Sport in March 2005
This page relates to the sport news of the month of March 2005 .
Tuesday the 1st er March
- Football : Surprised at the time of the eighth of finale of the Coupe de France. Clermont Foot, modest 16th in League 2, leaves the Olympique Lyonese, leader of Ligue 1, with the shootings with the goal after a tie 1-1 snatch in the stops of play by Sylvain Wiltord. Nimes Olympique (National) also carries on its road by eliminating a third member from Ligue 1: OGC Nice. The score is without call, 4-0! Third match with the program this evening: Sedan (L1) eliminates logically the US Quevilly (CFA) by 2-0. The match US Boulogne - FC Nantes is deferred in reasons of the bad conditions weather. Continuation of the program tomorrow with in particular the shock Auxerre - Paris Saint-Germain.
Wednesday March 2nd
- Football : Continuation of the eighth of finale of the Coupe de France. Monaco eliminates Rennes (0-1 after prolongation) and Sochaux is essential logically on Albi (0-3). Surprised with Lille with the victory of the member of League 2, Grenoble: 1-3! The shock Auxerre - PSG turns finally to the advantage of Auxerre (3-2) with one doubled Auxerre-native to fifteen minutes of the final whistle.
Thursday March 3rd
- Football , League 1: Suspension of two matches for the trainer of SC Bastia, François Ciccolini, following his insulting remarks made at the time of the match PSG - Bastia against Lorik Cana.
Friday March 4th
- Formula 1 , Grand Prix of Australia: The stable Minardi could not be aligned at the beginning of the two meetings of free tests because their cars are not in conformity with the payments 2005.
Saturday March 5th
- Biathlon , Championships of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd:
- the Norwegian Ole Einar Björndalen gains the test of sprint which opens the championships in front of the German Sven Fischer and the Latvian Ilmars Bricis. In afternoon, female sprint.
- Allemande Uschi Disl is world champion on the test of the sprint in front of the Russian Olga Zaitseva and the Belorusse Olena Zubrilova.
- Formula 1 , Grand Prix of Australia:
- arm wrestling between the stable Minardi and the TRUSTED turned short. Authorized by Australian justice to dispute the Grand Prix with cars not being to the standards 2005, Minardi thought of having to gain the part. TRUSTED then held up the mence to exclude Australia from the calendar; Minardi, recently passed under Australian house, finally agreed to put its vehicles in conformity with the payments 2005. Minardi took part, without really shining, with the first meeting of qualification.
- Dramatic turn of events at the time of the first of the two meetings of timed tests. Following a strong downpour, Michael Schumacher is found at 24 seconds of Giancarlo Fisichella, better time of this meeting! The pilot Renault buckled his solo circuit right before the downpour.
- Alpine skiing , World cup of Alpine skiing: The Austrian Hermann Maier gains the descent of Kvitfjell in front of his compatriot Mario Scheiber and Switzerland Ambrosi Hoffmann.
Sunday March 6th
- automobile Competition
- Formula 1 , Grand Prix of Australia: Giancarlo Fisichella gains the race after having taken down the pole position, while Fernando Alonso sign the third place and best time in race. Renault is the large winner of this opening of the season. Ferrari limit the damage by intercalating Rubens Barrichello between the two pilots Renault; Michael Schumacher gave up following a fixing. The Red Bull with two cars have good performances in points and David Coulthard with the foot of the podium. detailed Article: Grand Prix of Australia 2005
- NASCAR : Martin Truex Jr. gains the first race NASCAR organized with Mexico City.
- Indy Racing League : daN Wheldon gains “Toyota Indy 300”, inaugural race of the season IRL 2005.
- Biathlon , Championnats of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd:
- the Norwegian Ole Einar Björndalen gains the test of continuation in front of the Russian Sergei Tchepikov and the German Sven Fischer. It is the second title in two tests for Björndalen.
- Allemande Uschi Disl is world champion on the test of the continuation in front of Chinese the Liu Xianying and the Russian Olga Zaitseva. It is also the second title in two tests for Disl.
- Alpine skiing , World cup of Alpine skiing: The Austrian Hermann Maier gains super G of Kvitfjell in Norway, in front of Switzerland Didier Défago and the American Daron Rahlves.
- Ski touring
- Vasaloppet: The Swede Oskar Svard gains the edition 2005 of Vasaloppet.
- World cup of ski touring: Victoire of the Russian Julija Tchepalova at the Finnish stage of Lahti. The Frenchwoman Karine Philippot finishes third.
