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Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany celebrates after winning the Formula One worldchampionship in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi yesterday. — Reuters
NICO Rosberg realized a dream and silenced his critics yesterday when he emulated his father Keke’s achievement and claimed his maiden Formula One drivers’ championship.

But by beating his Mercedes teammate and three-time champion Lewis Hamilton the usually-reserved Rosberg did far more than that.

In addition to persuading F1’s veteran commercial ring-master Bernie Ecclestone to “eat his words” after saying that a Rosberg title win would be bad for business Discount Oklahoma State Cowboys Jersey , he left several other pundits chewing furiously.

His father famously won only one race in his 1982 title triumph and a career total of five, but Rosberg swept to the title with nine wins this year.

It was emphatic proof that, despite all of Hamilton’s reliability problems, he won the title on merit as much through dogged pursuit as a raw talent for speed. Despite losing to Hamilton in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi yesterday, his overall triumph against Hamilton reflected his character — his refusal to concede, a relentless competitiveness and a cerebral attention to detail.

It also enabled Rosberg to exorcise the demons that appeared to inhabit his intense competition with Hamilton, a relationship which dates back to teenage karting days as team-mates Discount Oregon Ducks Jersey , room-mates and rivals, which has exploded with collisions in the last four years.

In many ways, Rosberg’s success — and his identity as a champion — has been defined by his relationship, and differences, with Hamilton.

Born to his Finnish father and German mother Sina in Wiesbaden, Germany, on June 27 Discount Penn State Nittany Lions Jersey , 1985, Rosberg has raced for both Finland, briefly in his early career, and Germany. Yet, if anything, he is Monegasque and cosmopolitan. He is a speaker of five languages with dual nationality from his parents, yet he does not speak Finnish thanks to his father’s decision to bring him up without it.

And Discount South Carolina Gamecocks Jersey , far from having an easy life thanks to inherited wealth and privilege, he has, like Hamilton, always had a sense that he has much to prove.

His father Keke always stressed a need to be prudent.

“I’ve always wanted to achieve things on my own,” he told The Guardian. “I hated buying jeans with my dad’s money. I’d buy the minimum for whatever was necessary.”

Rosberg claimed his first podium at the 2008 Australian Grand Prix, sharing the moment with a victorious Hamilton who had arrived in F1 with McLaren a year earlier. In 2010, he moved to the rebranded Mercedes team created by the German manufacturer’s takeover of the 2009 champion Brawn.

DAMASCUS Discount Texas Longhorns Jersey , Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- A total of 40 civilians evacuated the rebel-held old city of Homs Sunday, the second batch of civilians to leave that besieged area since Friday, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.

The new batch of evacuees left the old city amid shooting from inside the city in their direction, the TV said, hinting that the rebels are shooting at the people who want to leave to government- controlled areas.

Delivering aid rations and evacuating civilians from the besieged old city of Homs was part of an agreement concluded lately between the Syrian government and the UN, under which a truce between the government troops and the rebels went into effect Friday, when a total of 83 civilians were evacuated to government-controlled areas.

Earlier in the day Discount Ucla Bruins Jersey , an official source in the Homs governorate told Xinhua that about 200 civilians are expected to evacuate Sunday from old city.

The truce that went into effect Friday was breached by the opposition fighters in the old city, following their firing on civilians and aid convoys, according to the official media.

The source said that two aid convoys managed on Saturday to deliver 250 food parcels and more than 150 medication kits to the people who preferred to stay in their homes in the old city. He added that another two aid convoys failed to deliver the aid rations after the rebels fired mortar shells in their directions and blasted two roadside bombs on their way.

The rebels' firing also caused delay for the departure of the UN teams, who were coordinating the distribution of aid inside the old city.

About 2,500 people are believed to be trapped in the rebel-held old city, part of which has been under government troops' siege since June 2012.

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UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- UN relief chief Valerie Amos expressed her disappointment on Saturday over an attack on a humanitarian aid convoy in Syria's besieged old Homs city.

"I am deeply disappointed that the three-day humanitarian pause agreed between the parties to the conflict was broken today and aid workers deliberately targeted," Amos, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said in a statement.

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