| MOSCOW (Reuter) - Sweden won the Davis Cup Saturday when Jan
Apell and Jonas Bjorkman won the doubles 6-7 (4-7), 6-2, 6-3,
1-6, 8-6 over Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Andrei Olkhovsky, giving
Sweden an unbeatable 3-0 lead over Russia in the best-of-five
finals.
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| STAVANGER, Norway (AP) -- Sweden broke its own world 200-meter
freestyle relay record by 0.32 seconds with a time of 1 minute,
27.62 seconds Saturday in the European Sprint Swimming
Championships.
Zsolt Hegmegi, Lars-Ove Jansson, Joakim Holmqvist and Per
Lindstrom swam the 50-meter legs. Holmqvist and Lindstrom were
members of the Swedish quartet that set the previous mark in the
1992 championships.
Germany finished second in 1:29.09 and Croatia third in
1:30.71.
``The record was a big surprise because we've all been sick
with the flu recently and we were not sure about our form,'' Holmqvist
said.
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| STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- A simmering conflict among the nation's
tennis officials has erupted just 48 hours after Sweden won the
Davis Cup title in Moscow, reports said Monday.
All six members of Sweden's national Davis Cup Committee
announced that they have stepped down, news reports said.
They said the last straw was a decision by the new Davis Cup
captain, Carl-Axel Hageskog, to name Anders Jarryd as assistant
coach without consulting the committee, the Svenska Dagbladet
newspaper reported.
Hageskog ``seems to want to take all decisions on his own,''
committee member Thomas Eklund was quoted as saying.
Swedish Tennis Federation Chairman Jan Francke, arriving on a
late flight from Moscow, told a television reporter that the new
captain has ``a more independent role'' than his predecessors.
``But we should be able to talk this (conflict) through,'' he
said.
The quarrel gives a sour after-taste to this small nation's
fifth Davis Cup title. The victory gave new hope after a period of
decline in Swedish tennis that followed the golden years with Bjorn
Borg, Mats Wilander and Stefan Edberg in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sweden won 4-1 over Russia. Many attributed Sweden's success to
excellent cooperation, high team spirit and raw experience.
Behind the facade, however, raged the power struggle between
the board of the Swedish Tennis Federation and its Davis Cup Committee.
The feud only had been suspended during the Moscow tournament.
Svenska Dagbladet said the committee, formed in 1989 to
reignite Swedish tennis, had told the federation before the finals it
would resign, but would wait until this week before going public.
Jonte Sjogren, who capped his Davis Cup captain career with the
win, told a correspondent in Moscow that the conflict ``is
lamentable and very sad'' for Swedish tennis.
Cracks started showing last month, when the federation
announced a new Davis Cup organization, headed by Hageskog.
Hageskog, 40, has been a well-respected Davis Cup trainer under
Sjogren for years. Few contested his appointment. But the committee
was angered when Hageskog dismissed its choice for Davis Cup
trainer, Martin Bohm, the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper said.
Bohm had worked closely with players such as Magnus Larsson and
Thomas Enqvist. He left his job as tennis federation trainer on
hearing that he would not be part of the Davis Cup group.
It was unclear what degree the committee constested the
appointment of Jarryd himself as assistant coach.
Jarryd has played for Sweden for 12 years, compiling an overall
Davis Cup record of 36-17, including 16-3 in singles.
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| From: "David Dermott" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.rides,soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Lycka till med V�tternrundan
Date: 16 Jun 1995 11:16:57 -0300
Organization: Nova Scotia Technology Network
Sender: [email protected]
Good luck to all those riding in the 30th running of V�tternrundan
(round Lake V�ttern in Sweden) which happens this Saturday June 17. I
hope the early morning is warmer than last year (it was 0C at 3 AM).
The VR is the world's biggest one-day bicycle tour and probably the
world's biggest athletic endurance event. It is a 300 km ride and
about 15000 people ride it. That's quite an accomplishment for Sweden
which is one of the more sparsely populated countries in Europe. This
year there will be a special award to those who have completed all 30
annual rides. I think there are about 20 people who might get that,
they have ridden every year since 1966.
Of course it helps to have 20 hours of full daylight, and a twilight
that lasts all night.
It is called a "motion lopp", literally exercise race. It is strictly
non-competitive, the finishing times of people are not published
My description of my VR 94 experience can be found of the Trento Bike
Pages -"http://www-math.science.unitn.it/Bike/". Thanks to Andreas
Caranti for putting it there.
Maybe next year I will go back . Oh to be in Norden at midsummer!
--
David Dermott , Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
[email protected]
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| From: "Riedlinger-Al" <[email protected]>
To: "International Swedish Interest discussion list"
Subject: Tennis and golf
I saw an article in today's USA Today that said that Edberg "Besides
being a great champion, Stefan Edberg also might be remembered as the
iron man of grand slam tennis."
He is playing in this year's U.S. Open, making it the 50th consecutive
grand slam event he has played in, starting in 1983 at WImbledon. He's
now ranked 19th in the world, having started the year at #7.
Bjorn Borg, Mats Wilander, Edberg, the Davis Cup champs... Swedes have
not done too bad in international tennis, have they? Do they have any
other young guys coming up?
Which reminds me of the great success the Swedish women have had the
LPGA tour ... Lisalotte Neumann, Anika Sorenstam, and Helen Alfredsson
have all won rookie of the year awards.
Why is it, I wonder, that Swedish men have done great in tennis and
the Swedish women in golf? I know there are women pro tennis players
and men pro golfers, but they haven't really done very much.
Al Riedlinger, [email protected]
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