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Chelsea wins league

By wire services
Published May 1, 2005

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Chelsea won its first English league title in 50 years, beating host Bolton 2-0 behind two second-half goals by Frank Lampard.

Lampard's goals backed the shutout goalkeeping of Petr Cech and gave Chelsea an unbeatable 14-point lead in the Premier League.

Second-place Arsenal, the defending champion, plays at West Bromwich Albion on Monday. But with only four games left it cannot catch Chelsea, whose only other league title was in 1955.

BUDESLIGA: Bayern Munich captured a record 18th league championship, with Roy Makaay scoring three goals in a 4-0 victory over FC Kaiserslautern.

NETHERLANDS: U.S. national team player DaMarcus Beasley injured his leg playing for his Dutch team PSV Eindhoven.

MLS: Kansas City goalkeeper Bo Oshoniyi made two diving saves in the second half and stopped a late shot by Freddy Adu, helping the Wizards to a scoreless tie with D.C. United.

TRACK AND FIELD: Kinyanjui wins marathon

Nephat Kinyanjui won the Country Music Marathon in Nashville, Tenn., making up a 25-second deficit in the final 2 miles. He won in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 37 seconds. Irina Safarova of Russia was first in the women's division in 2:33:53.

DRAKE RELAYS: Darold Williamson beat Jeremy Wariner in the 400 meters to win the feature race in Des Moines, Iowa. Williamson finished in 45.24 seconds, while Wariner ran 45.42. Arkansas ran a world-best in the women's 3,200 relay to deny Michigan an unprecedented sweep of the meet's distance relays, and Olympic silver medalist Matt Hemingway won the high jump.

PENN RELAYS: The United States won five of six races - three for men and three for women - at the 111th annual relays in Philadelphia. The Americans' only loss was in the men's 1,600 meters, when Tyree Washington of the U.S. Red team tripped over a runner from the Bahamas and fell on the second leg. Jamaica won in 3 minutes 2.63 seconds, with the U.S. Blue team second.

IAAF GRAND PRIX: Marion Jones won her first race in 11 months, sprinting to victory in the 100 meters in Forte-de-France, Martinique. Jones led from the start and paced an American sweep in the event, finishing in 11.28 seconds, ahead of Wyllesheia Myricks and Melissa Barber.

HOCKEY: Canada, Russia struggle

Defending champion Canada and Russia struggled in winning their opening games at the hockey world championships in Innsbruck, Austria.

Canada, trying to win a third straight world title for the first time since 1950-52, held off Latvia 6-4 behind three goals by Rick Nash.

Russia, which defeated Sweden in last week's European Hockey Tour final, beat Austria 4-2 after the host nation tied the score midway through the last period.

The United States, bronze-medal winners at last year's worlds, faces Slovenia today. The 16-team tournament ends May 15 in Vienna.

CYCLING: Contador wins stage

Spain's Alberto Contador won the fourth stage of the Tour de Romandie, but Italian Damiano Cunego's third-place finish was good enough to give him the overall lead entering the final stage. The tour concludes today in Lausanne.

RETIREMENT: Italy's Mario Cipollini has announced his retirement. "Maybe an old man like me, who has given a lot to cycling and has also received a lot, has to recognize when is the right moment to stop," Cipollini said.

ET CETERA

WRESTLING: Joe Williams won his sixth national title in seven years in Las Vegas. Eight others won championships. In the women's competition, Sally Roberts won the 130-pound freestyle division to highlight one of three women's matches.

FOOTBALL: Kevin Eakin 's touchdown pass with 16 seconds to play helped host Frankfurt rally past Rhein 23-20 in NFL Europe.

SWIMMING: Shirley Babashoff was presented with the Olympic Order, one of the International Olympic Committee's highest honors. Babashoff won two silver medals and one gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when she was 15. Four years later, she won four silvers and one gold at the Montreal Games.

BOXING: Vicente Mosquera won the WBA super featherweight title in New York with a flurry of rights that handed Yodsanan Nanthachai his first loss in nearly 11 years.

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