Sports ❘ 07 CONTACT US AT: 8351-9190, [email protected] Tuesday August 21, 2018 GARETH BALE is doing his part to help Real Madrid get over Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure. Bale scored in Madrid’s Spanish league opener and set up the other goal in a 2-0 win over Getafe on Sunday. Dani Carvajal also scored for Madrid, which for the first time in nearly a decade started its league campaign without Ronaldo, the club’s greatest goal-scorer. Bale scored in the 51st minute with a shot from inside the area after a well- placed cross by Marco Asensio. Bale had already struck the crossbar with a 16th-minute header, and a few minutes later he provided the cross that led to Carvajal’s goal after Getafe goalkeeper David Soria failed to fully clear the ball. Bale didn’t have many chances as a starter under coach Zinedine Zidane, but is likely to gain a bigger role as new man- ager Julen Lopetegui deals with Ronaldo’s absence and the lack of major signings by the club. (SD-Agencies) MANCHESTER United con- ceded three goals in a 20-minute span in the first half of a 3-2 loss to Brighton in the Premier League on Sunday. A few hours after Manchester City strolled to a 6-1 win over Huddersfield, United showed the gulf that currently exists to its fierce rival by succumbing meekly to its first loss of the season. Glenn Murray marked his 200th Brighton appearance with the opening goal in the 25th minute, before further goals from Shane Duffy and Pascal Gross — from the penalty spot — left United reeling. Romelu Lukaku scored for United to make it 2-1 and cap- tain Paul Pogba converted a stop- page-time penalty with virtually the last kick of the game. By then, a battling Brighton side had done enough to earn a second straight home victory over Jose Mourinho’s side. A surly Jose Mourinho spent the buildup to this clash choos- ing to criticize rival Manchester City’s fly-on-the-wall documen- tary released this week, saying “you can’t buy class” in reaction to the behind-the-scenes account of last season at the Etihad Sta- dium. When Brighton’s fans sang “Your city is blue” in the final moments of the game, humili- ation for United and Mourinho was complete. This was just the 10th time in Premier League history that FOUR Japanese basketball play- ers have been sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex, the Japanese Olympic Com- mittee (JOC) said yesterday. The players were spotted in a notorious red light district of Jakarta in their national jerseys last week, JOC officials told a press conference, saying the quartet had been ordered to leave immediately. News that Yuya Nagayoshi, Takuya Hashimoto, Takuma Sato, Keita Imamura had been booted will come as a major embarrassment for Japan, which was forced to send a swimmer home from the last Asian Games in 2014 for stealing a journalist’s camera. “I just feel a sense of shame,” Japan’s chef de mission Yasuhiro Yamashita told reporters. The basketball players had dinner after leaving the Games village and are believed to have been solicited by touts on the street to go to a hotel with women, Yamashita added. “I would like to humbly apolo- gize to the Japanese public, the JOC and everyone who supports basketball for this deplorable incident,” Japan basketball chief Yuko Mitsuya said in a statement. (SD-Agencies) NOVAK DJOKOVIC gave his racket to a fan and tossed his sweatbands into the stands. No need for mementos from this victory. The long-awaited Rook- wood pottery trophy would be plenty. Djokovic finally mastered the one tournament that’s eluded him, beating nemesis Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 Sunday for his first Western & Southern Open championship. He got the better of a nos- talgic rematch — they hadn’t played in two years because of injuries — and broke through in a tournament that Federer has won seven times, never losing a title match. “Thank you for letting me win once in Cincinnati,” he told Federer as they stood on court for the trophy presentation. After reaching the final five times and losing every time — three to Federer — Djokovic jumped and punched the air in celebration of his breakthrough. He’s the first to claim all nine ATP Masters 1000 events since the series started in 1990, some- thing that had become his quest after so many close calls. “That’s what the headline should be about — this is such an amazing accomplishment,” Federer said. “He’s the first to do it. I think it’s very difficult to win Masters 1000s. These per- formances don’t come easy.” Djokovic leads their all-time series 24-22, doing better in the biggest matches. (SD-Agencies) TRIPLE Olympic champion Sun Yang enjoyed a comfortable vic- tory in the men’s 800 meters freestyle in a record time and scored his second title at the Jakarta Asian Games yesterday. Men’s 800m free and women’s 1500m freestyle are being intro- duced to the Asian Games for the first time since both events were added to the official swimming competitions in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Sun, who just completed a Golden Grand Slam of Olympic, world and Asian titles in the 200, 400 and 1500m freestyle Sunday, stayed second after the first 300 meters and took the lead after that. Sun touched the wall in a