TSX REPORT: Fraser-Pryce 10.62! Lyles 19.46! Holloway 12.99 in Monaco; Ukraine sports minister says more than 100 athletes dead in Russian war

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≡ THE 5-RING CIRCUS ≡

1. Dash stars and 4 world leads at Monaco Diamond League
2. Ukraine sports activities minister reviews 100+ athletes useless in warfare thus far
3. Late schedule revision will see FIFA World Cup begin a day early?
4. Birmingham Commonwealth Video games attain 28.6 million in Britain
5. Indonesian Olympic bid to be for brand spanking new capital metropolis!

Jamaica’s wonderful, ageless Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce gained the ladies’s 100 m on the Diamond League meet in Monaco in a shocking 10.62, her sixth win in six finals this season and all between 10.62 and 10.67. There have been loads of different highlights, together with three different world-leading performances and an American Report from Grant Fisher within the males’s 3,000 m. That was thrilling and in distinction to a letter from the Ukrainian sports activities minister that greater than 100 athletes have died by the hands of the Russian aggressors within the six-month-old warfare in his nation. FIFA will apparently transfer the opening of the 2022 Qatar World Cup up by at some point to permit the house facet to play within the opening match. The 2022 Commonwealth Video games did very effectively on British tv, with almost 43% of the nation tuning in sooner or later. And Indonesia is constructing a brand new capital metropolis, so why not program in services for an Olympic bid for 2036?

1.
Dash stars and 4 world leads at Monaco Diamond League

It’s fairly late within the 2022 season, so to see 4 world-leading performances means the racing was excellent on the Stade Louis II in Monaco on the Diamond League Herculis meet on Wednesday:

● Males/1,000 m: 2:13.88, Jake Wightman (GBR)
● Males/3,000 m: 7:25.93, Thierry Ndikumwenayo (BDI)

● Girls/100 m: 10.62, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)
● Girls/1,500 m: 3:50.37, Religion Kipyegon (KEN)

And that was hardly all, as there have been many different wonderful marks, particularly among the many sprinters.

On the prime of the listing must be Jamaican icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who stormed out of the blocks and raced away to sixth win in six finals this season in a shocking 10.62, the equal-Sixth-best efficiency of all time and her second-fastest time ever, even at age 35 (wind: +0.4 m/s)..

She dominated a discipline which was ran brilliantly behind her: teammate Shericka Jackson was second in a lifetime better of 10.71 to maneuver to no. 6 all-time; Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV) ran a lifetime better of 10.72 to turn out to be equal-Seventh all-time in third; People Aleia Hobbs and TeeTee Terry ran 10.81 and 10.90 and had been fourth and fifth, and fellow American Tamara Clark was seventh in 10.96!

Fraser-Pryce’s six finals this season have been 10.67, 10.67, 10.67, 10.66, 10.67 and now 10.62. Astonishing. And there are extra meets to come back.

World 200 m champ Noah Lyles headlined a superb discipline within the males’s 200 m, together with Worlds silver medalist Erriyon Knighton (nonetheless 18), World 400 m winner Michael Norman of the U.S., NCAA champ Joseph Fahnbulleh (LBA) and even brother Josephus Lyles. However the race was all about Noah, operating out of lane seven. Norman bought the very best begin and made up some floor on Knighton, however Lyles was flying across the flip and within the lead into the straight. He by no means let up on the accelerator and gained by daylight in 19.46 (+0.8), the no. 9 efficiency of all-time and his second-fastest ever. Knighton bought up for second on the straightaway over Norman, 19.84-19.95 and Josephus Lyles was sixth in 20.26 with Fahnbulleh seventh (20.46).

Within the males’s 110 m hurdles, World Champion Grant Holloway bought his patented sizzling begin and as soon as once more pale barely earlier than the top, however bought throughout the road first with a heavy lean in 12.99, the no. 2 mark for 2022 (+0.6), forward of Worlds silver winner Trey Cunningham (USA: 13.03), Olympic champ Hansle Parchment (JAM: 13.08) and American Daniel Roberts (13.20). It’s Holloway’s fourth time underneath 13 seconds.

There have been world-record scares within the distances races as effectively. Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon owns two Olympic golds from Rio and Tokyo and Worlds golds from 2017 and 2022. She has nothing to show. However she went for the world file of three:50.07, set in Monaco in 2015 by Genzebe Dibaba (ETH). And she or he almost bought it.

Working alone after 900 m, Kipyegon had run laps of 60.5 and 62.1, then took the bell after one other 62.1 lap and powered residence in a tantalizing 3:50.37, simply 0.3 off the world mark, however the no. 2 efficiency in historical past. She ran he final 400 m in 60.3.

Behind Kipyegon had been People Heather MacLean and Elise Cranny, who had labored their means up by means of the chase pack and completed 2-3 in lifetime bests of three:58.89 and three:59.06, transferring to no. 8 and no. 9 all-time U.S. People Cory McGee and Sinclaire Johnson had been fifth (4:00.70) and ninth (4:02.87).

Ethiopia’s Berhanu Aregawi, the Tokyo 10,000 m fourth-placer, stormed after Kenyan Daniel Komen’s excellent 3,000 m world mark of seven:20.67 from 1996, however pale on the ultimate two laps and was then handed by Ndikumwenayo within the remaining half-lap, 7:25.93-7:26.81, changing into the nos. 7 and 11 performers of all time. American Grant Fisher was third in 7:28.48, an American Report, bettering Bernard Lagat’s 7:29.00 from 2010.

Within the rarely-run 1,000 m, World 1,500 m champ Wightman struck once more, passing Canada’s Marco Arop on the ultimate straight to win in a world-leading 2:13.88, transferring to no. 9 on the all-time listing. Arop was second in 2:14.35 (no. 18 all-time) and American Clayton Murphy charged from eighth to 3rd on the straight, ending in 2:15.73, the no. 2 efficiency in U.S. historical past. Countrymen Bryce Hoppel and Josh Thompson had been fourth and fifth (2:15.99 and a pair of:16.38) to now stand fourth and eighth all-time U.S.

These had been the headlines! There was much more:

● Within the discipline, World champ Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) gained the boys’s excessive soar at 2.30 m (7-6 1/2) in a jump-off with Korea’s Sang-hyeok Woo, and Cuban Maykel Masso gained the lengthy soar at 8.35 m (27-4 3/4) to maneuver to no. 5 on the 2022 12 months listing. Olympic champ Miltiadis Tentoglu (GRE) and American Marquis Dendy each jumped 8.31 m (27-3 1/4) – a season’s greatest for Dendy – with Tentoglu taking second on a greater back-up soar.

● The ladies’s 400 m was a runaway for World Champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo (BAH), powering away down the straight to win in 49.28, whereas Jamaica’s Natoya Goule scored a seasonal better of 1:56.98 to win the ladies’s 800 m – no. 4 on the earth for 2022 – over People Sage Hurta (1:57.85 lifetime greatest) and Olivia Baker (1:58.05 lifetime greatest).

● American Emma Coburn led the ladies’s Steeple for a lot of the again half of the race earlier than being handed by Ethiopia’s Werhuka Getachew, who gained in 9:06.19; Coburn pale to fourth, getting a seasonal better of 9:07.93. NCAA champ Courtney Wayment of the U.S. bought a lifetime better of 9:09.91 in sixth, now no. 3 all-time U.S. Within the 400 m hurdles, Jamaica’s Rushell Clayton ran a lifetime better of 53.33 to win and transfer to no. 5 on the earth.

● Venezuela’s triple soar icon Yulimar Rojas fouled her first two jumps, however then bought a good third attempt to gained the occasion on her fourth at 15.01 m (49-3). American Tori Franklin bought a lifetime greatest on her remaining soar at 14.86 m (48-9) for third, a lifetime greatest and the no. 2 soar in U.S. historical past! American file holder Keturah Orji was fifth at 14.56 m (47-9 1/4).

● Within the ladies’s vault, Australia’s Nina Kennedy, American Sandi Morris and Greece’s Katerina Stefanidi all cleared 4.66 m (15-3 1/2), with Kennedy the winner on fewer misses. The ladies’s javelin went to World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber (AUS) at 64.50 m (211-7) within the third spherical; American Kara Winger was fourth at 60.95 m (199-11).

