ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Lydia Ko lined her face along with her fingers and cried tears of pleasure.

An Olympic gold medal. Entry into the Corridor of Fame. And now one other main championship title — on the dwelling of golf, no much less.

Summers don’t come a lot better than that.

Ko accomplished what she described as a “Cinderella-like story” by breaking free from a logjam of world-class expertise to win the Ladies’s British Open by two strokes at St. Andrews on Sunday, securing a 3rd main title — and a primary in eight years. Simply two weeks in the past, the 27-year-old New Zealander took gold on the Olympic Video games in Paris.

“That is nearly too good to be true,” Ko mentioned.

She rolled in a left-to-right birdie putt on the storied 18th gap on the Outdated Course to shoot 3-under 69 — for 7 beneath general — after which needed to wait to complete forward of top-ranked Nelly Korda, defending champion Lilia Vu and two-time champion Jiyai Shin.

That quartet of previous or current No. 1s shared the lead at one level down the stretch of an engrossing closing spherical performed largely in chilly, blustery and moist situations earlier than ending in sunshine.

Ko was ready on the observe placing inexperienced not removed from the 18th inexperienced, doing stretches whereas carrying ear muffs, when Vu lined up a 20-foot putt for birdie that wanted to go in to drive a playoff. It got here up brief, and Vu finally made bogey to shoot 73 and drop to five beneath alongside Korda (72), Shin (74) and likewise Ruoning Yin (70) in a four-way tie for second place. Ko wept within the embrace of her caddie.

Ko certified for the Corridor of Fame by successful the gold medal in Paris on Aug. 10 and now has what many imagine to be the last word prize within the sport — a serious championship title on the dwelling of golf.

Ko was requested what feels higher: an Olympic gold medal, her first two majors, or successful a 3rd at St. Andrews.

“It’s type of like saying, ‘Do you want your mom higher or your father higher?’” she mentioned, eliciting laughter from the group across the 18th inexperienced. “They’re all particular in their very own method.”

Her final main got here on the Chevron Championship in 2016. A yr earlier, she received the Evian Championship as an 18-year-old prodigy.

Now, she’s like a veteran — and nonetheless successful trophies.

Korda, in search of a second main title of a dominant 2024 containing six victories for the American, began the ultimate spherical two pictures again from Shin, the champion from 2008 and ’12 and the in a single day chief on 7 beneath. By her tenth gap, Korda was within the outright lead after three birdies in a four-hole stretch across the flip and earlier than lengthy she was two strokes clear as Shin and Vu toiled at the beginning of the again 9 in depressing climate.

A turning level got here on the par-5 14th, which Ko birdied and Korda later doubled after flying the inexperienced and underhitting her chip again onto the inexperienced.

Ko performed the par-4 seventeenth, the well-known Street Gap, impressively by hitting hybrid to twenty ft and two-putting for par after which hit a wedge shot shut at No. 18 earlier than draining the stress putt.

Korda was up on the seventeenth inexperienced and heard the cheers for Ko, simply earlier than making bogey after hitting her second into the Street Gap bunker.

Korda wanted eagle on the final — she might solely make par — leaving Vu as the one participant capable of deny Ko the fairy-tale finish to what has proved an ideal summer season.

“Right here I’m as a three-time main champion,” mentioned Ko, to a backdrop of squawking seagulls. “It’s so surreal.”

Keegan Bradley will be the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, however the 38-year-old golfer’s profession isn’t over. He confidently nonetheless believes he’s in his prime and nonetheless adequate to not simply handle a cup workforce however play for one, too.

At the least for every week, no one can argue with him.

Bradley confronted down Adam Scott and firm in a Sunday duel to win the BMW Championship by one shot on Sunday in Denver for doubtlessly his greatest win in six years. The FedEx Cup playoff occasion win is Bradley’s seventh profession PGA Tour victory.

