Hirano ends without Tokyo medal Ayumu Hirano is no stranger to the Olympics: “I have no regrets.” The multi-talented athlete from Japan has two The 22-year-old Hirano said he now plans silver medals from snowboarding at the 2014 to go back to the cold stuff. The 2022 Winter Ayumu Hirano of and 2018 Winter Games. Olympics in Beijing are only a few months away. Japan competes So competing on four polyurethane wheels “I’m going to switch to snowboarding soon,” in the men’s park under blazing sun in the skateboarding park at he said. “This is a beginning, too.” skateboarding prelims the Tokyo Games was a whole new thing for Hirano was Shaun White’s prime rival in at the 2020 Summer him. There was no medal this time, though. the past two Winter Olympics, in Sochi in Olympics, on Aug. 5, Hirano placed 14th in qualifying on Thursday, 2014 and in Pyeongchang in 2018. in Tokyo, Japan. (AP) missing out on the eight-man fi nal won by He fi rst expressed interest in making a run Keegan Palmer of Australia. at the Olympic debut of skateboarding in 2018 But Hirano said the experience was positive. after winning his second straight silver medal in “Skateboarding made me stronger,” he said. snowboarding. (AP) ARAB TIMES, FRIDAY-SATURDAY, AUGUST 6-7, 2021 15 South Korea face Dominican Republic for bronze Alvarez a summer-winter medalist, US reach baseball fi nal YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug 5, (AP): Eddy baseball gold medal and fi rst since 2000, im- season when the Marlins’ roster was deci- taking notice of his minor league righty/lefty Alvarez became only the third American to proved to 4-1 and will play Japan (5-0) on mated by the coronavirus, hitting .189 with splits. Olympic Medalists earn medals at both the Summer and Winter Saturday night. no RBIs in 12 games. López, a 28-year-old infi elder promoted to Olympics when the United States beat de- Japan, which stopped its major league Eagen earned a gold in light heavyweight Triple-A Worcester by the Red Sox in May, fending-champion South Korea 7-2 Thurs- season to make top players available for the boxing in 1920 and a gold in the four-man lined a two-out RBI single in the second for day night to gain a berth into this weekend’s Olympics, defeated the U.S. 7-6 in 10 in- bobsled in 1932. Williams won silver in his fi rst hit in eight Olympic at-bats. López ATHLETICS gold medal game against host Japan. nings on Monday in the double-elimination the 100-meter sprint in is a nephew of former big league shortstop Men’s 110m Hurdles The former U.S. speedskater-turned-in- second round. 2004, gold in the 400 Onix Concepción. GOLD: Hansle Parchment, Jamaica fi elder wept in the dugout after the fi nal out South Korea (3-3) faces the Dominican relay in 2012 despite Westbrook homered about 20 rows into SILVER: Grant Holloway, United States as teammates patted him on the back and of- not running in the fi - the left-fi eld seats for a 2-0 lead in the fourth. BRONZE: Ronald Levy, Jamaica fered handshakes and hugs. nal and a silver in the The 26-year-old was demoted to Double-A Men’s 20km Race Walk After earning a silver in 2014 at Sochi as BASEBALL two-woman bobsled in Biloxi by Milwaukee in mid-May, then pro- GOLD: Massimo Stano, Italy part of the U.S. four-man short track team, 2014. moted back to Triple-A Nashville in early SILVER: Koki Ikeda, Japan he’ll get at least a silver in baseball. The Ryder Ryan (1-0), a June. BRONZE: Toshikazu Yamanishi, Japan other Americans with summer and winter Republic (2-3) for the bronze. 26-year-old right-hand- Park Hae-Min chased Ryan with an RBI Men’s 400m medals are Eddie Eagen (boxing in 1920, At the fi nal out, a line drive caught by er at Texas’ Triple-A single in the fi fth, and Ryan needed just two GOLD: Steven Gardiner, Bahamas SILVER: Anthony Jose Zambrano, Colombia bobsled in 1932) and Lauryn Williams (track reliever Anthony Carter, Alvarez raised his Round Rock, pitched 1 pitches to escape two-on trouble, getting BRONZE: Kirani James, Grenada and fi eld in 2004 and 2012, bobsled in 2014). right arm in triumph, then raised both arms 2/3 hitless innings for Kang Baek-Ho to ground into an inning- Men’s Shot Put Jack López drove in his fi rst two runs of and hugged shortstop Nick Allen. Alvarez the Americans’ second ending double play. GOLD: Ryan Crouser, United States the Olympics with RBI singles for his fi rst A 31-year-old infi elder with the Mi- win over South Korea American hitters batted around against SILVER: Joe Kovacs, United States two hits, Jamie Westbrook hit a solo homer, ami Marlins’ Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo following a 4-2 victory in the fi rst round. four relievers in the sixth. Kolozsvary and BRONZE: Tomas Walsh, New Zealand and Tyler Austin hit a two-run single as the Shrimp, Alvarez and his team came up U.S. starter Joe Ryan, a 25-year-old right- López had RBI singles, Alvarez’s RBI Men’s Triple Jump U.S. built a 7-1 lead with a fi ve-run sixth. 