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• Staviski gets 2 1/2-year sentence for fatal crash (AP)

  A court in Bulgaria has sentenced world ice-dancing champion Maxim Staviski to 2 1/2 years in prison for a fatal drunk driving accident. The court on Monday overturned an earlier suspended sentence for the same term. Staviski was found guilty of crashing his car into an oncoming vehicle in August 2007.

• Napier, Schaaf qualify for bobsled Worlds (AP)

  John Napier and Bree Schaaf won the U.S. National Bobsled Championships at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Sunday and qualified for the World Championships. Napier, of Schenectady, N.Y., and brakeman Cory Butner of Yucaipa, Calif., won in 3 minutes, 45.87 seconds in the four-heat race. They held off Mike Kohn of Chantilly, Va., and brakeman Jacob Miller of Waterford, Va., by 0.30 seconds.

• Zoeggler wins luge World Cup race on birthday (AP)

  Two-time Olympic champion Armin Zoeggler of Italy won a luge race on his birthday Sunday to extend his overall lead in the World Cup standings. Zoeggler finished in 1 minute, 34.458 seconds, 0.36 seconds ahead of David Moeller of Germany. Felix Loch, also of Germany, was third. "This was the best present I could make myself," said Zoeggler, a five-time world champion who turned 35.

• Doping-Three Bulgarian athletes banned for two years (Reuters)

  Bulgarian sprinter Tezdzhan Naimova has been banned for two years for manipulating a doping sample while middle-distance runners Vanya Netova and Raya Stoynova received two-year bans for doping.

• Bolt sets sights on lowering sprint records further (Reuters)

  Jamaica's triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt believes he can take the 100 metres world record down to 9.58 seconds and go below 19 seconds in the 200 metres.

• Will wild Vancouver weather disrupt games? (AP)

  Thousands of airline passengers stranded. Roads impassable because of snow. Power failures by the dozen. The last two weeks have been a winter nightmare for Vancouver -- huge dumps of snow followed by rain, heavy slush and flooding. All over the city, people are griping about the toll storm after storm has taken on their holiday season.