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FINA recap & preview
Some action from the FINA World Championships in Kazan:
Defending champions Chen Ruolin/Liu Huixia have retained their title in women's synchronized 10-meter platform.
And Xie Siyi claimed men's 1m springboard title to give China the fifth straight win.
Xie won by a large margin of more than 36 points after five dives.
It was an unexpected win for the nineteen-year-old, who used to be a platform diver and is competing in his first world championships.
The other Chinese diver He Chao finished seventh.
China remains on top of the medal tally after four days with 5 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze.
Today is the fifth day of the 16th FINA World Championships and the excitement continues in open water swimming and diving events.
In the Aquatics Palace, the competitions has kicked off with the preliminary round of the men's synchronised 3m springboard event.
And the fierce finals are set to begin at 7:30 pm local time today.
The long-awaited performance by Evgeny Kuznetsov is widely considered to be the main event of the evening.
Evgeny would be traditionally partnering with the 2012 Olympic 3m springboard champion Ilya Zakharov.
Their synchronized dive with the degree of difficulty of 3.9 remains unsurpassed till this day.
Shanghai Shenhua wins 1-0 over Henan Jianye
In football, a recap of Chinese Super League action,
Shanghai Shenhua beat Henan Jianye 1-0 yesterday to wrap up the 21st round of play.
Tim Cahill scored the winner for the home team. The Australian striker has had four goals in his last four games.
In other action,
Real Madrid crashed Inter Milan 3-0 at the International Championships Cup in Guangzhou.
It was the third straight loss in China for Inter Milan, after their defeats against Bayern Munich and AC Milan.
Real Madrid will round off the Championships Cup with a game against AC Milan in Shanghai on Thursday.
Boston pulls out of bidding to host 2024 Olympics
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The U.S. Olympic Committee has nixed Boston's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, just hours after Mayor Martin Walsh said he would not "commit" to a deal that makes city taxpayers vulnerable to the costs of hosting such a large-scale event.
CRI's Luo Bin reports.
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Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics is officially over, after the city and the U.S. Olympic Committee severed ties after a board teleconference on Monday.
The bid soured within days of its beginning in January and failed to get - and keep - the support of key Boston politicians.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says he would not be pressured into signing the contract that puts the city on the hook for any cost overruns.
"This is a commitment that I cannot make without assurances that Boston and it's residents will be protected. I refuse to mortgage the future of the city away. I refuse to put Boston on the hook for over-runs and I refuse to commit to signing a guarantee that uses tax payers' dollars to pay for the Olympics."
No Boston Olympics Co-Chairman Chris Dempsey led the citizen's charge to kill the bid.
"Well it's certainly hard when you're dealing with a bid that requires building the three most expensive Olympic venues from scratch. And Boston's 2024 plan was always a costly bid, that required a lot of building of sporting infrastructure."
There are only seven weeks left before the cities have to be officially nominated.
The decision has thrown the bid process - and hopes that the USA will host another Olympics - into doubt.
However, the US Olympic Committee says the federation wants to stay in the race. Los Angeles has been touted as the likely alternative host city.
For CRI, I'm Luo Bin.
MLB: Chicago Cubs beat Colorado Rockies 9-8
Over to some baseball action,
Chicago Cubs took a 9-8 narrow win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday at Wrigley Field.
Kris Bryant swatted a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to help the Cubs getting the victory.
Carlos Gonzalez belted a two-run shot to centerfield off Hendricks to put the Rockies into a 2-0 lead in the third inning.
DJ LeMahieu drove in two runs with a single through the left side of the infield to extend the Rockies advantage to 4-0 in the fourth.
The Cubs took the lead with a big inning in the bottom half of the fourth from Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa.
In other action,
Boston Red Sox beat Chicago White Sox 10-8 in a home game.
San Francisco Giants upset the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 in California.
New York Yankees got an easy win 6-2 over Texas Rangers.
St. Louis Cardinals beat Cincinnati Reds 4-1.
And it was the Kansas City Royals crashed Cleveland Indians 9-4.
International athletic tournament to start in Ho Chi Minh City
The 22nd Open Ho Chi Minh City International Athletics Tournament will be held from July 28 to August 3 in the city known as the commerce center of Vietnam.
It is expected to see the participation of hundreds of athletes from 12 Asian countries and regions.
China's Hong Kong and Taiwan will compete in the tournament joined by countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
The event is organized by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports and coordinated by the city's Athletics Federation.
Vietnam finished first at the last Tournament in 2014 with 8 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze medals, followed by South Korea and Thailand.
Putin: Sepp Blatter deserves Nobel Prize
Russian president Vladmir Putin has gone on record saying Sepp Blatter deserves a Nobel Prize for his work as a leader of world's football governing body.
Putin made the comments on Monday, two days after he and the embattled FIFA president met in St. Petersburg for the preliminary draw for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
However, he did not give any details about the specific Nobel Prizes to which he refered.
Blatter, who has denied his ties to corruption, has announced he would step down from the top position.
An election for his successor is due to be held in February.
