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Lane One
The International Olympic Committee and its money 3

Globetrotting
The week that was for Peter Ueberroth: NBC Olympic Channel,
another L.A. Olympics reinforce his legacy 5

Headlines
Aquatics: FINA World Champs: Diving/Open Water/Synchro previews 9
Athletics: U.S. team readying for Worlds at Diamond League Rabat 14
Football: U.S. men finish Gold Cup group play vs. Nicaragua 16

Scene & Heard

Swimming: Ryan Lochte returns ~ Arena Pro Swim Series winners 17
Wrestling: U.S. places 17 in UWW World Rankings 18

On Deck
Triathlon: Spanish men and Flora Duffy favored in Hamburg 19
Volleyball: U.S. women head to Macau in FIVB Grand Prix 21
Wrestling: U.S. Freestylers tuning up at Grand Prix of Spain 22

Scoreboard
Athletics: First winners in World U-18 Champs crowned 22
Cycling: Surprise! Fabio Aru takes over in Tour de France 23
Hockey: U.S. women face no. 3 Argentina in World League semis 25

Agenda: Competition Calendar 26

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C Lane One C
The IOC and its money

Amidst the tumult of the decision to potentially award both the 2024
and 2028 Olympic Games at the same time, the International Olympic
Committee also released its 2016 annual report, which included some
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fascinating accounting charts and footnotes that provide a window

into the finances of the IOC and the Olympic Movement.

If scouring balance sheets and accountants footnotes arent your idea

of fun, worry not, were here to help.

While there are lots of numbers explained with more numbers

there are three major takeaways from the IOCs report and the
included financial statements:

(1) The IOC is very well funded for now with assets of $3.28 billion (U.S.) and liabilities of
about $1.21 billion for a current net worth of about $2.07 billion.

(2) Make no mistake: the IOCs current financial good fortune is significantly based on
television rights fees, especially from NBC. If there is a turndown in rights payments from
the U.S. broadcaster in the future, the IOCs financial standing will go down with it.

(3) By most measures, the IOC is pretty generous with its money, distributing the vast majority
to support of Games organizing committees, the International Sports Federations and the
National Olympic Committees through its Olympic Solidarity fund.

So, on with the details:

C Revenue

On the income side, the Annual Report shows that 73% of its 2016 revenue came from television
rights payments, 18% from its TOP sponsorship program and small amounts from revenue-sharing
deals from organizing committees and some Swiss real-estate investments.

As the Report states that the IOCs 2013-16 revenue total was about $5.7 billion, about $4.2 came
from broadcasting rights sales and half of that ($2.005 billion) came from the U.S. broadcaster, NBC.
The sponsorship program brought in $1.003 billion, with $500 million from other activities.

Of the TOP sponsors in 2016, six of the 11 were U.S.-based companies (Coca-Cola, Dow, General
Electric, McDonalds, P&G and Visa), while two were from Japan (Bridgestone, Panasonic) and one
each from France (Atos), Korea (Samsung) and Switzerland (Omega).

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C Expenses and distribution

On page 104, the report says that During the 2013-16 Olympiad, USD 5 billion was distributed by the
IOC to support the staging of the Olympic Movement and to promote the worldwide development of
sport and the Olympic Movement. If thats the case, then out of $5.7 billion in revenue, thats 88% of
the total and not 90. But its pretty close.

So who got this money? The majority went to three groups: the organizing committees of the Olympic
Games, the international federations and the NOCs. The report says that over the period 2013-16:

= Olympic organizing committees for $2.364 billion: Rio got $1.531 billion (LA 2024 and
Paris 2024, take note!) and Sochi 2014 for $833 million.
= The sports federations (through the Winter and Summer IF associations) and NOCs
(through Olympic Solidarity) got $739 million each for a total of $1.478 billion.
= Other groups such as the Court of Arbitration for Sport, World Anti-Doping Agency and
Youth Olympic Games got a combined total of $235 million.

Thats $4.077 billion, with ~$1.623 billion left. Out of this total, the IOC reserved to itself the same
amount as it distributes to the IFs and NOCs ($739 million) for its own operations for the
quadrennial and the remainder was paid for other programs, notably a share from U.S. television
and TOP sponsorships to the United States Olympic Committee ($144.01 million in 2014 and $196.26
million in 2016), and to support the Olympic Broadcasting Service, which is the host broadcaster at
the Games ($254.6 in 2014 and $321.1 million in 2016). That accounts for the $5.7 billion.

(If youre looking for a single table which summarizes this, there isnt one. These figures are a
compilation drawn from the 2014-15-16 IOC Annual Reports. It would behoove the IOC to create a
quadrennial financial snapshot, in addition to its annual financial reporting.)

The IOC spent about $171.65 million on its own operations in 2016, with $76.4 million in salaries and
benefits taking the largest share of the cost. It also spent, according to the footnotes, another $102.1
million to promote the Olympic Movement, including $63.6 million to start up the Olympic Channel.

And the IOC plans to spend more, increasing the Olympic Solidarity budget for 2017-20 from
$439.870 million (2013-16) to $509.285 million, along with more for anti-doping and other
programs. It can do so with confidence thanks to NBCs 2014 agreement to pay $7.75 billion for the
2022-24-26-28-30-32 Games, an 18% increase over its 2011 contract for the 2017-20 Games.

Yes, the IOC is flush, but doesnt have enough itself to stage one Games if its television and corporate
partners went away. Thats a sobering thought about how really fragile the Olympic Movement is.

Rich Perelman
Editor

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The week that was for Peter Ueberroth:

NBC Olympic Channel, another L.A. Olympics reinforce his legacy
July 12, 2017

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Peter Ueberroth was uncharacteristically understated when I gave him the chance to gloat in a phone
conversation last week.

Ueberroth, the man who brought financial stability to the Olympics in 1984 (until recent host cities
went wild) and brought enduring organizational stability to the U.S. Olympic Committee, simply
refused to look back.

I live in the present and future, Ueberroth, 79, said from his farm in northern Idaho.

He could say, I told you so, now that one of his most criticized and roundly dismissed ideas (yes, I
was among the critics) to promote the Olympics and Olympic athletes is about to be fully
implemented in the United States.

The Saturday debut of NBCs 24/7/365 linear Olympic Channel ("linear" is industry jargon for
over-the-air and cable television) validates the actions Ueberroth took nearly a decade ago to create a
similar network, no matter that the effort failed in part because of his headstrong approach to pushing
it.

Once viewed as Ueberroths folly, guaranteed to suck money from USOC coffers, an Olympic Channel
has become an integral part of Olympic marketing strategy.

I asked if he felt vindicated. He parried the question.

I dont deal in that, he said. You do what you think is right.

I think its great to see an idea come to fruition. Its probably better timing than when the idea came
to me and the people around me.

That was sometime in 2008, near the end of Ueberroths 4 years as USOC chairman. In July 2009,
the USOC announced a deal with Comcast for a U.S. Olympic Network, despite having received a
cease-and-desist letter from the International Olympic Committee, which was trying to protect U.S.
rights holder NBC.

