Biles opts out of fl oor exercise fi nal

Simone Biles will not defend her Olympic gold Biles has already chosen not to compete medal on fl oor exercise. USA an- in the and fi nals, set for Rhys McClenaghan of nounced Sunday that the six-time Olympic Sunday evening at the Ariake Gymnastics Ireland, performs on the medalist has opted not to compete on fl oor, Centre. She was not expected to medal on during the where she won gold in and bars, but is the Olympic champion on vault. men’s placed second in qualifying last week. Biles is dealing with a mental that apparatus fi nal at the Jennifer Gadirova of Britain will replace in gymnastics is referred to as “the twist- 2020 Summer Olympics, Biles in the fi nals, which are scheduled for ies.” In other words, Biles is having trouble on Aug. 1, in , Monday. USA Gymnastics said Biles has fi guring out where her body is in relation to . (AP) not decided whether to participate in the the ground when in the air. Biles has been fi nal, which is scheduled for dominant on fl oor exercise during her elite Tuesday. She earned bronze on the event career, winning fi ve world championships in fi ve years ago. along with her triumph in Rio. (AP)

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Canada and Qatar advance US teams ‘ousted’ in Doncic, Slovenia pip Spain Oly TOKYO, Aug. 1, (AP): The scoreboard It was out. to sweep group at the Shiokaze Park beach volleyball But somewhere in the process of get- venue said: “Challenge successful. Ball ting that information to the court, there out.” was a glitch: The video board said the That didn’t make any sense. ball was out and the challenge was suc- And the Americans’ survival was rid- cessful, which isn’t possible. A member ing on it. of the Canadian delegation sitting in the After losing the first set and falling mostly empty arena shouted, “It was behind 10-4 in the second, the Canadians out!” rallied to force a tiebreaking third set, The players complained to the refer- first to 15 (must win by two points). ee, and the stadium announcer explained They led 12-11 when Sponcil’s serve that the challenge would be reviewed went past them and bounced off the again. The call was corrected, and sand. instead of a 12-12 tie it was 13-11, with The linesman’s ruling was that the Canada leading. ball was out, but the Americans chal- Claes said she’s never seen that lenged the call, using a system that was before. (A team cannot appeal the deci- used in the Olympics for the first time in Rio de Janeiro. The close-up, slow motion replay on the stadium video BEACH VOLLEYBALL board showed the ball had clearly missed the blue tape that signifies the court boundary. sion in a challenge, but in this case the problem arose in communicating the decision to the players.) In other round of 16 action on Sunday, the Brazilian team of Ana Patricia and Rebecca beat Wang Fan and Xia Xinyi of China. Another American team is out at the Olympic beach volleyball tournament.A Qatari pair that is ranked No. 1 in the world beat Nick Lucena and 2008 gold medalist 14-21, 21-19, 15-11 in the first round of knockout play. The Americans reached the quarterfi- nals in Rio de Janeiro before losing to the eventual champions, Brazilians Alison and Bruno Oscar Schmidt. Dalhausser and Lucena went 2-1 in round-robin play, losing only to a Dutch team that won the world championships in 2013. That left them with a tough matchup against Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan, who cruised through the Ahmed Tijan of Qatar competes preliminaries without losing a set. during a men’s beach volleyball Slovenia’s Mike Tobey blocks a shot by Spain’s Victor Claver, (right), during a men’s basketball preliminary round game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, The Americans scored four straight on Aug. 1, in Saitama, Japan. (AP) match against the United States points in the first set to turn a 6-5 edge at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on into a five-point lead and cruised to a Aug. 1, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) 21-14 lead. Spain, Serbia advance to women’s quarters Olympic Medalists SAITAMA, Japan, Aug. 1, (AP): Luka Doncic will take LeBron James had one for the U.S. in 2012. But Doncic got the win, just as he has in every game he’s played in competition his unbeaten record with Slovenia straight to the Olympic for the Slovenians. quarterfi nals. This victory gave them the top seed from Group C and guaranteed they won’t ATHLETICS SILVER: Rory Sabbatini, Slovakia Doncic just missed the fi rst - in the Olympics in nine years have to play either the U.S., or Australia in the quarterfi nals on Tuesday. BRONZE: C.T. Pan, Taiwan Men’s 100m and the Slovenians edged Spain 95-87 on Sunday in a tense and important Spain will, putting its streak of three straight