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Nelly Korda (67) was one shot
back.
Minjee Lee (67) and In-Kyung
Kim (65) are two strokes behind.
Brooke Henderson shot a bo-
gey-free round of 64, the lowest
round of the tournament. She is
three strokes behind Mi after
opening with a 71.
PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS:
Miguel Angel Jiménez birdied the
final two holes for a 6-under 66
and a share of the first-round lead
at the Invesco QQQ Champion-
ship in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the
second of three events in the tour’s
Charles Schwab Cup playoffs.
Jiménez joined Billy Mayfair
and Woody Austin atop the leader
board. The 55-year-old Spaniard
had eight birdies and two bogeys,
rebounding from a bogey on the
par-3 15th with birdies on the
par-3 17th and par-4 18th.had to caress one a little bit, and I
caressed it dead left. Made a
good 5.”
After his third tee shot, he hit a
lob wedge to eight feet and made
the bogey putt. Two holes later, he
caught a 5-iron a little thin, and it
worked out perfectly.
McIlroy still was in position to
go for his fourth win of the year.
Li and Victor Perez of France
were at 8-under 136, followed by
Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa,
who had a 69.
Phil Mickelson had a 69 and
was seven shots behind.
LPGA TOUR: Mi Jung Hur
shot a second consecutive 6-under
66 to take a one-stroke lead after
the second round of the LPGA
Taiwan Championship in Taipei.
Hur, who is looking for her third
victory this season, is at 12-under
132 overall. Defending championpoured that in for par, hit his
5-iron to 15 feet on the tough par-3
17th and got up-and-down with a
wedge from the 18th fairway for
his last birdie.
McIlroy wasn’t so fortunate.
He went with a 3-wood off the
tee, hoping to leave it around the
green for an easy birdie. But he let
the club fall from his hands when
he made contact and watched it
sail so far left that he hit a provi-
sional — a 6-iron this time — for a
lost ball.
And then he found it and real-
ized he would have to take a penal-
ty for an unplayable lie and it
would be easier to get back on the
fairway by hitting another tee shot
instead of trying to punch it out of
the woods.
“I tried to hit the same shot as
yesterday, but the wind was more
off the left,” McIlroy said. “I knew IASSOCIATED PRESSMatt Fitzpatrick turned a
fluffed shot into an unlikely par,
closed with two straight birdies
for a 5-under-par 67 and took a
one-shot lead over Rory McIlroy
going into the weekend at the
HSBC Champions in Shanghai.
Fitzpatrick had a nasty lie in the
rough just behind the 16th green
and tried to stab it with the putter,
only for the ball to pop straight up
and roll out some 35 feet away. He
holed that for a par to keep a clean
card Friday.
He was at 11-under 133, leading
a pack so diverse that the top eight
players were from different coun-
tries.
McIlroy had his own problems
on the 16th, having to hit three
shots when the first one sailed into
the trees. He scraped out a bogey
from that mess and finished with a
5-iron to three feet at the 18th for
eagle and a 67.
Defending champion Xander
Schauffele, still struggling with
remnants of the flu, rallied for a 69
and was two shots behind along
with Adam Scott (69) and Sungjae
Im (69).
Li Haotong of China lost
ground with a 72, but he remained
in the mix at three shots behind.
“It’s a big key to hitting fairways
around here, and if you can keep
doing it, you’ll give yourself more
chances,” said Fitzpatrick, who
has dropped only one shot
through 36 holes at Sheshan Inter-
national, which could be attacked
only from the short grass.
Fitzpatrick hooked his tee shot
on the short 16th and did well to
hit a lob wedge to the back of the
green, just into the thick rough. He
figured his best option was to jab it
with the putter to get it rolling
toward the cup.
“The putter had gone through,
and the ball was still there,” he
said.
It rolled forward enough to get
on the green and take a hard turn
to the right, but the Englishmaninternationally, by some of the
scenes we saw in Doha.”
Coates said there had been a
divide among athletes, between
those who had prepared for the
heat in Tokyo and an African
group that was in favor of the
move to Sapporo. But the deci-
sion had to be made looking at the
“lowest common denominator”
in terms of athletes’ health, he
said.
He also read a letter from Bach
in which the IOC president asked
for the understanding of the peo-
ple of Tokyo for the decision. The
IOC also agreed that Tokyo will
not have to pay for moving the
marathon and race walks and
said it will reimburse some of the
costs the city had incurred to
stage the race.
