ARAB TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2021 SPORTS 14 Dinamo beat Legia to advance Medvedev advances in Toronto Champions League exits for three unbeaten title winners as Andreescu wins in Montreal ISTANBUL, Aug 11, (AP): Red Star Belgrade, Rangers and Slavia Prague were eliminated in the Champions Mack wins APGA League third qualifying round on Tues- day in surprise exits for teams that won Tour Champ’ship their domestic titles unbeaten last season. Red Star lost 1-0 in Moldova against DULUTH, Ga., Aug 11, (AP): Sheriff to go out 2-1 on aggregate. The Willie Mack III ran off three 1991 European champion missed the early birdies to pull away and chance to face its longtime former rival closed with an 8-under 64 for Dinamo Zagreb in the playoff round. a six-shot Dinamo won 1-0 at Legia Warsaw to victory in the advance 2-1. Mastercard Rangers lost 2-1 at home to Malmö APGA Tour after losing the fi rst leg by the same Champion- score in Sweden last week. ship. The victory was worth SOCCER $27,500 to Mack. Slavia’s 1-0 win at home to Fer- He earned encváros failed to overturn a two-goal $10,000 for defi cit from the fi rst leg. Mack the victory at United States forward Jordan Sie- the TPC Sug- batcheu scored twice in the fi rst half arloaf, along with $17,500 for to rally Switzerland’s Young Boys to winning the Lexus Cup Points a 3-1 win, and 4-2 on aggregate, after title and player of the year. conceding early against Cluj. Former European champions Benfi ca and PSV Eindhoven will meet in the GOLF playoffs in a rematch of the 1988 fi nal after both advanced 4-0 on aggregate against Spartak Moscow and Midtjyl- It capped a memorable sev- land, respectively. en months for Mack, who re- Ludogorets Razgrad, the champion ceived sponsor exemptions to of Bulgaria, beat Olympiakos in a two PGA Tour events on the penalty shootout after the teams were West Coast Swing, and then tied 3-3 on aggregate. Ludogorets made the cut in his last two benefited from the abolition of the PGA Tour starts at the Rocket away-goals rule this season, which Mortgage Classic and John would previously have sent Olympia- Deere Classic. kos through after the 2-2 second-leg draw. Shakhtar Donetsk won 2-1 in each The Czech Republic and Scotland leg against Genk to earn a playoff have seen both its team eliminated be- against Monaco, the 2004 Champions fore the playoff round that is played Russia’s Daniil Medvedev returns the ball against Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik during the men’s National Bank Open tennis tournament in Toronto League beaten fi nalist. Monaco coasted over the next two midweeks. past Sparta Prague 3-1 at home Tues- The 32-team group-stage draw will on Aug.10. (AP) day and 5-1 on aggregate. be made Aug. 26 in Istanbul. Nadal withdraws from tournament Quarantine criticized as ‘cruel and uncaring’ by AOC TORONTO, Aug. 11, (AP): Daniil Medvedev advanced Australian team condemns double-quarantine for 16 Olympians to the third round of the SYDNEY, Aug. 11, (AP): A strict National Bank Open, de- four-week quarantine imposed on feating Alexander Bublik 16 athletes returning from the Tokyo New Zealand 2016 Olympic cyclist Olivia Podmore dies Games has been criticized as “cruel of Kazakhstan 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and uncaring” by the Australian AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Aug.11, (AP): Olivia Pod- In a statement Tuesday, Cycling New Zealand de- in a match that was briefl y Olympic Committee. more, a track cyclist for New Zealand who competed scribed Podmore as a “much loved and respected rider.” suspended by rain. All travelers entering Australia at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, has died. She The organization noted that many are “understand- during the COVID-19 pandemic was 24. ably devastated” and, without elaboration, urged people Medvedev, ranked No. 2, lost Cycling New Zealand said Podmore died “suddenly” to seek help for mental health if needed. to Rafael Nadal in the fi nals of are subjected to a mandatory 14- day hotel quarantine, and members Monday but did not disclose a cause or other details. The New Zealand Olympic Committee said it has be- the Toronto event in 2019, the Podmore also represented New Zealand at the 2018 gun offering support to athletes and staff on the coun- of Australia’s Olympic delegation Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast. try’s