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BY SUSANNAH GEORGE The Washington Post KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban are ramping up pres- sure on some of Afghanistan’s largest cities, striking busy transit hubs and pushing front lines deep into urban areas for the first time since the militants were over- thrown nearly two decades ago. Taliban fighters launched rock- ets Saturday at airports in Kanda- har and Herat, two of the coun- try’s largest cities and busiest eco- nomic centers. The attacks dis- rupted commercial travel, though flights in and out of Herat subse- quently resumed. “There was a large blast and the whole room started shaking,” said Massoud Ahmad Pashtun, the chief of Kandahar airport, who was present at the time of the at- tack. He said three rockets landed within seconds of each other and ‘I got lucky’ damaged one of the runways. The attacks mark a potential turning point in the Afghan con- flict. Previously, clashes were JENNIFER H. SVAN/Stars and Stripes largely confined to the country’s Senior Airman Calixto Rodriguez, left, and Airman Kyle Koury try to break apart debris by the Nims River in Rittersdorf, Germany, on Saturday. rural areas or smaller cities con- More than two dozen airmen from Spangdahlem Air Base volunteered to help clean in the aftermath of severe flooding in western Germany. SEE TALIBAN ON PAGE 5

RELATED US airmen who survived catastrophic floods help German villages recover ■ US will allow more BY JENNIFER H. SVAN termath of Europe’s severe flooding last and anything else in its path in the worst flood- AND MARCUS KLOECKNER month. ing longtime residents say they have ever seen. Afghans to apply for Stars and Stripes Rittersdorf was spared the deaths and the Village leaders last week reached out to the RITTERSDORF, Germany — The Nims worst of the destruction caused by the floods, U.S. military community, asking for help in asylum amid violence River flows through the heart of this village in which killed about 180 people in western Ger- cleaning up debris still scattered in the basin. ■ the rural Eifel region, skirting a moated castle many and left thousands homeless. “We know that they are (our) friends in hard Ghani seeks more that has stood since medieval times. But a water line above the castle’s first-floor times,” Otmar Koch, the deputy mayor of Rit- protection for cities On Saturday, the waterlogged stone fortress windows shows where the Nims crested at over tersdorf, said of the Americans. “We need a lot was the meeting point for more than two dozen 6 feet on July 14 and 15, pouring into the castle of help here.” as Taliban advance U.S. military personnel, who volunteered to and homes along the banks. Page 5 help the town of about 1,400 clean up in the af- The river uprooted trees, fences, street signs SEE LUCKY ON PAGE 3 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER Pharmaceutical plant idled, costing 1.5K jobs EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,151.41 Associated Press the generic drug company Mylan, groups called on President Joe Bi- Switzerland (Franc) 0.9046 Euro costs (Aug. 3) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 32.94 CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West which merged with Upjohn last den on July 21 to intervene in the Dollar buys (Aug. 3) 0.8200 Turkey (New Lira) 8.3540 British pound (Aug. 3) $1.36 Virginia pharmaceutical plant that year to form the new company. Via- company’s plan. A new campaign Japanese yen (Aug. 3) 107.00 (Military exchange rates are those available employed nearly 1,500 people has tris, which announced it would led by Our Revolution, a political South Korean won (Aug. 3) 1,124.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ been idled despite a last-ditch at- slash 20% of its workforce world- nonprofit organization founded by many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain (Dinar) 0.3770 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ tempt by labor and advocacy wide, is now one of the world’s dom- Bernie Sanders, had urged Biden to Britain (Pound) 1.3914 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2458 your local military banking facility. Commercial groups to keep it open. inant manufacturers in the generics use the Defense Production Act to China (Yuan) 6.4614 rates are interbank rates provided for reference industry. stop the closure and convene a task Denmark (Krone) 6.2590 Time ran out Saturday for work- Egypt (Pound) 15.7033 when buying currency. All figures are foreign ers at the former Mylan pharma- The moves left workers scram- force to determine how the plant Euro 0.8414 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7730 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ ceuticals plant in Morgantown, the bling to find new jobs as the major might continue producing pharma- Hungary (Forint) 299.99 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2246 Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. employer left West Virginia, a state ceutical or medical goods. Japan (Yen) 109.41 INTEREST RATES Drugmaker Viatris Inc. an- that is often trying to lure new com- The White House has not respon- Kuwait (Dinar) 0.3004 Norway (Krone) 8.7851 Prime rate 3.25 nounced in December that it would panies to uplift its stagnant econo- ded publicly to the closure or the Philippines (Peso) 49.83 Interest Rates Discount rate 0.75 Poland (Zloty) 3.83 Federal funds market rate 0.09 lay off workers at the end of July. my. group’s letter, the Gazette-Mail re- Saudi Arabia (Riyal) 3.7501 3­month bill 0.06 The plant was formerly operated by Dozens of labor and advocacy ported. Singapore (Dollar) 1.3520 30­year bond 1.89 WEATHER OUTLOOK TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN EUROPE WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY JOHN VANDIVER The U.S. military had been Stars and Stripes making improvements to the base, STUTTGART, Germany — The including expanding the airfield. U.S. military’s top commander for The U.S. had maintained a regu- Africa made a quiet visit to a re- lar presence at Baledogle until Ja- mote base in Somalia on a recent nuary, when former President tour through the region, meeting Donald Trump ordered American with commandos in a contested forces out of the country. area where American special op- Since then, the U.S. has sent erators once came under fire. troops to Somalia on a rotational U.S. Africa Command con- basis. firmed that Gen. Stephen Towns- AFRICOM on Friday issued a end was at the Baledogle Military statement highlighting Towns- Airfield last week to meet with So- end’s tour through East Africa, malia’s advanced infantry unit, but made no public mention of the known as the Danab “Lightning Baledogle meeting with Danab Brigade,” which the United States troops, which was highlighted on has focused on developing over social media by Somalia’s mili- the past several years. tary. The visit came as U.S. forces re- Townsend, whose five-day trip new airstrikes against al-Shabab ended Friday, said AFRICOM re- militants after a six-month pause. mains committed to battling mil- On Sunday, the U.S. launched itants and working with regional its third airstrike in two weeks, in partners such as Kenya. MARCUS KLOECKNER/Stars and Stripes support of Danab and other Soma- “In East Africa, we work along- A group of volunteers help clean up the town of Rittersdorf, Germany, on Saturday. li troops that had come under at- side Kenyan forces to fight al-Sha- tack, Voice of America reported. baab, maintain awareness in the AFRICOM did not elaborate on western Indian Ocean and assure Lucky: Service members assist neighboring the purpose of Townsend’s visit to regional security,” Townsend said Baledogle, home to the Danab bri- in a statement. gade’s headquarters, but it is a po- “We are grateful for our rela- German communities clean up after floods tentially risky stopping point giv- tionship with Kenya, which will en the security situation in south- only continue to grow as we move FROM PAGE 1 went there, I told everybody that I less at this point.” ern Somalia. forward together.” No one in the village was hurt, knew, the people there are strug- Patrick Aubart, who lives close In 2019, the U.S. was forced to In addition to his Baledogle vis- but Koch said about two dozen gling. All the streets were just cov- to Schoenhofen, said the water launch airstrikes against militants it, Townsend held talks in Mogad- families in the area lost their ered in filth and glass and dirt. I first came through the yard. after U.S. and Somali troops were ishu and in Kenya, Tanzania and homes. wanted to come back and help “More and more water came,” he attacked at the Baledogle com- Djibouti. About 25 people at Spangdah- out.” said. “Then we realized that we plex, which is in a desert about 60 lem Air Base answered the call for The mud along the Nims’ banks had to get out.” miles northwest of the capital of [email protected] help, base officials said, as did a had dried by Saturday. Airmen The state will provide $3,000 in Mogadishu. Twitter: @john_vandiver few airmen from Ramstein Air sorted the debris into wood, metal direct help, “but that is nothing Base. About 20 military families at and other garbage, piles which the compared to the damage,” he said. Spangdahlem living off base were Germans loaded into trailers From a bridge overlooking the displaced by the floods, base offi- hitched to tractors to be dumped Nims, Doris and her son, Kilian, cials have said. or burned. surveyed the damage to a former “I got lucky. I had a stream of “I’ve just been jumping in wher- mill that has been in the family for water going through my base- ever I’m needed, moving stuff, 400 years, and a house they rent to ment,” said Rachael Kohlwey, a loading up trailers,” said Airman Americans. civilian aircraft mechanic at Kyle Koury of the 52nd Health The house was built in 1934 at a Spangdahlem. “But my neighbors Care Operations Squadron at height thought safe from flooding, were dealing with a meter and a Spangdahlem. “It always feels like they said. half, 2 meters of water and they’ve a good day’s work when it’s need- The river crested the bridge and lost everything. It makes you want ed.” water filled the house’s first floor, to cry. Many residents were also out said Doris, who asked that only “These are our neighbors, our cleaning up Saturday. The Amer- her first name be used. The origi- friends, we’re embedded in these icans’ help allowed them more nal kitchen tiles and wood flooring communities,” Kohlwey said, “so time to work on their yards and were destroyed. when you see a catastrophe like their homes, some of which were The day of the flood was the first this, you can’t help but want to still full of mud and debris, they night in the house for her Ameri- help.” said. can tenants, a military family Senior Airman Calixto Rodri- The flood came quickly, re- from Spangdahlem, she said. guez, 24, an aircraft maintainer called Pascal Schoenhofen, who “We have to renovate every- with the 52nd Aircraft Mainte- lives near the Nims. Sandbags thing,” she said. “Hopefully the nance Squadron, said he helped couldn’t hold back the water, family wants to come back.” clean up last month in Ehrang, a which started pouring into his Twitter village near Trier that was flooded house from two sides. U.S. Africa Command’s Gen. Stephen Townsend last week visited a [email protected] by the Kyll River. “Then it was too late,” he said. [email protected] Somali military base 60 miles outside of Mogadishu in Baledogle, a “It was bad,” he said. “After I “Even the firefighters were help- Twitter: @stripesktown site where U.S. forces came under attack in 2019. PAGE 4 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 PACIFIC Virus cases surge past 4K in Tokyo over weekend

BY JOSEPH DITZLER nawa tested positive Monday, ac- Stars and Stripes cording to a Facebook post by Ma- TOKYO — Japan’s capital city, rine Corps Installations Pacific. At hosting the delayed 2020 Olympic least 34 people affiliated with the Games, surpassed its one-day re- Marines on Okinawa tested positive cord for new coronavirus cases in July. over the weekend and broke 4,000 Astate of emergency began Mon- U.S. Army for the first time during the pan- day in Osaka, the second-largest Over the course of the Olympics cycling event from July 24­25, about 50 service members from Camp demic. metro area in Japan, and three pre- Zama volunteered to set up barriers and keep the 18 miles of roadway clear and safe. The Tokyo Metropolitan Govern- fectures adjacent to Tokyo that are ment reported 4,058 newly infected part of its wider metropolitan area: people on Saturday, its highest one- Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa. Volunteers from US military community day count of the pandemic, accord- Those emergencies, and those in ing to metro government data. Tokyo and Okinawa, are in place About 3,200 people are hospital- until Aug. 31. revel in experience of Tokyo Olympics ized, with 114 of them in serious con- Emergency measures call on res- BY ERICA EARL the memory of being involved in the would like to share everything from dition Monday, according to public taurants and bars to refrain from Stars and Stripes Olympic committee stakeholders’ my experience with her,” he told broadcaster NHK. selling alcohol and to close between TOKYO — Few people are per- meetings as president of the sol- Stars and Stripes by phone Thurs- The metro government reported 8 p.m. and 5 a.m., and residents are mitted to mingle with Olympians in diers’ program. Seventeen of the 50 day. “I am really appreciative and 2,195 new cases Monday, according urged to avoid unnecessary travel. Japan, but volunteers from U.S. mil- Army volunteers are from the pro- want to enjoy this experience and to NHK. Monday is typically the Most U.S. base commanders itary bases are among those fortu- gram, she said. share this memory.” day the city reports the lowest num- have put central Tokyo off-limits to nate enough to get close to the pan- The Olympics also need volun- Kato also volunteers at Yokota as ber of new infections. On Sunday, even their vaccinated personnel, demic-affected games. teer translators like mother-son duo a softball and baseball coach the prefecture reported 3,058 new- with some exceptions for travel on Service members, Department of Shinobu and Robert Hanson, of Yo- through the force support squad- ly infected people, according to official business. Defense civilians and military fam- kota. Shinobu Hanson, who works ron. metro government data. The U.S. Army and Navy have ilies from Camp Zama and Yokota part time translating for the base’s The gold medal game for baseball Close to 30% of Japan’s popula- their headquarters in Kanagawa, Air Base have been volunteering at medical group, has been doing the is scheduled for Saturday. In wom- tion is fully vaccinated, according to along with the homeport of 7th cycling, baseball and aquatic same for the U.S. baseball team. en’s softball, Japan took gold and the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Re- Fleet. U.S. Forces Japan is head- events. She said she has become like a the U.S. took silver. source Center. quartered at Yokota Air Base in In 2018, the International Olym- “team mom” for the Olympians. For some military-affiliated vol- The Olympic Games reported western Tokyo. pic Committee asked that service “I help them with translating ev- unteers, this year is not their first that 56 people tested positive for Popular beaches in Kanagawa at members be included in the pool of erything from batting practice to time assisting with the games. COVID-19 on Friday, Saturday and Zushi and Hayama are closing due volunteers, a spokesman for U.S. any requests they may have, which Hitomi Morioka, an English Sunday, according to the Tokyo to the emergency, according to a Army Garrison Japan, Tim Flack, has given me an opportunity to get a teacher near Yokota and a U.S. mil- 2020 website. Most, 34, are contrac- Facebook post Monday by Yokosu- told Stars and Stripes by email little close to the players,” she told itary spouse, is volunteering in the tors, 18 are Games personnel, two ka Naval Base. Wednesday. Stars and Stripes by phone Thurs- media operations center for aquat- are volunteers and the media and Kanagawa on Sunday reported Sagamihara, where the men and day. “Since people cannot go to the ics sports this year and worked for athletes produced one case each. 1,258 people newly infected with women’s cycling events were held, games, no one is there applauding, NBC during the 1998 games in Na- Since July 1, the Games have re- the coronavirus, the third-highest is a sister city of Camp Zama, head- and for the players that can be a gano. ported that 276 people contracted one-day count in the prefecture, quarters for U.S. Army Japan. bummer, but I get to cheer them on She said the Olympics, especially the virus, 24 of whom are athletes. NHK reported Monday. Saitama Olympic officials invited the garri- and share some laughs with them.” this year’s Games surrounded by At least one of the positive Olym- reported 899 and Chiba 767 on the son to send volunteers “as a way to Her son Robert Hanson, 20, a hardships related to the coronavi- pians is a U.S. soldier. same day, according to the broad- include the Army community to translator for the Israeli baseball rus, is an opportunity to strengthen U.S. military bases in Japan re- caster. help celebrate their long-standing team, is the youngest volunteer bonds among nations. ported 23 new cases of COVID-19 On Okinawa, prefectural Gov. friendship and various community translator in this year’s games. He “A lot of my elementary-aged stu- between Friday and 6 p.m. Monday. Denny Tamaki, in a joint statement exchanges,” Flack said. said translating nuances from Japa- dents are not very open to meeting U.S. Forces Japan reported a to- Sunday with city, business and Over the course of the cycling nese to English for a team that foreigners,” Morioka told Stars and tal of 92 individuals with the virus at medical leaders, described the ris- event July 24 and 25, about 50 ser- speaks English as a second lan- Stripes in a phone interview Friday. U.S. installations, the bulk of them ing number of infections on the is- vice members from Camp Zama guage can be difficult, but the expe- “I want to teach them that moments on Okinawa, where the Air Force land as “equivalent to a lockdown volunteered to set up barriers and rience is rewarding. like this are opportunities to make and Marine Corps accounted for 64 level in other countries.” keep the 18 miles of roadway clear “It is an honor to help out interna- more friends in the world.” individuals as of Friday, according At a news conference, Tamaki and safe, he said. tional players,” he said in an email to So far, the U.S., Australia and to the USFJ website. said the number of new cases, many Sgt. Jennifer Jackson, president Stars and Stripes on Saturday. “Be- France have all claimed gold med- On Monday, Sasebo Naval Base of them the delta variant, has tripled of Camp Zama’s chapter of Better ing able to use my talent speaking als in swimming events. These in- said one new patient tested positive over the past week, mainly among Opportunities for Single Soldiers, two languages and translating ev- clude American stars Caeleb Dres- after falling ill with symptoms of young people. an Army morale program geared erything is a new thing for me. It is sel in the men’s 100 butterfly and COVID-19, according to a Facebook The prefecture reported 439 CO- toward junior enlisted service very challenging, but I’m having Katie Ledecky in the women’s 800 post by the naval base. That person VID-19 cases Saturday, a one-day members, said she was honored to fun.” freestyle. is in isolation. The base is monitor- pandemic high, 382 on Friday and volunteer at such a historic Olym- Volunteer Toshi Kato, an ac- Morioka said her favorite part of ing three people with the virus. 367 on Sunday, according to the pics and feel the excitement as the counting technician at Yokota who volunteering as a media liaison at Marine Corps Air Station Iwaku- prefectural coronavirus tracking competing cyclists roared by. volunteers for the Olympics base- the aquatics center is being so close ni, south of Hiroshima, has had one website. “Many of the young soldiers in ball media operations, said he hopes to the action during an Olympics person test positive for the virus Tamaki called on Okinawans to BOSS are away from home for the Americans in Japan cheer for both with no audience. since Sunday, according to a news refrain from unnecessary travel or first time, and being somewhere as the United States and their host na- “There is all this excitement and release Monday. gatherings for the next two weeks, different and far away as Japan can tion Japan at this year’s games. happiness, and some of the athletes At Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, to avoid visits to other prefectures be difficult,” she told Stars and Kato, formerly an assistant for are so overcome by it all that they 19 people tested positive between and remote islands, including fam- Stripes by phone Wednesday. “Op- one of Japan’s professional baseball are in tears,” she said. “I’m glad to July 24 and Friday, according to the ily visits, and to get vaccinated. portunities like this can help alle- teams, the Seibu Lions, said he con- be part of it and watching their base’s website. Twenty-six people viate homesickness and give them a siders volunteering at the games to dreams come true.” are under observation. Stars and Stripes reporter Mari Higa contributed sense of pride and stories to tell fu- be an experience of a lifetime. to this report. The Marine Corps reported that [email protected] ture generations.” “My mother passed away a long [email protected] two individuals at its bases on Oki- Twitter: @JosephDitzler Jackson said she will also cherish time ago, but if she were still here, I Twitter: @ThisEarlGirl Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 5 WAR ON TERRORISM US allows more Afghan asylum claims