The circuit now takes two weeks off for the European Championships and resumes in Lausanne on 26 August, with meets in Brussels and Zurich to complete the season.

2.
Ukraine sports activities minister reviews 100+ athletes useless in warfare thus far

“Greater than 3,000 athletes have gone to warfare to defend their nation. Greater than 100 of them are already useless. It’s unimaginable to proceed sports activities coaching underneath air assaults and artillery fireplace. As well as, 111 sports activities services have been destroyed thus far by the Russians, together with one of many largest fencing facilities, Membership ‘Unifekht’ in Kharkiv. 1000’s of younger athletes are compelled to go away their properties to flee warfare.”

This from a letter reported by FrancsJeux.com from Vadym Guttsait, Ukrainian Minister of Youth and Sports activities and President of the Ukranian fencing federation, despatched at the start of August to the Federation Internationale de Escrime (FIE) and all of its member federations. Guttsait added:

“No Russian or Belarusian athlete has spoken out in opposition to the warfare. Subsequently, the Ukrainian Fencing Federation urges the FIE and all nationwide federations to observe the suggestions of the IOC and to not permit Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in official competitions, even underneath the FIE flag.

“The Ukrainian Fencing Federation believes that Russian and Belarusian athletes needs to be allowed to take part in worldwide tournaments solely after the top of this bloody warfare.”

3.
Late schedule revision will see FIFA World Cup begin 20 November?

Whereas not introduced formally, Reuters reported that FIFA is expected to move the date of the Qatar-Ecuador match ahead by at some point, to twenty November, to permit the host nation to play the primary competitors of the event.

The Qatar-Ecuador recreation – with an connected opening ceremony – had been scheduled because the third of the occasion, behind Netherlands-Senegal and England-Iran on Monday, 21 November. A approval vote by FIFA’s six confederations and President Gianni Infantino (SUI) is anticipated to undergo, maybe as quickly as Thursday.

It’s extremely uncommon to maneuver dates for a serious occasion just like the FIFA World Cup so near the beginning and it’ll have implications for tv broadcasters resembling FOX within the U.S. If the gametime is maintained at 7 p.m. native time, that’s midday Jap time and within the midst of its NFL Sunday broadcast programming. However it will additionally permit the Netherlands-Senegal match to be moved later than its posted 1 p.m. begin and beat a few of the noon warmth in Qatar.

The Reuters story famous that any added bills for spectators resembling modifications in lodging or journey because of the change will probably be coated.

4.
Birmingham Commonwealth Video games attain 28.6 million in Britain

Viewing curiosity within the XXII Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham within the host county was fairly good, with the BBC reporting that its coverage reached 28.6 million in Nice Britain. That’s about 42.6% of the complete nation (67.2 million whole inhabitants).

The 28.6 million viewers is means up from the 2018 Commonwealth Video games in a more durable time zone in Australia (22.8 million), however trailed the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Video games, which drew 35.3 million viewers. Nonetheless, that is excellent news for the Commonwealth Video games Basis, which is now seeking to attribute the 2030 Video games, prone to go to Hamilton (CAN), website of the primary British Empire Video games in 1930.

The BBC famous that the largest viewers of the 2022 Video games was for swimming:

“The best peak being 6.6m forward of the women and men’s 100m backstroke and breaststroke finals on day 3, adopted by the Opening Ceremony, which had a 5 minute peak of 5.2m viewers.”

Streaming was, as anticipated, means up, with 57.1 million particular person streams, greater than six instances the entire for 2018.

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Swimming proved well-liked within the U.S. as effectively, even for a re-run!

Nielsen reporting for final week confirmed that the NBC re-run of highlights of the USA Swimming Nationwide Championships from Irvine, California aired final Saturday (Sixth) drew 548,000 viewers. That simply behind the 572,000 who watched the spotlight program the prior Sunday (thirty first)!