- Cycling , Paris-Nice: The German Jens Voigt is the first leader of the first race of the Pro-Turn 2005. Voigt gains the prolog of the “Road of the sun” with two seconds in advance over Switzerland Fabian Cancellara. Sylvain Chavanel produces the fourth stopwatch at four seconds of the leader. On the other hand, Lance Armstrong disappointed by signing only the 140e performance, at 27 seconds of Voigt.
- detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005
- Tennis , Coupe Davis: France eliminates finally Sweden and reaches the quarterfinals of the race to the “money salad bowl”.
- detailed Article: Coupe Davis 2005
- Golf : Ernie Els gains “Dubai Desert Classic”, a blow in front of Miguel Angel Jiménez.
Monday March 7th
- Cycling , Paris-Nice: The Belgian Tom Boonen removes with the sprint the first stage which led the runners of Étampes to Chalbris (186,5 km). Behind the Fleming, one finds Brazilian the Luciano Pagliarini and the Estonian Jaan Kirsipuu. The Netherlander Erik Dekker seizes the position of leader to general classification with the favor of the allowances.
- detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005
Tuesday March 8th
- Cycling , Paris-Nice: the layout of the stage is modified because of snowfalls during the night (more than 50 cm on Thiers and its area). Stage reduced to only 46,5 km gained by the Belgian Tom Boonen in front of the Norwegian Kurt-Asle Arvesen and the Ukrainian Yaroslav Popovych. Tom Boonen is from now on leader of general classification.
- detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005
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Biathlon , Championships of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd: Allemande Andrea Henkel is world champion on 15 km in front of Chinese the Ribo Sun and Norwegian the Linda Tjoerhom. The Frenchwoman Sandrine Bailly finishes once again with the foot of the podium. To note the fixed price on this 15 km of Norwegian the Liv Grete White beet, who officialized his health issues since the beginning of the season. The queen of biathlon is reached of a virus close to mononucleosis. Its participation in the Norwegian relay is still dubious.
- detailed Article: Championships of the world of biathlon 2005
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Football : League of the Champions - 1/8es of finale return
- Olympic Lyonese 7-2 Werder Bremen
- Milan AC 1-0 Manchester United
- Chelsea FC 4-2 FC Barcelona
Wednesday March 9th
- Biathlon , Championships of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd: The Czech Roman Dostal gains the championship of the world over the 20 km in front of the Germans Michael Greis and Ricco Gross.
detailed Article: Championships of the world of biathlon 2005 - Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005:
- Paris-Nice: the layout of the stage is again modified because of snowfalls. DDE made miracles so that the race can be held. Stage reduced to 118 km gained by the Spaniard Vicente Reynes. Tom Boonen preserves the head of general classification while David Moncoutié seizes the shirt better climbing.
detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005 - Tirreno-Adriatico: First stage of the race of the two seas gained by the Italian Alessandro Petacchi in front of the Austrian Bernhard Eisel and Australian the Robbie McEwen.
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005 - Football : League of the Champions (1/8es of finale return)
- Bayer Leverkusen 1-3 Liverpool FC
- Juventus 2-0 Real Madrid (after prolongation)
- Arsenal 1-0 Bayern Munich
- ACE Monaco 0-2 PSV Eindhoven
Thursday March 10th
- Alpine skiing , finales of the world cup to Lenzerheide:
- Austrian the Renate Götschl gains the descent of Lenzerheide in front of the Frenchwoman Ingrid Jacquemod and Allemande Hilde Gerg. She gains at the same time the world cup of the discipline.
- the Norwegian Lasse Kjus gains the descent of Lenzerheide in front of the American Bode Miller and the Austrian Fritz Strobl. The Austrian Michael Walchhofer, 4th of the race gains the world cup of the discipline
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005:
- Paris-Nice: the layout of the stage is modified once again because of snowfalls. Switzerland Fabian Cancellara is essential on Montélimar in front of Jaan Kirsipuu and seizes the yellow jersey and white leader of general classification. To note the abandonment of Lance Armstrong; it left the race as of yesterday continuing its programme of drive to Gérone (Spain)
detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005 - Tirreno-Adriatico: the Spaniard Oscar Freire gains the second phase while asserting himself on Tivoli in front of his compatriot Angel Vicioso and the French Laurent Brochard. The layout of the third stage envisaged tomorrow was modified because of falls of neige.
