■ SKING
Former champ in hospital
Former Olympic champion Stein Eriksen broke several bones when he collided with a nine-year-old boy while skiing in Park City, where hundreds celebrated his 80th birthday a day earlier. Eriksen, a gold and silver medalist at the 1952 Oslo Games, fractured a collar bone and needed wrist surgery, friend Mark Haroldsen told the Salt Lake Tribune. "He wasn't doing well. He was in and out of consciousness," Haroldsen said. Eriksen is at University of Utah Hospital, but his family requested that no other information be released, hospital spokesman Phil Sahm said on Friday. The accident happened on Sunday at Deer Valley resort, where Eriksen is the director of skiing.
■ Soccer
Becks eyes Gunners deal
David Beckham is close to finalizing a deal which will see him prepare for England's next game in February by training with Arsenal. "We will help him to get fit and prepare for the season," Gunners boss Arsene Wenger told BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday. "There's a good chance that he will come in January, but it's not decided," he said. During his new club Los Angeles Galaxy's close season Beckham will need to prove his fitness ahead of Fabio Capello's first game in charge of England against Switzerland on Feb. 6 at Wembley. Arsenal's training ground at London Colney is within an easy commute from Beckham's Hertfordshire home. Beckham needs one more international appearance to reach a landmark 100 caps.
■ Boxing
Nephew killed former champ
A nephew of Trevor Berbick has been convicted along with another man of killing the 54-year-old former heavyweight champion. A jury on Thursday found 21-year-old Harold Berbick guilty of murder and 19-year-old Kenton Gordon guilty of manslaughter in the death of the former boxer following a four-week trial. The judge ordered both men jailed pending their Jan. 11 sentencing. Authorities said the nephew and Gordon beat Berbick to death in October last year, leaving his body in a church courtyard in Portland. Harold Berbick had been involved in a land dispute with his uncle. Trevor Berbick was the last fighter to face Muhammad Ali in the ring and briefly held the WBC heavyweight title before losing it to Mike Tyson in 1986.
■ Soccer
Man U sign Angolan striker
Manchester United signed Angola striker Manucho Goncalves on a three-year contract from Petro Athletico on Friday. Manucho impressed Sir Alex Ferguson during a three-week trial after being discovered playing for his Angolan team by scouts working for United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz. The 24-year-old, whose full name is Mateus Alberto Contreiras Goncalves, will move to England next month subject to a work permit. Manucho has scored twice in 10 appearances for his country and was top goalscorer in the Angolan league for the last two seasons. "He is a tall, agile, quick forward and, through contacts that Carlos Queiroz has, he was brought to our attention around six months ago," Ferguson said of his new signing.
■ cricket
Windies lose by 10 wickets
Stand-in captain Dwayne Bravo saved the touring West Indians from total humiliation but could not prevent his side from suffering a ten-wicket defeat against South Africa A at Buffalo Park on Friday. South Africa A completed their win with a day to spare in the scheduled four-day match.
Revelations of positive doping tests for nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers that went unpunished sparked an intense flurry of accusations and legal threats between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the head of the US drug-fighting organization, who has long been one of WADA’s fiercest critics. WADA on Saturday said it was turning to legal counsel to address a statement released by US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart, who said WADA and anti-doping authorities in China swept positive tests “under the carpet by failing to fairly and evenly follow the global rules that apply to everyone else in the world.” The
Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei on Saturday won silver in the men’s under-60kg category at the Asian Judo Championships in Hong Kong. Nicknamed the “judo heartthrob” in Taiwan, the Olympic silver-medalist missed out on his first Asian Championships gold when he lost to Japanese judoka Taiki Nakamura in the finals. Yang defeated three opponents on Saturday to reach the final after receiving a bye through the round of 32. He first topped Laotian Soukphaxay Sithisane in the round of 16 with two seoi nage (over-the-shoulder throws), then ousted Indian Vijay Kumar Yadav in the quarter-finals with his signature ude hishigi sankaku gatame (triangular armlock). He
RALLY: It was only the second time the Taiwanese has partnered with Kudermetova, and the match seemed tight until they won seven points in a row to take the last set 10-2 Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Russia’s Veronika Kudermetova on Sunday won the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix women’s doubles final in Stuttgart, Germany. The pair defeated Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri and Estonia’s Ingrid Neel 4-6, 6-3, 10-2 in a tightly contested match at the WTA 500 tournament. Chan and Kudermetova fell 4-6 in the first set after having their serve broken three times, although they played increasingly well. They fought back in the second set and managed to break their opponents’ serve in the eighth game to triumph 6-3. In the tiebreaker, Chan and Kudermetova took a 3-0 lead before their opponents clawed back two points, but
Taiwanese gymnast Lee Chih-kai failed to secure an Olympic berth in the pommel horse following a second-place finish at the last qualifier in Doha on Friday, a performance that Lee and his coach called “unconvincing.” The Tokyo Olympics silver medalist finished runner-up in the final after scoring 6.6 for degree of difficulty and 8.800 for execution for a combined score of 15.400. That was just 0.100 short of Jordan’s Ahmad Abu Al Soud, who had qualified for the event in Paris before the Apparatus World Cup series in Qatar’s capital. After missing the final rounds in the first two of four qualifier