Sport: 24 hours in pictures

A happy Daniel Alves controls the ball during a Barcelona training session ahead of Friday's European Super Cup match against Shakhtar Donetsk Photograph: Manu Fernandez/AP

The Vancouver pitcher Anthony Cusati covers the bag as Ramstein AFB's baserunner Santee Jackson steals home on a wild pitch in the fifth inning in their Little League World Series pool game. Vancouver won 14-13 Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Boats race with their spinnakers out during the 2009 SAP 505 World Championship in the San Francisco Bay Photograph: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images

Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto, left, and second baseman Brandon Phillips get in each other's way as they go for a ball hit by Milwaukee Brewers' Ryan Braun. Phillips was charged with a fielding error and Braun reached first base. It didn't matter in the end as the Reds won 8-6 with Votto scoring the winning home run Photograph: Morry Gash/AP

Madeline Schaffrick Pellissier of France competes in the women's Snowboard Halfpipe on day five of the New Zealand Winter Games Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Travis Ganong competes in the men's Super G at the New Zealand Winter Games Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images

England's Susan Smith and Faye White can't believe it as Patrizia Panico celebrates equalising for Italy during their group stage Euro 2009 match in Finland. Things got worse for England as Alessia Tuttino scored nine minutes from time to give Italy victory and England only their second defeat in 21 competitive matches over the past four years Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP

Mardy Fish returns a shot to Rajeev Ram at the Pilot Pen tournament in New Haven, Connecticut, but it wasn't a good day for the No5 seed as he went out to the unseeded Ram 6-3, 6-3 Photograph: Bob Child/AP

Some of the 1,000-plus riders who joined Lance Armstrong for a cycle around Phoenix Park, Dublin, after Armstrong posted his plans for a cycle ride on Twitter Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP