Bulletin 9 Saturday, 15 July 2000 Editor: Mark Horton - Co-editor: Brian Senior - Layout Editor: George Hatzidakis - Production: Burak Bayhan NORWAY HOT ON ISRAEL'S HEELS The long-time leaders started yesterday well with a 17-13 VP victory over the defending champions Italy, but then went Photo Call down to a resurgent Sweden 12-18 VPs. A blistering perfor- mance by Norway, who scored 199 IMPs in their two matches against Scotland and Ireland, to collect a maximum 50 VPs, saw them end the day right at the leader's shoulder. The Netherlands easily disposed of Austria,and then scored an important 17-13 win against Denmark.With the Danes also losing their opening match against Germany 8-22, the Dutch- The teams chosen for today are men found themselves in third place, and with a reasonable as follows: cushion. Despite their setbacks, Denmark only lost one place, and JUNIORS - 10.00 they are 10 VPs ahead of France.Then come Turkey, a Swedish SWITZERLAND TURKEY team that has been steadily climbing up the table, and Italy.The FRANCE SPAIN HUNGARY champions surprisingly lost their second match against Estonia 9-21, and it is clear that they are not going to make a success- Please assemble at the entrance ful defence of their title. to the Convention centre. The luck of the Irish was certainly not in evidence, as they The full team must be present! also failed to register a point in their other match against Bel- That means Captains and Coaches gium, and just as it appears that the race for the gold medals is as well as players! now a two horse race, so too is the battle to avoid the wood- Please look smart! en spoon, with Switzerland being the other contender. France chased by Urgent Call to some Norway and Poland Captains France marginally increased their lead by scoring 42 VPs in We are missing some Team Profiles, espe- their two matches but taking their cue from their elders, the cially in the Schools event! We want to in- Norwegian team collected 47 VPs to ease one ahead of third clude every team, so please deliver yours placed Poland.The latter face a severe test today, as their first to the Daily Bulletin today.Thank you. two matches are against the two teams in front of them. 17th EUROPEAN YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Antalya,Turkey JUNIOR TEAMS TODAYS RESULTS PROGRAM ROUND ROBIN SESSION 19 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 21 Match IMPs VPs 1 bye SWEDEN 1 WALES bye 00180 2 SCOTLAND CROATIA 2 ICELAND HUNGARY 59 41 19 11 3 NORWAY DENMARK 3 SPAIN PORTUGAL 10 95 0 25 4 ITALY BELGIUM 4 TURKEY ENGLAND 43 40 16 14 5 SWITZERLAND RUSSIA 5 DENMARK GERMANY 34 67 8 22 6 ISRAEL TURKEY 6 SWITZERLAND ESTONIA 39 90 5 25 7 IRELAND FRANCE 7 FRANCE FINLAND 90 70 19 11 8 HUNGARY GERMANY 8 SCOTLAND NORWAY 19 70 5 25 9 CROATIA SWEDEN 21 42 11 19 9 ESTONIA POLAND 10 BELGIUM IRELAND 93 2 25 0 10 WALES ICELAND 11 AUSTRIA NETHERLANDS 23 72 5 25 11 PORTUGAL ENGLAND 12 ITALY ISRAEL 24 34 13 17 12 NETHERLANDS SPAIN 13 POLAND RUSSIA 45 13 22 8 13 AUSTRIA FINLAND ROUND ROBIN SESSION 20 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 22 Match IMPs VPs 1 bye POLAND 1 bye PORTUGAL 00 018 2 HUNGARY ESTONIA 2 ESTONIA ITALY 75 48 21 9 3 GERMANY SWITZERLAND 3 FINLAND SPAIN 50 23 21 9 4 NETHERLANDS WALES 4 BELGIUM POLAND 31 82 5 25 5 ISRAEL FINLAND 5 NORWAY IRELAND 129 21 25 0 6 SPAIN ITALY 6 GERMANY ENGLAND 33 45 13 17 7 ICELAND IRELAND 7 HUNGARY SCOTLAND 46 23 20 10 8 CROATIA RUSSIA 8 TURKEY FRANCE 48 48 15 15 9 NETHERLANDS DENMARK 47 35 17 13 9 TURKEY AUSTRIA 10 AUSTRIA CROATIA 65 48 19 11 10 SWEDEN SCOTLAND 11 ISRAEL SWEDEN 28 41 12 18 11 DENMARK BELGIUM 12 WALES RUSSIA 21 82 3 25 12 ENGLAND NORWAY 13 SWITZERLAND ICELAND 38 102 3 25 13 PORTUGAL FRANCE ROUND ROBIN SESSION 23 SCHEDULE 1 bye NETHERLANDS Saturday 15th July 2 FINLAND IRELAND 10.30 Juniors, Round 21 - Schools, Round 9 3 DENMARK SWEDEN 15.00 Juniors, Round 22 - Schools, Round 10 4 HUNGARY TURKEY 21.00 Juniors, Round 23 - Schools, Round 11 5 POLAND ISRAEL 6 AUSTRIA SCOTLAND 7 GERMANY NORWAY VUGRAPH 8 FRANCE SWITZERLAND MATCHES 9 ICELAND ENGLAND 10 ITALY RUSSIA Norway - Denmark Juniors 10.30 11 WALES ESTONIA Norway - Poland Schools 15.00 12 CROATIA PORTUGAL Italy - Russia Juniors 21.00 13 BELGIUM SPAIN 2 6-16 July 2000 17th EUROPEAN YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS SCHOOL TEAMS TODAYS RESULTS PROGRAM ROUND ROBIN SESSION 7 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 9 Match IMPs VPs 1 ITALY SWEDEN 1 ITALY FRANCE 25 90 3 25 2 GERMANY HUNGARY 2 NETHERLANDS AUSTRIA 