07232018 SPORTS

SPORTS SECTION E

MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018

OPEN, Page 5

Evans makes splash with two gold and silver FED CUP

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

T

eam Bahamas, through the first three days of competition, now has three medals at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia, and they all belong to swimming record breaker Joanna Evans.

Evans, who turns 21 on July 24, missed out on her third gold medal yesterday at the Complejo Acuático. In a much anticipated showdown with Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson, Evans got a silver medal in the women’s 100 metre freestyle

A final in a time 14, 2014 in Veracruz, of 55.29. The race Venezuela. was won by Isabella On Saturday, Evans Arcila Hurtado of added her second Colombia in 55.21 straight gold medal and Liliana Lopez with her victory in of Mexico got the the women’s 200m bronze in 55.39. free when she clocked Atkinson, who 1:58.03 for another like Evans had two record-breaking perrecord-breaking performance, erasing JOANNA EVANS formances on the first the previous mark of two days of competi2:00.19 set by Claudia tion, was fourth in 55.41.

Poll in Cartagena, Colombia, on As a result of the outcome, July 1, 2006. retired Bahamian Olympian AriWith her splits of 28.13 in the anna Vanderpool-Wallace still first 50m, 58.18 (30.05) in 100m; holds the Games’ record of 54.87 1:28.19 (30.01) in 150m and 1:58.03 that she established on November (29.84) in 200m, Evans beat out

Elisbet Gamez Matos of Cuba, who got the silver in 1:58.55 and Mexico’s Lilana Ibanez Lopez, who was the bronze medallist in 2:01.36.

Earlier in the day, Evans posted the fastest qualifying time of 2:02.82.

In the final of the women’s 400 metre freestyle on Friday, Evans stopped the clock at four minutes and 11.15 seconds for the Bahamas’ first gold medal. She erased the meet record of 4:11.36 that was set by Andreina Pinto from Venezuela in Mayaguay, Puerto Rico on July 23, 2010.

SEE PAGE 4

Miller-Uibo wins 400m

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net SHAUNAE Miller-Uibo can now boast of holding both the Bahamas national records in the women’s 200 and 400 metres at the same time.

At the Herculis International Meeting in Monaco on Friday, the tenth spot on the IAAF Diamond League circuit, Miller-Uibo pulled away from the field in the women’s 400 metres and held off a late surge by Bahrain’s rising young star Salwa Eid Naser to win the much anticipated showdown in an impressive time of 48.97 seconds.

Next to Miller-Uibo’s name were the words: WL (world leading time, previously held by American Shakima Wimbley at 49.52); DLR (Diamond League record, held by ); MR (meet record, set

by France’s Marie-José Perec at 49.16 in August 10, 1996); NR (national record, owned by Tonique Williams at 49.07 in Berlin, Germany on September 12, 2004) and PB (personal best, improving on her old time of 49.44 from winning the gold at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016).

The only thing missing on her name is the world record of 47.60 that was established by Marita Koch of Great Britain in Canberra, Australia on October 6, 1985, a time that could stand for a little while longer.

Miller-Uibo, the Olympic 400m champion and IAAF World Championships’ 200m silver medallist, used her 6-foot, one-inch frame to post a total of 15 points and move into fifth place in the standings. She will now prepare for the Diamond

TEAM FALLS SHORT IN ECUADOR

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas women’s national tennis team fell short in their bid to return to Group One of the Fed Cup tie over the weekend in Ecuador.

After breaking through Pool B with an impressive 3-0 win-loss record, the Bahamas suffered its first loss as top ranked Ecuador, with two world ranked players, pulled off a 2-0 sweep and clinched the qualifying berth for 2019.

With the loss, the Bahamas will remain in Group II next year.

Danielle Thompson, once again playing the first match as the No.2 seeded player on the team, lost 6-3, 6-3 to Camilia Romero of Ecuador.

Top seed Kerrie Cartwright, the only member of the Bahamas team with a WTA ranking, also lost 6-3, 6-3 to Charlotte Roemer of Ecuador.

With the tie already sealed, the Bahamas didn’t have to play the doubles where Sierra Donaldson and Simone Pratt were waiting to participate.

Marvin Rolle, coach of the team, said the players gave it their best shot.

“Danielle came out strong in the first set. She had a few loose games here and there, but she came with a lot of grit and a lot of dedication and she left it all out there,” he said of

SEE PAGE 4

League Final in Zurich and Brussels August 30-31 and defend her titles in both the 200 and 400m that she won last year.

In her latest triumph in Monaco, the 24-yearold Miller-Uibo left the 20-year-old Naser closing in for second in 49.08 for an area record and a personal best, erasing her previous mark of 49.55 as she suffered her first defeat this year, while the 25-yearold Wimbley had to settle for third in 50.85.

“I got this sub-49 that I was waiting for, so I’m happy, although also very tired,” said Miller-Uibo after the race, where she surged to the front coming

SEE PAGE 4

BLUE CHIPS’ ANNUAL THROWERS SUMMER CAMP STARTS THIS MORNING

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

SHAUNAE MILLER-UIBO, of the Bahamas, competes in the 400m race during the IAAF Diamond League Athletics meeting at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco on Friday.

(AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Everette ‘Elisha Obed’ Ferguson laid to rest

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THE boxing community, joined by a number of politicians, came out to show their support to the family of the late Everette Oswald “Elisha Obed’ Ferguson as the former World Boxing Council’s junior middleweight champion was remembered for his accomplishments during his funeral service at the Golden Gates World Outreach Ministries International on Saturday.

Lanisha Rolle, the first woman to serve as the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, representing the Free National Movement’s Government, made a comparison of 66-year-old Elisha Obed to Timothy in his book in the Bible where he said he “fought a good fight, he finished his course, he kept his faith and laid up for him is a crown of righteousness, whom the Lord, the righteous judge will give unto him on that day.

ELISHA Obed (centre) can be seen with his handlers after winning the WBC world title in 1975.

“Family, be strong. Your father recognition posthumously for has fought a good fight, he’s done Elisha Obed, who won the title on November 13, 1975 in Paris, his part. Now do yours.”

Many expected to hear some- France, two years after the Bahathing more tangible about a fitting mas gained Independence, but a

number of persons who followed in their tributes either criticised governments past and present for failing to do so, or they took a line from Rolle and felt “what was done” was done.

To their credit, former Senator Franklyn Wilson said the Progressive Liberal Party, under Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, in 1976 made history when they invited Elisha Obed to the House of Assembly where he was honoured as a national hero. But after he lost the title on June 18, 1976, he was never the same.

After retiring in 1984, he worked with the Ministry of Works until 1993 when he was medically boarded by the FNM Government, headed by PM Hubert Ingraham.

Elisha Obed’s sister, Dr Ruth Hynes, who would take care of him for 12 years because of his illness, said her brother loved the Bahamas and he took care of his mother, brothers and sisters.

SEE PAGE 4

FOR the fifth consecutive year, coach April Smith is in town to conduct the Blue Chips Athletic Club’s Annual Throwers Summer Camp.

Rain or shine, the camp, organised by Blue Chips Athletic Club founder and coach Corrington Maycock, will get started at 9am today and will wrap up on Saturday at the Queen’s College campus. Daily sessions will run until 3pm.

Smith, in her fourth season as an assistant coach in charge of the Fresno State throws group, said she’s delighted to be back to facilitate the camp along with her husband Robert, a former throws coach at Appalachian State, now coaching at a high school in Fresno State.

“It’s going to be a very interesting and fun camp this year because I have campers who have been a camper all four years that I have been here,” Smith said. “So we’re going to have an advanced portion for those campers where we will introduce a next level for the technical aspects from the college aspect that we will be introducing to them.

