving Runabout, Ski Division, Ski Ladies, Freestyle and the newly introduced Runabout GP4 Ladies class.
The event gets under way with official practice on Friday morning followed by the pole position qualifiers in the afternoon and evening, with one moto each taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
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