SPORTS DIGEST: Ferrari cannot afford another failure like Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, team president Luca di Montezemolo has warned the Formula One champions.
"A performance and incidents like those we witnessed in Budapest must not be repeated," the Ferrari website quoted him as saying.
"I know I can count on a team, which has always reacted without panic in difficult times, working flat out to win."
Five-times world champion Schumacher was lapped and limped home eighth in Sunday's race at the Hungaroring, cutting his championship lead over Williams's Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya to one point.
The outcome of the race, won by Renault's Spaniard Fernando Alonso, meant that Williams overtook Ferrari in the constructors' standings for the first time this year.
CRICKET: Duncan Fletcher believes captain Michael Vaughan needs more time to develop his own style following an uncertain start.
The England coach has watched Vaughan closely since he accepted the invitation to succeed Nasser Hussain at short notice after the drawn opening Test against South Africa just over a month ago.
Vaughan's passive approach has been blamed by some for England's 191-run fourth Test defeat at Headingley, which gave South Africa an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the series going into the final Test at The Oval.
But Fletcher insists it is too early to judge Vaughan as a leader and believes he is still learning.
"You can't deny the fact that a change has taken place - there is a difference," said Fletcher.
"After just three games in the job, people must realise that Michael is just learning and when that dressing-room door is closed he speaks very well. He might have to work on his body language a bit out on the pitch, but all captains have different styles.
SKIING: Kirsten McGarry, the younger sister of Tamsin, Ireland's first representative in the Winter Olympics skiing event, has come second in an internationally ranked competition in New Zealand when she finished runner-up in the Wigley Cup writes Johnny Watterson.
More importantly McGarry's 59.69 score was the highest recored by either a male or female Irish skier in an International Skiing Federation-ranked event and bodes well for her hopes of skiing for Ireland in the winter Olympics in three years' time.
The 18-year-old from Dalkey, Co Dublin, has just completed her leaving certificate and despite being offered a place in Trinity College, Dublin, has decided to concentrate on the sport.
TENNIS: Anne-Marie Hogan and Eimear Sloan lost out on a place in the doubles semi-finals at the World University Games championships in Korea yesterday.
Mexico's Arias Rodriguez and Lorena Valdes dominated the second set to win their quarter final tie 6-3 6-0.
MOTOR SPORT: Minardi will see what they can learn from last year's Arrows car when they test it alongside their own PS03 Formula One car in Italy next week.
"We'll be doing the test on the 16th at Mugello, we will let Jos (Verstappen) drive both cars," said team boss Paul Stoddart, who bought the Ford-engined Arrows A23s in June after the British-based team folded.
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