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United States' J'den Cox, left, celebrates after defeating Japan's
Takashi Ishiguro, right, in their 92 kg match in the Freestyle Wres-
tling World Cup, Saturday, April 7, 2018, in Iowa City, Iowa.
U.S. wins wrestling Kyle Busch (18) celebrates his win in a NASCAR Cup series auto race in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday,

World Cup for 1st April 8, 2018. Associated Press

time in 15 years KYLE BUSCH Victory Lane," he said. vious eight Cup races on 1
Harvick, who won at Texas 1/2-mile tracks. Truex had
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... Being as close as you in November, led 87 of the won five and Harvick the
are, that kind hurts a little first 129 laps and won the other three, including the
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — national performance to bit more, especially that first stage. But he had is- first two this season. But
The United State won wres- date by also sweeping his final one, that Homestead sues on pit road, including Truex wasn't even around
tling's World Cup for the first four matches. one." a strange incident during for the finish of this one. The
time in 15 years Sunday, The U.S. stormed into the Busch stayed in front of a caution when a lugnut first 85-lap stage ended
beating Azerbaijan in the semifinals after two domi- Harvick the last 24 laps af- popped loose and into the under caution after a front
final. The victory marked nant dual meets on Sat- ter the final restart, getting jack. He dropped from first right tire blew on his No. 78
the second consecutive urday. The Americans his third win at Texas and to ninth on that stop, then Toyota, which shot up the
major international tourna- blanked India, Russia's re- 44th of his career. The No. had to come back in a track and slammed hard
ment won by the Ameri- placement, and then won 18 Toyota led 116 of the 334 few laps later because of into the outer wall. Truex,
cans, who won the team seven straight matches to laps at the 1 1/2-mile track. a loose wheel. There was second to Harvick at the
crown at last year's world easily handle Japan 7-3. "They were probably just a another stop when Har- time, finished last in the 37-
championships. The U.S. opened Sunday tick faster overall, but I just vick, who dropped back car field. "Just blew a right-
This title came with some- with an 8-2 victory over had to make sure to do ev- as far as 27th place and a front tire out of nowhere.
thing of an asterisk because Georgia, a meet in which erything I could to hit all my lap behind the leader, got Not sure what happened
wrestling powerhouses Rus- it outscored the Georgians marks and everything to a penalty for an extra man there," Truex said. "All in all
sia and Iran weren't in the 75-14. focus on making sure that I over the wall when a tire we were going to be in for
field. The Russians blamed Former Ohio State star Lo- did the right things to block got loose in the pit. a good day. We were mak-
their absence on visa is- gan Stieber put the Ameri- his air a little bit," Busch said. "We did overcome a lot. ... ing the car better and still
sues, while Iran's national cans on the path to victory Jamie McMurray finished We had a pathetic day on had room to go. We were
federation has been in flux against Azerbaijan with an third, ahead of Erik Jones. pit road, two days on pit as fast as anybody. At least
since its president's recent upset of three-time world Ryan Blaney was fifth a road, because of pit guns," that's a positive."
departure. champion Haji Aliyev. day after winning the Xfin- Harvick said. "When you TOP 10 FOR SHS WITH TOP 3
Still, multiple world cham- Snyder, also a Buckeye, ity Series race. Since fin- have a pit gun problem Kurt Busch, the pole sitter,
pions Jordan Burroughs clinched the victory for the ishing 25th in the season like we have multiple times finished seventh. Stewart-
and Kyle Snyder went 4-0 U.S. with a 14-3 win over Ro- opener at Daytona, Busch and been able to over- Haas Racing had the top
this weekend to lead the man Bakirov. has been in the top seven come it and then today we three starters in a race for
Americans, who won their "I love being the guy who the last six races. "We've couldn't overcome it. Time the first time with Harvick,
first World Cup since 2003. seals the deal," said Snyder, just been on a roll of finish- after time you can't get the Busch and Clint Bowyer,
The U.S. had finished sec- whose victory over Russian ing really good and getting lug nuts tight because the and all finished their Fords
ond both in 2015 and last star Abdulrashid Sadulaev really pumped and excited pit guns don't work." in the top 10. Bowyer, com-
year in Kermanshah, Iran. in Paris last fall gave the about that and the mo- A DIFFERENT 1.5 WINNER ing off a win two weeks
Four-time NCAA champion Americans their first team mentum we were able to Harvick and reigning Cup ago at Martinsville to end
Kyle Dake had perhaps world championship since carry, but frustrated at the Series champion Martin his 190-race winless streak,
his most impressive inter- 1995.q same time trying to get to Truex Jr. had won the pre- was ninth.q