World Sports in brief

Tiger in danger of fall

Tiger Woods was in danger of losing his five-year grip on golf’s world number one ranking to Phil Mickelson or Steve Stricker in Monday’s last round of the PGA Deutsche Bank Championship. Woods fired a two-under par 69 on Sunday to share 23rd place and trail leader Jason Day of Australia by 10 strokes after 54 holes

Australia’s Jones at ease

Australia’s triple Olympic champion Leisel Jones said Friday she has no security or health concerns about competing at next month’s New Delhi Commonwealth Games.

Jones, who will be defending her Commonwealth 100/200m breaststroke crown at the October 3-14 Games

Tomizawa dies after crash

Japanese rider Shoya Tomizawa died from injuries sustained in a crash in the San Marino Moto2 Grand Prix here on Sunday.

The 19-year-old came off his Suter bike when under pressure from the fast charging Italian Alex de Angelis. Neither de Angelis nor British rider Scott Redding were able to avoid hitting Tomizawa.

Emotional Vlasic leads

World champion Blanka Vlasic led Europe to victory at the Continental Cup Sunday, but was unable to ride an emotional wave of hometown support in her latest assault on the high jump world record.

Vlasic equalled her season-best leap of 2.05 before attempting to clear 2.10m