■ Snowboard
Johansson die in crash
Swedish snowboarder Jonatan Johansson died Sunday after falling during a snowboardcross run down Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks. The 26-year-old Turin Olympics competitor made a bad landing on one of his jumps during training for a World Cup competition, according to US Ski and Snowboarding Association spokesman Tom Kelly. "He had a problem on his landing," Kelly said. A New York state police report said Johansson tried to correct himself but landed hard. An autopsy found the cause of death to be multiple internal injuries. The Swede had been competing at the World Cup level since 2000. Johansson finished 12th in snowboard-cross at Turin. He was ranked 45th in the World Cup standings this season. Whiteface, down the road from Lake Placid, was hosting the four-day World Cup event. The rest of the snowboard-cross event was canceled.
■ Cycling
Landis wins in France
Floyd Landis, 30, won the Paris-Nice race, collecting his second victory this year and showing that he will be a likely contender for the Tour de France title this year. Gerolsteiner rider Marcus Zberg of Switzerland won Sunday's seventh and final stage, a 135km ride that began and ended in Nice, in 3 hours, 29 minutes, 38 seconds. Phonak leader Landis finished in a pack that crossed the line 18 seconds after Zberg, who won a sprint ahead of second-placed Evgeni Petrov of Russia and Spain's Alberto Contador in third. Landis, who also won the Tour of California last month, becomes the second American to win the Paris-Nice after CSC rider Bobby Julich last year.
■ Skiing
Kircheisen wins sprint
Bjorn Kircheisen of Germany won a World Cup Nordic combined sprint event at Holmenkollen in Oslo Sunday, finishing the concluding 7.5km freestyle cross-country race in 18 minutes, 55.1 seconds. Earlier, he placed ninth in the ski jumping portion. He had the fifth fastest ski time. Magnus Moan of Norway was second, 3.7 seconds back, and Anssi Koivuranta of Finland was third, 5.1 seconds behind. Hannu Manninen, another Finn who has already clinched his third straight overall title, was 13th. With two events left, Manninen has 1,320 points in the overall standings, followed by Moan with 875, and Kircheisen with 758.
■ Skiing
Malysz wins large hill
Adam Malysz of Poland won on the large hill at Holmenkollen in Oslo for the fourth time, and Jakub Janda of the Czech Republic closed in on the World Cup overall title with a fifth-place finish Sunday. Malysz jumped 130.5m and 124.5m before a crowd of 35,000 at ski jumping's most famous venue for 279 points. Olympic champion Thomas Morgenstern was second with 276.9 points after jumps of 129m and 124m. Andreas Kofler, another Austrian, made the last podium spot with 275.5 points.
■ Cross country
Freestyle races completed
Anders Sodergren of Sweden and Russia's Julia Tchepalova won long-distance freestyle races Saturday in a World Cup cross country ski meet at Holmenkollen in Oslo. Sodergren beat Olympic champion Giorgio di Centa of Italy in the men's 50km race for his first World Cup victory in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 42.5 seconds. Di Centa was 23.1 seconds back. Third went to Tom Reichelt of Germany, 43 seconds behind.
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