Olympic medals in jeopardy. GOLD: Lamont Marcell Jacobs, SAILING fi nal game of men’s group play. Vlatko Cancar scored 22 points for Slovenia. Mike Tobey added 16 points and SILVER: Fred Kerley, United States Doncic had foul trouble early and shooting struggles all night but fi nished with 14 rebounds. BRONZE: Andre de Grasse, Canada Men’s One Person Dinghy - Laser GOLD: Matt Wearn, Australia 12 points, 14 rebounds and nine assists, one shy of the fi rst triple-double since Ricky Rubio scored 18 points for Spain, but missed a 3-pointer that would have Men’s High Jump SILVER: Tonci Stipanovic, Croatia tied it at 90 before Slovenia fi nished it GOLD: Mutaz Essa Barshim, Qatar BRONZE: Hermann Tomasgaard, out. GOLD: Gianmarco Tamberi, Italy Norway The tradition continues. BRONZE: Maksim Nedasekau, Bela- Women’s One Person Mexico eliminated rus Dinghy - Laser Radial goes to the Olympics, and Argentina Women’s Shot Put GOLD: Anne-Marie Rindom, Denmark goes to the quarterfi nals. GOLD: Lijiao Gong, China SILVER: Josefi n Olsson, Scola’s fi fth Olympics aren’t over SILVER: Raven Saunders, United BRONZE: Marit Bouwmeester, Neth- earn 1st Olympic baseball win yet. He scored 23 points, Facundo States erlands Campazzo added 17 points and 11 BRONZE: Valerie Adams, New Zea- YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 1, (AP): assists, and Argentina defeated host land Japan 97-77 in what amounted to a Women’s Triple Jump Men’s 1500m Freestyle Israel had just routed Mexico for its GOLD: , United States fi rst Olympic baseball victory, rid- play-in game for a berth in Tuesday’s GOLD: Yulimar Rojas, Venezuela quarterfi nals. SILVER: Patricia Mamona, Portugal SILVER: Mykhailo Romanchuk, ing a loud three- homer by Danny BRONZE: Ana Peleteiro, Spain Valencia that helped it jump to a six- Gabriel Deck scored 16 points and BRONZE: Florian Wellbrock, Ger- run lead, and Nick Rickles wanted to Marcos Delia added 14 for Argentina BADMINTON many check the reaction. (1-2), which fi nds out later Sunday Women’s Singles Men’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay “I don’t think it’s so much about who it’ll meet in the knockout stage. GOLD: Yu Fei Chen, China GOLD: United States (Joseph Arm- beating Mexico.” he said after Mon- Yudai Baba scored 18 for Japan (0- SILVER: Tzu-Ying Tai, Taiwan strong, , , day’s 12-5 win. “I think it’s a lot to 3), which would have advanced with BRONZE: V. Sindhu Pusarla, India , , Michael just raise awareness for baseball in Is- a win but ended up as the fi rst home Andrew, , ) CYCLING rael. For me, I was just taking in the team to go winless in an Olympic SILVER: Britain (Luke Greenbank, men’s tournament since Finland lost BMX FREESTYLE James Wilby, James Guy, Duncan moment and seeing after the game the Scott, Adam Peaty) amount of love that we received from all three of its contests at the 1952 Hel- Men’s Park BRONZE: Italy (Thomas Ceccon, Ni- people back in Israel. We had messag- sinki Games. GOLD: Logan Martin, Australia colo Martinenghi, Federico Burdisso, es on top of messages from people just scored 17, Rui SILVER: Daniel Dhers, Venezuela Alessandro Miressi) Hachimura and Makoto Hiejima each BRONZE: Declan Brooks, Britain saying thank you.” Men’s 50m Freestyle Valencia went deep against a Dou- scored 13 and Daiki Tanaka scored 10 Women’s Park GOLD: Caeleb Dressel, United States for Japan. The team stayed in its seats GOLD: nCharlotte Worthington, Britain ble-A playing in his 15th con- SILVER: Hannah Roberts, United SILVER: Florent Manaudou, France secutive minor league season, Rickles Israel’s Zachary Penprase, (right), steals second base past Mexico’s Ryan for a few moments after the game, States BRONZE: Bruno Fratus, Brazil had three RBIs and Israel pounded re- Goins during a baseball game at Yokohama Baseball Stadium during the some of them slumped over, hiding BRONZE: Nikita Ducarroz, Switzer- Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay lievers Fernando Salas and Oliver Pé- 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 1, in Yokohama, Japan. (AP) their eyes behind towels as they dealt land GOLD: Australia (, rez in a six-run seventh to reach with the disappointment. Chelsea Hodges, Brianna Throssell, It’s the fi fth consecutive quarter- DIVING Mollie O’Callaghan, Kaylee McKeown, the tournament’s double-elimination Women’s 3m Springboard Emma McKeon, ) phase. fi nals trip for Argentina, all of them GOLD: Tingmao Shi, China SILVER: United States (Rhyan Eliza- Israel (1-2) plays Tuesday against SILVER: Han Wang, China beth White, , Claire Curzan, the winner of Monday night’s game BRONZE: Krysta Palmer, United , , Lydia between South Korea and the Do- BASKETBALL States Jacoby, , ) minican Republic (both 1-1), with BRONZE: Canada (Taylor Ruck, Syd- ney Pickrem, Margaret Macneil, Kayla the chance to