(Such delicious irony: Comcast would take over NBC in early 2011. In June 2011, NBC would go on to
buy U.S. rights to the 2014-16-18-20 Olympics for $4.38 billion. In 2014, it would add rights to
22-24-26-28-30-32 for $7.75 billion. Then it would go all in on an Olympic Channel.)

Ueberroths plan for a U.S. Olympic Channel officially died when Comcast backed out in 2010. His
forward-looking concept eventually would become reality on a global scale because the man who
became IOC president in 2013, Thomas Bach, had been intrigued by the idea years earlier.

"Should Peter get credit? Yes, he should," said Mark Parkman, IOC Olympic Channel general
manager. "But also remember that our current president (Bach) proposed this as a newly-elected IOC
member in 1994. There were many visionaries."

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Bach proposed the idea again soon after his

election to the IOC presidency. The IOC
membership approved financing it as part of
Olympic Agenda 2020 in December 2014.

Bach and Ueberroth had the same rationale for the

network: to generate interest year-round in
Olympic sport, especially in non-Olympic years.
NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel outlined
those philosophical underpinnings in a
Wednesday email about his companys new
channel.

Peter Ueberroth at the Beijing Olympics. (Getty Images)

This partnership (with the IOC and USOC) is part
of a larger strategy across multiple platforms to provide more exposure for Olympic athletes, shine a
light on their journey to the Olympics and increase opportunities to inspire young people to
participate in sports, Zenkel said.

For NBC, there is an additional reason: to help drive viewership during the 17 days of each Olympics,
especially at a time when such viewership in the U.S. has shown a considerable decline that likely will
continue with the next three Olympics in Asian time zones.

NBC has some $10 billion in rights fees invested in the upcoming eight Olympics. Zenkel said in an
email its commitment to a linear Olympic Channel will go on indefinitely.

A digital Olympic Channel has been up and running since the end of the 2016 Rio Summer Games.
NBCs Olympic Channel, also known as Home of Team USA, is the first linear offering in any
country.

Its debut is timed to take advantage of two of the Olympic world's major biennial events, for which
NBC already owns rights: the World Aquatics Championships (swimming, diving, water polo,
synchro), which open Friday in Budapest, and the World Track & Field Championships next month in
London.

The NBC Olympic Channel's programming will include live events, features (historical footage,
documentaries, interviews, features) and some studio shows, with an emphasis on U.S. athletes.
Some content will be provided by the global Olympic Channel, which soon will have rights to all but
two sports on the summer and winter Olympic programs (track and field and biathlon are the current
holdouts) and more than a dozen other sports.

We want to aggregate an audience of followers of different Olympic sports, Parkman said.

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The IOC has earmarked 470 million Euros

($536 million) to cover the Olympic Channels
operations through 2021. Three of the IOCs
global sponsors, Alibaba, Bridgestone and
Toyota, have signed on as founding partners.
Revenues from sponsors are to go back to the
IOC, according to Parkman. NBC declined to
provide details of its financial commitment to
the linear channel.

Neither Parkman nor Zenkel would identify

NBC Olympics boss Gary Zenkel, Russian President what metrics, if any, would be used to judge the
Vladimir Putin and USOC chairman Larry Probst (l to r) at
success of either the linear or digital channels.
USA House during the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

We view this as a strategy, not a stand-alone

business, and see real value in what the Olympic Channel can do to bolster our long-term Olympic
investment, including engaging fans and sponsors year-round, Zenkel said.

NBC has yet to decide how it will use its Olympic Channel during the Olympics, when it will show the
events live on a number of linear and digital platforms.

The primary purpose ... is to provide a platform for Olympic sports, athletes and stories in the U.S.
between Olympic Games, Zenkel said.

With the exception of some geoblocked live events, content on the global Olympic Channel will
remain accessible to everyone in the United States. Content on NBCs Olympic Channel will be
available in both linear and digital form only to those who have accounts with a cable provider.
Arrangements will vary according to provider.

The NBC channels launch comes at the end of a week in which another piece of Ueberroths Olympic
legacy has been re-emphasized. Using a bid plan echoing the one he and his management team
created for the 1984 Olympics (private funding, use of existing or temporary venues for sports and the
Olympic Village excepting a few privately financed permanent venues), Los Angeles now seems
certain to be a Summer Games host again in 2024 or 2028.

But the IOC and international sports officials long have been slow to acknowledge Ueberroths role in
saving the whole Olympic enterprise with the enormous success of the 1984 Summer Games.

Many IOC members, whose organization did not have two nickels to rub together in 1980, have an
Old World disdain for the U.S. lucre they gobble up as fast as they can. Ueberroths pointed
reminders of which nations corporations were keeping the Olympics afloat raised their pompous
hackles even more. Some of the most duplicitous IOC members, including the late Hein Verbruggen,
were the angriest at Ueberroth.

That was the Ueberroth I am familiar with prickly, combative (he tried to take my head off at one

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USOC meeting), impolitic if he thought it necessary, effective. What else would you expect from a
man whose private equity company is called, The Contrarian Group?

So the issue of the Olympic Review, the IOCs official magazine, that came out during the 30th
anniversary of L.A. 84 featured a look back at the ... 1992 Barcelona Games.

Maybe that is changing. During this weeks IOC meetings to discuss and then approve awarding the
2024 and 2028 Olympics simultaneously once (if?) L.A. and Paris agree on who gets which, Bach
called the 1984 Summer Games a turning point in Olympic history.

Yet Ueberroth, who turns 80 in September, remains the most influential and important person in
Olympic history not to have been made an IOC member, and he now is well beyond the age limit of
70. When I asked if he regretted that oversight, he laughed softly three times before saying, No. Im
pretty much not a joiner. I take on a project if I think I can be helpful.

Ueberroth said he was not involved with the L.A. 2024 bid. Nor would I want to be, he said. Nor
should I be. This is for the next generation.

His past is the Olympics' present and future.

To contact Phil Hersh directly, click here.

C Headlines C

1.
Aquatics:
FINA World Champs start today

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| The biennial FINA World Championships starts today with preliminaries in Diving and
Synchronized Swimming. An overview of the schedule:

C 14-22 July: Diving 13 events

C 14-22 July: Synchronized Swimming 9 events
C 15-21 July: Open Water Swimming 6 events
C 16-29 July: Water Polo 2 events
C 23-30 July: Swimming 42 events
C 28-30 July: High Diving 2 events

Well have special coverage of the Championships, including daily EXTRAs during the swimming
portion of the program. For now, lets preview the Diving, Open Water and Synchro events coming up
over the weekend. Check for broadcast coverage on NBCs new Olympic Channel; its where Universal
HD used to be as of Saturday.

FINA World Championships Previews: Diving

C Mens 1 m Springboard:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Shixin Li (CHN) Illya Kvasha (UKR) Kevin Chavez (MEX)
WCh 15 Kazan Siyi Xie (CHN) Illya Kvasha (UKR) Michael Hixon (USA)
OG 16 Rio Not an Olympic event

| This event will be held on Sunday. Neither of Chinas gold medalists from the prior two Worlds
will be present, but Chao He was the Asian Games gold medalist in this event in 2014 and the FINA
World Champion in the 3 m Springboard in 2015. He competed in Rio, but did not advance to the
finals in the 3 m. Jianfeng Peng won two medals in 3m events in the 2016 FINA Diving World
Series.

