Celtic started the defence of their Premiership title with a routine 4-0 win at house to Kilmarnock.
Reo Hatate fired them into the lead after 17 minutes with a cool end from the sting of the penalty space. Celtic doubled their lead 5 minutes earlier than half-time when Liam Scales headed a nook from Matt O’Riley contained in the far put up.
Nicolas-Gerrit Kühn added the third on the hour when his deflected strike looped over the Kilmarnock goalkeeper, Robby McCrorie. Anthony Ralston wrapped up the scoring in stoppage time together with his first Celtic aim since 2021.
Dundee fought again twice to forestall metropolis rivals Dundee United marking their return to the highest flight with a victory in an exciting 2-2 draw. The newly promoted hosts led on the break after targets from Kristijan Trapanovski and Miller Thomson, both aspect of an equaliser from the Dundee ahead Seb Palmer-Houlden. Tony Docherty’s aspect hit again for a second time to earn a degree because of a late penalty from their captain, Luke McCowan.
St Mirren adopted up their wonderful midweek European outing with a convincing 3-0 win over Hibernian. After qualifying for the subsequent qualifying spherical of the Uefa Convention League with a 4-1 house win over the Icelandic aspect Valur on Thursday, the house aspect went forward three minutes into the second half by way of Roland Idowu. The substitute Oisin Smyth headed in a second within the 77th minute and drove in a 3rd two minutes later to wrap up a deserved victory.
Algeria’s Kaylia Nemour gained gold within the ladies’s gymnastics uneven bars remaining Sunday on the Paris Olympics. It was the primary ever gymnastics medal for an African nation at an Olympics. China’s Qiu Qiyuan took silver and USA’s Suni Lee gained bronze.
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PARIS — The U.S. gymnast Suni Lee has gained the bronze medal within the Olympic uneven bars remaining, her third medal of the 2024 Video games and a exceptional cap to her return to gymnastics after a sudden onset of kidney illness final yr had threatened to finish her profession.
In Sunday’s competitors at Bercy Area in Paris, Lee completed behind the proficient 17-year-old Kaylia Nemour of Algeria, whose rating of 15.7 gained her the gold. Qiu Qiyuan, additionally 17, of China scored 15.5 to win silver.
For Nemour who was born and raised in France, the gold is further significant. She started representing Algeria final yr after the French Gymnastics Federation didn’t clear her to renew competitors following knee surgical procedure in 2021. This title is a primary for Algeria and any African gymnast on the Olympic Video games.
Uneven bars are Lee’s strongest occasion. Her rating of 14.8 was her second-highest rating on the bars on this Olympics, simply behind her tally within the particular person all-around occasion, wherein she additionally gained bronze.
The 21-year-old Lee carried out final. After seeing her rivals’ excessive scores, she selected to not add problem to the routines she’d carried out final week, which might have given her an opportunity at a gold or silver. After touchdown her routine, she stated she was thrilled.
“It feels wonderful to have it over with, truthfully. I used to be so nervous watching everybody,” Lee stated afterward. “I bought to look at everybody and it put the strain on me just a little bit. However I am actually completely satisfied that it did, as a result of I really feel like I did every little thing that I got here to do.”
After profitable a shock gold medal within the particular person all-around on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Lee had set her deal with returning to the Olympics right here in Paris.
However these plans gave the impression to be derailed early final yr, when two severe kidney situations pressured her to retire early from her faculty gymnastics profession. The sickness brought on fast weight acquire and swelling so intense that she discovered it tough to bend her joints or grip the uneven bars. Her docs had been, at first, stumped concerning the trigger. At occasions, she believed she would by no means compete once more.
The USA’s Sunisa Lee celebrates profitable the bronze medal on the finish of the ladies’s uneven bars remaining Sunday. It was her third medal of the Video games and sixth Olympic medal general.
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“I am so, so glad that I by no means gave up, as a result of there have been so many occasions the place I thought of quitting and strolling away from the game as a result of I did not assume that I’d ever get so far,” she stated in June after qualifying for the U.S. Olympic crew.
Sunday’s bronze is Lee’s third and remaining medal of the 2024 Video games after she gained bronze within the particular person all-around remaining and helped the U.S. win a gold within the crew occasion.
“She had every little thing to lose coming again. There was nothing actually for her to show — aside from to herself,” her coach Jess Graba stated Sunday.
For somebody so used to dwelling life within the quick lane, it’s no shock that GB’s 800m phenomenon Keely Hodgkinson falls again on racing terminology when describing her Paris 2024 journey.
