June 27, 2021 Tokyo ticket Iranian sprinter Farzaneh Fasihi was granted a universality quota by the World Athletics and will represent the country at the women’s 100m contests 7 at Tokyo Olympics in July, IRNA reported. Sports Iranian women win Iran’s Keikha clinches gold world shooting gold at gymnastics World Cup Sports Desk Kurbanov (15.033 points) and Kohei Kameyama of Japan (14.6 points) – Keikha main rival for a Tokyo Olympics Iran’s Saeid-Reza Keikha won a gold medal at the 13th quota – taking the silver and bronze respectively. FIG Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup This was Iran’s second medal of the afternoon after Me- in Doha, Qatar. hdi Ahmad-Kohani settled for a rings bronze with 14.8 On Friday, the Iranian tallied 15.2 points for the top spot points in the final, trailing Greek gold medalist Eleftherios at the pommel horse final, with Kazakhstan’s Nariman Petrounias and Brazilian Arthur Zanetti. ISNA Iran’s air rifle team pose for a photo with their gold medals at the 2021 ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Osijek, Croatia, on June 25, 2021. Sports Desk sia 16-2 in the women’s team air rifle Foroughi was also a member of the final on Friday. three-man team – alongside Vahid JAVID NIKPOUR/TASNIM ran’s three-woman team clinched a Hungary beat Austria 16-10 for the Golkhandan and Sajjad Pourhosseini – gold medal at the 2021 ISSF World Cup bronze. that beat Russia for the men’s team air IRifle/Pistol/Shotgun in Osijek, Croatia. This was Iran’s second gold in the pistol bronze. The Iranian trio, comprising Fate- competitions as Javad Foroughi had A total of 520 athletes from 47 coun- meh Karamzadeh, Najmeh Khedmati, won the men’s 10m air pistol contests tries have been participating at the Bucks dominate Game 2 and Armina Sadeqian, overcame Rus- on the preceding night. event, which will conclude July 3. to even East final series Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 “I take responsibility for what hap- Danilo Gallinari came off the bench points and Jrue Holiday delivered 22 pened tonight. Taking care of the ball to score 12 points, and John Collins Farah’s last-ditch bid as the third-seeded Milwaukee Bucks is something I got to be better at,” and Cam Reddish scored 11 points crushed the Atlanta Hawks 125-91 to said Young. apiece for the Hawks, who are now 6-3 level their Eastern Conference final Young left the game for good with on the road in the postseason. series at 1-1. 3:48 remaining in the third quarter. He “There’s another level we have to for Olympics place ends in failure Milwaukee used a 20-0 run in the shot six of 16 overall, and one of eight get to in order to win games and ad- second quarter to seize command on on three-point attempts. vance,” said Hawks coach Nate Mc- Friday, outscoring the fifth-seeded Mo Farah will not race for a third successive 10,000 metres Hawks 43-17 in the quarter to grab a gold medal in Tokyo this year after he again failed to make 77-45 halftime lead in front of a crowd the Olympic qualifying time in the British Athletics Cham- of 16,400 at the Fiserv Forum in Mil- pionships on Friday – his last realistic chance to do so. waukee, AFP reported. Farah, 38, who also won double Olympic gold in the “We just needed to do more things 5,000m, needed to clock 27 minutes, 28 seconds to make better in this game. The effort was himself available for selection, having fallen 22 seconds great,” said Bucks coach Mike Buden- short of that target in his last outing at the start of June holzer. “The guys were committed and when he was hampered by an ankle injury, Reuters repro- now we got to go do it again.” ted. Two-time league MVP Antetok- On Friday he was marginally faster with 27:47.04, but still ounmpo made 11 of 18 shots from the almost 20 seconds adrift. field and Holiday went nine-of-14 for Farah, who also has six world titles over 5,000 and 10,000, the Bucks, who shot 52 percent over- moved away from the track to concentrate on the marathon all. Both Antetokounmpo and Holiday for more than three years but returned for another shot at the rested in the fourth quarter. Olympics over his favourite distance. Game 3 is today in Atlanta. In Friday’s race he was on target pace through halfway “We came in focused on each pos- but quickly began to run out of partners. By the 6km mark session at a time in Game 2, and we he was on his own, facing a tough solo time trial to keep his were able to do it together as a team,” Olympic dream alive. Antetokounmpo said. Despite a noisy crowd willing him on, he began to drop off Brook Lopez scored 16 points and the pace and after 8,000m was 10 seconds adrift. He contin- Khris Middleton added 15 points and STACY REVERE/GETTY IMAGES ued to lose time, grimacing as he battled through the last lap, eight assists in the win. Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) goes up for a basket during an NBA victory over eventually coming up well short. “We wanted to set the tone,” said Mid- the Hawks at the Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, WI, US, on June 25, 2021. “Thank you for everyone who’s come out,” Farah said in a dleton. “We wanted to make sure they trackside interview. “Oh my goodness. I don’t know what to MOLLY DARLINGTON/REUTERS weren’t comfortable and have the ag- “Last game he was living in the Millan. “That intensity they came out say. You go out there and give it your all. Britain’s Mo Farah reacts after the men’s 10,000m at the British gression that we didn’t have in Game 1.” paint, had a lot of floaters (and) those with wasn’t a surprise to us. They just “I’ve been lucky enough to have had the long career I’ve Athletics Championships in Manchester, Britain, on June 25, 2021. The Bucks took advantage of 20 are pretty much layups for him,” Holi- totally dominated the entire game.” had. I’m very grateful but that’s all I had today.” not good enough.” turnovers by Atlanta, including nine day said. “We didn’t really want that to The Bucks extended their lead to a Asked if Friday marked the end of his stellar track career, The British athletics squad for Tokyo will be named on by Trae Young. The Hawks’ rising star get him started early. And I don’t think game-high 41 points, 105-64, when Farah said: “It’s a tough one. If I can’t compete with the best Tuesday but for the first time since 2004, Farah, who also finished with a team-high 15 points on he went to the free-throw line much to- Jordan Nwora made a layup early in I’m not just going there to finish in a final. Tonight shows it’s raced at the 2008 Beijing Games, will not be in it. six-of-16 shooting from the floor. night, which is also pretty big for us.” the fourth quarter. United closing in on £77m Sancho deal Manchester United are getting closer to agreeing a deal to sign Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund. A proposed deal for the England winger is worth in the region of £77m, with the clubs in the process of finalising the payment struc- ture and potential add-ons, Sky Sports reported. The Bundesliga side have pushed for more of the fee to be paid up front – and are now willing to lower their asking price if United agree to front-load the payment. It is understood Dortmund’s asking price for the 21-year-old at the start of the summer transfer window was in excess of £85m. Meanwhile, a £77m fee would be more than £30m less than the £108m valuation Dortmund placed on Sancho last summer. The agreement of personal terms between United and Sancho is not expected to pose any issues, although that is unlikely to happen while he is on international duty with England at Euro 2020. Sancho came through Watford’s academy before joining Manchester City in 2015, but he moved on to Dortmund in 2017 after declin- ing the offer of a new contract at the Etihad. Sancho swiftly established himself as a key player at Dortmund, and has scored 50 goals in 137 appearances for the German club. GETTY IMAGES.