BY PHILLIP WALTER mer employees of American news the U.S. Refugee Admission Pro- The groups said those Afghans on Friday. WELLMAN organizations, development agen- gram was created to address the face just as many risks as counter- The Taliban have taken control Stars and Stripes cies and other U.S.-funded relief situations of Afghans who don’t parts covered by the provisions of of about half of the country’s KABUL, Afghanistan — The groups. qualify for an existing Special Im- the Special Immigrant Visa. roughly 400 districts and continue U.S. will give more asylum oppor- “The U.S. objective remains a migrant Visa. It applies to Afghans About 20,000 Afghans who to launch offensives, according to tunities to at-risk Afghans as Tali- peaceful, secure Afghanistan,” the and members of their immediate worked for the U.S. government as the U.S. military. ban violence surges ahead of the State Department said. “However, family who may be in peril because translators or in other positions Last week, the special inspector withdrawal of American forces by in light of increased levels of Tali- of U.S. affiliation. have already applied to resettle in general for Afghanistan recon- the end of August. ban violence, the U.S. government Rights groups had called on the U.S. as part of the visa pro- struction said the continued vio- The State Department said Mon- is working to provide certain Af- President Joe Biden to do more to gram. lence poses an “existential crisis” day that “many thousands” of Af- ghans, including those who worked protect Afghans who had been af- Of those, 2,500 who passed secu- for the country. ghans now qualify to permanently with the United States, the oppor- filiated with the U.S. but may not rity screenings are now being relo- resettle in the United States. That tunity for refugee resettlement.” have worked directly for the U.S. cated. The first group of about 200 [email protected] number includes current and for- The new “Priority 2” category of government. applicants arrived at Fort Lee, Va., Twitter: @pwwellman  Taliban: Forces, Afghanistan militants clash in leader seeks populous areas defense of

FROM PAGE 1 tested by the militants. Large-scale conven- major cities tional attacks on Kandahar and Herat, the Associated Press second- and fourth-largest cities in the KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan country, have the potential to endanger mil- president on Monday blamed the American lions more civilians. troops’ speedy pullout for the worsening vio- Initial reports suggested the Kandahar lence in his country and said that his admin- rocket attack came from the eastern side of istration would now focus the city, where Taliban fighters have made on protecting provincial advances. Pashtun said he feared more at- capitals and major urban tacks in the coming days, because of the de- areas in the face of the rap- teriorating security situation and the re- idly advancing Taliban. moval of an American antimissile system Ashraf Ghani also urged that protected the airfield before the with- lawmakers to back a na- drawal of U.S. forces from the southern tional mobilization drive province. against the Taliban amid Ghani Gen. Ajmal Shinwari, a security forces an intensifying war be- spokesperson, said at a news conference on tween the Taliban and Afghan government Sunday that all troops were on high alert forces over the past few months as U.S. and due to “the emergency situations” in Kan- NATO troops complete their pullout from dahar and Herat. Hundreds more Afghan the war-torn country. forces have been sent to the southern and “An imported, hasty” peace process — a western provinces as reinforcements. reference to Washington’s push for negotia- Taliban attacks in Kandahar province tions between Kabul and the Taliban — “not have been ongoing for months, but in recent LORENZO TUGNOLI/For The Washington Post only failed to bring peace but created doubt days the group began pushing closer into A policeman sits in an outpost in Kandahar, Afghanistan, as Afghan security forces find and ambiguity” among Afghans, Ghani said the city center. themselves engaged in a battle with the Taliban inside the city limits. in his address to Parliament. Frontlines that crisscrossed largely agri- The Taliban are now trying to seize pro- cultural suburbs just weeks ago now span roof of his home, and Taliban fighters retal- contested by militants. In Helmand, a prov- vincial capitals after already taking large densely populated neighborhoods. Just a iated with a volley of mortars. ince that has been one of the least stable in swaths of land and scores of districts in more few hundred meters from a Taliban-held “An entire wall collapsed on my family,” Afghanistan for years, fighting intensified rural areas, as well as several key border neighborhood on Kandahar’s western edge, he said. “We have never seen fighting like last week, heightening fears that the prov- crossings with neighboring countries. government forces have transformed a this in our area before.” ince’s capital would fall. Taliban fighters “The Taliban do not believe in lasting or wedding hall and an opulent multistory In Herat, Afghan special forces were de- have pushed inside the city’s limits and are just peace,” Ghani said. He predicted a sea home into makeshift bases. ployed to the city on Sunday to help push steadily closing in on the central govern- change on the battlefield “in the next six “They watch us from those houses over back Taliban advances. Taliban fighters ment compound. months” that would push the Taliban back, there,” said a commando officer, who spoke breached the city limits and a United Na- Afghan forces responded with a puni- without elaborating. on the condition of anonymity because he tions compound was attacked, as clashes shing wave of air support. One airstrike hit a He claimed that Afghan forces are up to was not authorized to talk to the media. He raged for hours. The U.N. condemned the small hospital on the city’s outskirts Satur- the task and have the “capacity” to defeat pointed out a white Taliban flag visible just attack. A Taliban statement described the day, killing the relative of a patient and in- the insurgents. But in past weeks, Afghan a few blocks away from a traffic circle. destruction as “regrettable,” saying the juring four others, including a patient and forces have struggled against the Taliban The government soldiers said they ex- group remains committed to protecting the three members of staff, according to hospi- onslaught, and have often been left without changed fire with Taliban fighters occa- U.N. tal director Mohammad din Naraiwal. reinforcements and resupplies. sionally during the day, but it is at night that Abdul Rahman Rahman, an Interior Min- As the airstrikes drew closer in recent Hours after the president's remarks, Tali- clashes grow more intense. istry adviser, traveled to Herat on Sunday to days, Naraiwal repeatedly communicated ban fighters seized control of Helmand Thousands of civilians are being forced to calm “the atmosphere of panic” growing in with Afghan government forces, asking province's government radio and TV build- flee their homes. Deeper inside Kandahar the city, he said. Rahman arrived with a them not to strike the facility. He said no Ta- ing in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital. city, makeshift camps have sprung up in team of Afghan special forces, which he liban fighters were present in the building Resident Haji Sadullah said they broadcast empty lots. pledged would deal “fiercely” with the Tali- when it was hit. religious songs and invited people to follow Jalil Ahmad, 30, said his house was de- ban. “I’m worried if the government resup- their path for close to an hour on both AM stroyed by a mortar attack and his ears The Taliban push on major cities comes plies their forces there will be more fight- and FM frequencies. were still ringing from the blast. He said a as the group continues to squeeze much ing,” he said. “There will be more civilian Government officials did not immediate- police unit took up a firing position on to the smaller provincial capitals in areas long casualties.” ly comment. PAGE 6 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 MILITARY Throwback exercise to span 17 time zones BY ALISON BATH But it isn’t certain if Russia or Chi- Stars and Stripes na will interpret the exercise in NAPLES, Italy — A U.S. naval those ways or if they are even pay- and amphibious exercise billed as ing attention, Holmes said. the largest of its kind in 40 years be- Even so, the exercise also tests gins Tuesday, in a globe-spanning U.S. operational methods and tech- effort that analysts say aims to send nologies, such as deemphasizing a message to Russia and China that large ships and high-end systems to America can simultaneously an- create a nimble, efficient and effec- swer aggression on multiple fronts. tive force designed to take a loss and Large Scale Exercise 2021 is a re- continue fighting without measura- turn to similar Cold War exercises ble impact, Holmes said. in the 1980s demonstrating resolve “In that sense we’re reverting to and new capabilities, U.S. Naval our World War II approach, when Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet we had lots of inexpensive, good- said in a recent statement. The exer- enough stuff and could lose some of cise also comes as the military up- it and still carry on,” Holmes said. dates its long-standing combat doc- “If we show our adversaries this ap- trine to defend against attacks on its proach works, we bolster our ability communications systems and logis- to deter them from assailing our- tical networks. A simulated battle selves or our allies.” against a high-end enemy in Octo- About 36 ships and more than 50 ber exposed those vulnerabilities virtual units, in addition to military, and spurred changes, Gen. John civilian and contract personnel, will Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint participate in the exercise. Six naval Chiefs of Staff, said last month. and Marine Corps component com- Large Scale Exercise runs SCOTT BARNES/U.S. Navy mands, five U.S. fleets and three through Aug. 16 and will include USS Mount Whitney, 6th Fleet's flagship, arrives in Split, Croatia, for a port visit on Friday, before kicking Marine Expeditionary Forces will units in 17 different time zones, the off Large Scale Exercise 2021. Six naval and Marine Corps component commands, five U.S. fleets and be involved. Navy said. three Marine Expeditionary Forces will be involved in the exercise, which will conclude on Aug. 16. USS Mount Whitney, the 6th Fleet “LSE will test our commanders flagship, also will participate. The across the spectrum of naval war- U.S. 6th Fleet commander. spread American military forces deny adversaries control of the seas, first LSE will include only U.S. fare from the tactical to the strate- LSE potentially puts adversaries thin, said James R. Holmes, the J.C. which is especially crucial in the forces, but future exercises are gic, integrating the Marine Corps to on notice that the U.S. can simulta- Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at Western Pacific, where the U.S. planned to include allies and part- demonstrate the world-wide fleet’s neously address challenges in the the U.S. Naval War College in New- hopes to prevent China from occu- ners, the statement said. ability to conduct coordinated oper- Black Sea, eastern Mediterranean port, R.I. pying Taiwan or seizing the Japan- ations from the open ocean to the lit- Sea, South China Sea and East Chi- It also aims to demonstrate that administered Senkaku Islands, [email protected] toral,” said Vice Adm. Gene Black, na Sea – shutting down efforts to U.S. naval and Marine forces can Holmes said. Twitter: @TMSWatchdog Maintenance error led to F-22 crash US blames Iran for ship attack, plans ‘appropriate response’ in Florida last year, Air Force says BY ARSALAN SHAHLA ty envoy to Israel told Israeli broad- AND GWEN ACKERMAN caster Kan. Stars and Stripes Bloomberg News “There is no justification for this An error during routine mainte- The U.S. and Israel vowed to re- attack, which follows a pattern of at- nance caused a $201 million F-22 spond to a deadly drone attack on a tacks and other belligerent behav- Raptor to crash last year at Eglin Air tanker last week in a major water- ior,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Force Base in Florida, media re- way for global oil shipments that Blinken said in a statement Sunday. ports said following a brief service they blamed on Iran. “We are working with our partners statement. Middle East foes Iran and Israel to consider our next steps and con- The May 15, 2020, crash was have traded multiple accusations of sulting with governments inside the caused by “a maintenance error shipping attacks in recent months. region and beyond on an appropri- made after the aircraft was washed, But Thursday’s strike off the coast ate response, which will be forth- which impacted control inputs of Oman, which Tehran denied car- coming.” transmitted to the aircraft,” the rying out, was the first to kill crew He gave no further details of what Northwest Florida Daily News re- members — a Romanian and a Brit- the response might entail. A spokes- ported last week, citing an emailed on. person for the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, statement from the Air Combat CODY MILLER/U.S. Air Force The two fatalities have raised ten- which is based in the region, de- Command. The pilot, assigned to the A 325th Fighter Wing F­22 Raptor soars over the Gulf of Mexico in sions in the Persian Gulf at a critical clined to comment. The U.S. and its 43rd Fighter Squadron, 325th Fight- 2017. An error during routine maintenance caused an F­22 Raptor juncture with Iran preparing to in- allies created a maritime force in er Wing, ejected and sustained only from the 325th to crash last year at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. augurate a new president, and talks 2019 in response to similar attacks minor injuries, but the aircraft was with world powers over its 2015 nu- to protect sea lanes in the Middle destroyed, said the command, gators determined had caused it, Air gency,” said the statement, reported clear deal stalled. East. which is in charge of training, equip- Force Magazine reported. by Air Force Magazine. “I promise you that Israel will not Blinken said he was “confident” ping and maintaining units for rapid The requirement for an AIB was “While a recovery plan was being sit silently by after a strike against Iran used “one-way explosive” deployment abroad. waived by the deputy commander coordinated, the pilot continued to ships or citizens and will respond drones in Thursday’s attack. U.K. The Air Force requires that an in- of the ACC, the magazine said, citing have issues with the aircraft and once it finds the where, the when Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab vestigative board be convened fol- acommand spokesperson. ejected,” it said. and the how,” Ram Ben Barak, the said “one or more” of the drones lowing Class A mishaps, which are The few details that were re- The results of an AIB must be re- head of the Israeli parliament’s For- may have been involved in the hit. accidents that cause loss of life or leased said the issues that led to the leased publicly, although com- eign Affairs and Defense Commit- Romania “retains its right to act more than $2.5 million in damage. crash arose shortly after takeoff, mands can also waive that require- tee, told Army Radio on Monday. accordingly, together with its inter- But that requirement can be waived when the pilot noticed a Flight Con- ment. Information gathered by the Romania said it had summoned national partners, in order to have by authorities. trol System advisory. He continued two types of probe conducted into the Iranian ambassador, while Bri- an adequate response,” the coun- Operational concerns led the with takeoff, but “shortly after the the Eglin accident — a safety inves- tain is sending a team to investigate try’s Foreign Ministry said in an ACC to forgo an AIB report, which aircraft became airborne, the pilot tigation board and a commander di- the attack on the Mercer Street oil- emailed response to Bloomberg would have detailed how the crash began having trouble controlling rected investigation — do not have products tanker, now moored off questions, saying it had summoned occurred and outlined what investi- the aircraft and declared an emer- to be released to the public. the United Arab Emirates, its depu- the Iranian envoy. Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 7 OLYMPICS Parents of Italian sprinter met at Vicenza BY NANCY MONTGOMERY Stars and Stripes VICENZA, Italy — The surprise gold medal winner in the 100-me- ter dash at the Tokyo Olympics was born to an Italian mother and American soldier father who met while he was stationed in Vicenza. But Italian sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who was born in El Paso, grew up in Italy after his father was transferred to South Korea and the marriage broke up, he told reporters in Japan. FRANCISCO SECO/AP “Only my muscle fibers are Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy, American,” he said, the Orange the winner of the Olympic 100 County Register reported Sunday. meters, shows off his gold medal Jacobs’ mother, Viviana Masini, on Monday, in Tokyo. was 16 years old when she met an 18-year-old U.S. soldier named Among his idols was Andrew Lamont Marcell Jacobs Sr., sta- Howe, he told Olympics.com, who tioned at Caserma Ederle in Vi- like him was an American-born, cenza, according to an interview biracial Italian sprinter coached in the Corriere della Sera newspa- by his mother in Italy after his fa- per. The two married and moved ther left the family when he was a to El Paso, home to Fort Bliss. baby. About three years later, their Until Sunday, few fans had son was born just weeks before his heard of Jacobs. Bookmakers father was sent to a new posting in made him somewhere between an South Korea. 8-1 and 10-1 long shot, The Wash- FACEBOOK “It was impossible for us to fol- ington Post said. Lamont Marcell Jacobs strikes a pose after his victory in the 100 meters at the Olympics in Tokyo on low him,” Jacobs’ mother said, “It’s a dream, a dream, it is fan- Sunday. Corriere della Serra reported. “I tastic,” he said after winning the then decided to return to Italy. race, according to Reuters. “May- Marcell wasn’t even a month old. be tomorrow I can imagine what “From there a challenge of our they are saying, but today it is in- own was born. I was a young moth- credible.” er with a child to raise and the He credited his surprising win great thing is that through the to better nutrition and training, growth of Marcell I had the oppor- and more emphasis on his mental tunity to live a new life, new hori- approach, the Post said. Jacobs zons.” said part of his mental improve- Jacobs, 26, hasn’t seen his fa- ment came because of his fledg- ther since and hadn’t spoken to ling relationship with his father, him until last year, The Washing- who lives in Dallas and texted him ton Post reported. His mother nur- before the race. tured him, going to all his races as “You can do it. We are with he grew up and trained in the 100- you,” the message said, according Masini shows a corner in her meter dash and long jump in De- to The Washington Post. PHOTOS BY ANTONIO CALANNI/AP home, devoted to Jacobs, with an senzano del Garda, about an hour A poster reading “Go Marcell” for Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs is old pair of running shoes, a photo from Vicenza, she told Corriere seen in front of the hotel Florence, run by his mother Viviana Masini in of him as a child and the Italian Della Sera. [email protected] Manerba del Garda, Italy. flag, in Manerba del Garda, Italy. PAGE 8 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 VIRUS OUTBREAK Mask guidance divides parents before school year

BY PAT EATON-ROBB who was high risk, what if you had Associated Press to send that kid you had spent your HARTFORD, Conn. — With whole life protecting to school in U.S. health officials recommend- this environment?” ing that children mask up in school Another public meeting, this one this fall, parents and policy makers in Broward County, Fla., had to be across the nation have been postponed for a day last week after plunged anew into a debate over roughly two dozen mask oppo- whether face coverings should be nents waged screaming matches optional or a mandate. with school board members and The delta variant of the corona- burned masks outside the build- virus now threatens to upend nor- ing. mal instruction for a third consec- When the discussion resumed utive school year. Some states have Wednesday, it was limited to 10 indicated they will probably heed public speakers, and all but one the federal government’s guidance spoke vehemently against masks, and require masks. Others will saying their personal rights were leave the decision up to parents. being eroded. The controversy is unfolding at a Vivian Hug, a Navy veteran, time when many Americans are at brought her twins with her as she their wits’ end with pandemic re- addressed board members, saying strictions and others fear their she was tired of the “fear monger- children will be put at risk by those ing” and giving up “freedoms in who don’t take the virus seriously the name of safety.” enough. In a handful of Republi- “Please stop the insanity. You can-led states, lawmakers made it have already done damage to these illegal for schools to require MARTA LAVANDIER/AP kids having to wear masks,” she masks. Joann Marcus of Fort Lauderdale, left, cheers as she listens to the Broward School Board’s emergency said before putting her daughter In Connecticut, anti-mask ral- meeting Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. up to the microphone, where the lies have happened outside Gov. little girl complained that masks Ned Lamont’s official residence in nt, even among vaccinated people. imagine how often they’re touch- quire masks. A sixth district has make it hard for her to breathe and Hartford, and lawn signs and bum- Alima Bryant, 33, a mother of ing dirty things, then touching the not yet decided. give her headaches. per stickers call on him to “unmask four who organizes anti-mask par- mask,” she said. “Also, in kinder- Zimmerman, speaking at a re- But Dr. Karyl Rattay, director of our kids.” The Democrat has said ents in Branford, Conn., said she’s garten, you have to learn social cent meeting of country commis- the Delaware Division of Public that he’s likely to follow the latest not a conspiracy theorist, but she cues, and even with speech and ev- sioners, said that if masks are only Health, said there is no credible advice from the Centers for Dis- believes scientists have overstated erything, it’s so important to not be recommended and not required, evidence masks are unsafe for ease Control and Prevention. the dangers of COVID-19, espe- wearing a mask.” “95% of kids won’t be wearing children. She said the science is The CDC on Tuesday recom- cially for children. She said she But parents such as Ryan Zuim- them.” clear that face coverings have pre- mended indoor masks for all will take her children out of school merman, of Lenexa, Kan., fear that “This isn’t about comfort or con- vented the spread of COVID-19 in teachers, staff, students and vis- rather than subject them to wear- approach will prolong the pan- trol or obedience or your rights. It schools. itors at schools nationwide, re- ing masks, which she believes are demic. is not conspiracy or child abuse. It “If we want to have kids in school gardless of vaccination status. The more likely to make them ill than In Johnson County, Kan., the is about doing unto others as you this fall, and as many kids as we agency cited the risk of spread of the virus. state’s most populous county, five want them to do unto you,” he said. possibly can get into school, masks the highly contagious delta varia- “Especially with little kids, I can districts recommend but do not re- “I ask you this: If it was your kid are a key component,” she said. GOP lawmaker who once spurned masks switches course The Washington Post so grave that his family began planning for The shift from minimizing the risks of see, state Rep. Bryan Terry, a Republican A Tennessee legislator who went from his funeral at least once. Stressing that CO- the coronavirus to urgently warning about who is a physician, urged vaccinations af- unmasked gatherings with fellow legisla- VID-19 is real and “very dangerous,” Byrd them is not unique to Byrd, who did not re- ter becoming infected after he was immu- tors to being placed on a ventilator days lat- encouraged people to get vaccinated. spond to The Washington Post’s request for nized. er has emerged with a message for constit- “This is not an issue that should divide comment Sunday. A growing group of “I’m convinced the vaccine protected my uents after a harrowing eight-month expe- us,” he wrote. Americans, including some Republicans, health and possibly saved me from an ex- rience with long-haul COVID-19: Take the Before Byrd became ill around Thanks- are now rapidly reassessing their doubts tensive hospitalization, or death,” Terry coronavirus seriously. giving, his attitude about the virus included and dismissals as new infections fueled by said last week. “All Tennesseans, especial- “It is a disease that wants to kill us,” state a June 2020 vote for a resolution that ac- the easier-to-spread delta variant of the vi- ly those with risk, need to talk to their doc- Rep. David Byrd, a Republican, said in a cused the “mainstream media” of sensa- rus point toward a summer virus surge. tor about getting vaccinated.” statement Friday. Byrd, 63, described an tionalizing pandemic coverage. In Novem- Leaders such as Alabama Republican In his statement Friday, Byrd said he was ordeal that included 55 days on a ventilator ber, he was among the House Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and Arkansas Republican sharing his experience in hope that it in which COVID-19 ravaged his memory, Caucus members who gathered for an in- Gov. Asa Hutchinson have traveled their “helps others to act against an enemy that muscles and organs — it led to him having a person multiday retreat amid surging in- states and written opinion articles encou- knows no skin color, economic status or po- liver transplant in June. His condition was fections statewide. raging people to get vaccinated. In Tennes- litical affiliation.” Fla. breaks record for most active COVID-19 hospitalizations Associated Press partment of Health & Human Ser- the state report having to put the University of South Florida. ported 21,683 new cases of CO- ORLANDO, Fla. — A day after it vices. emergency room visitors in beds The hospitalizations and in- VID-19, the state’s highest one-day recorded the most new daily cases The previous record was from in hallways and others document a creasing cases have come as the total since the start of the pandem- since the start of the pandemic, July 23, 2020, more than six noticeable drop in the age of pa- new, more transmittable delta ic. The latest numbers were re- Florida on Sunday broke a previ- months before vaccinations start- tients. variant has spread throughout corded Friday and released Satur- ous record for current hospitaliza- ed becoming widespread, when In the past week, Florida has av- Florida, and residents have re- day on the U.S. Centers for Dis- tions set more than a year ago be- Florida had 10,170 hospitaliza- eraged 1,525 adult hospitalizations turned to pre-pandemic activities. ease Control and Prevention’s fore vaccines were available. tions, according to the Florida aday, and 35 daily pediatric hospi- “The recent rise is both striking website. The figures show how The Sunshine State had 10,207 Hospital Association. talizations. Both are the highest and not at all surprising,” Salemi quickly the number of cases is ris- people hospitalized with con- Florida is now leading the na- per capita rate in the nation, ac- said in an email late Saturday. ing in the Sunshine State; only a firmed COVID-19 cases, accord- tion in per capita hospitalizations cording to Jason Salemi, an associ- Federal health data released day earlier, Florida reported ing to data reported to the U.S. De- for COVID-19, as hospitals around ate professor of epidemiology at Saturday showed that Florida re- 17,093 new daily cases. Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 9 NATION Senate likely to vote soon on $1T infrastructure bill