However what’s extra stunning is that the phrase she repeats all through her dialog with Olympics.com has nothing to do with pace or tempo, and even profitable.
As a substitute, Hodgkinson’s phrase of alternative coming into these Video games appears to be “navigate”.
It’s as if Olympic gold sits on the finish of a winding map, or perhaps a maze the place there are a lot of paths an athlete can take to achieve the ultimate vacation spot, however nearly all of them end with lifeless ends.
Hodgkinson has skilled these lifeless ends thrice at main athletics competitions. Firstly, as a hungry 19-year-old, an underdog within the Olympic ultimate in Tokyo, who navigated her solution to the medal race however discovered the street to Olympic gold blocked – simply – by the marginally quicker legs of the reigning gold medallist Athing Mu.
Mu repeated the feat at her dwelling world championships in 2022, earlier than one other challenger, Kenya’s Mary Moraa, proved to be the impassable impediment on the Worlds in 2023.
And whereas Hodgkinson entered these Olympics in Paris because the favorite, having posted the quickest time on the planet this 12 months and turn out to be the sixth-fastest 800m runner in historical past in her final race earlier than these Video games, she appears nicely conscious that whereas the monitor on the Stade de France appears to be a easy mixture of bends and straight traces, the race for gold will want a talented and tactical navigator.
“Each race may be very completely different and it does rely on who’s beside you within the race,” the 22-year-old Hodgkinson defined. “Additionally, you don’t know what folks have gotten of their locker. Like I say, with the instances on the sheet, somebody might PB by an entire second, you’re simply not conscious of that, so I don’t like placing an excessive amount of into instances and simply deal with placing collectively a race that I’d be actually proud of that can get me the end result I need.
“I’ll simply go together with that strategy every spherical and navigate like that.”
Heat-up friendlies typically deliver with them a flurry of substitutions, as Erik ten Hag works to make sure everyone seems to be in prime situation forward of the season opener, and the Stateside sport towards Liverpool was no exception. With that in thoughts, we requested supporters to vote for one of the best participant who began the sport, and one of the best substitute to enter the fray halfway by the motion at Williams-Brice Stadium…
BEST STARTER – AMAD AGAIN
There have been loads of promising showings in our pre-season tour, particuarly from the youthful contingent, however Amad has been among the many most notable all through.
He put his stamp on final season along with his last-gasp winner within the Emirates FA Cup quarter-final towards Saturday night’s opponents and appears to have carried that momentum by with him this summer time.
On this newest sport, the Ivorian managed to create probably the most probabilities and received the joint-most duels, incomes him 24 per cent of the vote.
Nemour, who trains roughly 150 miles from Paris, started competing for her father’s start nation of Algeria in 2023. This got here after an extended dispute with the French Gymnastics Federation.
In 2021, Nemour developed osteochondritis, a joint situation in her knees that required a number of surgical procedures which took her out of the game for almost a yr. Though her private physician cleared her to compete, the French nationwide group physician — who had by no means examined her — refused to clear her.
With only one yr to go till the Video games, Nemour’s profession got here to a standstill.
Along with her remaining qualification alternative for the Video games rapidly approaching, Nemour determined to modify her nationally to signify Algeria. Nevertheless, the French federation didn’t approve the change, that means Nemour wouldn’t be capable of compete till July 2023.
That date fell after the African Championships, an important occasion for Nemour as she wanted to compete in it to qualify for the world championships. Success there would then allow her to safe a spot on the Paris Olympics.
A web based petition demanding the discharge of Nemour garnered over 6,000 signatures. In Might 2023, six French gymnasts disclosed situations of abuse throughout their time on the nationwide group. French Minister for Sport and the Olympic & Paralympic Video games, Amelie Oudea-Castera, pledged to research the allegations. She additionally convened a gathering with the French Gymnastics Federation to deal with varied points inside the sport, together with Nemour’s nationality dispute.
Subsequently, the Federation introduced that Nemour might signify Algeria, clearing her to compete lower than two weeks earlier than the African Championships.
Nemour has made absolutely the a lot of the alternative. She first turned heads in her world championship debut in 2023 the place she completed second on the uneven bars, turning into the primary African gymnast to win a world medal.
In what remains to be thought-about a house Video games for Nemour, she completed fifth within the all-around remaining along with bringing house the gold on the uneven bars.
