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Headlines (21 February) :
Title race not over - Ancelotti
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti saw his side extend their
lead at the top of the Barclays Premier League to four points and
then insisted the title race was far from over.
Van der Sar set for United stay
Veteran goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar looks set to sign
a new one-year contract with Manchester United.
Casey crushes American dreams
Red-hot Ian Poulter gave Sergio Garcia a real
hammering in Tucson on Saturday - but went to bed not knowing his
final opponent at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Kieswetter makes senior squad
Craig Kieswetter has been added to the England one-day
squad for the tour of Bangladesh.
Zola cautious over revival of fortunes
Gianfranco Zola insists it is too early to judge
whether West Ham's season is turning around after they posted back-to-back
victories in the Barclays Premier League for the first time since
March 2009.
Collingwood impressed by matchwinner Razzaq
England captain Paul Collingwood believes there is
"no shame" in losing to an innings as destructive as the
one Abdul Razzaq produced to square the Twenty20 series against
Pakistan 1-1 in Dubai.
Fergie dismisses 'harebrained' play-off idea
Manchester United manager has dismissed the idea of
introducing play-offs to determine the final Champions League place
as "harebrained".
Moyes: More to come from Toffees
Everton boss David Moyes claimed the best was still to
come after his side's stunning defeat of Manchester United.
Tigers secure impressive home win
Leicester Tigers secured their ninth Guinness
Premiership victory of the season by beating Gloucester 33-11 at
Welford Road to maintain their dominance at the top of the table.
Wenger: Gunners back in title fight
Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal are back in the chase
for the Premier League title. |
International Results Roundup
Dateline 20 February
2010
FOOTBALL
Barclays Premier League
Arsenal 2 Sunderland 0 Everton 3 Man Utd 1 Portsmouth
1 Stoke 2 West Ham 3 Hull 0 Wolverhampton 0 Chelsea 2
Scottish Premier
Celtic 1 Dundee Utd 0 Falkirk 3 Aberdeen 1 Kilmarnock
1 St Mirren 1 Motherwell 1 Hibernian 0
Coca-Cola Championship
Blackpool 2 Reading 0 Cardiff 0 Barnsley 2 Crystal
Palace 0 Coventry 1 Derby 0 Swansea 1 Newcastle 3 Preston 0 Nottm
Forest 1 Middlesbrough 0 Plymouth 1 Leicester 1 QPR 2 Doncaster 1
Scunthorpe 2 Watford 2 Sheff Wed 0 Ipswich 1
WINTER OLYMPICS
Cross-Country Skiing
Final Overall 30 km Pursuit (15C+15F) Standings: 1
Marcus Hellner (Swe) 1 hour 15 mins 11.4 secs, 2 Tobias Angerer (Ger)
1:15:13.5, 3 Johan Olsson (Swe) 1:15:14.2, 4 Alexander Legkov (Rus)
1:15:15.4, 5 Ivan Babikov (Can) 1:15:20.5, 6 Jens Filbrich (Ger)
1:15:25.0, 7 Lukas Bauer (Cze) 1:15:25.2, 8 George Grey (Can)
1:15:32.0, 9 Alex Harvey (Can) 1:15:43.0, 10 Anders Soedergren (Swe)
1:15:47.0,
Curling
Round Robin Session 7: Germany 9 France 4, Great
Britain 9 China 4, Norway 6 Denmark 3, USA 8 Sweden 7
Round Robin Session 8: Switzerland 9 China 5, Canada 7
Great Britain 6, France 5 Sweden 4
Ice Hockey
Prelim. Round - Group B Game 14: Slovakia 6 Latvia 0
Prelim. Round - Group C Game 15: Belarus 5 Germany 3
Short Track
Final B: 1 Jialiang Han (Chn) 1 min 32.023 secs DSQ:
Si-Bak Sung (Kor)
Final A: 1 Jung-Su Lee (Kor) 1:23.747 (OR), 2 Ho-Suk