Challenging Chinese dominance will be Ukraines Illya Kvasha, silver medalist in the last two
World Championships in this event and 2015 bronze medalist Mike Hixon of the U.S.; Hixon is also
the current U.S. national champion in the 1 m, having won at last Decembers Winter Nationals.
Steele Johnson is also entered from the U.S.; he and David Boudia won Rio silvers in the 10 m
Platform Synchronized event.

C Mens 3 m Synchronized:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Kai Qin/Cheong He Ilya Zakharov/ Rommel Pacheco/
(CHN) Evgeny Kuznetsov (RUS) Jahir Ocampo (MEX)
WCh 15 Kazan Yuan Cao/Kai Qin Evgeny Kuznetsov/ Jack Laugher/
(CHN) Ilya Zakharov (RUS) Chris Mears (GBR)

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OG 16 Rio Chris Mears/ Sam Dorman/ Yuan Cao/Kai Qin

Jack Laugher (GBR) Mike Hixon (USA) (CHN)

| Another Sunday final, with a clash of the titans ahead, as Rio gold medalists Mears & Laugher are
in, along with Dorman & Hixon from the U.S. and Yuan Cao with new partner Siyi Xie. Whats
going to happen? If the World Series meets were any indicator, Cao and Xie are favorites, having won
three of four meets, with Laugher and Mears second all three times and Zakharov and Kuznetsov
third.

But the most recent meet, in Windsor (CAN), saw the Russians win, with Cao and Xie third and
Dorman and Hixon fourth. This should be fun.

C Womens 1 m Springboard:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Zi He (CHN) Tania Cagnotto (ITA) Han Wang (CHN)
WCh 15 Kazan Tania Cagnotto (ITA) Tingmao Shi (CHN) Zi He (CHN)
OG 16 Rio Not an Olympic event

| This will be the first individual event on the program, to be completed on Saturday. None of the
medalists in the last two Worlds are entered; the highest-ranked returnees are fifth-placed Esther
Qin (AUS) and sixth-placed Nadezhda Bazhina (RUS), along with Australias up-and-coming
Maddison Keeney, who won a Rio bronze in the 3 m Synchronized event.

Chinas Yani Chang is no slouch, however, having won 3 m silver medals in the first two FINA World
Series meets in 2017. Yiwen Chen is Chinas other entrant, and won the 3 m Springboard in the
FINA Grand Prix in Puerto Rico in May.

The U.S. has an intriguing entry in 15-year-old Maria Coburn, gold medalist at the 2016 World
Junior Championships. Alison Gibson won the NCAA 1 m title this year as a freshman at Texas and
was the 2015 Pan American Junior gold medalist in this event.

C Womens 10 m Synchronized

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Ruolin Chen/Huixia Liu Meaghan Benfeito/ Pandelela Rinong/
(CHN) Roseline Filion (CAN) Mun Yee Leong (MAS)
WCh 15 Kazan Ruolin Chen/Huixia Liu Meaghan Benfeito/ Un-hyang Kim/
(CHN) Roseline Filion (CAN) Nam-hyang Song (PRK)
OG 16 Rio Ruolin Chen/Huixia Liu Jun Hoong Cheong/ Meaghan Benfeito/
(CHN) Pandelela Rinong (MAS) Roseline Filion (CAN)

| We will have new gold medalists, as China has entered Yajie Si and Qian Ren, who won the last

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two legs of the 2017 Diving World Series, and are the favorites.

Canada still has Meaghan Benfeito ready to go, but she will team with Caeli McKay; they
finished second to Si and Ren at the third World Series meet in Kazan in early April. Perhaps the door
is open for Malaysias veterans Jun Hoon Cheong and Pandelela Rinong Pamg, coming off their silver-
medal performance in Rio. Pamg won a bronze in the 10 m Platform in London in 2012, becoming the
first-ever Malaysian women to win an Olympic medal.

North Koreas Mi-Rae Kim and Kuk-hyang Kim won medals in two Diving World Series meets
this year, and Russias Yulia Timoshinina and Valeriia Belova and Britains Tonia Couch
and Lois Toulson both won one.

The U.S. has national champions Tarrin Gilliland all of 15 years old and veteran Jessica
Parratto back for her third World Championships in this event.

C Mixed 10 m Synchronized:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Not held
WCh 15 Kazan Yajie Si/ Meaghan Benfeito/ Domonic Bedggood/
Xaihou Tai (CHN) Vincent Riendeau (CAN) Melissa Wu (AUS)
OG 16 Rio Not an Olympic event

| This event will be held on Sunday. Chinas Jie Lian and Junjie Lian dominated this event
during the FINA World Series, winning all four stops. Canadas Benfeito and Riendeau, Australias
Bedggood and Wu, Russias Viktor Minibaev and Yulia Timoshinina and Mexicos Viviana
del Angel Peniche and Randal Willers Valdez all medaled at least once.

The U.S. pair of Andrew Capobianco and Gilliland were national champions, but new at the World
Championships level.

FINA World Championships Previews: Open Water

C Mens 5 km:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Oussama Mellouli (TUN) Eric Hedlin (CAN) Thomas Lurz (GER)
WCh 15 Kazan Chad Ho (RSA) Rob Muffels (GER) Matteo Furlan (ITA)
OG 16 Rio Not an Olympic event

| The last two Worlds gold medalists are back: Chad Ho of South Africa and Ous Mellouli of
Tunisia, along with Canadas 2013 silver winner, Eric Hedlin.

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Two of the surprises of the last FINA 10 km World Cup, winner Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary and
bronze medalist Andrea Manzi of Italy, are expected to be challengers. The U.S. has David
Heron, the 2017 U.S. champion in the event and Andrew Gemell, who has two World
Championships medals already, from 2009 (10 km silver) and 2011 (5 km team event).

C Womens 10 km:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Poliana Okimoto (BRA) Ana Marcela Cunha(BRA) Angela Maurer(GER)
WCh 15 Kazan Aurelie Muller (FRA) S.van Rouwendaal (NED) Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA)
OG 16 Rio S. van Rouwendaal (NED) Rachele Bruni (ITA) Poli. Okimoto (BRA)

| All the big names are in this one: Rio Olympic winner Sharon van Rouwendaal (NED) and
silver medalist Rachele Bruni of Italy, 2015 World Champion Aurelie Muller of France, 2013
silver medalist Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA) and bronze medalist Angela Maurer of Germany,
plus last years Olympic fourth and fifth-placers, Xin Xin of China and Haley Anderson of the U.S.
(who was the London silver medalist in this event).

In addition to Anderson, Ashley Twichell will swim for the U.S. and is the 2017 national champion.
Its her third appearance in the Worlds and she owns a gold medal from the 2011 5 km Team event.

Wild cards? Consider Italys Ariana Bridi, strong on the FINA World Cup circuit and Brazils
Viviane Jungblut, second in the last World Cup, held in Portugal in late June.

