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Bahamas could bring home at least 4 medals from Rio By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net HEAD coach George Cleare said he’s anticipating some outstanding performances from the 26 athletes selected to represent the BTC Bahamas Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If they perform up to his expectations, Cleare said the Bahamas could come back with at least four medals. A total of 30 athletes from three disciplines, rowing and swimming included, are either already in Rio or are en route to the games, according to Bahamas team manager Ralf McKinney.

The majority of the track team left either New Providence or the United States on Monday and should arrive in Rio today. There are other track athletes who will be coming in before the games get started on Friday with the official opening ceremonies. However, he said the last two competitors, Jeffery Gibson and Trevor Barry, would be heading to Rio around August 10-11, just in time for the start of the athletic competition. “We sent our final arrival itinerary into the International Olympic Committee and our chef de mission Roy Colebrooke and the president Wellington Miller are already there, so they are just

waiting on us to get there,” McKinney said. Barry, one of three high jumpers competing, came into town from North Dakota to go through some final training sessions with his personal coach Keith Parker, while hurdler Gibson will be spending the extra time to train with his personal coach in the United States. Looking at the team selected, Cleare said there is a good group of individuals on their way to Rio and he’s looking forward to everyone turning in their personal best performances. “If we can do that, I could see us easily being in contention for at least four medals,” he said.

“But it’s a tough road and our job as a coaching staff is to get our athletes as comfortable as possible and physically and mentally prepared to get them to perform at their best at the games.” As for the medals, Cleare pointed out that he’s looking at the possibility of the men and women getting on the podium in the 400 metres; the men’s 4 x 400m relay and the men’s high jump. “But strength across the board, this is the Olympic Games and I don’t like to count medals because you don’t want to count out athletes,” he said. “When you have athletes like Bob Beamon, who did something crazy and was able to hold onto his long jump re-

cord for years. “So at the Olympic Games anything is possible and I’m looking for our athletes to do their personal best performances and rise to the occasion. We have some quarter-milers like Chris Brown and Steven Gardiner and we have Shaunae Miller, so we have some good prospects for medals.” The athletic team, which will be minus two women’s hurdlers Devynne Charlton and Adanaca Brown, will comprise of the following athletes: MEN – Trevor Barry (high jump); Shavez Hart (100/200m); Demetrius Pinder (200m/4x400m

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LUCIUS FOX TRADED TO TAMPA IN GIANTS’ MOORE DEAL BAHAMIAN Lucius Fox has been traded to the Tampa Bay Rays as part of a deal which takes lefthanded pitcher Matt Moore to the National League West leaders, San Francisco Giants. The Giants ramped up their pitching rotation yesterday by acquiring Moore from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for third baseman Matt Duffy and minor leaguers Fox, a short stop, and right-hander Michael Santos. Soon after acquiring Will Smith from Milwaukee to bolster their bullpen, the Giants struck again. With Moore, they now have a reliable addition to join Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto and Jeff Samardzija, given the struggles of Matt Cain and Jake Peavy. The 27-year-old Moore is 7-7 with a 4.08 ERA in 21 starts and 130 innings. Duffy had a standout rookie season a year ago but has been hampered by an Achilles strain suffered against his new Rays team on June 19.

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the first goal,” said Georges’ as he spoke through interpreter Lubi Georges. “We worked so hard to win this game, so it was important for me to score so that we could win.” Georges said it was even more exciting to be in the Bahamas playing the game because the Bahamas Football Association and the Na-

NATIONAL coordinator Mel Ferguson said he’s confident that the men’s team selected will represent the Bahamas very well in September at the World Flag Football Tournament in Grand Bahama. Over the weekend, Ferguson released the team that will carry the Bahamas flag against 27 teams from 17 countries already confirmed to participate. The team was selected from trials held May to June in Exuma, Abaco, Freeport and Nassau, all islands that play organised flag football. “Players were invited back based on their performance along with some other variables, example, would they be committed to making all practices and can they be available for the entire week of the tournament,” Ferguson said. “Once on the team the coaches then take control of the workouts, training and overall preparation of the team.” Ferguson said the coaches have the responsibility of getting the team ready to play in the Bahamas tournament on September 8. “Because we wanted to give consideration to the local leagues playing in their championship we started practice later than I had anticipated, but we have great athletes and some of the best coaches in the country and I have no doubt that we will be at our best for tournament play,” he said. Team Bahamas (men and women teams) will open up against the Austrian national team. Among the list

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ON THE BALL: Haiti’s Don Bosco Football Club blanked Jamaica’s Montego Bay United 2-0 at the new Thomas A Robinson National Stadium on Friday. By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THEY didn’t draw the huge crowd that they anticipated, but the hundreds who showed up on Friday night got their money’s worth as Haiti’s Don Bosco Football Club, behind Kerlins Georges’ goal and another from their opponents, blanked Jamaica’s Montego Bay

United 2-0 at the new Thomas A Robinson National Stadium. Georges’ goal came in the 66th minute in the second half to break a scoreless first half and just before stoppage time, Cory Zico booted in the other in their own Jamaican goalpost to seal the deal and set up a possible showdown between Haiti and Trinidad & Tobago before year’s end. “I feel so good because I scored

