Sport WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2020 08 Tokyo 2020 chief dismisses higher reported Games costs REUTERS – TOKYO The International Olympic Com- board meeting yesterday, Muto working towards this timeline, espe- mittee has already said the delay will rebuffed these numbers. cially in regard to re-negotiating con- Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto cost them approximately $800m, “There are no financial grounds tracts with Games’ sponsors that are (pictured) dismissed figures in an while Japanese organisers have yet for the numbers revealed in that only valid until the end of 2020. academic report published yesterday to announce what their share will be. report, I am not in a position to make He also stressed that the ‘simpli- that showed the Tokyo Olympics were The last budget given by the a comment on that currently; I am fication’ measures currently being set to be the most expensive in history, organising committee was $12.6bn, simply confused by this.” discussed to lower the costs of the even before the additional costs to be announced in December 2019, The Oxford report added that the Games could set the trend for future incurred by the Games’ post- months before postponement. delay will result “in billions of dollars Olympics. ponement. However, a wide-ranging study of further cost overruns”. “This is a great opportunity for all The Tokyo Games were post- by the University of Oxford in Britain IOC Vice-President John Coates of us to go back to the origin of the poned until next year because of the put the costs of the Tokyo Games at said earlier yesterday that COVID-19 Olympics and to become a forerunner global coronavirus pandemic and, as $15.84bn, even before countermeasures would be decided of the new way to do these Games, organisers seek to rearrange the postponement. by the end of the year. Muto con- heading towards the next generation,” event, costs are expected to spiral. Speaking following an executive firmed that Tokyo organisers were he said. Beijing Ducks’ Jeremy Lin driving the ball during the Chinese Kaemna wins stage 16 Basketball Association (CBA) match against Guangdong Southern Tigers in this file photo taken on as Roglic retains lead August 4, 2020. REUTERS – VILLARD DE LANS Lennard Kaemna claimed his first Tour de France victory when he outwitted Giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz to win the 16th stage, a 164-km ride from La Tour du Pin yesterday. The 24-year-old German took advantage of Ecuadorian Carapaz’s momentary loss of focus at the top of the last climb of the day to go solo and Tearful Jeremy Lin finished one minute 27 seconds ahead after charging down in the descent. seeks NBA return after Swiss Sebastien Reichenbach took third place, 1:56 off the pace as Slovenian Primoz Roglic retained the one season in China overall leader’s yellow jersey. Defending champion Egan AFP – BEIJING Bernal, whose hopes of winning the race fell away when he cracked in Jeremy Lin said yesterday he is leaving the Beijing Ducks Sunday’s 15th stage, was dropped after one season in China and wants to return to the NBA, from the main bunch in the ascent to where he sparked the “Linsanity” craze of 2012. Saint-Nizier, apparently suffering The 32-year-old guard, who as a Toronto Raptors player from back pains. in 2019 became the first Asian-American to win an NBA It was a day to forget for Ineos- championship, signed for Beijing as an unrestricted free Grenadiers as Carapaz had to settle agent last year. for second after two brutal attacks Lin helped Beijing reach the semi-finals of the Chinese from the breakaway group in the Basketball Association (CBA) league, where they were edged decisive climb had left his rivals in out by eventual champions Guangdong Southern Tigers. the red. “This decision has really been the hardest in my life,” But Kaemna, who narrowly Lin, who has complained about the rough-house treatment missed out on a stage win last week he received in the CBA, told his seven million followers in a when he lost a two-man sprint against video on the Twitter-like Weibo. Colombian Dani Martinez in Puy “Every morning I would wake up at 4:00 am or 5:00 am, Mary, went solo just when Carapaz thinking, thinking and thinking all the time. was recovering from his effort at the “In the end, although Shougang (the Ducks) has treated top. me incredibly well... giving me everything I wanted, in the Thursday’s 17th stage is a brutal end, I feel that I still have NBA dreams. mountain trek in the Alps, over 170km BORA-Hansgrohe rider Lennard Kaemna of Germany “I still have time to play (there) and I have to chase this.” and ending in Meribel at the top of winning the 16th stage of the Tour de France in Lin began his NBA career with Golden State Warriors in 2010 the Col de la Loze, 2,304 metres above Villard-de-Lans, yesterday. before his heroics with the New York Knicks in 2012 sparked sea level. a frenzy that was dubbed “Linsanity”. He went on to play for several other NBA teams but has STAGE WINNERS (TOP 10) TOUR DE FRANCE - STAGE 16 2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) UAE Team Emirates +40 struggled with injury in recent seasons. 