FINA World Championships Previews: Synchronized Swimming

C Womens Solo Technical:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Barcelona Svet. Romashina (RUS) Xuechen Huang (CHN) Ona Carbonell (ESP)
WCh 15 Kazan Svet. Romashina (RUS) Ona Carbonell (ESP) Wenyan Sun (CHN)
OG 16 Rio Not an Olympic event

| This is the first medal event in Synchro; FINA awards medals for both the Technical and Free
routines individually. Russia has Svetlana Kolesnichenko, a nine-time World Championships
gold medalist, as its entry. She won Rio gold in the Team event and has won Duet (with Svetlana
Romashina) and Team medals at the Worlds, but not in Singles.

China did not post an entry to this event, leaving the door open for Spains Ona Carbonell, who
dominated FINAs inaugural (but poorly attended) Synchro World Series, or perhaps Japanese star
Yukiko Inui, fifth in this event in 2015. Also back for a shot at a medal are Anna Voloshyna
(UKR, fourth in 2015), Jacqueline Simoneau (CAN, 6th), Italys Linda Cerruti (7th) and
Greeces Evangelia Platanioti (8th). The U.S. did not enter this event.

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C Womens Duet Technical:

The formchart: Gold Silver Bronze

WCh 13 Budapest S. Kolesnichenko/ Tingting Jiang/ Ona Carbonell/
Svet. Romashina (RUS) Wenwen Jiang (CHN) Marg. Crespi (ESP)
WCh 15 Kazan Natalia Ishchenko/ Xuechen Huang/ Yukiko Inui/
Svet. Romashina (RUS) Wenyan Sun (CHN) Mitsui Risako (JPN)
OG 16 Rio Natalia Ishchenko/ Xuechen Huang/ Yukiko Inui/
(Tech. + Free) Svet. Romashina (RUS) Wenyan Sun (CHN) Mitsui Risako (JPN)

| Half of the 2013 title team is back with Svetlana Kolesnichenko (still just 23) teaming up with
Alexandra Patskevich. They will have their hands full with Chinas Tingting Jiang and
Wenwen Jiang, silver winners in 2013 and 2015, Spains Ona Carbonell and Paula Ramirez,
who have won big at the Synchro World Series this year and Japans Yukiko Inui and Mai
Nakamura.

The only high-ranked team from Rio which is back intact is Italys Linda Cerruti and Costanza
Ferro (sixth); otherwise there are new partners for Ukraines Anna Voloshyna (fourth), now with
Yelyzaveta Yakhno and Canadas Jacqueline Simoneau (fifth), now with Claudia Holzner.

The U.S. also has a new pair, with Rio Olympian Anita Alvarez (ninth) now teamed with Victoria
Woroniecki.

2.
Athletics:
U.S. team readying for Worlds at Diamond League Rabat

| The IAAF World Championships are coming up fast, starting in London in three weeks. Slowly but
surely, the U.S. team is gathering in Europe, with several more members competing this week in the
Diamond League stop in Rabat, Morocco on Sunday. Among the events to follow:

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C Mens 100 m: This is not a Diamond League event, but an opportunity to see what kind of
shape Jamaicas Yohan Blake is in. Hes run 9.90 and won the Jamaican title, so lets see
where he is relative to what Gatlin, Coleman, Simbine and others have done.

C Mens 200 m: Another measuring stick race, this time for U.S. champion Ameer Webb. He
won in London (20.13), ahead of a lifetime best 20.24 for 400 m champ Fred Kerley. Now
they will both see what can be done with Canadian 100/200 champ and Olympic silver
medalist Andre de Grasse (10.11/19.96w at the Canadian nationals).

C Mens 800 m: A rematch of the great race in London between Botswanas Nijel Amos (1:43.18
world leader) and U.S. champ Donavan Brazier (1:43.95). Kenyans Kipyegon Bett
(1:44.04 this year) and Ferguson Rotich (1:44.37) should be the best challengers. Can
Brazier maintain his great form from the Nationals and London?

C Mens Long Jump: South Africas Luvo Manyonga (8.65 m/28-4) and Rushwal
Samaai (8.49 m/27-10) have been the best this season. Samaai is in this meet against
Jarrion Lawson, the U.S. national champion, who has jumped 8.27 m (27-1) this year, but
8.58 m (28-1) last year.

C Mens Shot Put: Olympic and U.S. champ Ryan Crouser (22.65 m/74-3 so far in 2017) will
be back in the circle, against worlds contender Tomas Stanek (CZE), who has thrown
22.01 m (72-2) already this year. U.S. team members Ryan Whiting (21.54 m/70-8) and
Darrell Hill (21.91 m/71-10) are also in.

C Womens 100 m: The U.S. has Aaliyah Brown, fifth at the Nationals, in this race, against
double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson, who won in London, 10.94-10.97 over Dutch
star Dafne Schippers. That winning time was surprisingly slow for Thompson at this stage of
the season, so she could be looking for a statement race in Rabat. If shes off, Marie-Josee Ta
Lou (CIV) has been great this year (10.96).

C Womens 400 m: No Allyson Felix this time, but shock U.S. champ Quanera Hayes
(49.72) will be on the track for her European debut against the best in the rest of the world:
Olympic champ Shaunae Miller-Uibo (49.77 in 2017), Americans Natasha Hastings
(50.14) and Courtney Okolo (50.29), Jamaicans Novlene Williams-Mills (50.14) and
Shericka Jackson (50.05) and a South African 800 m runner named Caster Semenya
(51.60 this year; 50.40 lifetime).

C Womens 400 m Hurdles: Cassandra Tate has a bye into the Worlds thanks to winning the
Diamond League last year. She ran second to Jamaicas Janieve Russell at the London
Diamond League meet last Sunday, 54.02-54.59; is she ready to run faster?

The womens 1,500 m is also interesting with U.S. World Champs team members Brenda Martinez
(800 m) and Shannon Rowbury (5,000 m) running an off-distance that both are quite expert at.
Rowbury is the American Record holder (3:56.29 15) and Martinez ranks 10th in U.S. history with her
best of (4:00.94) from 2010. In 2017, Rowbury has managed 4:04.61 and Martinez, 4:03.15.

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The meet will be televised live on Sunday on the Olympic Channel (formerly Universal HD as of
Saturday) at 2 p.m. Eastern time, with a replay on NBCSN from 9:30-11:30 p.m. on Sunday evening.
You can follow the results as they happen here.

3.
Football:
U.S. men finish Gold Cup group play vs. Nicaragua

| After a wild, 3-2 win over Martinique on Wednesday in Tampa, the U.S. will finish up group play
in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Cleveland on Saturday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern time vs. winless
Nicaragua (televised on FXX, Univision and UDN).

The situation for the U.S. in Group B:

C 8 July: U.S. 1, Panama 1 Also: Martinique 2, Nicaragua 0

C 12 July: U.S. 3, Martinique 2 Also: Panama 2, Nicaragua 1
C 15 July: U.S. vs. Nicaragua Also: Panama vs. Martinique

The U.S. sits atop Group B with a 1-0-1 record (four points), ahead of Panama on total goals scored (4-
3) so far in the tournament.