One week in the past, Bradley wanted an sudden name from Billy Horschel to tell him he’d even be enjoying within the BMW. He had a troublesome week in Memphis and fell up to now within the FedEx Cup standings that he barely made the top-50 reduce line to qualify for the penultimate occasion of the playoffs. Bradley hadn’t earned a top-20 end since Could and wasn’t enjoying anyplace close to his 2023 marketing campaign that almost bought Bradley a Ryder Cup spot. Any notion of a run into the Tour Championship (high 30 qualify) appeared like an extended shot.

Now, Bradley enters the Tour Championship fourth within the standings and can start the championship at 6 underneath par in its beginning stroke format, 4 again of No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.

His postseason circled with an emotional, bogey-free 66 on Thursday that added new vitality to the passionate New Englander. He rapidly turned the gang favourite — aside from Colorado native Wyndham Clark, who completed thirteenth — with the Denver galleries showering him with “USA” chants.

“To be named Ryder Cup captain and nonetheless be a full-time participant is unusual,” Bradley admitted Saturday. “I don’t know if anybody is aware of the right way to deal with this case. So I’m doing the very best I can. The one factor I can hold doing is play my greatest golf and perhaps play my approach onto a few of these groups.”

So Bradley entered the ultimate spherical with a one-shot lead over Scott and simply two forward of 24-year-old rising star Ludvig Åberg.

Bradley rapidly jumped to 13 underneath with a gap birdie earlier than grinding all day with 13 straight pars. He was regular, hitting fairways and greens, however neither he nor Scott may fairly hit the essential putts.

But Scott light down the stretch, bogeying 4 of six holes on the again 9 to slowly fade out behind Bradley, Åberg and Sam Burns. Burns shot a wild Sunday 65 to take the clubhouse lead at 11 underneath par, that means Bradley merely wanted to take care of to remain in management.

Bradley did bogey 15 to fall to 12 underneath earlier than an unimaginable iron shot into the par 5 No. 17 to arrange an eagle putt and accept birdie and regain a two-shot lead. That was all he wanted to carry off Burns, Åberg and Scott, who all completed tied for second.

Bradley profitable twice in 2023 solely to nonetheless miss the Ryder Cup workforce turned an enormous storyline, solely amplified by Netflix cameras exhibiting his uncooked ache to the world on its “Full Swing” docuseries. There are six automated qualifying spots for the Ryder Cup and 6 captain’s picks. He mentioned that day he accepted he’d have to qualify by way of factors if he ever wished to play in one other cup.

So when Bradley was named as Crew USA’s shocking new captain, he was requested if he’d ever decide himself.

“I wish to play on the workforce,” Bradley mentioned in July. “One factor that’s vital to me is I wish to play on the workforce. I really feel like I’m nonetheless within the prime of my profession and may make this workforce.

“I’ll both make the workforce on factors … I’m not going to choose myself.”

No, Keegan Bradley just isn’t more likely to be one of many six greatest American golfers to routinely qualify. However he’s not executed making an attempt.

With the ultimate 30 for the Tour Championship settled, right here’s a have a look at the beginning strokes for the highest guys within the closing occasion. It may be complicated, however to discover a center floor between the FedEx Cup being each a season-long occasion and one which ends with a single match, gamers start the Tour Championship with a certain quantity of strokes given to them primarily based on their place within the standings.

Then Nos. 6-10 start at 4 underneath. Nos. 11-15 are at 3 underneath; Nos. 16-20 at 2 underneath; No. 21-25 at 1 underneath and No. 26-30 at even par. All 30 then play a traditional 72-hole match from there, and the ultimate leaderboard goes down as the ultimate standings of document for the season.

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — The BMW Championship was one match Keegan Bradley by no means thought he may win, solely as a result of he didn’t suppose he can be enjoying.

Bradley was a bundle of nerves one week in the past Sunday as he sat in a resort room in Tennessee along with his baggage packed and his season seemingly over. After which he squeezed into the fiftieth spot in FedEx Cup within the remaining hour, the final man in Fort Pines for the subsequent playoff occasion.

