From: evansg@uproar.enet.dec.com (Gwyn Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
Subject: VNS: Mon 11-Jan-1993
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:31:13 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


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 Edition : 2743               Monday 11-Jan-1993            Circulation :  7321

        VNS UK SPORTS REPORT ..............................  124 Lines

VNS UK SPORTS REPORT:                            [Ken Merrick, VNS Sports Desk]
=====================                            [Valbonne, France            ]

Cricket
	England drew their last warm-up match against an Indian Presidents XI.
	In their first innings, England scored 307-9 with Gatting making 115.
	
	In Australia, the West Indies beat Australia inthe last of the World
        Series Cup qualifier matches. Set 197, Australia lost four wickets
        in the penultimate over to make 190 off 49 overs. The two sides meet
	again in the final.

Football
	FA Premier League
	Arsenal ............ 1  Sheffield United ....... 1
	Blackburn Rovers ... 0  Wimbledon .............. 0
	Chelsea ............ 2  Manchester City ........ 4
	Coventry City ...... 0  Nottingham Forest ...... 1
	Crystal Palace ..... 0  Everton ................ 2
	Ipswich Town ....... 1  Oldham Athletic ........ 2
	Leeds United ....... 2  Southampton ............ 1
	Liverpool .......... 1  Aston Villa ............ 2
	Manchester United .. 4  Tottenham Hotspur ...... 1
	Middlesbrough ...... 0  Queens Park Rangers .... 1
        Sheffield Wednesday  1  Norwich City ........... 0

	Barclays League First Division
	Birmingham City .... 2  Luton Town ............. 1
	Brentford .......... 1  Leicester City ......... 3
	Bristol City ....... 1  Newcastle United ....... 2
	Charlton Athletic .. 2  Tranmere Rovers ........ 2
	Derby County ....... 0  West Ham United ........ 2
	Grimsby Town ....... 2  Bristol Rovers ......... 0
	Notts County ....... 1  Millwall ............... 2
        Oxford United ...... 0  Swindon Town ........... 1
	Peterborough United  1  Barnsley ............... 1
	Portsmouth ......... 2  Southend ............... 0
	Sunderland ......... 3  Cambridge United ....... 3
	Watford ............ 2  Wolverhampton Wanderers  1

	Tennents Scottish Cup 
	Aberdeen ........... 4  Hamilton Academical .... 1
	Airdrieonians ...... 0  Clydebank .............. 0
	Arbroath ........... 3  Morton ................. 0
	Clyde .............. 0  Celtic ................. 0
	Cove Rangers ....... 2  East Stirlingshire ..... 2
	Dundee ............. 2  Dumbarton .............. 0
	Dundee United ...... 3  Meadowbank Thistle ..... 1
	Dunfermline Athletic 1  Ayr United ............. 2
	Heart of Midlothian  6  Huntley ................ 0
	Hibernian .......... 5  St Mirren .............. 2
	Kilmarnock ......... 5  Raith Rovers ........... 0
	Motherwell ......... 0  Rangers ................ 2
	Partick Thistle .... 0  Cowdenbeath ............ 1
	St Johnstone ....... 6  Forfar ................. 0
 	Stirling Albion .... 1  East Fife .............. 2

	Postponed: Falkirk v Berwick Rangers

	Pools News: Dividends low
	12 score draws: 1 12 16 17 20 27 28 35 39 41 43 55
	2 No score: 2 21	
	
Motor Sport
	Tom Walkinshaw, the engineering director behind the Benetton-Ford F1
    team and the Jaguar sportscar team, has confirmed that he will field two
    Lola-Fords at the Indianapolis 500, on 30 May, and in four subsequent
    events. Drivers and sponsors are confirmed, but will not be announced until 
    neare the event. The move is part of the learning process before Walkinshaw
    enters the 1994 IndyCar championship. In a similar announcment, the
    American Honda Motor Co confirmed they will take part in the 1994 IndyCar 
    series. The French sports daily L'Equipe specualtes that Ayrton Senna
    will drive for the Penske team next season before linking up again with 
    Honda for '94.

	Jaguar plan to return to the Le Mans 24-hour race this year once the
    final FISA regulations are announced. Tom Walkinshaw will be preparing an
    XJ220-C, a 3.5 litre twin-turbo V6, for the proposed European GT series
    and Le Mans.                

	Ferrari have cancelled three days of planned practise at Imola. The
    team undertook three days of aerodynamic testing over the weekend.

	Pierre Lartigue has been disqualified from this years Paris-Dakar
    after taking an unofficial stop for petrol. Bruno Saby leads the event.

Rugby League
	Stones Bitter Championship
	Halifax 20, Hull Kingtson Rovers 17
	Hull 20, Widnes 4
	Wakefield Trinity 24, Salford 14
	Leigh 16, Sheffield Eagles 14

Rugby Union
	Courage Clubs' Championship
	Bath 61, Rugby 7
	London Irish 6, Gloucester 18
	London Scottish 10, West Hartlepool 15
	Northampton 12, Leicester 13
	Orrell 18, Harlequins 16
	Saracens 9, Wasps 13

Skiing
	Men's World Cup at Garmisch 
	 Slalom 
	1. Alberto Tomba           1'38"65
	2. Kjetil Andre Aamodt     1'39"19
	   Thomas Stangassinger
        4. Peter Roth              1'39"26
        5. Thomas Fogdoe           1'39"58

	 Downhill
	1. Franz Heinzer           1'55"09
	2. Pietro Vitalini         1'55"11
	3. Guenther Mader          1'55"26

        Women's World Cup at Cortina D'Ampezzo
	 Slalom
	1. Carole Merle            2'31"54
	2. Anita Wachter           2'32"30
        3. Deborah Compagnoni      2'32"77
	 Downhill
	1. Regina Haesusl          1'28"49
	2. Heidi Zurbriggen        1'28"64
        3. Katja Seizinger         1'28"67
        4. Carole Merle            1'28"72
        5. Stefanie Schuster       1'28"86


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