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Crack down Honolulu win on boozing global youth crown , Hat- Washington, United States sian Games organisers Ahave cracked down on ana Lau Kong boozing in the athletes’ vil- Msmashed a solo home lages, Indonesian officials run and Honolulu defeated said yesterday, warning 3-0 in Sunday’s Little competitors that the con- League World Series base- sumption of alcohol is “not ball final for 10-to-12-year- allowed” and unhealthy. trick old youths at Williamsport, Athletes who have al - Pennsylvania. ready finished their events The Honolulu team be- and officials were flouting came the third Hawaiian rules against drinking in the squad to win the title after villages, said Harry War- 2005 and 2008 and dedi- ganegara of Games organis- cated its effort to those ing committee Inasgoc. hero struggling in the wake of “There were some who Hurricane Lane’s damaging came in with beer... We have Giant impact. Seoul was seeking prevented that, many bot- a fourth crown after taking tles,” said Warganegara. Salimikordasiabi the title in 1984, 1985 and “We inspect. They cannot 2014. The South Koreans bring it in... It’s not healthy. completes Asian were in their third final in Smoking is also not al - five seasons, having also lost lowed.” Games weightlifting in the 2016 championship Indonesia, the world’s game. In Sunday’s third- most populous Muslim-ma- Behdad Salimikordasiabi attempts a lift during the snatch men’s +105kg weightlifting group A event hat-trick place consolation game, the jority country, banned the team from Kawaguchi, Ja- sale of alcohol in most con- pan, defeated an American venience stores and small AFP | Jakarta, Indonesia and 1974 Asiads. “I’m so happy that after world championships. “After my operation sqauad from Peachtree City, shops outside holiday hot- Mohammad Nassiri I am only the second I’ve had a very bad feeling here,” he said Georgia, 8-2. spot Bali in 2015, although ehdad Salimikordasiabi became only man from Iran to win three gold medals pointing to his left knee. it is still widely available the third weightlifter in history to in the ,” he told AFP after his “It had been very hard to train. I don’t in supermarkets, bars and complete a hat-trick of Asian Games winning total of 461kg. know how I won. I was determined to do hotels. Bgolds Monday after vanquishing doping The pair could not be separated after my best. That’s why I gave thanks to God.” Halep crashes out “We cannot control the cheat Saeid Alihosseini in a battle of the both opened with a snatch of 208kg, but it Alihosseini failed with his final attempt athletes 100 percent. (They Iranian giants. was Salimikordasiabi who prevailed with at 254kg on Monday and had to settle for New York, United States say) ‘I have already lost an- Salimikordasiabi, who won gold at his final clean and jerk of 253kg, removing silver on 456kg. yway, I’m an official, I’m 2010 and 2014, bat- his shoes and belt and kneeling to kiss the Alihosseini was originally banned for orld number one not playing, I can drink.’ But tled countryman Alihosseini lift-for-lift as stage in thanks. life from weightlifting for repeated pos- WSimona Halep was they can’t be like that,” he they turned the superheavyweight (+105kg) Alihosseini controversially took silver itive tests for anabolic steroids. He was swept aside 6-2, 6-4 by said. competition into a two-horse race. ahead of Salimikordasiabi in the 2017 world reprieved in 2017 when his suspension was 44th-ranked Kaia Kanepi on About 17,000 athletes and In claiming his third gold Salimikorda- championships in Anaheim, his first com- changed to 12 and then cut to eight years. Monday, the first top-seed- officials are taking part in siabi matched South Korean superheav- petition after returning from an eight-year Rustam Djangabaev of Uzbekistan, fourth ed woman ever to lose in the the 18th Asian Games in Ja- yweight Kim Tae-hyun, who won in the doping ban. in last year’s world championships, was US Open first round. karta and , the 1990, 1994 and , and The 2012 Olympic champion Salimikor- edged into bronze after a lifetime best clean It was a second straight biggest sports event in In- Iranian great Mohammad Nassiri, who won dasiabi revealed he been hampered by a leg and jerk of 252kg took him to 455kg, just 1kg first-round exit at Flushing donesia’s history. lightweight categories in the 1966, 1970 injury that required surgery after last year’s adrift of Alihosseini. Meadows for Romania’s Ha- lep, who dropped her open- ing match to Maria Shara- pova last year. The French Open cham- North