From biting his nails in Memphis to holding a trophy in Denver. What per week.

“I can’t even wrap my head round it,” Bradley mentioned after an even-par 72 gave him a one-shot victory over Adam Scott, Sam Burns and Ludvig Aberg.

He doesn’t have a lot time to let his seventh profession PGA Tour victory sink in. This created prospects Bradley by no means imagined per week in the past.

He heads to Atlanta for the Tour Championship at East Lake, the place Bradley — who went from No. 50 to No. 4 within the standings — will begin 4 photographs behind Scottie Scheffler at East Lake with an affordable probability at profitable the FedEx Cup and its $25 million prize.

And that’s not the one cup in play.

Bradley grew to become the primary Ryder Cup captain — he was appointed U.S. skipper simply over six weeks in the past — to win a PGA Tour occasion in 9 years. He’s an assistant captain for the Presidents Cup subsequent month in Montreal.

The BMW title moved him to No. 10 within the Presidents Cup standings. Solely the highest six routinely certified Sunday, however Bradley is for certain to be underneath severe consideration when Jim Furyk makes his six captain’s picks after the Tour Championship.

“I don’t know the place that’s going to go, however I’m blissful to play no matter function they need me to play,” the 38-year-old Bradley mentioned. “I hope I didn’t throw an enormous wrench in everyone’s plans, however I’m proud to be in consideration.”

Consideration got here from profitable, and this a rock-solid efficiency within the mile-high air and in wind that left a number of gamers guessing how far the golf ball was flying.

Bradley had some assist from the Scott, who was tied for the lead till beginning the again 9 with three comfortable bogeys, all with a wedge in his hand. He missed par putts of seven ft, 6 ft and eight ft to fall three photographs behind. But it surely was the method photographs that damage him.

“Ten, 11, 12 sort of blew it for me there,” Scott mentioned after his 72. “I used to be in place with wedges on each gap and made three bogeys. That’s virtually unthinkable, actually.”

Burns had a Sunday-best 65, almost holing a bunker shot on the 18th. Aberg was in place to shut the hole till posing over a 6-iron into the par-5 14th proper up till it splashed down, resulting in a bogey from which he couldn’t fairly get better. He closed with a 71.

Bradley, who completed at 12-under 276, successfully sealed it with a 5-iron from 227 yards by which he took lifeless intention behind two bunkers to a again left pin and watched it decide on the agency inexperienced 16 ft away, the closest anybody was all day.

“As pure a golf shot as I’ve ever hit,” Bradley mentioned.

He two-putted for birdie and a two-shot lead, permitting him a cushion and time to take in chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!” from hundreds who encircled the 18th inexperienced and paid tribute to the Ryder Cup captain for the 2025 matches. Bradley bought a number of these cheers this week.

Scott’s final probability actually ended on the fifteenth. Bradley was in serious trouble in a again bunker, forcing him to play some 25 ft away from the pin. Scott was within the fairway, 101 yards from the pin, and his wedge sailed the inexperienced into deep tough. They wound up with matching bogeys.

The comfort for Scott was shifting into the highest 30 who qualify for East Lake.

Justin Thomas by some means made it to East Lake for the Tour Championship, although he was already house in Florida in the identical nail-biting spot as Bradley was per week in the past.

Thomas wanted loads of assist to get the thirtieth spot, and it got here from former British Open champion Brian Harman and Alex Noren. Harman wanted a par on the final gap to remain within the prime 30 and made double bogey.

Noren, who has by no means made it to East Lake, was poised to complete within the prime 30 when he holed a 25-foot par putt on the thirteenth gap and made birdie on the 14th. However he completed with three straight bogeys, probably the most damaging on the par-5 seventeenth, the simplest gap at Fort Pines. He needed to lay up from a drive within the tough and hit wedge right into a bunker. He shot 75.

