Whistler, Canada - World Champion Helena Jonsson on Friday won the women's 7.5 kilometre biathlon World Cup sprint event in the Canadian venue of Whistler.

Competing at the venue of next year's winter Olympics Jonsson had a perfect record in the shooting range, finishing without a miss and winning in a time of 19 minutes 43.6 seconds.

Germany's six-time world champion Magdalena Neuner, who missed the target once, was second 0.7 seconds behind, while Russian Olga Zaitseva, who won two gold medals at the recent world championships, finished third 1.6 seconds behind.

Lillehammer, Norway  - Finland's Harri Olli on Friday proved too strong for the rest of the field as he won the World Cup event at the Norwegian venue of Lillehammer.

Olli soared to leaps of 135.5 and 142.0 metres, for a total of 288.7 points, beating Dimitry Vassiljev into second place. The Russian, who was leading after the first round of jumps, finished on 275.2 points.

Are, Sweden - Didier Cuche of Switzerland clinched the giant slalom World Cup by finishing third in the season-ender in Are, Sweden on Friday.

Benjamin Raich of Austria won to stay in the running for the overall World Cup title, but super-g world champion Cuche's third-place was just enough to give him the discipline title.

Raich posted a combined time of 2 minutes 18.95 seconds, edging Ted Ligety of the United States by 0.13 seconds, with Cuche 0.71 seconds behind Raich.

Auckland (New Zealand), Mar. 13 : The New Zealand cricket team will focus on avoiding a clean sweep against their Indian counterparts on Saturday, when they meet up for the fifth and final one-day international here.

New Zealand''s euphoria after their two Twenty20 victories against India has been punctured. The visitors have blasted the Kiwis into submission in the four ODIs played so far.

London, Mar. 13 : Liverpool's Fernando Torres has warned Manchester United he will be firing on all cylinders for Liverpool's win-or-bust trip to Old Trafford tomorrow.

The Spanish striker played against Real Madrid after a pain-killing injection in his ankle injury which kept him out of two matches.

He seemed to be suffering no ill-effects on Tuesday as he scored the opener and gave Juande Ramos' men serious problems all night, The Sun reports.

London, Mar. 13 : Manchester United stars could get nine million pounds if they manage to complete the Quintuple.

That is the total bonus pot on offer to the likes of Ryan Giggs if the club wins all five competitions this season.

Some stars could pocket up to 400,000 pounds each. The bonus schedule was agreed before this season started and includes separate payments for each trophy won.