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sports Diamars 23 maart 2021

3 women top Alpine skiing's World Cup prize money table

(AP) — Women were the en's overall title on Satur- earner. His 379,000 Swiss
top three prize money day, got 444,000 Swiss francs francs ($409,000) prize mon-
earners on Alpine skiing’s ($479,000) after starting in all ey included wins in five of
World Cup circuit this but two of the 31 women’s the 35 events.
season, the International events.
Ski Federation said Mon- The most valuable World
day. Mikaela Shiffrin won the Cup race is the fearsome
most valuable women’s Hahnenkamm men’s down-
Lara Gut-Behrami was the race - the night slalom at hill at Kitzbühel, Austria,
highest prize earner with a Flachau, Austria, that paid which paid almost 87,500
total of 485,000 Swiss francs almost 63,000 Swiss francs Swiss francs ($94,500) to the
($523,000) before taxes, in- ($68,000) - in her total of winner Beat Feuz.
cluding six race wins that almost 411,000 Swiss francs
typically each pay 45,000 ($444,000). A total of 9 million Swiss
Swiss francs ($48,600). francs ($9.7 million) was on
Alexis Pinturault was the offer in men’s and women’s
Petra Vlhova, who edged men’s overall World Cup events before race cancel-
Gut-Behrami for the wom- champion and its highest lations were taken into ac- count.

Again, Syracuse makes Sweet 16 as double-digit seed

ginia after knocking off San when 15th-seeded Middle ended with an 83-59 loss to
Diego State in the first round. Tennessee dispatched Michi- Gonzaga in the regional final.
gan State in the first round.
“It's hard to make the Sweet That made the path to the 2018 LOYOLA CHICAGO
16. Look around. Look at Sweet 16 easier, and Syracuse (No. 11 seed)
some of the teams that are actually made it all the way to The Ramblers won their first
out,” Boeheim said. “When I the Final Four with wins over three games of the tourna-
started coaching, we thought Gonzaga and top-seeded Vir- ment by a combined four
you're supposed to do that. ginia. points, including a 69-68
I think we went to 14 or 15 victory over Nevada in the
Sweet 16s, and some of them 2016 GONZAGA (No. 11 Sweet 16. Then Loyola beat
I don't even think we cel- seed) Kansas State by 16 to reach
ebrated. ... But it's very hard. The Bulldogs beat Seton Hall the Final Four. The run fi-
There's so many good teams." and Utah by a combined 39 nally ended when Michigan
points before falling 63-60 outlasted the Ramblers in the
Oral Roberts followed its to Syracuse in the Sweet 16. national semifinal.
big upset of Ohio State with Michael Gbinije made a go-
since 2016, Syracuse is Later on Sunday, 15th-seeded a win over Florida, and Or- ahead layup with 22 seconds 2018 SYRACUSE (No. 11
headed to the Sweet 16 as Oral Roberts and 12th-seed- egon State ousted Oklahoma left for the Orange in that seed)
a double-digit seed. ed Oregon State joined that State. one. This time, Boeheim's team
list as well. had to start in the First Four,
In all, nine double-digit Here are the six double-digit 2017 XAVIER (No. 11 seed) but the Orange won there
seeds have reached the re- Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim seeds who made the Sweet 16 The Musketeers beat Mary- and then went to Detroit,
gional semifinals in that time once again made it past the from 2016-19: land and Florida State in the where they flummoxed both
span — so the Orange have first weekend after barely 2016 SYRACUSE (No. 10 first two rounds, then edged Texas Christian and Michi-
accounted for one third of qualifying for the NCAA seed) second-seeded Arizona 73-71 gan State. Syracuse lost to
them. Tournament. The Orange The Orange blew out Day- when Xavier closed the game Duke 69-65 in the Sweet 16.
edged third-seeded West Vir- ton, then caught a break on a 9-0 run. Xavier's run

Volunteers from abroad ruled out for Tokyo Olympics

(AP) — Volunteers from abroad up 30,000 more. Most, of course, are tional Stadium.
will not be allowed into Japan for from Japan. It’s not clear how many
the postponed Tokyo Olympics, will be needed with few overseas fans
organizers said Monday. in attendance.

The announcement came two days Japan's Kyodo news agency, quot-
after Tokyo organizers said they ing “sources close to the matter,”
would ban international fans from said around 500 overseas volunteers
coming into Japan. Both measures would be given exemptions to enter
are aimed at preventing the spread of Japan.
COVID-19.
The Olympics are to open on July 23
Organizers said a limited number of with 11,000 athletes, followed by the
volunteers might be allowed if they Paralympics on Aug. 24 with 4,400
have special skills. more. Athletes will operate inside a
bubble, a plan that calls for limited
“I’m really sorry, but we have decided contact with outsiders.
there is no other choice but to drop
the plan,” said Toshiro Muto, the The first big test for the Olympics
CEO of the organizing committee. begins Thursday with the torch re-
lay starting from northeastern Japan.
Organizers had planned to use about The relay will last 121 days, involve
80,000 unpaid volunteers. The Tokyo 10,000 runners, and end at the open-
Metropolitan Government had lined ing ceremony in Tokyo's new Na-