After a 0-0 first half, the U.S. struck first with an Omar Gonzalez put-back of a Paul Arriola shot
that rebounded right in front of goal, in the 53rd minute. Then Jordan Morris scored the first of his
two goals on the night, finishing an Eric Lithaj centering pass with a deflection into the net for a 2-0
lead in the 64th minute.

Martinique struck back quickly, as U.S. keeper Brad Guzan let a Kevin Parsemain shot go under
him for a goal in the 66th minute and then Parsemain tied it in the 74th minute on a deflection of a
Johan Audel shot in front of the U.S. goal. But Morris came back with the winner two minutes later

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off a perfectly-timed centering pass from Gyasi Zardes that he rocketed into the back of the net.

The U.S. has never played Nicaragua before, and although it has an 0-2 record in the Gold Cup, it has
been in tight games, losing 2-0 to Martinique and then 2-1 to Panama.

The top two teams in each group, plus the two highest-ranked third-placed teams, will advance to the
quarterfinals on 19-20 July, semifinals on 22-23 July and finals on 26 July at Levis Stadium in Santa
Clara.

In Group A, Canada (1-1, 4 points) and Costa Rica (1-1, 4) are 1-2, with Honduras and French Guiana
(both 0-1-1, 1) trailing. Costa Rica will play French Guiana and Canada will play Honduras on Friday
evening.

In Group C, Mexico drew with Jamaica, 0-0, last night in Denver and both teams are now 1-0-1 (4
points), with El Salvador (1-1-0) with three points and Curacao at 0-2-0 (0). On Sunday in San
Antonio, Jamaica will face El Salvador and Mexico will play Curacao.

Mexico has won the Gold Cup seven times, including the last edition in 2015. The U.S. has won five
times (Canada won the other one), with recent wins in 2005-07-13.

C Scene & Heard C

News from the worldwide circus of sport

Swimming

Ryan Lochtes suspension ends, swims this weekend

| The 10-month suspension of 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte has ended and he is entered
in the Los Angeles Invitational at the Olympic Swim Stadium at USC in Los Angeles.

Now 32 and a new father, hes entered in the 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle and 200 m medley
events.

Also entered are Kendyl Stewart (100 m Free, 200 m Medley) and Tom Shields (100 Butterfly),
who won relay golds at the 2015 Worlds and 2016 Olympic Games, but did not make the U.S. team in
2017.

Kalisz and Ledecky win Arena Pro Swim Series

| With the conclusion of the Phillips 66 Nationals, the Arena Pro Swim Series for 2017 also ended
and Chase Kalisz and Katie Ledecky were the winners of the annual points race:

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C Men: Kalisz scored 65 points overall, ahead of Josh Prenot (46) and Nathan Adrian (39)
to win the use of a BMW for a year and the

C Women: Ledecky piled up 68 points to outpace Melanie Margalis (51) and Stanford
teammate Simone Manuel (44).

Kalisz won a one-year lease on a BMW and a $10,000 bonus for winning; because Ledecky is a
collegiate athlete, she cannot accept these prizes (and retain her collegiate eligibility). Margalis
received the BMW lease, but because she didnt win the points race, she was not allowed to receive the
$10,000.

Wrestling

U.S. places 17 in UWW World Rankings

| United World Wrestling released its world rankings for July, with 19 Americans shown in the top-
20:

Mens Freestyle:
C 57 kg: 1. Hassan Rahimi (IRI) 17. Tyler Graff
C 61 kg: 1. Vladimir Khinchegashvili (GEO) 3. Logan Stieber
C 65 kg: 1. Soslan Ramonov (RUS) None
C 70 kg: 1. Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) 2. James Green
C 74 kg: 1. Anuiar Gedeuv (RUS) 4. Jordan Burroughs
C 86 kg: 1. Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS) 6. Jden Cox
C 97 kg: 1. Kyle Snyder (USA) 1. Kyle Snyder
C 125 kg: 1. Taha Akgul (TUR) 14. Dom Bradley

In addition, Alex Dieringer was ranked 20th at 74 kg and Dave Taylor was seventh at 86 kg.

Mens Greco-Roman:
C 59 kg: 1. Ismael Borrero Molina (CUB) None
C 66 kg: 1. Artem Surkov (RUS) None
C 71 kg: 1. Rasul Chunayev (AZE) 20. Patrick Smith
C 75 kg: 1. Roman Vlasov (RUS) None
C 80 kg: 1. Ramazan Abacharaev (RUS) 14. Geordan Speiller
C 85 kg: 1. Viktor Lorincz (HUN) 17. Ben Provisor
C 98 kg: 1. Yasmany Lugo Cabrera (CUB) 16. GAngelo Hancock
C 130 kg: 1. Mijain Lopez Nunez (CUB)

Womens Freestyle:
C 48 kg: 1. Eri Tosaka (JPN) 6. Victoria Anthony
C 53 kg: 1. Helen Maroulis (USA) 1. Helen Maroulis
C 55 kg: 1. Mayu Mukaida (JPN) 17. Becka Leathers

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C 58 kg: 1. Kaori Icho (JPN) 19. Kayla Miracle

C 60 kg: 1. Xingru Pei (CHN) 2. Alli Ragan
C 63 kg: 1. Risako Kawai (JPN) None
C 69 kg: 1. Sara Dosho (JPN) 9. Tamyra Mensah
C 75 kg: 1. Erica Wiebe (CAN) None

The UWW also announced the top seeds for Augusts World Championships in Paris (FRA), including
five Americans in the top four:

Mens Freestyle: Womens Freestyle:

C 61 kg: Logan Stieber (2) C 53 kg: Helen Maroulis (2)
C 70 kg: James Green (1) C 60 kg: Alli Ragan (1)
C 97 kg: Kyle Snyder (1)

The U.S. had no seeded wrestlers in the Greco-Roman division.

C On Deck C
Previews of upcoming international competitions of note
For our detailed calendar of events, click here

Our prior previews of this weekend's action were in Wednesday's issue:

C Athletics: IAAF World U-18 Championships in Kenya

C Beach Volleyball: FIVB World U-21 Championships in China
C Sport Climbing: Lead World Cup II in France
C Volleyball: FIVB womens World U-20 Championships in Mexico

Triathlon

Spanish men and Flora Duffy favored in Hamburg

| After a month off since the last World Triathlon Series race in Leeds (GBR), the worlds top
triathletes are gathered in Hamburg (GER) for a sprint race this weekend 500 m swim, 20 km bike
phase, and a 5 km run. Its advertised as the worlds biggest triathlon, including of course the
thousands of local participants who will swimming, cycling and running.

The 2017 ITU World Series passes its halfway mark this weekend as this is the fifth of nine events on
this years circuit. The standings:

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C Men C Women
1. 2,743 Fernando Alarza (ESP) 1. 2,049 Kirsten Kasper (USA)
2. 2,064 Mario Mola (ESP) 2. 1,874 Katie Zaferes (USA)
3. 1,862 Javier Gomez Noya (ESP) 3. 1,746 Ashleigh Gentle (AUS)
4. 1,665 Thomas Bishop (GBR) 4. 1,744 Andrea Hewitt (NZL)
5. 1,494 Henri Schoeman (RSA) 5. 1,636 Ai Ueda (JPN)
6. 1,326 Richard Murray (RSA) 6. 1,600 Flora Duffy (BER)
7. 1,227 Kristian Blummenfeldt (NOR) 7. 1,560 Gillian Backhouse (AUS)

(Scoring in a World Series event is 800-740-685-633-586-542-501-464-429-397 for the top 10 places,

but points awarded down to 40th place.)

