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Victory gives U.S. top two finishers
Published on Monday, Nov 23, 2009
From Beacon Journal wire services
Steven Holcomb said the U.S. bobsled team was going to be a powerhouse this year. He sure seems like a prophet.
Holcomb, the reigning four-man bobsled world champion, won the four-man World Cup event at Mount Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid, N.Y., on Sunday, giving the United States a 1-2 finish for the second straight day.
''I've been saying all summer that we have the strongest U.S. team ever,'' Holcomb said. ''I think today shows that we're going to be a real fighting force out there. We're not going to be pushovers like everybody thought we were going to be.
''Winning the world championships here you can become complacent, but we're not,'' said Holcomb, whose four-man triumph in worlds came last February. ''We're stronger than we were last year. I'm excited.''
Holcomb finished the two-run race in 1 minute, 49.60 seconds, to beat teammate John Napier, who rallied from fourth to second on the final run for his second career World Cup medal.
Napier, who won the two-man gold on Saturday just ahead of Holcomb, finished 0.44 second behind Holcomb on Sunday and 0.10 ahead of third-place finisher Wolfgang Stampfer of Austria.
''We're deep and we're strong,'' Napier said. ''We're ready to keep winning medals, keep this going.''
American Mike Kohn, subbing for the injured Todd Hays, finished 14th.
More winter sports: Norway wins
• Norway won the men's opening World Cup cross-country ski relay in Beitostolen, Norway. Sweden took the women's event. Triple world champion Petter Northug surged ahead just before the final straight to give Norway a 5.1-second win over Russia. Charlotte Kalla skied a strong anchor leg to help Sweden win the women's relay.
• Sven Kramer broke a track record in the 10,000 meters by 23.19 seconds at the World Cup speedskating meet in Hamar, Norway. The Dutchman finished in 12 minutes, 50.96 seconds, to lower the mark set in 2006 by Norway's Lasse Satre on the Viking Ship track, venue for the speedskating events during the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.
Football: Youngstown coach resigning
• Youngstown State coach Jon Heacock says he's stepping down after nine seasons that included one trip to the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals. The Penguins finished 6-5 overall and 4-4 in the Missouri Valley Conference.
• Darian Durant threw three touchdown passes to help the Saskatchewan Roughriders advance to the Grey Cup with a 27-17 victory over the Calgary Stampeders on Sunday in the CFL West Division final. Saskatchewan will face Montreal — a 56-18 winner over British Columbia in the East final — in the title game next Sunday in Calgary.
• Roger Hughes was fired as the football coach at Princeton after 10 seasons. Hughes went 47-52 as Princeton's head coach, winning the 2006 Ivy League title and posting three winning seasons overall. His dismissal came one day after the Tigers beat Dartmouth 23-11 to conclude their season with a 4-6 record. Hughes had served as Dartmouth's offensive coordinator before taking the top job at Princeton in 2000.
Other: Federer beats Verdasco
• Roger Federer overcame an erratic forehand and Fernando Verdasco, rallying to beat his Spanish opponent 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 in the round-robin stage of the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
• Rena ''Rusty'' Kanokogi, known as the ''Mother of Judo'' partly for her role in bringing women's judo to the Olympic Games, has died at age 74. Her daughter, Jean Kanokogi, said she died Saturday at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., after a three-year battle with leukemia.
• Forrest Griffin beat Tito Ortiz in a split decision at UFC 106 Saturday night in Las Vegas. Two judges scored the fight 30-27 and 29-28 for Griffin. The third judge had Ortiz winning 29-28.
• Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher met with Mercedes bosses amid speculation the driver may come out of retirement to join the new F1 team. ''I know that Michael spoke with Dieter Zetsche and Norbert Haug at the season's finale in Abu Dhabi,'' Willi Weber, Schumacher's manager, said. Zetsche is chief executive of Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, and Haug is vice president of motor sport at Mercedes.
• John Crews became the first U.S.-born man to win the Philadelphia Marathon since 2000, racing to victory by more than six minutes. The 25-year-old Crews completed the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 17 minutes, 15 seconds. Brian Clas of New York was the last U.S. man to win the race.
• Sprinter Usain Bolt of Jamaica and 400-meter runner Sanya Richards of the United States have won their second IAAF World Athlete of the Year awards. Bolt retained the honor Sunday by winning the 100- and 200-meter finals in record times at the World Championships in Berlin, matching his 100 and 200 double at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He won a third gold in the 400-meter relay. Richards, the 2006 winner, got her first major individual gold medal at the worlds in August.
• UCLA will extend basketball player Nikola Dragovic's suspension for at least another game after his arrest on a charge of felony assault.
From Beacon Journal wire services
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