advance to a matchup Men’s Foil Team Sanchez, Kylie Masse, Penny Olek- against the United States or Japan on coming with Scola - now 41 years old GOLD: France (Erwann le Pechoux, siak) Wednesday that will determine a berth - wearing the national colors. Enzo Lefort, , Maxime Women’s 50m Freestyle in the gold-medal game. In women’s event, Astou Ndour Pauty) scored 20 points and Cristina Ouvina SILVER: ROC (Timur Safi n, Kirill GOLD: Emma McKeon, Australia added 15 to lead Spain to a 76-66 win Borodachev, Anton Borodachev, SILVER: Sarah Sjoestroem, Sweden Vladislav Mylnikov) BRONZE: Pernille Blume, Denmark BASEBALL over Canada and a spot in the quar- BRONZE_United States (Alexander terfi nals. Massialas, Nick Itkin, Gerek Mein- TENNIS Spain (3-0) led by six at the half hardt, Race Imboden) Men’s Singles Rickles has been with the national and scored the fi rst nine points during GYMNASTICS/ARTISTIC GOLD: Alexander Zverev, team program for a decade and played a 16-2 run to begin the third quarter SILVER: Karen Khachanov, ROC a role in the Olympic buildup. Israel that blew the game open. Canada used Men’s Exercise BRONZE: Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain won its group at the 2017 World Base- a 9-2 spurt to start the fourth to get GOLD: Artem Dolgopyat, Israel Women’s Doubles SILVER: Rayderley Zapata, Spain ball Classic and beat in the sec- within 62-56, but could get no closer BRONZE: Ruoteng Xiao, China GOLD: Czech Republic (Barbora Kre- ond round, then won a two-continent as Alba Torrens two 3-pointers to jcikova, Katerina Siniakova) Serbia’s Jelena Brooks (9) drives against South Korea’s Jihyun Park (9) Men’s Pommel Horse Olympic qualifying tournament and stop the run. SILVER: (Belinda Bencic, beat out the Netherlands for one of the during a women’s preliminary round basketball game at the 2020 Summer The Spaniards, who won the silver GOLD: , Britain Viktorija Golubic) Olympics, on Aug. 1, in Saitama, Japan. (AP) SILVER: Chih Kai Lee, Taiwan BRONZE: Brazil (Laura Pigossi, Luisa six Olympic berths. It lost its opener to medal in the 2016 Rio Games, have BRONZE: Kazuma Kaya, Japan Stefani) South Korea 6-5 in 10 . now guaranteed they will avoid fac- He gave up six runs, four hits and Velázquez and left-hander Sammy Women’s Uneven Bars Mixed Doubles “I don’t think there was a lot of expec- ing the United States until at least the GOLD: ROC (Anastasia Pavlyuchen- tations coming into Israel playing base- three walks in two-plus innings. Solís just before the Olympics when semifi nals. GOLD: , Belgium “He is a great pitcher in Mexico. Last they contracted COVID-19. Adrián SILVER: Anastasiia Iliankova, ROC kova, Andrey Rublev) ball at all,” said Rickles, a 31-year-old Now Canada (1-2) will have to wait BRONZE: Sunisa Lee, United States SILVER: ROC (Elena Vesnina, Aslan catcher who retired from Philadelphia’s year in the winter, he even pitched a González, a 39-year-old, fi ve-time to see if it advances to the next round. Karatsev) complete nine-inning game,” All-Star who made his last big league Women’s Vault minor league system during spring train- Jelena Brooks scored the final BRONZE: Australia (Ashleigh Barty, ing in 2019 to become a Milwaukee mi- Benji Gil said through an interpreter. appearance in 2018, fi nished 3 for 11 five points as Serbia advanced to the GOLD: Rebeca Andrade, Brazil John Peers) “Today just wasn’t his day. He didn’t with an RBI and Joey Meneses went 6 SILVER: , United nor league coach. quarterfinals by beating South Korea States WEIGHTLIFTING With such as Julio Urías, Luis have a lot of dominance. He had several for 12 with four RBIs. 65-61 in the women’s Olympic tour- BRONZE: Seojeong Yeo, South Ko- Women’s 76kg Cessa and José Urquidy unavailable be- balls he was missing the location.” Zack Weiss (1-0), who allowed four nament. rea GOLD: Neisi Patricia Dajomes Bar- cause doesn’t al- Mexico (0-3), the fi rst country elim- runs and got no outs for Cincinnati Jihyun Park’s 3-pointer with 4:07 GOLF rera, Ecuador low 40-man roster players to participate, inated, was outscored 20-9. in his only big league appearance on left gave South Korea its last lead at SILVER: Katherine Elizabeth Nye, “I’m in shock,” Gil said. “Not even April 12, 2018, got the win by allow- Men’s Individual Stroke Play United States Mexico started Manny Barreda (0-1), a 61-58. Tina Krajisnik scored on a GOLD: Xander Schauffele, United BRONZE: Aremi Fuentes Zavala, 32-year-old right-hander drafted by the in my worst nightmares did I think that ing one run in two innings in relief of layup, then Brooks put Serbia ahead States Mexico (AP) in 2007 and released this would be the result.” starter Josh Zeid. Israel had 12 hits and to stay with two free throws with 2:32 seven years later. Mexico lost right-hander Hector set a tournament high for runs. to go.