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Established 1961 Sport SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2019 Jones leads Australian Open Chen beats Hanyu to claim Bayern down to sixth after defeat 25as Casey, Oosthuizen chase 26 third Grand Prix Final gold 27 at Bundesliga leaders ’Gladbach CLARK: Kristina Marie Knott from the Philippines celebrates after winning in the women’s 200m athletics event at the SEA Games (Southeast Asian Games) at the athletics stadium in Clark, Capas, Tarlac province north of Manila yesterday. —AFP Filipina sprinter defeats ‘Queen of Speed’ Teen star Yulo ‘distracted’ at home SEA Games: Gymnastics chief CLARK: Filipina sprinter Kristina Marie Knott defeated It was a golden evening for Thailand’s men, with a About 8,750 athletes and officials are taking part in vault, parallel bars, and horizontal bar in front of a rau- Vietnam’s “Queen of Speed” Le Tu Chinh yesterday to 10,000m gold for Kieran Tuntivate, a one-two for the regional Olympics spread across dozens of venues cous crowd at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila. take her Southeast Asian Games 200m track title in the Chayut Khongprasit and Siripol Punpa in the 200m and in the northern Philippines, which was hit by a deadly “There are so many things happening,” Gymnastics first night of track and field action at the stadium in a win for Kittipong Boonmawan in the men’s hammer. typhoon earlier this week. Association of the Philippines president Cynthia New Clark City. The 11-country Games, featuring a record 56 sports, Carrion told Rappler. “When he’s abroad, he is more Pole vaulter Ernest Obiena added to the SINGAPORE SWIMS were rocked by Typhoon Kammuri which forced about focused.” Philippines’ medal tally with a Games record jump of At the nearby aquatics centre, Malaysia’s Ooi Tze half of Tuesday’s events to be rescheduled. Despite Yulo is one of the nation’s biggest stars and has had 5.45 metres — enough to qualify him for the Tokyo Liang and Mohd Syafiq Puteh won gold and silver in more than a dozen deaths in the storm, none of the ath- celebrity-status since becoming the first-ever Filipino Olympics next year. the men’s 3m springboard individual final, and Ng Yan letes, officials or 12,000 volunteers was reported hurt to win a world championship gold — in the floor exer- The host nation are in complete control of the medal Yee and Nur Dhabitah Sabri sealed a diving clean and a full programme resumed on Wednesday. cise — in October in Stuttgart, Germany. Many had table after a week of competition at the biggest-ever sweep for the nation with a win in the women’s syn- Seven of the last 11 host nations have finished top of tipped Yulo to win a clean sweep of the seven golds on SEA Games, with 85 golds — streets ahead of chronised 3 metre springboard. the medals table at the SEA Games, where the flexible offer at the SEA Games, including Carrion. Indonesia’s 50 and Vietnam’s 43. Knott also broke a In a successful night for Singapore in the pool, Quah sporting programme is traditionally heavily weighted “I’m not happy because he should be winning Games record in her heat yesterday morning with a Ting Wen won the women’s 50m butterfly, Darren Chua towards the home team. golds,” she said. “He’s very distracted.” Yulo yesterday time of 23.07 seconds and the 24-year-old bettered took the men’s 200m freestyle title and the women’s 4 x Earlier, the Philippines gymnastic chief believes the tweeted that he was heading “back to Japan” where he that in the evening final, striding to victory in 23.01 100m relay cruised to gold in the freestyle relay. country’s teenage world champion was “distracted” at trains under a scholarship programme. “See you all ahead of Chinh on 23.45. Elsewhere, one of the region’s only gold medallists this year’s home Southeast Asian Games and could have again soon,” he wrote. “Thank you so much Chinh, 22, had been aiming to retain all three of the at Rio 2016 — Vietnamese pistol shooter Hoang Xuan improved on his haul of two golds and five silvers, local Philippines.” sprint titles she won in 2017 — the 100m, 200m and 4 Vinh — had to settle for silver, losing out to media reported yesterday. He also retweeted a selfie posted by gold medallist x 100m relay — over the coming days at the 20,000 Thailand’s Kulchairattana Pongpol in the 10m air pis- Carlos Yulo, 19, won the all-round and floor exercise weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz — another athlete hailed by capacity stadium at the Games’ main hub. tol contest in Subic. events but came second in the pommel horse, rings, Filipinos as a national hero. —AFP Victory moved Klopp’s Premier League Everton clash. League appearance of the season, and with Keita played the ball into the Egypt inter- Liverpool leaders 11 points clear of Leicester City, 24 The forward provided an assist for Keita the Cherries yet to settle after being forced to national and continued his run forward to col- hours before Brendan Rodgers’ team face — impressive on his first Premier League reorganise, Liverpool forced the lead. lect Salah’s backheeled return and finish easi- Aston Villa, and added more pressure on start of the season — and tormented Jordan Henderson delivered a long ball ly past Ramsdale. After an unconvincing start cruise against Manchester City immediately before the Bournemouth throughout. The only flaw from from deep inside his own half into the path of to the game, Klopp could be satisfied his side Manchester derby. Klopp’s point of view was that his side took Oxlade-Chamberlain, who had surged for- were perfectly placed to close out the game. It was the ideal preparation for the visit to time to get into their stride. ward into the space between centre-back And their position was further strength- Bournemouth Austria, where Liverpool need a point to That all changed 10 minutes before the Chris Mepham and right-back Simon Francis, ened when Keita repaid Salah’s earlier favour guarantee their progress into the Champions interval when the balance of the game shifted and the England international directed the by setting up his team-mate for the 54th- BOURNEMOUTH: Jurgen Klopp could hard- League knockout stages. Klopp made seven over the course of a minute, and ensured ball past Aaron Ramsdale with a controlled minute third after collecting Simpson’s mis- ly have asked for more as his Liverpool side changes to the side that beat Everton 5-2 on Liverpool could sign off their domestic duties volley. placed clearance. eased their way to a comfortable 3-0 win at Wednesday and the controlled manner of this in style. Up until that point Bournemouth had Salah had threatened in the first half and Bournemouth ahead of Tuesday’s decisive victory meant his players were spared any appeared just as capable of taking the lead as this time he made no mistake, slipping the ball Champions League visit to RB Salzburg. unnecessary exertion before their European BOURNEMOUTH BLOW Klopp’s league leaders. But the double blow past Ramsdale. There was little in the way of First-half goals from Alex Oxlade- challenge. Nathan Ake, Bournemouth’s best defender of losing Ake and falling behind sapped belief a response from the home side and Chamberlain and Naby Keita put the Reds in And the manager could also draw satisfac- up to that point, pulled up clutching his ham- from Eddie Howe’s side who remain without a Liverpool’s margin of victory would have control before Mohamed Salah wrapped up tion from the performance of Salah, who string and it was clear the centre-back was league win since the start of November. been even greater but for the efforts of the win early in the second half while a first delivered the desired response after being unable to carry on. And Liverpool took full advantage, adding Ramsdale, who capped his afternoon with a clean sheet since September ensured there withdrawn in the previous weekend’s uncon- The Dutch international was replaced by the second a minute before the break after a fine save to deny Henderson’s free-kick in the was no chance of a late scare. vincing defeat of Brighton and rested for the Jack Simpson, making his first Premier clever exchange between Salah and Keita. final seconds. —AFP.

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