“I’m very, very, very pleased with what I used to be in a position to do at this time,” Nemour stated. “I’m nonetheless a bit of shocked … It was my final dream, years of labor and laborious work, particulars. I believe it’s actually loopy and I’m actually honored to have been in a position to win this medal, its a primary for me and for Algeria too. I hope I made them proud.”
The three different males additionally charged have been Declan Geiran, 29, of Liverpool, who’s accused of arson to a police car and violent dysfunction; Jimmy Bailey, 45, of Ellesmere Port and Liam James Riley, 41, of Kirkdale, who’re each dealing with counts of violent dysfunction.
Merseyside Police stated the fees associated to a bunch who have been seen charging and swearing at officers on Stanley Road, missiles being thrown at police on Paradise Road and an try to set a police van on fireplace on William Brown Road.
The drive stated two officers suffered accidents and a few native companies have been broken and looted.
Talking on Saturday, Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims stated the behaviour seen within the dysfunction was “fully unacceptable”.
“What ought to have been a sunny Saturday on the historic waterfront to be loved by folks of all ages became a day of unashamed dysfunction and violence,” she stated.
“We’ve got heard reviews of households having to run away from the realm, a few of whom had introduced kids to see the Disney Princess cruise ship docked close by.”
She added that her officers had “put themselves in hurt’s means with a view to defend the broader group” and she or he was “extremely happy with the bravery, resilience and professionalism they’ve displayed”.
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Terence Crawford grew to become a four-weight world champion with a win over Israil Madrimov on Saturday, outpointing the Uzbek in Los Angeles.
Crawford entered the BMO Stadium as a three-weight champion, having reigned undisputed in two divisions, and he enhanced his already gorgeous legacy with a unanimous-decision win, claiming the WBA super-welterweight title.
Most of the rounds have been intently contested, however the American’s expertise advised within the later frames, securing him scorecards of 116-112, 115-113, 115-113.
With the victory, the 36-year-old stayed unbeaten at 41-0 (31 knockouts), whereas handing Madrimov his first skilled loss (10-1-1, 7 KOs).
Madrimov, 29, had collected the WBA title with a stoppage of Magomed Kurbanov in March. In the meantime, Crawford’s final struggle was a stunning dismantling of Errol Spence Jr final July – a efficiency that noticed “Bud” grow to be undisputed at welterweight.
After Saturday’s most important occasion, Madrimov mentioned he felt he had completed sufficient to win, whereas the Uzbek’s promoter Eddie Hearn known as the struggle a “waste of time”, bemoaning a scarcity of “respect from the judges”.
However whereas Madrimov competed impressively, particularly contemplating his relative lack of professional expertise, Crawford’s capacity to extend his output and discover the goal within the later phases of the struggle proved decisive.
After the bout, Crawford was requested a couple of potential super-fight with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, to which he mentioned: “If the cash’s proper, we received a struggle, however on the identical time, he’s received a struggle that he’s centered on. I’m gonna calm down, get pleasure from this win.
“[That fight] shouldn’t be so essential to me. It’s simply one other milestone to greatness, I suppose. And financially…”
Previous to changing into undisputed at welterweight, Crawford was undisputed at super-lightweight and held a world title at light-weight. Saturday (3 August) noticed him transfer as much as a career-highest weight at 154lb, and one other upwards transfer to fulfill Canelo may show troublesome.
Nonetheless, Crawford performed down that concept, saying: “[I’m] under no circumstances [worried about the weight], as a result of I’m fairly certain he may struggle at 160lb.”
Mexican Canelo, 34, is scheduled to defend the unified super-middleweight titles in opposition to Edgar Berlanga in September.
Reflecting on his conflict with Madrimov, Crawford mentioned: “Israil was a troublesome competitor. I knew he was gonna be robust, I knew all about him once I went to Uzbekistan.
“He’s actually robust, he’s sturdy, he took quite a lot of good photographs. He received me to spherical 12. He had quick ft, good rhythm upstairs, and he was robust. And he was ready to counter me, identical to I used to be making an attempt to counter him.
“He wasn’t throwing wild photographs like I used to be wanting him to do. I figured it out from the get-go, however I used to be being affected person. I didn’t wanna rush in with something; that’s how I received caught a few instances, making an attempt to eat too quickly.”
The southpaw had received 11 straight fights by way of knockout earlier than dealing with Madrimov, having final been taken to the judges’ scorecards in 2016.