Bahamas junior boys national teams clash on the pitch By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemdia.net ISIAH Collie, a junior defender at the University of Charleston, led by example as he booted in the lone goal as the Bahamas 2012 junior boys national team prevailed 1-0 over the 2014 junior national team in a prelude match before the showdown between Haiti and Jamaica at the new Thomas A Robinson National Stadium on Friday night. Collie, who also serves as the captain of the team that featured a number of players returning home from colleges and universities for the summer, said it was good to pull off the win over the younger team that

also had players who are off to high school and colleges as well. The Bahamas Football Association utilised the younger players as the majority of the top senior players are off to Switzerland participating in a training camp in preparation for the World Beach Soccer Tournament that will be held here next year. Collie, who got the assist on the corner shot, said he knew that once he got the ball, it was going in. “I just waited patiently for it and I noticed that I had an opening, so I just took advantage of it,” he said. “We knew we were the more experienced team, so we didn’t want to allow the younger players to beat us. I think we played well. It was

TEAM Bahamas junior national soccer team that recently played in Suriname. good to come out here and pull off this win. It speaks well for the experience that we possess on this team. I

think if we stick together, we can do a lot of things in the future.” Joining Collie on the

2012 team were Michael Evans, a University of Charleston junior midfielder/striker; Amos Woodside

of Cloud County Community College, a freshman defender; Amar Pearson of Dodge City Community College, another freshmen defender/midfielder; Elltin Hart, a Eastern Oklahoma State College sophomore defender/midfielder; Cameron Kemp of the College of The Bahamas, a freshman midfielder; Dhurai Ferguson, a University of Charleston junior striker; Davaughn Williamson of Oral Roberts University, a sophomore defender/ midfielder; Cyran Carey of Valencia College, a sophomore striker/midfielder; Donovan Wlliamson of the University of the West Indies, a junior midfielder; Kerby Duprenar of Murray

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Haiti earns 2-0 victory over Jamaica in friendly FROM PAGE 1 tional Sports Authority did a fantastic job in hosting them for the first time and he’s hoping that they can return and do the same whenever the next match is played. Martin Junior, the head coach for Don Bosco, said his team played very well. “We know that the Jamaican team is a very hot team. They have some very good players, but we showed today what we can do,” he said. “We played some good positions and we did what we had to do to win. Thanks to the goal from Kerlins. We went ahead and we stayed ahead.” Junior said the team is just a tune

up for his squad when they return to Haiti to play another international game on Wednesday. Dillan Theleel, the assistant coach for Jamaica, said their aim was to win but they wanted to use the game more to put their team together for the upcoming season. “Our team just started pre-season and only about five of our regular players are here. The rest of the players are here to showcase themselves to see how they can assist our group,” he said. “I think the team gave a good account of themselves, but this was a learning experience for us as coaches to see who we will continue with and who we will cut from the team.” Theleel, however, said it was good to come to the Bahamas and put on the show for the crowd. He

said they enjoyed the trip and are looking forward to coming back in the future. BFA president Anton Sealey admitted that despite their late start in the promotion of the event, they were pleased with the crowd who came out to witness a high level of soccer competition. “These are two entertaining sides and I think the fans who came out enjoyed it, got their money’s worth and are wetting their appetite for what is to come,” he said. What’s next? “We will bring up the champions from Trinidad to play Don Bosco as the winners of this match,” he said. “They also had the lion’s share of the crowd and we are expecting an even larger crowd out when they play. We know that Don Bosco will

be looking to put on another show, but Trinidad & Tobago is also a formidable foe, so it should be another entertaining match.” Look for that match sometime in October-November just before the Bahama Bowl returns in December. And next year, Sealey said the BFA intends to display its men’s league champions against the winners of the Haiti-Trinidad & Tobago match. With some of the top men’s players in Switzerland in a training camp in preparation for the World Beach Soccer Tournament next year, the BFA featured some of their future stars as the 2012 junior boys national team prevailed 1-0, thanks to a goal from team captain Isiah Collie, over the 2014 junior national team.

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of the other teams confirmed to participate in the tournament are the United States of America, Canada, Japan, Austria, Brazil, Israel, Mexico, France, Japan, Panama, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, Korea and New Zealand. The men’s national team will be coached by Thomas Lunn from New Providence and Patrick Bain from Grand Bahama. The team is made up of players from New Providence, Grand Bahama and Exuma. • Named to the team are the following players: Philip Rahming (New Providence); Charles Johnson (New Providence); Dwight Marshall (New Providence); Ricardo Nixon (New Providence); Kenroy Wolrey (Exuma); Stafford Albury (Grand Bahama); Dan Albury (Grand Bahama); Carlton Butler (Grand Bahama) and Ken Clarke (Grand Bahama). In announcing the team, Ferguson congratulated the players and the coaches for the commitment they have made so far in getting Team Bahamas ready for the competition. He anticipates that the team will perform very well.