BY KEVIN FREKING health and environmental bill. AND LISA MASCARO Among the major new investments, the bipartisan Associated Press package is expected to provide $110 billion for roads and WASHINGTON — After much delay, senators un- bridges, $39 billion for public transit and $66 billion for veiled a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure rail. There’s also set to be $55 billion for water and package, wrapping up days of painstaking work on the wastewater infrastructure as well as billions for air- inches-thick bill and launching what is certain to be a ports, ports, broadband internet and electric vehicle MICHAEL DWYER / AP lengthy debate over President Joe Biden’s big priority. charging stations. People from a coalition of housing justice groups hold signs The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked The spending is broadly popular among lawmakers, protesting evictions during a news conference outside the Statehouse in at some 2,700 pages, and senators could begin amend- bringing long-delayed capital for big-ticket items that on Friday in Boston. ing it soon. Despite the hurry-up-and-wait during a rare cities and states can rarely afford on their own. weekend session, emotions bubbled over once the bill Paying for the package has been a challenge after was produced Sunday night. The final product was not senators rejected ideas to raise revenue from a new gas intended to stray from the broad outline senators had tax or other streams. Instead, it is being financed from Evictions expected negotiated for weeks with the White House. funding sources that might not pass muster with deficit “We haven’t done a large, bipartisan bill of this nature hawks, including repurposing some $205 billion in un- in a long time,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck tapped COVID-19 relief aid, as well as unemployment to spike as pandemic Schumer, D-N.Y. He said a final vote could be held “in a assistance that was turned back by some states and rely- matter of days.” ing on projected future economic growth. Akey part of Biden’s agenda, the bipartisan bill is the “I’ve got real concerns with this bill,” said Sen. Mike moratorium ends first phase of the president’s infrastructure plan. It calls Lee, R-Utah. Associated Press the ban to expire, arguing its hands for $550 billion in new spending over five years above Bipartisan support from Republican and Democratic BOSTON — Evictions, which were tied after the U.S. Supreme projected federal levels, what could be one of the more senators pushed the process along, and Schumer want- have mostly been on pause during Court signaled the measure had to substantial expenditures on the nation’s roads, bridges, ed the voting to be wrapped up before senators left for the pandemic, were expected to end. waterworks, broadband and the electric grid in years. the August recess. ramp up Monday after the Biden More than 15 million people live Senators and staff labored behind the scenes for days Last week, 17 GOP senators joined all Democrats in administration allowed the federal in households that owe as much as to write the massive bill. It was supposed to be ready Fri- voting to start work on the bipartisan bill. That support moratorium to expire over the $20 billion to their landlords, ac- day, but by Sunday, even more glitches were caught and largely held, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch weekend and Congress was unable cording to the Aspen Institute. As of changes made. Late Sunday, most of the 10 senators in- McConnell, R-Ky., voting yes in another procedural to do anything to extend it. July 5, roughly 3.6 million people in volved in the bipartisan effort rose on the Senate floor to vote to nudge the process along in the 50-50 Senate, Housing advocates fear the end the U.S. said they faced eviction in mark the moment. where 60 votes are needed to overcome a filibuster and of the Centers for Disease Control the next two months, according to “We know that this has been a long and sometimes advance legislation. and Prevention moratorium could the U.S. Census Bureau’s House- difficult process, but we are proud this evening to an- Whether the number of Republican senators willing result in millions of people being hold Pulse Survey. nounce this legislation,” said Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D- to pass the bill grows or shrinks in the days ahead will evicted. But most expect the wave Parts of the South and other re- Ariz., a lead negotiator. The bill showed “we can put determine if the president’s signature issue can make it of evictions to build slowly over the gions with weaker tenant protec- aside our own political differences for the good of the across the finish line. coming weeks and months as the tions will likely see the largest country,” she said. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he expects Schumer bureaucracy of removing people spikes and communities of color Sen. Rob Portman, of Ohio, a Republican negotiator, to allow all senators to have a chance to shape the bill and from their homes restarts. where vaccination rates are some- said the final product will be “great for the American allow for amendments from members of both parties. On Sunday night, House Speaker times lower will be hit hardest. people.” “I hope we can now pump the brakes a little bit and Nancy Pelosi and the House Demo- The Biden administration had Over the long weekend of starts and stops, Schumer take the time and care to evaluate the benefits and the cratic leaders called on the Biden hoped that historic amounts of rent- repeatedly warned that he was prepared to keep law- cost of this legislation,” he said. administration to immediately ex- al assistance allocated by Congress makers in Washington for as long as it took to complete The bipartisan bill still faces a rough road in the tend the moratorium. in December and March would votes on both the bipartisan infrastructure plan and a House, where progressive lawmakers want a more ro- The Biden administration an- help avert an eviction crisis. But the budget blueprint that would allow the Senate to begin bust package but may have to settle for this one to keep nounced Thursday it would allow distribution has been slow. work later this year on a massive, $3.5 trillion social, Biden’s infrastructure plans on track. Families paying off rent, food, debts with child tax credit BY MICHAEL CASEY $423 this month; the Treasury De- ilies will receive $300 monthly for Associated Press partment estimates that 35.2 million each child under 6 and $250 per ol- NASHUA, N.H. — Christina Dar- families received payments in July. der child. ling finally replaced her 2006 Chev- “The additional money does help Families who receive the credit rolet Equinox after it broke down alleviate the pressure,” said Walker, are mostly spending it on rent, child several times while picking up her who took custody of her siblings last care and groceries, as well as catch- children from day care. But the 31- year after her mother overdosed. ing up on cellphone and other bills. year-old mother of two was strug- The $800 credit will help make up For Darling, the $550 she gets will go gling to keep up with the car pay- for losses she incurred after quitting to car payments, more fresh pro- ments. a kitchen design job to care for the duce and a babysitter so she can at- Brianne Walker, 29, desperately five youngsters, ages 3 to 19. tend Nashua Board of Education wanted to take her three children Biden increased the amounts go- meetings. She is running for a seat and two siblings camping for the ing to families and expanded it to in- on the board. Eventually, she hopes first time but wasn’t sure how she clude those whose income is so little to put money aside to save for a could pay for it. After all, she was be- they don’t owe taxes. The benefits ELISE AMENDOLA/AP home with a yard. hind on her rent, and day care and begin to phase out at incomes of Christina Darling and her sons, Brennan, 4, left, and Kayden, 10, “Every step closer we get to a liv- grocery costs were adding up. $75,000 for individuals, $112,500 for prepare a snack at home in Nashua, N.H., on Wednesday. Darling and able wage is beneficial. That is mon- Then, the two women from New heads of household and $150,000 for her family have qualified for the recently expanded child tax credit. ey that gets turned around and spent Hampshire got a surprise in their married couples. Families with in- on the betterment of my kids and bank accounts this month. They comes up to $200,000 for individuals credit after filing their taxes — ei- of the year. A recipient receives the myself,” said Darling, a housing re- qualified for the expanded child tax and $400,000 for married couples ther as a lump sum payment or a second half when they file their tax- source coordinator who had been credit, part of President Joe Biden’s can still receive the previous $2,000 credit against taxes owed. But now es. The credit is $3,600 annually for supplementing her $35,000-a-year $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief pack- credit. six months of payments are being children under age 6 and $3,000 for salary with visits to the Nashua Soup age. Families on average are getting In the past, eligible families got a advanced monthly through the end children ages 6 to 17. Eligible fam- Kitchen and Shelter’s food pantry. PAGE 10 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 NATION Flood watches in West as mudslides shutter interstate

Associated Press corridor between the Rocky DENVER, Colo. — Mudslides Mountains and the West Coast. from heavy rains caused “ex- An approximately 46-mile treme damage” to a major inter- stretch of the interstate was state and left it blocked with closed. Transportation officials piles of boulders and logs, Col- advised long-distance truckers orado transportation officials to detour north onto Interstate said Sunday, as forecasters 80 through Wyoming. warned of more flash floods in Crews were still assessing the coming days across the damage late Sunday. They had Rocky Mountain and Great Ba- been working to clear the high- sin regions. way since Thursday when an- The flood risk was elevated for other flash flood hit Saturday, many areas of the West where forcing them to evacuate the ar- TOM WILLIAMS/AP recent wildfires burned away ea and causing even more dam- Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies vegetation and left hillsides age. before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations in April on Capitol Hill in more susceptible to erosion, the “When we know exactly what Washington, D.C. National Weather Service said. the damage is, then we’ll have a Interstate 70 in Glenwood Ca- better idea” on when it could re- nyon, Colo., was closed with no open, said Colorado Department word on when it might re-open of Transportation spokesperson Biden’s picks for judges being after being pounded by flash Tamara Rollison. floods over a three-day period. “It’s not just clearing the de- Lanes in both directions re- bris. There’s also the damage,” confirmed at newly rapid pace mained blocked by debris that she said. “Our engineering staff Associated Press with the nominees Biden has put Court. flowed out of the burn scar from have never seen anything like WASHINGTON — With no Su- forward so far — more diverse ra- “We have had a good selection of a wildfire last year in the Grizzly this before.” preme Court opening to slow them, cially, by gender and legal experi- nominees come forward,” said Sen. Creek area. More than 100 people had to President Joe Biden and Senate ence than were Trump’s picks, who Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate Ju- The torrent of rocks that came spend the night on the highway Democrats are putting judges on were overwhelmingly white and diciary Committee chairman. tumbling down the canyon’s Thursday night, including near- federal trial and appellate courts at male. One additional benefit of Biden’s steep walls smashed apart sec- ly 30 who took refuge in a tunnel a much faster clip than any of Bi- They include public defenders, focus on diversity is that it might tions of the concrete roadway following the mudslides in west- den’s recent predecessors. civil rights lawyers and attorneys tamp down the restiveness of pro- and sheared off a long section of ern Colorado. Eight judges already have been for organized labor, along with the gressives who also are advocating steel guardrail, photos provided Mudslides also closed down confirmed, including potential Su- more typical mix of prosecutors for court reforms, including ex- by state officials showed. Colorado Highway 125 near preme Court pick Ketanji Brown and big law firm members. panding the Supreme Court by four More rain was in the forecast Granby and U.S. Highway 6 over Jackson to the federal appeals court “I don’t see any silver lining to justices to counterbalance the three for the drought-parched region, Colorado’s Loveland Pass. High- in Washington. More than 30 other Breyer staying on the court,” said Trump appointees. triggering flash flood watches way 6 was reopened Sunday, judicial nominations are pending Nan Aron, the outgoing president of “It could mollify his progressive for portions of Utah, Colorado, Rollison said. for more than 100 openings. the liberal Alliance for Justice. She base, who realize he is not going to New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, In Rock Springs, Wyo., nine By this time four years ago, the worries that an illness or death go in for expanding the size of the Nevada, Oregon and Washing- adults and eight children re- Senate, then under Republican con- could take away the Democrats’ court or even term limits,” said ton state. ceived assistance after flooding trol, had confirmed four of Preis- precarious majority in the Senate Russell Wheeler, a Brookings Insti- I-70 is a major transportation on Saturday, the Red Cross said. dent Donald Trump’s nominees, in- and that Senate Republican leader tution expert on the judiciary. cluding Justice Neil Gorsuch. Mitch McConnell could reprise his Biden’s nominees all have drawn But in 1993 and 2009, the start of refusal to confirm a Democratic at least some Republican support in the last two Democratic adminis- nominee, just as he did when Jus- the Senate. Sens. Lindsey Graham, Police: 10 shot in Queens by trations, no judges had been con- tice Antonin Scalia died in 2016 and R-S.C., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, firmed by the end of July. Obama nominated Merrick Gar- have voted for all eight judges who 2 men who fled on mopeds The last two Democratic presi- land, now the attorney general, to have been confirmed. dents, Bill Clinton and Barack Oba- the Supreme Court. Another 15 Republicans have not Associated Press left by jumping on the backs of ma, were slow to move judicial But Aron said, “We’re so pleased voted for any Biden judicial nomi- NEW YORK — Two men two mopeds driven by two other nominations. But they both had with both the pace and high quality nees. strode up to a crowd outside a men. All four were wearing early, time-consuming Supreme of the Biden nominees, particularly Some of the opposition could be a barbershop in the New York hooded sweatshirts, police said. Court vacancies to deal with. that so many come from all corners form of payback for Democratic op- City borough of Queens and Three of those shot were Justice Byron White announced of the legal profession ... It’s a won- position to Trump nominees, said opened fire, wounding 10 peo- known members of the Trinita- his retirement two months after derful departure from previous Carrie Severino, whose conserva- ple before fleeing on mopeds, rios, a Dominican street gang, Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. Jus- Democratic administrations.” tive Judicial Crisis Network has police said Sunday morning. and were the intended targets, tice David Souter told Obama he Among his appointments are Tif- spent millions of dollars supporting The shooting in the borough’s Essig said. A party was in pro- would step down just over three fany Cunningham, the first Black Republican nominees and oppos- Corona neighborhood took gress at a restaurant a few doors months after Obama took office in woman to serve on the court of ap- ing Democrats. place just before 11 p.m. Satur- down from the barbershop at 2009. peals in Washington, D.C., that “Many Republican senators be- day. The eight men and two the time of the shooting, he add- Progressives pushed hard for deals with patent and other special- lieve that returning to a universe women, who range in age from ed. Justice Stephen Breyer to retire ized cases and Candace Jackson- where Democrat nominees are just 19 to 72, were all hospitalized “This was a brazen, coordi- this summer, but the 82-year-old Akiwumi, only the second Black reflexively confirmed would con- with non-life-threatening inju- nated attack, for lack of a better leader of the court’s diminished lib- woman to be a judge on the federal stitute unilateral disarmament in ries, according to police. The word,” Essig said. “This is un- eral wing has given every indica- appeals court based in Chicago. light of the unyielding opposition to most seriously injured victim acceptable, and it has to stop.” tion he will be on the bench when Biden also has nominated civil President Trump’s nominees for suffered a gunshot wound to the No one was in custody as of the court starts its new term in Octo- rights attorney Myrna Perez for the four years,” Severino said, singling stomach, NYPD Chief of Detec- Sunday morning, and police ber. federal appeals court based in New out Vice President Kamala Harris tives James Essig said. said they would be releasing Those encouraging Breyer to York. She would be the first Latina for her votes against Trump court Police said the two gunmen still photos and video from the step down haven’t masked their dis- on that court since Justice Sonia So- picks when she served as a senator arrived at the scene on foot, but scene. appointment, but they are happy tomayor moved up to the Supreme from California. Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Mountain lion caught in neighborhood back to wild RAMONA — A young CA mountain lion captured after roaming an Orange County neighborhood was released to the wild in the Santa Ana Mountains. The 1-year-old male cub was captured July 13 after being spot- ted several times in a neighbor- hood in Mission Viejo. California Department of Fish and Wildlife wardens took the mountain lion to the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wild- life Center, where he was evaluat- ed and treated for parasites. Once rescuers determined the cub could survive on his own, game wardens returned him to his home territory. Man charged with repeat DUI for road rage incident LEWES — A Wilming- DE ton man was charged with drunken driving and weap- ons offenses after an alleged road rage incident in Lewes, Delaware State Police said. Troopers responded to the parking lot of a Home Depot after a man called 911 to report that an aggressive driver followed him on MARK RIGHTMIRE, THE ORANGE COUNTY (CALIF.) REGISTER/AP Coastal Highway and into the parking lot, where he threw a lock at the man’s vehicle and screamed Food for thought at him, police said in a news re- Artist Sarah Rutherford, bottom left, works on painting a two­story mural on the building at Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County lease. distribution center in Irvine, Calif. The mural depicts faces of Orange County residents served by the food bank. Troopers made contact with the driver later identified as John Gil- es, sexual crimes, assault and traf- THE CENSUS When investigators identified len, 56, and detected a strong odor ficking. the baby’s mother, she was given of alcohol, police said. Gillen was The anniversary that a northern Indiana university is celebrat- medical treatment and access to arrested and a search of his car House fire 1 day before 100 ing next year, leading to the school restoring its chime bells in crisis intervention, police said. turned up an 11-inch makeshift closing dashes plans preparation. Manchester University has hired The Verdin Company of Cincina- Olivia Thompson, 19, of Glen Bur- shank and a 14-inch hatchet, po- ti, Ohio, to remove and refurbish the existing 10 bells, create four additional nie, was arrested and charged lice said. Gillen is prohibited from WASHINGTON — A bells and build a new tower structure. The removal of 10 bronze bells in the with first- and second-degree at- owning a deadly weapon and has NY house fire has de- Administration Building tower will occur Aug. 9-11, the university said in a tempted murder, assault, child two prior convictions for driving stroyed a New York home a day news release. Plans call for an open bell tower to be installed next spring or abuse, neglect of a minor, reckless summer in the middle of the Manchester University Mall, said Melanie Har- under the influence, police said. before a couple was scheduled to endangerment and desertion of a mon, the university’s vice president for advancement. Gillen was charged with posses- close on the property. minor child, according to police. sion of a deadly weapon during the Authorities in Dutchess County commission of a felony, posses- said the house in the Millbrook Firefighters told police that tion wants to reestablish the space Artifact from steamer sion of a deadly weapon by a per- section of Washington, about 15 they found the man after hearing as a heritage center and visitor wreck raised by museum son prohibited, third offense driv- miles northeast of Poughkeepsie, glass break and the sound of the site that will include a flexible per- ing under the influence, disorder- burned to the ground about 12 ladder truck’s horn going off. Po- formance space, as well as “mu- BURLINGTON — An ly conduct and following a motor hours after the sellers moved out lice alleged that the man had start- seum-level interpretive exhibits VT artifact from a steamer vehicle too closely. and a day before a retired New ed the truck and tried driving and programming,” interim exec- that sank in Lake Champlain more York City couple was scheduled to through the fire station’s overhead utive director Eugenie Sills said. than 200 years ago is back on the 8 alleged gang members close on it. The Dutchess County doors before firefighters discov- Sills said the project will cost $5 surface where it is being studied charged with trafficking sheriff’s office told the Albany ered what he was doing. million to $7 million and take and preserved. Times-Union the fire doesn’t ap- The suspect was arrested and years to complete. Earlier this summer, research- ALBANY — Eight al- pear to be suspicious. charged with first-degree burgla- ers from the Lake Champlain GA leged gang members The unidentified couple had ry, attempted auto theft and dam- Mother arrested after Maritime Museum, the Vermont were indicted on a variety of gang- paid $100,000 over the $287,000 age to property. abandoning newborn child Division for Historic Preservation related and human trafficking asking price for the 1936 cottage and others recovered the 125- charges in southwest Georgia. situated on five acres with a pond, Effort to restore historic GLEN BURNIE — A pound cast-iron block from the A Dougherty County grand jury and had given up their apartment Black church gets boost MD 19-year-old woman bottom of the lake. returned the 54-count indictment lease, packed a truck and were accused of abandoning her new- The block is believed to have against alleged members of the ready to move in, real estate Sandi GREAT BARRING- born daughter in a wooded area in held one end of the drive shaft of Inglewood Family Gangster Park told the newspaper. The cou- MA TON — The nonprofit Glen Burnie was arrested and the Phoenix, an early Lake Cham- Bloods in Albany, state Attorney ple’s down payment will be re- restoring a historic Black church charged with attempted murder plain steamer that sank on Sept. 4, General Chris Carr announced. turned, she said. in Massachusetts where civil and other offenses, Anne Arundel 1819, killing six of the 46 passen- Agents with the Georgia Bureau rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois County police said. gers and crew on board. of Investigation and the attorney Firefighters thwart once attended services received a Early on July 14, officers re- Researchers have known about general’s human trafficking unit attempted firetruck theft grant worth almost $500,000. sponding to a 911 call reporting the the location of the Phoenix’s hull’s found evidence that a victim was The National Park Service sound of a crying baby found an remains for decades, but only re- physically and sexually assaulted, TULSA — An Oklaho- grant announced by the Upper unclothed baby girl with an umbil- cently have they been recovering drugged and made to perform sex OK ma man was arrested Housatonic Valley Natural Heri- ical cord still attached, police said more pieces of the wreck. Last acts by known gang members to after being accused of trying to tage Area will help toward the re- in a news release. The baby had year, a diver using a remotely op- generate money for their gang, the steal a firetruck. habilitation of the Clinton A.M.E. minor injuries after being in con- erated vehicle found the paddle- release says. After arriving at the scene, po- Zion Church in Great Barrington, tact with some bushes and was wheels. The charges in the indictment lice found a group of Tulsa fire- The Berkshire Eagle reported. taken to a hospital. Police said the include racketeering, gang charg- fighters holding down a suspect. Upon completion, the organiza- baby is healthy. From The Associated Press PAGE 12 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 WORLD