“And we will have a portion for the beginners where we go through the basics and teach them the introduction to the sport.

I’ve gotten some video from Corrie on a lot of the

SEE PAGE 4

PAGE 2, Monday, July 23, 2018

THE TRIBUNE

31ST JEFF RODGERS SUMMER BASKETBALL CAMP ALL-STAR GAME CELEBRITY CLASSIC

ON THE REPLAY: The 31st edition of the Jeff Rodgers Summer Basketball Camp concluded with its traditional fun night and All-Star Game Celebrity Classic. The game featured visiting NBA players Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors, Shelvin Mack of the Memphis Grizzlies, Mychel Thompson of the NBA G-League and others against local pros and camp instructors highlighted by Jaraun “Kino” Burrows and Zane Knowles.

Photos: 10th Year Seniors

THE TRIBUNE

Monday, July 23, 2018, PAGE 3

NPSA ALL-STAR GAMES TAKE ON NEW FORMAT

MAKING HISTORY: Freedom Farm Baseball League claimed the bronze with a 6-1 win over Aruba at the Caribbean Regional Qualifier for the Little League World Series in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico.

Freedom Farm brings home the bronze

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net FREEDOM Farm Baseball League closed out competition at the Caribbean Regional Qualifier for the Little League World Series with an historic finish for the Bahamas.

The team claimed the bronze medal at the event with a 6-1 win over Aruba at the tournament in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico.

Participating teams in the event included defending Caribbean champions Los Bravos de Pontezuela

(Santiago, Dominican Republic), Aruba Center (Santa Cruz, Aruba), Pabao (Willemstad, Curacao), Radames Lopez (Guayama, Puerto Rico A), Gino Vega (Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico B) and District 1 (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands).

Radames Lopez won the tournament 5-2 over Pabao and will represent the Caribbean at the Little League World Series August 16-26 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

They completed the tournament undefeated at 8-0. It will be the first time a Puerto Rican side has

represented the region in the event since 2014.

After opening the tournament with three consecutive wins, the Bahamas suffered a four-game losing streak.

In game one, Freedom Farm defeated Los Bravos de Pontezuela from the Dominican Republic 3-2 and followed with a 10-3 win over Gino Vega LL. They improved to 3-0 with a dominant 13-2 win over District 1 LL of the US Virgin Islands.

However, they suffered their first loss of the tournament in their earlier meeting against Radames

Lopez LL 7-4 in the first game of a double header, followed by a 10-9 loss to Pabao.

The Farmers then suffered a 4-3 loss on a walk-off hit from Aruba, but maintained fourth position in the standings and advanced to the semifinal where they suffered a 3-0 loss to the eventual tournament champions.

“It is with a thankful heart and a new found respect for the Freedom Farm organisation that I congratulate its manager, Greg Burrows Jr, coach and delegate Clearance ‘CJ’ McKenzie, coach

Steve Burrows and Team Freedom Farm Bahamas for advancing to the semi-final round of the Caribbean Regional Little League Baseball Tournament, hosted in Puerto Rico,” said Eddie Claude, district administrator for Little League Baseball in the Bahamas.

“This is a first in the history of the Bahamas’ baseball programme.

“I wish them all the best for the future and ask God’s blessings upon all who worked so hard on getting the team to Puerto Rico. It was truly a team effort.”

Isnord gets his first high major offer from Virginia Tech Hokies

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net PREP basketball star Wilkenson “Kenny” Isnord received his first high major offer from an elite Division I programme.

Isnord’s summer recruitment continues to accelerate following his performance at the Summer Hoops Festival in Orlando, Florida, last weekend.

The 6’8” forward received his latest offer from the Virginia Tech Hokies of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Isnord reclassified to the 2019 class last month and joined the Showtime Ballers AAU team for the current live recruitment period after playing alongside fellow Bahamian Kai Jones on Team Breakdown.

Scouts and pundits at the event have raved about

Isnord’s athletic ability impacting both ends of the floor.

He finished with 10 points in the Ballers final game of the tournament, a win over South Carolina.

Isnord previously fielded Division I offers from the University of Buffalo, St Bonaventure, Florida Gulf Coast University, James Madison and Appalachian State University.

In his first season with Blanche Ely Tigers in Pompano Beach, Florida, he was also named All-Broward Third Team for Boys’ 9A-7A Schools by the Sun Sentinel.

Isnord transferred to Blanche Ely last fall to complete his high school career in an effort to boost his stock with a high profile programme.

Through 30 games last season, he averaged 6.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game as the

PREP basketball star Wilkenson “Kenny” Isnord.

Tigers claimed the Class 8A state title.

Prior to his time at Blanche Ely, he played for J.P. Taravella High School last season and joined the stacked Florida Vipers

Under-16 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) team on the Under Armor Circuit.

Last summer, Isnord rose up the Florida high school prospect rankings over the

summer with an impressive start to his junior season began to field NCAA Division I offers. “I plan to be a monster on both offence and defence next year, especially when it comes to rebounding,” he told Jake Perper of prephoops.com.

“I want to do damage in the paint and around the arc. I want to make my presence felt on the court at all times. My goals are to help my school go undefeated again and to hopefully win another state championship and go to nationals.

“I’m looking forward to working on my handles a bit more and getting a better feel for the ball, also to improve my midrange and outside jump shot. I also want to make smarter decisions with the basketball, so I would say improving my basketball IQ is going to be crucial for me this season.”

WHEN the New Providence Softball Association’s All-Star games are played in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Tuesday night, they will take on a slightly different format.

The NPSA, headed

by Desiree Taylor, has revealed that their selected men’s All-Star team will take on the men’s national team that is headed to the Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia.

They will play that game following the regular ladies’ All-Star game at 7pm between the top players in the league.

The NPSA has released the names of the players who will participate in the two games.

• Here’s a look at the teams selected: Ladies’ A team: Thela Johnson, Dawn Woodside, Shevette Taylor, Jeanette Hilton, Keyshell Robinson, Kendalia Turner, Lathera Brown, Deneisha Woodside, Krystal Evans, Cara Gilbert, Yvanna McDonald, Melinda Bastian, Jovanthe Rose, Shaquel Smith and Amariage Taylor.

Manager Stephen ‘Bishop’ Beneby. Coaches Anthony Bullard and Kelly Smith.

Ladies B team: Valencia Gibson, Sari Albury, Mia Turner, Sophia Cartwright, Vanricka Rose, Larika Russell, Caria Cambridge, Dwayna Pratt, Sheena Taylor, Taylor Cartwright, Shaquel Bain, Shavonne Dames, Darinette Wright, Latonia Bowleg and Rhyiessa Stuart.

Manager - Sidney ‘Bobby Baylor’ Fernander. Coaches - Hyacinth Farrington and Robert Gilbert.

NPSA men’s team: Lyle Sawyer, Alex Clarke, Lavaughn Ferguson, Stephen Russell, Chedi Ferguson, Tori Rolle, Anthony Bowleg, Giovanni Willie, Moses Ker, Mike Butler, Crashad Laing, Jordan Gibson, Rodney Forbes, Stephen McKenzie, Miguel Hanna, Dino Sweeting, D’Juan Seymour and Eugene Pratt.

Manager - Darren Stevens. Coaches - Aphonso ‘Chicken’ Albury and Olando McPhee.

Men’s national team: Sherman Ferguson, Jeffrey Woodside, Richard Bain Jr, Lamar Watkins, Martin Burrows, Thomas Davis, Garfield Bethel, Angelo Dillett, Winston Seymour Jr, Alcott Forbes, Desmond Russell, Leon Cooper, Austin Hanna and Wayne Johnson.

Manager - Perry Seymour. Coaches - Haziel McDonald and Richard ‘The Lion Heart’ Johnson.