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BALL IN PLAY: Haiti’s Don Bosco Football Club (above right) blanked Jamaica’s Montego Bay United (above left) 2-0 at Thomas A Robinson National Stadium.

relay); Chris Brown (400m/4x400m relay); Michael Mathieu (4x400m relay); Jamal Wilson (high jump); Donald Thomas (high jump); Leevan Sands (triple jump); Stephen Newbold (4x 400m relay); Jeffery Gibson (400m hurdles); Adrian Griffith (100m); Jamial Rolle (100m); Latario Collie (triple jump); Alonzo Russell (400m/4x400m relay); Steven Gardiner (400m/4x400m relay) and Teray Smith (200m). WOMEN – Tynia Gaither (100/200m); Anthonique Strachan (200m/4x400m relay); Sheniqua Ferguson (200m); Shaunae Miller (400m/4x400m relay); Bianca Stuart long jump); Pedrya Seymour (100m hurdles) and Lanece Clarke, Christine Amertil, Carmiesha Cox and Shaquania Dorsett (all in the 4x400m relay). They will join the onewoman rowing team of Emily Morley and the three-member swim team of Arianna VanderpolWallace, Joanna Evans and Dustin Tynes, who should already be in Rio. Morley will be entered in the women’s single sculls; Vanderpool-Wallace in the women’s 100m butterfly, 100m freestyle and 50m freestyle; Evans in the women’s 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle and 800m freestyle and Tynes in the men’s 100m breaststroke. The games will get started 7pm Friday. The swimming and rowing competition will start on Saturday, while the track and field competition commences on Friday, August 12. The games close on Sunday, August 21.

Bahamas junior boys national teams clash on the pitch FROM PAGE 1 State College, a freshman striker/goalkeeper; Dwayne Taylor of the College of the Bahamas, a sophomore midfielder; Tre Barry of the Work Force, a defender; Quovine Canel of Anatol Rodgers Secondary High, a goalkeeper; Edson Elysee of the Western Warriors, a defender/attacker/ mid-fielder and Kevin John, also of the Western Warriors, a winger/striker. Despite the loss, Christopher Godet, captain of the 2014 team, said they gave it a gallant effort. “We knew that they were practicing for the last few weeks since they came home, so they were a little more prepared for the game than we were,” Godet said. “But I think we put up a good fight. I just wished that we would have played a full game. I think if we did, we

would have come back and at least tied the score or even won the game because we started to play a lot better down the stretch.” Godet, a sophomore at Mt Aloysius College where he plays defence, was joined by Ari Brathwaite of Howard University, a freshman striker/goalie; Avery Kemp of the College of The Bahamas, a sophomore defender; V. Antonio Hanna II of the University of Sussex, a freshman winger/ striker; Jonathan Miller of Coker College, a freshman midfielder; Re’John Ene of St. Andrews High School, a striker, midfielder and defender; Logan Russell of The McCallie School, a defender; Keegan Bischof of Mercyhurst University, a sophomore midfielder/striker; Justin Blake of St. John’s University, a sophomore midfielder/striker; Tré Rolle of Jacksonville University, a fresh-

man striker/midfielder; Chad Russell of Schulz Academy/University of Florida, a freshman winger/ midfielder; Holland Clarke of The Ohio University; Jivan James of the University of South Florida, a freshman defender; Phieron Wilson of Acadia University, a freshman defender/attacking midfielder; Ethan Willie of Darlington Academy, a striker/winger and James Milan Jaime Thompson of the University of Charleston, a freshman midfielder. Dion Godet, who coached the 2014 team, said both he and Carlton Adderley, who coached the 2012 team, said they allowed the players to virtually run the show on the field as it was only an exhibition. He noted that based on what he saw, he was impressed with the level of maturity displayed by the players on both teams. He said the players didn’t

really allow the coaches to go to the chalkboard to run any systematic plays. “From what we’ve seen, the future looks bright for the sport,” Godet said. “I am very pleased to see how well these players conducted themselves on the field. Those persons who were in the stands watching the game, got a good glimpse of what our future looks like and I have to admit that it looks very good.” Also on hand to watch the two matches were the BFA’s junior boys soccer team that recently returned home from the Caribbean Football Union’s Under-17 World Cup Qualifier in Suriname where they finished third in Group Six, losing its final game 2-1 to Suriname. Jordan Farquharson, the team captain who booted in the lone goal for the Bahamas against Suriname, said it was an experi-

ence that they will cherish for a long time. “I think we went over there and we did the best that we could,” he said. “We went over there prepared to play our best and I think we did that. We had a very good team and I’m proud of the way the team performed, even though we didn’t qualify.” On their return home, Farquharson said they are delighted to be able to witness the two games. “This men’s game (between Haiti and Jamaica) is a very fast paced one and it’s given us a better appreciation of how well we have to use our footwork,” he said. “The game earlier between the two junior teams from the Bahamas was also good because we got an opportunity to see where we could be in a couple of years. We feel like we have the capability of playing at this level in the future.”

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‘Let there be American football’ LAST Sunday was the last Sunday without football for the rest of the year. Yes, the best time of year is five short weeks away. The start of the NFL season!!! No more sporting dull drums to fight through. Finally, training camps have opened all over the NFL landscape. • Important reminders for the NFL Preseason: 1. Preseason starts this Sunday (August 7) with the Packers and the Colts clashing, and the rest of the league to follow. 2. Remember week three of the NFL preseason is the one that matters, the rest of the preseason is for players to get in shape and coaches to evaluate all the talent on the roster, eventually having to make some tough decisions and cuts to trim down to the 53-man roster. (Use this time as a fan to practice dip and wing eating techniques as well as beer consumption.) 3. An outstanding pre season doesn’t guarantee a

At the end of the first three quarters and at halftime are ideal times. Never, I repeat never, in the last two minutes of a game, especially a close one!!