win weightlifting gold then celebrate alongside South pion had no answer for Kanepi’s powerful ground- Jakarta, Indonesia world that the people of Korea strokes. are the greatest as one,” Kim The Estonian fired 26 im Kuk Hyang extended said. “I was worried I would winners to Halep’s nine, and KNorth Korea’s record tally be the only one not to do it, but even her 28 unforced errors to eight Asian Games weightlift- since I won the gold medal I am weren’t enough to derail her ing golds yesterday before there very happy,” said Kim after com- challenge as she brought were remarkable scenes as they pleting North Korea’s record the rallies to quick ends and were joined in celebration by haul of eight of the 15 golds on remorselessly punished Ha- their South Korean neighbours. offer. They also bagged a silver lep’s second serve. The two countries are tech- and a bronze. “Yesterday I thought I nically still at war but it did not Kim enjoyed a comfortable have beaten just once the stop their weightlifters exchang- win in the heaviest women’s world number one, today I ing warm greetings as eight days class of +75kg with a total of had another chance,” said a of competition at the Jakarta In- 291kg as the secretive nation beaming Kanepi, who de- ternational Expo drew to a close. doubled their previous highest feated then No. 1 Caroline South Korea finished a dis- Asian Games weightlifting best Wozniacki in back tance behind their neighbours of four golds set at Incheon 2014. in 2011. from across the fortified bor- S. Korea’s Son Young-hee took der with three silvers and two the silver on 282kg and Thai- bronzes. “Although our rankings land’s Duangaksorn Chaidee the were different in the medals ta- Gold medallist North Korea’s Kim Kuk Hyang (C) celebrates with teammates during the awards ceremony for the women’s bronze with 280kg. Afghanistan win 1st ble, I think we have shown the +75kg weightlifting event during 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta ODI against Ireland by 29 runs Belfast, United Kingdom

Farmer’s son Chopra reaps javelin gold for India fghanistan beat Ireland Aby 29 runs in the first Jakarta, Indonesia who used to dabble in cricket Games javelin medal and first one-day international of a as a child. since Gurtej Singh’s bronze in three-match series in Bel- eeraj Chopra skewered In- “But everything has to come 1982. It was also India’s eighth fast on Monday. Ndia’s first-ever Asian Games together perfectly for a success- gold medal of the 2018 Asian The hosts, beaten 2-0 in javelin gold medal yesterday af- ful throw. That only happens Games. the recent T20 series, were ter recently learning of the death when the technique and speed Chopra, whose boyish looks chasing a target of 228 to of his former coach. are perfect -- like on my third and ultra-bright smile have win but were bowled out A farmer’s son from a village attempt.” made him something of a sex for 198. outside of Delhi, the 20-year- Chopra revealed his heartache symbol in India, limbered up Having slipped to 93 for old favourite was never seri - at hearing last week that his with a throw of 83.46 before un- four, Ireland were rely - ously threatened in Jakarta as former Australian coach Gary leashing his best effort of 88.05 ing on Andy Balbirnie, but he won with an Indian record Calvert, who led him to a junior on his third attempt to effective- when he fell for a gritty 55 of 88.05 metres to follow up the world title in 2016, had died. ly end the conversation. their hopes evaporated. Commonwealth title he won in “He had told me we would ’s Liu Qizhen finished Earlier, Ireland’s bowlers Australia earlier this year. meet here at the Asian Games,” with silver after a personal best had restricted Afghanistan “That wasn’t easy,” Chopra said Chopra, who now trains un- of 82.22, with Pakistan’s Arshad to 227 for nine. told reporters. “I wanted to der former world record holder Nadeem taking bronze with a Gulbadin Naib topscored break the Asian Games record . “I was in Finland throw of 80.75. Taiwan’s Cheng with 64 and shared a but it’s still a national one. (L-R) Silver medallist China’s Liu Qizhen, gold medallist India’s Neeraj Chopra when I heard he had died. It was Chao-tsun, who holds the Asian fourth-wicket partnership “I can still throw further,” and bronze medallist Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem celebrate during the victory a real shock to me.” record of 91.36, failed to clear 80 of 77 with Hashmatullah added the Olympic hopeful, ceremony His gold is India’s third Asian metres as he placed fifth. Shahidi, who hit 54.