As concerns mounted over the
heat, the IOC initially decided last
year to move up the start times for
the marathons to 6 a.m. and for
the race walks to 5:30 a.m. but
then concluded this wasn’t good
enough.
Tokyo and the IOC had side-
stepped concerns about Tokyo’s
high summer temperatures when
bidding for and awarding the
Games to the Japanese capital in
2013.
Tokyo’s bid boasted of “many
days of mild and sunny weather”
ideal for athletes to perform at
their best, while the IOC noted it
had selected the city for “climatic
reasons.”
The real reason for holding the
Games in the summer, experts
say, is not the climate but money:
It is the most profitable time to fit
in with the demands of U.S. and
global television broadcasters.
[email protected]about 10 degrees cooler.
The IOC said it made the deci-
sion after its president, Thomas
Bach, saw video of marathon run-
ners collapsing in extreme heat at
the world track and field champi-
onships last month in Doha,
Qatar.
The dispute had risked creat-
ing a bitter mood in the run-up to
the Games, with Koike arguing a
successful Tokyo Olympics de-
pended on trust between the host
city and the IOC. It came to a head
during this week’s visit by an IOC
delegation led by John Coates, the
head of its coordination commis-
sion.
But the central government
and Games organizers said they
were grateful it had been
resolved.
“I pay a great respect from the
bottom of my heart to Governor
Koike, who had made a tough
decision,” said Yoshiro Mori, pres-
ident of the Tokyo 2020 organiz-
ing committee. “I hope to see the
Olympics being held with all of us
becoming one team.”
Olympics Minister Seiko
Hashimoto and the IOC’s Coates
also expressed their thanks to
Koike for the decision and for
putting the health of athletes
first.
“I’m very aware of the special
place of the marathon in the
minds of Japanese citizens,”
Coates said at a news confer-
ence. “Sure, we want good memo-
ries for the children, the next
generation of athletes and dis-
tance runners. We also didn’t
want bad memories.
“We did not want Tokyo being
remembered, both in the minds
of your people but also in mindsBY SIMON DENYER
AND AKIKO KASHIWAGItokyo — After a bitter dispute
with the International Olympic
Committee, Tokyo’s governor said
Friday she had reluctantly accept-
ed organizers’ decision to switch
next year’s Olympic marathons to
the cooler northern city of Sappo-
ro to avoid the capital’s stifling
summer heat.
Gov. Yuriko Koike had resisted
the IOC’s decision to move the
marathons and race walks, argu-
ing that adequate preparations
had been made, at considerable
cost, to counter the heat and that
a last-minute change of plans was
unfair to the host city and specta-
tors who had bought tickets in a
fiercely competitive lottery.
But Friday she acknowledged
she could not stand in the way of
the shift.
“I remain unchanged in the
belief that the marathon and
competitive walking events
should take place in Tokyo. But as
the host city, Tokyo must consider
the importance of creating a
framework for the Games to suc-
ceed,” Koike said, according to
public broadcaster NHK. “So al-
though I do not agree with the
IOC decision, I will not interfere
with the choice made by the
authority vested with the right to
deliver the final word.”
Temperatures in Tokyo in July
and August, when the Games will
be held, regularly exceed 86 de-
grees, with high humidity adding
to the health risk for athletes.
Last month, the IOC abruptly
decided to shift the races 500
miles north to Sapporo, where
daytime temperatures are often
Tokyo accepts Olympic marathon shift
BY CINDY BORENThe message Kikkan Randall
wants to send over the 26.2-mile
New York City Marathon course is
as clear as the writing on the loud
socks she loves to wear: “It’s going
to be OK” with a pink K in script
symbolizing her name and so
much more.
It’s a natural mantra for Ran-
dall, the skier nicknamed “Kikk-
animal” for the drive that led her
to teaming with Jessie Diggins to
win the United States’ first gold
medal in women’s Olympic cross-
country competition at the 2018
PyeongChang Games. And it’s one
that has helped her power
through treatment for Stage 2
breast cancer that was diagnosed
three months after her Olympic
triumph.
