The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

THE HOT CORNER

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1 SWIMMING: Australian swimmer Shayna Jack was cleared Thursday to resume her competitiv­e career after a doping case that forced her to miss the Tokyo Olympics. The Court of Arbitratio­n for Sport said it rejected appeals by the World Anti-doping Agency and Sport Integrity Australia, which called for a four-year ban instead of the two years she finished serving in July.

SOCCER: Reece James said

2 thieves broke into his home and stole his Champions League winner’s medal while he was playing for Chelsea on Tuesday. The England internatio­nal on Thursday posted a video showing four people apparently entering through the gates of his property, and he appealed for help to identify the culprits, writing on Instagram that there were already “firm leads.”

BOXING: The boundary between 3 amateur and profession­al boxing blurred further Thursday with the Internatio­nal Boxing Associatio­n offering prize money of up to $100,000 for the first time at the amateur men’s world championsh­ips.

OBITUARY: Ruly Carpenter, the

4 third-generation owner of the Philadelph­ia Phillies, who in 1981 sold the team a year after they won their first World Series, saying he was troubled by the rising cost of player salaries, died Monday at his home in Montchanin, Delaware, near Wilmington. He was 81. His wife, Stephanie Conklin Carpenter, confirmed the death but did not cite a cause.

AMATEUR GOLF: Lara Tennant

5 captured the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur for the third straight time Thursday with a 2-and-1 victory over seven-time USGA champion Ellen Port in the championsh­ip match at The Lakewood Club, in Point Clear, Ala. Tennant’s only loss in the event was her first try in 2017. She won in 2018 and

2019, and it canceled last year because of the pandemic.

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