Whistler, Canada  - Italy's Pietro Piller Cottrer won the Nordic ski World Cup men's double pursuit over 30 kilometres at the Canadian resort of Whistler on Saturday.

Poland's Justyna Kovalczik won the women's double pursuit 15- kilometre run, with a time of 40:41.3 minutes.

The 2006 winter Olympic relay men's gold medallist broke from a leading group after 22 kilometres for a comfortable win in one hour 13 minutes 1.5 seconds.

Melbourne  - Women's draw with qualifiers inseryted for for the 15.5-million-dollar Australian Open starting Monday. <# Jelena Jankovic, 1, Serbia v Yvonne Meusburger, Australia

Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium v Rossana De Los Rios, Paraguay Nathalie Dechy, France v Viktoriya Kutusova, Ukraine

Stephanie Dubois, Canada v Ai Sugiyama, Japan

Sybille Bammer, Austria v Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic

Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic v Marina Erakovic, New Zealand

Melbourne  - Men's draw with qualifiers inserted for the 15.5-million-dollar Australian Open starting Monday. <# Rafael Nadal, 1, Spain v Christophe Rochus, Belgium

Florent Serra, France v Roko Karanusic, Croatia

Eduardo Schwank, Argentina v Tommy Haas, Germany

Flavio Cipolla, Italy v Dmitry Tursunov, Russia

Richard Gasquet, France v Diego Junqueira, Argentina

Vince Spadea, US v Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan

Guillermo Canas, Argentina v Dieter Kindlmann, Germany

Madrid  - Barcelona finished the first half of their league programme in superlative style on Saturday, thrashing hapless Deportivo Coruna 5-0 at home, with two goals apiece from Thierry Henry and Samuel Eto'o.

Their seventh successive win means that Barca reach the halfway mark, 19 games, on 50 points, a new record in La Liga.

They have also created a new record for goals scored at this stage, having put away 59. Josep Guardiola's team are keen to break Real Madrid's record of 107 goals in the 1989/90 season.

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Rome  - Siena edged and lowly visitors Reggina 1-0 Saturday in the first game of a round that marks the halfway mark of the Italian Serie A.

Mario Frick came on from the bench to give Siena a second-half winner after both sides played most of the game worrying mostly about not losing.

The win ended a bad run of four defeats for Siena and pushed them seven points above the danger zone. The southern-Italy guests remain in trouble lying second-from-last in the three-team relegation zone.