UNIVERSIADE
Taiwan’s archers win gold
Taiwan’s team of athletes at the Gwangju World Universiade in South Korea won their first gold medal of the Games in the women’s team recurve bow archery event, defeating home favorites South Korea 5-3. Taiwan’s archers were Tan Ya-ting, Hsiung Mei-chien and Lin Shih-chia. Taiwan’s men won silver for the recurve bow to earn the nation a medal on Tuesday, while 18-year-old Liao Wen-hsuan took bronze in the Poomsae taekwondo women’s event earlier on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Player collapses, dies
A 24-year-old collapsed and later died in hospital during a pre-season friendly in England on Tuesday. Seventh-tier side Tonbridge Angels triallist Junior Dian collapsed 20 minutes into the second half of a friendly against Whyteleafe. Both physios rushed onto the pitch and gave CPR before paramedics arrived. The match was abandoned. Dian was taken to hospital, accompanied by Tonbridge players Jerrome Sobers and James Folkes. His family joined them at the hospital, but doctors could not save Dian’s life.”I told Jerrome to keep me informed and just after 1am I got a text to say Junior had passed away,” Tonbridge manager Steve McKimm said. “I was like a baby. I couldn’t stop crying. Something like that, for a 24-year-old doing something he loves, it affects the family first and foremost, but it affects other people as well. Nothing can prepare you for this and no words can describe it.”
SWIMMING
Crocodiles stop swim event
An 8km open-water swimming event between a popular north Queensland island and the city of Townsville has been canceled due to crocodile sightings. Organizers said yesterday it was the first time the Magnetic Island to Townsville swim has had to be called off in its 61-year history. Nearly 100 swimmers had planned to compete in the July 26 event.
GOLF
Scott Stallings suspended
Three-time PGA Tour winner Scott Stallings has been suspended for three months for breaching the PGA Tour’s anti-doping policy, the Tour said on Tuesday. The 30-year-old American, whose most recent victory on the Tour was at last year’s Farmers Insurance Open, turned himself in as soon as he learned of the violation. “I discovered in February 2015 that I had inadvertently taken a supplement for the prior two months that was not permitted by the PGA Tour,” Stallings said in a statement released through the Tour.
GOLF
Spieth hooks two on one
Everything is coming up in pairs for Jordan Spieth, even when he is fishing. And these were big fish, too. The Masters and US Open champion was in the Bahamas with his best friends to celebrate his second straight major title when they threw a line in the water on the way back from snorkeling. Spieth got a tuna and was fighting with it for nearly an hour, as small sharks kept approaching to try to get the fish. “All of a sudden, it just rips back down again. And I almost got pulled in,” Spieth said on Tuesday at the John Deere Classic. There was a reason for that, as Spieth soon found out. The battle continued until Spieth could not move his arm any longer. Finally, it surfaced. Only it was not the tuna. “What surfaced was like a 12-foot-long [3.7m], 300-pound [297.8kg] black tip shark that had eaten this tuna and then had hooked itself,” Spieth said.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
MLB on Friday announced a formal investigation into the scandal swirling around Shohei Ohtani and his former interpreter amid charges that the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive theft.” The Dodgers on Wednesday fired Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s long-time interpreter and close friend, after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that the Japanese two-way star had been the victim of theft, which was reported to involve millions of dollars and link Mizuhara to a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. “Major League Baseball has been gathering information since we learned about the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhara from the news media,” MLB