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sports Diabierna 26 Maart 2021

Stan Wawrinka out 'a few weeks' after foot surgery

(AP) — Three-time “After having some problems Wawrinka lost in the second
Grand Slam winner Stan in my left foot for a while, I round at the Australian Open
Wawrinka has undergone have decided to do a small in January.
surgery for an injury to his procedure on it,” Wawrinka
left foot. wrote on his social media ac- He could also target his lo-
counts. cal clay court tournament
Wawrinka said Thursday in Switzerland in the week
that he would be out “for a The world No. 21, who turns before the French Open.
few weeks," with the French 36 on Sunday, lost first-round Wawrinka won the Geneva
Open starting May 23. He matches at both tournaments Open in 2016 and 2017,
won at Roland Garros in he played this month, at Rot- which was his last title on the
2015. terdam and Doha. ATP circuit.

Russia wants Tchaikovsky music for anthem at Tokyo Olympics

(AP) — Russia wants to composer Pyotr Tchai- discussed the Tchaikovsky Olympic Committee will ac- in practice — whether it
use music by 19th-century kovsky as its replacement excerpt with the Internation- cept our proposal in the short will block any other mu-
anthem for the Tokyo al Olympic Committee and term,” Pozdnyakov said. sic by Russian composers,
Olympics, the president are waiting for approval. The or whether Russian officials
of the country's Olympic same music was used at some The Court of Arbitration for should be allowed to choose
committee said Thursday. speedskating events this year. Sport this month blocked at all. Pozdnyakov said that
In most other sports which Russia's first choice for the while Tchaikovsky was a
Russia's team name, flag and have held world champion- Olympics, the patriotic folk Russian, his music should
national anthem were banned ship events, the competition song “Katyusha.” It cited a be considered “part of the
for two years from the Olym- organizers' anthems were provision in the December world's musical legacy.”
pics and world champion- used, rather than any Russian ruling that the team couldn't The Russian team in Tokyo
ships in December. music. use “any anthem linked to will be officially known as
Russia.” “ROC,” and will use the flag
Russian Olympic Committee “We have found a compro- of the country's Olympic
president Stanislav Pozdnya- mise for all the parties. We However, CAS hasn’t fully committee rather than the
kov said officials had already hope that the International clarified what that means national tricolor.

Texas advances to Sweet 16 with 71-62 win over UCLA

(AP) — With Charli Col- eoboards to catch the Aggies’ picked up her fourth foul, Onyenwere did all she could, proud and honored to go to
lier struggling on offense buzzer-beating win. and Lauryn Miller crumpled scoring 21 points before foul- UCLA and have the experi-
and saddled with foul to the floor after turning the ing out. She had 10 of the ences that I did. But yeah,
trouble, Texas got con- The long wait didn't seem to ball over on the baseline. team's 14 points in the first today was rough, but I’m
tributions from other bother Texas (20-9), which She had to be helped off the half. The rest of the team extremely grateful for just
players to advance to the outscored the Bruins 22-6 court and walked gingerly missed 13 of its 14 shots in everything UCLA has given
Sweet 16. in the second to go up 35-14 to the locker room midway the opening 20 minutes. me.”
at halftime. That including through the quarter with as-
Celeste Taylor scored 24 holding UCLA (17-6) score- sistance. She returned a few By the time she got a little TIP-INS
points, Kyra Lambert added less for nearly 6:30 minutes minutes later with a crutch bit of help, it was too late for Onyenwere moved into
17 and the No. 6 seed Long- during a 12-0 run. and a heavy wrap on her right the Bruins, who reached the fourth on UCLA’s career
horns beat third-seeded knee. Sweet 16 in the previous four scoring list with 1,888 points.
UCLA 71-62 in the second UCLA coach Cori Close re- NCAA Tournaments. She came into the game tied
round of the women's NCAA fused to use the delay as an The Bruins kept hanging for fifth and passed Rehema
Tournament on Wednesday excuse. around and got within nine, “UCLA has had everything Stephens, who was fourth
night. but a busted play led to a to do with the player I am and with 1,887. ... UCLA had
“I don’t know, things hap- corner 3-pointer by Joanne the person I am today," Ony- held three of its previous
“We're not one person. pen. This year you have to Allen-Taylor that restored enwere said through tears. four opponents to under 50
Charli has carried us a lot be adaptable. We went back Texas' double-digit lead with “Coach Cori said this game points. Texas reached that
this year. There were nights to the locker room and said 4:12 left. The Bruins couldn't doesn’t define our season mark by the end of the third
we couldn’t throw it in the here we go, another time to get closer than eight the rest and how hard we worked. ... quarter.
ocean if we were standing on be adaptable,” she said. “The of the way. I’m incredibly proud of my
the beach at high tide,” Texas same thing happened to Texas team this year, I’m incredibly
coach Vic Schaefer said. “To that happened to us and they Next up for Texas is a match-
see us go out and do what we handled it a little bit better. up with Maryland on Sunday.
did, score 71 points, and do it Was it ideal? No. This whole
the way we did it is the sign year wasn’t ideal." The game was expected to be
of development of a team.” a post battle between poten-
UCLA showed much more tial No. 1 picks in the WNBA
The start of the game was fight in the second half, cut- draft Collier of Texas and
delayed about 25 minutes ting the deficit to 51-41 after Onyenwere of UCLA.
because Iowa State and Texas three quarters. Charisma Os-
A&M went into overtime on borne's three-point play with Collier, who was averaging
the court on the other side a second left got the Bruins as 20 points and nearly 12 re-
of the Alamodome. Texas close as they had been since bounds, was hampered by
and UCLA walked back to early in the second quarter. foul trouble. She finished
their locker rooms when the with five points and five re-
other game went to the extra But UCLA absorbed a cou- bounds. Lambert picked up
session and both teams were ple of big blows early in the the slack with 10 boards.
looking up at the giant vid- fourth. Michaela Onyenwere