47 52 14 16 3 POLAND FRANCE 3 NORWAY GERMANY 111 20 25 0 4 LATVIA AUSTRIA 4 ISRAEL POLAND 47 52 14 16 5 SWEDEN ENGLAND 33 88 4 25 5 ENGLAND ISRAEL 6 LATVIA HUNGARY 29 102 1 25 6 NORWAY NETHERLANDS ROUND ROBIN SESSION 8 ROUND ROBIN SESSION 10 Match IMPs VPs 1 LATVIA ITALY 1 NETHERLANDS ITALY 48 51 14 16 2 ENGLAND FRANCE 2 AUSTRIA NORWAY 37 73 8 22 3 NETHERLANDS ISRAEL 3 ISRAEL HUNGARY 28 87 4 25 4 AUSTRIA GERMANY 4 SWEDEN LATVIA 97 24 25 1 5 GERMANY FRANCE 26 37 13 17 5 NORWAY POLAND 6 ENGLAND POLAND 848723 6 HUNGARY SWEDEN ROUND ROBIN SESSION 11 Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner 1 ITALY HUNGARY 2 POLAND LATVIA The award ceremony will be 3 ENGLAND AUSTRIA in the Talya Hotel Convention 4 FRANCE ISRAEL Centre, and start at 20.30 and be followed by dinner. 5 NETHERLANDS GERMANY 6 SWEDEN NORWAY What a beautiful sport 3 17th EUROPEAN YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Antalya,Turkey JUNIOR TEAMS Sport News RANKING AFTER SESSION 20 Football Lazio have again been active in the transfer market.They have bought Udinese pair, Stefano 1 ISRAEL 390.5 Fiore and Guiliano Guannichedda for a com- 2 NORWAY 388 bined fee of 29 million pounds.Yet lazio do not intend to select either player next season and 3 NETHERLANDS 361 are negotiating to loan them back to Udinese. A strange way to 4 DENMARK 347 run a football club. 5 FRANCE 337 Lazio's spending spree continues with the purchase of Dutch 6 TURKEY 333 star, Boudewijn Zenden from Barcelona for 8 million pounds. Meanwhile,AC Milan are reported to be willing to offer 40 mil- 7 SWEDEN 330.5 lion pounds for Manchester United's David Beckham. United 8 ITALY 330 Chairman Martin Edwards has insisted that Beckham is not for 9 POLAND 329 sale. 10 RUSSIA 327 Florentino Perez, a candidate for the Real Madrid presiden- cy, is so confident that he can honour his pledge to sign Por- 11 GERMANY 325 tuguese star, Luis Figo that he has promised to pay for the sea- 12 ENGLAND 322 son tickets of all club members if he fails to do so - an 8.5 mil- 13 AUSTRIA 315 lion dollar gamble. Turkish first division side Fenerbahce said they had signed 14 CROATIA 305 Croatian International striker Milan Rapaic from Italys Perugia on 15 FINLAND 299 a three-year contract. 16 BELGIUM 297 Slovenian forward Zlatko Zahovic said he had agreed to join 17 ICELAND 297 Valencia and was waiting for Olympiakos to release him from his contract. 18 PORTUGAL 295 19 HUNGARY 285 Cycling 20 ESTONIA 274 Banesto rider Vincente Garcia-Costa of Spain 21 WALES 210 outpaced two French riders, Nicolas Jalabert and Pascal Herve, with an attack 12 Km from 22 SCOTLAND 197 the finish, to win yesterday's 13th stage in the 23 SPAIN 196 Tour de France. Garcia-Costa finished 25 sec- 24 SWITZERLAND 177 onds ahead of jalabert, who had been hoping to provide a French 25 IRELAND 173 win for Bastille day.The leaders in the general classification all fin- ished in the main group, meaning that there was no change at the top. Cricket SCHOOL TEAMS In the final of the Singer Tournament in Colom- bo, Sri Lanka batted first and set an imposing total of 294-7 against South Africa.That was just RANKING AFTER SESSION 8 too tough a target and, while South Africa were never completely out of the match until the closing stages, Sri Lanka were always in control. South Africa to- 1 FRANCE 160.5 talled 264-9, losing by 30 runs. 2 NORWAY 153 Formula One 3 POLAND 152 4 HUNGARY 133 Scotland's David Coulthard was fastest in Fri- day's free practice at the Austrian Grand prix in 5 SWEDEN 128 his Maclaren. Second fastest was his team-mate, 6 ENGLAND 125 Mika Hakkinen. 7 NETHERLANDS 117 8 AUSTRIA 108.5 Golf 9 ISRAEL 103.5 Going into today's final round of the Standard 10 ITALY 98 Life Loch Lomond tournament in Scotland, three players are tied for the lead on eight 11 GERMANY 85 under par. They are Notah Begay 11, Tom 12 LATVIA 40.5 Lehman and Ernie Els. One stroke behind come Colin Montgomerie, Retief Goosen and Nick Faldo. 4 6-16 July 2000 17th EUROPEAN YOUTH BRIDGE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS JUNIOR TEAMS SESSION 19 FRANCE vs FINLAND Going into Friday morning's vugraph match, Finland were just er could claim the remainder so that was two down for -500. below half-way in the standings while France, in sixth place, were In the other room, Pia Nurmi doubled 2[ - would your part- still very much in contention for the medals and qualifying places nership be confident that South's double was penalty in this auc- and were looking for a good win to boost their chances.