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4. Ladies get used to the aroma of pizza, wings, burps and farts, it’s all part of the territory.

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winning regular season or Super Bowl run. ATTENTION DOLPHINS FANS 4. Use this time to evaluate all the talent on rosters you can, if you are a Fantasy Football GM, these preseason games help you find a few hidden gems to stash on your roster. 5. Clean the grill and cooler, ensure both are properly cleaned, and have no reminders from seasons past. NFL Widows Disclaimer : Please ladies, whether you are wife, girlfriend, baby mama, sweetheart or all of the above, now is your

5. Super Bowl Sunday is not the time to ‘want to learn the game’ cuddled up next to your man.

opportunity to make your list of all you want done, built or repaired around the homestead. You ladies have five weeks to have all of your whims, wishes and idiosyncrasies catered. Simply make your list, the man in your life is expecting it, waiting eagerly to get it and complete it. It’s not that hard of a task ladies, so get to emailing, texting, what’s apping or tweeting, whatever your favourite form of expression is and let us men know what it is you want, and it will be done.

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MIAMI Dolphins defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh signs autographs after practice at NFL football training camp yesterday. Finally, training camps have opened all over the NFL landscape. (AP) 2. Also don’t expect any meaningful conversation or undivided attention for the next 16 weeks, there’s far to much ‘football’ related distractions for us to deal with as well as helping you choose the colour of the drapes, okay ladies!

Rules of Engagement: 1. Ladies you are allowed to submit only one list, no additions or resubmissions.

Monday,

Thursday

and Sunday carry the same weight as public holidays. Early consumption is permitted and not to be challenged. Feel free to have a ‘cold one’ with us at any time though, see the love remains through it all, you just have to find your moments.

On Super Bowl Sunday, you ladies should remain quiet, sit next to him and smile, enjoy your favourite libations and at halftime throw on a Victoria’s Secrets ensemble and give your man a proper halftime show. Once halftime is complete return to being silent and smiling, it will do wonders for your relationship!!! Until next week, always remember, in the end we will only regret the chances we didn’t take. Now get out there and take a chance.

Juniors take centre court in CARIBBEAN AMATEUR GOLF Under-14 JITIC in El Salvador CHAMPIONSHIPS WRAP UP OUR very own junior tennis players are competing in the 14 and under Junior International Championships (JITIC) in El Salvador. The JITIC competition has the top juniors in the Caribbean and Latin America competing for the title of the ‘best of the best’ in junior tennis in the region. The team consists of Emma Weech and Donesha Gibson for the girls and Kofi Bowe, Anthony Burrows Jr and Ryan Fox for the boys. In qualifying rounds there is a round robin format to move on to the main draw. In the first day of qualifying rounds Kofi Bowe won in three sets over Benjamin Jones of Bermuda 6-2, 2-6 and 10-4 in the tiebreak. This win already qualifies Kofi to move on to the main draw play. Kofi Bowe will play No.2 seed Aiden Carter today as round robin draws to a close today. Ryan Fox and Anthony Burrows, who are both debuting in this competition, both lost their two matches. Ryan Fox played well but lost against 5th seeded Jonathan Hernandez of Guatemala 6-0, 6-3 and Samuel Dickinson of the Domini-

TEAM BAHAMAS UNDER-14 (l-r)- Donesha Gibson, Kofi Bowe, Ryan Fox, Anthony Burrows Jr and Emma Weech. can Republic 6-0, 6-3. Anthony Burrows Jr, the youngest team member, also played well but lost 6-3, 6-4 to Federico Balanos of El Salvador and 6-0, 6-1 to Carlos Solares of Guatemala. Anthony plays one more round of round robin play against John Luis of Puerto Rico. Ryan and Anthony will have an opportunity to display their talent in consolation matchplay. Kofi Bowe, who recently debuted for the Under-16, will now advance to main draw matchplay for Under-14. Round robin play continued yesterday and main draw and consolation

begins today. On the girls’ side Emma Weech lost her first match 6-1, 6-0 against 5th seeded Emilia Rios of Guatemala. She also played well against Adrianna Hiraldo of Puerto Rico but lost 6-3, 6-4. Emma will continue on in consolation matchplay. Donesha Gibson also lost in a very competitive match against Lee Assang of Trinidad and Tobago 6-2, 3-6 and 7-10 in the tie break. Donesha will play 11th seed Sarinah Maduro from Curacao for the opportunity to advance to main draw. “The Bahamas Lawn

Tennis Association recognises the developing talent of our Under-14 team of Emma, Donesha, Kofi, Ryan and Anthony. We have some new faces to the international arena in Ryan Fox and Anthony Burrows Jr, which shows that the future is bright for our tennis players. Emma and Donesha continue to play at a high level and we expect them to do well in consolation play. Kofi Bowe advances to main draw and he is a very focused and talented tennis player. We wish all of them well as they continue on in main draw and consolation matchplay,” said a release.