Turkey battles wildfires for Death toll 6th day; EU to send planes Associated Press ister Bekir Pakdemirli said triples in BOZALAN, Turkey — Selcuk crews were still tackling seven Sanli let his two cows loose to fires in the coastal provinces of fend for themselves, put his fam- Antalya and Mugla that are pop- ily’s most treasured belongings ular tourist areas. Other active flooding in a car and fled his home as a fires were in Isparta, 236 miles wildfire approached his village northeast, in Denizli province in near Turkey’s beach resort of southwest Turkey. Bodrum, one of thousands flee- Another fire in Tunceli, in in China ing flames that have coated the southeast Turkey, was contained skies with a thick yellow haze. Monday, the minister said. In all, Associated Press He returned to check on his 129 fires that broke out in over 30 BEIJING — More than 300 peo- MEITU, CHINATOPIX/AP house Monday in Bozalan only to provinces since Wednesday ple died in recent flooding in cen- A girl helps her pet dog through flood waters after record downpours find that the fire had flared have been extinguished. tral China, authorities said Mon- receded in Zhengzhou city July 21. Chinese authorities announced a again. “We are going through days day, three times the previously an- huge jump in the death toll from recent floods. “Property is an important part when the heat is above 40 C (104 nounced toll. of life but life itself comes first,” degrees Fahrenheit), where the The Henan provincial govern- The previous death toll, an- The worst came after Zhengz- he said as he prepared to leave winds are strong and humidity is ment said 302 people died and 50 nounced Friday, was 99. hou was hit by 8 inches of rain in his home once again. extremely low,” Pakdemirli remain missing. The vast majority Authorities said 189 people one hour starting at 4 p.m. on July For the sixth straight day, said. “We are struggling under of the victims were in Zhengzhou, were killed by floods and mud- 20, overwhelming the already Turkish firefighters were bat- such difficult conditions.” the provincial capital, where 292 slides, 54 in house collapses and drenched city. Children were tling Monday to control the blaz- At least 13 settlements in Mu- died and 47 are missing. Ten oth- 39 in underground areas such as trapped in schools, and stranded es tearing through forests near gla were fully or partially evac- ers died in three other cities, offi- basements and garages and in- people stayed in their workplaces Turkey’s beach destinations. uated, the minister said. cials said at a news conference in cluding those on subway Line 5. overnight. Fed by strong winds and scorch- The EU said it helped mobilize Zhengzhou. The death toll remained at six in The rains headed north in the ing temperatures, the fires that firefighting planes from Croatia Record rainfall inundated the an expressway tunnel from which following days, hitting the Henan began Wednesday have left eight and Spain to help Turkey. Planes city on July 20, turning streets into 247 vehicles were removed as it cities of Hebi, Anyang and Xin- people dead and forced residents from Ukraine, Russia, Azerbai- rushing rivers and flooding at was drained. xiang. Seven people died and and tourists to flee vacation re- jan and Iran have also been fight- least part of a subway line. Video Wang Kai, the governor of He- three are missing in Xinxiang, sorts in a flotilla of small boats. ing the blazes. posted online showed vehicles be- nan province, expressed deep where record rains dropped more Many villagers lost homes and Spain’s government said it is ing washed away and desperate condolences to the victims and than 10 inches of water in a 19- farm animals and had trouble sending two water-dumping air- people trapped in subway cars as sympathies to the families on be- hour period. Henan is an inland breathing amid the heavy craft and one transport plane to the waters rose. Fourteen people half of the Henan Communist Par- county about 380 miles southwest smoke. help Turkey with the wildfires, died in the subway flooding. ty committee. of Beijing. Agriculture and Forestry Min- as well as 27 soldiers to help out. Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 13 WORLD S. Korea seeks to improve ties despite North threat on drills BY HYUNG-JIN KIM launched as scheduled this month. status, diplomat efforts to curb Associated Press Her statement raised a question North Korea’s nuclear ambitions SEOUL, South Korea — South about the sincerity of North Ko- and South Korea-U.S. military Korea said Monday it’ll keep rea’s recent decision to reopen readiness. pushing to improve ties and re- long-stalled communication chan- Lee Jong-joo, a spokeswoman at sume talks with rival North Korea, nels with South Korea. the Unification Ministry, said Se- despite the North’s threat to rekin- South Korea’s Defense Ministry oul views the communication dle animosities if Seoul holds its said Monday the exact timing, size channels’ restoration as a starting summertime military drills with and other details of the drills point for restoring long-suspend- AHN YOUNG­JOON/AP the United States. haven’t been fixed and that they ed ties between the Koreas. She South Korean army soldiers work on K2 tanks in preparation for an On Sunday night, the powerful were the issues that must be deter- said Seoul will steadily seek to re- exercise at a training field in Paju, South Korea, near the border with sister of North Korean leader Kim mined by South Korean and U.S. sume talks with North Korea, but North Korea, on Monday. Jong Un warned the drills would authorities. Spokesman Boo without haste. seriously undermine efforts to re- Seung-Chan repeated his previ- North Korea sees regular mili- to them with its own weapons their training to support the now- store mutual trust between the ous statement that Seoul and tary drills between South Korea tests. In the past few years, howev- dormant diplomacy on ending the Koreas and becloud prospects for Washington are examining fac- and the United States as an inva- er, South Korea and the U.S. have North Korean nuclear crisis or be- better ties if the training is tors like the pandemic’s current sion rehearsal and often responds canceled or downsized some of cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pakistan says polio vaccine team attacked, policeman killed Associated Press kistani policemen assigned to protect polio taking part in a nationwide campaign Pakistani militants often target polio PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen on workers. aimed at making Pakistan a polio-free teams and police assigned to protect them, Monday shot and killed a police officer as- The deadly attack took place in the town state. claiming the vaccination campaigns are a signed to protect a polio vaccination team of Kolachi in the Dera Ismail Khan dis- The gunmen fled the scene and a police Western conspiracy to sterilize children. in northwestern Pakistan, an official said. trict. Officer Dilawar Khan was on his mo- search is underway, according to Moham- No one immediately claimed responsib- It was the third attack in two days on Pa- torcycle, heading to escort polio workers mad Aslam, a local police official. ility for any of the attacks. PAGE 14 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 FACES ‘It was touch and go’ Smokey Robinson gratefully resumes touring after battling COVID-19 BY GEORGE VARGA COVID-19 — for which he was vaccinated in late March — The San Diego Union-Tribune or where he was hospitalized. But he spoke with palpable Motown vocal legend Smokey Robinson gratefully re- enthusiasm throughout his 45-minute interview, at one turned to the concert stage last month after having spent point breaking into a vigorous vocal simulation of former nearly two weeks hospitalized in December with CO- Temptations’ singer Eddie Kendricks at full throttle. VID-19. Robinson said he has now resumed work on two new al- “I was in the hospital for 11 days before Christmas and it bums — one in English and one in Spanish — both of which wiped me out. It was touch and go,” the longtime Los An- he describes as “contemporary.” He is also focused on a geles resident said, speaking by phone July 30. biopic feature film based on his life and career. Robinson The famed singer-songwriter, who turned 81 on Feb. 19, formed his first band, The Five Chimes, before he had be- is a 2002 National Medal of the Arts recipient and 1987 Rock come a teenager. & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. His concert July 24 at North- “We’re script-writing right now,” said the Detroit native, ern Quest Resort & Casino in Airway Heights, Wash., out- whose candid autobiography, “Smokey: Inside My Life,” side Spokane, was his first performance in front of a live was published in 1989. “We’ve been working on it for a audience since early 2020. year.” “I was really worried about it because I’m a COVID sur- As the leader of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, he vivor,” Robinson said. He had not previously disclosed that wrote and recorded some of the most enduring pop songs of he had contracted the deadly virus. the 1960s before launching his solo career. As a staff writer “It messed with my vocal cords,” Robinson continued. for Motown Records, he helped craft chart-topping hits for “I could barely talk for a month (afterward), so I had to The Temptations, Mary Wells and others. Bob Dylan fa- continually work on myself to sing and get those muscles mously hailed him as “our greatest living poet.” back. It was a nervous situation (in Washington state) be- Asked if music means more to him now than it did before cause it was a full-blown, two-hour concert. But after two or the pandemic and his contracting COVID-19, Robinson of- TNS three songs, it felt good. I was very happy about that.” fered a simple but eloquent response. R&B icon Smokey Robinson is happy to be back on tour. Robinson did not say how or when last year he contracted “Everything means more to me now,” he said. Michael Jackson’s estate Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ tops on the verge of a comeback box office with $34M debut BY ANDREW DALTON And the focus of the estate can From wire reports Disney countered that it paid Associated Press now shift back to presenting Jack- Walt Disney Co.’s “Jungle Johansson $20 million and that the Michael Jackson’s musical leg- son to the world. Cruise,” based on a theme-park suit is without merit. acy never left, but a kind of come- The first priority is the revival ride, opened as the top film in Fests drop DaBaby after back is coming. of the Cirque du Soleil show, “Mi- North American theaters, collect- With a series of court victories chael Jackson: One” at the Man- ing a higher-than-expected $34 controversial remarks that bring the end to serious legal dalay Bay Resort and Casino in million sales in a still-tough cli- Just a day after Lollapalooza an- crises, with a Broadway show be- Las Vegas. It is slated to reopen mate for movie theaters. nounced that DaBaby would not ginning and a Cirque du Soleil Aug. 19 after a coronavirus clo- “The Green Knight,” a fantasy be performing at the music festiv- show returning after a long pan- sure of nearly a year and a half, in take on the King Arthur story from al Aug. 1 due to his recent homo- demic pause, the Jackson busi- time for a major celebration there A24, opened in second place with phobic and sexist comments, the ness is on the upswing 12 years af- planned for Jackson’s Aug. 29 $6.78 million in sales, researcher rapper was also dropped from ter the pop superstar’s death. birthday. Comscore Inc. said Sunday. Last Governors Ball, set to be held in Very recently, things looked The Broadway show, “MJ: The AP weekend’s leader, the M. Night late September. Both actions fol- grim. The 2019 HBO documentary Musical,” will follow quickly on its Singer Michael Jackson is shown Shyamalan horror film “Old,” low a week of intense criticism di- “Leaving Neverland” raised child heels, the first of several planned in 1989. The singer, who died in landed in the third place with rev- rected at the artist. molestation allegations anew. The projects. 2009, will be the focus of an enues of $6.76 million. The new The decisions came a week af- once-dead lawsuits brought by the “It’s not a chronological depic- upcoming Cirque du Soleil show Matt Damon film “Stillwater” ter the 29-year-old rapper, whose and a Broadway musical. two men featured in it had been tion of Michael’s life,” said Brabca opened with $5.12 million. real name is Jonathan Kirk, di- revived by changes in the law. of the Broadway show. “It’s more “Jungle Cruise” debuted in both rected homophobic and sexist And a decision in the estate’s ap- impressionistic, inspired by Mi- protect themselves,” Branca said. theaters and online — available to comments during his set at the peal of a $700 million tax bill was chael’s life and his music. It takes The two men featured in the Disney+ subscribers for an addi- Rolling Loud festival in Miami taking years to arrive. place as Michael is preparing for a documentary are appealing the tional fee of $30 — the same strate- Gardens, Fla. DaBaby — who has “I was always optimistic,” said tour and MTV wants to get an in- dismissals of their lawsuits. HBO gy the entertainment giant em- amassed six Grammy nomina- John Branca, the entertainment terview. Michael’s very press shy, has defended “Leaving Never- ployed with its Marvel film “Black tions — encouraged those in at- attorney who worked with Jack- and slowly but surely as they de- land” as a valid and important Widow” a few weeks ago. tendance to raise their cellphone son through many of his biggest velop a relationship begins to talk piece of documentary journalism. “Jungle Cruise” features lights on the condition that they triumphs and now serves as co-ex- about different parts of his life that Under the guidance of Branca Dwayne Johnson as captain of an weren’t gay men or affected by ecutor of his estate. “Michael in- then get enacted in the show.” and co-executor John McClain, Amazon riverboat, and Emily HIV/AIDS, inaccurately stating spired the planet, and his music Successes aside, Branca feels the estate has brought in $2.5 bil- Blunt plays his passenger. The that the disease would “make you still does. There was never any lingering bitterness about direc- lion in revenue in the past 11 years, film cost about $200 million to die in two to three weeks.” doubt about that.” tor Dan Reed’s “Leaving Never- and Jackson has remained the top make, according to trade reports. The optimism was warranted. A land” and what he felt were Amer- earning deceased celebrity every Controversy over the simulta- Other news succession of court decisions ican media outlets that “don’t have year since his death at age 50 from neous release of films in theaters ■ Charles Connor, known for came. One accusers’ lawsuit was the time or the wherewithal to do a lethal dose of the anesthetic pro- and online has been heating up. being Little Richard’s drummer dismissed in October. The other the research to figure out what’s pofol. Besides angering theater owners, who performed with other music was tossed out in April. In May, a true and what’s not true.” But Branca says the way Jack- Disney was sued by actress Scar- greats including James Brown ruling in the tax case slashed the The estate’s last lingering law- son’s musical legacy echoes lett Johansson, a star of the com- and Sam Cooke, died July 31. He bill dramatically. The estate sud- suit, now in private arbitration, is through modern artists may be his pany’s Marvel films. She alleged was 86. Connor’s daughter, Quee- denly stands nearly clear of a doz- one that it brought itself, against most impressive legacy. in a lawsuit last week that the com- nie Connor Sonnefeld, said her fa- en years of disputes. That means HBO over the documentary. “Kanye West, Drake, Beyoncé, pany broke its promise to release ther died peacefully in his sleep at Branca expects that in the next 18 “I was very angry at HBO and Usher, Justin Timberlake, Justin “Black Widow” only in movie the- his home in Glendale, Calif. She months it can finally be taken out Dan Reed and I still am because Bieber, Ariana Grande — they all aters when it made it available for said her father had been diag- of probate court and turned into a here’s the thing: You can say any- point back to Michael,” Branca streaming. Her contract guaran- nosed with normal pressure hy- trust for Jackson’s three children, thing you want about somebody said. “His influence is really enor- teed her a share of the box-office drocephalus, a brain disorder that who are all now adults. who’s dead. They’re not here to mous.” receipts. causes fluid buildup. Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 15 Eugene Sheffer Crossword Frazz Dilbert

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Carpe Diem aircraft 48 Actress Hatcher 49 2016 Olympics city Beetle Bailey Bizarro PAGE 16 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 OPINION

Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Canada’s political culture permits vaccination gains Lt. Col. Michael Kerschbaum, Pacific commander Michael Ryan, Pacific chief of staff BY DOYLE MCMANUS est lockdown was imposed by Ontario Pre- public health are all interrelated, and they are Los Angeles Times mier Doug Ford, a populist conservative who all key predictors of anti-vax sentiment.” hree months ago, Canada, which has been compared to former President Do- Another difference: Canada’s Conservative EDITORIAL has no domestic manufacturer of nald Trump. Party is more moderate than the post-Trump COVID-19 vaccines, lagged far be- “I can’t stand lockdowns,” Ford com- Republican Party. Terry Leonard, Editor hind the United States in immuniza- plained, but he stuck by his health experts’ “There’s a strain of authoritarian populism [email protected] T tions. Only 3% of its population was fully vacci- recommendation to keep the restrictions until in both parties, but it has become the dominant Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor nated. Canadians watched glumly as friends almost 80% of Ontarians had received their faction in the Republican Party; it’s not as [email protected] and relatives south of the border lined up for first doses of vaccine. large in Canada,” Graves said. shots, while residents of Toronto and Mon- Like the U.S., Canada has anti-vaxxers — Before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation treal suffered repeated lockdowns. just fewer of them. An Angus Reid Institute Canada’s Leger Poll asked Canadians wheth- [email protected] No longer. Last month, Canada blew past poll last month found that only 8% of Cana- er they would vote for Trump or Joe Biden. the United States in the share of its population dians said they definitely do not intend to get a Among all Canadians, Biden was the favorite, BUREAU STAFF that’s fully vaccinated — 58% as of Friday, ver- COVID vaccination, including 15% of Conser- by a whopping 84%; even Conservative Party Europe/Mideast sus 49% in the U.S. — to take first place among vative Party voters. Polls in the United States voters preferred Biden over Trump, at 59%. the seven big industrial democracies. (The have found refusal rates at least twice as high. One last difference: Canada has no equiva- Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief [email protected] United States ranks sixth, ahead of only Ja- And there lies a clue toward a deeper, more lent of Fox News spreading misinformation +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 pan.) complex explanation for Canada’s vaccina- about COVID vaccines. Pacific How did Canada, the country that most tion success over that of the U.S.: the underly- Of course, not everyone is impressed by Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief closely resembles the U.S., do so much better, ing differences between the countries’ politi- Canada’s anti-pandemic measures. Florida [email protected] even though it had to wait longer for Pfizer- cal cultures and, especially, their conserva- Gov. Ron DeSantis recently derided them as +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 BioNTech and Moderna to deliver their vac- tive parties. an example of what not to do. Washington cines? The simple answer is that in Canada, the “There is much less polarization in Canada “We were the leading state fighting against Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief pandemic didn’t become a politically polar- overall,” Peter Loewen, a political scientist at coronavirus lockdowns,” he bragged on Fox [email protected] ized issue, as it did in the United States. the University of Toronto, told me. “There’s News. “I believe had Florida not done that, you (+1)(202)886-0033 Canada’s major political parties, including not a lot of political mileage in appearing to be would see the other states to have followed Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News [email protected] the opposition Conservatives, joined early in anti-science in Canada; there is in the United Canada, [which is] still locked down.” full-throated support of mass vaccination. States.” But the governor should be careful about CIRCULATION Leading politicians didn’t dismiss immuniza- Canadians also differ from Americans in the comparisons he invites. tion as unnecessary, deride mask mandates or that more of them trust their government to do Florida led the U.S. in COVID-19 cases last Mideast attack scientists. When Andrew Scheer, then the right thing. Frank Graves of Ekos Re- week, and more than 39,000 Sunshine State Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager the Conservative leader, criticized Prime search, an Ottawa pollster, noted that in one residents have died from the disease. Canada, [email protected] Minister Justin Trudeau last year over the im- survey last year, Americans’ trust in Washing- with a much larger population, has had about [email protected] DSN (314)583-9111 munization program, it was to complain that ton was as low as 17%; the trust level in Canada 27,000 COVID deaths. Its per capita death rate he wasn’t delivering vaccines fast enough. was 37%, about twice as high. is less than half that of Florida. Europe Canadians have argued over how quickly to “In Canada, our number actually bounced That should make even Republicans ask Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager [email protected] lift limits on public gatherings, restaurants up during the pandemic, as people looked to themselves: What is Canada doing right? [email protected] and retail stores, but their debates have been government as a source of salvation,” he told +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 muted by U.S. standards. The country’s tough- me. “Trust in government, in science and in Doyle McManus is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Pacific Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 Will delta variant turn Americans against one another? 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The fear among ex- that happen again to another part? government officials, universities and corpo- perts is that as delta spreads, infected people I am not unmindful of what this might do to Additional contacts rations to pick sides. A time for choosing will surround and overwhelm vaccinated peo- us. The circumstances in which we find our- stripes.com/contactus awaits us all. ple through “spillover infection,” while con- selves remind me of the worst sectarian fight- OMBUDSMAN We’re about to enter a strange era not seen tinuing to retard herd immunity. ing during the Iraq War, when former friends since 1905, when the Supreme Court ruled in There is little goodwill between warring would cross the street rather than share a side- Ernie Gates favor of state police powers to require vac- factions. People who don’t want the vaccine walk with someone who supported or opposed

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PRO SOCCER DEALS TENNIS GOLF MLS Sunday’s transactions Atlanta Open US Senior Women’s Open BASEBALL Sunday Eastern Conference Major League Baseball At Atlanta Station American League Atlanta The Legends Tour WLTPts GF GA Sunday BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated LHP Purse: $555,995 At Brooklawn Country Club New England 11 3 3 36 33 21 Keegan Akin from the 10-day IL. Placed Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Men’s Singles Fairfield, Conn. Orlando City 8 4 4 28 26 21 LHP Tanner Scott on the 10-day IL. Desig- nated RHP Thomas Eshelman for assign- Championship Purse: $1 million Nashville 6 1 9 27 25 15 ment. John Isner (6), United States, def. Bran- Yardage: 5,959; Par: 72 NYCFC 8 5 2 26 30 16 BOSTON RED SOX — Agreed to terms don Nakashima, United States, 7-6 (8), 7-5. (a)amateur Final Round Philadelphia 6 4 7 25 21 17 with C Nathan Hickey, 1B Niko Kavadas and RHP Luis Guerrero on minor league Charleston 125 Annika Sorenstam, $180,000 67-69-72-68—276 -12 Columbus 6 4 6 24 17 16 contracts. Liselotte Neumann, $108,000 70-69-71-74—284 -4 CF Montréal 6 6 4 22 21 20 CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed CF Billy Sunday Laura Davies, $68,977 71-75-68-71—285 -3 D.C. United 6 7 3 21 21 18 Hamilton on the 10-day IL, retroactive to At Family Circle Tennis Center Yuko Saito, $43,970 70-70-74-72—286 -2 July 31. Recalled RHP Jimmy Lambert from Charleston, S.C. New York 5 7 3 18 20 20 Charlotte (Triple-A East). Optioned RHP Purse: $115,000 Catriona Matthew, $43,970 71-70-71-74—286 -2 Toronto FC 3 8 5 14 21 33 Jimmy Lambert to Charlotte. Surface: Red clay Kris Tschetter, $35,338 69-72-75-73—289 +1 HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Ryan Women’s Singles Christa Johnson, $28,876 74-71-75-70—290 +2 Cincinnati 3 7 5 14 17 29 Pressly on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Championship Kimberly Williams, $28,876 72-72-74-72—290 +2 Atlanta 2 6 8 14 16 21 Bryan Abreu from Sugar Land (Triple-A Varvara Lepchenko (4), United States, Helen Alfredsson, $28,876 74-72-72-72—290 +2 Chicago 3 9 4 13 18 28 West). Reinstated RHP Josh James from def. Jamie Loeb, United States, 7-6 (4), 4-6, BRANDON DILL/AP the 60-day IL. Designated RHP Ralph Garza 6-4. Karen Weiss, $20,173 77-70-76-68—291 +3 Inter Miami CF 3 8 3 12 12 24 Jr. for assignment. Tammie Green, $20,173 74-75-72-70—291 +3 Toronto Raptors guard Kyle LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP WTA Winners Open S. Green-Roebuck, $20,173 71-74-75-71—291 +3 Lowry is considered the top NBA Western Conference James Hoyt and SS Luis Rengifo to Salt Juli Inkster, $20,173 73-74-72-72—291 +3 free agent available. WLTPts GF GA Lake (Triple-A West). Selected the con- Monday Dana Ebster, $20,173 67-74-76-74—291 +3 tracts of LHP Reid Detmers and INF Kean At Arenele BNR Trish Johnson, $16,003 76-72-72-72—292 +4 Seattle 9 3 5 32 25 13 Wong from Salt Lake and agreed to terms Cluj­Napoca, Romania on major league contracts. Purse: $235,238 Rosie Jones, $16,003 71-70-76-75—292 +4 Sporting 9 4 3 30 29 19 NEW YORK YANKEES —Recalled RHP Al- Michele Redman, $13,748 74-76-73-70—293 +5 Kansas City Surface: Red clay bert Abreu from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Women’s Singles Cheryl Anderson, $13,748 74-76-71-72—293 +5 LA Galaxy 9 6 1 28 27 27 (Triple-A East). Placed RHP Domingo Ger- Qualification Barbara Moxness, $13,748 72-76-72-73—293 +5 Free agency man on the 10-day IL. Colorado 8 4 3 27 22 16 Jana Fett (4), Croatia, def. Vanessa Ioana Martha Leach (a), $0 74-76-71-73—294 +6 OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP Georgiana PoPa Teiusanu, Romania, 6-4, LAFC 6 5 5 23 22 19 Daulton Jefferies from Las Vegas (Triple-A 6-1. Ellen Port (a), $0 71-69-77-77—294 +6 Minnesota 6 5 5 23 19 21 West). Optioned OF Seth Brown to Las Ve- Women’s Singles M. McGann, $12,047 73-72-72-77—294 +6 Real Salt Lake 5 4 6 21 24 16 gas. Round of 32 Nicole Jeray, $10,981 71-76-75-73—295 +7 TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed LHP Jeffrey Kaja Juvan (6), Slovenia, def. Marina Jamie Fischer, $10,981 73-76-73-73—295 +7 will begin Portland 6 8 1 19 19 26 Springs on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP DJ Melnikova, Russia, 6-1, 6-1. Maggie Will, $9,938 77-72-76-71—296 +8 Houston 3 4 9 18 17 20 Johnson from Durham (Triple-A East). Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, def. Evelyne Sue Ginter, $8,778 73-75-76-73—297 +9 FC Dallas 4 7 5 17 20 24 TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with Christelle Atticia Tiron, Romania, 6-0, 6-0. OF Aaron Zavala, C Tucker Mitchell and J. Gallagher-Smith, $8,778 76-73-73-75—297 +9 San Jose 4 7 5 17 18 25 RHP Kyle Larson on minor league con- Lisa DePaulo, $8,778 76-74-71-76—297 +9 with focus tracts. Vancouver 3 7 6 15 18 27 AUTO RACING Lara Tennant (a), $0 76-76-72-75—299+11 TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated RHPs Nanci Bowen, $7,778 75-74-75-75—299+11 Austin FC 3 8 4 13 10 16 Jose Berrios and Joakim Soria. Optioned Note: Three points for victory, one point RHP Thomas Hatch and LHP Tayler Sauce- F1 Hungarian Grand Prix Cindy Schreyer, $7,778 73-78-71-77—299+11 for tie. do to Buffalo (Triple-A East). Elaine Crosby, $6,880 77-74-78-71—300+12 National League Sunday Laurie Rinker, $6,880 75-77-76-72—300+12 on Lowry Sunday’s games ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP Huascar At Hungaroring Carolyn Hill, $6,880 73-79-76-72—300+12 Budapest, Hungary. Chicago 1, Philadelphia 1 Ynoa to Rome (High-A East) on a rehab as- Becky Iverson, $6,880 76-71-75-78—300+12 BY TIM REYNOLDS Nashville 1, Toronto FC 1 signment. Lap length: 4.00 kilometers (Start position in parentheses) Dina Ammaccapane, $5,887 77-73-79-72—301+13 Associated Press Wednesday’s games COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RHPs Rob- ert Stephenson and Yency Almonte to Al- 1. (8) Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 70 D. Ammaccapane, $5,887 76-75-77-73—301+13 Nashville at New England buquerque (Triple-A West) on rehab as- laps, 1:32:54.762. Lynne Cowan (a), $0 74-77-76-74—301+13 Free agency doesn’t start until 6 Atlanta at CF Montréal signments. Reinstated OF Yonathan Daza 2. (10) Sebastian Vettel, Germany, As- Corey Weworski (a), $0 75-77-73-76—301+13 p.m. Eastern on Monday. The D.C. United at Columbus ton Martin, 70, +1.859 seconds. from the IL. Optioned RHP Jose Mujica to Lisa Grimes, $5,887 75-75-74-77—301+13 Toronto FC at Philadelphia Albuquerque. 3. (1) Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, machinations toward getting Miami at Orlando City LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned RF Mercedes, 70, +2.736. C. Johnston-Forbes, $5,050 77-74-77-74—302+14 New York City FC at Chicago Zach McKinstry and RHP Mitch White to 4. (15) Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 70, Julie Piers, $5,050 75-76-76-75—302+14 ready, however, were in full steam Cincinnati at New York Oklahoma City (Triple-A West). Trans- +15.018. Kasumi Fujii, $5,050 75-74-78-75—302+14 on Sunday. Houston at Austin FC ferred RHP Jimmie Sherfy from the 10-day 5. (9) Fernando Alonso, Spain, Alpine, Hollis Stacy, $5,050 75-75-76-76—302+14 FC Dallas at Seattle IL to the 60-day IL. Activated RF Mookie 70, +15.651. Sherry Andonian, $5,050 74-74-78-76—302+14 And the Miami Heat were at the Sporting Kansas City at Los Angeles FC Betts from the 10-day IL. Selected the con- 6. (5) Pierre Gasly, France, Alphatauri, Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy tract of RHP Yefry Ramirez from Oklahoma 70, +1:03.614. Laura Coble (a), $0 74-73-77-79—303+15 center of the activity. San Jose at Portland City and agreed to terms on a major 7. (16) Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatau- Tonya Gill Danckaert, $4,472 75-75-78-76—304+16 With Kyle Lowry set to become Saturday, Aug. 7 league contract. ri, 70, +1:15.803. Sue Wooster (a), $0 74-78-74-78—304+16 MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned 1B Lewin one of the top free agents available Atlanta at Columbus 8. (18) Nicholas Latifi, Canada, Wil- L. Shanahan Rowe, $4,184 78-73-78-77—306+18 Diaz to Jacksonville (Triple-A East). Select- liams, 70, +1:17.910. Jennifer Cully, $4,184 77-74-75-80—306+18 Orlando City at Cincinnati ed the contract of LHP Sean Guenther from once the shopping window opens, Houston at Minnesota 9. (17) George Russell, Great Britain, Kristi Albers, $3,894 76-75-79-78—308+20 Jacksonville and agreed to terms on a ma- Williams, 70, +1:19.094. the Heat announced that they New York City FC at Toronto FC jor league contract. Austin FC at FC Dallas 10. (3) Max Verstappen, Netherlands, MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed RHP Red Bull Racing, 70, +1:20.244. picked up the $19.4 million option Sporting Kansas City at Colorado Hunter Strickland on the 10-day IL. Select- HANDA World Invitational Real Salt Lake at Portland 11. (13) Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa year on point guard Goran Dragic ed the contract of LHP Blaine Hardy from Romeo Racing, 69, +1 lap. Sunday, Aug. 8 Nashville (Triple-A East) and agreed to 12. (11) Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, LPGA Tour on Sunday — a move that could be a New York at Chicago terms on a major league contract. McLaren, 69, +1 lap. Philadelphia at New England NEW YORK METS —Placed INF Luis Guil- 13. (20) Mick Schumacher, Germany, Sunday precursor to making a deal for Nashville at Miami lorme on the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Geoff Haas F1 Team, 69, +1 lap. At Galgorm Castle and Massereene Golf Lowry, who was a Miami target at Los Angeles FC at San Jose Hartlieb from Syracuse (Triple-A East). 14. (14) Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa Courses CF Montréal at D.C. United ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated LHP Romeo Racing, 69, +1 lap. Ballymena, Northern Ireland the trade deadline this past season. Vancouver at LA Galaxy Jon Lester. Optioned RHP Jake Woodford Purse: $4.5 million to Memphis (Triple-A East). 15. (19) Nikita Mazepin, Russia, Haas F1 Lowry won’t be the only big Team, did not finish, 3. Galgorm Castle SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned 3B Yardage: 6,546; Par: 73 NWSL Jason Vosler to Sacramento (Triple-A 16. (6) Lando Norris, Great Britain, name to be closely followed on West). Activated LF Kris Bryant. McLaren, did not finish, 2. Massereene Golf Club Monday. WLTPts GF GA WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Activated 17. (4) Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Yardage: 6,461; Par: 72 RHP Josiah Gray. Optioned RHP Tanner Racing, did not finish. Final Round A person with knowledge of the Portland 8 3 1 25 19 7 Rainey to Rochester (Triple-A East). 18. (2) Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mer- (x­won playoff) cedes, did not finish. x-P. Anannarukarn 70-69-66-70—275 -16 situation said that Kawhi Leonard Gotham FC 5 1 5 20 13 7 BASKETBALL UTAH JAZZ — Waived G Matt Thomas. 19. (7) Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferra- Emma Talley 67-65-73-70—275 -16 was declining his $36 million op- Chicago 6 5 2 20 15 18 FOOTBALL ri, did not finish. Jennifer Kupcho 66-69-70-71—276 -15 Washington 5 4 3 18 15 14 National Football League 20. (12) Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston tion for this coming season with the Martin, did not finish. Atthaya Thitikul 71-67-70-70—278 -13 North Carolina 5 4 3 18 16 9 ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed LB Tuzar Sydnee Michaels 73-69-70-67—279 -12 Skipper. Los Angeles Clippers, and a anoth- Houston 5 5 2 17 14 13 DENVER BRONCOS — Signed DB Rojes- Driver Standings Mina Harigae 69-69-72-69—279 -12 er person said Chris Paul was de- Orlando 4 4 5 17 15 16 terman Farris. 1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Chella Choi 66-69-71-73—279 -12 Reign FC 5 6 1 16 12 13 LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Re-signed K Do- Bull Racing, 185 points. Pernilla Lindberg 73-66-75-66—280 -11 clining his $44 million option with minik Eberle. Louisville 3 6 2 11 7 17 2. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mer- Sarah Kemp 70-71-69-70—280 -11 the Phoenix Suns. Those people LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Signed QB cedes, 177. Wichanee Meechai 70-72-67-71—280 -11 Kansas City 0 8 4 4 5 17 K.J. Costello. 3. Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLa- spoke to The Associated Press on MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed TEs Mike Yu Liu 75-70-68-68—281 -10 Note: Three points for victory, one point ren, 113. Muni He 71-69-72-69—281 -10 for tie. Gesicki, Cethan Carter and Adam Shaheen 4. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes, condition of anonymity because on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Su Oh 68-72-69-72—281 -10 Sunday’s games 108. neither move was announced pub- NEW ORLEANS — Signed RB Devonta 5. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Rac- Georgia Hall 68-73-71-70—282 -9 Portland 2, Kansas City 0 Freeman. Yealimi Noh 73-70-68-71—282 -9 licly and in both cases, said that Le- NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed C Joe Loo- ing, 104. Chicago 3, Washington 1 6. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 80. Ryann O’Toole 72-68-70-72—282 -9 Gotham FC 1, Houston 1, tie ney. onard and Paul would take the op- SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed QB Sean 7. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 68. Lauren Coughlin 72-73-69-69—283 -8 Saturday, Aug. 7 Mannion. Waived QB Danny Etling. 8. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, McLa- Alison Lee 73-70-70-70—283 -8 portunity to negotiate longer deals North Carolina at Gotham FC WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — ren, 50. Olivia Mehaffey 70-72-71-70—283 -8 9. Pierre Gasly, France, Alphatauri, 39. and remain with their respective Portland at Washington Placed DT Daron Payne on the reserve/ Paula Reto 74-71-67-71—283 -8 Houston at Reign FC COVID-19 list. 10. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Aston teams. Martin, 30. Min Seo Kwak 67-70-75-71—283 -8 11. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Alpine, 26. Gemma Dryburgh 66-70-75-72—283 -8 “We’ll know what his decision is AP SPORTLIGHT 12. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, Liz Nagel 75-68-67-73—283 -8 at that point in time,” Suns general 18. Charley Hull 68-68-74-73—283 -8 13. Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 14. Karolin Lampert 70-72-72-70—284 -7 manager James Jones said last 14. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatauri, Aug. 3 American men’s 400 relay settles for sil- 10. Lina Boqvist 72-72-68-72—284 -7 week when asked about Paul’s fu- ver. With Carl Lewis idled by a coach’s de- 15. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Ro- Alana Uriell 70-73-69-72—284 -7 1852 — The first intercollegiate rowing cision and Leroy Burrell injured, the men’s Lindsey Weaver 72-69-71-72—284 -7 ture. “But I think what we have is race is held on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., 400 team is shocked by Canada — the first meo Racing, 1. where Harvard beats Yale by four lengths time the U.S. lost the event at the Olym- 16. Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa Ro- Ursula Wikstrom 70-70-71-73—284 -7 enticing, I think he likes being on the 2-mile course. pics. meo Racing, 1. Lindy Duncan 73-72-68-72—285 -6 here, we like having him here. So, 1949 — The National Basketball Associ- 2003 — Annika Sorenstam completes a Pornanong Phatlum 68-71-72-74—285 -6 Manufacturers Standings ation is formed by the merger of the Na- career Grand Slam at the Women’s British K. Perry-Hamski 74-69-71-72—286 -5 I’m confident that we’ll be able to tional Basketball League and the Basket- Open, beating Se Ri Pak by a stroke in a 1. Red Bull Racing, 289. Dottie Ardina 72-69-72-73—286 -5 ball Association of America. thrilling head-to-head showdown. 2. Mercedes, 285. have a conversation — hopefully in 1990 — The Professional Golfers Associ- 2012 — Michael Phelps rallies to win the 3. McLaren, 163. Esther Henseleit 70-73-71-73—287 -4 the coming days that will make ev- ation Tour announces it will not hold tour- 100-meter butterfly for his third gold of the 4. Ferrari, 148. Stephanie Kyriacou 70-72-72-73—287 -4 naments at golf clubs that have all-white London Games and No. 17 of his career. It’s 5. Alphatauri, 49. Linnea Strom 70-70-72-75—287 -4 eryone happy.” memberships or show any other signs of Phelps’ third consecutive win in the event 6. Aston Martin, 48. Johanna Gustavsson 72-69-73-74—288 -3 The 35-year-old Lowry has discrimination. at the Olympics, and his 21st career med- 7. Alpine, 40. Kristen Gillman 72-69-72-75—288 -3 1996 — Andre Agassi, the Dream Team al. Missy Franklin sets a world record in 8. Alfa Romeo Racing, 2. spent his last nine seasons with To- and the U.S. women’s 400-meter relay the 200 backstroke for the 17-year-old’s 9. Williams, 0. Cloe Frankish 72-73-68-76—289 -2 team win Olympic gold medals, while the third gold in London. 10. Haas F1 Team, 0. Tiia Koivisto 71-71-71-78—291 E ronto. PAGE 18 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 MLB

