GYMNASTICS: Men's Individual competition: 1 D Laubscher (SA) 52.550 pts; 2 A Goloman (SA) 52.450; 3 A Otmani (Alg) 51.650 SHOOTING finals: Free rifle-300m fullbore prone: 1. The Zimbabwean team were cheering the Ugandans and mocking an Egyptian player, Hanan Eid, who has been at the centre of a gender dispute, when tempers flared. Last week Eid was accused of being a man in disguise and was ordered to undergo a sex test, after which the organisers apologised to Eid and her family. ALL AFRICAN GAMES (Harare) TENNIS: Men's singles: 1 G Stafford (SA); 2 J-C N'Goran (Iv Co); 3 T Elsawy (Eg); 3 A Ghonim (Eg). Doubles: 1 G Stafford and J Laffnie de Jager (SA); 2 T el Sawy and A Ghonim (Eg); 3 E Udozorh and G Omuta (Nigeria). Police had to separate squabbling women handball players during yesterday's Egypt-Uganda match in Harare.

"His only problem was inexperience and he can only change that by playing in events like this. He has done well to get this far and he certainly wasn't disgraced.". Ebdon, the world No 10, faced a potentially awkward opponent in the 17- year-old Scottish amateur, but Ebdon's experience told as he brushed Burnett aside 5-0 in 90 minutes. "Alan acquitted himself really well and he looks a good player in the making," said the 25-year-old Londoner. Peter Ebdon eased into the quarter-finals of the Regal Masters yesterday, by beating a qualifier, Alan Burnett, in Motherwell.

The Spaniard finished in second place, five seconds behind, with Jalabert's ONCE team-mate, Johan Bruyneel, third.The French mountain specialist, Richard Virenque, finished fourth in a stage which passed over two special category climbs, one of them the daunting Col de Tourmalet.The Frenchmen, on home soil for much of the race as it crossed and re- crossed the border, took advantage of the absence of the Italian climbing specialist, Marco Pantani, who dropped out of the tour with fever before the stage started.Jalabert, protected by his team-mates Bruyneel and Melcior Mauri, sat tight in a group of nine riders who broke early from the peloton and then attacked the mountains.With eight kilometres remaining the group was whittled down to five and, with the line in sight on the road above, Jalabert broke and eased through the final three hairpin bends to claim victory, increasing his overall lead over Olano to more than six and a half minutes.. Laurent Jalabert swept to his fifth and toughest stage win in the Tour of Spain yesterday, conquering the highest peaks of the Pyrenees in swirling mist and a steady drizzle. Jalabert, who has virtually secured his first major tour win with inspired riding throughout, completed the 179-kilometre 17th stage between Naut Aran and Luz-Ardiden in 5hr 34min 45sec. He broke from the leading group a kilometre from home but Abraham Olano, his main rival for the title, put up a brave fight. The World XI side, made up mostly of Spanish league players and foreigners playing in Turkey, lost 4-1.There was more bad news for Maradona when he discovered that the sport's international governing body, Fifa, will not recognise the International Professional Footballers' Association, of which he has been voted president.Sepp Blatter, Fifa's general secretary, said: "They are free to form associations like all employees and to discuss work problems, but they must address themselves to their employers, that is to say their clubs and national associations.".