South Africa Beat Ireland in 3Rd ODI to Draw Series
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ARAB TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2021 SPORTS 15 SKorea removes banners at Olympic village after IOC ruling Japan’s Olympic security balancing act leaves few satisfi ed TOKYO, July 17, (AP): Struggling The government and the Games’ businesses forced to temporarily shut organizers “are treating visitors as if down around Olympics venues. Olym- they are potential criminals,” Chizuko pic visitors ordered to install invasive Ueno, a professor emeritus of sociol- apps and allow GPS tracking. Minders ogy at the University of Tokyo, said on staking out hotels to keep participants YouTube. from coming into contact with ordinary There’s also lingering resentment Japanese or visiting restaurants to sam- over a widespread sentiment that Ja- ple the sushi. pan is facing this balancing act because Japan’s massive security apparatus the International Olympic Committee has raised complaints that the nation, needs to have the Games happen, re- during the weeks of the Games, will gardless of the state of the virus, to get look more like authoritarian North Ko- the billions of dollars in media revenue rea or China than one of the world’s critical to its survival. most powerful, vibrant democracies. “The Olympics are held as an IOC The worry for many here, however, business. Not only the Japanese peo- isn’t too much Big Brother. It’s that ple, but others around the world, were all the increased precautions won’t be turned off by the Olympics after all of nearly enough to stop the estimated us saw the true nature of the Olympics 85,000 athletes, offi cials, journalists and the IOC through the pandemic,” and other workers coming into Japan mountaineer Ken Noguchi told the from introducing fast-spreading coro- online edition of the Nikkan Gendai navirus variants to a largely unvac- newspaper. cinated population already struggling Senior sports editors at major inter- with mounting cases. national media companies, meanwhile, “It’s all based on the honor system, have asked organizers to “reconsider and it’s causing concern that media some measures that go beyond what is people and other participants may go necessary to keep participants and resi- out of their hotels to eat in Ginza,” dents safe,” saying they “show a disre- Takeshi Saiki, an opposition lawmak- gard for the personal privacy and tech- er, said of what he called Japan’s lax nological security of our colleagues.” Japan has fared better during the pan- demic than many nations, but the Olym- OLYMPICS pians will be arriving only a few months after a coronavirus spike had some Japa- nese hospitals nearing collapse as ICUs border controls. So far, the majority of fi lled with the sick. While the surge has Olympic athletes and other participants tempered, cases are rising enough for the have been exempted from typical quar- declaration of yet another state of emer- antine requirements. gency in Tokyo. There have been regular breakdowns One of the highest-profi le secu- England’s Liam Livingstone bats during the fi rst Twenty20 international cricket match between England and Pakistan at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, on in security as the sheer enormity of try- rity problems came last month when a July 16. Pakistan win by 31 runs. (AP) ing to police so many visitors becomes Ugandan team member arriving in Ja- clearer - and the opening ceremony pan tested positive for what turned out looms. The Japanese press is fi lled with to be the more contagious delta variant. reports of Olympic-related people test- He was quarantined at the airport, but ing positive for the coronavirus. Photos the rest of the nine-person team was and social media posts show foreign- allowed to travel more than 500 kil- ers linked to the Games breaking mask ometers (300 miles) on a chartered bus South Africa beat Ireland rules and drinking in public, smoking to their pre-Olympics camp, where a in airports - even, if the bios are accu- second Ugandan tested positive, forc- rate, posting on dating apps. ing the team and seven city offi cials “There are big holes in the bub- and drivers who had close contact with bles,” said Ayaka Shiomura, another them to self-isolate. opposition lawmaker, speaking of the Meanwhile, South Korea’s Olympic so-called “bubbles” that are supposed committee said Saturday it removed to separate the Olympics’ participants banners at the Olympic athletes’ vil- in 3rd ODI to draw series from the rest of the country. lage in Tokyo that referred to a 16th- The pandemic has tested democra- century war between Korea and Japan cies around the world as they try to after the International Olympic