1. Lennard Kämna (GER) BORA - hansgrohe 4:12:52 Stage 16 La Tour-du-Pin to Côte 2000, 164 km. Average speed: 3. Rigoberto Urán (COL) EF Pro cycling +1:34 Despite that he enjoyed a successful stay in China, where 2. Richard Carapaz (ECU) INEOS Grenadiers +1:27 38.914 km/h. Route profile: mountain. Finish profile: semi-mountain. 4. Miguel Ángel López (COL) Astana Pro the CBA was suspended for almost five months because of 3. Sébastien Reichenbach (SUI) Groupama Team +1:45 the coronavirus. - FDJ +1:56 9. Quentin Pacher (FRA) B&B Hotels - Vital Concept +2:51 5. Adam Yates (GBR) Mitchelton - Scott +2:03 Lin averaged 22.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists 4. Pavel Sivakov (RUS) INEOS Grenadiers +2:34 10. Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) Deceuninck - Quick- 6. Richie Porte (AUS) Trek - Segafredo +2:13 per game during the regular season. 5. Simon Geschke (GER) CCC Team +2:35 Step +2:54 7. Mikel Landa (ESP) Bahrain - McLaren +2:16 “I know that many of my fans have stood by me no matter 6. Warren Barguil (FRA) Team Arkéa - Samsic +2:37 8. Enric Mas (ESP) Movistar Team +3:15 if I was injured,” he said in the video. OVERALL LEADERS 7. Tiesj Benoot (BEL) Team Sunweb +2:41 (TOP 10) 9. Tom Dumoulin (NED) Jumbo - Visma +5:19 “Why was this decision so difficult? Yesterday, when I 8. Nicolas Roche (IRL) Team Sunweb +2:47 1. Primož Roglic (SLO) Jumbo - Visma 70:06:47 10. Nairo Quintana (COL) Team Arkéa - Samsic +5:43 shared this with my family and friends, when I told them I would have to leave China, I cried.” Billionaire Lamet pitches Padres over Kershaw, Dodgers 7-2 Cohen agrees AP – SAN DIEGO batters. He was helped by two St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Tyler to buy Mets over-the-shoulder basket O’Neill (bottom) stealing second Dinelson Lamet outpitched catches on the warning track by base as Milwaukee Brewers third AP – NEW YORK Clayton Kershaw, and rookie a retreating Joyce, who robbed Jorge Oña hit a go-ahead double baseman Jace Peterson reaches Scott Kingery and Jean Segura. Billionaire hedge fund manager in a five-run seventh inning to for the ball in the fourth inning at Kingery and Andrew Steve Cohen has agreed to buy lead the San Diego Padres to Miller Park during their MLB game McCutchen homered for Phila- the New York Mets from the their eighth straight win, 7-2 on Monday. delphia. Vince Velasquez (0-1) Wilpon and Katz families. against the Los Angeles Dodgers allowed four runs in 3 2/3 The team announced the on Monday night in the opener innings. agreement on Monday. The of a series between the NL’s top deal is subject to the approval teams. WHITE SOX 3, TWINS 1 of Major League Baseball The Padres cut the Dodgers’ Elsewhere, in Chicago, Adam owners. lead in the NL West to 1½ games. Engel delivered a tiebreaking A Cohen entity would Trent Grisham added some spice pinch-hit single in the eighth control 95% of the team, with to the rivalry when he hit a tying inning, and the White Sox the Wilpon and Katz families home run off Kershaw in the increased their lead in the AL retaining the rest. The deal sixth and said something to the Central. values the franchise at $2.4bn Dodgers’ dugout as he headed Chicago opened its pivotal to $2.5bn. for home. The Padres have won four-game set against Minnesota Former major league star 12 of 14. with its ninth win in 10 games. Alex Rodriguez and fiancee Lamet (3-1) got the victory The White Sox (31-16) moved Jennifer Lopez also attempted thanks to a seventh-inning out- two games ahead of the second- to buy the team, but they burst that chased Kershaw (5-2). place Twins (30-19). dropped out of the bidding last Lamet matched his season high Twins reliever Taylor Rogers month. with 11 strikeouts while holding (1-3) walked Yoán Moncada and “I am excited to have the Dodgers to one run and three eighth when Tommy Edman’s string of 21 consecutive scoreless Philadelphia. The series, the Luis Robert with no outs in the reached an agreement with hits.