It was only fitting that the fate of seven teams hung on the outcome of an extra end as the men’s round robin of the 2010 USA Curling Nationals concluded this morning at Wings Stadium.
The Ivory Coast football federation says it has not chosen a coach to lead the national team at the World Cup.
Former Olympic ski jump champion Toni Innauer has left the Austrian ski
federation after 17 years as sport director for ski jumping and Nordic
combined.
The introduction of goal-line technology was rejected because it was too costly and wasn’t universally applicable, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Thursday.
One year after cracking in the penultimate stage of the Paris-Nice
race, Alberto Contador was certainly not celebrating after winning
Thursday’s queen stage in the ‘Race to the Sun.’
Marit Bjoergen’s post-Olympic run continued Thursday with her second straight individual World Cup victory — her third, including last Sunday’s team relay win.
It was back on Oct. 25 in Soelden, Austria that Ted Ligety charged down
the Rettenbach Glacier racing to a solid second-place result in the
first giant slalom of the season. Nearly five months later, the
25-year-old Park City skier will enter the start house in tomorrow’s
season-ending race, leading the discipline standings with his sights
clearly set on a second career title.
Twice Tour de France champion Alberto Contador seized control of the
Paris-Nice race when he snatched a solo win in the fourth stage to lead
a Spanish 1-2-3 on Thursday.
Quick Step’s Tom Boonen won the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico
cycling race on Thursday, edging Rabobank sprinter Paul Martens for his
third victory of the season.
Quick Step’s Tom Boonen won the second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico
cycling race on Thursday, edging Rabobank sprinter Paul Martens for his
third victory of the season.