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The 2016 World Rugby U20 Championship kicks-off on Tuesday at the AJ Bell Stadium in Salford live on Sky Sports, with New Zealand looking to retain their title and hosts England hoping to go one better than their runners-up position last year. The Championship brings together the best young talent from across the globe and during the 18 days of competition, new stars will emerge onto the world stage.Since 2008, only three sides have lifted the title - New Zealand, South Africa and England. However, with Wales taking the 2016 U20s Six Nations Grand Slam and Australia recently beating New Zealand, were set for a highly competitive Championship. Ahead of Tuesdays opening matches in Salford and the Manchester City Academy Stadium, we cast our eye over the three pools and mark your card with a few players that youll want to keep an eye out for...Pool AThe reigning champions New Zealand are joined by Wales, Ireland and Georgia.Georgia qualified by winning the U20s trophy last year and the Junior Lelos start in the most difficult manner possible by facing New Zealand.Scrum-half Vasil Lobzhanidze will captain the side and his experience, playing in last years senior Rugby World Cup, will be vital. Georgias scrum-half Vasil Lobzhanidze became the youngest player in tournament history at RWC 2015 New Zealand have two returnees from the 2015 Championship and have an impeccable record at this level.Jordie Barrett, brother of Beauden, will pull the strings at fly-half and prop Alex Fidow has impressed with his set piece ability and play in the loose.Wales should be confident after their Grand Slam title and one player that excelled in that tournament is Harrison Keddie, whose physicality and leadership are expected to come to the fore over the coming fortnight.Nigel Carolans Ireland will be led by James Ryan, an athletic lock also tipped to have an excellent future, and the Irish will start their tournament by facing their Six Nations compatriots. Pool BItaly and Scotland will join two sides that are familiar opponents on the world stage, England and Australia. Bath Rugbys Adam Hastings is the third Hastings to represent Scotland, following in the footsteps of his father Gavin, and uncle Scott The victories that Scotland recorded over England and Italy in the Six Nations will provide them confidence and head coach John Dalziel retains 23 of the squad that took part in that tournament.Italy have avoided relegation on the final day of the last two Championships, the last placed side drops into the World Rugby U20 Trophy, and its a relatively inexperienced Azzurrini side that will wish to do so again this time around. Australia boast a number of players with Super Rugby experience including Lukhan Tui, James Tuttle and Sione Tuipulotu.Coach Adrian Thompson has openly highlighted his sides need to counter the Northern Hemispheres teams focus on the set piece and that will be tested straight away in their opener against Scotland. Jack Walker will captain hosts England who start their Championship against Italy Hosts England will field a plethora of players with Premiership experience and ones that turned heads during this domestic season including Harry Mallinder, Will Evans, Ollie Thorley and Johnny Williams. The home side know the pressure thats on their shoulders given Englands early exit in the senior competition and have to step up from their Six Nations outings to deliver.Pool CArgentina, France, Japan and South Africa make up the final pool in tournamentThe Junior Springboks start their tournament against Japan and will be hoping that history doesnt repeat itself at age-grade level.The squad features just two players that were involved in Italy last year and coach Dawie Theron has had to contend with a few more injuries than hed like in the build-up.Japans winger, Ataata Moeakiola, will surprise a few people with his physical presence. The 20-year-old stands at 185cm and 110kg and his power will be key for the Japanese. With six members of the sevens side that won silver medal at the Youth Olympic Games in 2014 the expectation is that Argentina will follow the example of their senior men and deliver high tempo attacking rugby. Damian Penaud scored 5 tries in 4 matches during this years U20s Six Nations France havent won an age grade title for 10 years and in 2016 Olivier Magne wants this to change.Damian Penaud, the 20-year-old Clermont centre, is certainly a man to watch. Hes a player that beats defenders with ease and will be a handful for all in Pool C. Watch the World Rugby U20 Championship exclusively on Sky Sports. South Africa v Japan is live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 3pm on Tuesday afternoon, followed by Wales v Ireland and England v Italy. 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Todd Bertuzzi had a goal and an assist for Detroit, which got a goal apiece from Tomas Holmstrom and Niklas Kronwall and suffered no shortage of offense despite the absences of Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen.CORTINA DAMPEZZO, Italy -- Swiss skier Lara Gut mastered a windy super-G Sunday in the final World Cup speed race before the Sochi Olympics, rediscovering the form that helped her win three straight races to open the season. For her fifth victory of this campaign -- but the first since Lake Louise, Alberta, in early December -- Gut clocked 1 minute, 27.81 seconds down the Olympia delle Tofane course. Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein finished second, 0.12 seconds behind, and Maria Hoefl-Riesch was third, 0.61 back, to maintain her lead in the overall World Cup standings. "Its important to think about skiing and not the result," Gut said. "At the start of the season there was talk about the overall and all those things and I couldnt think about skiing. "I just have to ski the way I can, then I can have a good result," Gut added. "Today it was just me and the slope." This race concluded a run of four speed events in four days, and Weirather was a contender each day. Her results were fourth, second, third and second. "Im proud of my consistency and the ability to perform well in every race," said Weirather, the daughter of champion skiers Hanni Wenzel and Harti Weirather. "Thats something new for me." A combination of strong wind and a tough course, set by Tina Mazes coach, Mauro Pini, led to 19 racers failing to finish. Light was also a factor, as the sun ducked in and out of clouds. Olympic champion Andrea Fischbacher of Austria crashed and slammed into the safety netting but got right back up and skied down without major injury. Maze, who won Saturdays downhill, finished fifth.dddddddddddd The tailwind was so strong when Hoefl-Riesch came down that the German was nearly blown off course over the final jump. Hoefl-Riesch landed outside the blue lines painted onto the snow to help guide skiers and had to rapidly change direction to clear the last gate. "I was just happy when I went over the finish line because it was a hard fight for me on the bottom," Hoefl-Riesch said. Other skiers were slowed by a headwind as the conditions constantly shifted, at times making the banner hanging over the finish line billow in the wind. When the winds finally calmed down, it enabled Marusa Ferk of Slovenia to finish 11th with the No. 49 bib. Chemmy Alcott of Britain, the next skier down, placed 23rd for her first World Cup points since rejoining the circuit this week after leg surgery. The top Americans were Stacey Cook in 13th and Julia Mancuso in 16th. In the overall standings, Hoefl-Riesch holds a 128-point lead over Weirather. In the super-G ranks, Gut leads by 38 points over Weirather with only one more super-G remaining -- at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, in March. The womens circuit moves to Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, for a giant slalom and slalom next weekend -- the final events before the Sochi Games open Feb. 7. Gut will be a threat in multiple events in Sochi. She said shes most excited about giant slalom but shell also be a contender in downhill and super-combined. "Im going to try to be like Bode (Miller) in the super-combined at the Olympics," Gut said. ' ' '