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  SPORTSThursday 9 March 2017

Netherlands, Israel advance
to 2nd round of WBC

Netherlands’s Jurickson Profar, right, celebrate with Xander Bogaerts after winning against Taiwan                                    Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps testifies on Capitol Hill in
at the first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea,                                      Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, before the House Com-
Wednesday, March 8, 2017.                                                                                                             merce Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on the
                                                                                                                                      international anti-doping system. 
                                                                                                                    Associated Press
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Associated Press

                                                                                                                                      Anti-doping leaders

TOKYO (AP) — Jurickson        erlands offense. The New       Former major leaguer Bruce                                               explore complete ban
Profar drew a bases-load-     York Yankees’ shortstop        Chen held Cuba scoreless
ed walk in the bottom of      had three RBIs.                over the first 2 2-3 innings                                             on corticosteroids 
the ninth inning to lift the  Israel has been the surprise   but a pitching change
Netherlands to a 6-5 win      of the tournament so far,      gave the Cuban batters                                                   LONDON (AP) — The World          whether corticosteroids are
over Taiwan on Wednes-        beating South Korea 2-1        the spark they needed.                                                   Anti-Doping Agency says          being abused.
day in the World  Base-       in its opening game and        Yoelkis Cespedes drove in                                                it is exploring a complete       The U.K. Anti-Doping Agen-
ball Classic.                 overpowering Taiwan 15-7       the first run in the fourth off                                          ban on corticosteroids.          cy wants corticosteroids to
The Netherlands improved      on Tuesday.                    Luo Xia, and Santos’ clutch                                              Corticosteroids,                 be outlawed.
to 2-0 in Pool A and ad-      In Pool B, Japan improved      triple to center field made                                              which are used in anti-in-       UKAD chief executive Ni-
vanced to the second          to 2-0 with a 4-1 win over     it 3-0. Santos then scored                                               flammatory medicines to          cole Sapstead says “there
round in Tokyo along with     Australia at Tokyo Dome.       on Alexander Ayala’s dou-                                                treat a range of conditions,     is always the risk that when
Israel, which also has a 2-0  Sho Nakata hit a solo home     ble to left.                                                             are allowed out of com-          a substance isn’t banned”
record.                       run in the seventh inning      Cuba starter Vladimir Ba-                                                petition by athletes and         that someone “is trying to
South Korea and Taiwan        and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo         nos went five innings and                                                permitted in competition         gain advantage.”
failed to advance to the      added a two-run homer in       allowed only one baserun-                                                by obtaining a therapeutic       Bradley Wiggins, the 2012
second round, which starts    the eighth for the two-time    ner on a single from Yang                                                use exemption.                   Tour de France winner,
on Sunday at Tokyo Dome.      champions.                     Shunyi with one out in the                                               At the Tackling Doping           faced questions last year
Designated hitter Didi Gre-   In an earlier game, Roel       fifth.                                                                   in Sport conference in Lon-      after the Fancy Bears hack-
gorius contributed three      Santos hit a two-run triple    Cuba improved to 1-1 to                                                  don, WADA director gener-        ing group showed he had
doubles, including the        as Cuba scored four runs       keep alive its chances of                                                al Olivier Niggli said the sta-  medically approved corti-
game-tying hit in the eighth  in the fourth inning in a 6-0  advancing to the second                                                  tus quo was an “unsatisfac-      costeroid injections to pre-
inning, to power the Neth-    win over China.                round.q                                                                  tory situation” and a group      vent hay fever.q
                                                                                                                                      of experts will now look into

  U.S. women                  France celebrates and poses with the trophy after they won the                                          Next up for the Americans        Abily converted a penalty
                              SheBelieves Cup after a women’s soccer match against the                                                are a pair of exhibitions        kick in the eighth minute
    Continued from Page 17    United States, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Washington. France                                            against Russia, on April 6       after Le Sommer got behind
                              won 3-0.                                                                                                in Frisco, Texas, and three      the defense for a through
It had not lost consecutive                                                                                                           days later at Houston.           pass and was tripped by
games anywhere since                                                                              Associated Press                    Camille Abily scored twice       goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher.
defeats against Sweden                                                                                                                and Eugenie Le Sommer            Le Sommer made it 2-0 one
and Denmark in March                                                                                                                  also had a goal for France,      minute later after racing
2014 at the Algarve Cup in                                                                                                            which won the second             past Allie Long to run onto
Portugal helped lead the                                                                                                              edition of the round-robin       Wendie Renard’s long
U.S. Soccer Federation to                                                                                                             tournament, one of the           pass, cutting into the area
fire coach Tom Sermanni                                                                                                               highlights in a year with no     and slotting inside the near
a month later and replace                                                                                                             World Cup or Olympics.           post with a left-footed shot
him with Jill Ellis.                                                                                                                  Just five of the U.S. starters   from 8 yards.
                                                                                                                                      were in the lineup when          Abily tapped in Eve
                                                                                                                                      the teams met at the Rio         Perisset’s cross from 4 yards
                                                                                                                                      Olympics.                        in the 63rd.q
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