Rushell Clayton might be out to show she just isn’t merely the most effective of the remaining behind Bol and McLaughlin-Levrone, and the Jamaican was the primary contender to take to the observe on Sunday.
Within the first of 5 heats, Clayton – bronze medallist within the worlds final 12 months – crossed the road first in 54.32.
USA’s Jasmine Jones then received the second warmth, outlining her podium potential with a 53.60, earlier than Bol – contemporary off the again of profitable gold within the 4 x 400m relay – went out subsequent to large cheers on the Stade de France.
Bol had come flying again to win an exhilarating gold for the Dutch on the ultimate relay leg on Saturday night time, and this time round she managed her vitality and coasted over the road in first with a time of 53.38.
“I want to sleep now!” Bol, who ran 50.95 in July, advised BBC. “I actually really feel the Olympic spirit, it feels so superb, however now I’ve sufficient time to relaxation.”
Terence Crawford, the consensus finest pound-for-pound boxer on this planet, defeated Israil Madrimov by unanimous resolution on Saturday night time to develop into a four-division champion.
Crawford gained the WBA tremendous welterweight title in his first combat at 154lbs, taking it 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113 on the judges’ scorecards.
Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) had not fought since he stopped Errol Spence Jr in July 2023 to develop into the undisputed welterweight champion. He has additionally gained titles at tremendous light-weight and light-weight.
Saturday’s victory may arrange a combat between Crawford and Canelo Álvarez, the reigning 168lbs champion.
“ what I say, if the cash is correct, we bought to combat,” Crawford mentioned instantly after the combat.
The largely unknown Madrimov (10-1-1) acquitted himself nicely on the highest-profile stage thus far for the 29-year-old from Uzbekistan.
“I fought the most effective pound-for-pound fighter on this planet, and I consider I did sufficient as a result of I used to be the champion,” Madrimov mentioned. “I used to be controlling the rhythm and felt very comfy contained in the ring. I consider that I did very well.”
It began out as a cautious affair, with each fighters attempting to determine place and really feel out the opposite by means of the primary three rounds. That strategy didn’t agree with the capability crowd at BMO Stadium. Having handled blazing temperatures and sunshine for a lot of the lengthy card on the out of doors residence of MLS crew LAFC, they responded with jeers and whistles.
Crawford turned on the strain within the fourth spherical, simply lacking on a fierce proper hand within the closing seconds.
“I didn’t wish to rush in with something as a result of that’s how I bought caught a pair instances, dashing in, attempting to eat too quickly,” Crawford mentioned. “However I did my factor.”
Madrimov was energized within the fifth spherical after Crawford slipped and ended up on his bottom. Madrimov got here in with a sequence of aggressive punches to place his American opponent on the defensive. The flurry despatched Crawford again right into a cautious posture for a lot of the subsequent two rounds earlier than he landed a uncommon efficient mixture to the physique late within the seventh.
“He was ready to counter me similar to I used to be attempting to counter him,” Crawford mentioned. “He was very disciplined, he wasn’t coming in throwing them wild pictures like I supposed him to, and it was an excellent combat.”
Madrimov reestablished momentum with three straight rights to the face within the eighth spherical. Crawford landed a shot of his personal, forcing Madrimov to clench and break momentum and permitting him to return again with a proper hook.
“I made a pair errors, however I felt I did sufficient in every spherical,” Madrimov mentioned. “I used to be holding myself again so much too, so within the rematch I could make much more.”
The motion picked up over the following two rounds, with each fighters seemingly attempting to land energy punches as a substitute of making an attempt to string collectively longer intervals of management.
Crawford got here on within the final 30 seconds of the eleventh spherical. The flurry energized him and carried over to the ultimate spherical as he pushed unsuccessfully for a twelfth straight win by knockout. Each fighters missed on wild throws within the closing minutes, however it was Crawford who emphatically raised each gloves within the air when the bout ended.
Jose Valenzuela (14-2) gained the WBA tremendous light-weight title by cut up resolution over Isaac Cruz (26-3-1) within the co-main occasion. Valenzuela bought equivalent 116-112 scores from two judges, whereas Cruz acquired a 115-113 mark from the third.
The gang booed the outcome and once more when Valenzuela was interviewed afterwards, having seen Cruz stay as much as his “Pitbull” nickname to depart Valenzuela constantly backpedaling for a lot of the bout. However Valenzuela’s tactical counterpunching was sufficient to sway the opinions which mattered. Cruz mentioned he would push for a right away rematch.
