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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012
ADELAIDE: Stephanie Rice will
defend her Olympic 400-metre individual
medley title in London after
setting the year’s second-best time
to win the event at the Australian
selection trials in Adelaide yesterday.
The triple Beijing Olympic gold
medalist won in four minutes 33.45
seconds, more than four seconds
ahead of Blair Evans (4:37.80), who is
also off to the London Olympics in
July. Rice, 23, went into the national
championships under pressure to
earn a place in Australia’s Olympic
team after surgery on her right
shoulder last December.
But the glamour girl of Australian
swimming sent out an emphatic
message that she will be competitive
in London after swimming just
0.78secs outside Briton Hannah
Miley’s 2012 best time of 4:32.67 set
earlier this month. “It’s the biggest
relief and the biggest weight lifted
off my shoulders,” Rice said. “It’s
been the toughest preparation I’ve
had to date and I had to get my head
around that I couldn’t do the training
sessions that I was doing in the leadup
to the Beijing Olympics. “That
gives me a world-class time and puts
me up in the world rankings again
and if I can get a consistent three
months of training I’m confident I
will be competitive in London.”
Rice said her sizzling time proved
she was not a spent force. “To put
the time on the board was all I need-
ed to do and to qualify and be pretty
close to Hannah Miley’s time which
she did not long ago is a really good
feeling for me,” she said. Four more
spots in the Australian team were
filled on the opening night of the trials
with David McKeon (3:46.36)
beating Ryan Napoleon (3:47.93) in
the 400m freestyle. Thomas Fraser-
Holmes swam the year’s best time of
4:11.81 to set an Australian record in
winning the 400m individual medley
to clinch Olympic selection along
with runner-up Daniel Tranter
(4:16.38). Defending Olympic champion
Libby Trickett was sixth fastest
into the 100m butterfly final with
59.65secs behind Jessicah Schipper
(58.26). Only 1.44 seconds separated
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Australia’s Rice to defend Olympic title
NHL results/standings
NHL results and standings on Wednesday.
Colorado 5, Buffalo 4 (So); Montreal 3, Ottawa 2 (SO); Winnipeg 5,
Dallas 2; Edmonton 3, Columbus 0; Phoenix 5, Vancouver 4;
Anaheim 4, Detroit 0. (SO denotes shootout win)
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L OTL GF GA PTS
NY Rangers 44 18 7 192 150 95
Pittsburgh 42 21 5 219 173 89
Philadelphia 40 22 7 223 197 87
New Jersey 40 25 5 195 182 85
NY Islanders 28 31 11 164 211 67
Northeast Division
Boston 40 26 3 223 170 83
Ottawa 36 25 10 218 209 82
Buffalo 33 29 9 178 201 75
Toronto 30 32 8 202 217 68
Montreal 28 32 11 188 198 67
Southeast Division
Florida 33 23 13 171 193 79
Washington 36 28 6 189 197 78
Winnipeg 33 29 8 186 197 74
Tampa Bay 32 30 7 197 234 71
Carolina 26 29 15 183 211 67
Western Conference
Central Division
St. Louis 45 18 8 186 139 98
Detroit 44 24 3 219 171 91
Nashville 41 21 7 200 179 89
Chicago 38 25 8 213 209 84
Columbus 22 41 7 161 226 51
Northwest Division
Vancouver 42 20 8 219 177 92
Colorado 38 30 4 191 193 80
Calgary 33 25 12 176 193 78
Minnesota 29 31 10 150 194 68
Edmonton 27 36 7 185 209 61
Pacific Division
Dallas 39 27 5 188 188 83
Phoenix 35 25 11 187 182 81
San Jose 34 25 10 189 178 78
Los Angeles 33 25 12 159 154 78
Anaheim 30 30 11 177 196 71
France recall Yachvili
PARIS: Scrumhalf Dimitri Yachvili was recalled after a back injury
to lead a reshuffled French side for their Six Nations finale against
Wales in Cardiff tomorrow. The Biarritz back replaces Julien
Dupuy, who was dropped from the squad after a poor performance
as France lost 24-22 to England on Sunday. Yachvili’s return
after a three-game absence comes a week too late for some supporters
and French media, who were unhappy he was overlooked
by manager Philippe Saint-Andre for the England game despite
being fit enough to play for his club.
