Another German, Andrea Henkel, was third.

Her closest rival was Uschi Disl of Germany, who was 25.3 seconds behind and also missed one target. World champion Magdalena Forsberg of Sweden scored her third consecutive victory by winning an individual biathlon World Cup event at Pokljuka, Slovenia.įorsberg, who started in 41st position, finished the 15-kilometer course in 45 minutes 9.4 seconds, missing only one target. The top American finishers were Courtney Zablocki in fourth place and Becky Wilczak in sixth. It was the 30th consecutive World Cup victory for the German women’s team.

Olympic champion Silke Kraushaar won a World Cup luge event, edging teammate Sylke Otto by one-thousandth of a second to lead a 1-2-3 sweep for Germany at Igls, Austria. Karel Bruckner was appointed coach of the Czech Republic’s team, replacing Jozef Chovanec, who failed to lead the Czechs to the 2002 World Cup finals.įormer Tulane running back Toney Converse was sentenced in Gretna, La., to 18 years in prison on five drug convictions.Ĭonverse, 23, was found guilty last month on four counts of distribution of cocaine and one count of possession with intent to distribute. Juventus advanced to the quarterfinals by thrashing second-division Sampdoria, 5-2, in their third-round, second-leg game.Ĭarsten Jancker and Mehmet Scholl’s second-half goals helped Bayern Munich past VfL Osnabrueck, 2-0, at Berlin in a second-round game of the German Cup.Ī late own-goal by defender Aitor Karanka left Real Madrid with a 1-0 defeat by Gimnastic de Tarragona at Madrid in a third-round game of the Copa del Rey. Najeib, then 19, suffered fractures on his nose, left leg and a cheekbone.Ī late goal by Markus Schopp gave Brescia a 1-0 upset victory over defending champion AS Roma in their first leg of the Italian Cup quarterfinals at Rome.

Bowyer and Woodgate, both candidates to be on England’s World Cup squad next summer, allegedly were among several men who attacked Sarfraz Najeib on a street in downtown Leeds in January 2000.

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