Note: Lyle Sawyer, who resides in Abaco, is on the men’s national team but he has been given the opportunity to get in some pitching against his teammates during the game.

Fox and Seymour go head-to-head in Single A-Advanced play

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net LUCIUS Fox and Anfernee Seymour crossed paths in the minor leagues once again as they went head-to-head in Single A-Advanced play.

Fox’s Charlotte Stone Crabs remain 4.5 games ahead of Seymour’s Jupiter Hammerheads in the race for the Florida State League’s second-half division winner and an automatic playoff berth.

The teams split the first two games of the series and the third was cancelled due to severe weather and minor stadium damage at Charlotte Sports Park in Port Charlotte.

In game one, the Hammerheads scored a 10-4 win and both players hit 1-4 for their respective clubs from the leadoff spot in the lineup. Seymour added two runs

and three RBI. In the first inning, Seymour grounded out to Fox at shortstop. His triple in the top half of the fourth inning with the bases loaded plated three runs for the Hammerheads as they took a commanding 6-1 lead in the fourth. They added another four runs in the seventh and the lead was never threatened. Fox flew out to Seymour in right field in the bottom of the third and hit safely on a ground ball in Seymour’s direction in the bottom of the fifth.

In game two, Seymour finished 2-4 and scored one run, but Fox became the storyline with his second home run of the season en route to a 6-2 win for the Stone Crabs. Fox singled in his first at-bat, eventually scored on a sac fly and Charlotte took a 2-0 lead at the end of the first. Seymour would score the Hammerheads’ only run of the third and pulled within one. Fox hit his second

home run of the season in The Division Chamthe top of the third to put pions will move on to his team ahead 3-1 and the League Championthey plated an additional ship Series. This will be three runs in the eighth to a best-of-five series with close out the win. a 2-3 setup. The home The Hammerheads are field advantage alternates currently second in the yearly between divisions.

South division with an Also in the Single overall record of 52-45 A-Advanced play, Seywhile the Stone Crabs are mour returned from the third at 50-46. seven-day disabled list The Stone Crabs lead with the Jupiter Hamthe second half division merheads in the Florida FOX standings at 16-13 while State League. the Hammerheads are Seymour hit leadoff 11-17 in the second half. The Flor- and finished 3-5 with one homeida State League format provides run, one RBI, one stolen base and that four teams will advance to the two runs scored. In the top of the playoffs. Winners of both halves third inning, Seymour homered within the Division play each on a line drive to right field and other in a best-of-three series for returned with a double to right the Division Championship. field.

The Palm Beach Cardinals won After being released by the first half in the South while the Atlanta Braves (Florthe Daytona Tortugas were the ida Fire Frogs) on May 6, winners in the North.

Seymour was signed by the Miami

Marlins on May 10 and was subsequently assigned to the Jupiter Hammerheads.

Since the assignment to the Hammerheads, Seymour has hit .280 through 33 games with 11 RBI, 14 stolen bases, three home runs and scored 15 runs. He concluded last season with the Orlando Fire Frogs with his best month of the 2017 campaign.

Fox was named to the Florida State League’s Southern Division All-Star Team. Last season, Fox was selected to represent the World team in the 2017 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game during MLB All-Star weekend and drove in an RBI in the loss to Team USA. The Futures Game showcases the minor league during the MLB All-Star week festivities.

Seymour and Fox previously went head-to-head in the South Atlantic League as members of the Rome Braves and Augusta Green Jackets respectively.

PAGE 4, Monday, July 23, 2018

THE TRIBUNE

Evans makes splash with two gold and silver FROM PAGE 1 Coming off her fastest qualifying time of 4:15.51 earlier in the day, Evans posted splits of 28.80 at the 50m, 59.59 (30.79) at 100m, 1:30.83 (31.24) at 1:50m, 2:02.48 (31.65) at 200m, 2:34.37 (31.89) at 250m, 3:06.91 (32.54) at 300m, 3:39.54 (32.63) at 350 and 4:11.15 (31.61) at 400m.

Allyson Macias of Mexico got the silver with 4:14.74 and Helena Moreno Hernandez of Costa Rica got the bronze with 4:15.51.

After she lost in the 100m free on Sunday, Atkinson

SHAUNAE from PAGE 1

off the first turn and maintained her lead on the backstretch, only to open it up on the final straight away as Naser made her comeback.

“The crowd here was amazing. Naser was doing a great race and that helped too. You know it was only my fourth race over 400m this season. We are trying with my coach different strategies. This was a faster first 200m or something like that. Next goal is to remain consistent on this level and long term another barrier that is 48 seconds.”

Naser, in pulling through with her area record and personal best performance, said Miller-Uibo made her run, but it’s just a prelude to the rest of the season.

“It was really fun to compete against Shaunae for the first time this year,” she stated. “We were both unbeaten under 50 seconds and now I am aiming for the DL (Diamond League) trophy and the Asian Games. So good to break the Asian record.”

BLUE CHIPS from PAGE 1 Thompson’s opening match. “In the second set, she came out strong again.

The girls (from Ecuador) played well. They are very experienced on the red clay. They moved very well.

Unfortunately, we don’t move as well on the clay, but we left everything on the line.”

As for Cartwright’s match, Rolle said she performed as anticipated.

“Both of them were grinding, both of them were giving it their all.

What a match to watch,” he stated of Cartwright’s performance. “Even the Ecuadorians were like ‘wow that was such a great match for both ladies. Both of them left everything on the line.”

Rolle, coming off his success as the captain of the men’s Davis Cup team that advanced to Zone II about a month ago, said despite not moving up the ladder, he was appreciative that the BLTA afforded him the opportunity to coach the ladies’ team.

“We just came up a little short today, but we appreciate all the support from back home. We felt everything over here,” insisted Rolle, who was asked to take over the team after original player/captain Larikah Russell opted not to travel with the team.

“Hopefully next year we can come out with the win. This year we came out short, but the girls left everything out there. It was so beautiful to watch how determined and dedicated they were. They were on a mission, but hey, you can’t win everything. So next year, we will come back stronger and better.”

Members of the team, with the exception of Donaldson, will now head to Colombia to join the rest of the Bahamian delegation at the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games.

While Rolle will be there to coach the men’s team of brothers Spencer and Baker Newman, Philip Major Jr and Kevin Major Jr, Russell will coach the women’s team of Thompson, Cartwright and Pratt.

came right back and got the victory in the women’s 50m breaststroke A final as she lowered her own meet record in a time of 30.19 in a race that featured Bahamian Lilly Higgs and Laura Morley.

Higgs got fourth in 32.59 and Morley was seventh in 33.50. Earlier in the day, Higgs won her heat in 32.30 and Lillian Morley was second in her heat in 33.33.

And N’Nyhn Fernander got fourth in the men’s 50m butterfly in 25.00 to advance to the B final. The outcome of his final was not available up to press time.

Miller-Uibo also broke the 200m record with 21.88 last year to erase Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie’s previous time of 22.19 set in St Denis, France on July 3, 1999.

Reacting to the performance, Williams, the 2004 Olympic Games and 2005 World Championship women’s 400m gold medallist, said she knew, sooner or later, Miller-Uibo was going to take her name down in the Bahamian history books.

“I did not see the race, but I just saw that her mom had sent something out on the executive chat and my reaction was ‘oh my goodness,’” said Williams, now the first vice president of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations.

“Congrats. 48.97. That’s a proud time for us in the Bahamas. The first time a female has gone in the 48 range, which is just phenomenal. So I’m definitely happy that we continue to break these glass ceilings in track and field, so I’m very happy for Shaunae.”

Williams said it couldn’t come for a more deserving athlete.

“I’m surprised that its taken this long. I definitely think that it’s something that has been a long time coming,” she pointed out.