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005 - Football , UEFA Cup (1/8es of finale outward journey):
- Middlesbrough FC 2-3 Sporting Clube of Portugal
- FC Seville 0-0 Parma AC
- Steaua Bucharest given match CF Villareal
- Lille OSC 0-1 AJ Auxerre
- Olympiakos 1-3 Newcastle United FC
- Chaktor Donetsk 1-3 AZ Alkmaar
- Partizan Belgrade 1-1 CSKA Moscow
- Austria Vienna 1-1 Real Saragossa
Friday March 11th
- Alpine skiing , finales of the world cup to Lenzerheide:
- Austrian the Michaela Dorfmeister gains super G in front of its compatriot Marlies Schild and Suédoise Anja Pärson. Michaela Dorfmeister gains at the same time the world cup of the discipline.
- the Americans Daron Rahlves and Bode Miller share the victory in super G, the Austrian Stefan Goergl finishes in the 3rd place. Bode Miller gains at the same time the world cup of the discipline.
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005:
- Paris-Nice the Italian Gilberto Simoni is essential on the Mont Faron in front of Australian the Cadel Evans and the French David Moncoutié. The American Bobby Julich takes the yellow jersey and white of leader of general classification in front of Constantino Zaballa (at 19 seconds) and Alejandro Valverde (at 20 seconds).
detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005 - Tirreno-Adriatico: the Spaniard Oscar Freire gains with the sprint the third stage in front of the French Laurent Brochard and the German Danilo Hondo. Allowances on arrival oblige, Oscar Freire consolidates its place of leader of the classification général.
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005 - Ski jump : The Finn Janne Ahonen gains the World cup of ski jump. Winner of 12 contests this season, it was satisfied with the fourth place with Lillehammer to ensure the title three stages of the end of the season.
- Biathlon , Championships of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd: Russia gains the championship of the world of female relay in front of Allemandes and the Belorusses. Pitches baits itself on the team of France which finishes in the fourth place.
detailed Article: Championships of the world of biathlon 2005
Saturday March 12th
- Alpine skiing , finales of the world cup to Lenzerheide:
- American the Sarah Schleper gains the slalom in front of the Croat Janica Kostelic' and Austrian the Nicole Hosp. Tanja Poutiainen, 4th of the race, gains the world cup of the discipline.
- the Austrian Stefan Goergl gains the slalom in front of the American Bode Miller and her compratriote Benjamin Raich which gains at the same time the world cup of the discipline.
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005:
- Paris-Nice the Netherlander Joost Posthuma is essential detached on Cannes. Bobby Julich preserves the shirt of leader of the classification général.
detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005 - Tirreno-Adriatico: continuation of the festival Oscar Freire which removes a new stage on the road of the two seas. Oscar Freire still consolidates its place of leader of the classification général.
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005 - Biathlon , Championships of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd: Norway gains the championship of the world of relay masculin.
detailed Article: Championships of the world of biathlon 2005 - Rugby with XV , Tournament of the six nations: The XV of France puts an end to the dreams of Large Slam of the XV of Ireland while going to impose itself on Dublin 19-26. In same time, XV of England sign, finally, its first success in the Tournament 2005 by dominating the XV of Italy, 39-7 with Twickenham
detailed Article: Tournament of the six nations 2005 - Football : the referee Swedish Anders Frisk stops its international career. Its decision was caused by the death threats received since its arbitration of the match Ligue of the Champions between the Chelsea FC and FC Barcelona. The English team of Chelsea and her supporteurs show the referee of partiality.
Sunday March 13rd
- Alpine skiing , finales of the world cup to Lenzerheide:
- Spanish the Maria Jose Rienda Contreras gains the giant in front of Finnish the Tanja Poutiainen and Austrian the Nicole Hosp. Tanja Poutiainen gains the world cup of the discipline. Suédoise Anja Pärson removes the World cup of female Alpine skiing with only three small in advance on the Croat Janica Kostelic'.
- the Austrian Mario Matt gains the giant in front of the German Alois Vogl and its compatriot Rainer Schönfelder. Benjamin Raich was already ensured of the title of the discipline before this ultimate test.
