SPORTS
Thursday, January 18, 2018
2018 Winter Games
Column: Kim Jong Un plays
the Olympics like a champion
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Sports court to start Russian
Olympic doping appeals
Monday marks the
beginning of 39
Russian athletes’
appeals
Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzer-
land — The Court of Arbi-
tration of Sport will begin
appeals hearings on Monday
for 39 Russian athletes
disqualifi ed from the 2014
Sochi Winter Games for
doping and banned for life
from the Olympics.
Two key witnesses,
Russian
whistleblower
Grigory Rodchenkov and
World Anti-Doping Agency
investigator
Richard
McLaren, will testify by
video or telephone link to
the closed-door hearings,
CAS said in a statement
Wednesday.
The court said the
combined hearings should
last for six days at a confer-
ence center in Geneva, near
the European headquarters
of the United Nations.
One panel of three
judges will hear 28 cases
and a second trio will judge
11. Two of the judges —
Christoph Vedder and Dirk-
Reiner Martens, both from
Germany — will sit on both
three-man panels, CAS said.
Verdicts are expected by
Friday, Feb. 2, one week
before the Pyeongchang
Olympics opening cere-
mony in South Korea.
A further three appeal
cases in biathlon will not be
heard next week, the court
said.
All 42 athletes deny
being part of a state-backed
doping program for the
Sochi Olympics.
The fi rst group of athletes
whose hearings have been
combined are in bobsled,
cross-country
skiing,
skeleton and speed skating.
They include athletes who
have continued to compete
in World Cup races not
controlled by the IOC.
The second group of 11
cases is from bobsled, luge
and women’s ice hockey.
Track and Field
AP Photo/Amy Sancetta
In this Feb. 10, 2006, fi le photo, Korea fl ag-bearer’s Bora Lee and Jong-In Lee, carry-
ing a unifi cation fl ag lead their teams into the stadium during the 2006 Winter Olym-
pics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy. North Korea plans to send a spotlight-stealing
delegation to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South Korean county of Pyeo-
ngchang.
By JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press
North Korea suddenly
making nice for the duration
of next month’s Olympic
Games in South Korea,
putting seven decades of
enmity on hold for 16 days
with its offers to send athletes
and entertainers across their
heavily militarized border,
won’t fundamentally change
what happens next.
When the Olympic fl ame
has been extinguished, North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un
will continue to use every
tool at his disposal, including
his gulags and thought
police, to maintain his iron
grip on power, demanding
unfailing loyalty from each
and every North Korean, just
as his grandfather and father
did before him.
To preserve the dynasty
they handed down, one
where the Kims and their
trusted lieutenants ruled
across decades when millions
starved, he will continue the
North’s push for an arsenal of
nuclear-tipped missiles that
could strike faraway cities
— to make sure that world
leaders think thrice about any
scheme to topple him.
So, when the medals have
all been won, the world will
almost certainly fi nd itself
back at square one: Worrying
again about whether Kim and
U.S. President Donald Trump
are just a misstep or an angry
tweet away from reaching for
those nuclear buttons they’ve
bragged about.
Because North Korea has
been so closed for so long,
trying to determine the inten-
tions of Kim Il Sung, Kim
Jong Il and now Kim Jong
Un has often been an exer-
cise in guesswork. But it’s
safe to say they all shared the
same priority: the survival of
themselves and their regime.
Kim’s unexpected offer
earlier this month to send a
delegation to the games in
Pyeongchang must be seen
through that lens. From his
perspective, an Olympic
truce is a low-risk gambit
that helps the No. 1 purpose
of his regime: buying more
time for Kim.
Having no part at all in the
Feb. 9-25 games just 80 kilo-
meters (50 miles) south of
the heavily mined border that
divides the Korean peninsula
would have been worse for
Kim. It would have made
the North appear even more
isolated, not only targeted
by U.S.-led international
sanctions but cut off from the
far more forgiving sporting
world, too. That takes some
doing.
Instead,
by
sending
singers, dancers, an orchestra
and a cheering squad, the
North gets to whoop it up at
the South’s Olympic party,
ditches its pariah costume
for a couple of weeks, and
temporarily confuses and
distracts the world from its
stated goal of perfecting and
growing its nuclear arsenal.
Not a bad trade-off.
The few athletes the North
is likely to send will almost
certainly return home empty-
handed. But Kim can lean
on his mouthpieces in the
North’s entirely state-con-
trolled media to pen fawning
paeans anyway.
In sports, North Korea
barely makes a dent, despite
Kim’s supposed love of the
NBA and occasional visits
from Dennis Rodman. But
Kim has favored winter
sports, and one of his big
showcase projects — a ski
resort three hours outside
Pyongyang — attests to that.
The South, for its
part, would have looked
churlish by refusing Kim’s
outstretched hand, even as
he holds missiles in the other
one. Should this thaw, like
previous ones, again fail
to produce a broader, more
enduring melt of frosty ties
between the Koreas, it should
at least reassure Olympic
athletes and visitors that they
won’t be risking their lives
by putting themselves within
range of Kim’s troops.