Olympic team. last year it was played. Nadal have returned in groups to undergo withdrew from the tournament on two weeks of supervised isolation in Tuesday with a foot injury. various state capitals. from the Australian Institute of Sport after being tested daily over many signed to keep South Australians But South Australia is imposing which indicated the mental health weeks, Carroll said, and the South safe, but described the decision to TENNIS an additional 14-day domestic quar- of athletes could be “severely chal- Australian health department had reject an exemption for the athletes antine on those athletes who want to lenged after returning from a highly given no reason why it rejected an as “profoundly fl awed.” constrained Tokyo Games environ- application for an exemption to the Carroll said after weeks of negoti- ations with the state government, the On the women’s side in OLYMPICS ment into the further isolation of ex- additional domestic quarantine. Montreal, defending champion tended lockdown.” Australian Institute of Sport chief AOC was informed the athletes re- Bianca Andreescu, the No. 2 seed, The athletes represented an ex- medical offi cer Dr. David Hughes turning to South Australia from Syd- return to the state after isolating in tremely low risk to the community said he respected the process de- ney would have to home quarantine beat qualifier Harriet Dart 6-1, 3-6, for two weeks, if they successfully 6-3 in a match that lasted just over Sydney, where a coronavirus out- break has forced the city into lock- applied for an exemption to another two hours. down. And that has sparked outrage 14-day hotel quarantine. The 21-year-old Andreescu, who Canada’s Bianca Andreescu reacts during a match against Harriet Dart, among athletes and Olympic offi - “Athletes subject to home quaran- won the U.S. Open in 2019, was of Britain, during the National Bank cials. tine will not be permitted a welcome playing her first match since a Open women’s tennis tournament, on Australian Olympic commit- home hug,” Carroll said. “Either the first-round exit at Wimbledon in Aug 10, in Montreal. (AP) tee chief executive Matt Carroll on athlete’s family must move away, late June. Wednesday said South Australia’s the athlete must fi nd a way of iso- “My goal isn’t to be on the court retired in the second set. Sara decision posed mental health risks lating from the family or the entire that long,” Andreescu said. “I want Sorribes Tormo beat Carol Zhao. for the athletes, who have all been family goes into quarantine. to be able to stick to my game plan On the men’s side, third-seeded fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and “That is not an acceptable option the whole entire match and I feel I Stefanos Tsitsipas beat France’s lived and competed under a strict for someone who is fully vaccinated haven’t been doing that in my Ugo Humbert 6-3, 6-7 (13), 6-1, bio-security conditions since before and who has already just completed matches a lot. while Casper Ruud of Norway leaving for Japan. two weeks’ quarantine.” “That comes with experience topped veteran Marin Cilic 6-3, “While other countries are cele- Australia sent more than 480 ath- brating the return of their athletes, we letes to the Tokyo Games, including and playing matches and I haven’t 3-6, 6-3. American John Isner won his opening-round match 6-4, 6-1 are subjecting ours to the most cruel 56 from South Australia state, and been playing many matches.” and uncaring treatment,” Carroll said. placed sixth on the standings with Also in Montreal, Coco Gauff over Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. “They are being punished for proudly 17 gold and 46 medals overall. The defeated Anastasija Sevastova, Other men’s winners Tuesday representing their country with dis- Olympics fi nished on Sunday. while Johanna Konta - returning were Kei Nishikori, Nikoloz tinction at the Olympic Games.” In this July 23, 2021, fi le photo, Cate Campbell and Patty Mills, of Australia, South Australia is the only juris- from a tough bout with COVID-19 Basilashvili, Dusan Lajovic and Carroll said the South Australian carry their country’s fl ag during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Sta- diction in the nation to impose the - defeated Zhang Shuai, who Karen Khachanov. government ignored medical advice dium at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) double-quarantine..