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005:
- Paris-Nice: The Spaniard Alejandro Valverde gains the last stage over the Walk of the English. Bobby Julich removes edition 2005 of Paris-Nice; it is the first American runner to register its name with the prize list of the race to the soleil.
detailed Article: Paris-Nice 2005 - Tirreno-Adriatico: The Netherlander Servais Knaven gains the fifth stage of the race of the two seas. The Spaniard Freire Oscar preserves the shirt of leader at the classification général
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005 - Biathlon , Championships of the world of biathlon to Hochfilzen of the 4 with the March 13rd:
- the Norwegian Ole Einar Björndalen empoche a new championship of the world in the final test, the departure on line. The German Sven Fischer finishes second in front of the French Raphaël Poirée, who gains the first French medal of these championships.
- Norwegian the Gro Istad-Krisiansen gains the test of the female departure on line in front of Suédoise Anna Carin Olofsson and the Russian Olga Pyleva.
- Rugby with XV , Tournament of the six nations: The XV of Wales remains in race for the Large Slam following its demonstration with Edinburgh vis-a-vis weak a XV of Scotland (22-46).
detailed Article: Tournament of the six nations 2005 - automobile Sport :
- Championship of the world of the rallys 2005, Rally of Mexico: The Norwegian Petter Solberg gains the Rally of Mexico over a Subaru Impreza in front of Marcus Grönholm and Markko Märtin. To note gone up it of Sebastien Loeb the last day of the rally. The French pilot delayed by a mechanical problem the first day limits breakage by finishing fourth of final general classification.
- NASCAR : Jimmie Johnson gains the UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 with Las Vegas.
- Golf :
- American Circuit: Padraig Harrington gains its first tournament PGA in Mirasol in Florida.
- European Circuit: Ernie Els gains Masters of Qatar.
Monday March 14th
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005, Tirreno-Adriatico: The Italian Alessandro Petacchi removes the sixth stage in front of the Spaniard Oscar Freire and Australian the Robbie McEwen. Oscar Freire preserves the shirt of leader at general classification with 19 seconds in advance on Petacchi.
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005
Tuesday March 15th
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005, Tirreno-Adriatico: The Italian Alessandro Petacchi gains the seventh and last stage in front of his compatriot Mario Cipollini and the German Danilo Hondo. The Spaniard Oscar Freire gains the test in front of Alessandro Petacchi.
detailed Article: Tirreno-Adriatico 2005
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Football : League of the Champions (1/8es of finale return)
- Inter Milan 3-1 FC Oporto
Wednesday March 16th
- Veil , Trophy Jules Verne: The Orange II crew taken along by Bruno Peyron buckles the round the world tour with the veil as a crew in 50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 seconds. The new record improves the performance of Steve Fossett of almost eight days.
- Football :
- UEFA Cup: 1/8es of finale return
AZ Alkmaar 2-1 Chaktor Donetsk
Newcastle United FC 4-0 Olympiakos - UEFA Cup: 1/8es of finale outward journey
Steaua Bucharest 0-0 CF Villareal - Coupe de France: Surprised at the time of the last match of the eighth of finale of the Coupe de France: the US Boulogne (D4) eliminates FC Nantes (D1), by 3 to 2.
- Figure skating : Championships of the world of figure skating, with Moscow, Russia of the 14 to the March 20th. The Russian couple Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin gains the first title of these championships in front of their compatriots Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov and the Chinese daN Zhang and Hao Zhang.
Thursday March 17th
- Football : UEFA Cup, 1/8es of finale return
- CSKA Moscow 2-0 Partizan Belgrade
- Sporting Clube of Portugal 1-0 Middlesbrough FC
- Parma AC 1-0 FC Seville
- AJ Auxerre 0-0 Lille OSC
- Real Saragossa 2-2 Austria Vienna
- Figure skating : Championships of the world of figure skating, with Moscow, Russia of the 14 to the March 20th. Switzerland Stephan Lambiel is individual world champion in front of the Canadian Jeffrey Buttle and the American Evan Lysacek.
Friday March 18th
- Football : League of the Champions, drawing lot of the quarterfinals
- Liverpool - Juventus
- Chelsea - Bayern
- Milan AC - Inter Milan
- Lyon - PSV Eindhoven
- Football: UEFA Cup, drawing lot of the quarterfinals
- Steaua Bucharest or CF Villareal - AZ Alkmaar
- CSKA Moscow - AJ Auxerre
- Newcastle UFC - Sporting
- Austria Vienna - Parma AC
- Figure skating : Championships of the world of figure skating, with Moscow, Russia of the 14 to the March 20th. The Russians Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov assert themselves in dance on ice in front of the Americans Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agostoet and the Ukrainians Elena Grushina and Ruslan Goncharov.