Chemotherapy (six rounds,
three weeks apart) and a lumpec-
tomy last November behind her,
she will try something else Sun-
day, joining more than 50,000
runners in the New York City
Marathon, the first Randall has
ever run. She will use her appear-
ance to bring awareness to Aktiv
against Cancer, an organization
co-founded by Grete Waitz, a leg-
endary Norwegian and New York
City Marathon runner who died of
cancer in 2011. Its aim is to help
cancer patients integrate physical
activity with treatment. For Aktiv,
more than 5,000 pairs of those
wild socks have been sold.
“It’s surprising how many simi-
larities there are between being an
athlete and being a cancer pa-
tient,” Randall, 36, said in a phone
interview. “As an athlete, I was
always careful about not getting
sick. I was always being sure to
wash my hands and avoid public
places, all that kind of stuff. You’ve
got to get enough sleep. You’ve to
eat right. You’ve got to get through
a big process one step at a time. I
just actually used some of the
same tools and mind-set that I
used as an athlete to go through
my treatment.”
Randall says she feels good now
and is “like a little bee just buzzing
around,” training for the mara-
thon, making speeches, working
with business partners such as
L.L. Bean and raising her son,
Breck, with her husband, Jeff Ellis,
at their home in Penticton, B.C.
Over the years, though, even as she
was preparing for five Olympic
appearances, she thought about
trying a long-distance footrace.
“I thought about running the
marathon before I even finished
my ski career. I had gotten in-
volved with Aktiv against Cancer
while competing in Norway,” Ran-
dall said. “From my ski results, I
have some name recognition inNorway, so I got invited to one of
their events and started working
with them. Every time the team
and I would stop in Oslo, we would
go work out with the cancer pa-
tients in the hospital in Oslo. I
really believed in their concept
and I knew they had a tie to the
New York Marathon [through]
Grete Waitz, the nine-time win-
ner.
“One of my other teammates
who also was pretty actively in-
volved with them and was going to
retire at the same time, we said:
‘Oh, wouldn’t it be fun if after we
retired to go do the New York
Marathon and run on behalf of
Aktiv. It would be a fun new chal-
lenge for us.’ ”
That fun new challenge became
a reality when Aktiv notified her
shortly after the Olympics that it
would honor Randall with an in-
spiration award in October 2018in a ceremony that coincided with
the running of the New York race.
“A couple of days later, I got the
diagnosis,” Randall said. “I had to
call [Aktiv] back and say, ‘You
won’t believe this, but our connec-
tion just got a lot deeper because
I’ll be going through this myself.’ ”
Randall announced in July that
she was having treatment, writing
on social media that “the color
pink has taken on a new chapter in
my life as I was recently diagnosed
with breast cancer. Although we
caught it early and the prognosis
is good, my life will change quite a
bit in the coming months.... It’s a
scary thing to learn you have can-
cer and I have wondered every day
since how this could have possibly
happened to me. But I have prom-
ised myself that I will remain posi-
tive and active and determined
throughout my treatment. I am
going to bring as much tenacity,
strength, and energy toward this
challenge as I have throughout my
entire career.”
There were detours as she pow-
ered through treatment following
the diagnosis of invasive ductal
carcinoma. She had hoped to at-
tend the awards luncheon Oct. 31
last year, and “for the first few
rounds of chemo, I actually enter-tained the idea that maybe I could
still do the marathon. But after my
second round of chemo, I caught a
bug from my son, from day care,
and that just knocked me so flat. I
started to realize that while it may
be physically possible to run the
marathon, it probably wasn’t the
smartest idea because I only had
two weeks between my last round
of chemo and surgery and my
immune system was already going
to be compromised,” Randall said.
Instead, she focused on the
short-term goal of being “as
healthy and as rested as possible”
for surgery. “I just decided that the
marathon will always be there and
I was going to focus on treatment.
I did end up going to New York for
the Aktiv luncheon last year, and I
watched my teammates and some
of our World Cup friends from
Sweden run the race. I was in the
finish area and watched them fin-
ish — I couldn’t help but get
caught up in the energy, and I said
right then: ‘Oh, yeah, a year from
now I’m going to be back here. I’m
going to be running, and I’m going
to be feeling good.’ ”
And she is. The trick, as Randall
and anyone with a serious illness
learns, is to be grateful for individ-
ual moments while also being
hopeful about the future. Her
treatment continues for now with
a chemo drug and hormone treat-
ments.
