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Wednesday 24 July 2019

TWINS

TOWER

China’s Sun Yang pours water
ahead of his swim in the men’s
200m freestyle semifinal
at the World Swimming
Championships in Gwangju,
South Korea, Monday, July 22,
2019.
Associated Press
China’s Sun

wins 200

free via

DQ, gets

shunned

on podium

By BETH HARRIS
AP Sports Writer
GWANGJU, South Korea
(AP) — Sun Yang was in the
middle of controversy at
the world swimming cham-
pionships again. Only this
time, it wasn’t his doing.
The Chinese star with a
history of doping still got
shunned on the med-
als podium. Sun won the Twins hit 5 homers, turn
200-meter freestyle on triple play in 8-6 win vs. Yankees
Tuesday night after Danas
Rapsys of Lithuania finished
first and got disqualified for
an apparent false start. Minnesota Twins’ Jorge Polanco watches his solo
Sun touched second, but home run off New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia
was elevated after Rap- in the first inning of a baseball game Monday, July
sys had already celebrat- 22, 2019, in Minneapolis.
ed in the pool. Sun ap-
peared surprised, clasping Associated Press
his hands to his face, but Page 21
quickly sat on the lane rope
and raised both arms in the
air as a mix of cheers and
boos rang out. Katsuhiro
Matsumoto of Japan took
silver. Martin Malyutin of
Russia and Duncan Scott
of Britain tied for bronze.

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