Bol breaks own 400 indoor world record

Femke Bol broke her 400-meter indoor world record on Sunday at the Netherlands' national championships, finishing in 49.24 seconds to shave two-hundredths of a second off the record she set a year ago.

Bol, the 400-meter hurdles world champion, set the record less than two weeks before the World Indoor Athletic Championships open in the Scottish city of Glasgow.

“It's a dream come true to run another world record and it's wonderful to have all these Dutch fans enjoying the most beautiful sport in the world,” Bol said in her trackside interview.

She bettered her own record from a year ago that itself broke a 40-year-old record of 49.59 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova on March 7, 1982.

Lieke Klaver finished second behind Bol in 50.10 at the Omnisport stadium in Apeldoorn and Cathelijn Peeters was third in 52.08.

U.S. second behind China at worlds

American Hunter Armstrong helped himself to two more medals on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar, winning the men's 4x100 medley relay with the United States team after taking the silver in the men's 50 backstroke.

Armstrong, who swam the first leg, praised his teammates Nic Fink, Zach Harting and Matt King after the United States won in 3 minutes 29.80 seconds. The Netherlands took silver in 3:31.23 with Italy in bronze (3:31.59).

“We start strong and we finish stronger,” Armstrong said. “We take pride in our medley relay.”

The Ohio native won golds earlier in the championships in the mixed 4x100 medley relay and men's 100 backstroke.

Sweden's Sarah Sjoestroem defended her title, and just missed out on beating her own world record of 23.61, when she won the women's 50 free in 23.69. American Kate Douglass finished second in 23.91.

Isaac Cooper of Australia won the men's 50 backstroke in 24.13. He started strongly and held off the defending champion and world record holder Armstrong by .20 seconds.

China topped the table on the gold-medal count. It had 33 medals overall — including 23 golds — while the United States was second with nine golds among an overhaul haul of 23. Australia was third overall with 24 medals but fewer golds (seven).

Ames takes title as Chubb is shortened

Stephen Ames captured his seventh PGA Tour Champions title without hitting a shot when the final round of the Chubb Classic was canceled because of a massive storm system moving across Florida.

Tournament officials originally planned to play only nine holes for the final round at Tiburon Golf Club in Naples until a forecast of the storm getting stronger led to the cancellation.

Ames shot an 8-under 64 on Saturday to build a threeshot lead over Rocco Mediate, and he was declared the winner.

IOC won't change rules for Pacquaio

The International Olympic Committee will not change its rules to let boxing great Manny Pacquaio compete at the Paris Games aged five years beyond the entry limit.

Pacquaio, who retired in 2021, wanted to box at age 45 in the Olympic tournament in Paris.

The IOC said it wrote to Olympic officials in Philippines explaining the age limit for boxers of 40 will be upheld. The IOC now oversees Olympic boxing after de-recognizing the International Boxing Association governing body.

The age limit for Olympic boxing was raised to 40 from 34 in 2013 — a move that would have let Pacquaio try to compete at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. He chose not to at the time when he was also elected to be a senator in his home country.

It is unclear if Pacquaio would have tried to earn a place at the Paris Olympics in one of two qualification tournaments that open later this month in Italy and in May in Thailand.

The Philippines Olympic body had talked of trying to get a so-called “universality” entry to the Paris Summer Games. These are effectively free passes to events given to countries that have few athletes at the Olympics and typically struggle to qualify on merit.

However, the IOC explained that the Philippines had been too successful to benefit from the scheme.

Pacquaio ended his storied career in September 2021 at age 42 after 72 fights, winning 12 world titles at a record eight different weight divisions.

Sinner wins tourney in Rotterdam

Jannik Sinner won the ABN Amro Open in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in his first tournament since capturing the Australian Open title.

Top-seeded Sinner, playing his second straight Rotterdam

final, beat fifth seed Alex de Minaur 7-5, 6-4.

Sinner, who lost last year's final to Daniil Medvedev, is set to rise to a career-high No. 3 in the ATP rankings today, the highest ever for an Italian man.

• Wild card Facundo Díaz Acosta won his first ATP singles title by beating Chile's Nicolás Jarry 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the clay-court Argentina Open.

Austrian wins her first World Cup super-G

Austrian downhill specialist Stephanie Venier won a women's World Cup super-G for the first time, giving new impetus to the battle for the discipline title as leader Lara Gut-Behrami placed sixth.

In a tight race on Mont Lachaux course om CransMontana, Switzerland, Venier beat Italians Federica Brignone by 0.04 seconds and Marta Bassino by 0.15 for her third career win overall, a day after Bassino and Brignone went 1-2 in a downhill on the same course.

Venier's previous wins came in downhills in Germany in 2019 and in Italy last month – the race in Cortina d'Ampezzo where Mikaela Shiffrin hurt her left knee in a crash.

Shiffrin's team said the American planned to resume training next week, but that she likely won't return to the circuit earlier than the second weekend of March for a GS and slalom in Sweden.

Shiffrin lost her lead in the overall standings to Gut-Behrami last week. The Swiss star, who won the last two super-G races and a downhill Friday, finished nearly half a second off the lead in sixth on Sunday, extending her lead over the American to 205 points.