Motor Sport: Eddie Irvine escaped unhurt after his first run in the new Jaguar R2 was brought to a premature end yesterday.
The Ulsterman careered off the last corner of the Valencia circuit, bouncing across the gravel trap before coming to rest against a tyre wall.
The team's official website revealed that the front end of the R2 was badly damaged.
With only one test car remaining in Valencia, team-mate Luciano Burti was not able to complete any further testing and the Brazilian will not test until next week at Silverstone and Barcelona.
Snooker: Michael Judge sentenced China to a Nations Cup knockout in Reading yesterday despite another superb performance from the 100-1 tournament outsiders.
Mystery man Hasimu Tuerxun, who had not previously won a match in the tournament, looked set to break his duck just at the right time.
He led 32-30 and was faced with only a moderately tough shot into a middle pocket. But the red stayed out and Judge eventually took the frame 54-39 to clinch the match 4-3.
Colleges GAA: St Colman's, Fermoy qualified to meet St Brendan's, Killarney in the quarter-final of the Munster Colleges SFC (Corn Ui Mhuiri) following a comfortable victory over St Finbarr's, Farranferris in their play-off at Buttevant yesterday.
The winners led 0-5 to 0-2 at the break and were in the driving seat six minutes into the second half when Seamus Stack goaled to give his side a 1-6 to 0-2 lead.
Scorers: St Colman's (S Stack 1-0, M O'Brien 03, L Philpott 0-2, J O'Shea, B Gardiner, S Coughlan 0-1 each), St Finbarr's (S Murphy 1-0, J Gardiner 0-2, J Horgan, C O'Connor, P Tierney 0-1 each).
Olympics: The five cities bidding to host the 2008 Summer Olympics have all submitted their official candidature files ahead of the deadline.
With no ceremony, representatives from Beijing, Japan's Osaka, Toronto, Istanbul and Paris all personally delivered detailed documents of their bids to the IOC's Lausanne headquarters before yesterday's deadline.
Cycling: Ciaran Power yesterday slipped out of fourth place overall on the 142-kilometre undulating second stage of the Tour Down Under. Although the Linda McCartney team rider made the initial cut which drew the leaders over 27 minutes clear of the main bunch, he faded in the final run into Murray Bridge.
Power crossed the line in 25th place, three minutes 49 seconds behind winner - and new race leader - Fabio Sacchi of the Saeco team. Power is 3:55 behind overall.
Cricket: A superb century by Brian Lara was not enough to lift the West Indies to victory over Australia in their tri-nations one-day match at Sydney.
Lara smashed an unbeaten 116 from 106 balls, including 10 fours and two sixes, but the hosts won on a superior run rate after heavy rain washed out the game.
When the heavens opened the West Indies were 211 for eight in the 43rd over after Australia had hammered 277 for four in their 50 overs.
