CYCLING
Bauhaus sprints to stage win
Phil Bauhaus on Thursday sprinted to victory in the fifth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine. The 22-year-old German edged four French riders at the finish line to claim his biggest career win. “Today I felt I had good legs from the beginning of the stage, so I was confident for the sprint. My legs were good enough to take them on,” Bauhaus said. Bauhaus beat Arnaud Demare, Bryan Coquard, Adrien Petit and Nacer Bouhanni. Thomas De Gendt retained the race leader’s jersey ahead of three Alpine stages. De Gendt has a 27-second lead over Richie Porte, with Alejandro Valverde in third place, 51 seconds behind. The race, a warm-up for the Tour de France, ends tomorrow.
GOLF
Pettersen, Lee share lead
Suzann Pettersen and Lee Mi-hyang on Thursday each shot an eight-under 64 to share the first-round lead at the Manulife LPGA Classic. Kim Hyo-joo, Gonzalez Escall and Feng Shanshan were one shot back at 65, followed another shot back by Alena Sharp, Emily Pedersen and Jodi Ewart Shadoff. Pettersen, who recently lost her yardage book for the course and had to write notes from scratch this week, said she trusted her eye and it paid off with six birdies over one eight-hole stretch. Sharp started on the back nine and bogeyed her opening hole before recovering on the 12th with a 6-iron to leave herself a 15-footer for eagle. Sharp connected and followed it up with three birdies over her next four holes. Kaohsiung-born Candie Kung of the US carded a two-under 70 for a share of 39th, while Taiwan’s Cheng Ssu-chia was tied for 130th on five-over 77. The 6,613-yard track is still recovering from an unusually wet and cool spring in the area. Players were allowed to lift, clean and replace balls on closely mowed fairway areas.
GOLF
Four share lead at St Jude
Matt Every, Scott Brown, Stuart Cink and Sebastian Munoz on Thursday each shot six-under 64 to share the lead after one round at the FedEx St Jude Classic. Charl Schwartzel and Matt Jones were each one stroke back at the final tuneup before the US Open. Two-time US Open champion Retief Goosen and Chez Reavie each shot a 66 on the par-70 TPC Southwind course. Every, 33, has two wins on the PGA Tour, but none since 2014. He has only made two cuts this year and has not finished better than a tie for 62nd at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March.
GOLF
No. 399 takes two-shot lead
Felipe Aguilar on Thursday hit top form at the Lyoness Open with a seven-under-par 65, giving the Chilean a two-shot lead after day one. The world No. 399’s best effort since the Joburg Open in January last year took him clear of the chasing pack at the Diamond Country Club in Atzenbrugg outside Vienna. South Africa’s Jaco van Zyl, Sweden’s Johan Carlsson and England’s Ashley Chesters were in joint second with two other Englishmen, Graeme Storm and Oliver Wilson, a further shot behind in a tie for fifth with France’s Joel Stalter. Aguilar, 42, has not won a tournament since 2014, but laid the groundwork for his early lead by racing to five under on the front nine.
Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev was the only athlete to “beat” a world record on Sunday at the Enhanced Games, winning the men’s 50m freestyle at the divisive competition where athletes were free to take performance-enhancing substances. His time of 20.81 seconds — which is not considered official — came in the final event of the night in Las Vegas, sparing the blushes of organizers who made claims that multiple world records would be surpassed due to a sophisticated doping regime. Gkolomeev, who was wearing a synthetic “supersuit” long banned at events such as the Olympics, outpaced Australia’s Cameron McEvoy’s 20.88 set in
Fred Kerley is competing unaugmented against drug-fuelled athletes at this weekend’s Enhanced Games and still hopes to race in the 2028 Olympics, the suspended former 100m world champion said on Friday. Arguably the biggest name at the divisive event in Las Vegas, where doping is permitted, the US sprinter said he had chosen not to take any of the banned substances including testosterone and steroids that his competitors have been using. “I don’t need it. God gave me fast feet for a reason. And I’m here to showcase my talent,” Kerley said. Kerley last September became the first US competitor and first track
VICTORY ABROAD: The team took home a fistful of medals and secured spots for the autumn’s Asian Games, scheduled for September in Nagoya Taiwan’s women’s team captured the overall title at the Asian Taekwondo Championships in Mongolia on Sunday, finishing with two golds, one silver and one bronze medal. The strong showing, led by gold medalists Wang Chieh-ling and Chang Jui-en secured the full quota of available spots for Taiwan at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, in September. Wang opened Taiwan’s medal run by winning gold in the women’s under-46kg class on Thursday, the first day of competition. Liu Yu-yun later earned a silver in the under-49kg class. On the final day on Sunday, Chang won Taiwan’s second gold medal in the under-62kg event, and
The manager of the Yomiuri Giants, one of Japan’s most popular baseball teams, resigned yesterday after he was arrested for allegedly physically attacking his teenage daughter. Shinnosuke Abe allegedly grabbed the 18-year-old and forced her to the floor at their home in central Tokyo on Monday evening, reported national broadcaster NHK and Kyodo News, citing unnamed police sources. “Leaving like this really means I’m causing you a lot of trouble, and I feel truly sorry about that,” Abe told a hastily arranged news conference, his eyes red with tears. The former star catcher, who is among baseball-obsessed Japan’s most recognized sports figures,
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