SPORT 17 We Found Ourselves in a Similar England Captain Joe Root Position at Edgbaston Against India CYCLING WATERSPORT Last Year
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
SATURDAY 27 JULY 2019 SPORT 17 We found ourselves in a similar England captain Joe Root position at Edgbaston against India CYCLING WATERSPORT last year. I thought it was very after his side bowled Ireland out for just 38 to TOUR DE FRANCE: FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS important we stayed calm, asked the STAGE 20 Gwangju, South Korea right questions, and that’s exactly win a dramatic Test at Lord’s yesterday. ACTION Albertville to Val Thorens (Swimming and Water polo) what we did today. TODAY’S Caeleb Dressel of the USA on his way to establish a world record in the semi-finals of the men’s 100m butterfly event during the 0192 FINA World Allyson Felix Championships at Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center in Gwangju, South Korea, yesterday. competes in the opening round of the 400 meters during the USATF Outdoor Championships at Drake Stadium in Iowa, USA, on Thursday. Felix in semis as Gatlin, Coleman cruise at US meet AFP DES MOINES, UNITED STATES Dressel shatters Phelps mark in Allyson Felix struggled through her first race in 13 months but declared herself happy to be back after scraping into the 400m semi-finals on the opening day of the US Championships on Thursday. record breaking night at Worlds More than a year after her last outing as a pro- fessional, the 33-year-old Felix is back on the comeback trail at Drake University this week, hoping AFP “I woke up today and I wanted American star destroys Smith covered her face with her to win a berth on the US team for September’s World GWANGJU to do it,” added the 22-year-old, the 23-time Olympic hands after shattering the women’s Championships in Doha. who logged a 21.18 in the 50m free- champion’s 100 metres 200m backstroke world record, Felix, the only woman to win six Olympic track American star Caeleb Dressel, style semis after a quick clocking 2:03.35 to erase Missy and field gold medals, is returning to the sport fol- swimming’s chiselled, tattooed turnaround. butterfly world record in Franklin’s old mark by more then lowing her pregnancy and birth of her daughter in pin-up boy, destroyed Michael “I didn’t really have the Gwangju, South Korea. seven tenths. November. Phelps’s 100 metres butterfly world nerves, I just wanted to do it. “I’m in shock,” gasped the However the comeback didn’t go as smoothly record yesterday as countrywoman Records are meant to be broken, Teenager Smith crushes the 17-year-old. “I didn’t think I’d ever as planned on Thursday, finishing fourth in her heat Simone Manuel retained her 100m I hope Michael was happy women’s 200m backstroke do that -- it’s crazy.” in a time of 52.20sec, well outside her personal best freestyle world title. watching me do that.” world record. Sun, who retained his 200 and of 49.26 set in 2015. Reigning champ Dressel Phelps, the most decorated 400m free titles this week, and That left the veteran former 200m and 400m clenched a fist in the direction of Olympic athlete of all time, has lost China finished a distant sixth in the world champion sweating on the outcome of other flag-waving American fans after both of his 2009 long course but- Russians complete a men’s 4x200m freestyle behind races to confirm her spot in the next round. clocking an astonishing 49.50 terfly world records in Korea after hat-trick of gold medals on winners Australia. “It felt rusty, kind of to be expected,” Felix said seconds in Gwangju to eclipse the Hungarian teenager Kristof Milak day six of the FINA World Mack Horton, who refused to afterwards. “I haven’t raced in a long time. It’s going American legend’s old bodysuit destroyed his previous mark in the Championships. take the podium after losing to Sun to take some time to get back into it.” mark by 0.32 and rob him of a 200m fly. in the 400m final last weekend, Felix, who is aiming to race in her fifth Olympic second world record in 48 hours. A record-breaking night helped conjured an astonishing late Games in Tokyo next year, was able to draw posi- Dressel’s fireworks were turn the spotlight back on “He’s tested year in, year out and fightback to anchor the Aussies to tives from the display however. matched in the next event when swimming after a week of athlete winning every year.” gold in a time of 7:00.85 with Russia Felix said regaining her physical conditioning American teenager Smith crushed protests and insults targeting Manuel exploded from the taking silver and the United States while juggling parenting