“Sometimes you expect to see fast times in championship meets like the Worlds or the Olympics. Then you are reminded that sometimes those are the hardest races to run and so you don’t necessarily see those fast times.

“But this is an off year and she and others have been doing some incredible things on the circuit and so it’s good for her to turn in these type of performances.

It was inevitable. It was going to happen. It was just a matter of time. Shaunae is a talent and she’s the best that we have right now.

“I think when we set these standards, we think they are unthinkable when it’s done, but she’s pushed it to another level 14 years

OBED from PAGE 1 “My brother’s résumé didn’t look so good. There wasn’t a list of credentials or degrees,” she stated.

“He knew all about love and service as he became an icon to the world, representing the Bahamas. As I reflect, on the fights that I attended as he won, he putting me on his shoulder in the ring, it was a joy to serve my brother for 12 years. As I reflect, he deserved that and more.”

In his tribute, veteran journalist Fred Sturrup, who also serves as the chairman of the Bahamas Boxing Commission, said Elisha Obed was called one of the “greatest sons of Bahamian soil, truly a national hero.” But Sturrup said it’s a bitter-sweet minute as he reflects on what Elisha Obed achieved.

Sadly, Sturrup said the system in the Bahamas failed Elisha Obed and he never got his just reward as he and so many other sporting heroes have been neglected over the years after carrying the entire country on their shoulders on the international scene.

He said at the time when he had an opportunity to make his contribution, the system did not allow Elisha Obed to help develop his

Izaak Bastian, however, didn’t advance out of the heats of the men’s 50m butterfly after he finished sixth in 25.46.

In other events on Saturday, Izaak Bastian was seventh in the final of the men’s 100m breaststroke in 1:02.91, improving on his third place in his heat on 1:02.99 earlier in the day.

From the other events contested on Friday, in the final of the women’s 100m breaststroke, Lilly Higgs had to settle for fifth in 1:11.32 and Laura Morley was sixth in 1:12.34. Atkinson had a meet record time

later. But she’s just getting started.”

It comes right after Steven Gardiner lit up the Bahamas landscape in athletics when he broke the 44-second barrier.

“I think it’s so encouraging that we are reminded when we see our athletes perform that we are a country with great talent,” Williams said. “But just like both of them when they came on the scene, we found out that there are a lot more talent that has not been tapped. So we will continue to look for the next Shaunae and the next Steven. If Shaunae and Steven can do it, we have other persons who can continue the trend that has been set.”

Gardiner, the 2017 IAAF

of 1:06.83 for the gold over the Mexican duo of Byanca Rodriquez, silver in 1:07.80 and Medina Gonzalez, bronze in 1:10.60.

Higgs won her heat in 1:13.32 and Morley was second in her heat in 1:11.79. And Kohen Kerr placed sixth in his heat of the men’s 100m free in 52.58, but it wasn’t fast enough for him to advance.

SAILING After the completion of the first six races in the Open Sunfish class, Paul de Souza is now sitting in ninth place with 39 points. He got 10th in the first race and

her on running that fast time, world lead, Diamond League record, national record and personal best time. So I’m very happy for her.”

As a native from Abaco, Gardiner said it will only boost their performance in the future. “She always wanted to run 48 seconds and when I spoke to her, she was very excited about it and I’m very excited for her too,” said Gardiner, who will not compete again until next month as he prepares for the Diamond League final after he too has already clinched his spot in the men’s 400m.

Nobody was more thrilled than Miller-Uibo’s mother May Miller, who gave God thanks for not just allowing her daughter

was 13th after he retired on day one. He came back on Saturday and was ninth and eighth respectively.

Yesterday he picked up a pair of sixth place finishes.

There are three more races left in the series. Spencer Cartwright is now in ninth place overall with 49 points after the first five races in the men’s laser. He got 13th in the first race, 9th in the second, 10th in the third, ninth again in the fourth and eighth in the fifth races.

There are four more races in the nine-race series.

And in the open sunfish class, the combo of

“I spoke with her this morning and I said to her that ‘you are going to break the national record today’ and she was like ‘you think so, mommy?’

She said she was working on this new race module and it felt good to her, so she will see how it pans out.

“I told her she was going to break the national record. I saw the race and she did it. But I know that she have so much more in her to go further and I know with God’s grace, she will go further.”

As a proud parent, Mrs Miller said she encouraged her daughter to keep God in the front of everything she did and everything will fall into place.

Also at the meet in

SHAUNAE MILLER-UIBO, of the Bahamas, left, races ahead of Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain, right, during the 400m race of the IAAF Diamond League Athletics meeting at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco on Friday.

(AP Photo/Claude Paris) World Championship silver medallist who broke the barrier for the men in the 400m when he dipped under 44 seconds to snatch the national record (now at 43.88) and add the 200m at (19.75) to his ledger by going under 20-seconds, was just as thrilled about her performance.

“I’m excited about it.

A 43 and a 48, it looks good on the country,” said Gardiner about their two times. “I congratulated

to be victorious, but to be successful in her race.

“Not only did she get the national record, but she got the Diamond League record,” said Mrs Miller, who watched the race at home. “She got a world lead, a meet record and a PB. For that, I say thank you Jesus for God is truly awesome. I had posted something on my Facebook page yesterday and that was for her to do well in the meet.

Monaco was Donald Thomas, who finished tied for fifth in the men’s high jump with Gianmarco Tamberi after they both cleared 2.27 metres or 7-feet, 5 1/4-inches. Danil Lysenko, an authorised neutral athlete, won the competition with a world leading, meet record and personal best of 2.40m (7-10 1/2).

Thomas has already qualified for the IAAF Diamond League final.

craft by being put in a position where he could have helped to groom more Bahamian boxers to follow in his footsteps.

“Had the system provided him with the options to serve, he would not have had to fight for years when he should have hung up the gloves,” Sturrup pointed out. “But he needed the money and boxing was the only way he knew how to earn a living legally and he fought on.

“And he faded from the fantastic specimen that once made Bahamians across the length and breadth of this archipelago proud. The system failed Elisha Obed. Hopefully though, the powers that be would begin to recognise that this is indeed the moment in time to begin paying the deserved attention to the nation’s sports ambassadors.”

Winston Strachan, the president of the Bahamas Amateur Boxing Federation, took it a bit further and stated that if justice is not done for Elisha Obed, the boxing fraternity will march to see that it is done because they have lost their only world champion.

“We hope and pray that the powers that be, will hear the call because we will be calling, we will be knocking on the doors. If you don’t open the doors, we will kick it down. You must hear us and you

must give Obed his rightful dues,” said Strachan, who spoke on behalf of Wellington Miller, former president and former Bahamas Olympic Committee president, who was in Colombia for the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games.

“If this was a court of law, I would have sentenced every government since 1973 guilty of what they had not done for this great man, a humble man, a friend of many. He would visit the gymnasiums encouraging those who were trying to get some recognition to fight on, work hard. We continued to appreciate the great things that he has done for all of us. But sadly to say, those who had the power and still have the power had not done anything, absolutely nothing for Elisha Obed.”

Glenys Hanna Martin, the PLP’s Member of Parliament for Englerston, said she was happy to join the chorus in celebrating the life and legend of Elisha Obed, who only a few weeks ago buried his mother. She noted that his performance “defined the possible, which defied the odds and burst open the door for anything to be achieved.

“His professional career brought inspiration, which was brilliant and timely and inspired a new nation

and a new generation, even though sadly, many in this new generation, don’t even know his name and even though whether they know it or not, their own steps were emboldened by his own audacity.”

She said as a country, “we must stop saying that the story must be told.

