I can’t wait to return to Tokyo for the Olympics after our triumph.

KENTO MOMOTA BHUBANESWAR, TUESDAY 30 JULY 2019 WORLD NUMBER ONE MEN'S SINGLES PLAYER 11

THUMBNAILS Sindhu fights: The succes- Dressel emerges with Phelps aura sive losses to 's have The 22-year-old American freestyle swimmer came away from Gwangju with six gold medals and two silvers been disappointing but P V AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE “This is a lot of stress but hear that two people had ual harassment after an alleged Kristof Milak pulverising Sindhu will have to put it GWANGJU (), 29 JULY: I'm not sitting in my room flip- died and several athletes incident at a nightclub. Phelps's 200m butterfly mark all behind when she ping through my medals. I injured when a balcony inside “The scriptwriters for 'Days by a whopping 0.78 seconds renews her chase of a title merican superstar won less than seven, that a Gwangju nightclub col- of Our Lives' couldn't have in arguably the pick of them. this year in the Thailand Caeleb Dressel (in doesn't bug me one bit. lapsed at the weekend. written a better script for But with Sun facing a Sep- Open badminton tourna- photo) has invited “If this is where we're at Australian officials sub- this world championships,” tember hearing before the ment, starting on Tues- comparisons to heading to Tokyo, we'll be very sequently announced relay said Australia's Cate Camp- Court of Arbitration for Sport, day. A Olympic legend Michael dangerous next year,” added star Shayna Jack had tested bell, who won two relay golds the spectre of doping was Phelps after lighting up a Dressel, after the United positive for a banned sub- and took silver behind Amer- never far away. world champi- States once again topped the stance before the champi- ican Simone Manuel in the Asked about athletes vil- Bale thwarted: Chinese onships plagued by doping medals table with 14 golds - onships -- an opportunity women's 100m free. ifying 's sporting hero, Super League side Jiangsu rows, a sexual harassment - nine more than nearest for schadenfreude for the “It's thrown a bit of every- Russia's Yulia Efimova took Suning have signed Croat- arrest and a fatal nightclub acci- rivals Australia. Chinese -- before Hungarian thing at us.” In the pool, nine a long pause. “Of course it's ian striker Ivan Santini, dent. Dressel said he had been swimmer Tamas Kenderesi world records tumbled in not good,” said the former whose arrival is expected Dressel came away from “absolutely devastated” to was arrested on charges of sex- Korea, Hungarian teenager doping offender.” to bring to an end the Gwangju with six gold medals club's pursuit of Real and two silvers, winning all four Madrid's Gareth Bale. The of his individual events and signing means the club obliterating Phelps's 10-year- now have five foreign old 100 metres butterfly world players on their books. record for good measure. But even the heroics of swimming's tattooed golden 200 and 400m freestyle world formances he's had over the Zverev loses: World No 5 boy were often overshadowed titles, insisted he was “pro- years without doing the work.” Alexander Zverev lost to by an explosive doping con- tecting each and every athlete” Above the fray, Dressel Nikoloz Basilashvili in the troversy, which was looming by refusing to let what he repeated in the 50 and 100m semi-finals of the Ham- even before Chinese giant called “unlicensed” testers freestyle, as well as the 100m burg Open on Saturday, set foot in South take his blood. butterfly -- but not before less than 24 hours after it Korea. “He's not a drug cheat,” setting an eye-popping new was revealed the German Following bombshell alle- Sun's coach Denis Cotterell world best of 49.50 seconds had split with his coach gations in a FINA doping told AFP, adding that Chi- to eclipse Phelps's old body- Ivan Lendl. Lendl ended panel report, claiming the nese swimming has taken suit mark by 0.32. working with Zverev on triple Olympic champion had “meticulous care” to clean Inevitably, talk turned to Friday. allowed blood vials to be up its act since the state- next year's Tokyo Olympics smashed with a hammer after sponsored doping of the 1990s. and whether Dressel can emu- being visited by testers, sev- “It's absolutely critical for late Phelps, who racked up a Atlanta title: Australia's eral swimmers made their the athletes, the association, record eight gold medals at the Alex de Minaur, back from feelings very clear. for the whole sake of China's 2008 Beijing Games. a groin injury, captured his Australia's Mack Horton respect on a world stage that But Dressel revealed he second Association of Ten- and Briton they're well and truly dis- had been feeling the strain. nis Professionals title in refused to shake Sun's hand tanced from that past,” said “I've got pimples on my dominant style, dropping after losing to the hulking the Australian, claiming that face, I'm losing some hair,” said just 10 points on serve in a Chinese swimmer, provoking Sun was one of the most test- the 22-year-old, who swept to 6-3, 7-6 (7/2) triumph over a furious reaction from Sun, ed athletes in swimming. seven gold medals at the 2017 Taylor Fritz in a battle of who yelled at Scott: “You're a “He's tested year in, year world championships in rising stars in Atlanta. loser!” Sun, who retained his out. You can't have the per- Budapest.