Bradley earned $4 million for his second title within the BMW Championship, additionally profitable at Aronimink in 2018 when he was the No. 52 seed in what was then a 70-man subject.

Bradley and Scott joined Tommy Fleetwood (69) and Chris Kirk (69) who moved into the highest 30 to qualifying for the Tour Championship. They bumped out Harman, Jason Day, Davis Thompson and Denny McCarthy.

I couldn’t be extra equivocal about Oasis reforming, as a result of I’m an Oasis agnostic. I’m neither a diehard fan: the sort of Weller-haired, Wallabee-shod “parka monkey”, as Noel Gallagher put it, for whom it’s an article of religion that they had been the best band of their period and that British rock music has by no means seen something remotely as thrilling since. Nor am I the sort of implacable naysayer who will inform you, apparently in all seriousness, that their inherent musical conservatism and their penchant for the union jack someway presaged Brexit. I believe Oasis’s first two albums and the accompanying singles and B-sides had been implausible. Certainly, if something, I believe their debut Undoubtedly Perhaps sounds stronger now than it did in 1994.

Again then, it felt like a rush of sneering vocals, distorted guitars that had been equal components Slade and the Intercourse Pistols circa By no means Thoughts the Bollocks and tunes that appeared simple and instantly acquainted, generally since you did truly already know them. Now, I discover it weirdly shifting. The cocktail of oddly wistful, melancholy lyrics and melodies and the seething, barely contained frustration and aggression of their supply seems like an ideal evocation of a want for escape, for one thing higher than the circumstances during which the songs’ narrators discover themselves, undercut by uncertainty: they sound like songs about loudly expressed large plans made by individuals uncertain whether or not they have the wherewithal to drag them off. I additionally suspect a sure nostalgia has potentiated my view of (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’s epic nearer Champagne Supernova. Practically 30 years later, it sounds just like the 90s equal of the rash of celebratory, elegiac songs that documented the waning of the glam rock period – Mott The Hoople’s Saturday Gigs, T Rex’s Teenage Dream, Slade’s How Does It Really feel – which appears fairly exalted firm to maintain.

However after all, Undoubtedly Perhaps and (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? are solely a part of the story. If nobody would ever declare it as an important album, there’s a sure perverse pleasure to be taken in 1997’s Be Right here Now – its claustrophobic, clenched-jaw sound actually embodying the excesses of the Britpop period operating horribly uncontrolled – however thereafter Oasis normally sounded bloated and weary, as if struggling to find no matter had made them particular within the first place, normally with out success. One thing would very fitfully spark – as on 2002’s The Hindu Occasions or 2008’s Shock of the Lightning – however, for essentially the most half Oasis’s output for the rest of their profession was a fairly joyless trudge.

When contemplating their reunion, it’s additionally price noting that they had been wildly variable reside. Generally they had been nice, even unexpectedly so – effectively after their recorded output had gone off the boil, they performed the Shepherd’s Bush Empire to have fun their tenth anniversary, and sounded unimaginable, pugnacious and snarling, as if stung by the criticism that had begun to rain down on them and decided to show they might nonetheless summon up the requisite belligerence. And generally they had been appalling. There’s a sure comedic worth in Liam Gallagher’s heroically pissed efficiency at Wembley stadium in July 2000 – you could find it on YouTube – though one suspects the joke would have worn skinny after some time for those who had paid for a ticket. The phoned-in headline set they performed at Glastonbury in 2004 was simply as disheartening.