We must stop waiting on tomorrow. Today, the story of Elisha Obed, Everette Ferguson, must be em blazing in the national consciousness of our people. It is overdue.” She said “we must lift our heroes and not seek to rewrite history.

We have lost an incredible son.”

Others giving tributes were Elisha Obed’s brothers Dr Rollington Ferguson, Braman Darling-Ferguson and Vanwright Ferguson; Bishop Dr Moses A Johnson, administrative national overseer of the Church of God and lawyer and cousin Wallace Rolle.

The eulogy was done by Bishop Ross L Davis and Elisha Obed’s remains was interred in the Lakeview Memorial Gardens.

Only members of the boxing fraternity were present. There were no other sporting bodies recognised in the audience that included Director of Sports Timothy Munnings and former Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Dr Daniel Johnson.

Jimmy Lowe and Michael McSweeney are sitting in 12th place with 12 points.

They didn’t start the two races held on Sunday. On Saturday as the series got started, they retired in 11th place in the first race and didn’t start the second race.

Team officials were unable to be contacted to ascertain what happened.

The rest of the Bahamas contingent in men’s basketball, men’s softball, track and field, tennis, judo, fencing and boxing will start seeing competition this week. The games conclude on August 3.

FED CUP from PAGE 1 youngsters who will be coming into the camp for the first time, so we are very excited to work with those campers.”

The expectations for this year’s camp is at a high level, according to Smith, because of the dynamics of what they will be implementing this year.

“Each year the camp has grown, so hopefully this will be one of our biggest years,” she said. “I know that there is a lot of talent here and that has been evident by the successes of some of the campers, who went on to compete at the CARIFTA Games.

So hopefully that trend will continue with those who come out and participate.”

Coming out of her previous trips here, Smith has been able to sign her second Bahamian to a college scholarship at Fresno State in California. She noted that Latia Saunders will begin her freshman year starting in August and will be teaming up with Tahj’Nee Thurston, another thrower, who is on the Bulldogs’ roster along with sprinter/long jump Andira Ferguson.

“Corrie has sent me some video of some of the campers who I will be looking at for further consideration and the good thing is that they are expected to be at the camp,” she stated.

“So I’m really looking forward to the talent that is available here and we will continue to look at the talent that is available.”

Smith said her and her husband brought their two sons, aged 15 and 12 years old, who will coming to the camp.

“The weather is not going to be a problem for us,” she said. “If it rains, we have the indoor facilities at Queen’s College where we can revert and get in some gym work and get some other things done.

So I don’t want the campers to feel that the weather is going to be a factor.

“I just really appreciate all of the support that we have gotten from the time we came off the airplane.

I am looking forward to spending the week here and looking forward to working with as many of the campers as we can this year.”

Maycock said the camp will go on as planned and so the campers can look forward to an exciting time this week.

“I just want the campers to come out and have some fun at the camp,” Maycock stressed. “The important thing is for them to know that they have the potential to be able to get a scholarship and, at the same time, they can advance their skills in the throwing events.”

Maycock said they couldn’t ask for a better facilitator than Smith, who has contributed greatly to the Bahamian community by providing scholarships to athletes in the past and she continues to do so for those deserving of one.

Ronald Cartwright, Maycock’s former mentor and coach when he competed, will also be a part of the camp. Cartwright is the head coach of RC Athletics.

Interested persons wishing to participate in the camp are urged to contact Maycock at coachmaycoxk@yahoo.com or call 395-6381.

THE TRIBUNE

Monday, July 23, 2018, PAGE 5

Molinari survives wild day to win British Open

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer CARNOUSTIE, Scotland (AP) — Francesco Molinari played a steady hand amid the cheers for Tiger Woods and another crazy ending at Carnoustie to win the British Open and become Italy’s first major champion.

Woods brought pandemonium by charging into the lead yesterday at a major for the first time in nine years, only to lose it with one bad hole. Jordan Spieth cost himself by failing to make a single birdie.

Seven players had a share of the lead at some point.

Six were still tied on the back nine.

Through all that, Molinari never flinched.

He closed with a 2-under 69, playing the final 37 holes on the toughest links in golf without a bogey. The clincher was a bold drive on the 18th hole that flirted with edge of a pot bunker, a wedge to 5 feet and a birdie putt that gave him a lead no one in the last two groups was able to erase.

Molinari raised his fist and shook it lightly before slamming it for emphasis.

“Just disbelief, to be honest,” the 35-yearold said with the gleaming claret jug in front of him. “To go the weekend bogey-free, it’s unthinkable. Playing with Tiger was another challenge. But I felt really good this morning. I felt I was ready for the challenge.”

He finished at 8-under 276, the lowest score in eight Opens at Carnoustie, the course where Jean Van de Velde threw away the British Open with a triple bogey on the last hole in 1999, where Padraig

FRANCESCO MOLINARI, of Italy, holds the trophy yesterday after winning the British Open Golf Championship.

(AP Photo/Jon Super)

TIGER WOODS, of the US, lines up a putt on the 4th green yesterday during the final round of the British Open Golf Championship in Carnoustie, Scotland.

(AP Photo/Peter Morrison) Harrington twice hit into Barry Burn on the last hole to make double bogey and still won.

Earlier in the day, Woods had every reason to believe he would cap a most amazing comeback.

He had a one-shot lead until a double bogey on the 11th hole, a bogey on the next. He and Molinari were together three weeks ago when Woods handed him the trophy at his Quicken Loans National.

“Francesco played really solidly today,” Woods said.

“He was working the ball around the greens, and that was cool to see.”

With the wind gusting to 20 mph, the strongest it had been all week, Molinari was the only player from the

last four groups to break par. Woods closed with a 71 to tie for sixth, three shots behind. It was the first time since 2007 that he trailed going into the final round of a major, had the lead and failed to win.

The victory adds to Molinari’s best stretch of golf.

Now at a career-best No. 6 in the world, he has won three times and been runner-up twice in the past two months.

No one in the final two groups was able to threaten Molinari.

Kevin Chappell (73) missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the 16th that would have tied him for the lead, and then misfired into a gorse bush on the 17th to take double bogey.

BRITAIN’S GERAINT THOMAS, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, arrives for the start of the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race yesterday.

(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Xander Schauffele, the last one to keep alive the American streak of five straight majors, was one shot behind until he sent a long iron well to the right of the 17th hole and failed to convert a 15-foot par putt to fall two shots behind.

Schauffele had to hole out a wedge on the final hole to force a playoff, and the ball checked up well short.

Molinari was on the putting green, not so much to get ready for a playoff, but he couldn’t bear to watch.

“It’s been a tough fight,” Molinari said modestly in congratulating the four guys who finished second.

“But there can only be one winner. This time, it’s me.”

Schauffele had to settle for second place with Rory McIlroy (70), Justin Rose (69) and Kevin Kisner (74), all of whom had plenty of reason to hope on a warm, windy afternoon that put plenty of bite back into Carnoustie.

All of them made mistakes, big and small.

The biggest blunder belonged to Woods, his red shirt blazing against the yellow grass of dry Scottish summer. The roars for his two birdies could be heard from all corners of Carnoustie. It felt like old times, as everyone Woods was chasing began to collapse.

Kisner, in a three-way tie for the lead, took double bogey on No. 2. Spieth hit into a gorse bush and made double bogey on the par-5 sixth. Schauffele made double bogey on the next hole, leaving one in the wispy grass, another over the green.

Woods was at 7 under, in control of his game and hitting shots that only he can. From a pot bunker on No. 10, he took a bold and vicious swing to get it over the lip, over the burn and to the front edge of the green.

And then it all went wrong. He pulled his shot from the rough on No. 11 into the gallery, fluffed a wedge short of the green, ran it by 8 feet and missed the putt for double bogey.

