Italy beats France for 4th World Cup title
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The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head butt in extra time, and then went down 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
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Sidney Govou scores twice as France beat Italy in their Euro 2008 qualifier
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Thomas Grandi of Canada won his first World Cup victory after 12 years of trying on Sunday after leader Kalle Palander crashed out of the second leg of a giant slalom in Alta Badia, Italy.
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Russia beat France 3-2 in a dramatic final to win the Fed Cup for the first time.
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ALTA BADIA, ITALY - Canada&#39;s Thomas Grandi won a giant slalom Sunday for his first World Cup victory in his 12 seasons on the circuit.
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Francesco Totti scored twice as Italy rebounded from a shocking loss to Slovenia with a 4-3 beating of Belarus on Wednesday to go back to the top of its World Cup qualifying group.
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Maybe the World Cup is the easy part for Italy. With scandal tearing apart the national sport back home, the Italians kept plowing through soccer&#039;s premier event Tuesday night with a last-minute win just when it seemed a penalty shootout was inevitable.
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France finally won its game of brinkmanship and a World Cup game for the first time since capturing the title eight years ago. Teetering on the edge of another embarrassing first-round elimination from the World Cup, the 1998 champion beat Togo 2-0 on Friday to advance to the final 16 for a game against Spain.
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There was big news on the World Cup ski circuit Friday afternoon in Europe: Bode Miller didn&#39;t win. He finished fourth in a Super-G at Val Gardena, Italy, behind Austrians Michael Walchhofer, Hermann Maier and Benny Raich, .69 seconds out of first place.
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Bode Miller won a super-combi Sunday for his fourth World Cup victory this season and took the lead in the overall standings.
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Bode Miller won the super-combined title Sunday in Chamonix, France, earning his fourth World Cup victory this season and taking the lead in the overall standings.
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Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke claims the World Cup title after a fourth place in the Lowland Rotterdam Tour.
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ST. JAMES, Barbados  - Germany won the World Cup for the second time with a gripping playoff victory at Sandy Lane Resort's Country Club Course on Sunday.
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France confirm their status as one of the World Cup favourites with an impressive final warm-up win over Wales.
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Alessandro Del Piero scored his first goal for Italy in over a year as Marcello Lippi&#39;s side picked up their second straight success with a 1-0 victory over Moldova in their World Cup qualifier on Wednesday.
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TORONTO: Canada squeezed past Finland 3-2 in the final of the World Cup of Hockey, sending a hockey-mad nation into raptures and defending its crown as undisputed champion of the international game.
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VAL GARDENA, Italy  - American Steve Nyman claimed his first World Cup race win on Saturday, powered to victory by an old pair of Italian skis that once belonged to local hero Kristian Ghedina.