Seefeld, Austria  - Austria's Mario Stecher won the nordic combined World Cup event in Seefeld Saturday, holding off compatriot Lukas Klapfer for victory.

Stecher lay fourth after the jumping portion but made up the deficit in the 10-kilometre cross-country skiing section to win in a time of 25 minutes 29.0 seconds.

Klapfer finished 4.8 seconds behind Stecher while Norway's Jan Schmid, who led after the ski-jumping section, had to be satisfied with third spot, 4.9 seconds behind the winner.

London - Manchester City added to Middlesbrough's relegation worries after they beat Gareth Southgate's side 1-0 in the English Premier League on Saturday.

Craig Bellamy scored the only goal of the game early in the second half to lift City up to ninth and leave Middlesbrough still one place off the bottom.

Shay Given, on his debut for City, made a number of good saves in each half, denying Afonso Alves two good goalscoring chances.

Val d'Isere, France - John Kucera of Canada upset the favourites Saturday to win the men's downhill at the alpine ski world championships in Val d'Isere.

Kucera posted 2 minutes 07.01 seconds, to edge super-g winner Didier Cuche of Switzerland by four hundredths of a second.

Fellow Swiss Carlo Janka was 0.94 seconds back in third place.

Kucera took advantage of an early start in a fog-interrupted race to give Canada a first-ever world championship downhill gold.

The 24-year-old from Calgary had already shown good form at the championships with a sixth place in the super-g on Thursday.

Karachi, Feb. 7 : Pakistan's cricket coach Intikhab Alam has warned his players against any complacency during the forthcoming Test series with Sri Lanka, that might creep- up due to the islander team's drubbing by India in the on-going ODI series.

Alam said that Test matches are different from one day games, and Sri Lanka was capable of turning it around with several world-class players in their squad.

"Test cricket is a different ball game altogether. You can't predict the performance of a side in Test matches on the basis of its one-day showing, at least not Sri Lanka," The News quoted Alam, as saying.

London - Andy Murray has joined Rafael Nadal in attacking the intrusive methods now in effect to try and catch dope cheats in world sport.

The Scot said he's not pleased at having to tell international drugs enforcers his whereabouts for one hour per day, every day on the calendar. The rule came into effect on January 1 and is fully backed by the ATP despite rumblings from many players.

London, Feb 7: Ace winger Cristiano Ronaldo launched a blistering attack on Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho, saying that Manchester United will overcome their Italian rivals in the Champions League round of 16 encounter between the two sides.

Earlier, Mourinho claimed he believes that Ronaldo was overrated, and that Nerazzurri striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the better player.

Ronaldo was part of the Manchester United team that won the Champions League last season, and was also awarded the Ballon d'Or.