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SUNDAY 15 APRIL 2018 SPORT 25 CRICKET He’s going to trouble me a TODAY’S ACTION lot because he expected me Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Rajasthan Royals: to get the gold in the 100. Yohan Blake M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru I slipped at the start and I Jamaican sprinter on fail- Kings XI Punjab vs Chennai Super Kings: couldn’t recover. ure to get gold at CWG Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh Jamaican sprinters miss out on top spots AP “I was in record-breaking Olympic double at Rio de Janeiro shape, and I’m still in that, but, in 2016 but only ran the 200 GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA: ahem, I’m going to hide from here, missing out on the podium India’s Mary Kom wins Kingston, we have a problem. him when I get back home.” when she placed fourth in a race A Jamaican track team fea- In the 100, Blake took bronze won by Olympic 400-meter turing the world’s fastest active behind South Africans Akani champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo sprinter and the women’s Simbine and Henricho Bruintjies. of Bahamas. gold in boxing at CWG Olympic 100- and 200-meter In the relay, he ran the anchor The Jamaicans won 10 gold champion didn’t win a gold leg and made up some ground medals at the Commonwealth AP medal in the sprints at the Com- but couldn’t catch the gold Games in Glasgow four years ago monwealth Games. medal-winning England team - including the men’s 100, 200 After Yohan Blake anchored of Reuben Arthur, Zharnel and 4x100 relay and the GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA Jamaica’s 4x100-meter relay Hughes, Richard Kilty and Harry women’s 4x100 - and six Mary Kom (pictured) is back team to bronze yesterday, Usain Aikines-Aryeety, which won in Olympic golds at Rio in 2016, on the international stage in Bolt took to social media to 38.13 seconds, or Simbine’s including Bolt’s wins in the 100, boxing. openly question if he’d retired South Africans. 200 and 4x100 relay and The mother of three and too early. “I ran like a rabbit!” Aikines- Thompson’s sprint double. now politician in India made a Bolt, who is in Australia to Aryeety said of his anchor leg. “I On the Gold Coast, Trinidad successful return to the ring at support the Jamaican team, is knew I had the second-fastest and Tobago won more gold a major multi-sports event on the only man to have ever run man of all time behind me, medals in the shortest of the Saturday. She beat Kristina faster than Blake, who has a per- Yohan Blake, and the 100-meter sprints, winning the women’s O’Hara of Northern Ireland in sonal best time of 9.69 in the Commonwealth champion, 100 and the men’s 200. a 5-0 unanimous decision in 100. Before the Gold Coast Akani Simbine, behind me. I Blake said the post-Bolt the gold medal match in the games, he joked that Blake may stayed focused and aimed for the Jamaican team just needs some 45-48 kilogram division at the not want to return to the line.” time to find its rhythm. Commonwealth Games. Jamaican capital if he didn’t win England also won the “We’re going through a tran- Kom, 35, is a former five- gold. women’s 4x100, in 42.46 sition period,” he said. “We were time world amateur champion the first gold medals for their Australia won the gold “He’s going to trouble me a seconds, with Lorraine Ugen just dominating world-wide, and who won a bronze medal in the countries in the meet - former medal in women’s basketball, lot because he expected me to hanging on to edge Elaine coach is working to get me back 51-kilogram division at the world junior champion Neeraj beating England 99-55. Not get the gold in the 100,” Blake Thompson’s Jamaican team by to that level so I can dominate London Olympics in 2012, but Chopra of India won the javelin that star Australia center Liz said. “I slipped at the start and I 0.06. Nigeria took bronze. again.” Bolt was a once-in-a- failed to qualify for the Rio de in 86.47 meters, Levern Cambage was around to see the couldn’t recover. Thompson won the 100-200 lifetime athlete, Blake said. Janeiro Games in 2016. Spencer of St. Lucia’s the finish. She competed in the Asian women’s high jump in a Cambage, who will begin championships last November season-best 1.95 meters and playing for Dallas in the WNBA Jamaica’s (gold) Christine Day, Anastasia Le-Roy, Janieve Russell and in the first stage of a comeback Troy Doris of Guyana the triple in May, picked up an unsports- Stephenie McPherson pose with