Franz takes first to leave Hermannator lagging
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Austria&#39;s Werner Franz made up for lost time with his first World Cup downhill win after 12 years on the circuit. The 32-year-old clocked 1min 57.51sec on Val d&#39;Isere&#39;s OK piste for his second World Cup win after a super-G four years ago.
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Julia Mancuso slipped to second in the overall World Cup standings after Tanja Poutiainen won a giant slalom race yesterday and Nicole Hosp finished second in Zwiesel, Germany.
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Sport: Motor sport: Kimi Raikonnen is the man to beat in Germany, says  Alan Henry.
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This giant's looking a little sluggish.
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NEW YORK - With 44 seconds left in his work for the afternoon, Bruins goalie Tim Thomas wheeled around in his crease and attacked the crossbar. A passerby might have thought he was trying to take a piece of Manhattan home as a souvenir.
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Schalke 04 got a pair of late goals to reverse the scoreline at Hamburg and moved into a virtual first place tie with Wolfsburg. Stefan Beinlich put HSV in front just out if intermission, Mike Hanke and Lincoln
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Alinghi is getting used to winning the hard way. Fortunately for the Swiss team, it only has to do it one more time.
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Time slips away in a hurry as Tim Thomas runs around looking to make something happen in short order. The slumping forward&#39;s on a short leash at the moment and wound up watching most of last
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Britain&#39;s Tim Henman had to work hard before overcoming South African Wesley Moodie in the second round of the Swiss Indoors in Basle.
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Officials are examining the possibility of cancelling tomorrowâs running because of the poor conditions, while Schumacher went fastest of the day.
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The Bundesliga returns to action with smaller group battles beginning to materialize within the league. While the top teams try to keep up with the pace setters, teams near the bottom fight for their futures.
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BERLIN, Aug 19  - Juergen Klinsmann passed his first test as Germany&#39;s new coach with a 3-1 win over Austria on Wednesday -- aware that their next opponents, world champions Brazil, will provide a far stiffer challenge in ...
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Well, at least that one's out of the way. Happened pretty quick, too. Turns out the Americans can't play singles very well, either.
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Only in the game&#39;s final seconds was Bayern Munich able to secure its place at the top of the Bundesliga table. The Bavarians tied 2-2 at home against Stuttgart in the last game before the winter break.
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Fourth-seeded Argentinian Juan Ignacio Chela&#39;s second encounter with Florian Mayer this year didn&#39;t go nearly as well as the first.
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Two late goals from 10-man Werder Bremen scuppered VfB Stuttgart&#39;s bid to top the Bundesliga on Wednesday as the visitors escaped with a 2-1 win as hat-tricks helped Hamburg and Bayer Leverkusen to victories.
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The most consistent rider in cycling, Erik Zabel (Germany), once again had to settle for a second place as he was beaten by Oscar Freire in the final sprint of the Elite Men&#39;s Road Race in Verona yesterday.