THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2016
SPORTS
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Seaside Kids: Learning the game, for free
By GARY HENLEY
The Daily Astorian
“We usually have a lot of red out
here, so I fi gured we’d wear the blue
shirts,” said Chad Smith, as he watched
dozens of youngsters wearing Columbia
Blue shirts, playing football on Broad-
way Field Wednesday afternoon.
“We brought back the Columbia
Blue, so we have a sea of blue out here.”
And for the most part, that “sea of
blue” is the future of Seaside football.
They will all pay to play later on, but
it always helps to have an organization
that makes it free when they’re growing
up.
Seaside Kids staged its annual Youth
Camp this week, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday .
Taught and coached by members and
coaching staff of the Seaside High foot-
ball team, young players entering grades
three through eight were all learning the
skills of the game.
“This is one of my big goals, to get
with the youth,” said Smith, who is
entering his fi rst year as varsity head
coach of the Gulls.
“It’s nice to have Seaside Kids, an
organization that makes these events
free for the kids,” he said. “This camp
is free, and we try to get as many as we
can. Today, the count was 81, and (Tues-
day) was around 90. That’s for third-
through eighth -graders, so those are
pretty good numbers.”
The big Gulls will officially start
practice Monday, as the fall high
school sports season kicks into full
gear.
Smith is excited about the upcoming
season, and at the same time is pleased
to be teaching future Gulls in large
numbers.
“Our incoming freshmen, we have
about 16 kids this year, and that’s a
pretty good class for a school our size,”
he said. “Everything’s coming together,
and it’s great to see 90, almost 100 kids
out here.”
Gary Henley/The Daily Astorian
A few (future) Seaside quarterbacks warm up their arms in
Wednesday’s youth camp at Broadway Field. More photos
online at http://bit.ly/2aRuxvz.
Biles, Phelps power their way to more gold in Rio
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Michael Phelps and Simone
Biles powered their way to
more gold medals with rous-
ing routs at the Rio Games on
Thursday.
Sauntering to the sounds
of Latin music befi tting the
beaches and boulevards of Rio
de Janeiro, Biles soared to the
women’s all-around gymnas-
tics title.
Hours later, Phelps blew
away rival Ryan Lochte — and
everyone else, for that matter
— to win his fourth gold medal
of the Rio Olympics and 22nd
overall with a victory in the
200-meter individual medley.
This was touted as the last
showdown between two of
America’s greatest swimmers,
though there’s never been any
question about which one had
the upper hand. Lochte didn’t
even reach the podium this
time, fading to fi fth after lead-
ing at the midway point.
Simone Manuel of the
United States and 16-year-old
Penny Oleksiak of Canada tied
for the gold medal in the wom-
en’s 100-meter freestyle, upset-
ting world-record holder Cate
Campbell. Manuel became the
fi rst African-American woman
to win an Olympic gold medal
in swimming.
Putting the gulf between
herself and the rest of the world
on full display , the 19-year-old
Biles became the fourth straight
American woman to win the
Olympic all-around title and
fi fth overall while cementing
her reputation as the best of her
generation and perhaps ever.
Biles has spent the last three
years dominating her sport, win-
ning 15 world championships.
The pair’s powerful perfor-
mances came on a day the Rio
Games turned aside the discon-
certing lime-like waters at the
aquatics center and toward the
emerald green fairways as golf
returned to the Olympics for the
fi rst time in 112 years.
Adilson da Silva of Bra-
zil hit the fi rst Olympic golf
shot since 1904 with the open-
ing tee shot. Justin Rose made
what is believed to be the fi rst
hole-in-one.
The Pacifi c Island nation
of Fiji erupted into celebra-
tion after its rugby sevens team
defeated Britain 43-7 to cap-
ture the country’s fi rst Olym-
pic medal.
Rugby is back in the Olym-
pics for the fi rst time since
1924.
Golf is back after an even
longer absence.
Da Silva smiled and
removed his cap to wave to
the sparse crowd that included
more golf offi cials than fans
after his tee shot. Growing up
in golf-starved Brazil with lit-
As of Friday morning, Aug. 12
TOP 10 MEDAL
WINNERS
AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky
United States’ Simone Biles performs on the floor during the
artistic gymnastics women’s individual all-around final at the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday.
tle equipment, Da Silva used
to make golf clubs out of tree
branches as a child.
Marcus Fraser of Austra-
lia had the fi rst that mattered
the most on the Olympic Golf
Course — the fi rst-round lead.
Fraser shot an 8-under 63 that
stood for a three-shot advan-
tage over Henrik Stenson of
Sweden and Graham DeLaet of
Canada.
The only one of four Amer-
icans in the 60-man fi eld to
break par was Matt Kuchar
(69). Rickie Fowler started with
a double bogey and shot 75,
beating only two players. Pat-
rick Reed shot 72 and Bubba
Watson had a 73.
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roy — skipped the Rio Game s
because of Zika fears and safety
concerns.
Pervasive violence is an
everyday part of Rio, and a
police offi cer died hours after
getting shot in the head when
he and two others got lost near a
slum, the Justice Ministry said
in an offi cial Facebook post.
The incident was the blood-
iest of several at the start of
South America’s fi rst Olympic
Games. Muggings have been
reported among Olympic ath-
letes, offi cials and journalists.
A total of 21 gold med-
als were earned in 11 sports
Thursday.
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1.
United States
16 12 11
2.
China
11 8 12
3.
Japan
7
2 13
4.
Russia
4
8
8
5.
6.
United Kingdom 6
5
Australia
6
5
6
6
7.
Italy
3
6
4
8.
South Korea
5
3
4
9.
France
3
4
5
Germany
5
3
10.
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Other highlights from Day 6
of the Rio Games:
EXOTIC ANIMALS: The
course where Olympic golf
made its return features all
the normal pratfalls like bun-
kers and sloping greens. There
are also native animals such as
capybaras, caimans and coru-
jas. The capybara is the world’s
largest rodent, albeit an herbi-
vore. The caiman, a small croc-
odile, and the corujas are bur-
rowing owls, some of whom
have taken up residence in the
course’s bunkers.
HANGING ON: Venus
Williams’ Rio Olympics is still
going — just barely. Upset in
the fi rst round in singles and
doubles while battling a virus,
the four-time gold medalist was
a late entrant into mixed dou-
bles. She and teammate Rajeev
Ram faced two match points
Thursday and saved both in ral-
lying from a set down for a 6-7
(4), 7-6 (3), 10-8 tiebreak win
over Kiki Bertens and Jean-Ju-
lien Rojer of the Netherlands.
SICK SAILOR: A Bel-
gian woman who won a bronze
medal at the 2012 Olympics
has become sick after racing
on polluted Guanabara Bay,
the fi rst sailor to fall ill from
the waters that were heavily
scrutinized leading to the Rio
Games. Evi Van Acker reported
feeling sick after Wednesday’s
races . Her poor performances
have put her at risk of miss-
ing out on a medal in the Laser
Radial class. Her coach said he
believes Van Acker contracted
a severe intestinal infection
while training in Rio in July
that sapped her energy.
OH NO, NEYMAR: In a
scary scene for Brazilian fans
at the team’s arrival in Sao
Paulo for the quarterfi nals of
the Olympic soccer tourna-
ment, superstar Neymar limped
heavily with his ankle wrapped
up. But the Brazilian foot-
ball confederation said exams
conducted on the star striker’s
right foot on Thursday showed
no serious injuries. Neymar is
expected to practice on Friday
and be fully fi t to play in Satur-
day’s match against Colombia.