■ Field Hockey
Dutch land second title
The Netherlands romped to its second straight Champions Trophy win by defeating Australia 5-3 and Pakistan edged Argentina 6-5 in thrilling matches at Amsterdam's Wagenar Stadium on Sunday. Eight-time Olympic champion India, without a major title triumph in two decades, staged a late rally to prevail 3-2 over World Cup holder Germany, which has fielded a second-string team in the tournament. Netherlands leads the six-team event's league standings with six points from two games, followed by Pakistan with four from two matches. India has three points from two outings, while the Aussies have picked just one point from two games.
■ Horse racing
Jockey on the mend
Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens remained hospitalized on Sunday, a day after he was thrown to the turf and nearly trampled in the Arlington Million. Stevens, whose left shoulder was stepped on, was in fair condition, a spokesman at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights said on Sunday. He declined to release the results of X-rays. Stevens, who has a starring role in the movie Seabiscuit, fell off Storming Home a few strides past the finish line in Saturday's race. After he remained motionless for five minutes, Stevens sat up and moved his legs before he was carried off the track on a stretcher and taken to the hospital.
■ Cricket
Test reaches climax
Confidence was high in both the England and South Africa camps after another engrossing day at the third test on Sunday. South Africa, chasing 202 for a victory that would put them 2-0 up in the series, had reached 63 for five when bad light ended the fourth day's play prematurely, setting up an exciting climax. "It is a vital stage in the series and a really important day for us tomorrow," said South African fast bowler Shaun Pollock, who completed figures of six for 39 to help bowl out England for just 118 and give his side a scent of victory. "England will be really happy to have taken five wickets," added Pollock. "But when things get down the final straight it's all about pressure and who deals with it."
■ Baseball
Russia bag first LLWS win
First, Anton Chekalin ruined Peter Perez's perfect game. Then, he helped make history. Chekalin scored the go-ahead run in Russia's first-ever Little League World Series win as Khovrino Little League of Moscow beat Central Little League of Agana, Guam, 2-0 in pool play Sunday night. With two out in the sixth, Chekalin hit a single to left, ruining what would have been the first perfect game in the Little League World Series since 1976. After advancing on Alexey Kozin's single, Chekalin scored the game's first run on Kirill Starodubov's RBI single to center. Kozin later scored on an error. Khovrino Little League (1-1) is in its third consecutive Little League World Series, but had yet to win a game.
■ Olympics
Loose slab injures spectator
A spectator at a pre-Olympic archery competition was seriously injured by a marble slab that came loose at the stadium that hosted the first modern Olympiad, police said yesterday. Olympic organizers claim Chrisanthos Marinos, 24, wandered Thursday into an area where workers are refurbishing the stadium used for the 1896 Olympics. The marble slab apparently fell and hit Marinos' leg after he leaned on it to take a photograph, police said. "There was a sign and bar prohibiting entry to the area," Athens organizers said in a statement.
SS Lazio on Monday fired the far-right sympathizer who handles their eagle mascot after he posted online a series of videos and pictures of his erect penis. Falconer Juan Bernabe, who has been present at Lazio home matches with Olimpia the eagle since the 2010-2011 season, posted the footage on social media after having surgery on Saturday to implant a penile prosthesis to improve his sexual performance. Lazio said that they had “terminated, with immediate effect” their relationship with Bernabe “due to the seriousness of his conduct,” adding that they were “shocked” by the images. The Serie A club added that Bernabe’s dismissal
Hong Kong-based cricket team Hung See this weekend found success in their matches in Taiwan, even if none of the results went their way. Hung See played the Chairman’s XI on Saturday morning, the Daredevils that afternoon and PCCT yesterday, with all three home teams winning. The team for Chinese players at the Happy Valley-based Craigengower Cricket Club sends teams on tour to “spread the game of cricket.” This weekend was Hung See’s second trip to Taiwan after visiting Tainan in 2016. “The club has been traveling to all parts of the world since 1982 and the annual tradition continues [with the Taiwan
‘TOUGH TO BREATHE’: Tunisian three-time Grand Slam finalist Ons Jabeur suffered an asthma attack in her 7-5, 6-3 victory over Colombia’s Camila Osorio Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei yesterday cruised into the second round of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while Iga Swiatek romped into a third-round women’s singles showdown with Emma Raducanu and Taylor Fritz was just as emphatic in his pursuit of a maiden Grand Slam title. Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, the third seeds, defeated Slovakia’s Tereza Mihalikova and Olivia Nicholls of Britain 7-5, 6-2 in 90 minutes in Melbourne. Ostapenko and Hsieh — who won the women’s doubles and mixed doubles at the Australian Open last year — hit 25 winners and converted five of nine break points to set
HARD TO SAY GOODBYE: After Coco Gauff dispatched Belinda Bencic in the fourth round, she wrote ‘RIP TikTok USA’ and drew a broken heart on a television camera lens Defending champion Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan yesterday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at the Australian Open, while compatriot Chan Hao-ching on Saturday dominated her opponents in the second round, as world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka swept into the quarter-finals. Third seeds Hsieh and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia toppled Hungary’s Timea Babos and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the US 6-4, 6-3, hitting 24 winners and converting three of seven break points in 1 hour, 18 minutes at 1573 Arena. Although rivals at last year’s Australian Open — where Hsieh and Belgium’s Elise Mertens beat Ostapenko and Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-1, 7-5
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