BOXING | Page 9 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 10 Pacquiao Pogba deal is confi rms watershed To Advertise here Vargas fi ght moment for Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 in November Man United Thursday, August 11, 2016 Dhul-Qa’da 8, 1437 AH CYCLING USA’s Armstrong TIMES bags third straight time trial gold Page 2 FOCUS Kuwait’s al-Deehani wins men’s double trap AFP Rio de Janeiro Medals tally Country G S B T Country G S B T uwait’s Fehaid al-Deehani, 1. United States 10 9 9 28 15. Vietnam 1 1 0 2 competing at the Rio Games 2. China 9 3 7 19 19. Chinese Taipei 1 0 2 3 as an independent athlete, 3. South Korea 4 2 2 8 20. Belgium 1 0 1 2 won men’s double trap gold 4. Japan 4 1 10 15 20. Greece 1 0 1 2 Kyesterday. 5. Hungary 4 1 1 6 20. Switzerland 1 0 1 2 Marco Innocenti of Italy took sil- 6. Australia 4 0 5 9 23. Argentina 1 0 0 1 ver with British shooter Steven Scott 6. Russia 3 7 3 13 23. Croatia 1 0 0 1 claiming the bronze. 8. Italy 3 5 2 10 23. Independent Al-Deehani, bronze medallist in 9. Great Britain 3 3 5 11 Olympic Athletes 1 0 0 1 Sydney and London, was forced to take 10. France 2 3 1 6 23. Kosovo 1 0 0 1 part in Brazil as a neutral as Kuwait is 11. Thailand 2 1 1 4 27. Kazakhstan 0 2 3 5 suspended by the International Olym- 12. Germany 1 2 1 4 28. North Korea 0 2 1 3 pic Committee (IOC) and other lead- 13. Sweden 1 2 0 3 29. Indonesia 0 2 0 2 ing federations such as FIFA, football’s 14. Netherlands 1 1 2 4 29. New Zealand 0 2 0 2 world body, over government interfer- 15. Brazil 1 1 0 2 29. South Africa 0 2 0 2 ence in sport. 15. Colombia 1 1 0 2 32. Canada 0 1 4 5 The army offi cer is one of nine com- 15. Slovenia 1 1 0 2 33. Ukraine 0 1 1 2 peting as an Independent Olympic Athlete (IOA). CLARKE WINS CANOE SLALOM FOR in Rio. On a gloomy Whitewater Sta- Al-Deehani turned down an off er Fehaid al-Deehani, competing as an independent athlete, celebrates after winning the double trap gold yesterday. (Reuters) BRITAIN’S SECOND GOLD dium course, Clarke set a winning time from the IOC to carry the neutral’s fl ag Joe Clarke tackled the Olympic K1 canoe of 88.53 seconds to beat Peter Kauzer at last Friday’s opening ceremony. military man and I will only carry the Al-Deehani, who has won Kuwait’s independent to win gold at an Olym- slalom course in quickfi re time yester- of Slovenia into second. Jiri Prskavec of He told the Kuwaiti media: “I am a Kuwait fl ag. I cannot carry the IOC fl ag.” only two Olympic medals, is the fi rst pics. day to claim Britain’s second gold medal Czech Republic was third. SWIMMING STAR OF THE DAY Katinka Hosszu of Hungary 21st gold for The Star of the Day is Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu, who snared her third gold medal at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday with a gut-busting win in the women’s 200m individual medley final. The 27-year-old led from start to finish to win the gruelling multi-stroke event in a time of two minutes 06.58 seconds, just Phelps, treble 0.46 outside the world record she set at last year’s world championships in Russia. Britain’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor took the silver in 2:06.88while the bronze medal went to American Maya DiRado in 2:08.79. Known as the “Iron Lady” of swimming, Hosszu is vying with Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky as one of the stars in swim- for Hosszu ming at Rio. She also broke the world record in the 400 medley in Rio and was a For Phelps, the butterfly victory was especially sweet after surprise winner of the 100m backstroke. the sting of the London defeat, where he misjudged his final lunge for the wall to let Le Clos steal the gold medal Reuters Rio de Janeiro ichael Phelps won two gold medals on Tuesday, avenging his 200 metres butterfl y defeat from the MLondon Olympics and then anchoring the US 4x200 freestyle team to victory on a night of high drama and emotion in the pool. Katie Ledecky of the United States won her second gold medal of the meeting and Hungary’s Katinka Hoss- zu her third, extending their domi- nance of women’s swimming in feats that on any other day would have grabbed top billing. Instead it was Phelps, the most successful Olympian of all time, who stole the limelight, extending his ca- USA’s Michael Phelps celebrates after winning the Men’s 200m butterfly final at reer