Sports Digest/Athletics: Twice Olympic 10,000 metres champion Haile Gebrselassie will compete in the London marathon on April 17th if he successfully completes a half-marathon in nine days' time.
Ethiopian Gebrselassie (31) retired from the track after finishing fifth in last year's Athens Olympics 10,000 final.
If he does compete in London, Gebrselassie will run against his arch-rival and world record holder Paul Tergat of Kenya.
Tergat, the five times world cross country champion, finished second to Gebrselassie in the 10,000 at two Olympic Games and two world championships.
SHOW JUMPING: Jessica Kürten, Ireland's only representative at this weekend's World Cup fixture in Leipzig, Germany, has nailed a top 10 ranking in the world best horse and rider combination standings for 2004, writes Grania Willis.
Kürten and Quibell were listed in ninth in the combination standings released by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) yesterday.
Britain's Nick Skelton and the stallion Arko III topped the rankings on 1,383 points, five clear of Brazil's Rodrigo Pessoa and Baloubet du Rouet.
Kürten and with Quibell were third in Leipzig yesterday in the Volkswagen AG Prize, a qualifier for tomorrow's World Cup. The class was won by American Peter Wylde on Pinocchio.
GAELIC GAMES: Liam McGarry, a life-long member of Loughgiel Shamrocks has died suddenly.
The winner of six Antrim senior hurling championships, he captained the county to a junior All-Ireland in 1963.
He was a selector with Loughgiel when the club won the 1983 All-Ireland title and was serving as in a similar capacity with the club's junior team.
The Connacht GAA Council have matched the €7,508 collected at the FBD Connacht League games last Sunday and the total will be sent to Croke Park for distribution to the appropriate relief charities.
CYCLING: Lance Armstrong is prepared to meet investigators after French police launched a preliminary probe into doping allegations against the six-times Tour de France winner.
"I will make myself available anytime and anywhere to meet with the investigators in this case," Armstrong said.
A French judge confirmed on Thursday that police had been ordered to investigate the 33-year-old American after the publication of a book called LA Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong.
