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She competed last weekend in Ornans, France. The biker of GIANT Italia Team for the 2008 sportive season had taken part in the second and last round of the Marathon World Cup perfoming well.

The second match of the Holden Netball Test Series proved to be disappointing for the England Squad when they suffered a 43-33 loss against Australia’s Diamonds. photo Kangaroo photos

New Zealander Kylie Lindsay claimed her place in Squash history in Moscow when she beat English opponent Fiona Moverley in the final of the Women's Tekamed Moscow Open to win the first WISPA World Tour squash title to be contested in Russia. photo WISPA

Hannah Mills and Katrina Hughes are poised to end their season on a high with the 2008 RYA Olympic Classes National Ranking Series 470 women’s crown.

The Australian Netball Diamonds have made a clean sweep of the Holden Netball Test Series against England with a 43-33 goal victory tonight at the Distinctive Homes Dome in Adelaide.

Rexona-Ades improved their unbeaten record in the Salonpas Cup to 4-0 with a 13-25, 25-23, 25-20, 29-27 victory over Pinheiros Mackenzie. photo FIVB

Finasa-Osasco held off a resilient Rexona-Ades and prevailed in an all-Brazilian five-set battle for the gold medal in the Women's Salonpas Cup. The Sao Paulo-based team edged the Rio de Janeiro squad 25-18, 27-25, 22-25, 11-25, 15-13 in 2 hours, 4 minutes. photo FIVB

Unbeaten South Korea stunned Asian champions Japan to set up a final clash of the inaugural Asian Women’s Cup Volleyball Championship against China in a rematch of the 2002 Busan Asian Games showdown. photo FIVB

Sarah Kippax clinched the Bymac Leinster Squash Open in Ireland at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Dublin.

Updates from the EHF Champions League and European Cup competitions, which took place over the past weekend.

Ranked 6th at the “Kremlin Cup”-2008 Venus Williams is leaving Moscow after she has lost 6/4, 2/6, 6/4 to the Italian Flavia Pennetta in the 1st round. Kuznetsova and Zvonareva won their opening matches to continue to the next round.

Lois Fidler has named her England squad for the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup which gets underway at the end of October. photo FA

Gwladys Nocera won the Madrid Ladies Masters in Spain on Saturday for her fifth win of the year.

World Number One, Lorena Ochoa, has confirmed that she will be defending her HSBC Women’s Champions title at the Tanah Merah Country Club from 5th to 8th March, 2009.

It has been 30 years since Hawaii surfers truly dominated the global surf scene; it was 1978 and five of the world's Top 10 ranked men and six of the Top 8 ranked women travelled under the Hawaiian flag. But a hungry group of disciplined youngsters out of Oahu have their goals set on taking Hawaii back to the top.

Gisela Pulido has just won the elimination of the last stop of the PKRA World Championship. With this result she is Five times World Champion!! Tambien Texto en Espanol

Aitutaki is one of the 15 tiny islands that make up the Cook Islands chain, with Rarotonga being its capital. The tropical, turquoise waters and breathtaking surrounding islands of Aitutaki that have previously been home to the TV programme "Shipwrecked" are this year the venue for the third annual Cindy Mosey Island Odyssey. photos Iantrafford.com

The U.S. Ski Jumping Team's Alissa Johnson (Park City, UT) is making it a season to remember, landing on her second career podium jumping to third in a Continental Cup on what will be the site of the first World Championship for women's ski jumping in Liberec, Czech Republic on Saturday. photo US Ski Team

Helen kicked off the weekend with style in Switzerland at the Radquer Wädenswil. Unusual as this race is run at night under floodlight, the course was very much to Helen’s liking with its tough grassy banks and the heavy rain during the day made the course hard going all the way. photo Adam Tranter

British modern pentathlete Heather Fell added the World Cup Final silver medal in Portugal on Saturday to her Beijing 2008 Olympic Games silver medal.

Liz Halliday’s return to her native USA didn’t end as she would have hoped after an accident for co-driver Dean Stirling forced an early retirement at the Petit Le Mans race. However, despite that frustration, the California-born dual sportswoman enjoyed her outing with Creation AIM.

Great Britain confirmed their strength at The Acro World Championships last weekend in Glasgow winning eight medals from 10 categories. Shanie-Redd Thorne and Kaman Mitchell registered an awesome 28.700 score to take Gold.

LIBEREC, Czech Republic Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) led the U.S. Ski Jumping Team in a Continental Cup competition Friday, finishing sixth in Liberec, Czech Republic on the hill where in three months she will once again compete in the first women's World Championship ski jumping event.

THE Portuguese town of Montemor-o-Velho has been selected to host the 2010 European Rowing Championships, it has been announced.

In an error riddled match at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre, the Australian Netball Diamonds held on to defeat a determined England by just three goals, 42-39 in the opening Holden Netball Test Series clash.