THE 2016 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships closed out at the Ocean Club resort, Paradise Island, on Friday with the Bahamas remaining in the same position they occupied all week in both the men’s Hoerman Cup and the ladies’ George Teale Memorial Cup. But the men’s showdown for the top spot turned out to be a keenly contested one as the Dominican Republic came back on the final day to nip Puerto Rico, denying them in their bid to carry home both titles. Puerto Rico, however, held onto the ladies’ crown and emerged as the winner of the Arthur Zadie Trophy, which is presented to the overall champions of the two divisions combined. Out of a field of eight teams in the men’s division, the Bahamas Hoerman Cup team finished seventh with a total of 1,222. The only team that the Bahamas beat was the US Virgin Islands, who did 1,259 for the final place. DeVaughn Robinson had the best performance by a Bahamian, shooting 281 with rounds of 73-70-70-68. Steven Kemp did 80-78-7174 for 303; Peter McIntosh 80-82-83-84 for 329; Richard Gibson 79-78-80-75 for 312; Horace Miller 81-7679-81 for 317 and George Swann 89-86-86-81 for 342.

Meet our Olympians Name: TREVOR BARRY Nickname: Sleepy Age: 33 High School: Aquinas College College: Dickinson State University Favourite Subject: Bio Event: High jump/ Long jump Personal Best: 2.32,/7.82m National Teams: Carifta, CAC, NACAC, World Indoors, World Outdoors, Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, Olympics, CAC Games, CAC Championships, NACAC Medals Won: World Championships 2011 bronze, CAC Games 2006 silver, 2010 silver, Commonwealth Games 2010 silver, CAC Championships 2011 gold, 2008 silver Idols: Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, Marcus Garvey Coached : Keith Parker Favourite Color: Blue Favourite food: Stew fish Favourite movie: Roots Parents: Queenie and

Charles Barry Siblings: Paul Butler, Latario Butler, Utha Butler, Charlene Barry, Cleo Barry, Crystal Barry Oneal Barry, Status: Married Expectations: to repre-

sent myself and my family to the best of my ability. • The Tribune is featuring profiles of the Bahamian Olympians daily in the buildup to the 2016 Games in Brazil next month

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The Dominican Republic, behind the top performance from Juan Jose Guerra with 69-69-71-69 for 278, bounced back on the final day of the four-day competition to edge out Puerto Rico 1132-1133 for the top spot. Erick Morales led Puerto Rico with 279 (7573-66-65). Trinidad & Tobago came in third with 1162. Sachin Kumar was the leading scorer for Trinidad & Tobago with 69-69-69-78 for 285. Only seven teams participated in the ladies’ division with the Bahamas finishing sixth with 655. Barbados, with only two players entered, eventually was disqualified. Taneka Sandiford led the Bahamas with rounds of 88-82-84-76 for her total of 330. Inecia Rolle followed with 80-82-84-86 for 332; Sheridan Robinson did 8680-81-92 for 339 and Marlique Hield did 87-82-82-86 for 347. Puerto Rico picked up the title after they shot a total of 573. Valeria Pacheco (74-69-72-74) and Maria F. Torres (71-72-78-68) both ended up tied with 289. The USVI came in 2nd with 328 as Amira Alexander topped their list with 70-76-70-72 for 288. The Dominican Republic, with only three players in the team, got third with 614.

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Golden rule: For US relays, holding onto baton is job No. 1 By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) — The smartest minds in American sprinting have spent years trying to solve the riddle of why, as often as not, US relay teams have struggled so mightily to get the baton around the track when the stakes are highest. Leave it to the Jamaican, Usain Bolt, to come up with what might be the most plausible answer: “They tend to panic.” The American sprinters are gathered this week at an Olympic training camp outside of Houston, once again trying to create chemistry and find answers to a problem that never really goes away. Eight times since 1995, the American men have either been disqualified or failed to get the baton around the track at the Olympics or world championships. The women, who set the world record in the 4x100 at the London Games, aren’t immune to the butterfingers, either. They’ve mishandled the exchange in two of the last three Olympics. And at last year’s world championships, in the 4x400, where the pass shouldn’t be a big deal, a bobble cost them the gold. The key to changing that dynamic: “I think just being relaxed,” said Tyson Gay, who helped the Americans

get the baton around four years ago, only to cost them the silver medal because of a doping violation. “No pressure, just relax. That’s all I think.” If only it were that simple. In a sport built on individual accomplishments, the relay is that singular opportunity for the country that routinely wins the most medals in track to show that it can, in fact, function like a team. Since 2008, that pressure has been coupled with the fact that Jamaica — while not as deep across the entire scope of track and field — has the fastest man on Earth. “When you’ve got Michael Rodgers standing in the third relay zone and Jamaica and us are shoulder to shoulder and he’s looking at Usain Bolt on the anchor leg, that’s going to impact your athletic performance,” said Duffy Mahoney, chief of sport performance for USA Track and Field. Last year at world championships, Gay and Rodgers mishandled the final handoff and the exchange came outside the legal passing zone. It disqualified the Americans and sent Bolt on what could’ve been a jog to the finish line for the gold. Asked to explain Jamaica’s baton strategy, Bolt said there was no magic to it. “We know the key thing is just to get the baton

TORRI EDWARDS, left, and Lauryn Williams, from the United States, drop the baton in a women’s 4x100-metre relay heat during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing on August 21, 2008. The smartest minds in American sprinting have spent years trying to solve the riddle of why, often as not, US relay teams have struggled so mightily to get the baton around the track when the stakes are highest. (AP) around,” he said. “Because with the US, we know we

always have the best team, and they tend to panic.