time of seven minutes 48.36 seconds. Takeda Shogo of Japan and Nguyen Huy Hoang of Vietnam came in second and third. “I saved energy for the 4X200m freestyle relay later tonight. My plan was to swim faster in the second half and to test my endurance in the race,” Sun said. Sun, who won 400m and 1500m in 2012 London Olympic Games and 200m in Rio Olympic Games 2016, revealed his focus has moved to mid-long distance since the beginning of this year. On Sunday, Sun led China to a clutch of gold medals. The triple Olympic champion was left fuming by a flag mal- Sun adds 800m title in record time function in his victory ceremony, but not before he cruised to 200 meters freestyle victory over Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto. In chaotic scenes Sun, 26, demanded a re-run of the cer- emony when the pole carrying the national flags fell down as he was proudly singing the Chinese anthem. His victory capped a strong first-day performance by China, who dominated with 151 golds in 2014 and will aim to top the Olympic medals table in Tokyo in 2020. China swept four of the seven swimming titles and also won in shooting, fencing and wushu, a Chinese martial art, as the 18th Asian Games opened in Jakarta and Palembang. China ended the first day with seven gold medals, ahead of Japan with three and South Korea on two. South Korea, who hosted the 2014 Games in Incheon, picked up two taekwondo gold medals in the men’s individual and team poomsae. In Palembang, the Games’ co-hosting city in Sumatra, India’s teen shooting star Manu Bhaker missed out on the final as China’s world-record holders Ji Xiaojing and Wu Jiayu won the 10m mixed air pistol. (SD-Xinhua) Bale powers Madrid in fi rst win of post-Ronaldo era With sloppy defending, Man U loses to Brighton United conceded three first-half goals, and the first time since their 3-0 defeat at Arsenal in October 2015. (SD-Agencies) 4 Japan athletes booted in prostitute scandal Djokovic beats Federer for Cincinnati title Sun Yang of China reacts after Men’s 800m Freestyle Final in the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Xinhua Manchester United’s Fred (R) in action with Brighton’s Glenn Murray during their match in Brighton, Britain, on Sunday. SD-Agencies Novak Djokovic poses for photos while holding the Rookwood Cup after defeat- ing Roger Federer at Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, the United States, on Sunday. SD-Agencies Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (L) in action with Getafe’s Leandro Cabrera during their match in Madrid on Sunday. SD-Agencies
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Sports x 07CONTACT US AT: 8351-9190, [email protected]
Tuesday August 21, 2018
GARETH BALE is doing his part to help Real Madrid get over Cristiano Ronaldo’s departure.
Bale scored in Madrid’s Spanish league opener and set up the other goal in a 2-0 win over Getafe on Sunday.
Dani Carvajal also scored for Madrid, which for the fi rst time in nearly a decade started its league campaign without Ronaldo, the club’s greatest goal-scorer. Bale scored in the 51st minute with a shot from inside the area after a well-
placed cross by Marco Asensio.Bale had already struck the
crossbar with a 16th-minute header, and a few minutes later he provided the cross that led to Carvajal’s goal after Getafe goalkeeper David Soria failed to fully clear the ball.
Bale didn’t have many chances as a starter under coach Zinedine Zidane, but is likely to gain a bigger role as new man-ager Julen Lopetegui deals with Ronaldo’s absence and the lack of major signings by the club. (SD-Agencies)
MANCHESTER United con-ceded three goals in a 20-minute span in the fi rst half of a 3-2 loss to Brighton in the Premier League on Sunday.
A few hours after Manchester City strolled to a 6-1 win over Huddersfi eld, United showed the gulf that currently exists to its fi erce rival by succumbing meekly to its fi rst loss of the season.
Glenn Murray marked his 200th Brighton appearance with the opening goal in the 25th minute, before further goals from Shane Duffy and Pascal Gross — from the penalty spot — left United reeling.
Romelu Lukaku scored for United to make it 2-1 and cap-tain Paul Pogba converted a stop-
page-time penalty with virtually the last kick of the game. By then, a battling Brighton side had done enough to earn a second straight home victory over Jose Mourinho’s side.
A surly Jose Mourinho spent the buildup to this clash choos-ing to criticize rival Manchester City’s fl y-on-the-wall documen-tary released this week, saying “you can’t buy class” in reaction to the behind-the-scenes account of last season at the Etihad Sta-dium.
When Brighton’s fans sang “Your city is blue” in the fi nal moments of the game, humili-ation for United and Mourinho was complete.
This was just the 10th time in Premier League history that
FOUR Japanese basketball play-ers have been sent home from the Asian Games in disgrace for allegedly paying prostitutes for sex, the Japanese Olympic Com-mittee (JOC) said yesterday.
The players were spotted in a notorious red light district of Jakarta in their national jerseys last week, JOC offi cials told a press conference, saying the quartet had been ordered to leave immediately.
