Janne Ahonen won the large hill ski...

Janne Ahonen won the large hill ski jumping World Cup season opener in Lillehammer, Norway, capping a great weekend for the Finnish team.

Ahonen, whose countrymen Mika Laitinen and Ari-Pekka Nikkola finished 1-2 in Saturday’s normal hill opener, had jumps of 123 and 131 meters for 257.7 points.

Yves Mankel and Thomas Rudolph won the first doubles event of the season and 1995 world champion Gabi Kohlisch led a 1-2-3 finish for the Germans in the ladies event.

Miscellany

Brad Schlapak and Joan Nesbit won their first U.S. Cross Country titles, in Boston. . . . Katrina McClain scored 15 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the U.S. Women’s National Team posted a 78-50 victory over fourth-ranked Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. Edmundo Alves de Souza, a star forward for Brazil’s national team and Flamengo, admitted he was driving a jeep involved in a deadly crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The death toll from Saturday night’s accident increased to three. Alexandra Cristina Peroti, 20, who had been in the player’s car, died Sunday morning. He denied reports that he had been drinking before the accident, which happened at about 3 a.m. He said he had been with his friends in a nightclub, but that he did not drink.