New Zealand nears America’s Cup title

Helmsman Peter Burling and his underdog Emirates Team New Zealand won both races Sunday on Bermuda’s Great Sound to reach match point in the America’s Cup against Jimmy Spithill and twotime defending champion Oracle Team USA.

The Kiwis lead 6-1 in the first-toseven match and can clinch on Monday. A victory would go a long way toward easing the sting of the epic collapse that kept them from winning the oldest trophy in international sports four years ago. Team New Zealand led the 2013 competition 8-1, only for Oracle Team USA to win eight consecutive races.

Aleec Harris won the 100-meter hurdles in 13.24 seconds at the U.S. track and field championships in Sacramento, a race in which worldrecord holder Aries Merritt finished second to clinch a return to the world championships — this time with a working kidney. The 2012 Olympic gold medalist won bronze at the 2015 worlds in Beijing with his kidneys barely functioning because of a genetic disorder. He received the transplant from his sister less than a week later.

In other results on the last day of nationals, Ryan Crouser won the shotput on his final attempt, a 74-foot 33⁄4-inch heave to surpass Joe Kovacs; Olympic gold medalist Dalilah Muhammad won the 400 hurdles in 52.64 seconds, fastest women’s time in the world this year; Ameer Webb took the 200 meters in 20.09, out-leaning Christian Coleman at the finish to win by 0.01; and in perhaps the meet’s biggest surprise, University of Oregon junior Deajah Stevens won the women’s 200 from the outside lane in 22.30, edging Kimberlyn Duncan and Tori Bowie. Allyson Felix scratched from the final.

In soccer, Germany and Chile reached the semifinals of the Confederations Cup in Russia. Germany earned a 3-1 victory in Sochi over a Cameroon side reduced to 10 men after further confusion with experimental video replays. Chile salvaged a 1-1 tie with Australia when Martin Rodriguez scored in the 67th minute at Moscow.