Miscellany

Ids Postma of the Netherlands kept his world speedskating all-round title with a fourth-place finish in the decisive 10,000-meter race at Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann of Germany won her seventh women’s all-around world title, beating Claudia Pechstein, also of Germany, by more than 5 seconds in the closing 5,000-meter race.

Comic Strip rallied furiously down the stretch to nose out Nite Dreamer at the wire and take the 86th running of the $500,000-guaranteed Grade III Louisiana Derby for 3-year-olds at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans.

Dusan Pasek, a former Czech star who went on to play for the NHL’s Minnesota North Stars, was found dead in his office from a gunshot wound to the head.

Suicide was suspected but the motive was unknown, the Interior Ministry’s Karol Tonka said from Bratislava, Slovakia.

Roy V. “R.V.” Yates, who trained 1956 Kentucky Derby winner Needles as a yearling, has died in Ocala, Fla. He was 91.