Sports Digest: Mikaela Shiffrin third in super-G at world championships

SKIING

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Lara Intestine-Behrami dashed to gold within the girls’s super-G on the world championships Thursday in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, and Mikaela Shiffrin took bronze in her first pace race in additional than a yr.

Intestine-Behrami mastered the sunbathed Olympia delle Tofane course to lastly win the one medal lacking from her storied profession. The 2016 general World Cup champion beat Swiss teammate Corinne Suter by 0.34 seconds, dwelling as much as her billing as the favourite after successful the final 4 super-Gs on the World Cup circuit.

Shiffrin completed 0.47 behind in third. She had the quickest cut up occasions however misplaced her steadiness and acquired twisted round close to the underside of the course.

• Vincent Kriechmayr overcame a difficult course and excessive expectations to win the boys’s super-G.

Beginning fifth on a course by no means featured on the boys’s World Cup circuit, the Austrian mastered the tough Canalone passage about 20 seconds into his run, the place the primary three starters all missed a gate and skied out. He went on to beat Romed Baumann and Alexis Pinturault, who took silver and bronze respectively.

GOLF

PEBBLE BEACH PRO-AM: Patrick Cantlay opened with seven birdies in eight holes and closed with two extra birdies for a 10-under 62 as he tied the course document and took a two-shot lead within the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am.

Henrik Norlander and 19-year-old Akshay Bhatia have been at 64. Jordan Spieth and Nate Lashley have been three behind.

SOCCER

CLUB WORLD CUP: Bayern Munich beat Tigres 1-0 in Doha, Qatar, to win the title, hours after midfielder Thomas Müller examined constructive for the coronavirus.

In entrance of a masked, socially distanced crowd, Benjamin Pavard scored the one aim within the 59th minute in a snug sport for the Champions League winner towards Mexico’s Tigres, the primary workforce from North and Central America to succeed in the world ultimate.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: The Champions League ultimate is returning to U.S. community tv after a one-year absence.

CBS mentioned this yr’s ultimate at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium on Might 29 shall be televised on the primary CBS community.

Bayern Munich’s victory over Paris Saint-German within the pandemic-delayed 2020 ultimate at Lisbon, Portugal, on Aug. 23 was on the CBS Sports activities Community cable channel after CBS took over U.S. broadcast rights from TBS in the course of the coronavirus pandemic break.

ENGLAND: Tammy Abraham put Chelsea into the FA Cup quarterfinals by scoring the second-half winner in a 1-0 victory over second-tier membership Barnsley, which missed a number of probabilities to stage an upset.

Abraham tapped in from shut vary within the sixty fourth minute after a low cross from Reece James to arrange a quarterfinal towards Sheffield United.

Southampton additionally superior after a 2-0 win at Wolverhampton, with Danny Ings and Stuart Armstrong netting a aim apiece.

FRANCE: Paris Saint-Germain ahead Neymar shall be out for as much as 4 weeks due to an adductor muscle harm and will miss each matches towards Barcelona within the spherical of 16 of the Champions League.

SKELETON

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling is in place to reclaim her world championship, and Katie Uhlaender of the U.S. is inside hanging distance of what could be her first medal on the worlds in 9 years.

Loelling completed her two runs Thursday at Altenberg, Germany, in 1 minute, 56.74 seconds. She leads Russian slider Elena Nikitina by 0.11 seconds. Germany’s Tina Hermann was 0.24 seconds again, and Uhlaender was 0.71 seconds again in fourth place.

Within the males’s race, Russia’s Alexander Tretiakov is the chief after two runs, forward of Germany’s Felix Keisinger by 0.04 seconds and Christopher Grotheer by 0.06 again.

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