duties had been the most the women’s 200m backstroke China’s Sun Yang, the 11-time world blocks in lane one to win gold in the bronze. demanding part of her comeback. world record, before Russian Anton champion who a FINA doping panel women’s 100m free in 52.04 ahead Russian Yulia Efimova, who has Elsewhere on Thursday, there were few surprises Chupkov emulated them as he report has accused of destroying of Australian Cate Campbell and twice tested positive for banned as the four-day meeting got under way. stormed to gold in the 200m blood vials after a visit from drug Sweden’s world record holder substances in the past, became the In the 100m, world champion Justin Gatlin and breaststroke. testers. Sarah Sjostrom. first woman to three-peat in the rival Christian Coleman breezed through their early But Dressel, who has already Sun’s Australian coach Denis “I felt a lot of pressure to 200m breaststroke, clocking 2:20.17 heat. won three gold medals this week, Cotterell said that the hulking repeat,” said Olympic champ -- more than two seconds faster The 37-year-old Gatlin, gold medallist in the remains the hottest ticket in South Chinese athlete has been made a Manuel. “It feels amazing.” than silver medallist Tatjana 100m at the 2017 World Championships in London, Korea. scapegoat for grievances swimmers Chupkov found an extra gear Schoenmaker. clocked 10.16sec to qualify second fastest behind “It can be a scary thought,” said have against FINA, the sport’s gov- off the final wall to snatch 200m Meanwhile, Evgeny Rylov training partner Isiah Young in 10.14sec. Dressel, who looks on course to erning body. breaststroke gold in 2:06.12 -- retained his 200m backstroke Coleman, the world’s fastest man over 100m this match or even surpass the seven “You can’t have the perform- knocking more than half a second crown in 1:53.40 and complete a season with a world leading 9.79sec, barely needed golds he scooped at the 2017 world ances he’s had over the years off the previous world best, with Russian hat-trick of gold medals on to get out of first gear to win his heat in 10.29sec. championships in Budapest. without doing the work,” he said. Aussie Matt Wilson taking silver. day six. Coleman is in the vanguard of a new generation of US sprinters looking to replace Gatlin and the retired Usain Bolt at the pinnacle of international sprinting. Bernal takes yellow; hailstorm stops stage But the prospect of Gatlin and Coleman going head-to-head at this week’s four-day meeting -- the US qualifier for the World Championships -- is REUTERS Colombia’s Egan Bernal (right), wearing the uncertain. TIGNES, FRANCE best young’s white jersey, Great Britain’s Gatlin, as the reigning world champion, is not Geraint Thomas (second right) and cyclists required to qualify for the world championshps, and Colombian Egan Bernal was cata- ride up during the 106th edition of the hinted on Thursday he may skip the later rounds of pulted into the overall lead of the Tour de France in Valloire, yesterday. the 100m. Tour de France in dramatic circum- stances yesterday as the 19th stage of the race, effectively the penul- timate stage, was stopped early Another boxer because of a hail storm. Team Ineos rider Bernal, who began the day a minute and a half dies from head behind, had overhauled France’s Julian Alaphilippe during the climb injuries after fight up the Col de L’Iseran. Alaphilippe began eating back AFP into the lead with a brilliant descent, BUENOS AIRES only to be told to stop riding after organisers called the race off Argentine boxer Hugo Santillan died on Thursday because of the dangerous conditions from injuries suffered in a fight last Saturday, the ahead. second such death in just two days after that of There was confusion on the was unable to make the road safe, from the top of Col de L’Iseran and TOUR DE FRANCE Russian Maxim Dadashev in the United States. roads initially, as the riders were while a small landslide also made unofficial timings give Bernal a lead Santillan, who was 23, collapsed while the result descending in ideal conditions, but conditions hazardous. of 45 seconds going into today’s STAGE 19: was announced of his 10-round draw with Uru- up ahead even the use of bulldozers The race timings were taken final mountain stage, as he seeks to 1. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar Team, 5:34:15. guayan Eduardo Abreu in San Nicolas, just north of become the first Colombian to win 2. Romain Bardet, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 1:35. the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. Stage winner the Tour. 3. Alexey Lutsenko, Kazakhstan, Astana Pro Team, 2:28.