Skater Joubert wins injury-hit Grand Prix final
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France's Brian Joubert won his first Grand Prix final on Saturday despite skating a far from perfect free programme.
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World champion Evgeni Plushenko and former world champion Irina Slutskaya regained Grand Prix Final titles Saturday while a Chinese pair won before home fans.
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Evgeni Plushenko of Russia captured the men's title for the fourth time Thursday at the European Figure Skating Championships with a solid but unspectacular program, rallying from a poor short program to defeat defending champion Brian Joubert of France.
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LINDSAY Davenport closed in on Amelie Mauresmo&#39;s world No.1 ranking today when the top seeded Frenchwoman was forced to retire injured in the final of the $US650,000 ($893,839) Filderstadt WTA event.
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World champion pairs skater Tatiana Totmianina was released from the hospital yesterday, a day after suffering a concussion in a fall during the free skating program at Skate America.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. (CP) - Brian Joubert of France finished second to American Ryan Jahnke in the free skating but wound up with the $18,000 US winner&#39;s cheque at the $180,000 US Smart Ones Skate America figure skating meet Friday night.
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American Lindsay Davenport won the Filderstadt Grand Prix on Sunday after world number one Amelie Mauresmo retired injured after the first set.
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Brian Joubert of France won the men&#39;s figure skating title Friday at Skate America, finishing with an overall score of 193.46 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Bode Miller put his go-for-broke style temporarily in check yesterday and won a World Cup giant slalom for the second time this season.
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Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova  capped her stunning year by overcoming an injured Serena  Williams, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, in the final of the season-ending WTA  Tour Championships on Monday.
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Anna Smashnova of Israel became the first player to defend her Budapest Grand Prix title, defeating Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain 6-1, 6-3 in Sunday's final.
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PARIS : US national champion Johnny Weir looks poised for his second win of the season when he lead the ISU Grand Prix figure skating event after the short program, as favourite Brian Joubert, the men&#39;s world silver medallist from France, struggled in
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TURIN, Italy  - Champion Brian Joubert set the  scene for an enthralling men's competition after he established  a slim lead over three-times former winner Yevgeny Plushenko in  the European championships on Wednesday.
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FILDERSTADT, Germany  - Amelie Mauresmo  safeguarded her number one ranking for another week when she  beat fourth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-4 to reach the  final of the Filderstadt Grand Prix tennis tournament on  Saturday.
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On Saturday, Paul-Henri Mathieu overcame the qualifier Radek Stepanek, 6-3, 6-4, and Andreas Seppi beat the wild card Igor Andreev, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5), to reach the final.
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OSAKA, Japan  - Austrian steeplechaser Guenther Weidlinger was rushed to hospital with facial injuries after a nasty fall at the world championships on Sunday.
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Defending champion Brian Joubert of France took advantage of a botched jump by world champion Evgeni Plushenko to lead the men's event at the European championships on Wednesday.