Scoreboard

American League Bryant homers in Giants debut East Division WLPct GB San Francisco downs Tampa Bay 64 42 .604 _ Boston 63 44 .589 1½ Houston to win series New York 56 48 .538 7 Toronto 54 48 .529 8 Baltimore 37 67 .356 26 BY MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press Central Division SAN FRANCISCO — Kris WLPct GB Bryant homered in his Giants de­ Chicago 62 44 .585 _ Cleveland 51 51 .500 9 but, a two­out solo shot in the third Detroit 51 57 .472 12 inning, and San Francisco beat the Kansas City 45 59 .433 16 Houston Astros 5­3 on Sunday. Minnesota 44 62 .415 18 Darin Ruf had three hits includ­ West Division ing a home run and two RBIs. WLPct GB Brandon Crawford and Donovan Houston 64 42 .604 _ Solano both added two hits. The Oakland 60 47 .561 4½ Giants won two of three in the in­ Seattle 56 50 .528 8 Los Angeles 52 53 .495 11½ terleague matchup of division Texas 38 67 .362 25½ leaders and have the best record National League in the majors at 66­39. East Division “I can’t say enough good things about this first day,” Bryant said. WLPct GB “I feel giddy. It felt like Christmas New York 55 49 .529 _ Philadelphia 52 53 .495 3½ morning, honestly.” Atlanta 52 54 .491 4 Acquired in a trade from the Washington 49 56 .467 6½ Chicago Cubs for two minor Miami 44 61 .419 11½ league prospects just minutes be­ Central Division fore Friday’s deadline, Bryant WLPct GB was greeted by chants of “KB! Milwaukee 63 43 .594 _ KB! KB!” when he trotted onto the Cincinnati 56 50 .528 7 field for pregame warmups and St. Louis 53 52 .505 9½ Chicago 51 56 .477 12½ JED JACOBSOHN/AP received a standing ovation before Pittsburgh 40 65 .381 22½ his first at­bat. The four­time All­ San Francisco’s Kris Bryant, in his second at­bat in a Giants uniform, homers in front of Houston Astros West Division Star was cheered again after strik­ catcher Martin Maldonado during the third inning of a 5­3 Giants win Sunday in San Francisco. WLPct GB ing out swinging. San Francisco 66 39 .629 _ Those cheers got louder after what teams do when you come to Báez and Anthony Rizzo — home­ He’s going to be very, very valua­ Los Angeles 64 43 .598 3 Bryant crushed an 0­1 pitch from celebrate in the dugout so I was red in their first games with their ble to our team going forward.” San Diego 61 47 .565 6½ Luis García (7­6) into the left field kind of lost a little bit,” new clubs. After Mike Yastrzemski dou­ Colorado 46 60 .434 20½ stands for his 19th home run this The Giants said they expected “We were going to send him bled and Buster Posey walked in Arizona 33 73 .311 33½ season. Bryant to hit a home run. After all, back if he didn’t homer himself,” the third, Crawford and Ruf fol­ Sunday’s games Toronto 5, Kansas City 1 “The first homer’s weird,” his former teammates in Chicago joked Ruf, who homered in the lowed with RBI singles to put the Detroit 6, Baltimore 2 Bryant said. “You don’t know who were also traded — Javier fifth. “Luckily we get to keep him. Giants ahead 3­2. N.Y. Yankees 3, Miami 1 Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland 1 St. Louis 7, Minnesota 3 Texas 4, Seattle 3 San Francisco 5, Houston 3 ROUNDUP Oakland 8, L.A. Angels 3 Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2 Milwaukee 2, Atlanta 1 Cincinnati 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Washington 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Philadelphia 15, Pittsburgh 4 San Diego 8, Colorado 1 L.A. Dodgers 13, Arizona 0 Rays sweep series from Red Sox Monday’s games Cleveland at Toronto Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees Seattle at Tampa Bay Associated Press Cincinnati to a win at New York. plenty of support to help the Phil­ L.A. Angels at Texas Philadelphia at Washington ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Dodgers 13, Diamondbacks 0: lies roll at Pittsburgh. N.Y. Mets at Miami Shane McClanahan went six Albert Pujols doubled home three Cardinals 7, Twins 3: Adam Pittsburgh at Milwaukee San Francisco at Arizona strong innings, Brandon Lowe runs to cap a five­run second in­ Wainwright threw seven effective Tuesday’s games homered and the AL East­leading ning, Mookie Betts homered in his innings and rookie Edmundo Sosa Baltimore (Wells 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Cole 10-6) Tampa Rays beat the Boston Red return from the injured list and Los homered to help host St. Louis beat Cleveland (Plesac 6-3) at Toronto (Ryu 10-5) Boston (Richards 6-6) at Detroit (Peralta 3-2) Sox 3­2 Sunday for a three­game Angeles rolled at Arizona. Minnesota. Minnesota (Maeda 4-4) at Cincinnati sweep. White Sox 2, Indians 1: Brian Nationals 6, Cubs 5: Yadiel (Mahle 8-3) Seattle (Kikuchi 6-6) at Tampa Bay (Pati- McClanahan (5­4) allowed one Goodwin homered with one out in Hernandez’s solo shot in the ninth ño 2-2) L.A. Angels (Suarez 4-4) at Texas (Lyles 5-7) run and four hits over six innings, the ninth inning to lift host Chicago inning — his second homer of the Kansas City (Bubic 3-4) at Chicago White Sox (Cease 7-6) helping the Rays take a 1½­game over Cleveland. day — gave Washington the victory San Diego (Snell 4-4) at Oakland (Ma- lead over the Red Sox. Brewers 2, Braves 1: Willy over visiting Chicago. naea 8-6) Houston (McCullers Jr. 8-2) at L.A. Dodg- Hunter Renfroe homered for Adames hit an early homer off Athletics 8, Angels 3 : Yan ers (Buehler 11-1) Philadelphia (Wheeler 8-6) at Washing- Boston, which has lost a season­ Charlie Morton, Brett Anderson Gomes homered in his Oakland de­ ton (Corbin 6-9) 2 N.Y. Mets (Walker 7-5) at Miami (TBD) high four in a row and five of six. pitched 5 ⁄3 strong innings and Mil­ but, fellow newcomer Starling Pittsburgh (Kranick 1-2) at Milwaukee Kiké Hernández and Rafael waukee won at Atlanta. Marte had three hits and stole (Houser 7-5) Atlanta (Fried 7-7) at St. Louis (Lester Devers had consecutive two­out Blue Jays 5, Royals 1 : José three bases, and the Athletics won 3-5) Chicago Cubs (Davies 6-7) at Colorado SCOTT AUDETTE/AP singles in the ninth off Matt Wisler, Berríos pitched six shutout innings at Los Angeles. (Freeland 1-6) who then retired J.D. Martinez on a in his Toronto debut and the team Rangers 4, Mariners 3: Jonah San Francisco (Cueto 7-5) at Arizona Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Shane (Bumgarner 5-6) short fly for his first save. McClanahan allowed one run and completed a three­game sweep in Heim hit his second walk­off Wednesday’s games Yankees 3, Marlins 1:Anthony four hits in six innings in a 3­2 its first series north of the border homer in two games right after a Minnesota at Cincinnati Seattle at Tampa Bay Rizzo continued his remarkable win Sunday over Boston. since 2019, beating Kansas City. tying, two­run shot from Andy Ibá­ San Diego at Oakland Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees debut with the Yankees with an­ Tigers 6, Orioles 2:Eric Haase nez in the ninth inning, and host Cleveland at Toronto other key hit and New York com­ gles from Rizzo and Aaron Judge. hit a two­run double in a three­run Texas rallied again to beat Seattle. Boston at Detroit L.A. Angels at Texas pleted a three­game sweep at Mia­ Reds 7, Mets 1: Rookie Max first inning and host Detroit beat Padres 8, Rockies 1: Ha­Seong Kansas City at Chicago White Sox Houston at L.A. Dodgers mi. Schrock went 5­for­5 with a home Baltimore. Kim homered and drove in three Pittsburgh at Milwaukee Philadelphia at Washington The partisan Yankees crowd got run while giving All­Star Joey Vot­ Phillies 15, Pirates 4:Kyle Gib­ runs, Jake Cronenworth contribut­ N.Y. Mets at Miami to cheer when New York had an to a break, leading fellow new­ son pitched into the seventh inning ed three hits and host San Diego Atlanta at St. Louis Chicago Cubs at Colorado eighth­inning rally led by RBI sin­ comer Vladimir Gutierrez and in his Philadelphia debut and got beat Colorado. San Francisco at Arizona Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 19 OLYMPICS SCOREBOARD