The Spanish show no interest in releasing the top of the mens rankings to anyone else. Mola is the
defending champion in Hamburg, with Alarza third last year. Gomez Noya hasnt won in Hamburg
since 2010, but has finished 6-2-3-4-2 from 2011-15 before skipping last year.

In the only Sprint of the 2017 season, held off Gold Coast (AUS) in early April, Moya was the winner
in 52:35, ahead of South Africas Schoeman (52:39) and Alarza (52:44). At a news conference this
week, he said of his position as a race favorite, Being one of the favorites of this race means that
youve done alright on the past, and Ill try to manage those expectations people have on me. As an
athlete you always want to win, and Im really looking forward Saturday and see what happens on the
race.

In the womens division, can anyone stop reigning World Series champion Flora Duffy of Bermuda?
She was felled by injury early in the season, but has roared back to win the last two races, in
Yokohama (JPN) and Leeds (GBR), convincingly.

Asked about her return, she said I am very happy. The start of the season was not very good for me,
as I had a pretty bad injury and I had to pull out from Abu Dhabi and Gold Coast, so I was not very
sure before Yokohama, but i think the extra rest actually helped me. I won my first two races, in
Yokohama and Leeds, but I still have a lot to catch up the others. A win could put her back atop the
seasonal standings, depending on what others do.

Hewitt (NZL) was the star of the early season, winning in Abu Dhabi and in the Gold Coast Sprint,
over Gentle (AUS), Juri Ide (JPN) and Zaferes of the U.S. It was Zaferes who won at Hamburg last
year for her first World Series victory, ahead of Rachel Klamer (NED) and American star Gwen
Jorgensen.

But Duffy has been sensational, with eight World Series top-three finishes in 23 starts and now has a
three-race streak working with the Grand Final from 2016 in addition to her two wins this season.

What about top-ranked Kirsten Kasper of the U.S.? her key has been consistency, finishing 17th at
Abu Dhabi, but then seventh at Gold Coast, third at Yokohama (her first Series medal) and fourth at
Leeds. At 25, she may just be coming into her prime now.

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The races will be shown on tape delay next Monday (17th) on the NBC Olympic Channel from 4:40-
6:30 Eastern time. You can watch the races live on the ITUs Triathlon streaming site (subscription),
and you can follow the results here.

Volleyball

U.S. women head to Macau in FIVB Grand Prix

| The undefeated U.S. womens national team heads to the second of three weekends of preliminary
play in the 2017 FIVB Grand Prix in Macau, to face Turkey, Italy and China.

The U.S., coached by Olympic indoor and beach gold medalist Karch Kiraly, swept through its first
weekend of play, winning a tough, five-set match vs. Russia and then sweeping Italy and 2016 Rio
gold medalist China in straight sets. The U.S. schedule:

C 07 July: Kunshan (CHN) U.S. d. Russia, 3-2 (22-25, 25-19, 25-27, 25-16, 15-11)
C 08 July: Kunshan (CHN) U.S. d. Italy, 3-0 (25-21, 25-22, 25-19)
C 09 July: Kunshan (CHN) U.S. d. China, 3-0 (25-22, 25-22, 25-21)

C 14 July: Macau U.S. vs. Turkey (world rank: 12)

C 15 July: Macau U.S. vs. Italy (8)
C 16 July: Macau U.S. vs. China (1)

C 20 July: Cuiaba (BRA) U.S. vs. Netherlands (7)

C 21 July: Cuiaba (BRA) U.S. vs. Belgium (16)
C 23 July: Cuiaba (BRA) U.S. vs. Brazil (4)

Opposite hitter Kelly Murphy led the U.S. in scoring last weekend with 47 points, with outside
hitter Michelle Barsch-Hackley next with 37. The American squad has won its last eight sets in a
row.

The U.S. won the bronze medal in Rio last summer, losing to Serbia in the semis and defeating the
Netherlands, 3-1, in the third-place final. In Grand Prix competition, the U.S. has won the title six
times Brazil has the most, 11 and won in 2015. The U.S. lost to Brazil, three sets to two, for the
2016 title.

The Grand Prix format jas the 12 Group I teams playing in a series of pool matches, with the top six
qualifying for the final playoff matches.

Wrestling

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U.S. Freestylers tuning up at Grand Prix of Spain

| The cream of the U.S. freestyle wrestling corps is in Madrid (ESP) for the Grand Prix of Spain
wrestling tournament this weekend, tuning up for the World Championships in France next month.
The American entries include most of the leading U.S. men and an extended selection of the womens
Freestyle squad:

Mens Freestyle:
C 57 kg: U.S. champion Thomas Gilman;
C 61 kg: U.S. champion (and 2016 World Champion) Logan Stieber;
C 65 kg: U.S. champion Zane Retherford;
C 70 kg: U.S. champion James Green
C 74 kg: U.S. champion (and 2015 World Champion) Jordan Burroughs;
C 97 kg: U.S. champion (and 2016 Olympic champion) Kyle Snyder;
C 125 kg: U.S. champion Nick Gwiazdowski

Womens Freestyle:
C 48 kg: U.S. champion Victoria Anthony, runner-up Cody Flau and bronze medalist Erin
Golston;
C 53 kg: U.S. champion Haley Aguello;
C 55 kg: U.S. champion Becka Leathers, bronze medalist Dominique Parrish and 58 kg
bronze medalist Jacarra Winchester;
C 58 kg: U.S. silver medalist Kayla Miracle;
C 60 kg: U.S. champion Alli Ragan, 63 kg seventh-placer Randi Beltz, and Arian Carpio;
C 63 kg: U.S. champion Mallory Velte, bronze medalist Mata Nelson, fifth-placer Forest
Molinari, and sixth-placer Alexis Porter;
C 69 kg: U.S. champion Tamyra Mensah and Amanda Hendey;
C 75 kg: U.S. champion Victoria Francis.

USA Wrestling did not enter any wrestlers in the Greco-Roman division. The Web page for the
tournament is here.

C Scoreboard C
Summaries of major international & U.S. competitions

Athletics

First winners in World U-18 Champs crowned

| The IAAF World U-18 Championships are continuing in Nairobi (KEN) through Sunday. The
winners so far include:

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C Boys:
100 m: 10.57 Tshenolo Lemad (RSA)
Long Jump: 7.88 m (25-10) Maikel Vidal (CUB)
Shot Put (5 kg): 20.72 m (67-11) Timo Northoff (GER)
Javelin (700 g): 77.54 m (254-5) Zhekai Liu (CHN)
Decathlon: 7,559 Steven Fauvel Clinch (FRA)

C Girls:
3,000 m: 9:24.62 Abersh Minsewo (ETH)
Shot Put (3 kg): 17.41 m (57-1 1/2) Selina Dantzler (GER)

Conversions for shot weights: 3 kg = 6.6 lbs. 5 kg = 11.0 lbs.

