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Diamars 3 augustus 2021

US junior varsity lineup upsets Mexico 1-0 to win Gold Cup

fender in his fourth Major los Rodríguez, Uriel Antuna
League Soccer season with Top players, who are with and Hirving Lozano.
Atlanta, got his third inter- their clubs for European pre-
national goal in nine inter- seasons, will return when the The U.S. lineup that includ-
national appearances, his sec- U.S. opens World Cup quali- ed nine players from Major
ond goal of the tournament. fying at El Salvador on Sept. League Soccer.
2. Mexico starts at home that
Matt Turner got his fifth day against Jamaica. The field CONCACAF
shutout in six matches of the chose was 69 yards wide, nar-
Gold Cup, the champion- Before an overwhelmingly rower than the recommend-
ship of North and Central pro-Mexico crowd, El Tri ed 75 yards.
America and the Caribbean. started seven of the 11 play-
The Americans won all three ers who began the Nations U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter
knockout matches by 1-0 League final that the U.S. made four changes from the
scores. won in extra time in June lineup in the semifinal win
on Christian Pulisic’s 114th- over Qatar, inserting Reg-
The U.S. won its seventh minute penalty kick: defend- gie Cannon for Shaq Moore,
(AP) — Miles Robinson players in the U.S. starting Gold Cup title, its first since ers Luis Rodríguez, Néstor George Bello for Sam Vine,
scored on a header in lineup who gets playing time 2017, matching Mexico for Araujo, Héctor Moreno and Eryk Williamson for Gianlu-
the 117th minute, and a when the first-choice roster the most in the 15 tourna- Jesús Gallardo plus midfield- ca Busio and Gyasi Zardes
United States junior var- is together, took a free kick, ments. Canada won in 2000. ers Álvarez, Jesús Corona and for Daryl Dike. Acosta was
sity lineup upset a mostly and Robinson outjumped It was just the second victory Héctor Herrera. The new- joined by Sebastian Lletget
front-line Mexico team Edson Álvarez and headed for the Americans in seven fi- comers were Talavera, mid- as the only starters from the
1-0 on Sunday night to the ball in on one hop to the nals against El Tri. fielders Jonathan dos Santos primary player pool.
win the CONCACAF right of goalkeeper Alfredo and Orbelín Pineda, and for-
Gold Cup. Talavera. The U.S. has won nine con- ward Rogelio Funes Mori, Defender Henry Kessler
secutive games overall and 14 starting in place of goalkeeper made his debut for the U.S.
Kellyn Acosta, one of two Robinson, a 24-year-old de- home games in a row. Guillermo Ochoa plus Car- in extra time stoppage time.

No keeping her down: After a fall, busy Hassan gets a gold

(AP) — Sifan Hassan ter that, and to run the race,” lap with a fall, so she proba- walking, at one point point- medal of the meet.
pointed to her left shoul- said silver medalist Hellen bly ran about a 55,” Canada’s ing to her chest and offering Earlier in the day, the Ameri-
der. “I have pain here,” she Obiri of Kenya, “and you can 5,000-meter runner Andrea a look of amazement. can favorite in the 100-me-
said. see that she’s great.” Seccafien said. “So, yeah, ter hurdles, Keni Harrison,
she’s on another level for At around the time she was came in second to Jasmine
Then, her right leg. “Pain The 1,500-meter heat should sure.” wrapping up, the United Camacho-Quinn, who was
here.” have been a no-fuss warmup States breathed a big sigh of born and raised in the United
for Hassan’s main event later Exhausting work, but, Has- relief when it captured its States but competes for her
Then, she dropped her hands in the day. Running from the san conceded, “I felt like first gold medal of the track mother’s homeland, Puerto
to her sides in exhaustion, back, as is her preference, she someone who drank 20 cups meet. It came unfashionably Rico.
too tired to explain it any- was gearing up to make her of coffee.” late — the end of Day 4 —
more. “Pain there.” move as the phalanx of 15 and from an unlikely source: The day’s other gold went to
runners approached the start While social media blew up the women’s discus throw. Morocco steeplechaser Sou-
Winning the Olympics re- of the final lap. with tales of Hassan’s re- Valarie Allman opened the fi- fiane el-Bakkali, whose victo-
ally can hurt sometimes. But covery, the track and field nal with a throw of 68.98 me- ry ended 40 years of Kenyan
it’s hard to keep the world’s But Kenya’s Edinah Jebitok world waited through lunch ters (226 feet, 3 inches), then dominance in the Olympics.
busiest speed demon down stumbled and tumbled to the and dinner to see what, if waited through an hour- The rest of the action in-
for long. ground just in front of her. anything, she could possibly long rain delay and nearly volved preliminaries and
Hassan tried to save things by have left in the tank when she 50 throws by her competi- medals ceremonies, and
Hassan scored two remark- hurdling over her fallen op- returned for her first gold- tion. Nobody passed her,and there were some great 1-2
able victories on the Olym- ponent, but instead tripped medal race. America had its first gold combinations on display.
pic track Monday. Her gold- and did half a barrel roll.
medal run in the women’s Turned out to be plenty.
5,000 meters came a mere 11 Most runners might have Lingering in the back, then
hours after she picked herself called it a day, and Hassan the middle of the pack for
up from a scary fall on the said the thought crossed her the first 11 laps on a track
final lap of her 1,500-meter mind for a split second. She still soaked by an earlier rain-
heat to not only finish that could have filed a protest and storm, she kicked things in
race — but win it, as well. potentially been moved along with about 250 meters left.
Those two wins kept Hassan, to the next round because the She won the race going away,
the Ethiopian-born 28-year- spill really wasn’t her fault. in 14 minutes, 36.79 seconds
old who now competes for “But I told myself ‘No.’ I — a pedestrian time for her,
the Netherlands, very much didn’t want to regret it later. but amazing considering the
in the mix for not one, not I don’t want all the excuses,” circumstances.
two, but three medals — in she said.
the 1,500, the 5,000 and the “They were running so slow.
10,000. And so, in the span of two I felt OK. Every lap I felt
seconds, she was up again. OK,” she said. “Like some-
It’s a never-before-attempted What came next was one of body who is getting energy. I
Olympic journey that will the most remarkable 60-sec- was actually not tired.”
require six races over eight ond laps in racing, as Hassan
days. It’s a journey most moved from the back of the Hassan was 1.57 seconds
thought would be impossible pack, picking off runner af- ahead of Obiri, and Ethiopia’s
even before the sort of fall ter runner. All she needed to Gudaf Tsegay took bronze.
that can take even the hearti- advance was a top-six finish. While most runners col-
est of runners off the track. She ended up taking first. lapsed and gasped for breath
“To come back (11) hours af- “She closed in a 60-second at the end, Hassan kept on