Medals Table Rose, Andrew Hoy) Akzhol Makhmudov, Kyrgyzstan, def. Women’s handball Men’s water polo BRONZE—France (Nicolas Touzaint, Ka- Karapet Chalyan, Armenia, 6-1, 0-1, Points. Group A Monday rim Florent Laghouag, Christopher Six) Women Group A GYMNASTICS Freestyle 68kg Country WLTPts GF GA Nation GSBTot Men’s Rings Round of 16 Country WLTPts Greece 4 0 1 9 68 34 United States 21 25 17 63 GOLD—Yang Liu, China Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah, United Norway 5 0 0 10 SILVER—Hao You, China States, def. Sara Dosho, Japan, 10-0, Tech- Italy 3 0 2 8 60 32 China 29 17 16 62 BRONZE—Eleftherios Petrounias, nical Superiority. Netherlands 4 1 0 8 Hungary 3 1 1 7 64 35 ROC 12 21 17 50 Greece Zhou Feng, China, def. Yudari Sanchez Montenegro 2 3 0 4 Rodriguez, Cuba, 13-2, Technical Superior- United States 2 3 0 4 59 53 Britain 11 12 12 35 Men’s Vault Angola 1 3 1 3 ity. Japan 1 4 0 2 65 66 Japan 17 6 10 33 GOLD—Jeahwan Shin, South Korea Alla Cherkasova, Ukraine, def. Agniesz- South Korea 1 3 1 3 Australia 14 4 15 33 SILVER—Denis Abliazin, ROC ka Jadwiga Wieszczek Kordus, Poland, 1-0, South Africa 0 5 0 0 20 116 BRONZE—Artur Davtyan, Armenia Japan 1 4 0 2 Italy 4 9 15 28 10-0, Technical Superiority. Women’s Floor Exercise Anna Carmen Schell, Germany, def. Enas Group B Group B France 6 10 7 23 Ahmed, Egypt, 3-0, 4-0, Points. GOLD—Jade Carey, United States Country WLTPts Country WLTPts GF GA Germany 6 5 11 22 SILVER—Vanessa Ferrari, Italy Battsetseg Soronzonbold, Mongolia, def. Koumba Larroque, France, 0-1, 4-2, South Korea 6 4 9 19 BRONZE—Mai Murakami, Japan ROC 3 1 1 7 Spain 5 0 0 10 61 31 BRONZE—Angelina Melnikova, ROC Pin. Netherlands 5 7 6 18 Khanum Velieva, ROC, def. Danielle Su- Sweden 3 1 1 7 Croatia 3 2 0 6 62 46 SHOOTING zanne Lappage, Canada, 1-0, 6-0, Points. Serbia 3 2 0 6 70 46 Canada 3 4 7 14 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men France 2 2 1 5 Meerim Zhumanazarova, Kyrgyzstan, Australia 2 3 0 4 49 60 Switzerland 3 4 5 12 GOLD—Changhong Zhang, China def. Mimi Nikolova Hristova, Bulgaria, 2-1, Hungary 2 3 0 4 New Zealand 4 3 4 11 SILVER—Sergey Kamenskiy, ROC 5-4, Points. Spain 2 3 0 4 Montenegro 2 3 0 4 54 56 Taiwan 2 4 4 10 BRONZE—Milenko Sebic, Serbia Blessing Oborududu, Nigeria, def. Elis Kazakhstan 0 5 0 0 35 92 Manolova, Azerbaijan, 7-2, 6-0, Technical Brazil 1 3 1 3 Brazil 2 3 5 10 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Superiority. Sunday, July 25 Sunday, July 25 Czech Republic 4 3 1 8 GOLD—Jean Quiquampoix, France Quartefinals SILVER—Leuris Pupo, Cuba Netherlands 32, Japan 21 Italy 21, South Africa 2 Croatia 3 2 2 7 BRONZE—Yuehong Li, China Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah, United ROC 24, Brazil 24 Greece 10, Hungary 9 Cuba 2 3 2 7 WEIGHTLIFTING States, def. Zhou Feng, China, 6-0, 4-0, Montenegro 33, Angola 22 United States 15, Japan 13 Montenegro 15, Australia 10 Spain 1 3 3 7 Women’s 87kg Technical Superiority. Norway 39, South Korea 27 Alla Cherkasova, Ukraine, def. Anna Car- Sweden 31, Spain 24 Spain 13, Serbia 12 Hungary 2 2 2 6 GOLD—Zhouyu Wang, China men Schell, Germany, 4-0, 2-0, Pin. France 30, Hungary 29 Croatia 23, Kazakhstan 7 SILVER—Tamara Yajaira Salazar Arce, Georgia 1 4 1 6 Battsetseg Soronzonbold, Mongolia, Tuesday, July 27 Ecuador def. Khanum Velieva, ROC, 0-1, 8-4, Points. Tuesday, July 27 Ukraine 0 1 5 6 BRONZE—Crismery Dominga Santana Blessing Oborududu, Nigeria, def. Mee- Japan 29, Montenegro 26 United States 20, South Africa 3 Denmark 2 1 2 5 Peguero, Dominican Republic rim Zhumanazarova, Kyrgyzstan, 1-0, 2-2, Brazil 33, Hungary 27 Spain 8, Montenegro 6 Austria 1 1 3 5 Women’s +87kg Points. Sweden 36, ROC 24 Serbia 19, Kazakhstan 5 Semifinals Netherlands 43, South Korea 36 Italy 6, Greece 6 Indonesia 1 1 3 5 GOLD—Wenwen Li, China Norway 30, Angola 21 SILVER—Emily Jade Campbell, Britain Hungary 16, Japan 11 Serbia 1 1 3 5 Tamyra Marianna Stock Mensah, United Spain 28, France 25 Australia 11, Croatia 8 BRONZE—Sarah Elizabeth Robles, Unit- States, def. Alla Cherkasova, Ukraine, 2-0, Turkey 1 0 4 5 ed States 8-4, Points. Thursday, July 29 Thursday, July 29 Slovenia 2 1 1 4 WRESTLING Blessing Oborududu, Nigeria, def. Batt- Netherlands 37, Angola 28 Hungary 23, South Africa 1 Romania 1 3 0 4 Men’s Greco-Roman 130kg setseg Soronzonbold, Mongolia, 7-0, 0-2, Spain 27, Brazil 23 Spain 16, Kazakhstan 4 Points. South Korea 27, Japan 24 Sweden 1 3 0 4 GOLD—Mijain Lopez Nunez, Cuba Italy 12, United States 11 SILVER—Iakobi Kajaia, Georgia Women’s volleyball Norway 35, Montenegro 23 Croatia 13, Montenegro 8 Venezuela 1 3 0 4 BRONZE—Riza Kayaalp, Turkey ROC 38, Hungary 31 Greece 10, Japan 9 Jamaica 1 1 2 4 BRONZE—Sergei Semenov, ROC Group A Sweden 28, France 28 Serbia 14, Australia 8 Ecuador 2 1 0 3 Men’s Greco-Roman 60kg Saturday, July 31 Country WLPts Saturday, July 31 Angola 28, Japan 25 Greece 2 0 1 3 GOLD—Luis Alberto Orta Sanchez, Cuba Montenegro 19, Kazakhstan 12 Hong Kong 1 2 0 3 SILVER—Kenichiro Fumita, Japan Brazil 5 0 14 Montenegro 28, South Korea 26 ROC 28, France 27 Spain 16, Australia 5 BRONZE—Sailike Walihan, China Serbia 4 1 12 Hungary 11, United States 8 Slovakia 1 2 0 3 BRONZE—Sergey Emelin, ROC Sweden 34, Brazil 31 Dominican Republic 2 3 8 Hungary 29, Spain 25 Croatia 14, Serbia 12 South Africa 1 2 0 3 Women’s Freestyle 76kg Italy 16, Japan 8 South Korea 3 2 7 Norway 29, Netherlands 27 Belgium 1 1 1 3 GOLD—Aline Rotter Focken, Germany Greece 28, South Africa 5 Japan 1 4 4 Monday’s games Ethiopia 1 1 1 3 SILVER—Adeline Maria Gray, United Monday’s games Norway 1 1 1 3 States Kenya 0 5 0 South Korea 31, Angola 31 BRONZE—Yasemin Adar, Turkey France 29, Brazil 22 Hungary 5, Italy 5 Ireland 1 0 2 3 BRONZE—Qian Zhou, China Group B ROC 34, Spain 31 Greece 14, United States 5 Israel 1 0 2 3 Hungary 26, Sweden 23 Serbia 13, Montenegro 6 Wrestling Country WLPts Spain 8, Croatia 4 Colombia 0 2 1 3 Monday Netherlands 30, Montenegro 29 Norway 37, Japan 25 Japan 24, South Africa 9 Dominican Republic 0 2 1 3 Men United States 4 1 10 Australia 15, Kazakhstan 7 Greco-Roman 97kg Italy 3 2 10 Wednesday’s games Mongolia 0 1 2 3 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Wednesday’s games ROC 3 2 9 Kazakhstan 0 0 3 3 Musa Evloev, ROC, def. Giorgi Melia, Ge- Montenegro vs ROC Quarterfinals Mexico 0 0 3 3 orgia, 3-0, 0-1, Points. Turkey 3 2 9 Norway vs Hungary United States vs Spain Kosovo 2 0 0 2 Alex Gergo Szoke, Hungary, def. Artur China 2 3 7 Sweden vs South Korea Greece vs Montenegro Omarov, Czech Republic, 3-0, 0-1, Points. France vs Netherlands Italy vs Serbia Qatar 2 0 0 2 Argentina 0 5 0 Tracy Gangelo Hancock, United States, Friday’s games Hungary vs Croatia Poland 1 1 0 2 def. Mihail Kajaia, Serbia, 5-0, 0-1, Points. Sunday, July 25 Semifinals Tunisia 1 1 0 2 Tadeusz Michalik, Poland, def. Haikel Italy 3, ROC 0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-14) Achouri, Tunisia, 10-0, Technical Superior- United States 3, Argentina 0 (25-20, 25- Belarus 1 0 1 2 ity. Women’s field hockey Women’s basketball 19, 25-20) Group A Estonia 1 0 1 2 Mohammadhadi Saravi, Iran, def. Adem Serbia 3, Dominican Republic 0 (25-18, Group A Boudjemline, Algeria, 3-0, 6-0, Technical Fiji 1 0 1 2 25-12, 25-20) Country WLPts Superiority. Turkey 3, China 0 (25-21, 25-14, 25-14) Country WLTPts GF GA Uzbekistan 1 0 1 2 Kiril Milenov Milov, Bulgaria, def. Cenk Il- Japan 3, Kenya 0 (25-15, 25-11, 25-23) Spain 3 0 6 dem, Turkey, 3-0, 0-1, Points. Brazil 3, South Korea 0 (25-10, 25-22, 25- Netherlands 5 0 0 10 18 2 Monday’s medalists Arvi Martin Savolainen, Finland, def. Ga- Serbia 2 1 4 19) Germany 4 1 0 8 13 7 briel Alejandro Rosillo Kindelan, Cuba, 0-1, Canada 1 2 2 ATHLETICS 3-0, Points. Tuesday, July 27 Britain 3 2 0 6 11 5 Men’s 3000m Steeplechase South Korea 0 3 0 Artur Aleksanyan, Armenia, def. Uzur ROC 3, Argentina 0 (25-19, 25-15, 25-13) India 2 3 0 4 7 14 Dzhuzupbekov, Kyrgyzstan, 3-0, 1-1, GOLD—Soufiane El Bakkali, Morocco United States 3, China 0 (29-27, 25-22, 25- Group B SILVER—Lamecha Girma, Ethiopia Points. 21) Ireland 1 4 0 2 4 11 BRONZE—Benjamin Kigen, Kenya Quarterfinals Serbia 3, Japan 0 (25-23, 25-16, 26-24) South Africa 0 5 0 0 5 19 Country WLPts Men’s Long Jump Italy 3, Turkey 1 (25-22, 23-25, 25-20, 25- Group B Musa Evloev, ROC, def. Alex Gergo 15) GOLD—Miltiadis Tentoglou, Greece Szoke, Hungary, 3-2, 3-0, Points. United States 3 0 6 Brazil 3, Dominican Republic 2 (25-22, 17- Country WLTPts GF GA SILVER—Juan Miguel Echevarria, Cuba Tadeusz Michalik, Poland, def. Tracy 25, 13-25, 25-23, 12-15) Japan 2 1 4 BRONZE—Maykel Masso, Cuba Gangelo Hancock, United States, 0-1, 4-2, South Korea 3, Kenya 0 (25-14, 25-22, 26- Australia 5 0 0 10 13 1 France 1 2 2 Women’s 100m Hurdles Points. 24) Mohammadhadi Saravi, Iran, def. Kiril Argentina 3 2 0 6 8 8 Nigeria 0 3 0 GOLD—Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Puer- Milenov Milov, Bulgaria, 4-0, 2-0, Points. Thursday, July 29 Spain 3 2 0 6 9 8 Group C to Rico Artur Aleksanyan, Armenia, def. Arvi Italy 3, Argentina 0 (25-21, 25-16, 25-15) SILVER—Kendra Harrison, United States China 2 3 0 4 9 16 Martin Savolainen, Finland, 0-1, 5-0, South Korea 3, Dominican Republic 2 (25- Country WLPts BRONZE—Megan Tapper, Jamaica Points. 20, 17-25, 25-18, 15-25, 15-12) New Zealand 2 3 0 4 8 7 Women’s 5000m Semifinals Serbia 3, Kenya 0 (25-21, 25-11, 25-20) Japan 0 5 0 0 6 13 China 3 0 6 GOLD—Sifan Hassan, Netherlands ROC 3, China 2 (25-17, 23-25, 20-25, 27-25, Musa Evloev, ROC, def. Tadeusz Micha- 15-12) Wednesday, July 28 Belgium 2 1 4 SILVER—Hellen Obiri, Kenya lik, Poland, 5-0, 2-1, Points. BRONZE—Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopia Brazil 3, Japan 0 (25-16, 25-18, 26-24) Netherlands 5, South Africa 0 Australia 1 2 2 Artur Aleksanyan, Armenia, def. Mo- United States 3, Turkey 2 (25-19, 25-20, Women’s Discus Throw hammadhadi Saravi, Iran, 1-0, 3-1, Points. Britain 4, India 1 Puerto Rico 0 3 0 17-25, 20-25, 15-12) Spain 2, New Zealand 1 GOLD—Valarie Allman, United States Greco-Roman 77kg Monday, July 26 Round of 16 Saturday, July 31 Germany 4, Ireland 2 SILVER—Kristin Pudenz, Germany Australia 1, Japan 0 BRONZE—Yaime Perez, Cuba Dominican Republic 3, Kenya 0 (25-19, Spain 73, South Korea 69 Shohei Yabiku, Japan, def. Demeu Zha- Argentina 3, China 2 Serbia 72, Canada 68 drayev, Kazakhstan, 1-0, 4-3, Points. 25-18, 25-10) BADMINTON ROC 3, United States 0 (25-20, 25-12, 25- Thursday, July 29 Men’s Singles Bozo Starcevic, Croatia, def. Aik Mnatsa- Tuesday, July 27 19) Spain 2, China 0 kanian, Bulgaria, 0-1, 3-0, Points. Japan 74, France 70 GOLD—Viktor Axelsen, Denmark Mohammadali Geraei, Iran, def. Yosva- Turkey 3, Argentina 0 (25-23, 25-20, 25- Netherlands 1, Britain 0 SILVER—Long Chen, China 18) Argentina 2, Japan 1 United States 81, Nigeria 72 nys Pena Flores, Cuba, 5-0, 2-3, Points. Belgium 85, Australia 70 BRONZE—Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, In- Karapet Chalyan, Armenia, def. Jalgas- Brazil 3, Serbia 1 (25-20, 25-16, 23-25, 25- Australia 1, New Zealand 0 donesia 19) China 97, Puerto Rico 55 bay Berdimuratov, Uzbekistan, 3-0, 2-0, Friday, July 30 Women’s Doubles Points. South Korea 3, Japan 2 (19-25, 25-19, 22- Thursday, July 29 Aleksandr Chekhirkin, ROC, def. Alfonso 25, 25-15, 14-16) Germany 4, South Africa 1 GOLD—Indonesia (Greysia Polii, Apriya- China 3, Italy 0 (25-21, 25-20, 26-24) India 1, Ireland 0 Canada 74, South Korea 53 ni Rahayu) Antonio Leyva Yepez, Mexico, 7-0, 0-0, Spain 85, Serbia 70 SILVER—China (Qing Chen Chen, Yi Fan Points. Monday’s matches Saturday, July 31 Jia) Akzhol Makhmudov, Kyrgyzstan, def. Serbia 3, South Korea 0 (25-18, 25-17, 25- China 3, New Zealand 2 Friday, July 30 BRONZE—South Korea (Soyeong Kim, Lamjed Maafi, Tunisia, 11-0, Technical Su- 15) Spain 4, Japan 1 Belgium 87, Puerto Rico 52 Heeyong Kong) periority. United States 3, Italy 2 (25-21, 16-25, 27- Australia 2, Argentina 0 United States 86, Japan 69 Rafig Huseynov, Azerbaijan, def. Alex 25, 16-25, 12-15) India 4, South Africa 3 France 87, Nigeria 62 CYCLING TRACK Michel Bjurberg Kessidis, Sweden, 0-1, 1-0, Women’s Team Sprint Turkey 3, ROC 2 (25-21, 23-25, 23-25, 25- Netherlands 3, Germany 1 China 76, Australia 74 Points. 15, 10-15) Britain 2, Ireland 0 GOLD—China (Shanju Bao, Tianshi Tamas Lorincz, Hungary, def. Zied Ait China 3, Argentina 0 (25-15, 25-22, 25-19) Sunday’s games Zhong) Ouagram, Morocco, 0-0, Forfeit. Monday’s games Dominican Republic 3, Japan 1 (25-10, 25- Quarterfinals Spain 76, Canada 66 SILVER—Germany (Lea Sophie Frie- Quarterfinals 23, 19-25, 25-19) Serbia 65, South Korea 61 drich, Emma Hinze) Brazil 3, Kenya 0 (25-10, 25-16, 25-8) Argentina 3, Germany 0 BRONZE—ROC (Daria Shmeleva, Anas- Tamas Lorincz, Hungary, def. Shohei Ya- India 1, Australia 0 Monday’s games tasiia Voinova) biku, Japan, 3-0, 0-1, Points. Wednesday’s matches Netherlands 3, New Zealand 0 Mohammadali Geraei, Iran, def. Bozo Japan 102, Nigeria 83 EQUESTRIAN United States vs. Dominican Republic Britain 2, Spain 2, Britain wins 2-0 in United States 93, France 82 Starcevic, Croatia, 1-0, 4-5, Points. Brazil vs. ROC shootout Eventing Individual Karapet Chalyan, Armenia, def. Alek- China 74, Belgium 62 South Korea vs. Turkey Wednesday’s games Australia 96, Puerto Rico 69 GOLD—Julia Krajewski, Germany sandr Chekhirkin, ROC, 1-1, 1-0, Points. Serbia vs. Italy SILVER—Tom McEwen, Britain Akzhol Makhmudov, Kyrgyzstan, def. Semifinals Friday’s matches Wednesday’s games BRONZE—Andrew Hoy, Australia Rafig Huseynov, Azerbaijan, 9-1, Technical Netherlands vs Britain Quarterfinals Superiority. Semifinals Argentina vs India Eventing Team United States vs. Australia GOLD—Britain (Tom McEwen, Laura Col- Semifinals Sunday, August 8 Friday’s games Spain vs. France lett, Oliver Townend) Tamas Lorincz, Hungary, def. Moham- Bronze Medal Bronze Medal China vs. Serbia SILVER—Australia (Kevin McNab, Shane madali Geraei, Iran, 0-1, 6-4, Points. Gold Medal Gold Medal Belgium vs. Japan PAGE 20 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 OLYMPICS Banged-up US women head to volleyball quarters With two starters out, Americans top Italy in five sets BY JOSH DUBOW son as an opposite and Micha Han- Associated Press cock stepping in at setter after Poul- TOKYO — Coach Karch Kiraly ter got hurt. knew there would be challenges “We have 23 people that could and adversity to overcome if the have been on this roster,” captain U.S. women’s volleyball team want- Jordan Larson said. “We knew it ed to achieve its goals at the Tokyo was going to take a lot of us to find a Olympics. way to win. We’re finding that now. He sure was right during pool We can have anybody at any point play, and now the Americans are in step in and take over a match. We SUE OGROCKI/AP position to make a run at their first have confidence and trust that peo- Japan's Takuya Kai, center, and teammates celebrate their 7­6 quarterfinal win over the United States. gold medal in the sport after win- ple are going to do their job and exe- ning their group. cute at a high level. We’ve been talk- Two key starters have gone down ing about it and you’re just seeing it with ankle injuries, an assistant come to play now.” Japan rallies against bullpen coach spent two weeks in quaran- Drews led the team with 22 points tine as a close contact to someone in the five-set win over Italy in her who tested positive for COVID-19 first Olympic start after Thompson to beat US 7-6 in 10 innings and the Americans dealt with a rolled her ankle upon landing on a straight-set loss to the team known teammate’s foot in a loss Saturday to BY RONALD BLUM at the corners. went to the mound and the U.S. as the Russia Olympic Committee. the ROC. Associated Press Yanagita hit a chopper to sec- went to a five-man infield. But after finishing the prelimina- Thompson was watching from YOKOHAMA, Japan — Yuki ond, driving in a run on the groun- Kai, who had entered as a defen- ry stage with a tense, five-set win the stands. She is working tirelessly Yanagita tied it with an RBI groun- dout. sive replacement, lined the next over Italy on Monday despite setter to rehab the injury in hopes of being der off Scott McGough in the ninth Under tournament rules, extra pitch off the right-field wall. Jordyn Poulter joining star Jordan able to return later in the tourna- inning, Takuya Kai hit a winning innings start with runners on first Japan (3-0) will play South Ko- Thompson on the sideline with a ment. single against Edwin Jackson in and second, an even more extreme rea (3-1) on Wednesday night for a rolled right ankle, the U.S. heads in- Thompson came into the day tied the 10th and Japan beat the United distortion than the Major League spot in the final. to the quarterfinals in good form. for the third-most points in the tour- States 7-6 Monday night to reach Baseball runner-on-second rule The U.S. (2-1) fell into the loser’s “We have had our share and our nament with 66, but there was little the Olympic semifinals. used since the start of the 2020 pan- bracket of the double-elimination team handled it superbly,” Kiraly drop-off with Drews in there in- Japan overcame a 6-5, ninth-in- demic season. second round. To reach this week- said about the adversity. “They real- stead. ning deficit against McGough, a Ryoji Kuribayashi (1-0) retired end’s final, it must beat the winner ly stayed together. I look back and “Definitely a little nervous at the 31-year-old former Miami Marlins the side in order in the top half, and of Tuesday’s elimination game be- our substitute box is getting very beginning, a good nervous,” Drews reliever with 16 saves in his third Jackson (0-1), a 37-year-old veter- tween the Dominican Republic lonely back there. There’s only said. “But it’s a role I’ve played with season with the Central League’s an of a record 14 major league (1-2) and Israel (1-3), and then the three or four players there. So it’s our team before. I felt the trust they Yakult Swallows. He walked Seiya teams, relieved in the bottom of the Japan-South Korea loser. getting to be a bit of an adventure. had in me. Obviously not the cir- Suzuki with one out as rain started inning. Boston prospect Triston Casas But our team played with great cumstances you’d like to be playing to fall, then allowed a single to Pinch-hitter Ryoya Kurihara hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer heart and played together.” in, but we talk a lot about being 12 Hideto Asamura that put runners sacrificed, manager Mike Scioscia in the fifth inning for a 6-3 lead. In Kiraly’s first Olympics as a strong.” head coach, the Americans raced Poulter landed on a teammate’s through their first six matches un- foot in the third set and watched the Poland grants visa to Belarus sprinter defeated before losing in the semifi- end of the match from a wheelchair. nals to Serbia after star blocker Fo- She was to have tests on the ankle to BY GRAHAM DUNBAR The runner was then apparently luke Akinradewo Gunderson went determine the injury’s severity. Associated Press hustled to the airport but refused down with a knee injury. The next task for the U.S. team TOKYO — Poland granted a vi- to board a flight for Istanbul and in- The injuries to Thompson and will be the quarterfinals on Wednes- sa Monday to a Belarusian Olym- stead approached police for help. Poulter haven’t slowed down the day, when the Americans will face pic sprinter who said she feared In a filmed message distributed on U.S. team yet in Tokyo, with Annie the Dominican Republic, which for her safety and that her team’s social media, she also asked the In- Drews thriving in place of Thomp- beat Japan in four sets to advance. officials tried to force her to fly ternational Olympic Committee home, where the autocratic gov- for assistance. ernment was accused of diverting “I was put under pressure, and a flight to arrest a dissident jour- they are trying to forcibly take me nalist. out of the country without my con- An activist group that is helping sent,” the 24-year-old said in the athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya message. told The Associated Press that it The rapid-fire series of events bought her a plane ticket to War- brought international political in- saw for the coming days. trigue to an Olympics that have The current standoff apparently been more focused on operational began after Tsimanouskaya criti- dramas, like maintaining safety cized how officials were managing during a pandemic and navigating her team — setting off a massive widespread Japanese opposition backlash in state-run media back to holding the event at all. home, where authorities relent- Belarus’ authoritarian govern- MARTIN MEISSNER/AP lessly crack down on government ment has relentlessly targeted Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of critics. The runner said on her In- anyone even mildly expressing Belarus was given a visa by FRANK AUGSTEIN/AP stagram account that she was put dissent since a presidential elec- Poland after she says team United States’ Jordan Thompson treats her injured foot during the in the 4x400 relay even though she tion a year ago triggered a wave of officials tried to force her to fly women’s volleyball preliminary round match against Italy on Monday. has never raced in the event. unprecedented mass protests. home after a dispute. Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 21 OLYMPICS Allman wins discus, first US track medal