0.271 seconds short of the Russians in the hander obtained by the Twins in last month’s grounder made it 5-1 and Austin, in his home GOLD: Pedro Pichardo, Portugal Alvarez and Mark Kolozsvary also drove in 5,000-meter relay in 2014. He’s hoping this trade that sent Nelson Cruz to Tampa Bay, ballpark of the Central League’s Yokohama SILVER: Yaming Zhu, China BRONZE: Hugues Fabrice Zango, Burkina Faso runs. time to fi nish the job against another host na- allowed four hits in 4 1/3 innings and left DeNA BayStars, followed with a two-run The U.S. team of prospects and released tion. with a 2-1 lead. South Korea stacked its bat- single that gave him seven RBIs in the tour- Women’s Pole Vault GOLD: Katie Nageotte, United States veterans, seeking the Americans’ second Alvarez made his major league debut last ting order with six left-handed hitters, likely nament. SILVER: Anzhelika Sidorova, ROC BRONZE: Holly Bradshaw, Britain French top Argentina BOXING Men’s Feather (52-57kg) ROC men’s volleyball GOLD: Albert Batyrgaziev, ROC US men’s ‘hoops’ breeze past SILVER: Duke Ragan, United States BRONZE: Lazaro Alvarez, Cuba ‘stun’ Brazil in semis BRONZE: Samuel Takyi, Ghana TOKYO, Aug. 5, (AP): The focus for CANOE SPRINT the Russian men’s volleyball team had started to shift to the fourth set Men’s Kayak Single 200m GOLD: Sandor Totka, Hungary Aussies to play for more gold of the semifi nals when it fell behind SILVER: Manfredi Rizza, Italy by a big defi cit to powerhouse Brazil BRONZE: Liam Heath, Britain in set three. Men’s Kayak Double 1000m That ended up relaxing the players GOLD: Australia (Jean van der Westhuyzen, Thomas Green) and led to an epic third-set comeback SILVER: Germany (Max Hoff, Jacob Schopf) that sent them into the gold medal BRONZE: Czech Republic (Josef Dostal, Radek Slouf) match. Women’s Canoe Single 200m The Russians rallied from eight GOLD: Nevin Harrison, United States points down to win the third set and SILVER: Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canada BRONZE: Liudmyla Luzan, Ukraine went on to deny Brazil its fi fth con- secutive trip to the gold medal game Women’s Kayak Single 500m GOLD: Lisa Carrington, New Zealand with an 18-25, 25-21, 26-24, 25-23 SILVER: Tamara Csipes, Hungary victory on Thursday. BRONZE: Emma Aastrand Jorgensen, Denmark The Russians will play France for the gold medal on Saturday. The CLIMBING French swept Argentina 25-22, 25- Men’s Combined 19, 25-22 in its fi rst Olympic semifi - GOLD: Alberto Gines Lopez, Spain SILVER: Nathaniel Coleman, United States nal appearance ever. BRONZE: Jakob Schubert, Austria Brazil will play Argentina for the bronze after failing to make it to the CYCLING TRACK gold medal game for the fi rst time Men’s Omnium since 2000. GOLD: Matthew Walls, Britain This marked the third straight SILVER: Campbell Stewart, New Zealand Olympics that Brazil faced a team BRONZE: Elia Viviani, Italy from Russia in the medal round, with Women’s Keirin the Russians winning the gold medal GOLD: Shanne Braspennincx, Netherlands SILVER: Ellesse Andrews, New Zealand match in fi ve sets at the 2012 London BRONZE: Lauriane Genest, Canada Games and the Brazilians sweeping the semifi nal on the way to gold at DIVING home in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Women’s 10m Platform These countries have dominated GOLD: Hongchan Quan, China the Olympics in recent years, with SILVER: Yuxi Chen, China BRONZE: Melissa Wu, Australia the Russians making the semifi nals in seven straight Olympics and the HOCKEY Brazilians making the previous four Men fi nals. GOLD: Belgium (Arthur van Doren, John-John Dominique M Dohmen, Florent van Aubel, Sebastien Dockier, Cedric Daniel An- dre Charlier, Gauthier Boccard, Nicolas de Kerpel, Augustin Jean J Meurmans, Alexander Robby P Hendrickx, Thomas Briels, Felix VOLLEYBALL Veronique B. Denayer, Vincent Vanasch, Simon Pierre F Gougnard, France’s Rudy Gobert, (right), reaches over Slovenia’s Luka Doncic (77) for a rebound during a men’s basketball semifi nal round game Arthur Anne-Marie Thierry de Sloover, Antoine Sylvain T Kina, Loick at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on Aug.