Another poor swing

followed and led to another bogey, and just like that, Woods was two shots behind. “A little ticked off at myself, for sure,” Woods said. “I had a chance starting that back nine to do something, and I didn’t do it.”

Molinari saved par with 8-foot putts on the 12th and 13th, and he took the lead for the first time with a short birdie on the par-5 14th. With another tough save from off the green at the 16th, he didn’t miss another shot.

Spieth went from a bogey-free round on Saturday that gave him a share of the lead to a birdie-free round that led to a 76, his highest Sunday score in a major. “When you put yourself in position enough times, it goes your way sometimes, it doesn’t go your way sometimes,” Spieth said, who goes to the PGA Championship in three weeks for a chance at the career Grand Slam.

Molinari is the first Italian with his name on the claret jug. He was 12 when he watched Costantino Rocca lose in a playoff to John Daly at the British Open at St Andrews.

“Hopefully, there were a lot of young kids watching on TV today, like I was watching Costantino in ‘95 coming so close,” he said.

“Hopefully, they will get as inspired as I was at the time.”

TEAM Sky with Britain’s Geraint Thomas, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, and Britain’s Chris Froome, to his right, sets the pace for the pack yesterday.

(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

THOMAS KEEPS LEAD BEFORE TOUR’S DECISIVE WEEK IN PYRENEES

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press CARCASSONNE, France (AP) — With the Pyrenees looming, Geraint Thomas had his last calm ride wearing the yellow jersey at the Tour de France yesterday.

The Welshman’s rivals for cycling’s most prestigious prize, which include teammate Chris Froome in second place, mostly held back over the hilly Stage 15 with a decisive final week of racing ahead.

Thomas kept the overall lead for a fourth consecutive day before the race pauses for riders to rest today.

That break will precede a stretch in the Pyrenees that will feature three mountain stages before an individual time trial on the Tour’s penultimate day.

“There are three big, big days left, and then the time trial, so (I) just take each day as it comes and we will see what happens,” Thomas said.

Thomas maintained his advantage of 1 minute, 39 seconds over defending champion Froome. Tom Dumoulin, the world time trial champion, remained third at 1:50 back. Primoz Roglic was fourth at 2:38

behind and Romain Bardet 3:21 behind in fifth.

With Froome seeking a fifth Tour title, Team Sky has yet to declare its current top option for the title since Thomas won back-toback summit finishes in the Alps.

So far, Thomas and Froome have not attacked each other, but that uneasy truce could be put to the test as the race enters its decisive phase.

Thomas, while not saying he will race against Froome, has made it clear that he is not going to relinquish his shot of winning a first Grand Tour.

“I think I would have to have a bad day,” Thomas said. “It’s a massive honour just to be wearing (the yellow jersey), but like I have said from the very start, who knows what lies just around the corner?”

Thomas, Froome, and the rest of the overall contenders slowly rolled across the finish line at Carcassonne and its medieval city walls 13 minutes after stage winner Magnus Cort Nielsen of Denmark.

Cort Nielsen claimed his first career win at the Tour after staying ahead of Ion Izagirre and Bauke Mollema in a sprint over the final 200 metres. He

DENMARK’s Magnus Cort Nielsen crosses the finish line yesterday to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 181.5 kilometres (112.8 miles) with start in Millau and finish in Carcassonne, France.

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong) finished the hilly 181.5-kilometre (112.7-mile) leg from Millau that ended in a long descent to Carcassonne in 4 hours, 25 minutes.

“I always kept a little back so I was able to respond if they attack,” said the 25-year-old Cort Nielsen, who gave Astana

back-to-back wins the day after teammate Omar Fraile claimed Stage 14.

The only sustained attack against Thomas came from Daniel Martin, who is 10th at almost seven minutes behind.

He tried a getaway while going up the Pic de Nore

climb at 40 kilometres from the finish but was reeled in on the way down.

There was also a halfhearted and short-lived attempt by Bardet to slip away on a downhill.

“We were always in control,” Thomas said. “We were always in the right

place, and it’s a good day to get done.”

Thomas and Froome lost one of their support riders for the rest of the way after Gianni Moscon was expelled by race organisers for apparently hitting Elie Gesbert of Team Fortuneo.

A breakaway group of 29 riders – none of which posed a threat to Thomas’ overall lead – got away early.

Cort Nielsen, Izagirre and Mollema dropped the five other remaining escapees before disputing the stage win among themselves. With all three riders sizing one another up, Cort Nielsen stayed in front of the other two when they broke into a sprint.

Rafal Majka was leading the race on the final ascent when he barely avoided a fan who appeared to be pushed onto the road.

The man was then almost hit on the back by an authorised motorbike following Majka.

Serge Pauwels of Dimension Data was knocked out of the race after breaking his right elbow in a crash near the end.

The racing returns on Tuesday with Stage 16, a 218-kilometre mountain trek from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon.

THE TRIBUNE

Monday, July 23, 2018, PAGE 7

Hamilton wins German GP as rival Vettel crashes late on

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer HOCKENHEIM, Germany (AP) — Lewis Hamilton regained the Formula One championship lead in unexpected and dramatic fashion yesterday, winning the German Grand Prix after race leader Sebastian Vettel crashed and then surviving an investigation into his own driving.

Hamilton was summoned to speak to stewards to explain a move late in the race, where he went to the pits and then aborted his move. He escaped with a reprimand and so kept his win, his fourth this season and 66th overall.

“It’s been the most emotional day, up and down. No one ever wants to go see the stewards because they have the hardest job,” a relieved Hamilton said. “I was just 100 per cent open with them. They could see how confusing it was.”

The incident came while the safety car was deployed following Vettel’s sudden crash. Hamilton decided against pitting at the last

second and crossed the grass to rejoin the track — which is prohibited.

“I just slowed down and trundled over some grass, and tried to join the track as safely as I could,” said Hamilton, who finished ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.

Governing body FIA said it cleared Hamilton — who faced a 5-second time penalty which would have handed Bottas the victory — because “driver and the team candidly admitted the mistake” and “at no time was there any danger to any other competitor.”

Earlier, heavy rain played havoc at the Hockenheimring as Vettel misjudged a basic entry into a turn and slid over the gravel into the barriers with 15 laps to go.

The four-time Formula One champion started from pole position and seemed in control. He kicked the gravel in frustration as he stepped out his car.

“I threw it away. It was my mistake,” Vettel said. “I was a tiny bit too late on the brakes, locked the rears and I couldn’t turn. It wasn’t the

When the race resumed, with about 10 laps left, Bottas almost overtook Hamilton.

Shortly after, Bottas was firmly told on team radio to “hold position” and not challenge Hamilton.

“Taking positives as a team, perfect result for us,” said Bottas, who added — seemingly half-heartedly — that he “understood” the call.

Ferrari made a call, too, at Raikkonen’s expense.

With a little more than 20 of the 67 laps to go, he was leading Vettel, who complained of his tires overheating.

Ferrari’s senior performance engineer, Jock Clear, told Raikkonen not to hold up Vettel.

Raikkonen replied: “I’m sorry but can you be direct?

What do you want?” After another indirect message, Raikkonen added: “So you want me to let him (past)?

Please. Just tell me.”

He eventually did, ending the Finnish driver’s hopes of a first win since the season-opening Australian GP in 2013. Asked about the

MERCEDES driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, celebrates on the podium after winning the German Formula One Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring racetrack yesterday.

(AP Photo/Jens Meyer) biggest mistake I’ve done, rising from last on the grid but one of the most costly to seventh. ones.”