Golf followers have been handled to a implausible end within the ultimate spherical of golf on the 2024 Paris Olympics from Le Golf Nationwide on Sunday.
Three years after Xander Schauffele gained gold for Staff USA on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the US introduced residence one other — this one from Scottie Scheffler, who turned in the perfect rating of the day at 9-under 62. He wanted each little bit of brilliance to complete at 19-under for the event, one stroke forward of Nice Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood (-18). Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama introduced residence bronze with a ultimate rating of 17-under par.
Scheffler, who entered Sunday’s Spherical 4 in a tie for sixth place at 10-under par, began his ultimate spherical on a tear: He earned birdies on every of his first three holes to rapidly soar to 13-under earlier than incomes par scores on the remaining six holes on the entrance 9. He was even higher on the again 9, carding six extra birdies (together with 4 straight on Holes 14-17) to complete in a tie with Fleetwood on the time his spherical was accomplished.
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Nevertheless, a bogey for Fleetwood on the par-4 seventeenth gap gave Scheffler sole possession of a gold medal. Fleetwood gave an admirable effort on the 18th gap, narrowly lacking a birdie on a lag putt to settle right into a silver-medal end.
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Matsuyama was equally efficient on Sunday, carding six birdies and no bogeys to assert bronze.
This is what the leaderboard appears to be like like from Sunday’s fourth and ultimate spherical of males’s golf on the 2024 Paris Olympics, together with pairings, tee occasions, leaderboard, easy methods to watch info and extra:
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Olympic golf leaderboard right this moment
Outcomes, courtesy of the official Olympic leaderboard.
Spherical 4
Beneath are the highest 20 golfers, together with ties, atop the leaderboard for Spherical 4. For full outcomes, click on right here.
1. Scottie Scheffler (United States): -19 (F)
2. Tommy Fleetwood (Nice Britain): -18 (F)
3. Hideki Matsuyama (Japan): -17 (F)
4. Victor Perez (France): -16 (F)
T-5. Rory McIlroy (Eire): -15 (F)
T-5. Jon Rahm (Spain): -15 (F)
7. Nicolai Hojgaard (Denmark): -14 (F)
8. Tom Kim (Korea): -13 (F)
T-9. Corey Conners (Canada): -12 (F)
T-9. Jason Day (Australia): -12 (F)
T-9. Joaquin Niemann (Chile): -12 (F)
T-9. Thomas Detry (Belgium): -12 (F)
T-9. Xander Schauffele (United States): -12 (F)
T-14. Wyndham Clark (United States): -11 (F)
T-14. Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark): -11 (F)
16 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (South Africa): -10 (F)
17. Erik van Rooyen (South Africa): -9 (F)
T-18. Alejandro Tosti (Argentina): -8 (F)
T-18: C.T. Pan (Chinese language Taipei): -8 (F)
T-18. Matteo Manassero (Italy): -8 (F)
T-18. Ludvig Aberg (Sweden): -8 (F)
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Who’s competing for Staff USA on the Paris Olympics in golf?
Scheffler, Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark comprise Staff USA’s roster on the 2024 Paris Olympics. Schauffele returns because the defending gold champion medalist from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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Is there a reduce line in Olympic golf?
No, the Olympics don’t have any reduce line, not like the PGA Tour. All 60 gamers who began the event on Thursday are nonetheless {golfing} on the ultimate day of the event on Sunday.
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Does Olympic golf have a playoff?
Sure, Olympic golf does use a playoff to find out not solely who wins gold, but in addition the silver and bronze medals, if needed.
Olympic golf Spherical 4 pairings, tee occasions
This is a take a look at the golf pairings and tee occasions for Spherical 4 on the 2024 Paris Olympics:
All occasions Jap
3 a.m.: Camilo Villegas (Colombia) and Matthieu Pavon (France)
6:39 a.m.: Jon Rahm (Spain), Xander Schauffele (United States) and Tommy Fleetwood (Nice Britain)
Olympic golf dwell TV protection, easy methods to watch
TV channel: Golf Channel
The Golf Channel will broadcast the fourth and ultimate spherical of golf on the 2024 Paris Olympics at Le Golf Nationwide.
Olympic golf streaming choices
The fourth and ultimate spherical of golf on Sunday on the 2024 Paris Olympics may be streamed on the NBC app, NBC Olympic app, or NBCOlympics.com by logging in together with your TV supplier credentials. You can too stream it on Fubo, which carries the Golf Channel and affords a free trial, or on Peacock.
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