Lee (Kor) 1:23.801, 3 Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) 1:24.128, 4 Charles
Hamelin (Can) 1:24.329, 5 Francois Hamelin (Can) 1:25.206
Ski Jumping
Final Overall LH Individual Standings: 1 Simon Ammann
(Swi) 283.6 pts, 2 Adam Malysz (Pol) 269.4, 3 Gregor Schlierenzauer
(Aut) 262.2, 4 Andreas Kofler (Aut) 261.2, 5 Thomas Morgenstern (Aut)
246.7, 6 Michael Neumayer (Ger) 245.5, 7 Antonin Hajek (Cze) 240.6, 8
Noriaki Kasai (Jpn) 239.2, 9 Robert Kranjec (Slo) 233.7, 10 Wolfgang
Loitzl (Aut) 230
Speed Skating
Final Overall 1500 m Standings: 1 Mark Tuitert (Ned) 1
min 45.57 secs, 2 Shani Davis (USA) 1:46.10, 3 Havard Bokko (Nor)
1:46.13, 4 Ivan Skobrev (Rus) 1:46.42, 5 Tae-Bum Mo (Kor) 1:46.47, 6
Chad Hedrick (USA) 1:46.69, 7 Simon Kuipers (Ned) 1:46.76, 8 Mikael
Flygind Larsen (Nor) 1:46.77, 9 Denny Morrison (Can) 1:46.93, 10
Enrico Fabris (Ita) 1:47.02
Women's
Alpine Skiing
Final Overall Super-G Standings: 1 Andrea Fischbacher
(Aut) 1 min 20.14 secs, 2 Tina Maze (Slo) 1:20.63, 3 Lindsey Vonn
(USA) 1:20.88, 4 Johanna Schnarf (Ita) 1:20.99, 5 Elisabeth Goergl
(Aut) 1:21.14, 6 Nadia Styger (Swi) 1:21.25, 7 Lucia Recchia (Ita)
1:21.43, 8 Maria Riesch (Ger) 1:21.46, 9 Julia Mancuso (USA) 1:21.50,
10 Ingrid Jacquemod (Fra) 1:21.77
Ice Hockey
Classifications - Game 13:Switzerland 6 China 0
Classifications - Game 14: Russian Federation 4
Slovakia 2
Short Track
Leading positions after the 1500 m
Final B: 1 Arianna Fontana (Ita) 2 mins 42.801 secs, 2
Linlin Sun (Chn) 2:42.960, 3 Tatiana Borodulina (Aus) 2:43.051, 4
Hiroko Sadakane (Jpn) 2:43.135
Final A: 1 Yang Zhou (Chn) 2 mins 16.993 secs (OR), 2
Eun-Byul Lee (Kor) 2:17.849, 3 Seung-Hi Park (Kor) 2:17.927, 4
Katherine Reutter (USA) 2:18.396, 5 Ha-Ri Cho (Kor) 2:18.831, 6 Erika
Huszar (Hun) 2:19.251, 7 Evgeniya Radanova (Bul) 2:19.411, 8 Tania
Vicent (Can) 2:23.035
CRICKET
Australia v West Indies International Twenty20 Series
at Hobart
Australia 179 - 8 20 ovs West Indies 141 - 8 20 ovs
Australia won by 38 runs.
India v South Africa One Day International Series at
Jaipur
India 162 - 4 28.1 ovs In Progress
RUGBY UNION
Guinness Premiership
Bath (15) 37 Worcester (10) 13 Harlequins (13) 13
Northampton (0) 6 Leicester (16) 33 Gloucester (6) 11 Newcastle (3) 12
London Irish (12) 12
The Magners League
Leinster (13) 27 Scarlets (11) 14
The Championship
Bedford (0) 12 Doncaster (13) 23 Birmingham &
Solihull (7) 21 Plymouth Albion (31) 36 Exeter (24) 36 Moseley (7) 19
London Welsh (3) 3 Bristol (23) 28 Rotherham Titans (22) 41 Coventry
(8) 11
RUGBY LEAGUE
Super League
Catalans Dragons (8) 12 St Helens (18) 42 Warrington
(16) 20 Wigan (4) 22
GOLF
Telkom PGA Championship
Collated third round scores & totals in the
Sunshine Tour Telkom PGA Championship, Country Club Johannesburg,
Johannesburg, South Africa(Rsa unless stated, par 72):
202 George Coetzee 71 67 64, Louis Oosthuizen 67 66 69
204 Keith Horne 67 71 66 205 Michiel Bothma 71 67 67, Jaco Van Zyl 71
66 68, Doug McGuigan 65 72 68 206 Richard Sterne 69 68 69, Tjaart van
der Walt 67 68 71 207 Hennie Otto 71 68 68 208 Jbe' Kruger 69 72 67,
Alan McLean (Sco) 73 68 67, Louis Moolman 69 70 69
Allianz Championship
Collated second round scores from the Champions Tour's
Allianz Championship at The Old Course at Broken Sound Club, Boca
Raton, Florida (USA unless stated, par 72):
131 Tim Simpson 66 65, Tommy Armour III 67 64 132