Vettel’s incident led to a His mishap opened the safety car coming out for door wide open for Hamil- several laps, prompting ton, who is 17 points clear confusion at Mercedes. of Vettel after trailing by Hamilton was told to eight beforehand. come into the pits, but The British driver was ignored his mechanic fourth at the time of Vet- screaming “In, in, in, in!” tel’s sudden lapse, having at him. “They were all started from 14th on the panicking in the pit wall,” grid because of a hydraulic said Hamilton, who started problem in qualifying. to move into the pit lane Bottas started and fin- before doubling back and ished second, with Kimi landing himself in trouRaikkonen taking third for ble with stewards. “It was Ferrari. the most confusing thing,” Red Bull driver Max Ver- Hamilton said, recounting stappen was fourth for Red his team’s orders. “They Bull, but teammate Daniel were shouting ‘No, (go) Ricciardo retired after left! No, (go) right!”

THE WEATHER REPORT

5-Day Forecast

TODAY

ORLANDO

High: 87° F/31° C Low: 72° F/22° C

TAMPA

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Showers and a t‑storm around

Overcast with a few showers

Partly sunny, a t‑storm in spots

A t‑storm in spots

Partly sunny, a t‑storm in spots

Partly sunny, a t‑storm in spots

High: 90°

Low: 79°

High: 90° Low: 79°

High: 90° Low: 79°

High: 89° Low: 77°

High: 89° Low: 79°

AccuWeather RealFeel

AccuWeather RealFeel

AccuWeather RealFeel

AccuWeather RealFeel

AccuWeather RealFeel

AccuWeather RealFeel

98° F

83° F

100°-84° F

98°-88° F

99°-86° F

99°-88° F

The exclusive AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature® is an index that combines the effects of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation, pressure and elevation on the human body—everything that affects how warm or cold a person feels. Temperatures reflect the high and the low for the day.

N

almanac

E

W

ABACO

S

N

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

7‑14 knots

S

High: 90° F/32° C Low: 76° F/24° C

7‑14 knots

FT. LAUDERDALE

FREEPORT

High: 90° F/32° C Low: 79° F/26° C

E

W S

E

W

WEST PALM BEACH

N

uV inDex toDay

TONIGHT

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 78° F/26° C

High: 89° F/32° C Low: 77° F/25° C

MIAMI

High: 91° F/33° C Low: 80° F/27° C

8‑16 knots

Statistics are for Nassau through 2 p.m. yesterday Temperature High ................................................... 91° F/33° C Low .................................................... 81° F/27° C Normal high ....................................... 88° F/31° C Normal low ........................................ 75° F/24° C Last year’s high ................................. 92° F/33° C Last year’s low ................................... 80° F/27° C Precipitation As of 2 p.m. yesterday ................................. 0.00” Year to date ............................................... 29.97” Normal year to date ................................... 18.03”

ELEUTHERA

NASSAU

High: 90° F/32° C Low: 79° F/26° C

Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 81° F/27° C

N

KEY WEST

High: 92° F/33° C Low: 81° F/27° C

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

N

S

E

W

4‑8 knots

S

6‑12 knots Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

tiDes For nassau High

Ht.(ft.)

Low

Ht.(ft.)

Today

5:19 a.m.

5:57 p.m.

2.4 3.0

11:29 a.m. 0.4 ‑‑‑‑‑ ‑‑‑‑‑

Tuesday

6:09 a.m.

6:42 p.m.

2.4 3.0

12:24 a.m. 0.7 12:16 p.m. 0.4

Wednesday 6:55 a.m.

7:24 p.m.

2.4 3.1

1:10 a.m.

1:00 p.m.

0.6 0.3

Thursday

7:38 a.m.

8:04 p.m.

2.5 3.1

1:52 a.m.

1:41 p.m.

0.5 0.3

Friday

8:18 a.m.

8:42 p.m.

2.5 3.2

2:31 a.m.

2:21 p.m.

0.5 0.3

Saturday

8:57 a.m.

9:19 p.m.

2.6 3.2

3:08 a.m.

3:00 p.m.

0.4 0.3

Sunday

9:36 a.m.

9:55 p.m.

2.6 3.1

3:45 a.m.

3:38 p.m.

0.4 0.4

sun anD moon Sunrise Sunset

6:33 a.m.

7:59 p.m.

Moonrise Moonset

4:48 p.m.

3:10 a.m.

Full

Last

New

First

Jul. 27

Aug. 4

Aug. 11

Aug. 18

CAT ISLAND

E

W

instructions, Raikkonen said “it wasn’t clear, I had the speed.”

Hamilton’s win moved him level with F1 great Michael Schumacher on four German GP wins.

Vettel had won once before in Germany — at the Nuerburgring — but has never won at Hockenheim. He grew up less than 30 minutes away, in Heppenheim, and may never get a better chance amid doubts over future F1 races.

The German GP turned the tables on Ferrari, which also conceded top spot to Mercedes in the constructors’ championship.

Things started well, though, with Vettel getting away cleanly and setting fastest laps.

Raikkonen was the first of the front-runners to change tires, on Lap 15, coming out just ahead of Hamilton.

Losing speed, Hamilton changed tires on lap 43.

When he came back out, the heavy rain started falling. Raikkonen lost position to Bottas, and Vettel lost control of the title race.

ANDROS

SAN SALVADOR

GREAT EXUMA

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

N

High: 87° F/31° C Low: 81° F/27° C

S

LONG ISLAND

insurance management tracking map

High: 86° F/30° C Low: 80° F/27° C

L

E

W

6‑12 knots

MAYAGUANA High: 86° F/30° C Low: 80° F/27° C

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

CROOKED ISLAND / ACKLINS RAGGED ISLAND High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

GREAT INAGUA High: 88° F/31° C Low: 80° F/27° C

N

E

W

E

W

N

S

S

7‑14 knots

6‑12 knots

marine Forecast ABACO ANDROS CAT ISLAND CROOKED ISLAND ELEUTHERA FREEPORT GREAT EXUMA GREAT INAGUA LONG ISLAND MAYAGUANA NASSAU RAGGED ISLAND SAN SALVADOR

Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday:

WINDS S at 7‑14 Knots SSE at 7‑14 Knots S at 4‑8 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots SSE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots S at 7‑14 Knots S at 8‑16 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots SSE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots

WAVES 3‑6 Feet 3‑6 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 2‑4 Feet 3‑5 Feet 2‑4 Feet 3‑6 Feet 2‑4 Feet 3‑5 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑3 Feet 2‑4 Feet 3‑5 Feet 1‑3 Feet 2‑4 Feet 3‑6 Feet 4‑7 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet 2‑4 Feet

VISIBILITY 5 Miles 5 Miles 6 Miles 10 Miles 6 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 6 Miles 6 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 6 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 3 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles 10 Miles

WATER TEMPS. 82° F 82° F 86° F 86° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 85° F 84° F 85° F 85° F 84° F 84° F 85° F 85° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 85° F 85° F 85° F 85° F

Covering The Bahamas for over 40 years.

NEW PROVIDENCE | GRAND BAHAMA | ABACO | ELEUTHERA | EXUMA

INSURANCE MANAGEMENT

(BAHAMAS) LIMITED. INSURANCE BROKERS & AGENTS

HOME INSURANCE

LIFE INSURANCE

AUTO INSURANCE

MARINE INSURANCE

www.InsuranceManagementBahamas.com

PAGE 8, Monday, July 23, 2018

THE TRIBUNE

Korir runs fastest 800 since Rudisha’s world record LONDON (AP) — Emmanuel Korir ran the fastest 800 metres since the final of the London Olympics in 2012 on the same track to win at the Anniversary Games yesterday.

The Kenyan runner posted a time of 1 minute, 42.05 seconds.

No one has run a faster 800 since David Rudisha, Korir’s compatriot, set a world record of 1:40.91 in the Olympic Stadium six years ago. Kendra Harrison of the United States set a world-leading time of 12.36 seconds to win the 100 hurdles, two years after smashing the world record at the same Diamond League meeting by running 12.20.