5.
Indonesian Olympic bid to be for brand spanking new capital metropolis!

The number of the host of the Video games of the XXXVI Olympiad in 2036 is a methods off, maybe sufficient time to contemplate its placement within the new capital of Indonesia.

Whereas Jakarta co-hosted the large 2018 Asian Video games, GamesBids.com reported that Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, has advisable that a big sports activities coaching middle be included within the metropolis plan, a potential focus of an Olympic venue plan.

Known as Nusantara, the brand new metropolis – on the island of Borneo – started development in mid-2022 and is pegged for completion in 2024. It is going to substitute Jakarta – on the island of Java – because the nationwide capital. The Indonesian Nationwide Olympic Committee is already in discussions with the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s Future Hosts Fee about the potential for a future Video games.

Indonesia is hardly alone with curiosity in 2036; potential suitors embody China, Egypt, Nice Britain, India, Qatar, Turkey and even Russia.

≡ PANORAMA ≡

● Olympic Video games 2020: Tokyo ● On the anniversary of the Tokyo Video games, Dr. Brian McCloskey (GBR) looked back on the preparations made to permit the occasion to happen regardless of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic.

“Only one 12 months in the past, I used to be heading the Impartial Professional Panel of the Worldwide Olympic Committee to work alongside the Japanese authorities and design collectively the COVID-19 countermeasures for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We had been in the midst of the pandemic, vaccination was not but out there throughout the globe, and we anticipated 11,300 athletes and tens of 1000’s of contributors to come back to Japan. …

“At present we are able to say: what Tokyo 2020 did, in a historic means, was to indicate that the recommendation of the World Well being Group (WHO) was proper. By following fundamental public well being measures, and by layering a testing programme on prime, we have now proven that it’s potential to maintain a pandemic at bay.

“Because the Olympic Video games Tokyo 2020 attain their one-year anniversary and we’re in our third summer season grappling with COVID-19, we are able to clearly see the influence these Video games had in paving the best way. Main occasions, together with the Commonwealth Video games, are an everyday characteristic within the calendar once more, and not a matter of world concern.”

McCloskey famous that with the preventative measures in place, there have been solely 33 constructive instances among the many athletes, and 464 among the many whole accredited inhabitants attending the Video games. Ultimately, “the Video games’ common attain that gave them the potential to exhibit that, if we pulled collectively as a world group, folks may begin to see that the pandemic didn’t have to regulate their lives endlessly.”

● Athletics ● The Athletics Integrity Unit introduced on Twitter a list of sanctioned athletes final Friday, together with three Kenyan athletes, three Russian athletes from the mid-2010s and an Indian sprinter.

The Kenyans included a discover of allegation in opposition to street runner Philemon Kacheran (2:05:19 marathon in 2021); a seven-year ban on half-marathoner Tabitha Wambui (1:08:18 in 2019) for steroids and tampering, and costs in opposition to Eglay Nalyanya (ladies’s 400-800 m) for steroid use and tampering.

Russian sanctions got here from the Moscow Laboratory database and McLaren reviews for offenses by 2004 ladies’s Olympic excessive soar winner Yelena Slesarenko – now 40 – together with her outcomes annulled from July 2013 to October 2016; by Yelena Arzhakova (now 32), with a two-year ban from July 2022 and all outcomes annulled from January 2015 to July 2022; and hammer thrower Kiril Ikonnikov (now 38), already serving an eight-year ban from 2016-24 and now with an added two years to April 2026. All three are not lively.

● Soccer ● The African Soccer Confederation (CAF) introduced the creation of an African Super League, with $100 million in prize cash and 24 golf equipment from 16 international locations to compete within the event.

The challenge is because of launch in August 2023

Protection of Wednesday’s announcement has famous the approval of FIFA, in distinction to the disastrous European Tremendous League idea which crashed amid public anger days after it was revealed in information reviews final 12 months. The distinction: the African Tremendous League is designed to boost the extent of soccer and financing on the continent, the place the European Tremendous League was criticized for eradicating its golf equipment from the remainder of the continent.

A solidarity fund can also be to be established that can channel $1 million per 12 months to every of the 54 African federations to fund additional growth of the sport.

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