WORLD CUPS: 3 & 4

t seems strange to have four full World Cups again, after curtailed seasons in the last two years. Paris, that grandest of cities, saw a sleeper awaken in Marcus D’Almeida of Brazil. Hyped beyond his capacity at his home Games in Rio as the “Neymar of archery”; he finally, finally, after what seems like dozens of near misses and silver medals, took individual gold at a major international competition. On the way there, he beat reigning Olympic Champion Mete Gazoz, the London 2012 Olympic Champion Oh Jin Hyek and the noisy young of the Korean squad, Kim Je Deok, in back-to-back-to-back matches. It took a shootoff to do it, but his arrow was