India File

The ball landed 20 metres from the line and bounced over the Montedio keeper’s head and into the net.

Kvoto won the Nabisco Cup first round match 5-0.

Argentina assail by Ghana

LAGOS: Holders Argentina slumped to a 1-0 defeat against Ghana in soccer’s World Youth Championship while host Nigeria overcame Germany 2-0 for their first victory.

Mexico became the first team to guarantee a second-round place by beating Australia 3-1, Croatia hammered Kazakhstan 5-1 and Ireland and Paraguay both won for the first time, beating Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica respectively.

Kournikova crushes Capriati

AMELIA ISLAND: Jennifer Capriati squandered opportunities to give her sagging tennis career a major boost last night against Russian Anna Kournikova at the Bausch & Lomb championships.

Ninth seed Kournikova rallied from a break down in both sets and capitalised on the 23-year-old’s unforced errors on critical points to win 6-3, 6-3 and advance to the round of 16.

Friendly match abandoned after protest

BELGRADE: A friendly match between Yugoslavian side partisan Belgrade and Greek side Aek Athens was abandoned here on Tuesdaty with the score at 1-1 after 56 minutes as the fans invaded the field to protest against the Nato air strikes.

In a game billed as a `solidarity match’, watched by 15,000 fans, the players wore targets on their shirts like those worn by protesters during demonstrations in Yugoslavia during the Kosovo conflict.

The teams came onto the field brandishing a banner saving, “stop the war, stop the bombings”.

China submits bid for 2008 Games

BEIJING: Beijing has formally bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, ending years of debate after China’s failure to secure the 2000 Games, state media said.

The official Xinhua news agency said Beijing mayor Liu Qi and Chinese Olympic Committee president Wu Shaozu presented the bid to International Olympic Commitee (IOC) president Juan Antonio Samaranch in Lausanne.