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.
Robinson Cano spent 17 seasons playing in the MLB in front of all kinds of baseball fans, but he said there is something special about his stint with the Mexican Baseball League’s Diablos Rojos. He is not alone. The league last week opened its 100th season, aiming to keep an impressive growth in attendance that began after the national team’s surprise run at the 2023 World Baseball Classic, and is already surpassing some first-division soccer clubs. After finishing third in the 2023 tournament, many casual fans, some of them soccer enthusiasts disappointed after Mexico were eliminated in the first round in the 2022
If the Wild finally break through and win their first playoff series in a decade, Minnesota’s top line likely will be the reason. They were all over the Golden Knights through the first two games of their NHL Western Conference quarter-finals series, which was 1-1 going back to Minnesota for Game 3 today. The Wild tied the series with a 5-2 win on Tuesday. Matt Boldy had three goals and an assist in the first two games, while Kirill Kaprizov produced two goals and three assists. Joel Eriksson Ek, who centers the line, has yet to get on the scoresheet. “I think the biggest
Noelvi Marte on Sunday had seven RBIs and hit his first career grand slam with a drive off infielder Jorge Mateo, while Austin Wynn had a career-high six RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds scored their most runs in 26 years in a 24-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles. Marte finished with five hits, including his eighth-inning homer off Mateo. Wynn hit a three-run homer in the ninth off catcher Gary Sanchez. Cincinnati scored its most runs since a 24-12 win against the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999, and finished with 25 hits. Baltimore allowed its most runs since a 30-3 loss to
Arne Slot has denied that Darwin Nunez was dropped from Liverpool’s win against West Ham because of a training-ground row with a member of his coaching staff. The Liverpool head coach on Sunday last week said that Nunez was absent from the 2-1 victory at Anfield, having felt unwell during training the day before, although the striker sat behind the substitutes throughout the game. Speculation has been rife that the Uruguay international, whom Slot criticized for his work rate against Wolves and Aston Villa in February, was left out for disciplinary reasons. Asked on Friday to clarify the situation, Slot said: “He
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