February 2006 in Sports - 22 February 2006 (Wednesday)

22 February 2006 (Wednesday)

• Football: 2005–06 UEFA Champions League – Round of 16, first leg.
  • Chelsea 1–2 Barcelona
  • Rangers 2–2 Villarreal
  • Werder Bremen 3–2 Juventus
  • Ajax 2–2 Internazionale (UEFA.com)
• Cricket: West Indies in New Zealand
  • ODI Series Game Two in the Five match series.
    • New Zealand defeat West Indies by 3 wickets and go 2–0 up.
      • New Zealand won the toss and elected to field first, restricting the West Indies to 200–9 of 50 overs. New Zealand recovered from 13–4 after 3.2 overs to win with 3 wickets in hand. Daniel Vettori was awarded Man of the match for his all-round figures of 53 not out and 28–1 off ten overs.
• Cricket: Sri Lanka in Bangladesh
  • ODI Series Game Two of Three.
    • Bangladesh defeats Sri Lanka by four wickets in Bogra, Bangladesh, prompting scenes of celebration in the country . It is Bangladesh's first victory against Sri Lanka.
      • Bangladesh won the toss and sent Sri Lanka into bat. The tourists struggled to 212 from their allotted overs, with only opener Sanath Jayasuriya (96 runs from 110 balls) passing fifty. Bangladesh reached the target with two overs to spare to win by four wickets. Scorecard
• XX Winter Olympic Games, Turin, day twelve:
  • Cross-country skiing, Women's 1.1 km Sprint:
    • Chandra Crawford of Canada sprinted in a time of two minutes, 12.3 seconds to a gold medal in her Olympic debut. Germany's Claudia Künzel edged out Russian Alena Sidko to earn the silver while Beckie Scott finished fourth. (CBC), (Turin2006.org)
  • Cross-country skiing, Men's Sprint
    • Björn Lind of Sweden sprinted to a gold medal after a superior race which left his opponents a long way behind. France's Roddy Darragon edged out Swede Thobias Fredriksson to earn the silver while Cristian Zorzi of Italy could not repeat his performance from the relay and finished in fourth place. (Turin2006.org)
  • Snowboarding, parallel giant slalom:
    • Philipp Schoch of Switzerland bested his elder brother Simon Schoch in the final of the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom to successfully defend his Olympic gold medal. Siegfried Gabner of Austria took bronze. (CBC)
  • Alpine skiing, women's slalom:
    • Anja Pärson of Sweden wins her first Olympic gold medal and the fifth Olympic medal of her career. Austrians Nicole Hosp and Marlies Schild take silver and bronze. Janica Kostelić of Croatia fails to add to her record six career women's alpine medals, finishing 0.15 seconds behind Schild. (CBC)
  • Speed skating, women's 1,500 metres:
    • Canadians Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves finish one-two, with Klassen winning by a dominant 1.47 seconds. Dutch Ireen Wüst takes bronze, while German medal favourite Anni Friesinger finishes fourth and misses out on the medals. (CBC)
  • Ice hockey, men's quarterfinals:
    • Sweden 6 – Switzerland 2 (CBC)
    • Finland 4 – USA 3 (CBC)
    • Russia 2 – Canada 0 Kazakh-born goaltender Evgeni Nabokov hands the Canadians their third shutout in four games, eliminating the defending champion from the tournament. (CBC)
    • Czech Republic 3 – Slovakia 1 (CBC)
  • Curling:
    • Men's semi-finals:
      • Finland 4 – Great Britain 3
      • Canada 11 – USA 5 (CBC)
    • Women's semi-finals
      • Sweden 5 – Norway 4
      • Switzerland 7 – Canada 5 (CBC)
  • Short track speed skating:
    • South Korea wins the gold medal in the women's 3,000 m relay, while Canada takes silver, and Italy bronze. (Turin2006.org), (CBC)