In overtime Vinatieri kicked a 23-yard field goal to complete the escape
In overtime, Vinatieri kicked a 23-yard field goal to complete the escape.. Liz Yelling, who led Britain to team silver at last month’s European Cross-Country Championships, was again in fine form in Belgium yesterday. Paula Radcliffe’s training partner scorched to a 20-second win, overhauling Belgium’s national champion, Anja Smolders, to secure the Fortis Cup 5.5km race in Hannut in 19min 59sec. Fifth in the European Championships was followed by third in December in the Great North Cross Country.Julius Kibet, aged 20, led his Kenyan team-mates, Daniel Gachara, and Joel Sataiti, to a clean sweep of the medals in Saturday’s Belfast International Cross-Country.Esther Kiplagat scored a nine-second victory in her race over 4,800m in 17:16, beating the United States champion, Colleen De Reuck.. Loughborough students sampled the joys of success and the despair of failure at the end of yesterday’s final games in the short Indoor National League season.
The men won their Premier Division competition at Kidderminster to become the first student side to take a national title when they finished ahead of Old Loughtonians, Guildford and Canterbury while the women, who finished pointless at Haslemere, were relegated to Division One for next season. The top four teams go through to finals night at Crystal Palace on Friday, 1 February with European competition the prize for the winners.In the women’s competition Slough were awesome in winning with a 100 per cent record although in their last game against the defending League champions Chelmsford they were forced to play without leading goal scorer Jane Smith and Ali Bird, who went to hospital following injuries in their game against Fyffes Leicester. Although held to 3-3 at the interval by the Essex side Slough streaked ahead after the interval to run out 13-3 winners.. England’s preparations for this week’s European Championship fixtures against Russia and Portugal made a low key start when coach Laszlo Nemeth’s depleted squad suffered two defeats against his native Hungary.
Nemeth, resigned to the logistical problems posed by drawing his players from six continental nations, saw his team lose 75-61 on Saturday night at Burgess Hill and 73-60 yesterday at Crystal Palace. But Betts, Haslam and Hansell felt unable to play after arriving in the country only shortly before the game, while Betts also rested a hand injury ahead of Wednesday’s game against Russia at Coventry’s Skydome.On Saturday England, currently in a potentially qualifying third place, complete this season’s fixtures away to Portugal.* Michael Jordan, who led Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles in the 1990s, scored 16 points on his return as his Washington Wizards side beat the Bulls 77-69. It was his first appearance in Chicago since Game Five of the 1998 NBA Finals.. England attempted to deflect the blame for their defeat in the first one-day international here on Saturday by running to teacher. The precise wording of their complaint to the series match referee was not disclosed, but probably went something along the lines of: “Please sir, please sir, the Indians are appointing awful umpires and not giving us a chance.