Pressure gets to them sometimes.” Bolt doesn’t have to be on the track for things to go bad. In 2004, then again in 2008, the US women mishandled the baton in the 4x100. The 2008 miss, combined with a botched exchange between Gay and Darvis Patton in the men’s race, contributed to the United States being shut out of gold medals in all six sprint races for the first time in Olympic history. That led to a top-to-bottom overhaul of the way the US handles relay training, which now requires sprinters to attend training camps and participate in a number of relays before the Olympics. Carl Lewis, who won relay gold in 1984 and 1992 (he wasn’t on the team that got DQ’d for passing outside the zone in the 1988 qualifying heats), has been one of the most outspoken critics of the US team. He says there’s too much politics involved in who gets coaching assignments and who gets to run in the relays, and not enough time devoted to perfecting the art of the baton pass. “I’ve been to (junior) nationals, I’ve been to (junior) Hershey’s meets, I’ve never seen a baton hit the ground,” Lewis said in March. “What they need to do is get a retired college coach

who’s going to tell the agents to kiss off, and tell the athletes to get in line and know how to put together a relay.” In charge of the relay operation this year is Dennis Mitchell, who has relay gold and silver from 1992 and 1996, but whose appointment to that role was controversial. Mitchell served a two-year doping ban and was caught up with Trevor Graham, Marion Jones and the BALCO doping scandal. What, in Mitchell’s mind, does it take for a perfect relay exchange? “What doesn’t it take?” he said. “The girls are running at anywhere from 10 to 13 miles an hour, the guys are somewhere around 20. So there’s a lot of moving parts that happen when you’re going through a zone.” When things hit on all cylinders, the results can be incredible. In London four years ago, the team of Allyson Felix, Tianna Madison (now Bartoletta), Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter ran the oval in 40.82 seconds to break a 27-year-old world record. And when they don’t, the second-guessing begins. “The closer the race, the more pressure it puts on the athlete,” Mahoney said. “Sometimes, no matter how well-prepared they are and how good they are, things happen. It’s sports.”

THREE OUT OF FOUR AIN’T BAD: DJOKOVIC, MURRAY, NADAL HEADED TO RIO By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer THE “Big 4” of men’s tennis is enthusiastic about their sport’s place in the Olympics, unlike their counterparts in golf. Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal all have participated in the Summer Games in the past, all own a medal, and all talk about that event’s importance to tennis every four years — even if it already

has four Grand Slam tournaments every year. And while Federer won’t be in Rio, it’s only because he is sitting out the rest of the season entirely to protect his surgically repaired left knee. To get a sense of how these guys think, consider what Britain’s Murray said when he was asked about Brazil the day after winning Wimbledon for the second time. “I’ve loved being in the two Olympics that I’ve been at,” said

the No. 2-ranked Murray, who won a gold in singles at the 2012 London Games. “Rio is obviously a big, big goal of mine, and hopefully I can perform well there.” The No. 1-ranked Djokovic won a singles bronze for Serbia at the 2008 Beijing Games, then came up just short of a medal four years ago. No. 3 Federer won gold for Switzerland in doubles with Stan Wawrinka eight years ago, and a

silver in singles four years ago. No. 4 Nadal won a singles gold for Spain in Beijing, missed London because he was hurt, and appealed to the International Tennis Federation to allow him to compete in Rio after he failed to fulfill Davis Cup commitments because of injuries. Even if this quartet owns a combined 46 Grand Slam titles, the Olympics still matter to them. Much will be made of the contrast between this group’s interest

in the Summer Games and what happened in golf, which will be missing Jordan Spieth, Jason Day, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy in Rio. “Olympic Games are the most renowned and most prominent sports event in the history of sport. No question about it. There is no bigger sports event than Olympic Games,” Djokovic said. “For me, as a professional athlete, it’s a huge honour to be part of it.”

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Split deepens between IOC and anti-doping leaders on Russia By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The split between Olympic leaders and global anti-doping officials over the Russian doping scandal continues to deepen. The World Anti-Doping Agency fired back yesterday, a day after IOC President Thomas Bach suggested the agency was to blame for the last-minute chaos over the participation of Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games. Bach said the agency should have acted sooner on evidence of state-sponsored doping rather than release the damning report by Canadian investigator Richard McLaren so close to the games, which open on Friday. “While it is destabilising in the lead-up to the games, it is obvious, given the seriousness of the revelations that he (McLaren) uncovered, that they had to be published and acted upon without delay,” WADA President Craig Reedie said in a statement yesterday. Reedie, who is also an IOC vice president, told The Associated Press that he wanted to set the record straight after Bach’s comments by explaining the agency’s handling of the allegations against the Russians. “He seemed to use WADA as a diversion in some way,” Reedie said. “We thought in all honesty we needed to just explain the position and what we tried to do.” WADA and Bach have been at odds since the agency publicly recommended

INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during an Olympic Truce inauguration ceremony in the athletes village in advance of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. (AP) that the IOC impose a total ban on Russia’s Olympic team following McLaren’s report detailing state-directed doping across more than two dozen winter and summer sports. “It’s unfortunately just before the games,” Reedie told the AP. “It was caused by very, very serious evidence of wrongdoing. There was little time to resolve it, and so it was likely to destabilise the situation.” Asked about the divisions with the International Olympic Committee, he said: “Most of us will get over this. It’s all perfectly civilised.”