“Now that I’m mostly finished
with treatment, I’m trying to con-
tinue with that mind-set but with
the perspective of: ‘I get to be out
here doing things. I appreciate
how good I feel. I am just incred-
ibly grateful that my treatment
was effective and that I do feel
good,’ ” she said. “I’m really trying
to honor the experience and not
take any moment for granted. I
want to make the most of every
day because you don’t necessarily
know how many days you have.
I’m positive and optimistic — try-
ing to be in the moment while
trying to be optimistic about the
future.”
Randall has never run a full
marathon, and although she has
done long training runs in the
mountains in Alaska and at her
British Columbia home, she has
not run that far on pavement. Her
goal for her first marathon is to
finish in under three hours.
“That sounded really reason-
able off my 5K time, but now that
I’ve done the training, I realize
that 26 miles is a long way and
replicating that pace mile after
mile is going to be challenging,”
she said. “But I’ve been very public
about my goal, and I’ve committed
to it.”
Just look for the socks.
[email protected]A new challenge for Randall
Olympic champion skier to honor cancer recovery by running in NYC Marathon
BY PAT EATON-ROBBeast hartford, conn. — Navy
quarterback Malcolm Perry ran
for 108 yards and two touch-
downs and threw for 165 yards
and another score Friday night in
leading the Midshipmen to a 56-
10 rout of Connecticut.
It was the fifth straight 100-
yard rushing game for the senior,
who eclipsed 1,000 yards rushing
for the third consecutive season.
The win keeps the Midship-
men (7-1, 5-1 American) within
striking distance of undefeated
No. 15 SMU in the AAC West
Division.
Freshman Jack Zergiotis threw
for 205 yards and a touchdown
for Connecticut (2-7, 0-5) but had
three turnovers, including two
first-half interceptions that led to
Navy scoring drives.
Perry scored on his first carry,
spinning past the line of scrim-
mage and going 58 yards down
the numbers on the right side of
the field. He also had a 58-yard
touchdown pass in the first half,
hitting Mychal Cooper down the
middle one play after Zergiotis’s
second interception. It was one of
just six passes thrown by Perry,
who completed three of them, all
for more than 30 yards.
Zergiotis’s first pick set Navy
up on a 49-yard drive that ended
with a 13-yard run up the gut by
Jamale Carothers. The sopho-
more fullback added touchdown
runs of 23 and six yards in the
second half.
Navy finished with 573 yards of
offense, including 408 on the
ground.
— Associated Press
Perry, Mids
stay grounded
to remain in
AAC West race
NAVY 56,
CONNECTICUT 10ASSOCIATED PRESSThe International Olympic Committee, citing heat concerns, moved the marathon from Japan’s capital.
GOLF ROUNDUPFitzpatrick has one-shot lead at HSBC Champions
“I want to make the
most of every day
because you don’t
necessarily know how
many days you have.”
Kikkan Randall, Olympic skier
and cancer survivorHECTOR RETAMAL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Helped by an unlikely par, Matt Fitzpatrick, above, leads Rory McIlroy after two rounds in Shanghai.Excerpted from
washingtonpost.com/redskinsNFL and NFLPA set
to probe Williams caseThe NFL and the NFL Players
Association will investigate and
evaluate the medical care the
Washington Redskins gave star
left tackle Trent Williams, a
league spokesman said Friday.
Under the terms of the
collective bargaining agreement,
medical experts appointed by the
league and the players’ union
will conduct the investigation.
The Redskins could be subject to
discipline by the NFL — probably
a fine — if they are found to have
committed wrongdoing.
Beyond confirmation of the
investigation by an NFL
spokesman, the league and
union declined to comment on
the details of the case.
Williams said Thursday that
doctors for the Redskins failed to
recognize in a timely manner
that a growth on his head was
cancerous.Keenum to be inactive
Quarterback Case Keenum, who
has not cleared the NFL’s
concussion protocol, won’t play
in Sunday’s game at the Buffalo
Bills.
Interim coach Bill Callahan
named rookie Dwayne Haskins
the starter and Colt McCoy his
backup after practice. This will
be the first career start for
Haskins.
Running back Adrian
Peterson (ankle) was a full
participant in practice and did
not receive an injury designation
after not practicing Wednesday
or Thursday. But fellow running
back Chris Thompson (toe) will
miss a third consecutive game
after not practicing all week.
Safeties Montae Nicholson
(ankle) and Deshazor Everett
(ankle) also were ruled out.
— Mark Maske
and Kareem CopelandREDSKINS NOTES