Kelly Holmes provided a capacity crowd at the National Indoor Arena with the required victory here last night in the penultimate event of a Norwich Union Grand Prix which produced yet another world record from Russia's prodigious pole vaulter, Yelena Isinbayeva. It is still another reason to hope for a triumph from the outgunned but admirably dogged Eastman.. He is also 40 years of age, a notoriously treacherous time in the life of even the greatest fighters. Lewis will be that age if he is finally induced to get in the ring with a heavyweight champion he despises, Vitali Klitschko. One will be pride that Eastman fights in the name of Britain - the other will be to hope that Lennox Lewis is watching.Hopkins has a tremendous armoury and rich experience. We had several computer simulations, for instance one for natural variability: could the climate system just do this on its own? The answer was no."We looked at the possibility that solar changes or volcanic effects could have caused the warming - not a chance. What just absolutely nailed it was greenhouse warming."America produces a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases, yet under President Bush it is one of the few developed nations not to have signed the Kyoto treaty to limit emissions.

Howard Eastman, who tonight fights the formidable Bernard Hopkins for the world middleweight title in Los Angeles, is a resolute boxer and a resilient man, as he had to be to survive on the streets of London after his father threw him out of the family home.

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However, it is hard to believe that he has any anything like a chance against Hopkins, generally regarded as the best pound-for-pounder in the business. If it should happen, though, we are bound to have two main reactions. De Kersauson said his boat was suffering a "serious split" in the forward, starboard beam and is expected to announce today whether he will continue.Dave Scully, skippering Cheyenne, a further 250 miles behind, was 50 miles ahead of Tony Bullimore's Daedalus.Chasing the 58 days and nine hours outright record for sailing round the world, Bruno Peyron on the giant Orange II crossed the international date line back into the western hemisphere on day 26 with nearly four days in hand and heading fast for Cape Horn.Going into the final race of the Star class world championship in Buenos Aires, Britain's Iain Percy and Steve Mitchell were in a three-way tie for third behind the leaders Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau, of France, and Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira, of Brazil.. He had a 60-mile advantage over Joe Seeten.Brian Thompson, in Doha 2006, regained a 76-mile lead over Olivier de Kersauson's Geronimo after nearly two weeks of the Oryx Trophy round-the-world race for maxi multihulls. With less than 400 miles to go to the finish in Les Sables d'Olonne, Conrad Humphreys was holding on to seventh place in the Vend?Globe singlehanded round-the-world race yesterday, despite nursing a damaged keel. You're down in a crouch the whole way down.""Walchhofer was tough to beat today," added Miller, who won the men's downhill at the Bormio world championships "He had every part of the course down He skied incredibly well.".

"At the bottom I underestimated my speed and my ski got caught in a bit of soft snow It's a very hard course. "Walchhofer was surprisingly good," Maier said.Miller, the overall standings leader, made two mistakes that cost him dearly. He made a small error near the start but then negated that with a hard charge through the midsection of the 3,455-metre course that has a vertical drop of 960 metres.Miller was 0.36sec in front of Maier but then made another mistake with his line near the finish, skiing wide and losing time. He ended up 0.14sec behind Maier before Walchhofer beat them both moments later."I made two significant mistakes that cost me second place," Miller said. "I was really charging and to win by almost a second is awesome."Maier was looking for his 49th World Cup victory at the southern German resort where he won his first race in 1997. He dazzled the big crowd with an aggressive line down the hill, hitting top speeds of 130kmh (80mph) but lost to his younger compatriot. The President's advisers have argued that the science of global warming is full of uncertainties and change might be a natural phenomenon.Dr Barnett said that position was untenable because it was now clear from the latest study, which is yet to be published, that man-made greenhouse gases had caused vast amounts of heat to be soaked up by the oceans.