On Sunday, Bach defended the IOC’s decision not to ban the entire Russian delegation, and said the IOC was not responsible for the timing of the latest WADA report, which came out on July 18. On July 24, the IOC placed the burden on international sports federations to determine if Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in Rio. More than 100 Russian athletes — including the track and field team — have been excluded, with more than 250 declared eligible by the federations so far. “The IOC is not respon-

sible for the timing of the McLaren report,” Bach said. “The IOC is not responsible for the fact that different information which was offered to WADA already a couple of years ago was not followed up. The IOC is not responsible for the accreditation or supervision of anti-doping laboratories.” WADA, which was created by the IOC in 1999 to lead the anti-doping fight, and receives half of its funding from the IOC, issued a long statement defending itself. “WADA wishes to factually clarify that the agency

acted immediately on allegations concerning Russia when it had corroborated evidence and the power to do so under the World Anti-Doping Code,” it said. WADA said it set up a commission headed by Dick Pound to investigate allegations of systematic doping made in a documentary by German broadcaster ARD in December 2014. The agency said it acquired new powers to investigate in January 2015. Pound’s report, which was released in November 2015, detailed widespread cheating in track and field and led the IAAF to ban

FAST-STARTING LEWIS HAMILTON INCREASES LEAD WITH GERMAN GP VICTORY HOCKENHEIM (AP) - Lewis Hamilton heads into the Formula One midseason break on the crest of a wave and setting his sights on a fourth world drivers championship. Victory at the German Grand Prix on Sunday was the Mercedes driver’s six in the past seven races and has turned a 43-point deficit in the championship to Nico Rosberg into a 19-point lead. Hamilton, second on the grid, was faster off the start line than his teammate and title rival Rosberg, who started from pole but dropped to fourth before the first corner. Champion for the last two seasons, Hamilton surged away to claim his 49th career win and takes a healthy lead over Rosberg into the fourweek break. “What a race, what a fantastic start. It was just about keeping it cool and looking after the engine,” Hamilton said after his third German GP win. Daniel Ricciardo was second ahead of teammate Max Verstappen, which helped Red Bull push past Ferrari into second place in the constructors’ standings. Rosberg also picked up a five-second penalty for pushing Verstappen off the course and had to settle for fourth, after winning the Hockenheim race two years ago from pole, and said the punishment cost him a podium place. “It is a tough one, really difficult. The start went completely wrong, none of it was good,” said Rosberg, who swept the first four races of the season but has won only one since. “Without the penalty I was in front of the Red Bulls; with the penalty I couldn’t challenge them. Finishing fourth was down to the penalty. I was very surprised by the penalty, I didn’t expect it at all. I thought the battle with Max was good, that’s about it,” Rosberg said. He sat out the penalty on his third pit stop but the

team appeared to have kept him behind for longer than the five seconds. Team chief Toto Wolff blamed the delay on a faulty stopwatch. “When a day goes completely wrong all those things come together,” Rosberg said, adding that being 19 points behind was not tough to take. “Tough is losing the race in the way I did today. That’s going to take some time to digest over the next few days.” The incident came on lap 29 after both Rosberg and Verstappen had pitted. There was a lot of wheelto-wheel racing before Rosberg went wide and forced Verstappen off the track. “He pushed me off the track,” Verstappen shouted over the team radio. Rosberg responded by saying that Verstappen had moved under braking, a forbidden manoeuvre, and that he had “full steering lock,” but the stewards took Verstappen’s side “He braked really late and at one point I thought he was going to run into me, so I opened up and he didn’t turn in,” Verstappen said. “I had to go straight and I had to go off track, otherwise we would have crashed.” Sebastian Vettel finished fifth, ahead of Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen. Hamilton got off to a super start, moving past Rosberg, who also saw the two Red Bulls leave him behind. Verstappen overtook Ricciardo from the outside as they raced into the first corner but Ricciardo later regained the second place to finish 6.9 seconds behind Hamilton. “We had two different strategies so I let him by,” Verstappen said. “I think we played well as a team.” The Dutch teenager is the only driver to win a race this season apart from Hamilton and Rosberg and finished 13.4 seconds behind Hamilton. “That is two weeks in a row I’ve been on the podium and it is great to have the race back here in

Russia’s entire team. Pound said he also found that doping in Russia was likely not restricted to track and field, and that Russian secret service officers were present in the Sochi and Moscow laboratories. But Pound said he did not uncover “concrete evidence” that the Russian government was manipulating doping controls. WADA said it acquired strong evidence of Russian state involvement in early May, when CBS’ “60 Minutes” and The New York Times published allegations by Moscow’s former lab director, Grigory Rodchenkov. That led to McLaren’s investigation, which corroborated Rodchenkov’s claims that dirty samples of Russian athletes were replaced with clean ones during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. Since then, WADA director general Olivier Niggli said, the agency “facilitated the transfer of relevant information that is available to date” about individual Russian athletes to the various international federations. Responding to Bach’s swipe about supervision of the Russian doping labs, WADA said its focus is on the “technical abilities” of the labs. It noted that it suspended the Moscow lab in 2015 after violations were cited in Pound’s report. “Addressing corruption within the anti-doping system — including state or secret service interference in laboratory operations — will be one of the topics discussed” during a WADA conference in September, the agency said.

