VAL GARDENA, Italy — Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada won a World Cup downhill Saturday in which American Bode Miller finished ninth.
Osborne-Paradis covered the 2.14-mile run in 2 minutes, 1.27 seconds for his second victory of the season. Mario Scheiber of Austria was second while Switzerland’s Ambrosi Hoffmann and Johan Clarey of France tied for third.
• Lindsey Vonn‘s quest for a third consecutive downhill victory was put on hold after bad weather forced a postponement of a World Cup race in Val d’Isere, France.
• Jason Lamy Chappuis of France won his second straight nordic combined World Cup event in Ramsau, Austria, and Steamboat Springs’ Johnny Spillane finished fourth to lead three Americans into the top 10. Steamboat’s Todd Lodwick placed sixth and Bill Demong was ninth.
• Rallying from two minutes behind the leader, Steamboat’s Taylor Fletcher finished third in a Continental Cup nordic combined event in Lake Placid, N.Y.
• Andre Lange of Germany won the two-man bobsled World Cup race on his home track in Altenberg, Germany.
• Norway won the men’s and women’s World Cup cross country sprints, while American Andrew Newell finished sixth in the men’s race in Rogla, Slovenia.
• Russia won the men’s and women’s World Cup biathlon sprints in Pokljuka, Slovenia, while American Tim Burke placed eighth in the men’s event to move up to second in the overall standings.
U.S. swimmers dominate
MANCHESTER, England — Michael Phelps helped his American team trounce a group of European all-stars in the Duel in the Pool, anchoring a relay to one of the eight world records the U.S. set over the two-day meet. The U.S. team won 185-78.
Phelps anchored the U.S. victory in the 400-meter freestyle relay in a world-record time of 3 minutes, 3.3 seconds, but didn’t fare well in the individual races. In the 200 butterfly, the 14-time Olympic champion lost by a body length to Michael Rock of Britain. He finished third in the 200 freestyle.
Two world records were set by American women. Julia Smit, who broke the 400 individual medley world mark on Friday, clocked 2:04.6 to win the 200 version. Rebecca Soni, who broke the 200 breaststroke record Friday, repeated the feat in the 100 in 1:02.7.
Footnotes.
Penn State became the first team to win three straight NCAA volleyball titles, overcoming a two-set deficit to beat Texas in five sets in Tampa, Fla., and extend its record winning streak to 102 straight games.
• Two of today’s NFL games — the 49ers-Eagles and the Bears-Ravens — were pushed back to 4:15 p.m. (2:15 p.m. MST) from 1 p.m. local-time starts because of a winter storm.
• Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell will have surgery to repair a ligament in his right thumb, scrubbing a proposed trade to the Texas Rangers.
• Kelly Pavlik stopped Miguel Espino in the fifth round to defend his WBC and WBO middleweight titles in Youngstown, Ohio.
The Associated Press
