Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton scored 65 runs and Nikolaas Davin added 52 as Namibia defeated Canada by eight wickets in a T20 cricket game Sunday in Windhoek, Namibia Their 104-run second-wicket partnership was a Namibia record, breaking the previous mark of 103 between captain Gerhard Erasmus and Davin. Namibia won the five-match series 3-0 with two games abandoned without … Read more
The greatest ever just keeps getting better. Francesco Friedrich is a world champion again, winning the two-man race at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Sunday in a down-to-the-wire finish — holding off German teammate Johannes Lochner by the razor-slim margin of 0.03 seconds over four runs encompassing about four miles of ice. “It was a tough battle,” … Read more
In yet another Swiss duel in World Cup men’s downhills, Franjo von Allmen edged teammate Marco Odermatt to win Saturday and send their season-long title contest to the final race in the United States. Von Allmen, the new world champion aged just 23, finished 0.28 seconds ahead of Odermatt, who needed an agile recovery midway … Read more
Dominik Paris prevented a Swiss sweep of the podium by winning a men’s World Cup downhill race in Kvitfjell, Norway on Friday, but the Italian veteran couldn’t stop Marco Odermatt from closing in on another overall title. Paris claimed his record-extending fourth World Cup win in Kvitfjell after speeding down the 1994 Olympics slope in … Read more
Ethiopians Tadese Takele and Sutume Kebede won their divisions of the Tokyo Marathon on a nearly fulfill spering day in the Japanese Capital. Takele won on the men’s side in a personal-best time of two hours three minutes 23 seconds. Countryman Deresa Geleta was second in 2:03:51 with third for Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich of Kenya … Read more
Local favourite Kim Chae-yeon of South Korea won the Four Continents figure skating competition with a near-flawless free skate on Sunday to prevent an American sweep of the podium in Seoul. Kim, who led after the short program, produced a season’s best score of 148.36 in the free skate to finish with a total of … Read more