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So the reunion might go both means. Its industrial success is clearly assured – the Oasis trustworthy are very trustworthy certainly, as demonstrated by the truth that even their most lacklustre albums bought thousands and thousands; furthermore, the crowds at Liam’s greatest solo reveals advised that their ranks had been bolstered by an viewers who couldn’t keep in mind Oasis first time round: their streaming figures counsel that, virtually uniquely amongst their friends, their music has lower via to youthful listeners. One suspects its inventive success is determined by whether or not the Gallaghers assume they’ve one thing to show 30 years on, in an period when their affect on present British pop seems to be nil. Or whether or not they strategy it cynically, as a cash-grab into which they’ve been corralled by circumstance – it may well’t be a coincidence that Noel’s perspective to reforming appeared to melt within the wake of a divorce that allegedly value him £20m – and that’s going to be so rapturously obtained that what they sound like is moreover the purpose. On one degree a certain factor, it’s additionally attended by a way of uncertainty: you’ll be able to’t be 100% certain what’s going to occur, which I suppose makes it price seeing.

A highschool soccer star has died after struggling a mind damage throughout a recreation on Friday night time, his college and household have confirmed.

Quarterback Caden Tellier, 16, was injured throughout a sort out within the third quarter, taking part in for the John T. Morgan Academy, a personal college in Selma, Alabama, versus Southern Academy.

His mom, Arsella Slagel Tellier, stated in a Fb publish on Saturday: “Everybody who is aware of Caden has identified kindness, generosity and love, and true to his nature, he’s giving of himself yet one more time.”

“Lives have been touched by the way in which he lived and now lives will probably be saved by his passing,” she stated.

The particular particulars of what occurred within the second earlier than and through the sort out are unclear. A GoFundMe web page to cowl funeral bills, which has already raised $75,000 of its $100,000 goal, stated Tellier died from a “traumatic mind damage.” The GoFundMe web page additionally mentions that Tellier was an organ donor.

Morgan Academy headmaster Dr. Bryan Oliver stated in a press release to NBC affiliate WSFA of Montgomery that “there aren’t any phrases to explain how we really feel as a college group and household.” Morgan Academy has about 350 college students.

“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I need to inform you that Caden Tellier has gone to be along with his Lord and Savior. Caden cherished the Lord with all his coronary heart and was a shining gentle day by day he graced the halls of Morgan Academy,” he stated.

Michael McLendon, government director of the Alabama Impartial Faculty Affiliation stated in a press release that he backed the varsity’s resolution to cancel all lessons and actions this week, “giving their group time to return collectively, mirror, and help each other by this heartbreaking time.”

“As a small college, Morgan Academy feels this tragedy much more deeply,” McLendon stated. The varsity has 339 college students, in keeping with its web site.

Tellier’s dying is the newest in a string of deaths involving highschool soccer gamers. A West Texas highschool participant additionally died from a head damage in 2022, whereas a scholar died throughout soccer observe in Florida in 2021 and a 15-year-old boy died after collapsing throughout observe in Georgia the identical 12 months.

DENVER | Zach Wilson and Jarrett Stidham each made robust closing instances for surviving roster cuts after shedding out to rookie Bo Nix within the Denver Broncos’ newest quarterback competitors.

Stidham directed an environment friendly landing drive Sunday in his solely possession and Wilson drove Denver on 4 scoring drives because the Broncos wrapped up an ideal preseason with a 38-12 walloping of the Arizona Cardinals.

“Each these guys appeared good,” mentioned Broncos coach Sean Payton, who reiterated that he’d prefer to hold all three QBs when last cuts are made Tuesday. “We really feel snug with all three.”

In his most in depth motion this summer season, Wilson jumpstarted a landing drive with a 21-yard scramble and threw a 46-yard TD on a frozen rope of a go to Brandon Johnson with a crushed defensive again reducing throughout his path and he sped into the top zone.

Stidham’s cameo concluded with rookie operating again Audric Estime’s 3-yard rating.

“It was nice,” Stidham mentioned. “I knew going into it if I went down and scored on the primary drive I’d most likely be carried out. So, I’m actually happy with the blokes.”

Wilson, the previous second general draft decide by the Jets in 2021, has 33 profession NFL begins and that have confirmed when he sparked an 11-play, 77-yard landing drive with a powerful scramble from his personal 13 on second-and-20. He completed that drive with a 1-yard landing toss to tight finish Nate Atkins that gave Denver a 14-0 lead.