Greg Rutherford, who won the Olympic long jump title in 2012, managed only 7.55 metres in his only valid effort on his final appearance at the stadium.

The injury-hit 31-year-old will compete in two more domestic events before quitting athletics and trying track cycling.

Warholm exploits Samba absence to win London 400m hurdles LONDON (AP) — World champion Karsten Warholm used the absence of Qatar rival Abderrahman Samba to finally win a 400-metre hurdles at the Anniversary Games on Saturday.

And in a Norwegian record, too.

Warholm was runner-up to Samba in the previous Diamond League meetings in Rome, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, and Lausanne.

But Samba preferred to try the 400 without hurdles at London Stadium, and registered a personal-best in coming fifth.

Warholm won the hurdles comfortably in 47.65, more than half a second off Samba’s best this year.

Meanwhile, Abdallelah Haroun won the 400 in a Qatar-record 44.07.

In the women’s 100-metre final, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in 10.98 seconds, her season best.

The Jamaican, a two-time Olympic champion, had a baby boy last August.

“I haven’t raced for ages and I’m happy that the run today was under 11 seconds,” Fraser-Pryce said.

“Being a mother is my first priority and to come back and be flexible with my training is wonderful, and I’m so excited about next year now.”

Dezerea Bryant of the United States was second in 11.04.

Ronnie Baker of the US won the men’s 100 in 9.90 for his fourth win of this Diamond League.

Zharnel Hughes was second in 9.93, and Commonwealth

champion Akani Simbine of South Africa was third. Jamaica’s Yohan Blake was fourth.

Christian Coleman, who won silver at the worlds last year, pulled out with a hamstring injury.

Olympic silver and world bronze medallist Paul Chelimo of the US edged the 5,000 from Ethiopian duo Edris Muktar and Yomif Kejelcha.

World pole vault champion Sam Kendricks of the US cleared 5.92 to hold Renaud Lavillenie and Armand Duplantis.

Shara Proctor of Britain won the women’s long jump, and world bronze medallist Lye Huihui of China won the javelin.

CHEPKOECH SMASHES 3,000M STEEPLECHASE WORLD RECORD BY OVER 8 SECONDS MONACO (AP) — Mission accomplished for Beatrice Chepkoech, who set out to break the 3,000metre steeplechase world record and smashed it by more than eight seconds on Friday.

Chepkoech clocked 8 minutes, 44.32 seconds at the Herculis Diamond League meeting, becoming the first Kenyan woman to hold the 3,000 steeplechase world record.

The previous mark was 8:52.78 set by Ruth Jebet of Bahrain two years ago in Paris.

Chepkoech, who finished fourth at the 2016 Olympics and 2017 world championships, dropped all of her rivals with three laps left and won by more than 16 seconds.

“I wanted to break the world record, that was the plan from the beginning of the season,” she said. “And I was aware the biggest chance would be at Monaco due to weather, crowds, and the whole environment.

And this plan worked well.”

In Chepkoech’s slipstream, Courtney Frerichs was a distant runner-up but crossed in 9:00.85 to set the US record.

KENYA’s Beatrice Chepkoech poses below the indicating board after setting a new 3,000m steeplechase World Record during the IAAF Diamond League Athletics meeting at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco on Friday.

(AP Photo/Claude Paris) Chepkoech’s feat came just hours after the IAAF announced Jebet, the Olympic champion, was among 109 athletes and coaches facing disciplinary action for doping and other offences. Jebet was included in a list of athletes

provisionally suspended after a positive test for EPO in February.

Earlier, Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas set a world-leading time of 48.97 seconds to win the 400 metres.

THE

PRESS BOX GHT Y

WITH

NAU

LIVEN UP YOUR SUNDAY WITH SPORTING WIT AND WISDOM FROM KISS FM’S RESIDENT ’SPORTS JOCK’ NAUGHTY TUNE IN TO FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPORT

EVERY SUNDAY - 10AM TO 1PM

Miller-Uibo, who set the previous fastest time in the world this year of 49.52 in Eugene in May, came off the final turn with a small lead over 20-year-old Bahrain runner Salwa Eid Naser and held over the final section to set a new

meet record in the Principality. Naser, who won the past four Diamond League meetings in Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, and Lausanne, finished second in 49.08, her new personal best.

Shakima Wimbley of the US was third.

World and Olympic 800 champion Caster Semenya dominated and prevailed in 1:54.60, failing to better the personal best of 1:54.25 she set last month in Paris.

“It was a great race, unfortunately I did not hit the mark we wanted,” Semenya said. “We just need to be a bit patient.”

On the men’s side, double Olympic and triple world champion Christian Taylor of the United States won the triple jump at 17.86 metres.

American sprinter Noah Lyles remained unbeaten in the Diamond League over 200 metres, winning in 19.65 seconds, his new personal best and the fastest time this year.

Lyles’ time was also meet record, and he celebrated his victory with a back flip at Stade Louis II. “It was a great race, improving the meet record,” Lyles said.

“I did the same start as I did in Prefontaine and I could feel it, it gives me confidence in what I can do next.

“Now I’m going to the Birmingham Diamond League, and finally Zurich to hopefully get a win.”

Ozil quits Germany squad in spat over Turkey president photo

By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Mesut Ozil is quitting Germany’s national team following criticism over his decision to pose for a picture with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In a series of statements posted yesterday on Twitter, the Arsenal star announced his retirement from international football. He attacked the German football federation (DFB), its president, fans and the media, criticising what he saw as racism and double standards in the treatment of people with Turkish roots.

Citing anti-Turkish comments from far-right politicians and fans, Ozil said he would “no longer be playing for Germany at international level whilst I have this feeling of racism and disrespect.”

He added: “Racism should never, ever be accepted.”

The photo of Erdogan, Ozil and Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan meeting in London caused an uproar in Germany two months ago.

At the time, the head of Germany’s soccer federation, Reinhard Grindel, publicly accused the players — whose families came to Germany from Turkey — of allowing themselves to be “exploited” by Erdogan for political purposes. Some German politicians questioned Ozil and Gundogan’s loyalty to Germany and suggested they should be removed from the national squad ahead of the World Cup. Gundogan distanced himself from the photo, but Ozil refused to comment publicly until Sunday when he published a three-part statement in English which defended his actions and

IN this file photo, Mesut Ozil scratches his head during a training session of the German team at the 2018 soccer World Cup in Vatutinki near Moscow, Russia.

(AP Photo/Michael Probst) attacked those who have criticised him.

“The picture we took had no political intentions,” said Ozil, adding that it “was about me respecting the highest office of my family’s country.”

He also took a swipe at German media who suggested that the 29-year-old midfielder was partly to blame for Germany’s shock group-stage exit from the World Cup. “This crosses a personal line that should never be crossed, as newspapers try to turn the nation of Germany against me,” Ozil said, noting that there had been little criticism of former Germany captain Lothar Matthaeus over a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ozil reserved his sharpest words for Grindel, however, alleging that the federation president had been “patronising” toward the player, who was a key part of

Germany’s 2014 World Cup-winning team. “I will no longer stand for being a scapegoat for his incompetence and inability to do his job properly,” Ozil said, claiming that Grindel had made “unforgivable and unforgettable” comments about immigrants and Muslims in the past.

On Twitter, Ozil said: “The treatment I have received from the DFB and many others makes me no longer want to wear the German national team shirt. “I feel unwanted and think that what I have achieved since my international debut in 2009 has been forgotten.”

While Ozil said he had received support from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and national team coach Joachim Low, he claimed “in the eyes of Grindel and his supporters, I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose.”