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Athletics Stars Carry Qatar's Hopes Sport FRIDAY 30 JULY 2021 Max Verstappen takes new swipe at ‘disrespectful’ Lewis Hamilton I’m not happy with what happened there and to lose so many points. I don’t think the penalty was correct. A 10-second penalty doesn’t do anything, so that penalty should definitely have been more severe. Max Verstappen Sport | 14 OLYMPICS: WOMEN'S FOOTBALL QUARTER-FINALS - Canada vs Brazil, Great Britain vs Australia, Sweden vs Japan, Netherlands vs USA Qatar's Mohamed Al Rumaihi competes Al Rumaihi in action during the second day of in men's trap the men’s trap shooting qualifying round. qualifying round Al Rumaihi finished the round in the 13th position with 121 points, just one behind the last qualifier who made it to the final round. Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) President H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, Kuwait Olympic Committee President Sheikh Fahad Nasser Al Sabah, QOC Secretary-General Jassim bin Rashid Al Buenain, President of the Qatar Volleyball Association Ali Ghanim Al Kuwari and other officials watch Qatar's Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan in action in their second Pool C match at the Shiokaze Park. Athletics stars carry Qatar’s hopes THE PENINSULA – TOKYO M E D A L S Qatar’s hopes of winning an Olympic medal in Tokyo 2020 Olympics will rest on its athletics stars who will begin their 1 China 15 7 9 31 Al Gharafa campaign in the Games today. 2 Japan 15 4 6 25 After winning the bronze medal in to meet London 2012 Olympics and the silver 3 USA 14 14 10 38 medal in Rio 2016 Olympics, Qatar’s high 4 ROC 8 11 9 28 jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim has his sight Al Shamal in 5 Australia 8 2 10 20 now set on winning the gold medal in Tokyo 2020 Olympics. 6 Great Britain 5 7 6 18 QSL season The two-time world champion will 7 South Korea 4 3 5 12 participate in men’s high jump qualifica- Qatar's star high 8 France 3 5 3 11 opener tions to begin at the Olympic Stadium in jumper Mutaz Essa Tokyo today. 9 Germany 3 3 7 13 Barshim Barshim has scaled 2.40m 11 times 10 Italy 2 7 10 19 QNA/THE PENINSULA since 2013 – only world record holder – DOHA Javier Sotomayor, with 17, has more suc- appearance in Tokyo Olympics. cessful clearances at that formidable QATARI ATHLETES IN ACTION TODAY After securing their spots in the Seven-time champions Al barrier. With a 2.43m personal best, TIME EVENT COMPETITOR knockout stages of the men’s Olympic Gharafa will take on Al Barshim is the second-best jumper of all 2:15 Rowing - Women's Single Sculls, Final E Tala Abujbara beach volleyball tournament, Qatar’s Shamal at the Thani Bin time. 3:00 Women's 100m Preliminary Round - Heat 1 Bashair Al Manwari Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan will Jassim Stadium on The other Qatari medal contender take on Jacob Gibb and Tri Bourne of USA September 11 in the Abderrahman Samba will also be action 3:15 Men's High Jump Qualification - Group A Mutaz Essa Barshim at the Shiokaze Park today. opening fixture of this today. 5:25 Men's 400m Hurdles Round 1 - Heat 1 Abderrahman Samba Cherif and Ahmed began their season's QNB Stars League, The 25-year-old Qatari middle-dis- 16:00 Beach Volleyball - Men's Preliminary - Pool C Cherif/Ahmed (QAT) vs Olympic campaign with a 21-17, 21-16 the Qatar Stars League tance runner will begin his challenge in Gibb/Bourne (USA) victory over Adrian Heidrich and Mirco (QSL) announced men’s 400m heats at the same venue. Gerson of Switzerland on Sunday then yesterday. A slight injury slowed him in 2019 but they edged past Italy’s Adrian Carambula The match will kick off he regrouped enough to take the bronze Shanghai Diamond League meeting 2019 participates in Women’s 100m heats and Enrico Rossi on Wednesday. at 6:05pm and will be fol- on home soil at the World with a world-leading time of 47.27 today. Meanwhile, yesterday, Qatar’s lowed by another Championships. seconds and will arrive in Tokyo with a On the other hand, Qatari rower Mohamed Al Rumaihi finished the men’s encounter between Umm Samba qualified for Tokyo 2020 48.26 season’s best. Tala Abujbara will participate in her trap shooting qualifying rounds in the 13th Salal and Al Rayyan at Summer Olympics Games after winning Meanwhile, sprinter Bashair Al Final E race of women’s singles sculls place with 121 points, just one point 8:20pm. the 400 hurdles gold medal in the Manwari will face a stern test