Premier League player positive
An unnamed Bournemouth player has tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the eighth case involving an English top-flight side, the Premier League club said on Sunday.
Bournemouth added that the player’s identity would not be disclosed due to “medical confidentiality” and that he would self-isolate for seven days.
“Following strict adherence to the Premier League’s return to training regulations, the club’s training ground remains a safe working environment for players and back-room staff, who will continue to be tested for Covid-19 twice a week,” said Bournemouth in a statement.
The Premier League announced on Saturday that there were positive tests at two clubs out of 996 tests conducted on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The other positive was at a different club, which has not been named.
That followed a first round of testing that produced six positive findings announced on May 19 at three Premier League clubs from 748 players and staff.
Those positives included Watford’s Adrian Mariappa and Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan. For the second round, the number of tests available to each club was increased from 40 to 50.
On Tuesday squads started non-contact training for the first time since the Premier League was suspended on March 13.
That an increased number of tests has produced fewer positive findings may be a boost to the Premier League’s Project Restart plan to resume in June.
Officials still plan to complete all 92 remaining fixtures, with Premier League CEO Richard Masters saying on Friday they were “as confident as we can be” about restarting in June.
Several players still have concerns about returning, among them Watford captain Troy Deeney and Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante, who stayed away from training last week.
Bournemouth manager Nigel Pearson revealed that several of his players were isolating at home after family members contracted the virus.
Timo Werner scored a hat-trick as RB Leipzig demolished hosts Mainz 05 5-0 on Sunday to reclaim third place in the Bundesliga with an emphatic victory after three draws.
Germany international Werner, a target for several top European clubs this summer, opened his account in the 11th minute and Yussuf Poulsen nodded in the second goal in the 23rd.
Marcel Sabitzer killed off the game before the break, flicking in from close range as Mainz collapsed.
Werner scored again three minutes after the restart when he chipped the ball over goalkeeper Florian Mueller in the 75th for his 24th goal of the season and 91st in all competitions for Leipzig to become their top scorer.
In the early game Schalke 04 slumped to a shock 3-0 home loss to relegation-threatened Augsburg on Sunday, their fourth defeat in five games dropping them to eighth place in the Bundesliga.
Eduard Loewen, Noah Sarenren and Sergio Cordova were on target for Augsburg.
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has become the world’s highest-paid female athlete, making $37.4m in the past 12 months for an earnings record, Forbes magazine reported.
The 22-year-old Asian star, a two-time Grand Slam champion, edged out US rival Serena Williams by $1.4m in prize money and endorsement income over the past year.
Both shattered the old singleyear earnings mark of $29.7m set in 2015 by Russia’s Maria Sharapova, who retired in February with five Grand Slam titles, including a career slam.
“To those outside the tennis world, Osaka is a relatively fresh face with a great back story,” University of Southern California sports business professor David Carter told Forbes.
“Combine that with being
Bayern Munich beat Eintracht Frankfurt 5-2 on Saturday, surviving a brief secondhalf comeback scare to stay four points clear of Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga with seven games left to play.
Bayern, chasing a recordextending eighth straight league crown, next face Dortmund in the league’s big game on Tuesday and victory there would send them seven points clear.
The Bavarians thought they had the match wrapped up after efforts from Leon Goretzka, Thomas Mueller and Robert Lewandowski had given them a 3-0 lead in the deserted Allianz Arena.
Eintracht defender Martin Hinteregger caught the Bayern defence napping to strike twice in three minutes and inject new life into the encounter.
Yet the visitors quickly gave away two goals — with Alphonso Davies pouncing on a defensive error on the hour and Hinteregger scoring an own goal in the 74th minute.
Bayern, who had club great Franz Beckenbauer watching from the stands in a rare public appearance, are on 61 points, with Dortmund on 57 after their 2-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg. youthful and bicultural two attributes that help her resonate with younger, global audiences — and the result is the emergence of a global sports marketing icon.”
Osaka, whose father was born in Haiti and whose mother is Japanese, ranks 29th on the 2020 Forbes list of the world’s 100 top-paid athletes, four spots ahead of Williams, who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
The complete list, due to be released this week, has not featured two women since 2016, according to the magazine.
Williams, 38, had been the world’s highest-paid female athlete in each of the past four years. Sharapova ruled for the five years before that. Williams had annual incomes ranging from $18m to $29m and has collected nearly $300m, much of it in endorsement deals.
Osaka won back-to-back Grand Slam titles at the 2018 US
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“I was happy with the first half. We wanted to dominate and we did that,” Bayern coach Hansi Flick said.
“At 3-0 maybe we were mentally already done with the game. Against Dortmund we want to keep a clean sheet.”
The Bundesliga resumed last week, with no fans in attendance, after being suspended for
Open and 2019 Australian Open. Her controversial and historic victory over Williams in the Flushing Meadows final was the first slam singles crown for a Japanese woman.
Osaka was a popular endorsement figure in Japan ahead of the now-postponed Tokyo Olympics. Nike signed an apparel deal with Osaka in 2019 that paid her $10m in the past year and runs to 2025. Other endorsement deals include Nissan and Yonex racquets.
Since Forbes began tracking female athletes’ income figures in 1990, tennis players have topped the annual list of female top income earners every year. more than two months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
It was the first match to be played without fans at Bayern’s home ground but the champions looked unaffected as Mueller set up their first goal with his 17th assist of the season and grabbed the second himself.
Poland striker Lewandowski, chasing Gerd Mueller’s 40-goal record haul from the 1971/1972 season, headed in his 27th of the campaign a minute after the restart before Hinteregger’s two-goal scare.
But Bayern kept their cool for their 12th win in the past 13 games, which kept them favourites for the title.
Dortmund were far from their best in their 2-0 win at
Wolfsburg and are hoping defender Mats Hummels can recover in time for Tuesday’s game after a heel injury forced him out at halftime.
Kai Havertz scored a brace for the second match in a row to lead Bayer Leverkusen to a 3-1 win at Borussia Moenchengladbach as they went third for 24 hours.