PAT GRAHAM Tapper of Jamaica finished third.. Associated Press The fact Allman had to wait out a rain de- TOKYO — The path to Valarie Allman’s lay only added to the drama. She and her fel- gold medal — the first for the U.S. track and low competitors could be seen sitting under field team at Olympic Stadium — started cover, with rain gear draped across their with, of all things, a plate of spaghetti. heads, after the downpour hit. She was in a That promise of pasta from her high groove before the stoppage, too. All she school team was enough to lure her into the thought about during the delay was staying discus and to the point she reached on a calm. She tried to think about her technique. rainy Monday night at the Tokyo Games: A And while her first throw would be her top breakthrough — and a much-needed gold attempt, no one could catch her. Kristin Pu- medal for the United States. denz of Germany was second and Yaime Pe- Allman opened the final with a throw of rez of Cuba captured bronze. 68.98 meters (226 feet, 3 inches) and then “I’m still waiting for my feet to touch the waited through an hourlong delay and ground,” Allman said. around 50 throws by her competition. But Light on her feet, Allman has a certain nobody could pass her. rhythm in the ring. That’s from her dancing “To be here, to be in this moment, feels so days, which she’s carried over to the discus. surreal,” Allman said. “It’s a second-and-a-half dance that you About that life-altering meal: As a teenag- do hundreds of times, and really repetitive, er, she was a dancer who dabbled in differ- but gosh darn, I do think it’s a dance,” she ent track disciplines. But she hadn’t found said. “It’s poetry. It’s grace. It’s balance. It’s her true track calling. The throwers on her powerful. It’s figuring how to do it as effi- high school team in Longmont, Colo., said ciently as you can.” she could partake in a pasta meal with them She and her coach, Zebulon Sion, have on one condition: She had to give throwing a steadily built her into a gold medal-winning try. discus thrower with picture-perfect tech- That’s how the discus became her thing. MATTHIAS SCHRADER /AP nique. “Looking back, gosh darn, that was the Valarie Allman competes in the discus throw final on Monday in Tokyo. Allman won the “It’s not how she finishes, but what we try best spaghetti dinner of my entire life,” said gold medal, which was the first medal in track for the US at these Games. to do is, in the middle, collect her energy and the 26-year-old Allman, a multiple All- release that energy,” Sion explained. “It’s American while at Stanford who now and Day 4. to college at Kentucky and trains in Florida, aesthetically pleasing — the lines, the bal- trains in Austin, Texas. But what seemed like good bets for wins and is taking the hurdles gold to her moth- ance, it’s stacked just right and no weird an- Worked out well for the U.S., too. — 4x400 mixed relay, men’s 100, women’s er’s native Puerto Rico gles.” Hardly anyone figured the country’s first 100 hurdles — didn’t materialize. “This was what I wanted for this year. I To think, it all started with a plate of spa- medal at Olympic Stadium would come Allman came through. wanted to be a gold medalist,” Camacho- ghetti. from women’s discus. Not so much because Earlier in the day, the American favorite Quinn said. “Our team is filled with so many incred- of the event — American Stephanie Brown in the 100-meter hurdles, Keni Harrison, She powered ahead of Harrison early and ible athletes, and I am just blown away that I Trafton won it at the 2008 Beijing Games — came in second to Jasmine Camacho- finished in 12.37 seconds for a .15 second win am not only a medalist,” Allman said, “but I but because of where it fell on the schedule: Quinn, who grew up in South Carolina, went — a blowout in such a short race. Megan am the gold medalist.” Leaps: American women have been setting stage for Olympics since 2019

FROM PAGE 24 that they can run this fast and it’s seconds. On July 1, Warholm kind of everybody moving at the broke a 29-year-old record held by same pace,” McLaughlin said. Kevin Young when he finished in Meanwhile, Muhammad dealt 46.70 in his first race of the season, with injuries and a bout with CO- in Oslo. VID-19, and had not reached top The others to crack 47 are Sam- form. She felt her second-place ba Abderrahman, the Qatari who finish in 52.42 at trials was more is also in Tuesday’s final and Ben- than respectable given what she’d jamin, the American who ran been through. 46.83 at Olympic trials in June. Moses isn’t counting her out for On the women’s side, Muham- Tokyo — either for the gold medal, AP mad and McLaughlin have been or as the one who could lower the Edwin Moses, shown at the 1980 Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., won going back and forth for a few world record again. 107 finals in a row from 1977­87 and lowered the world record in the years. “She might be in a better posi- 400­meter hurdles to 47.02 seconds during his prime. Moses, who Muhammad set the world re- tion. Less races. Very experi- says he has been enjoying watching current hurdlers break new cord at the U.S. nationals in 2019, MARTIN MEISSNER/AP enced. A real student of the hur- barriers, wonders how he would have done with today’s equipment. finishing in 52.20 and beating Karsten Warholm, of Norway, dles. Understands that race com- McLaughlin by more than a half- broke the men’s world record in pletely,” he said. “In a fast race, long, versus it just being a season- low he might have gone with to- second. Nine weeks later at world the 400­meter hurdles with a which you have to expect, it goes al sport where they would just get day’s equipment. Nobody will ev- championships, Muhammad low- time of 46.70 seconds. to whoever makes the least mis- ready for summer like we did,” er know, but he is impressed with ered the record to 52.16. takes after the seventh hurdle and Moses said. “They’re also running what today’s crop of hurdlers is McLaughlin’s time of 52.23 in that down. But she didn’t wait until she stays with a pattern to maximize less meets. It’s like eight to 10 a doing with the sport he defined race would have been a world re- arrived in Tokyo. McLaughlin be- the time.” year. We used to run 15 or 20.” back in the day. cord had she run it three months came the first woman to crack 52 Moses said McLaughlin and Enhanced shoe technology that “Right now, if one of these con- earlier. seconds at the U.S. Olympic trials Muhammad have gotten into such has overtaken every event com- tenders is in a race and they do ev- McLaughlin changed coaches, last month, running 51.90 and set- good shape that they can often bines with new surfaces — the To- erything right, there’s no doubt starting work with Bobby Kersee, ting the stage for more this week. cover the area between hurdles in kyo track seems fast — to create they can be the one to break a and after a down year because of “It’s just one of those times in 15 strides, whereas 16 or 17 was conditions that help runners go world record again by a tenth of a the COVID-19 pandemic, all signs our sport, and especially in this long the standard for women. faster, regardless of the event. second,” Moses said. “It can hap- pointed to another record going event, where people are realizing “Their training cycle is all year It leads Moses to wonder how pen any time.” PAGE 22 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 OLYMPICS Biles says she’ll return for final in balance beam It will be her first event since she removed herself from team final

BY WILL GRAVES Associated Press TOKYO — Simone Biles is back. The 2016 Olympic gymnastics champion will return to competition in the balance beam final on Tues- GREGORY BULL/AP day, a little over a week after step- Jade Carey, of the United States, performs on the floor during the artistic gymnastics women's apparatus ping away from the meet to focus on GREGORY BULL/AP final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday in Tokyo. her mental health. Simone Biles of the United “We are so excited to confirm that States celebrates after teammate you will see two U.S. athletes in the Mykayla Skinner won the silver balance beam final tomorrow — Su- medal in the vault during the Carey’s long road to the ni Lee AND Simone Biles!! Can’t artistic gymnastics women’s wait to watch you both!” USA Gym- apparatus final on Monday. nastics said in a statement. The 24-year-old Biles won bronze movement when she arrived in Ja- Olympics ends with gold on beam in Rio de Janeiro five years pan, Biles continued to train and be ago and qualified for the eight-wom- evaluated daily by the USA Gym- BY WILL GRAVES an final at the Ariake Gymnastics nastics staff after opting out of mul- Associated Press Centre on the first weekend of the tiple finals. She has also been a fix- TOKYO — Jade Carey traveled the world for a spot Games. ture in the stands supporting Lee, in the Olympics. Germany. Qatar. Azerbaijan. Aus- She removed herself from the MyKayla Skinner and Jade Carey tralia. team final on July 27 after a shaky while they competed in the event fi- A lot of long flights. A little bit of jet lag. One un- performance on vault during the nals. relenting vision of what could be possible. first rotation. She watched from the She went into extensive detail She wasn’t going to let a little thing like a sticky sidelines as her three American about “the twisties” last week, ex- patch of carpet get in her way. teammates completed the meet plaining she lost the confidence of The 21-year-old American gymnast soared to gold without her; the U.S. took silver be- knowing what her body was going to in the women’s floor exercise Monday night, her hind the team known as the Russian do in midair. It’s not the first time powerful and precise routine capping a roller-coast- Olympic Committee. Biles dealt with the problem, though er 24 hours in which she narrowly avoided serious The six-time Olympic medalist she did say the issues followed her to injury during the vault finals when her right foot ASHLEY LANDIS/AP later said she was dealing with is- both uneven bars and beam. caught just as she was preparing her entry. Carey poses after winning the gold medal for the sues surrounding air awareness, re- Previous bouts with the phenom- Carey’s score of 14.366 gave the U.S. women’s team floor exercise, giving the U.S. women's gymnastics ferred to as “the twisties” in her enon were limited to floor exercise its fifth medal of the Games and assured that each of team its fifth medal of the Games. sport. Biles qualified for all five indi- and vault, where more twisting ele- the six athletes who came to Tokyo — Carey, Simone vidual event finals but took herself ments are required. Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles, Grace McCallum quietly retreating to the waiting arms of her father out of four of them: the all-around, “I’m really proud of her for com- and MyKayla Skinner — will be checking some seri- Brian, her lifelong coach, and the comfort of her vault, floor exercise and uneven ing back,” said American Jade Ca- ous bling in customs when they return home. teammates. bars. Lee earned the gold in the all- rey, who won gold on floor exercise Considered one of the favorites after coming in sec- Knowing his daughter had less than a day to re- around, becoming the fifth straight Monday while Biles watched sur- ond during vault qualifying, Carey was thundering group in time for the floor finals, Brian Carey turned American to claim the sport’s mar- rounded by the rest of the U.S. wom- down the blue runway Sunday when she tripped. Her off the “coach” switch and flipped on the “dad” one. quee title. en’s team. “She’s been through a lot planned Cheng vault instead became a simple back “I told her, ‘You know, right now, you feel like yes- Considered to be the greatest this Olympics so I’m really proud tuck, her medal chances evaporating in the process. terday was the worst day in your life, but today can be gymnast of all time and the unques- and happy to see her going after Stunned, she recovered in time to complete her your best day. So just don’t give up. Keep going,’ ” Ca- tioned face of the U.S. Olympic beam.” second vault but finished well off the podium before rey said. “And she killed it.” Gray loses in 75-kg wrestling final, settles for silver BY CLIFF BRUNT through injuries that kept her out of Olympics for think I need a few years to recog- go. She scored two on a takedown Associated Press action for a year. Team USA. I nize this.” with about 30 seconds remaining, CHIBA, Japan — American She bounced back to win two wanted it to be a Rotter-Focken scored an early but that was all she could manage. wrestler Adeline Gray fell short of more world titles and earn the No. 1 different color, point for Gray’s inactivity. She She then watched her friend cel- the career-defining moment she seed at the Olympics. She was con- but I’m also very countered a shot by Gray to go up ebrate and carry the German flag. sought for so long. fident she would join Helen Marou- excited about go- 3-0, then scored four points on a They both are 30 years old and have Germany’s Aline Rotter-Focken lis as the only two U.S. women’s ing back with throw to go up 7-0. competed since their teenage beat her 7-3 Monday night in the wrestling Olympic gold medalists. some hardware.” The throw surprised Gray. years. Gray 76-kilogram women’s freestyle Even with the loss, Gray feels her Rotter-Focken, “I’m a big, strong woman, and “Aline is a friend, and I am so wrestling final. legacy is safe. It was just the sixth the No. 2 seed, she put her hips into me and proud that I got to go out on the mat Gray is a five-time world cham- medal for a U.S. women’s wrestler. was emotional after the victory. squashed me to the ground,” Gray and compete with her,” Gray said. pion, but she had never claimed an “A silver medal is not what I “It’s crazy, it’s unbelievable,” said. “And she took advantage of “I wanted to come out on top, but Olympic medal. She finished a dis- came for, but it’s what I have,” she said. “I dreamed about it for some length that she has over me.” she did this time. But I’m sure this appointing seventh at the Rio de Ja- Gray said. “And I’m very proud to many years and I worked for this Gray finally got on the board on a will just be a friendship that blos- niero Games in 2016 while fighting bring home a medal from the every day. It’s unreal right now. I step-out with just over a minute to soms even more.” Tuesday, August 3, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 23 OLYMPICS Canada upsets US in women’s soccer

BY ANNE M. PETERSON 30th minute. The loss of goalkeeper Naeher Associated Press Canada pounced in the 74th clearly hurt the U.S. She was key to KASHIMA, Japan — Carli minute on Jessie Fleming’s penal- the victory over the Dutch in the Lloyd, clutch in so many critical ty kick, which gave Canada its first quarterfinals, with a penalty save moments for the U.S. women’s win against the United States since during regulation and two more in soccer team, failed to connect 2001. the deciding shootout. After the against Canada on Monday night Fleming booted her PK past a semifinal loss, she was on crutch- and the Americans won’t play for a diving Franch and took off toward es. fifth Olympic gold medal. the sideline, sliding on her knees “I think this is my first loss ever Lloyd’s look in the 86th minute before teammates swarmed to Canada,” Megan Rapinoe said. with the United States trailing by a around her. “It sucks not to be able to compete goal hit the crossbar as Canada The U.S. will play for the bronze for a gold medal, which is what we won 1-0 and dropped the Ameri- on Thursday in Kashima against wanted. Not a great performance, cans into the bronze medal match. either Australia, a 1-0 loser to Swe- either. That’s the most frustrating It is the second straight Olympics den in the other semifinal. thing.” that the U.S. failed to reach the Canada will play for the gold Fri- U.S. coach Vlatko Andonovski gold medal game. day at Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium has been creative with his lineups The Americans were bounced against Sweden. Canada features throughout the tournament. On from the 2016 Rio Games by Swe- Quinn, a midfielder who will be- Monday, Lynn Williams, original- den in the quarterfinals. come the first openly transgender ly an alternate, started her second As Canada celebrated wildly at athlete to win an Olympic medal. straight game. Lloyd, Rapinoe and Ibaraki Kashima Stadium, Lloyd Quinn won bronze in 2016 before Samantha Mewis were on the knelt to the turf with her head in coming out as transgender. bench to start. her hands. It is the second straight Olym- Lloyd actually had two attempts “That wasn’t good enough,” said pics that the Americans, the two- against Canada. She fired off a shot Lloyd, the oldest player on the U.S. time defending World Cup cham- in the 65th minute that forced Can- team at 39 and playing in what was pions, will not play for the gold adian goalkeeper Stephanie likely her last major tournament medal. The team was uncharac- Labbe to leap to push it over the with the national team. teristically uneven in Japan, start- crossbar. A short time later, Labbe The U.S. lost starting goalkeep- ing with a 3-0 loss to Sweden that stopped Julie Ertz’s header off a er Alyssa Naeher when she came snapped a 44-game unbeaten corner from Rapinoe as the United down awkwardly after going up streak. States increased the pressure. for the ball around the 20th min- The Americans bounced back to “Definitely had a bit of a mo- ute. Trainers attended to her for beat New Zealand but then came a mentum shift there in the second some five minutes as backup scoreless draw with Australia in half, and came on strong,” Labbe Adrianna Franch warmed up on the group stage. A 4-2 penalty said. “I think for us it was about FERNANDO VERGARA/AP the sideline. shootout against the Netherlands staying tight defensively and that’s Canada’s Vanessa Gilles, left, comforts the United States’ Carli Lloyd Naeher tried to stay in the game, on Friday advanced the U.S. to the something we’ve done all tourna- after a women’s semifinal soccer match on Monday in Kashima, but was replaced by Franch in the semifinals. ment.” Japan. Canada won 1­0. Ross, Klineman advance to beach quarterfinals

BY JIMMY GOLEN “It’s just people going for the ball, and she Associated Press came under,” Klineman said. “We got the TOKYO — April Ross and Alix Klineman point, and I got a little fired up and we used put away a Cuban team they had never that for some momentum going forward. played before. But, you know, no hard feelings. I think Next up for the Americans is one of the we’re both just trying to make a play.” most familiar faces in all of beach volley- Instead of a 10-7 Cuban lead, it was 9-8. ball: Four-time Olympian — and defending And Echeverria was slow to get up. After gold medalist — Laura Ludwig. a few minutes on the sand with her partner Ross and Klineman beat Cuba in straight tending to her, she got up and tested her sets, 21-17, 21-15 in their knockout round knee. opener on Monday to reach the quarterfi- “Once we knew that she was a little bit nals, where they will meet the German and hurt, we were trying to allow her to gather her current partner, Maggie Kozuch. herself,” Ross said. Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst won it all The match continued, but not for much in Rio de Janeiro, where Ross and Kerri longer. Walsh Jennings took bronze. With Kozuch, “Obviously, I don’t want to see anybody Ludwig advanced to the round of eight by injured,” Klineman said, “especially at the beating Brazil’s Agatha and Duda on Sun- Olympics.” day in three sets. Also Monday, No. 1 seed Sarah Pavan and “We have a lot of respect for them and, ob- Melissa Humana-Paredes of Canada beat viously, Laura’s success,” said Klineman, Spain in straight sets. They join the Cana- who also played against Kozuch on the Ital- dian team of Heather Bansley and Brandie ian indoor volleyball tour. “We know they’re Wilkerson in the quarterfinals. That pair going to come out motivated. As are we.” PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/AP knocked out Americans Sarah Sponcil and Asked how many times she had played April Ross, left, and teammate Alix Klineman of the United States celebrate a play Kelly Claes on Sunday. against the 35-year-old Ludwig over the during their women’s beach volleyball victory against Cuba on Monday. “Canada is the only nation that has two years, Ross said “a lot. A lot.” According to teams still in the quarterfinals,” Humana- the Beach Volleyball Database, Ross and nez to keep the Americans’ best medal landed on top of her. Paredes said. “Normally at this stage, you her partners are 20-8 over the years against hopes alive. Cuba was initially awarded the point, but see two Americans, two Brazilians. Here, Ludwig and hers; they did not meet in Lon- After losing the first set, Cuba scored the the Americans complained to chair referee you’re seeing two Canadians now, and I don or Rio. first four points of the second and still led Rui Carvalho that there was interference; think that says a lot about our program and One day after two U.S. teams were elim- 9-5 when the Americans cut the deficit to he conferred with second referee Mariko our federation. And I think as a country, we inated in the round of 16, Ross and Kline- two. Then, at 9-7, Echeverria landed under Satomi, and they gave the point to the Amer- should be really proud of where we are in man beat Lidy Echeverria and Leila Marti- the net after chasing a ball, and Klineman icans. beach volleyball.” PAGE 24 • STARS AND STRIPES • Tuesday, August 3, 2021 Another smashing start SPORTS Bryant homers for Giants, as ex-Cubs Rizzo, Báez did in debuts ›› MLB, Page 18

OLYMPICS Huge leaps US track legend Moses likes what he sees in today’s hurdles game ASHLEY LANDIS/AP INSIDE BY EDDIE PELLS Associated Press ■ US gymnast TOKYO — Better shoes, better Carey wins gold tracks, better technique, better train- ing. in floor exercise Any of that could explain how Syd- Page 22 ney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muham- mad have pushed hurdling into a new ■ golden age. Or maybe Biles to return the best reason for in beam final the renaissance, ac- cording to the best Page 22 hurdler in history, is that they have each ■ American other. “I wish I’d had that women reach Muhammad kind of competition quarterfinals in when I was running,” Edwin Moses told The Associated beach volleyball Press. “I knew I could run 46.5, but I Page 23 never had to work that hard at the be- ginning of a race, let alone at the end.” ■ Moses, the man who once won a re- Allman’s win markable 107 finals in a row from 1977- in discus gives 87 and who lowered the world record to 47.02 seconds during his prime, says US 1st track gold he has been enjoying watching hur- Page 21 dlers break new barriers over the past two years. The drama is expected to reach a crescendo this week at the Tokyo Olympics. McLaughlin and Muhammad, who have lowered the world record in each of their last three races on a major stage, are expected to square off in the final Wednesday. Karsten Warholm of Norway has been rewriting the record book on the men’s side, and a show- down with Rai Benjamin of the U.S. is in the offing Tuesday. Only four men have ever cracked 47

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Sydney Mclaughlin became the first woman to crack 52 seconds in the 400­meter hurdles when she ran a 51.90 in June’s U.S. Olympic trials.

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