Com- Malan and De Kock post centuries strike a balance between the need to mittee ruled they were provocative. protect basic rights and the national im- In agreeing to take down the banners, perative to control a disease that thrives the South Koreans said they received a DUBLIN, July 17, (AP): The left-hander fi nished on 120 from when people gather in large numbers. promise from the IOC that the display- Janneman Malan posted 91 balls after being rested for the fi rst Few places, however, have faced ing of the Japanese “rising sun” fl ag a career-best 177 not out Verstappen wins historic sprint two matches. higher stakes than Tokyo will during will be banned at stadiums and other Malan’s haul in his seventh ODI in- July and August - or closer global scru- Olympic venues. The fl ag, portraying and Quinton de Kock also qualifying, takes British GP pole cluded 16 fours and six sixes. tiny. The government, well aware of a red sun with 16 rays extending out- made a century to help “It was a privilege to bat with QDK,” repeated domestic surveys that show ward, is resented by many people in South Africa beat Ireland SILVERSTONE, England, July said Malan, the man of the series. strong opposition to the Games, argues South Korea and other parts of Asia 17, (AP): Max Verstappen out- Rassie van der Dussen added 30 that its security and monitoring meas- who see it as a symbol of Japan’s war- by 70 runs as their one-day dragged Lewis Hamilton at from 28 balls. ures are crucial as it tries to pull off an time past. The South Korean banners, the start of Formula One’s ex- international series ended perimental fi rst sprint qualify- Cricket South Africa tweeted the Olympics during a once-in-a-century which drew protests from some Japa- in a draw. ing race to take the pole for the Proteas were “wearing black armbands pandemic. nese far-right groups, had been hung at South Africa fi nished on 346-4 British Grand Prix and spoil the today in solidarity with those affected But as the restrictions are tested by the balconies of South Korean athletes’ homecoming of the seven-time by the recent events in South Africa increasing numbers of visitors, offi - rooms and collectively spelled out a after winning the toss and opting to bat fi rst on an unusually sunny champion. and the devastation caused by the third cials have been blamed for doing too message that read: “I still have the sup- Hamilton initially seemed fi ne wave of the COVID-19 virus.” much, and too little. port of 50 million Korean people.” day in Dublin, as Cricket Ireland with the defeat and showed en- Ireland needed a record chase to thusiasm for the format and the achieve a milestone series win, but the fan energy at packed Silver- pressure from Malan’s and de Kock’s CRICKET stone. mighty stand was too much. Openers Paul Stirling (11) and captain Andy Balbirnie (7) went quickly, followed cautioned fans to “remember the MOTOR RACING Red Bull driver Max Verstappen by Andy McBrine (9). sunscreen” at The Village. of the Netherlands poses after With its main batsmen gone, Ireland fi nishing fi rst in the Sprint Quali- played to save face and got it from The Proteas could only draw the For him, Hamilton said in the fying of the British Formula One three-match series after losing Tues- trolley the inaugural sprint race Curtis Campher, who made 54, and Grand Prix, at the Silverstone Singh. His 100 not out from 91 balls day and seeing the fi rst match washed format was “way more enjoy- circuit, in Silverstone, England, out due to rain - more typical of Irish able. We should do more like on July 17. (AP) was the highest ODI score by an Irish weather. Ireland’s 43-run victory was that, or a version of it in the fu- No. 8 batsman. Andile Phehlukwayo took 3-56 off its fi rst ever over South Africa. ture.” and Red Bull. Hamilton said From 92-6, Ireland tailender Simi He’d changed his tune by the 10 overs for South Africa. Tabraiz Singh energized the chase by making a post-race news conference, and there he didn’t like the format Shamsi also took three wickets. Spin- career-best century, but the hosts were Hamilton sullenly accepted that - which, also, cost him another ner Keshav Maharaj (2-51) claimed all out for 276 in the 48th over. Singh he’d lost again to Verstappen point in the standings. openers Stirling and Balbirnie, who was stranded on 100 not out. posted a century in Tuesday’s historic Malan’s 177 from 169 balls was a win. Fast bowler Lizaad Williams career best in ODIs and the fourth high- The pair shared an opening stand of Ireland fi nally made a breakthrough needed just one delivery to take his est score by a South Africa batsman in 225 runs with de Kock reaching a cen- in the 37th over when de Kock was maiden ODI wicket, McBrine.