The U.S., which has been the top medal winner in this event in the past, will not compete, along with
New Zealand, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and Switzerland, due to security concerns.

Cycling

Surprise! Fabio Aru takes over in Tour de France

| There was a certain inevitability about Britains Chris Froome and the 2017 Tour de France,
after he had won it the last two years and three of the last four. But the mountain stages make the
difference and Froome was outgunned on the finish of the especially miserable 11th stage of the Tour
de France by Italys Fabio Aru.

The 27-year-old Aru is no stranger to winning; he took the 2015 Vuelta dEspana and was third and
second in the 2014-15 Giro dItalia. He finished a very creditable 13th in the Tour last year, but took
over the yellow jersey by finishing third in Thursdays stage, which finished uphill at the crest of
Peyragudes at 1,550 m altitude. Trailing by 18 seconds going into the stage, he finished 20 seconds
ahead of Froome and got a four-second time bonus for being third, vaulting him into first place by just
0:06.

With only four mountain stages left including todays 101.0 km ride the remaining challengers
appear to be:

2. -0:06 Chris Froome (GBR)

3. -0:25 Roman Bardet (FRA)
4. -0:55 Rigoberto Uran (COL)
5. -1:41 Daniel Martin (IRL)

Bardet is especially dangerous, having finished 6th-9th-2nd in the Tour the last three years.

The news from Wednesdays racing was the fifth stage win in the 2017 Tour for Germanys Marcel

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Kittel, who once again had the best sprint in the last 50 meters to get the win. Its the 36th time that
one rider has won five stages in a single Tour and there are two flat stages ahead 11-16-21 and a
time trial in Stage 20. The record is eight stages won in a single Tour by three different riders:
Charles Pelissier (FRA, 1930), Eddy Merckx (BEL, 1970 and 1974) and Freddy Maertens
(BEL, 1974).

The Tour is being shown all over NBCSN, both live and with multiple replays of each stage. The
schedule and stages:

Tour de France Greipel (GER), 5:05:34; 4. Alexander

France & Germany ~ 1-23 July 2017.
(Full results here)
Stage 1 (14.0 km time trial): 1. Geraint
Thomas (GBR), 16:04; 2. Stefan Kung (SUI),
16:09; 3. Vasil Kiryienka (BLR), 16:11; 4.
Tony Martin (GER), 16:12; 5. Matteo Trentin
(ITA), 16:14. Also in the top 50: 12.
Taylor Phinney (USA), +0:17.
Stage 2 (203.5 km): 1. Marcel Kittel
(GER), 4:37:06; 2. Arnaud Demare (FRA),
4:37:06; 3. Andre Greipel (GER), 4:37:06;
4. Mark Cavendish (GBR), 4:37:06; 5. Dylan
Groenewegen (NED), 4:37:06.
Stage 3 (212.5 km): 1. Peter Sagan
(SVK), 5:07:19; 2. Michael Matthews (AUS),
5:07:19; 3. Daniel Martin (IRL), 5:07:19;
4. Greg van Avermaet (BEL), 5:07:19; 5.
Alberto Bettiol (ITA), 5:07:21. Also in the
top 50: 48. Andrew Talansky (USA), 5:07:44.
Stage 4 (207.5 km): 1. Demare (FRA),
4:53:54; 2. Alexander Kristoff (NOR),
4:53:54; 3. Greipel (GER), 4:53:54; 4.
Nacer Bouhanni (FRA), 4:53:54; 5. Adrien
Petit (FRA), 4:53:54.
Stage 5 (160.5 km): 1. Fabio Aru (ITA),
3:44:06; 2. Martin (IRL), 3:44:22; 3. Chris
Froome (GBR), 3:44:26; 4. Riche Porte
(AUS), 3:44:26; 5. Romain Bardet (FRA),
3:44:30. Also in the top 50: 21. Talansky
(USA), 3:45:19.
Stage 6 (216.0 km): 1. Kittel (GER),
5:05:34; 2. Demare (FRA), 5:05:34; 3.
Kristoff (NOR), 5:05.34; 5. Nacer Bouhanni
(FRA), 5:05.34. Also in the top 50: 16.
Phinney (USA), 5:05:34; ... 47. Talansky
(USA), 5:05:34.
Stage 7 (213.5 km): 1. Kittel (GER),
5:03:18; 2. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR),
5:03:18; 3. Matthews (AUS), 5:03:18; 4.
Kristoff (NOR), 5:03:18; 65. John Degenkolb
(GER), 5:03:18.
Stage 8 (187.5 km): 1. Lilian Calmejane
(FRA), 4:30:29; 2. Robert Gesink (NED),
4:31:06; 3. Guillaume Martin (FRA),
4:31:19; 4. Nicolas Roche (IRL), 4:31:19;
5. Roman Kreuziger (CZE), 4:31:19. Also in
the top 50: 9. Nathan Brown (USA), 4:31:19;
... 36. Talansky (USA), 4:31:19.
Stage 9 (181.5 km): 1. Rigoberto Uran
(COL), 5:07:22; 2. Warren Barguil (FRA),
5:07:22; 3. Froome (GBR), 5:07:22; 4.
Bardet (FRA), 5:07:22; 5. Aru (ITA),
5:07:22.
Stage 10 (178.0 km): 1. Kittel (GER),
4:01:00; 2. John Degenkolb (GER), 4:01:00;
3. Dylan Groenewegen (NED), 4:01:00; 4.
Rudiger Selig (GER), 4:01:00; 5. Kristoff
(NOR), 4:01:00.
Stage 11 (203.5 km): 1. Kittel (GER),
4:34:27; 2. Groenewegen (NED), 4:34:27; 3.
Edvald Boasson Hagan (NOR), 4:34:27; 4.
Matthews (AUS), 4:34:27; 5. Daniel McLay
(GBR), 4:34:27.
Stage 12 (214.5 km): 1. Bardet (FRA),
5:49:38; 2. Uran (COL), 5:49:40; 3. Aru

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(ITA), 5:49:40; 4. Mikel Landa (ESP),
55:49:43; 5. Louis Meintjes (RSA), 5:49:45.
14 July: Stage 13 (101.0 km: mountains)
Saint-Girons to Foix
15 July: Stage 14 (181.5 km: hilly)
Blagnac to Rodez
16 July: Stage 15 (189.5 km: mountains)
Laissac-Svrac l'glise to Le Puy-en-Velay
18 July: Stage 16 (165.0 km: flat) Le
Puy-en-Velay to Romans-sur-Isre
19 July: Stage 17 (183.0 km: mountains)
La Mure to Serre-Chevalier
20 July: Stage 18 (179.5 km: mountains)
Briancon to Izoard
21 July: Stage 19 (222.5 km: hilly)
Embrun to Salon-de-Provence
22 July: Stage 20 (22.5 km: time trial)
Marseille
23 July: Stage 21 (103.0 km: flat)
Montgeron to Paris

Gymnastics
Hockey

U.S. women face no. 3 Argentina in World League semis

| U.S. veteran Jill Witmer still leads all scorers in the FIH World League semifinals in
Johannesburg (RSA) with three goals in two matches as the sixth-ranked U.S. gets ready for its third
and decisive game in Pool B against third-ranked Argentina today.

