February 2006 in Sports - 21 February 2006 (Tuesday)

21 February 2006 (Tuesday)

• Football:
  • 2005–06 UEFA Champions League – Round of 16, first leg.
    • Bayern Munich 1–1 A.C. Milan
    • Benfica 1–0 Liverpool
    • Real Madrid 0–1 Arsenal: Arsenal become the first English team ever to beat Real Madrid on their own ground.
    • PSV 0–1 Lyon (UEFA.com)
  • The English Football Association announces that the final of the FA Cup in May will be held at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, as the new Wembley Stadium in London will not have been completed in time. The Football League playoff finals will also take place in Cardiff. England's pre-World Cup friendly matches against Hungary on 30 May and Jamaica on 3 June have also been moved, to Old Trafford, Trafford, Greater Manchester. (BBC)
• XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day eleven:
  • Biathlon, men's relay:
    • Sven Fischer, Michael Greis, Ricco Gross and Michael Rösch of Germany posted a winning time of one hour, 21 minutes and 51.5 seconds. Russia claimed the silver and France took the bronze. The win gives Fischer his fourth career Olympic gold during his 13-year career. (CBC)
  • Nordic combined, men's 7.5-kilometre sprint:
    • Austrian Felix Gottwald completed the course in 18 minutes, 29 seconds. Norwegian Magnus Moan (5.4 seconds behind) took the silver medal, while Germany's Georg Hettich (9.6 seconds behind) claimed the bronze. These were the same three medallists in the 15-km event, each getting a different medal. (CBC)
  • Speed skating, men's 1500-m:
    • Italian Enrico Fabris, with a time of one minute, 45.97 seconds, became the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of these Winters Games. Shani Davis captured the silver medal in 1:46.13, and Chad Hedrick took the bronze in 1:46.22. (CBC)
  • Ice hockey, men's preliminary round:
    • Switzerland 3 – Italy 3 (CBC)
    • Kazakhstan 5 – Latvia 2 (CBC)
    • Canada 3 – Czech Republic 2 (CBC)
    • Finland 2 – Germany 0: Finland wins Group A undefeated. (CBC)
    • Slovakia 3 – Sweden 0: Slovakia wins Group B undefeated. (CBC)
    • Russia 5 – United States 4 (CBC)
  • Bobsleigh, Two-woman event:
    • Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze of Germany won the two-woman bobsleigh competition on a combined four-run time of three minutes, 49.98 seconds. Americans Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming earned a silver medal (3:50.69), while Gerda Weissensteiner and Jennifer Isacco of Italy took the bronze (3:51.01). (CBC)
  • Figure skating:
    • Sasha Cohen of the United States leads after the ladies' short program, edging out Russian competitor Irina Slutskaya by only 0.03 points. (CBC)