their medals after the athletics women’s and won gold. jump in 16.88 meters. manlike foul early in the game 4x400m relay final during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games “Even my sports minister Two other finals had pre- and was sent from the court at the Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast yesterday came to cheer me on, my dictable Kenya 1-2 finishes: three minutes into the second country will be very proud,” world champion Hellen Obiri quarter after picking up a tech- said Kom, who is a member of won the women’s 5,000 nical foul for arguing with the Upper House in India’s meters in 15 minutes, 13.11 referee. Parliament. seconds, holding off teammate Two of either an unsports- She said she may give the Margaret Chelimo Kipkemboi, manlike or technical foul lead Olympics another attempt - “if and Elijah Motonei Manangoi to an automatic ejection for the I am fit enough, I will go for won the 1,500 in 3:34.78 ahead game. Tokyo 2020.” “My dreams are of Timothy Cheruiyot. New Zealand beat Canada not fulfilled yet because (no) England won both the 74-58 for the bronze. Olympic gold medal,” she said. men’s and women’s 4x100- Earlier in a men’s bas- “So if my body allows, I will meter relays on the final day ketball semifinal, Canada beat go.” O’Hara said she was “quite of track, while Botswana took New Zealand 88-86 on proud” of her performance. the men’s 4x400 and Jamaica Mamadou Gueye’s last-second “But at the end of the day the women’s 4x400. It was a three-pointer. New Zealand she (Kom) is a well-known rare meet for the Jamaicans, outscored Canada 28-13 in the boxer, a credit to her country, who didn’t pick up any gold in fourth quarter and nearly so the greatest of respect to the 100, 200 or 4x100 relays - overcame a 21-point deficit. her,” O’Hara said. Yohan Blake’s men’s team was In today’s gold medal final, Elsewhere around the third in the one-lap relay and Canada will play Australia, games yesterday: Elaine Thompson’s women’s which earlier beat Scotland Three winners picked up team was second. 103-46. NHL: Haula delivers for Vegas Streaking Mets register REUTERS Flyers 5, Penguins 1 ninth consecutive win Travis Konecny, Sean Cou- REUTERS LAS VEGAS: What happens in turier, Shayne Gostisbehere, reliever Kevin Jepsen (0-2) and, Vegas, continues to happen in Nolan Patrick and Andrew Mac- with Fisher running on the play, Vegas. Donald each scored one goal and MIAMI: Todd Frazier hit two Texas center fielder Drew Rob- The NHL’s Golden Knights Philadelphia defeated Pittsburgh solo homers on Friday night, inson whiffed fielding the ball, are the toast of the town. to even the best-of-seven playoff including the go-ahead shot in allowing Fisher to score from Erik Haula’s goal in double series at one game apiece at PPG the bottom of the fourth inning, first base. Fisher pinch-ran for overtime gave Vegas a 2-1 victory Paints Arena. as the streaking New York Mets Evan Gattis, who walked. over the Los Angeles Kings on Philadelphia goaltender won their ninth straight by Astros right fielder George Friday night for a 2-0 lead in Brian Elliott, who struggled beating the Milwaukee Brewers, Springer homered twice against their first-round playoff series. mightily in Game 1, allowing five 6-5, at Citi Field. Rangers starter Cole Hamels. “Honestly, I think that’s my goals on 19 shots, was stellar this Frazier reached base in all Houston starter Gerrit Cole first overtime goal and I’m happy time around with 34 saves. The four plate appearances for the allowed two runs on three hits it came at this time; that’s one of Flyers were soundly beaten 7-0 Mets, whose winning streak is with a career-high 14 strikeouts the best feelings in sports,” Haula in Game 1 and responded in a big their longest since an 11-game over seven innings. said. “Going into overtime we just way as Ivan Provorov and Cou- run in April 2015. At 11-1, they He became the second stressed it in the locker room to turier each had a pair of assists. are off to the best 12-game start pitcher in major league history just keep going after ‘em, to keep Penguins goaltender Matt in team history. with 11-plus strikeouts in each getting pucks behind ‘em, keep Murray scuffled with 15 saves on The Mets scored what of his first three starts of a playing north, keep playing fast 19 shots, snapping a streak of proved to be the decisive runs season, joining Nolan Ryan and I think we executed our three consecutive playoff in the fifth, when Jay Bruce (1973).

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