Ahonen Jumps to Another Victory

Janne Ahonen won his second consecutive leg of the prestigious Four Hills tour Saturday at Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany, another victory in a virtually flawless season so far for the Finnish ski jumper.

Ahonen won for the ninth time in 10 World Cup events. Austria’s Thomas Morgenstern was second and Germany’s Georg Spaeth was third. The victory extended his lead in the overall World Cup standings. He has 980 points. The Czech Republic’s Jakub Janda is second at 517.

Ahonen, who won the opening Four Hills event Wednesday at Oberstdorf, Germany, had jumps of 124.0 and 128.0 meters, the day’s two longest jumps.

Ahonen was docked points for style because he nearly crashed on his second jump. He was awarded 260.1 points, only six more than Morgenstern, who jumped 119.5 and 122.5 meters.

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Germany won the four-man team event in a World Cup luge competition at Oberhof, Germany, then donated the $2,150 in prize money to the relief effort for victims of the tsunami that hit South Asia.

Sebastian Schmidt, Andre Folker, Silke Kraushaar and David Moeller completed their run in 2 minutes 13.827 seconds. Italy was second in 2:14.438.

Tennis

The 15-year-old sister of 1996 Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek helped the Netherlands earn its first spot in nine years in the main draw of the Hopman Cup, a mixed teams event in Perth, Australia.

Michaella Krajicek, winner of last year’s U.S. Open girls’ title, won a qualifying match against Cara Black of Zimbabwe, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-0. Peter Wessels then defeated Wayne Black, 7-6 (7), 7-5, giving the Dutch the eighth and final berth.

The United States plays the Netherlands on Tuesday.

Soccer

Chivas USA, one of two expansion teams that will begin play in Major League Soccer this year, today will announce that it has hired assistant coach Martin Vasquez away from the Galaxy.

Vasquez, 41, who played for Chivas Coach Thomas Rongen with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, will become one of Rongen’s assistants and also will be head coach of the Chivas reserve team.

Miscellany

Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson of Sweden will sit out the entire indoor season, including the European championships in March, because of an ankle injury.

Olsson said he has had a “small problem” with his right ankle since the Olympic final in August.

The Detroit Lions signed defensive tackle Shaun Rogers to a six-year contract. He was selected to the Pro Bowl this season.

Phil Kessel scored three goals to help the United States advance to the semifinals of the world junior hockey championships with an 8-2 victory over Sweden at Grand Forks, N.D.

Christian Hesch of Morro Bay and Amy Rudolph of Providence, R.I., set meet records in the New York Road Runners’ New Year’s Eve Midnight Run in Central Park.

Hesch covered the four-mile course in 18 minutes 28 seconds -- eight seconds faster than his old mark, set a year ago. Rudolph won the women’s division in 21:17, breaking the record of 21:55 set last year by Ethiopia’s Atalelech Ketema.