Yachvili will link up with standoff Lionel Beauxis for the Cardiff
match, a repeat of their controversial World Cup semi-final, and
means utility halfback Morgan Parra will sit on the bench for the
second consecutive game. “Dimitri and Morgan are experienced,
they have a huge background with this team. Dimitri is now 100
percent fit after playing some good matches with his club,” Saint-
Andre told a news conference yesterday. —Reuters
BUFFALO: Jamie McGinn forced overtime
by scoring with 2 seconds left in regulation,
and Peter Mueller netted the lone
shootout goal in the Colorado Avalanche’s
5-4 win over the Buffalo Sabres on
Wednesday. McGinn scored twice, Gabriel
Landeskog had a goal and assist, and
David Jones scored for the Avalanche (38-
30-4), who vaulted out of a four-way tie for
eighth place in the Western Conference to
sixth. Semyon Varlamov made 20 saves
through overtime, and stopped all three of
Buffalo’s shootout attempts to improve to
8-0 in the tiebreaker. Rookie Marcus
Foligno scored twice for Buffalo (33-29-9),
which inched within three points of
eighth-place Washington in the East. Drew
Stafford had a goal and two assists, Tyler
Ennis had three assists, and Alexander
Sulzer also scored for the Sabres.
CANADIENS 3, SENATORS 2, SO
At Montreal, David Desharnais scored in
regulation and in a shootout to lift
Montreal past Ottawa. Desharnais had the
only goal in the shootout, and Canadiens
goalie Carey Price stopped all three
Senators attempts. Erik Cole also scored for
Montreal (28-32-11), 3-0-1 in its last four
games. The Canadiens are 3-0-1 against
the Senators this season, and will face
them again in Ottawa today. Colin
Greening and Erik Karlsson had goals for
the Senators (36-25-10), who are one point
behind Northeast Division-leading Boston.
The Bruins have two games in hand.
JETS 5, STARS 2
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, Andrew Ladd
scored twice to help Winnipeg snap Dallas’
six-game winning streak. Nik Antropov,
Evander Kane and Eric Fehr also scored for
the Jets, who moved four points behind
Washington for the eighth and last playoff
spot in the Eastern Conference. Loui
Eriksson had both goals for Dallas. The
Stars, who won 1-0 at Minnesota the previous
night, dropped to 1-10-2 in the second
games of back-to-backs.
DUCKS 4, RED WINGS 0
At Anaheim, California, Jonas Hiller
made 23 saves in his 15th career shutout
and rookie Kyle Palmieri scored two goals
as Anaheim kept its faint playoff hopes
flickering. Teemu Selanne scored his 660th
career goal and Bobby Ryan also scored as
the Ducks shut out the Red Wings at home
for the first time in Anaheim’s franchise history.
Playing without injured MVP Corey
Perry, the Ducks also snapped a threegame
skid with a thrashing of injurydepleted
Detroit, which has lost five of six.
OILERS 3, BLUE JACKETS 0
At Edmonton, Alberta, Ryan Nugent-
Hopkins had a goal and an assist and
Devan Dubnyk stopped 22 shots for his
second shutout of the season as Edmonton
snapped a three-game losing streak. Taylor
Hall and Linus Omark also scored as the
Oilers won for just the second time in eight
games (2-5-1). Edmonton improved its
total to 61 points, ahead of only leagueworst
Columbus (51). Curtis Sanford
stopped 24 shots as the Blue Jackets - the
the top seven with only two from
today’s final going on to compete in
London.
Triple Olympic gold medallist
Trickett retired at the end of 2009
but made a comeback to competition
last year and missed out on
qualifying for the Shanghai world
championships. “I was excited to go
faster than this morning’s heats and
the confidence I am taking from
both those races, and now it’s just a
matter of freshening up a bit more,”
Trickett said. “It’s going to be a fun
race tomorrow, the girls are racing
really quickly, I’m buzzing at the
moment, I’m just so thrilled to be
here and racing at this level
again.”— AFP
Mueller seals Avs’
5-4 shootout win
ANAHEIM: Vancouver Canucks’ Ryan Kesler (top) checks Phoenix Coyotes’
Antoine Vermette during the second period of an NHL hockey game in
Vancouver, British Columbia. — AP
only team already eliminated from playoff
contention - lost their third straight.
COYOTES 5, CANUCKS 4
At Vancouver, British Columbia, Antoine
Vermette had a goal and added two assists
as Phoenix held on to beat Vancouver. The
Coyotes won for the second time in eight
games after overcoming an early 2-0
deficit against a rejuvenated Canucks
squad that featured several different forward
and defense combinations. Rostislav
Klesla, Shane Doan, Oliver Ekman-Larson,
and Gilbert Brule also scored for Phoenix,
and Ray Whitney had three assists. The seventh-place
Coyotes increased their lead to
three points over the San Jose Sharks in
the Western Conference. Alex Burrows,
Ryan Kesler, David Booth, and Dan
Hamhuis scored for the Canucks, who have
lost six of eight. Hamhuis’ goal was his first
in 35 games. — AP