“I believe getting hit within the face” on the lengthy scramble “will enable you to prepare,” Wilson mentioned with a smile.

Wilson’s 1-yard keeper capped an 88-yard drive that made it 24-6 within the third quarter and he discovered Johnson from 46 yards out with 6:22 remaining.

Wilson completed 16 of 25 for 251 yards, two TDs and no interceptions in aid of Stidham, who directed a 10-play, 55-yard drive by going 2 of 4 for 28 yards.

Payton bristled when requested if monetary ramifications will come into play when deciding what number of QBs to maintain. Stidham is due $5 million this season and there’s been hypothesis he may need to take a paycut to stay round.

“No, we’ve obtained sufficient cash,” Payton mentioned. “I perceive the query. We really feel snug with these three quarterbacks. I believe I’ve informed you already I see the three of them making it.”

When that notion was relayed to Wilson within the locker room, he mentioned, “Yeah, thrilling. However reduce day’s not till Tuesday, so we’ll see what occurs.”

Clayton Tune and Desmond Ridder break up snaps of their last audition to function Kyler Murray’s backup in Arizona (0-3). Tune was 12 of 18 for 119 yards with no touchdowns, an interceptions and a pair of sacks by Jordan Jackson.

Ridder was 10 of 16 for 111 yards in aid of Tune when he went to the medical tent within the closing minutes following a tough hit that left him in concussion protocol. Tune went again in and on his first snap threw an interception that linebacker Levelle Bailey returned 96 yards for a landing.

Denver DB Kedron Smith recorded his third takeaway of the preseason when he recovered Tony Jones Jr.’s fumble on the Denver 3. Jones was knocked from the sport with a shoulder harm on the play.

Matt Prater’s 50-yarder as the primary half expired made it 14-3. He tacked on a 24-yarder and Haassan Corridor accounted for Arizona’s solely landing with a 3-yard run within the fourth quarter that made it 24-12.

“I simply informed ’em the hassle was good, they battled in there immediately. However you misplaced the explosive play battle, you misplaced the takeaway battle. And that’s what occurs, you get beat,” Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon mentioned.

Cardinals security Darren Corridor mentioned the turnovers not withstanding, the Cardinals “really feel good.”

“We’re nonetheless constructing. We’ve obtained an extended method to go however as a staff we’re actual shut. We’ve got an actual shut bond,” he mentioned. “The sky’s the restrict for this staff.”

Accidents

Denver DB Damarri Mathis, who began 17 video games during the last two seasons, injured his proper ankle on a sort out on the sport’s second play from scrimmage and was carted off. Payton mentioned it didn’t seem vital. Broncos LB Durell Nchami pulled a hamstring. …Cardinals CBs Divaad Wilson (wrist), Elijah Jones (ankle) and Darren Corridor (hip) all obtained damage and Cardinals TE Sage Surratt (ankle) left within the third quarter. O-lineman Christian Jones was carted off within the waning minutes with an unspecified harm.

Up subsequent

Broncos: Common-season opener Sept. 8 at Seattle.

Cardinals: Common-season opener Sept. 8 at Buffalo.

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The official nonprofit group of the Nationwide Park Service is ready to obtain the biggest grant in its historical past, a $100 million reward the fundraising group described as transformative for the nation’s nationwide parks.

The Nationwide Park Basis, which Congress created within the Nineteen Sixties to help nationwide parks, will obtain the donation from Indianapolis-based basis Lilly Endowment Inc. The park basis described the reward on Monday as the biggest grant in historical past benefiting U.S. nationwide parks.

The cash will likely be used to handle the wants of the nation’s greater than 400 nationwide park websites, stated Will Shafroth, president and CEO of the Nationwide Park Basis.

The muse hopes to announce the primary spherical of grants stemming from the donation later this yr, Shafroth stated.

