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Distraught McIlroy Enrique signs on as calls off Wozniacki Barcelona coach wedding THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014 18 19 Pacquiao likely to return to the ring in Macau in Nov Page 17 Gatlin smashes best 100m time Campbell-Brown wins BEIJING: US sprinter Justin Gatlin smashed the season’s best 100m time he set less than a week ago as he claimed victory at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing yesterday. It was also a memorable night for Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell- Brown, who went some way to putting her doping controversy night- mare behind her by winning the women’s 100m. Gatlin comfortably won his race with a time of 9.87, slicing five- hundredths of a second off the 9.92 he clocked to win last Sunday’s Diamond League meet in Shanghai. INDIANAPOLIS: Miami Heat forward LeBron James (left) fouls Sunday’s result was the first time this season the veteran sprinter Indiana Pacers guard CJ Watson during the fourth quarter of Game had dipped under ten seconds, and bettering it in Beijing gave Gatlin 2 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals. —AP his second successive victory at the world challenge, which is held at China’s iconic National Stadium. The venue, which is also known as the ‘Bird’s Nest’, is set to stage next year’s World Athletics Championships. Heat beat Pacers Meanwhile, Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov cleared 2.36 metres to win the high jump event ahead of homegrown talent Zhang Guowei INDIANAPOLIS: Beating the Miami Heat once is difficult enough but taking (2.29) and compatriot Daniil Tsyplakov, who cleared 2.25. two playoff games in a row from the defending National Basketball Association Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott recaptured some of his old champions is mission impossible as the Indiana Pacers found out on Tuesday. magic by winning the javelin event with a throw of 83.94m. Dormant most of the night, LeBron James sprung to life in the final quarter The London 2012 gold medallist finished a disappointing 7th in scoring 12 of his 22 points, while Dwyane Wade dropped 10 of his team high Shanghai on Sunday, behind Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed who cleared 23 to lift the Heat to a battling 87-83 victory and even the Eastern Conference final at a game apiece. 89.21m. Imposing their will on the contest, James and Wade combined for 22 The Egyptian could only manage a throw of 74.03m in Beijing, fin- points in the final quarter, including Miami’s final 20 points over the last 7:51 ishing tenth. Chinese 110m hurdler Xie Wenjun claimed his second vic- of the game. tory in less than a week, finishing first in Beijing with a time of 13.31 “That’s what it is about, it isn’t going to be pretty,” said James. “It’s never seconds after he won his first Diamond League race in Shanghai. pretty basketball in the Eastern conference, it’s about who can sustain runs. US athletes Ryan Wilson and Kevin Craddock finished second and “Who can get the defensive stops, who cannot turn the ball over and who third, while last year’s winner and current world champion David can get great shots and I think we did that in the fourth. “I needed to do some- Oliver withdrew with an injury, but expects to be at the Diamond thing in fourth...I needed to make a few buckets in the fourth quarter and was League meeting in Eugene on May 31. able to come through for us. In the women’s disciplines, Campbell-Brown claimed victory with a “We’re never satisfied until we close out a series so have a lot of work to do.” time of 11.14 seconds, ahead of compatriots Simone Facey and Trisha- The best-of-seven series now shifts to South Beach for Game Three on Ann Hawthorne. Saturday, giving the Pacers plenty of time to ponder a missed opportunity. After rolling to an impressive win over the Heat in Game One on Sunday, The former Olympic champion spent 10 months on the sidelines the Pacers finally flashed the form that had been expected from the East’s top before having a two-year ban overturned in February. World champi- seed as Indiana looked ready to seize control of the series. But the Heat have on Brianna Rollins won the women’s 100 metres hurdles with a time of developed a habit of bouncing back after a playoff loss and continued that 12.58 seconds. trend at a raucous Bankers Life Fieldhouse. London 2012 bronze medallist Kellie Wells came second with a time With the victory, the Heat have now gone 40 playoff games without suffer- of 12.89 seconds, while Yvette Lewis of Panama finished third at 12.96. ing consecutive losses, a run that stretches back to the 2012 East final against The winning time equalled the world leading time shared by Rollins the Boston Celtics. and fellow US hurdler Kristi Castlin. The World Challenge is the fifth leg Since James, Wade and Chris Bosh joined forces in Miami, four times the BEIJING: Justin Gatlin, of the United States, celebrates after he won the Men’s 100m com- of the second-tier tour organised by the International Association of Heat have lost the opening game of a playoff series and each time recovered to petitions at 2014 IAAF World Challenge Beijing held at China’s National Stadium. — AP Athletics Federations (IAAF). — AFP win the series. — Reuters.

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