when she event today to conclude her historic behind the last qualifier to the finals. The third fixture on the opening day of the season will be between Qatar SC and Al Ahli at the Saoud Bin Bolt backing Abdulrahman Al Thani Stadium. It will kick off at Fraser-Pryce 8:20pm. The second day of the opening round will see an to win third encounter between Al Khor and Al Duhail at Al Khor 100m crown Stadium. Al Wakrah will take on Al Arabi in the second REUTERS – KINGSTON match. The reigning cham- Usain Bolt believes the only person that can stop pions Al Sadd will begin his fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce their quest for a 15th title from winning a third Olympic 100 metres title Novak Djokovic of Serbia in action during his when they meet Al Sailiya. at the Tokyo Games is herself. quarter-final match against Kei Nishikori of Both matches will be Only Bolt, at the last three Olympics, has pre- Japan, yesterday. played at the Thani Bin viously managed the feat so Fraser-Pryce would Jassim Stadium at Al become the first woman to bag a hat-trick of Gharafa Club. 100m gold medals if she wins the final on Sat- Ahmed Al Adsani, urday. “I personally feel that Shelly is the only Bencic goes for gold as Djokovic reaches semis Director of Competitions Reuters person who can lose this race,” Bolt told . REUTERS – AP Department at Qatar Stars “I hope she doesn’t put too much pressure on Grand Slams and Olympic gold in the same year since Steffi League, confirmed that the herself going in because she’s in shape, she’s in Graf in 1988. He cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Kei League schedule for this form, all she has to do is go out there and execute Switzerland's Belinda Bencic became the first player to Nishikori, ending Japan's hope for a singles medal at home. season is subject to change and it shouldn’t be a problem. I’m looking forward advance to the gold-medal match of the Olympics women's He will next play either German fourth seed Alexander and amendment based on to seeing her and I would be happy to share singles yesterday, outlasting Kazakh Elena Rybakina 7-6(2), Zverev or Frenchman Jeremy Chardy for a place in the final. any developments related something like that, to win three Olympics with 4-6, 6-3 in a topsy-turvy semi-final. Bencic will face the winner of the contest between to the AFC Champions someone like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, as my In the men's event, world number one Novak Djokovic Ukrainian Elina Svitolina and Marketa Vondrousova of the League. countrywoman,” the retired sprinter added. continued his quest to become the first player to win all four Czech Republic in the championship match. 15 SPORT FRIDAY 30 JULY 2021 Without Bolt the 100m is suddenly a race again REUTERS – TOKYO with injuries, missing a chunk of time in 2017 and 2018 with The post-Usain Bolt era in the hamstring problems. He did Olympic 100 metres begins this secure a bronze in the 100m weekend as the United States and silver in the 200m at the seek to regain supremacy in the 2019 world championships in event they dominated for more Doha and that big-race ped- than a century. igree could put him in good Jamaican Bolt won the last stead in a relatively inexperi- of three straight titles in 2016 in enced field. Rio de Janeiro and since his “The last Olympics I felt like retirement the following year I had a good shot at winning nobody has really stepped up gold, this Olympics I feel I have to stamp their authority on the a shot,” he told Reuters in an sport’s most-watched race. interview in June. The U.S have won more “We’re all just as fast, we all golds in the event than all other have around the same personal nations combined, having taken bests,” he said. 16 of the 28 Olympic titles con- “You have to do it on that tested, but their last success exact day... that’s the hard part.” came via Justin Gatlin in 2004. Another non-American who can This year, though, they are make some noise in Tokyo is the back gunning to top the podium, File photos of Akani Simbini of South Africa, Jamaica’s Yohan Blake, Ronnie Baker of the US, Canada's Andre de Grasse and Trayvon South African sprinter Akani even without the presence of Bromell of the US, some of the top contenders ahead of the Tokyo Olympics athletics 100 metres event which begins this weekend. Simbine who finished fifth five banned world champion years ago and boasts the second Christian Coleman.
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