Precisely how the cash will likely be utilized stays to be seen, however one of many basis’s priorities is restoring coral reefs at Biscayne Nationwide Park in Florida, Shafroth stated, whereas one other precedence is the restoration of trout species in western nationwide parks. These are among the many basis’s current investments.

Along with funding initiatives that shield fragile ecosystems and species, Shafroth stated the cash may also be used to create alternatives for younger folks to go to nationwide parks.

“This grant will enable us to supercharge our efforts to make sure our nationwide parks are for everybody, for generations to come back,” he stated.

The system’s tons of of models embrace nationwide parks, memorials, monuments, historic websites and different places. It contains iconic nationwide parks equivalent to Yellowstone Nationwide Park in Montana and Yosemite Nationwide Park in California, in addition to beloved websites such because the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It additionally contains preserved areas which might be much less accessible to many individuals, equivalent to Buck Island Reef Nationwide Monument within the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The Nationwide Park Basis is within the midst of its “Marketing campaign for Nationwide Parks,” a $1 billion fundraising effort to help parks. Lilly Endowment made the reward to help that effort, stated N. Clay Robbins, chair and CEO of Lilly Endowment.

“We imagine the Nationwide Park Basis’s marketing campaign will improve the programming in and promote the longer term vibrancy of our nation’s marvelous system of parks, monuments and historic websites,” Robbins stated.

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LONDON (AP) — Icelandic rescuers labored by hand Monday to chop by way of the remnants of a collapsed ice cave as they searched for 2 vacationers lacking for greater than 24 hours since a glacier within the southeastern a part of the island caved in, killing one individual and severely injured one other.

The search, which was suspended in a single day when circumstances made it too harmful resumed at about 7 a.m., Icelandic broadcaster RUV reported. Video confirmed rescuers working inside two massive craters surrounded by the sand-blackened ice of the Breidamerkurjokull glacier.

“Now we have three groups that take turns, working for an hour at a time scooping and breaking down ice,’’ Sveinn Rúnar Kristjánsson, the native police chief, instructed RUV. “In the meantime, in fact, we’re nonetheless on this investigative work, determining who is likely to be down there below the ice. This work continues.”

Police stated a bunch of 25 vacationers from a number of international locations had been exploring an ice cave at Breidamerkurjokull when it collapsed shortly earlier than 3 p.m. Sunday. 4 individuals had been struck by falling ice, with one dying on the scene and one other flown to a hospital in Reykjavik, the capital, by helicopter. Authorities haven’t launched the names or nationalities of the victims.

The Affiliation of Icelandic Mountain Guides on Sunday known as for a full investigation and tighter rules on ice cave excursions. Glacier journeys throughout the hotter summer time months may be very harmful, the affiliation stated.

Ice caves are a preferred vacation spot for guests to Iceland, with tour operators providing prospects the prospect to “discover the insides of glaciers” and see the blue coloration and “beautiful patterns” within the ice.

“This can be a horrible occasion that you just don’t need anybody to undergo,″ Garðar Hrafn Sigurjónsson, the affiliation’s vice-chairman, instructed native information web site Visir. “We remorse this horrible accident on the Breiðamerkurjökull, each me personally and the affiliation.”

Visir stated the group that was on the cave throughout the collapse was on an organized tour accompanied by a information. Many of the guests had been exterior the cave when it got here down, it reported.

Glaciers cowl about 11% of Iceland, an island nation within the north Atlantic that sits on the southern fringe of the Arctic Circle. The most important is Vatnajokull, which covers 7,900 sq. kilometers (3,050 sq. miles). Breidamerkurjokull is a tongue of Vatnajokull that ends on the Jokulsarlon Lagoon, the place icebergs consistently break off from the glacier.

Shifting rescue tools and personnel as much as the glacier was tough as a result of rugged terrain, and rescuers needed to minimize by way of the ice utilizing chainsaws.

The glacier is about 300 kilometers (185 miles) from a volcano that erupted Friday on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland.

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Keyton reported from Berlin.