News that Yuya Nagayoshi, Takuya Hashimoto, Takuma Sato, Keita Imamura had been booted will come as a major embarrassment for Japan, which was forced to send a swimmer home from the last Asian Games in 2014 for stealing a journalist’s camera.
“I just feel a sense of shame,” Japan’s chef de mission Yasuhiro Yamashita told reporters.
The basketball players had dinner after leaving the Games village and are believed to have been solicited by touts on the street to go to a hotel with women, Yamashita added.
“I would like to humbly apolo-gize to the Japanese public, the JOC and everyone who supports basketball for this deplorable incident,” Japan basketball chief Yuko Mitsuya said in a statement.
(SD-Agencies)
NOVAK DJOKOVIC gave his racket to a fan and tossed his sweatbands into the stands. No need for mementos from this victory. The long-awaited Rook-wood pottery trophy would be plenty.
Djokovic fi nally mastered the one tournament that’s eluded him, beating nemesis Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 Sunday for his fi rst Western & Southern Open championship.
He got the better of a nos-talgic rematch — they hadn’t played in two years because of injuries — and broke through in a tournament that Federer has won seven times, never losing a title match.
“Thank you for letting me win once in Cincinnati,” he told Federer as they stood on court for the trophy presentation.
After reaching the fi nal fi ve times and losing every time — three to Federer — Djokovic jumped and punched the air in celebration of his breakthrough. He’s the fi rst to claim all nine ATP Masters 1000 events since the series started in 1990, some-thing that had become his quest after so many close calls.
“That’s what the headline should be about — this is such an amazing accomplishment,” Federer said. “He’s the fi rst to do it. I think it’s very diffi cult to win Masters 1000s. These per-formances don’t come easy.”
Djokovic leads their all-time series 24-22, doing better in the biggest matches. (SD-Agencies)
TRIPLE Olympic champion Sun Yang enjoyed a comfortable vic-tory in the men’s 800 meters freestyle in a record time and scored his second title at the Jakarta Asian Games yesterday.
Men’s 800m free and women’s 1500m freestyle are being intro-duced to the Asian Games for the fi rst time since both events were added to the offi cial swimming competitions in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Sun, who just completed a Golden Grand Slam of Olympic, world and Asian titles in the 200, 400 and 1500m freestyle Sunday, stayed second after the fi rst 300 meters and took the lead after that. Sun touched the wall in a time of seven minutes 48.36 seconds. Takeda Shogo of Japan and Nguyen Huy Hoang of Vietnam came in second and third.
“I saved energy for the 4X200m freestyle relay later tonight. My plan was to swim faster in the second half and to test my endurance in the race,” Sun said.
Sun, who won 400m and 1500m in 2012 London Olympic Games and 200m in Rio Olympic Games 2016, revealed his focus has moved to mid-long distance since the beginning of this year.
On Sunday, Sun led China to a clutch of gold medals.
The triple Olympic champion was left fuming by a fl ag mal-
Sun adds 800m title in record time
function in his victory ceremony, but not before he cruised to 200 meters freestyle victory over Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto.
In chaotic scenes Sun, 26, demanded a re-run of the cer-emony when the pole carrying the national fl ags fell down as he was proudly singing the Chinese anthem.
His victory capped a strong fi rst-day performance by China, who dominated with 151 golds
in 2014 and will aim to top the Olympic medals table in Tokyo in 2020.
China swept four of the seven swimming titles and also won in shooting, fencing and wushu, a Chinese martial art, as the 18th Asian Games opened in Jakarta and Palembang.
China ended the fi rst day with seven gold medals, ahead of Japan with three and South Korea on two.
South Korea, who hosted the 2014 Games in Incheon, picked up two taekwondo gold medals in the men’s individual and team poomsae.
In Palembang, the Games’ co-hosting city in Sumatra, India’s teen shooting star Manu Bhaker missed out on the fi nal as China’s world-record holders Ji Xiaojing and Wu Jiayu won the 10m mixed air pistol.
(SD-Xinhua)
Bale powers Madrid in fi rst win of post-Ronaldo era
With sloppy defending, Man U loses to Brighton
United conceded three fi rst-half goals, and the fi rst time since their 3-0 defeat at Arsenal in October 2015.
(SD-Agencies)
4 Japan athletes booted in prostitute scandal
Djokovic beats Federer for Cincinnati title
Sun Yang of China reacts after Men’s 800m Freestyle Final in the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. Xinhua
Manchester United’s Fred (R) in action with Brighton’s Glenn Murray during their match in Brighton, Britain, on Sunday. SD-Agencies
Novak Djokovic poses for photos while holding the Rookwood Cup after defeat-ing Roger Federer at Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, the United States, on Sunday. SD-Agencies
Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (L) in action with Getafe’s Leandro Cabrera during their match in Madrid on Sunday. SD-Agencies
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