BRITAIN’s Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton is sprayed with champagne after winning the German Formula One Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, on Sunday. (AP)

Germany,” Ricciardo said. “This is the first double podium for us in over a year and it is awesome to close out the first part of the season like this.” The next race is the Belgian Grand Prix on August 28.

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Jimmy Walker wins a marathon at PGA Championship By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer SPRINGFIELD, N.J. (AP) — Jimmy Walker did everything required of a major champion on the longest final day in 64 years at a PGA Championship. And then Jason Day made him do a little bit more. Walker was standing over an 8-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th hole Sunday when he heard a roar that caused him to twice back off the putt. It was Day, the defending champion and world’s No. 1 player, down to his last chance and delivering with a 2-iron that landed in front of the pin and stopped 15 feet away for eagle. Walker answered, like he had done all day, with a birdie for a three-shot lead. Moments later, another roar. Day made the eagle putt, and the lead was down to one. “There was nothing easy about the day — really about the week, for that matter,” Walker said. “Especially coming down the last hole.” He went for the 18th green knowing it was his easiest chance for the par he needed to win. The outcome was still in doubt until Walker missed the green to the right, pitched out of deep rough to 35 feet and rolled his first putt about 3 feet past the cup.

Walker calmly made it to capture the PGA Championship, ending a long and wet week at Baltusrol, and still having just enough strength left to hoist the 37-pound Wanamaker Trophy. “He really put it on me to make a par,” Walker said. “Sometimes pars are hard. But we got it.” That par gave him a 3-under 67 and a one-shot victory and made the 37-year-old from Texas a major champion. Even with the silver trophy at his side, Walker still had a hard time letting that sink in. Because of rain, the 36-hole final was the longest in PGA Championship history since Jim Turnesa won his 36-hole match in 1952. Walker at least had time to rest in his travel bus — he’s a frequent neighbour of Day on the PGA Tour — and get right back out into the final round. Walker, who shot a 68 in the morning for a one-shot lead over Day, didn’t make a bogey over the last 28 holes. Day, trying to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship in stroke play, came out to the 18th green with his son to watch the finish and quickly found Walker. “Great stuff, mate,” he said. “It was nice to get the eagle, just to try and make Jimmy think about it,” Day said after a 67. “But obviously, Jimmy just played too

JIMMY WALKER poses with the trophy after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J., on Sunday. (AP) good all day.” In a most peculiar final day at a major, the PGA Championship allowed for preferred lies — that never happens in a major — because of nearly 4 inches of rain during the week that drenched the Lower Course. Desperate to beat the clock and avoid a second straight Monday finish at Baltusrol, the pairings stayed the same for the final round. Walker and Day were playing with occasional mud on their golf balls on the back nine of the third round Sunday morning as some players behind them were able to lift, clean and place their golf

balls in short grass in the fourth round. But it ended on a happy note for Walker. He is a major champion, completing a sweep of first-time winners in the majors this year. Better yet: It moved him from No. 29 to No. 4 in the Ryder Cup standings, all but assuring him a spot on the team. He finished at 14-under 266, one shot from David Toms’ record score in the 2001 PGA Championship. Walker began the back nine by holing a 45-foot bunker shot on No. 10 and making a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 11. The final birdie

on the 17th was the most important because he had a cushion. And thanks to Day, he needed it. “Two-putting from that is pretty difficult, especially trying to go for your first major,” Day said. “But he’s handled himself pretty good.” British Open champion Henrik Stenson, trying to join Ben Hogan as the only players to win back-toback majors at age 40, faded with a double bogey on the 15th hole. “It was a long day. I never felt like I brought my ‘A’ game,” said Stenson, who started the final round two shots behind and closed with a 71. “I think I hit more poor shots in the two rounds today than in the previous six or seven rounds combined.” For the second straight major, this became a duel over the final hour. Day pulled within one shot with a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 11, but he never had another birdie chance closer than 25 feet until the two par 5s at the end. Even so, the Australian battled to the end with the second of two 2-irons at 18 leading him to shout, “Get back there!” And it did. Thanks to Walker holding his nerves, it just wasn’t enough. “God, just to be in it and be there and have a chance and then to finish it off is just ... it’s so gratifying,” Walker said.

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‘Shooting Hoops Instead of Guns’

SUMMER CAMP: Organiser Carlos Reid, Youth Against Violence and The Hope Centre are staging another version of the Peace on da Street Basketball Classic with the opening day at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. Today until Thursday, the games will be played on the outdoor courts just recently completed at The Hope Centre. Then the final night of competition will return to the KGLI Gymnasium on August 5. The theme: “Shooting Hoops Instead of Guns.” The games began 10am yesterday with eight teams participating in four divisions. Their elimination process will continue 5pm daily at The Hope Centre. Then on the final day of competition on Friday dubbed “Family Night,” the championship games will be played, starting at 5pm, along with the Pastors versus the Politicians game, the Sunshine Auto Slam Dunk and the Rubis Three-Point Shootout. Photos by Tim Clarke/Tribune Staff