DOPING FINES WILL GO TO CLEAN WINNERS
World Athletics will use $2 million in doping fines it has received from Russia to increase the prize pool at the next two world championships.
Seb Coe, the president of the federation, said Sunday that prize money would increase by $1 million at worlds in 2022 in Eugene and in 2023 in Budapest, Hungary.
“I was very keen to make sure that got back into the hands of clean athletes,” Coe said during a meeting with reporters at U.S. track and field trials.
It means each of the 44 events will have $23,000 added to the pool. Usually, the top eight finishers receive money. World Athletics hasn’t yet decided how to divvy up the extra winnings.
Russia paid a $5 million fine as part of its reinstatement into track and field after a years-long scandal in which investigators uncovered a statesponsored plan to help athletes dope without getting caught.
Soccer
Qatar says it will require spectators at the 2022 World Cup to have received coronavirus vaccines to get into games.
• Maximiliano Urruti
scored his fourth goal in the last five games to pull the Houston Dynamo to a 1-1 tie with Los Angeles FC late Saturday night. Jose Cifuentes
had tapped in a goal to give LAFC (2-3-3) a 1-0 lead in the 50th.
• Rayo Vallecano is returning to the top tier in Spain after a 2-0 win against Girona. The Madrid club won the two-game promotion playoff 3-2 on aggregate.
• Chile’s soccer federation admitted Sunday that members of its Copa America squad had violated the tournament’s coronavirus protocols. The soccer body said the team will be fined.
• Peru beat Colombia 2-1 to keep alive its chances of advancing to the knockout stage of Copa America.
Tennis
Big-serving Matteo Berrettini dropped a set for the first time at the Queen’s Club tournament before going on to beat Britain’s Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3 in London. The 25year-old Berrettini became the
first newcomer to triumph at Queen’s since Boris Becker in 1985.
• Ugo Humbert defeated Andrey Rublev 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the Halle Open final for the biggest title win of his career. The French player, who won ATP 250 events in Antwerp and Auckland last year, beat the fourth-seeded Rublev in 1 hour, 24 minutes for his first ATP 500 title in Halle, Germany.
• Qualifier Liudmila Samsonova completed a remarkable week by beating Belinda Bencic 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 to win the German Open in Berlin.
• Second-seeded Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to win a WTA singles title with a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Daria Kasatkina in the Viking Classic final in Birmingham, England.
WNBA
Rebecca Allen scored a season-high 19 points, Sami Whitcomb added 17 and the New York Liberty held on for a 76-73 victory over the host Los Angeles Sparks.
Also
The San Diego Legion lost 19-13 to the Los Angeles Gilitinis in their first home game this season played at USD’s Torero Stadium. The Legion dropped to 5-8 for the Major League Rugby season.
• Restrainedvengence ($8.80), a 6-year-old gelding, overhauled favored Neptune’s Storm late to win his first graded stakes, as he took Grade III American Stakes on closing day at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. Del Mar will open on July 16.
• Joey Rosskopf timed his attack perfectly in the final mile to win the U.S. road cycling national championship in Knoxville, Tenn., while Lauren Stephens won the first title of her long and decorated career by simply riding away from the rest of the field.
• Ireland secured its place at the Tokyo Olympics with a 28-19 win against France in the men’s rugby sevens qualifier final in Monaco.
• Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics. Hubbard was among five weightlifters confirmed early today for New Zealand’s team for the Tokyo Games.