Germany takes title for hosting world championships
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COLOGNE, Germany  - Hosts Germany won the handball world championship on Sunday with a lopsided 29-24 victory over Poland, which was a fitting final act to the most popular handball tournament ever held.
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BERLIN: Bayern Munich claimed the honorific title of âwinter championsâ showing great spirit to come from two goals down to net a point in a 2-2 draw with VfB Stuttgart at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Germany, led by Felix Neureuther  and Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer, struck gold on the final day of  the Alpine ski world championships by winning the event's first  team competition Sunday.
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Miss Czech Republic took the Miss World crown on Saturday in Poland's capital Warsaw, the first city in ex-communist East Europe to host the pageant.
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Marlies Schild won a World Cup slalom Sunday to clinch the season discipline title with two races remaining.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta  - Michaela Dorfmeister put  the Austrian women back on top with the team's first win of the  Alpine ski World Cup season on Sunday, providing the perfect  send-off as the circuit shifts back to Europe.
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Austria's Hermann Maier wins giant slalom gold at the world championships in Bormio.
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SAITAMA, Japan  - The United States broke out of a   first-half slumber to beat Germany 85-65 and reach the last   four of the world basketball championship on Wednesday.
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The Czech Republic scored three goals in three minutes during the second period and routed Germany 7-2 Friday in the World Cup of Hockey.
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Lahore - Two second-half goals from Florian Keller helped Germany beat New Zealand 2-1 on Sunday at Pakistan&#39;s National Stadium in the city of Lahore, guaranteeing its place in the men&#39;s field-hockey Champions Trophy next year.
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Germany banished their 2002 World Cup ghosts with a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Japan in the first match of their three-game tour of Asia on Thursday.
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Germany beat San Marino to set a European Championship qualifying record.
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Germany clinch their sixth successive team dressage gold medal as Britain fall out of contention for bronze.
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Berlin was selected as the venue for the 2009 world track and field championships by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) here on Saturday.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's gold-medal winning ski team produced another winner on Saturday when Michaela Kirchgasser won her first World Cup victory in a giant slalom.
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ARE, Sweden  - Austria took a commanding lead in Sunday's closing nations team event at the world Alpine skiing championships by dominating the super-G heats.
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Hungary&#39;s Zsuzsanna Voros won the gold medal in the women&#39;s modern pentathlon in Athens Friday to add the Olympic title to her three world championships.