Olympics: A committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted to support an effort to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Los Angeles, ahead of a deadline next month for US Olympic organisers to decide on an American city to bid for the games. The United States Olympic Committee has turned to Los Angeles after dropping Boston in July, after that city’s mayor said he would not expose taxpayers in the Massachusetts capital to assuming possible cost overruns.
Golf: Masters and US Open champion Jordan Spieth’s initial reign as world number one ended after two weeks when the 22-year-old American missed the cut at The Barclays. Spieth added a three-over 73 that included a one-stroke penalty for stepping on his ball in a hazard to his opening 74 to finish five shots from the cut, which was set at two over par at Plainfield Country Club. “Yeah, tough week. I’m definitely searching for answers,” said Spieth, who will next play at the September 4-7 Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston, the second stop of the four-event, season-ending series. McIlroy was not competing in The Barclays.
Tennis: Second seed Kevin Anderson used his powerful serve to end the unlikely run of qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert with a 6-4 7-5 victory in the final of the Winston-Salem Open yesterday. One break in each set was enough for Anderson as the South African clinched the third ATP title of his career and ended a streak of losing seven straight finals. The tall South African was broken only once in the entire tournament at Wake Forest University in a promising tune-up for the US Open which starts tomorrow. Anderson, 29, has a mediocre record at Flushing Meadows, where he has never made it to the round of 16.
Snooker: A fourth-round match at the Paul Hunter Classic in Germany is to be investigated by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association due to “unusual betting patterns”. Londoner Martin O’Donnell won 4-2 win against Thailand’s Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon, ranked 12 places above him at number 84 in the world, in Furth. The Paul Hunter Classic tournament is part of World Snooker’s Euro/Asia Tour.