41.   Part of the NHL-IIHF agreement calls for a pre-Olympic tournament in Canada to replace the Canada Cup, a quadrennial international tournament.

42.   A Bulgarian parachutist was killed when his parachute failed to open properly at an international tournament, officials said Saturday.

43.   A few months earlier, another Timorese youth squad had won the gold medal in an international tournament in Darwin, Australia.

44.   A Cuban fencing champion defected to the United States Monday after representing his communist country in an international dueling tournament in Puerto Rico.

45.   A top German UEFA official ripped the timing of international tournaments like the Confederations Cup as harmful to European soccer in an interview released Monday.

46.   A proposal to hold a small international tournament instead of an All-Star game was shot down.

47.   Akers, who had shoulder surgery in May and suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, has said this will be her last international tournament.

48.   All seven nations have blind cricket domestic leagues, but this is the first time an international tournament is being held, organizers said.

49.   Akers, who had shoulder surgery in April and suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, has said this will be her last international tournament.

50.   Among other arguments against it, UEFA said it would be difficult to fit another international tournament into the already packed world soccer schedule.