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Schild Wins Again; Mancuso Falters
Marlies Schild had the best time in both runs on Sunday and totaled 1 minute 36.67 seconds.
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Davis, who won gold and silver last year in the Olympics, closed 2007 by winning three of his last four races.
Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic broke the world record in the women's 5,000 meters, finishing in 6:45.61. The Netherlands clocked a world record 3:37.80 to win the team pursuit.
· SHORT-TRACK SPEEDSKATING: South Koreans won all six events on the final day of the World Championships in Milan.
Five-time Olympic medalist Apolo Anton Ohno finished third in both the 1,000 and 3,000 and started off the United States' bronze medal performance in the 5,000-meter relay.
· CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: Norway's Odd-Bjorn Hjelmeset won a 15-kilometer classic World Cup race at the Lahti Ski Games in Finland, and Germany's Tobias Angerer finished third to extend his lead in the overall standings.
Estonia's Kristina Smigun took the women's 10-kilometer classic style race for her first World Cup victory this season.
· SKI JUMPING: Adam Malysz of Poland mastered tricky winds to win a World Cup event at the Lahti Ski Games. Malysz's 33rd World Cup victory put him into a tie with Jens Weissflog of Germany for second on the career list. Matti Nykanen, a Finn who jumped in the 1980s, has 46 victories.
· SNOWBOARD CROSS: Lindsey Jacobellis added the World Cup title to her 2007 world championships gold, leading every heat in the final at Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington, N.Y.
Jacobellis dominated every run to clinch the World Cup title with one event left. In the men's event, Canadian Drew Neilson stayed unbeaten after three World Cup contests.
