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February 14, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

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Power lifting meet

WARREN — The Regional Power Lifting Meet will be held at Warren Harding High School on Feb. 21.

The doors open with a breakfast at 8 a.m. and the competition begins at 10.

For details e-mail marc.bjelac@neomin.org or call (330) 442-2883.

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Santa Anita feature

ARCADIA, Calif. — Silent Soul defeated 9-10 wagering favorite Mr Napper Tandy by a head to win Friday’s $58,800 feature at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Iggy Puglisi, Silent Soul covered one mile on the synthetic surface in 1:36.70 after rain moved the race off the turf course. He paid $14.60 and $4.40 at 6-1 odds, the longest shot in a field reduced to four starters because of the surface switch. Mr Napper Tandy returned $2.40. Sartorial was another 21‚Ñ2 lengths back in third and Cee Bargara was last. There was no show wagering because of the scratches. Puglisi has just five wins in his last 111 mounts.

Campbell loses belts

SUNRISE, Fla. — Nate Campbell lost his three lightweight titles on the scales Friday when he failed to make weight for his fight with Ali Funeka.

Campbell, who won the IBF, WBA and WBO titles by beating Juan Diaz last year, weighed 138 pounds — three over the lightweight limit — on his first attempt to make weight at BankAtlantic Center. With two hours to lose the remaining weight, he only managed to drop to 1371‚Ñ2 pounds when he returned to the scale.

Medals recovered

SAN ANTONIO — Former U.S. swimming champion Josh Davis is getting his four missing Olympic medals back.

The Salvation Army in San Antonio said Friday the three gold medals from the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and a silver from the 2000 Sydney Games were found by a cleanup crew outside one of its Boys & Girls clubs.

Davis had reported the medals stolen earlier this week, telling police that someone might have broken into his car.

Big A feature

NEW YORK — Sir Winston beat Accredit by 11‚Ñ4 lengths Friday in the $56,000 allowance feature at Aqueduct.

Jorge Chavez guided the 5-year-old gelding to his fifth win in the last six races. The lone defeat in that span was a third-place finish in his previous race. Trained by Steve Asmussen, Sir Winston improved to 13-for-28 overall, running six furlongs in 1:10.49 on the fast track.

Sir Winston paid $8.60, $5.60 and $3.60. Accredit returned $5.30 and $4.30. Yes It’s the Truth paid $4.10 to show.

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DeGale meets Tchilaia

BIRMINGHAM, England — Olympic middleweight gold medalist James DeGale will fight Vepkhia Tchilaia in his first pro fight Feb. 28.

Britain’s lone boxing champion from the Beijing Games signed with promoter Frank Warren and will make his debut at the National Indoor Area against the 21-year-old from Georgia, who has a 9-8 record.

Frankie Gavin, the former world amateur light heavyweight champion whose strong medal chances in Beijing were ruined when he had weight problems going into the games, will make his pro debut against George Kadaria (5-3).

World Cup pursuits

COPENHAGEN — Taylor Phinney of the United States and Eleonora van Dijk of the Netherlands won the pursuit races at cycling’s Track World Cup finals on Friday.

Phinney, the son of 1984 Olympic medalists Connie Carpenter-Phinney and Davis Phinney, took the men’s race ahead of David O’Loughlin of Ireland.

The 18-year-old Phinney finished with 22 points and second in the final overall standings, won by Volodymyr Dyudya of Ukraine with the same number of points. It was Phinney’s first World Cup win of the season.

Phinney, who’s been working out with Lance Armstrong, shattered the U.S. national record in the men’s 4,000-meter pursuit, clocking 4 minutes, 15.223 seconds.

Vonn enters slalom; Ligety gets bronze

VAL D’ISERE, France — Three very different days for America’s three top skiers at the world championships:

—Lindsey Vonn declared herself ready for today’s slalom with a special splint on her right thumb. She needed surgery after cutting a tendon on a broken champagne bottle.

—Ted Ligety won the bronze medal in a giant slalom won by Carlo Janka of Switzerland. Ligety’s medal was the first by U.S. men at these worlds.

—Bode Miller crashed out in the second run for the second straight race.

Vonn made her final decision after gate training Friday.

Hartel dies at 87

COPENHAGEN — Lis Hartel, an equestrian who won two Olympic silver medals for Denmark in the 1950s despite being paralyzed below the knees because of polio, has died. She was 87.

She died Thursday of undisclosed causes, the Danish Equestrian Federation said Friday.

Hartel was 23 when she was hit by a polio outbreak in Denmark. She gradually regained use of most of her muscles, although she remained paralyzed below the knees. Her arms and hands also were affected.

Vindicator staff/wire reports