Saturday March 19th
- Biathlon : World cup of biathlon:
- the Norwegian Ole Einar Björndalen gains the world cup in front of the German Sven Fischer and the French Raphaël Poirée. Sven Fischer, seized up, could not defend its chances at the time of the last race of the season and was made double on the wire by Björndalen with the general classification of the World cup.
- the Frenchwoman Sandrine Bailly gains the world cup in front of Allemande Kati Wilhelm and the Russian Olga Pyleva.
- Cycling , Pro-Turn 2005, Milan-San Remo: The Italian Alessandro Petacchi gains to it first great classic his career in front of the German Danilo Hondo.
detailed Article: Milan-San Remo 2005 - Figure skating : Championships of the world of figure skating, with Moscow, Russia of the 14 to the March 20th. The Russian Irina Slutskaya removes female in an individual capacity in front of American the Sasha Cohen and the Italian Carolina Kostner.
- Rugby with XV : Tournament of the six nations: Wales gains the Tournament and empoche its first Large Slam since 1978.
- XV of Italy 13, XV of France 56.
- XV of Wales 32, XV of Ireland 20.
detailed Article: Tournament of the six nations 2005
Sunday March 20th
- Athletics, Cross-country race, Championship of the world of cross-country race: The Abyssinian Kenenisa Bekele gains the world title over long cross-country race, 24 hours after having gained the title on short cross-country race.
- Formula 1 , automobile Grand Prix of Malaysia: Fernando Alonso gains over a Renault the GP de Malaisie.
detailed Article: automobile Grand Prix of Malaysia 2005 - Rugby to seven , World cup of Rugby to seven: Fiji east world champion while imposing itself finally vis-a-vis New Zealand, 29-19.
- Volley ball, League of the Champions of female volley ball: The Italian finale 100% is removed by Bergamo vis-a-vis Novare by three sets with nothing (25-18, 25-16, 25-17).
- Ski jump: the Norwegian Bjørn Einar Romøren beats the world records of distance on the springboard of Planica as Slovenia. Its jump was measured to 239 m
Thursday March 24th
- Cycling on track, Championships of the world of cycling on track
- Speed by men teams: the United Kingdom gains the title in front of the Netherlands and Germany.
- Race at the points men: the Ukrainian Volodymir Rybin is world champion in front of the Greek Ioannis Tamouridis and the Spaniard Juan Rossello Llaneras
- 500 m women: the Belorusse Natalia Tsylinskaya gains the shirt arc in sky in front of Australian the Anna Meares and the Dutchwoman Yvonne Hijgenaar
Friday March 25th
- Football , matches of qualification for the Asian Football world cup 2006
- Zone : Saudi Arabia 2:0 Republic of Korea | Kuwait 2:1 Ouzbékistan | Iran 2:1 Japan | RDP Korea 1:2 Bahrain
- Cycling on track , Championships of the world of cycling on track
- Keirin men: the Netherlander Teun Mulder is world champion in front of Barry Forde (Bahrain) and Shaun John Kelly (Australia).
- Kilometer men: the Netherlander Théo Bos is essential in front of the British Chris Hoy and Australian the Ben Kersten.
- men Continuation: the German Robert Bartko is world champion in front of the Spaniard Sergi Escobar Roure and the Russian Alexander Serov.
- Race at the points women: the Italian Verra Carrara gains the test in front of the Russian Olga Slyusareva and Australian the Katherine Bates.
Saturday March 26th
- Football , matches of qualification for the Football world cup 2006
- African Zone : Tunisia 7:0 Malawi | Morocco 1:0 Guinea | Zambia 2:0 Congo | Nigeria 2:0 Gabon | Burkina Faso 1:2 Cap Verde | South Africa 2:1 Uganda | Kenya 1:0 Botswana | Senegal 6:1 Liberia
- North America Zone, power station and the Caribbean : Guatemala 5:1 Trinity and Tobago | Costa Rica 2:1 Panama
- European Zone : Turkey 2:0 Albania | Romania 0:2 Netherlands | Denmark 3:0 Kazakhstan | Israel 1:1 Irish Republic Belgium 4:1 Bosnia-Herzégovine | Italy 2:0 Scotland | Georgia 1:3 Greece | Swiss France 0:0 | Bulgaria 0:3 Sweden | Arménie 2:1 Andorra | Wales 0:2 Austria | England 4:0 Northern Ireland | Czech Republic 4:3 Finland | Liechtenstein 1:2 Russia | Croatia 4:0 Iceland | Estonia 1:2 Slovakia | Poland 8:0 Azerbaïdjan
- South America Zone : Chile 1:1 Uruguay | Argentinian Bolivia 1:2 | Venezuela 0:0 Colombia
- Cycling on track , Championships of the world of cycling on track
- Speed by men teams: the United Kingdom gains the title in front of the Netherlands and Germany.
