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 Gymnastics an- in the uneven bars and vault 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 pommel horse during the where she won gold in Rio de Janeiro and bars, but is the Olympic champion on vault. artistic gymnastics men’s placed second in qualifying last week. Biles is dealing with a mental block 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 Tokyo, Monday. USA Gymnastics said Biles has fi guring out where her body is in relation to Japan. (AP) not decided whether to participate in the the ground when in the air. Biles has been balance beam 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 Brazil fi ve years ago. along with her triumph in Rio. (AP) ARAB TIMES, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 2021 15 Canada and Qatar advance US teams ‘ousted’ in Doncic, Slovenia pip Spain Oly beach volleyball TOKYO, Aug. 1, (AP): The scoreboard It was out. to sweep basketball 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 Phil Dalhausser 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 triple-double in the Olympics in nine years have to play either the U.S., France 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, Italy 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. Luis Scola 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, Sweden Scola’s fi fth Olympics aren’t over SILVER: Raven Saunders, United BRONZE: Marit Bouwmeester, Neth- Israel earn 1st Olympic baseball win yet. He scored 23 points, Facundo States erlands Campazzo added 17 points and 11 BRONZE: Valerie Adams, New Zea- SWIMMING 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: Robert Finke, 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-run homer by Danny BRONZE: Ana Peleteiro, Spain Ukraine 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, Andrew Wilson, Tom Shields, day’s 12-5 win. “I think it’s a lot to 3), which would have advanced with BRONZE: V. Sindhu Pusarla, India Blake Pieroni, Ryan Murphy, Michael just raise awareness for baseball in Is- a win but ended up as the fi rst home Andrew, Caeleb Dressel, Zach Apple) 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 Yuta Watanabe 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 pitcher 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 (Emily Seebohm, rez in a six-run seventh inning to reach with the disappointment.