medal tally to 25 by adding golds the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Tuesday. See page 2 for more. number 20 and 21. In the 200 butterfl y, he touched with Britain second in 7:03.13 and ico City in 1968. the wall in one minute, 53.36 seconds Japan in third after James Guy over- Hungary’s Hosszu, who despite fi ve to beat Japan’s Masato Sakai by 0.04 hauled Takeshi Matsuda on the fi nal world titles had come away empty- seconds, with Hungary’s Tamas Ken- leg.For Phelps, the butterfl y victory handed from three previous Olympics, deresi taking the bronze. Chad Le Clos was especially sweet after the sting won her third gold medal with victory of South Africa, Phelps’ conqueror of the London defeat, where he mis- in the women’s 200 individual medley. four years ago, fi nished fourth. judged his fi nal lunge for the wall to let The 27-year-old, who set an Olym- Phelps, who had announced his re- Le Clos steal the gold medal. pic record of 2:06.58, had already won tirement after London but launched a In the women’s races, Ledecky, 19, the 400 individual medley on Satur- comeback in 2014, then celebrated by pipped Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom and day and 100 backstroke on Monday. climbing into the stands to embrace Australia’s Emma McKeon to win the Britain’s Siobhan-Marie O’Connor his fi ancee Nicole and kiss his baby 200 freestyle, on top of her victory in took silver, with Maya DiRado of the son Boomer. the 400 on Sunday. US winning a bronze to add to her sil- Seventy-fi ve minutes after racing, She is overwhelming favourite to ver in the longer distance. he was back in the water to swim the add the 800 title later this week, an Hosszu, the ‘Iron Lady’ who with- fi nal leg of the 4x200 freestyle after event in which she is totally dominant, drew from the 200 butterfl y earlier on Conor Dwyer, Townley Haas and Ryan and achieve a treble at those three dis- Tuesday to prepare for the individual Lochte had built a lead of 1.76 seconds. tances that no woman has managed medley fi nal, is entered in one more The Americans touched in 7:00.66, since American Debbie Meyer in Mex- individual event, the 200 backstroke. Gulf Times 2 Thursday, August 11, 2016 SWIMMING Scrutiny intense as hat-trick heroine Hosszu homes in on history AFP she succumbed to confi dence-sapping nerves. it comes to criticism of Tusup’s motivational Rio de Janeiro “Going into London I was so nervous about methods in training, with some swimming insid- what would happen if I lost and didn’t get a med- ers suggesting to the New York Times that they al,” said Hosszu, whose fortunes have changed constituted abuse. hile Michael Phelps and Katie since her husband Shane Tusup also became her Hosszu was having none of it — snubbing the Ledecky hog the headlines in the coach in 2013. reporter who wrote the story in a post-200 med- Rio Olympics competition pool, She set the 200m medley world record in win- ley press conference as she aimed a steely look at Katinka Hosszu is working her way ning world championships gold in Russia last her husband in the back of the room. towardW a slice of Olympic swimming history year, one of fi ve long course world titles she’s Her response has been equally defi ant in the herself. Hungary’s “Iron Lady” of swimming earned since 2009. face of some not-so-veiled suggestions that her is three-quarters of the way toward a record- Hosszu and Tusup met when both were swim- improvement since London — and her ability to equalling fourth individual swimming gold, ming at the University of Southern California, maintain gruelling individual meet schedules — snaring number three on Tuesday night in the and Tusup’s intense, emotional reactions to are not due solely to hard work. 200m individual medley. Hosszu’s races have become an internet sensa- Hosszu sued “Swimming World” in an Arizona She opened her campaign with a world record- tion, with NBC’s offi cial Olympics Twitter ac- court last year after the magazine published an shattering triumph in the 400m IM — grabbing Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu poses with her gold medal on the podium after she won the 200m count urging women to ‘fi nd someone who loves opinion piece in which former Canadian swim- her fi rst Olympic medal and expunging the mem- Individual Medley in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.