Bernhard Langer (Ger) 67 65, John Cook 66 66 133 Joey Sindelar 68 65,
Loren Roberts 66 67, Tom Lehman 66 67, Nick Price (Zim) 68 65 134
Russ Cochran 70 64, Mike Reid 65 69, Jay Don Blake 68 66 135 Tom
Jenkins 64 71, Gene Jones 68 67, Corey Pavin 65 70, Scott Simpson 67
68, Lu chien Soon (Tai) 69 66, Jay Haas 64 71 136 Michael Allen 69
67, Bob Gilder 69 67
Mayakoba Golf Classic
Collated third round scores from the US PGA Tour's
Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun, El Camaleon GC, Playa
del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico (USA unless stated, par 71):
199 Joe Durant 64 66 69 201 Charles Warren 67 69 65,
J.P. Hayes 65 67 69 202 Chad Collins 67 68 67, Cameron Beckman 65 68
69 203 Kevin Stadler 69 67 67 204 Briny Baird 65 70 69, Heath Slocum
68 69 67, Matt Weibring 69 67 68 205 Brian Stuard 67 67 71, Brendon
De Jonge 70 68 67, Ted Purdy 69 69 67, Tom Pernice Jnr. 66 68 71,
Charles Howell III 68 71 66, Thomas Levet (Fra) 66 70 69, Jason Gore
66 71 68
WGC-Accenture World Match Play
Results in the semi-finals of the World Golf
Championships - Accenture Match Play, Ritz-Carlton GC, Dove Mountain,
Marana, Arizona, United States of America(USA unless stated, seeded
positions in brackets):
(9) Ian Poulter (Eng) bt (13) Sergio Garcia (Spa) 7
& 6 Quarter-finals:
(13) Sergio Garcia (Spa) bt (37) Oliver Wilson (Gbr) 4
& 3
(18) Retief Goosen (Rsa) lost to (23) Camilo Villegas
(Col) 4 & 3
(19) Stewart Cink (USA) lost to (6) Paul Casey (Gbr) 5
& 4
(48) Thongchai Jaidee (Thai) lost to (9) Ian Poulter
(Gbr) 1 hole
TENNIS
WTA Barclays Dubai Championships
Final:
(3) Venus Williams (USA) bt (4) Victoria Azarenka
(Blr) 6-3 7-5
ATP Open 13
Semi-finals:
(8) Julien Benneteau (Fra) bt (2) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
(Fra) 7-6 (13-11) 5-7 7-6 (7-3)
Michael Llodra (Fra) bt Mischa Zverev (Ger) 6-1 7-6 (7-3)
WTA Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas
Semi-finals:
(5) Angelique Kerber (Ger) bt (1) Gisela Dulko (Arg)
7-5 6-3
Mariana Duque Marino (Col) bt (8) Arantxa Parra
Santonja (Spa) 6-4 7-5
ATP Copa Telmex
Quarter-finals:
(4) Juan Monaco (Arg) bt (8) Horacio Zeballos (Arg)
7-5 6-1
(1) David Ferrer (Spa) bt (6) Igor Andreev (Rus) 7-5 6-2
Semi-finals:
(2) Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt (4) Juan Monaco (Arg)
6-2 7-6 (9-7)
(1) David Ferrer (Spa) bt (5) Albert Montanes (Spa)
6-1 6-1
ATP/WTA Memphis
Men's semi-finals:
(6) John Isner (USA) bt Philipp Petzschner (Ger) 7-5
4-6 6-3
(8) Sam Querrey (USA) bt Ernests Gulbis (Lat) 6-3 6-4
Women's Final:
(1) Maria Sharapova (Rus) bt Sofia Arvidsson (Swe) 6-2 6-1
ATHLETICS
Jenny Meadows broke the British 800metres indoor
record belonging to Dame Kelly Holmes on Saturday to complete her
preparations for the World Indoor Championships in perfect style.
Meadows clocked a time of one minute and 59.11 seconds at the Aviva
Grand Prix in Birmingham, taking a tenth of a second off the mark set
by Holmes in Belgium in 2003.
SWIMMING
Jazmin Carlin produced a world-class swim to lead home
world silver medallist Jo Jackson and Olympic champion Rebecca
Adlington in the 400metres freestyle at the British Gas Great Britain
v Germany swim meet in Swansea. The 19-year-old led from the halfway
mark to claim an emphatic win in four minutes 06.41 seconds, just
0.22secs outside her best set last year in the era of
performance-enhancing suits. |
