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Diego Luna's 2 goals lift USA past Guatemala into Gold Cup final
MISSOURI: Diego Luna scored twice in the first 15 minutes and the US men's national team held on for a 2-1 victory over Guatemala in St. Louis on Wednesday to advance to the final of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Luna tallied in the fourth and 15th minutes before Olger Escobar made it 2-1 in the 80th minute. American goalkeeper Matt Freese made four saves, including a diving stop at the left post on Joes Morales in the second minute of second-half stoppage time. The US will play either Honduras or Mexico, who play later Thursday, on Sunday in Houston. Luna, a 5-foot-8 Real Salt Lake midfielder, scored his first US goal on Sunday against Costa Rica and leads the team in goal contributions in 2025 with seven (three goals, four assists). At this time a year ago, he was miffed that he was not selected of the US Olympic team for the Paris Games. Now, he is a mainstay, at least for this iteration of a team that does not include most of the European-based players. Still, Luna appears to be playing his way onto the roster for the 2026 World Cup. He opened the scoring with his quick reaction to rebound of a long shot by Luca de la Torre. Goalkeeper Kenderson Navarro fumbled the ball straight to Luna, who brought it down with his right foot before delivering a left-footed strike. Luna silenced the pro-Guatemala even further with his laser from 22 yards after taking a pass from Malik Tillman. The desperate Guatemalans dominated the rest of the half, outshooting the US 12-2 over the final 20 minutes. Navarro was the story early in the second half as the US looked for a third goal. First, he parried a header by Patrick Agyemang in the 62nd minute, then two minutes later Agyemang broke free but couldn't get the ball past the keeper. The saves proved huge when Escobar dribbled to the top of the box and slipped a shot through several Americans. This was the nations' first-ever meeting in a Gold Cup knockout round and Guatemala's first appearance in a Gold Cup semifinal since 1996.--REUTERS
New Straits Times
5 days ago
- New Straits Times
Gan guns down two national records
SUBANG: Gan Chen Jie shot down two national records in the Tun Tan Siew Sin Trophy at the National Subang Shooting Range today. The Negri Sembilan shooter amassed 627.3 points in the qualifying rounds of the women's 10m air rifle to break the previous national mark of 627 set by Shahera Rahim Raja of the armed forces in 2019. Chen Jie's effort of 627.3 erased her national junior record of 626.9 set in the Selangor Championships in April. She went on to win gold in the final by accumulating 246.5 points while Nor Alya Aqila Mahathir of Perak (245.7) and Nur Ain Natasya Anderson of Sabah (224.8) took the silver and bronze, respectively. Chen Jie said: "I am honoured to have broken both the junior and senior national records today. It feels incredible to see my hard work pay off. "I hope I can stay on the right track and maintain this momentum to the Sea (Southeast Asia) Games (in Thailand in December)," added Chen Jie, who competed in the World Cup in Germany recently.
The Star
7 days ago
- The Star
Olympics-IOC to take lead in gender eligibility criteria, says Coventry
Newly elected President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Kirsty Coventry attends her first Executive Board meeting at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) -The International Olympic Committee will take the lead in discussions on gender eligibility criteria in sports, its new President Kirsty Coventry said on Thursday, four years after the ruling body had urged federations to handle the issue independently. Coventry, who officially took over the presidency from Thomas Bach this week following Monday's ceremony in Lausanne as the first woman and first African to hold the position, said she now wanted the IOC to "protect the female category". She said a working group would be set up to take charge of those discussions. The IOC has long refused to apply any universal rule on transgender participation for the Games, instructing international federations in 2021 to come up with their own guidelines, so there is no one universal rule for sport. "We're going to actually set up a working group made up of experts and international federations," Coventry told a press conference following the first executive board meeting of her presidency. She had also held a two-day workshop for IOC members this week to discuss key issues with them. "It was agreed by the members that the IOC should take a leading role in this and that we should be the ones to bring together the experts, bring together the international federations and ensure that we find consensus," Coventry said. "We understand that there will be differences depending on the sports. We should make the effort to place emphasis on the protection of the female category and that we should ensure that this is done in consensus with all the stakeholders." Transgender athletes are currently eligible to compete at the Olympics. Some international federations have rules in place but others have not yet reached that stage. U.S. President Donald Trump has banned transgender athletes from competing in sports in schools in the United States, which civil society groups say infringes on the rights of trans people. Trump has said he would not allow transgender athletes to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics. (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Ed Osmond)
