Alpine Skiing: Swiss skier Fabienne Suter won the women’s super-G World Cup race as American superstar Lindsey Vonn recorded her worst result in over three years. Suter, winning her fourth World Cup race but first in almost three years, came home ahead of Slovenian slalom specialist Tina Maze with Austrian Anna Fenninger filling third spot. Vonn, the overall World Cup leader and winner of the previous two super-G races, finished outside the top 15 in what was her worst result since December 2008.

Basketball: The Atlanta Hawks put an emphatic end to Chicago’s six-game NBA winning streak on Saturday, pummelling the Bulls 109-94. Josh Smith scored 25 points with five rebounds and five assists to lead Atlanta, who received 17 points apiece from Joe Johnson and Vladimir Radmanovic. With Chicago’s NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose limited to eight points in 28 minutes, reserve John Lucas led the Bulls with 16 points.

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Athletics: Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele (picture) suffered a disappointing outing at the Great Edinburgh Cross Country on Saturday, finishing way down the field in an event won by Kenya’s Asbel Kiprop. Bekele, the reigning Olympic champion at 10,000m and 5,000m, was unable to make an impression over the Edinburgh course as world and Olympic 1,500m champion Kiprop romped to victory in 9min 20secs.

Badminton: World number one Lee Chong Wei stormed back to defeat arch-rival and holder Lin ‘Super’ Dan in the final of the Korea Open yesterday to prevent a rampant China sweeping all five titles. The first Superseries of the new season saw the 4,000-seat arena in Seoul packed out. In a tense 75-minute showdown, the Malaysian Lee lost the first game 12-21, before winning the second game 21-18. Lee then sealed the third game – and with it the title – 21-14.

Cricket: Jailed Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his seven-year ban for spot-fixing. Asif’s legal team said they have also filed an appeal against his criminal conviction to the Court of Appeal. Asif, former Test skipper Salman Butt and fellow seamer Mohammad Amir were all suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) last February after no-balls were bowled in the Lord’s Test against England in August 2010.

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