The Johannesburg semis are on through 23 July, with the Group B program as:

C 08 July: U.S. 1, Chile 0 Also: South Africa 0, India 0

C 10 July: U.S. 4, India 1 Also: Argentina 2, Chile 0
C 12 July: U.S. off Also: India 1, Chile 0
Argentina 3, South Africa 1
C 14 July: U.S. vs. Argentina (world rank: 3)
C 16 July: U.S. vs. South Africa (13)

The top four teams in each group will advance to the quarterfinals on 18 July. The semifinals will be
played on 20 July and the finals on 23 July.

In Pool A are England (world rank: 2; 1-1-0 thus far), Germany (7, 1-0-1), Ireland (15, 1-0-2), Japan
(11; 1-0-1) and Poland (18, 0-3-0). Todays games include Germany vs. England and Poland vs. Japan.

At stake in Johannesburg is a berth in the finals in Auckland (NZL) from 17-26 November. In the first
semifinal tournament in Brussels (BEL) held in late June, the top five finishers Netherlands, China,
New Zealand, Korea and Australia all advanced to the final, with New Zealand qualifying as host.
Five more teams from Johannesburg will also advance.

At the Rio Games in 2016, Great Britain claimed the gold medal over the Netherlands in a penalty

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shoot-out (2-0) after a 3-3 tie in regulation time. Germany defeated New Zealand for the bronze
medal, 2-1. The U.S. lost to Germany, 2-1, in the quarterfinals.

Agenda:
Competition Calendar
Highlights of the top-level (Championships ~ Grand Prix ~ World Cup ~ National Teams)
competitions in Olympic sports for the coming weeks:
Sport Date(s) Type ~ Event Site
C 10-16 July 2017
Cycling 01-23 Jul MWT: Tour de France FRA
Tennis 02-16 Jul Wimbledon GBR London
Sailing 07-15 Jul M 470World Championships GRE Thessaloniki
Volleyball 07-23 Jul Women's Grand Prix prelim groups Multiple
Shooting 08-17 Jul U.S. Shotgun National Championships USA Colorado Springs
Hockey 08-22 Jul W World League Semi-finals RSA Johannesburg
Hockey 09-23 Jul M World League Semi-finals RSA Johannesburg
Beach Vllybl 11-16 Jul FIVB World U-21 Championships CHN Nanjing
Athletics 12-16 Jul IAAF World U-18 Championships KEN Nairobi
Football 12 Jul USA Men vs. Martinique USA Tampa Bay
Sport Climb 12-13 Jul World Cup: Lead FRA Chamonix
Golf 13-16 Jul W U.S. Open USA Bedminster, NJ
Aquatics 14-30 Jul FINA World Championships HUN Budapest
Beach Vllybl 14-16 Jul World Tour 1-star (women only) KOR Daegu
Volleyball 14-23 Jul Women's World U-20 Championship MEX Boca del Rio
Football 15 Jul USA Men vs. Nicaragua USA Cleveland
Triathlon 15 Jul Junior American Championships CAN Magog
Triathlon 15-16 Jul ITU World Series 5 GER Hamburg
Wrestling 15-16 Jul Grand Prix of Spain ESP Madrid
Athletics 16 Jul Diamond League 10: Mohammed VI MAR Rabat
C 17-23 July 2017
Mod. Pent. 17-24 Jul European Championships BLR Minsk
Badminton 18-23 Jul Yonex U.S. Open USA Anaheim
Canoe-Kyk 18-23 Jul ICF Slalom U-23 World Champs SVK Bratislava
Beach Vllybl 19-23 Jul World Tour 4-star POL Olsztyn
Cycling 19-23 Jul U.S. Mountain Bike National Championships USA Showshoe
Fencing 19-26 Jul FIE World Championships GER Leipzig
Rowing 19-23 Jul FISA World U-23 Championships BUL Plovdiv
Beach Vllybl 20-22 Jul World Tour 1-star (women only) KOR Ulsan
Cycling 20 Jul WWT: La Course FRA Paris
Golf 20-23 Jul M British Open ENG Southport
Multisport 20-30 Jul X World Games POL Wroclaw
Weightlift 20-27 Jul Pan American Championships USA Miami

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Athletics 21 Jul Diamond League 11: Herculis MON Monaco

Athletics 21-23 Jul Pan American Junior Championships PER Lima
Beach Vllybl 21-23 Jul World Tour 1-star MAR Agadir Beach
Basketball 22-30 Jul FIBA W U-19 World Championships ITA Udine
Volleyball 22-23 Jul Women's Grand Prix Final-Group 3 AUS Canberra
C 24-30 July 2017
Cycling 25-29 Jul UCI BMX World Championships USA Rock Hill
Canoe-Kyk 27-30 Jul ICF Sprint U-23 World Champs ROU Pitesti
Swimming 27 Jul HOSA 10 km Open Water World Cup 4 CAN Lac St. Jean
Beach Vllybl 28 Jul-06 FIVB World Championships AUT Vienna
Beach Vllybl 28-30 Jul World Tour 2-star (men only) POR Espinho
Sport Climb 28-29 Jul World Cup: Lead FRA Briancon
Triathlon 28-29 Jul ITU World Series 6 CAN Edmonton
Weightlift 28-31 Jul American Open II USA Miami
Cycling 29 Jul MWT: Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian ESP San Sebastian
Cycling 29 Jul WWT: Prudential RideLondon Classique GBR London
Cycling 29 Jul-04 MWT: Tour of Poland POL
Diving 29 Jul-12 AT&T U.S. National Diving Championships USA Columbus
Volleyball 29-30 Jul Women's Grand Prix Final-Group 2 CZE Ostrava
Cycling 30 Jul MWT: Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic GBR London
Cycling 31 Jul-06 U.S. National Track Championships USA Carson

C 01-07 August 2017

Wrestling 01-06 Aug UWW World Junior Championships FIN Helsinki
Archery 02-06 Aug U.S. National Target Championships USA Westfield
Canoe-Kyk 02-05 Aug U.S. Sprint National Championships USA Clermont
Rowing 02-06 Aug FISA World Junior Championships LTU Trakai
Swimming 02-03 Aug airweave Swimming World Cup 1 RUS Moscow
Volleyball 02-06 Aug Women's Grand Prix Final-Group 1 CHN Nanjing
Golf 03-06 Aug W Ricoh British Open SCO Fife
Athletics 04-13 Aug IAAF World Championships GBR London
Hockey 04-13 Aug Pan American Cup USA Lancaster
Cycling 05-06 Aug Mountain Bike World Cup CAN Mt. Sainte Anne
Triathlon 05-06 Aug ITU World Series 7 CAN Montreal
Water Polo 05-13 Aug Men's Junior World Championships SRB Belgrade
Rowing 06-09 Aug U.S. World Championship Trials USA West Windsor
Swimming 06-07 Aug airweave Swimming World Cup 2 GER Berlin

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