- Continuation by men team: the United Kingdom is world champion in front of the Netherlands and Australia.
- 15km men: the Dane Alex Rasmussen gains the test in front of the New Zealander Gregory Henderson and the Belgian Matthew Gilmore.
- Sprint Women: the British Victoria Pendeton gains in front of the Russian Tamilla Abassova and Australian the Anna Meares.
Sunday March 27th
- Volleyball , League of the Champions: victory finally of the French club Turns Volley ball (TVB) with Salonique (Greece), vis-a-vis the Iraklis Salonique.
- Football , matches of qualification for the Football world cup 2006
- African Zone : Algeria 1:0 Rwanda | Egypt 4:1 Libya | Zimbabwe 2:0 Angola | Mali 1:2 Togo | Ivory Coast 3:0 Benign | Cameroun 2:1 Sudan | Congo RD 1:1 Ghana |
- North America Zone, power station and the Caribbean : Mexico 2:1 E. - U.
- South America Zone : Ecuador 5:2 Paraguay | Brazil 1:0 Peru
- Cycling on track , Championships of the world of cycling on track
- Speed by men teams: the United Kingdom gains the title in front of the Netherlands and Germany.
- Sprint men: the German Rene Wolf is world champion in front of the French Mickaël Bourgain and Australian the Jobie Dajka.
- Keirin women: the Frenchwoman Clara Sanchez gains the test in front of the Italian Elisa Frisoni and the Dutchwoman Yvonne Hijgenaar
- Madison women: the United Kingdom gains the title in front of the Netherlands and Belgium.
- 10km women: the Russian Olga Slyusareva is essential in front of Australian Katherine Bates and Ukrainian the Lyudmyla Vypyraylo.
- Curling , Championships of the female world of curling: The Sweden gains the title in front of the the United States and the Norway.
Tuesday March 29th
- equestrian Sports , Jump of obstacles: Gold medal at the time of the Olympic Games of summer of 2004, the Irishman Cian O' Connor loses its Olympic title because of a proven case of doping concerning its horse. The athlete has one month to make call near the Arbitration court of the sport.
- Football , matches of qualification for the Football world cup 2006
- South America Zone : Bolivia 3:1 Venezuela
- Cycling : The French Laurent Brochard gained Tuesday semi-traditional the Paris-Camembert cheese. The runner of the Bouygues Telecom formation was essential for the 3rd time of its career in this race cash for the Coupe de France. On arrival with Vimoutiers, Brochard preceded 7" a group including Lance Armstrong in particular. Australian Lancaster (Panaria) finishes 2nd front the French Sandy Casar (French of the Plays) and Gusev (CSC).
Wednesday March 30th
- Football , matches of qualification for the Football world cup 2006
- North America Zone, power station and the Caribbean : Panama 1:1 Mexico | The USA 2:0 Guatemala | Trinity and Tobago 0:0 Costa Rica
- European Zone : Marine saint 1:2 Belgium | Switzerland 1:0 Cyprus | Austria 1:0 Wales | Netherlands 2:0 Arménie | Serbia and Montenegro 0:0 Spain | Greece 2:0 Albania | Georgia 2:5 Turkey | Israel 1:1 France | Moldavie 0:0 Norway | Hungary 1:1 Bulgaria | Poland 1:0 Northern Ireland | Slovenia 1:1 Bélarus | Estonia 1:1 Russia | Croatia 3:0 Malta | Andorra 0:4 Czech Republic | Slovakia 1:1 Portugal | Latvia 4:0 Luxembourg | Ukraine 1:0 Denmark | Bosnia-Herzégovine 1:1 Lithuania | Macedonia 1:2 Romania | England 2:0 Azerbaïdjan
- South America Zone : Uruguay 1:1 Brazil | Peru 2:2 Ecuador | Argentina 1:0 Colombia | Paraguay 2:1 Asian Chile
- Zone : RDP Korea 0:2 Iran | Republic of Korea 2:1 Ouzbékistan | Kuwait 0:0 Saudi Arabia | Japan 1:0 Bahrain
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