TENNIS | Page 6 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 7 Dominant Mourinho Murray confi rms Pogba To Advertise here reaches to make Man Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 third round Utd return Friday, August 19, 2016 Dhul-Qa’da 16, 1437 AH OLYMPICS Six boxing judges sent home aft er outrage over results Page 4 ATHLETICS Thompson with the double Elaine Thompson of Jamaica (3rd L) runs to win the gold, ahead of silver medallist Dafne Schippers of Netherlands (3rd R) and bronze medallist Tori Bowie of USA (C) during the women’s 200 metres final. Elaine Thompson maintained Jamaica’s incredible hold on Olympic sprinting with her 200 metres gold STAR OF THE DAY Reuters from securing a third Olympic sprint “He was supposed to slow down,” Elaine Thompson of Jamaica Rio de Janeiro double, he had to give top billing on said Bolt, who chastised himself Wednesday to compatriot Thompson, for being lazy. “I said ‘What are Jamaica’s Elaine Thomson tonight,” Thompson told reporters. who delivered gold in the 200 despite you doing, it’s a semi-fi nal?’ But I overcame a niggling hamstring “It’s a big surprise to me because laine Thompson maintained nursing a tight hamstring. think he wanted to push me” injury to obliterate her rivals in I have had a hamstring injury. You Jamaica’s incredible strangle- Thompson faced stiff opposition, the women’s 200 metres final on must overcome these things and hold on Olympic sprinting on particularly in the shape of Dafne by Dutchman Churandy Martina and Wednesday and become the first tonight I am standing here with a Wednesday when she added Schippers, but after running a terrifi c Panama’s Alonso Edward. women since 1988 to secure the gold. To beat Dafne is a hard run.” Ethe 200 metres gold to the 100m title bend she maintained her form to hold While Bolt remains on course for a Olympics sprint double. Thompson said she was shocked she collected earlier at the Rio Games, off the Dutchwoman and crossed the triple-triple, Briton Mo Farah is ready Thompson’s dominant victory by her Rio success and revealed while Usain Bolt remains on course for line in a season-leading 21.78. to have a tilt at the distance double- emulated American Florence Grif- she had watched on the internet a track ‘triple-triple’. Thompson become the fi rst woman to double, though he had a scare when fith Joyner, the last woman to win Joyner’s races from 1988. After winning nine of the 12 sprint win both the 100 and 200 since Ameri- stumbling 200 metres from the end of both 100 and 200 gold medals at Thompson, who won a 200m events in 2008 and 2012 combined, can Florence Griffi th Joyner in 1988. his 5,000m semi-fi nal. the same Games. silver in the 2015 world champion- Jamaica have now won the fi rst three Schippers took silver and American Farah recovered from a fall to win Thompson’s victory over pre-race ship, also credited her stunning in Rio and, with Bolt impressively ad- Tori Bowie added a bronze to her silver the 10,000 earlier this week. favourite Dafne Schippers of the performance to being able to vancing to the 200m fi nal and their from the 100. His main rivals from East African Netherlands ensured Jamaica overcome the hamstring injury relay teams oozing talent, they could countries also made it through to to- maintained its grip on the Games’ sustained during the Jamaican take all six. LAZY BOLT? morrow’s fi nal. most prestigious sprinting titles. Olympic trials. “I had rough days While the days of the United States Bolt and Canadian Andre de Grasse Kenya’s iron grip on the men’s “My school motto was ‘let the training but I did not let that over- dominating sprinting are long gone, set up a 200m showdown after cross- 3,000m steeplechase continued as light shine’ and I let my light shine come me. I’m a warrior,” she said. they can at least take some consola- ing the line laughing together in their 21-year-old Conseslus Kipruto tri- tion from their own special sweep on semi-fi nal but 100m silver medallist umphed in an Olympic record eight Wednesday. Justin Gatlin missed out. minutes 3.28 seconds. Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Bolt clocked 19.78 seconds with De The East African nation has won Castlin completed an unprecedented Grasse claiming a Canadian record every edition of the race since 1968 bar 1-2-3 in the 100m hurdles – the fi rst 19.80. “He was supposed to slow the two it missed due to political boy- gold on the track at the Rio Games for down,” said Bolt, who chastised him- cotts in 1976 and 1980. the United States. self for being lazy. “I said ‘What are Evan Jager took silver for the United The United States also took gold you doing, it’s a semi-fi nal?’ But I while double Olympic champion Ezekiel and silver in a fantastic long jump fi nal think he wanted to push me.” Kemboi fi nished third but was disquali- through Tianna Bartoletta and Brit- Gatlin, who said he was hampered fi ed for stepping out of his lane. tney Reese. by an ankle injury, looked well placed The bronze went instead to France’s While Bolt is now one step away before easing up and being overhauled Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad. Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (C) jokes with Canada’s Andre De Grasse (L) after they crossed the finish line in the Men’s 200 metres semi-final at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Gulf Times 2 Friday, August 19, 2016 SPOTLIGHT DELIGHT Bartoletta lands ‘Black girl magic’ long jump gold gives USA clean sweep in hurdles Tianna Bartoletta of USA celebrates after winning the gold medal. ‘It feels good to definitely be history-makers, trend-setters, moms, daughters, really Reuters after suff ering a knee injury in Rio de Janeiro 2006 but also took a break from just overcoming and just doing a great job and representing our country well’ the track after winning sprint gold at the 2012 Games, instead ianna Bartoletta trying her hand at bobsleigh. shrugged off 100 me- She returned to athletics in tre disappointment to 2013 and landed her second land the women’s long world championship long jump Tjump gold medal on Wednesday, title in Beijing last year, a decade edging out defending Olym- after her fi rst in Helsinki. pic champion and United States Also competing in Rio on team mate Brittney Reese with a Wednesday was her former personal best leap of 7.17m. training partner, Darya Klishina, Bartoletta, 30, the reigning Russia’s only track and fi eld ath- world champion, produced her lete in Rio, who fi nished ninth af- top mark in the fi fth and penulti- ter failing to make a mark beyond mate round after the slow-start- 6.63 metres. ing Reese, who fouled with three Klishina had been carrying of her fi rst four jumps, had taken the medal hopes of her team- the lead with a 7.09m leap in the mates who were excluded from same round. the Games following revelations Reese, who has won more glo- of state-backed doping in the bal long jump titles than any oth- country. er woman, had one last chance to Klishina only won an appeal snatch gold but her fi nal round against her own ban on Monday. jump of 7.15 was just shy of her “I’m sure that I can jump fur- compatriot’s mark and she had to ther, just last week I didn’t do settle for a silver. good at practice... because it was “I couldn’t really celebrate. I really hard mentally,” she told re- kept thinking that at any mo- porters. ment (that) someone can jump Russian Olympic offi cials told something huge,” Bartoletta told Reuters on Tuesday they were reporters. worried Klishina’s performance It was the fi rst time the US had would suff er due to the last- won gold and silver in the event. minute fl ip-fl opping over her “For Tianna to go out and throw eligibility. up a big jump is really good and “Ten, fi fteen years ago I it just shows how dominant the couldn’t imagine that my fi rst USA is in jumps,” Reese said. Olympic Games would be like “Tianna just out-jumped me this. Because of the irregular this time. She deserves it and situation, it was tough,” Klishina I’m just glad to be on the podium said, adding she hoped the blan- again.” ket ban would be lifted on Rus- Serbia’s Ivana Spanovic took sian athletics soon. USA’s Brianna Rollins celebrates winning the 100 metres hurdles gold medal with compatriots silver medallist Nia Ali and bronze medallist Kristi Castlin. bronze with a national record of “It’s really hard for everyone,” 7.08m. she added.”It was hard here for Reuters “I think that it’s just very good to be Bartoletta had given up long me without them and even hard- Rio de Janeiro a part of this whole black girl magic jump to concentrate on sprinting er for them at home.” movement,” she said. “We actually came into this not as individuals ike many black American women, but as a team. We work together, we DOMINANCE Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi pray together and that is how we Castlin have faced a good few got this job done” hurdles of the metaphorical kind Lin their lives.