The
International
Olympic Committee stands
to gain from this, too. Before
the Koreas started talking
again, Russia was shaping
up as the dark cloud over the
fi rst Winter Olympics since
its armada of doped athletes,
helped by state offi cials and
a lab director later turned
whistleblower, topped the
medal table in Sochi in 2014,
only to lose that spot when
medals were later stripped.
IOC President Thomas
Bach will still face tough
questions in Pyeongchang
about why Russian athletes
are being allowed to compete
again so soon after the Sochi
scandal. But thanks to the
Koreas, he’ll also be able to
crow that the Olympics are a
force for human cooperation,
even peace.
Kim, for one, would like
us to believe it — however
true or untrue the reality
might be.
IAAF visits Oregon in advance
of 2021 World Championships
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Assocaited Press
A delegation from the
international
governing
body for track and fi eld
has been visiting Oregon
to review preparations for
the 2021 World Champion-
ships.
About 12 representatives
from the IAAF and its
partners arrived in Eugene,
Oregon,
on
Monday.
Branded Oregon21, the
international event will be
held at the University of
Oregon’s historic Hayward
Field. It will be the fi rst time
track and fi eld’s premier
biennial competition will be
held in the United States.
IAAF CEO Olivier
Gers said Wednesday that
in addition to assessing the
preparations, the delegation
is exploring ways to engage
the rest of the state and the
region in the event.
“It’s critical that we build
bridges and we build human
connections between the
IAAF and the teams locally
that will be organizing the
event,” Gers said.
Hayward Field has
hosted seven U.S. Track and
Field championships and
six Olympic Trials, as well
as the annual Prefontaine
Classic on the Diamond
League schedule. The 2014
World Junior Champion-
ships were also held at the
track, one of the most well-
known in the sport.
Renovations to accom-
modate 32,000 spectators
for the World Champi-
onships were expected to
start following the NCAA
championships in June.
It is expected that more
than 2,000 athletes from
214 countries will take part
in the meet, which was
awarded to Eugene in 2015.
The event is scheduled for
Aug. 6-15, 2021.
“It’s a different scale
than any other event,” Gers
said. “It will be in 2021 the
largest sporting event of the
year around the world.”
This week’s visit was the
fi rst of many for the IAAF,
he said.
Doha is hosting the
World Championships in
2019.
WRESTLING: Pendleton’s Whaley
goes 2-0 on the night at 160, 170 pounds
Continued from 1B
Bishop (220) earned 36
points for the squad without
stepping foot on a mat.
Pendleton went on to win
42-29.
Aiden Patterson (170),
the only Buck wrestler to
win their bout this time
around, added six points
to the team’s total when
he won by fall over Hood
River’s Nathaniel Quintan-
illa in 1:34.
Despite the loss, Hood
River had a better outing
this time around with
four Eagles winning their
respective bouts against the
Bucks.
Ryan Zeller (120) and
Adrian Ramirez (220) won
by forfeit, while Alberto
Rojas (182) was the only
Eagle to win by fall in the
second match. He trapped
Pendleton’s Kirk Liscom in
3:30.
Chad Muenzer (126),
Jason Shaner (132) and
Cade Parker (138) were
victorious by decision over
the Pendleton opponents.
Muenzer defeated Chris
Chambers by a 13-2 major
decision; Shaner also by
a major decision, 23-9,
against Alex Rendon; and
Park by a 12-7 decision
versus Koby Jones.
Pendleton will return
to the mat Saturday at the
Colton Holly Memorial
Tournament in Wilsonville.
———
Individual Results
Match 1
Weight
Summary
138 M. Robertson (Pendleton) over V.
Ortigoza (HRV) (Dec 6-4)
138 V. Ortigoza (HRV) over D. Hamilton
(Pendleton) (Fall 5:50)
145 P. Armstrong (HRV) over S. Williams
(Pendleton) (Fall 0:59)
145 M. Verdin (Pendleton) over M.
Virgen (HRV) (Dec 15-8)
160 J. Whaley (Pendleton) over J. Kahler
(HRV) (Fall 0:47)
170 J. Swaggart (Pendleton) over B.
Griggs (HRV) (Fall 5:13)
170 J. Whaley (Pendleton) over A.
McCreery (HRV) (Fall 2:18)
285 C. Durham (HRV) over J. DeGeer
(Pendleton) (Fall 1:29)
Match 2
Weight
Summary
113 C. Tremper (Pendleton) over Un-
known (For.)
120 R. Zeller (HRV) over Unknown (For.)
126 C. Muenzer (HRV) over C. Cham-
bers (Pendleton) (MD 13-2)
132 J. Shaner (HRV) over A. Rendon
(Pendleton) (MD 23-9)
138 C. Parker (HRV) over K. Jones
(Pendleton) (Dec 12-7)
145 B. Davis (Pendleton) over Unknown
(For.)
152 I. Urbina (Pendleton) over Unknown
(For.)
160 I. Bannister (Pendleton) over
Unknown (For.)
170 A. Patterson (Pendleton) over N.
Quintanilla (HRV) (Fall 1:34)
182 A. Rojas (HRV) over K. Liscom
(Pendleton) (Fall 3:30)
195 A. Henderson (Pendleton) over
Unknown (For.)
220 M. Bishop (Pendleton) over Un-
known (For.)
220 A. Ramirez (HRV) over Unknown
(For.)
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