They beat Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine and Heidi El-Tabakh of Egypt in the French Open girls' doubles quarters.
Olympique Lyon winger Sidney Govou hit a double as France stunned arch-rivals Italy 3-1 in a Euro 2008 qualifier in Paris.
The ace midfielder has been in Germany's squad for the Euro 2004 qualifier against Scotland.
Chetan Baboor, Mouma Das, Sharath Kamal and Montu Das scored their second wins to make the grade.
Triple jumper Olsson was almost half a metre better than second-placed Nathan Douglas of Britain with a leap of 17.67, the best in Europe this year, at the European Athletics championships.
In the US, recession started in December 2007, and will last at least until December 2009 - the longest and deepest US recession since World War II, with the cumulative fall in GDP possibly exceeding 5 per cent. The recession in other advanced economies (the euro zone, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand) started in the second quarter of 2008, before the financial turmoil in September and October further aggravated the credit crunch.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly and P Harikrishna scored victories to help India post a resounding 3-1 victory over Germany.
The men's team beat Austria to move to joint-seventh place, while the women lost to Hungary and slumped to 14th place after the fifth round in the 32nd Chess Olympiad, in Dresden, Germany.
The Indian world junior champion maintained a full point lead after drawing with Emil Sutovsky of Israel in the fourth round of the Essent chess tournament.
Gunning for the silver medal are Russia and United States who have 25.5 points each.
Greece together with France, Germany and Romania all moved closer to a place in next year's European Championship finals.
The Indian GM beat Woman Grandmaster Xu Yuhua of China in the second game of the quarter-finals of the Women's World Chess championship.
Koneru Humpy crashed through the defence of Xu Yuhua to win the first game of the quarter-finals in the Women's World Chess championship 2004.
The Indian Grandmaster meets Cecile Van Der Merwe of South Africa in her opening match of the tournament.
World Cup holders Italy and European champions Greece got back on track in Euro 2008 qualifying on Wednesday, but England laboured to beat Andorra and Sweden suffered an upset in Northern Ireland.
They remained in joint lead on 3.5 points each after the conclusion of the fourth round of Gibtelecom Masters International Open chess tournament.
Turkmenistan coach Rovshan Muhadov is confident of winning the 'away' tie of the pre-Olympic football match in Goa on Sunday.
India posted an emphatic 4-0 victory over Mongolia in the third round of the 37th Chess Olympiad.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly failed to finish among the prizes by a whisker, going down to Vladimir Akopian in the final round of Gibtele.com Masters chess tournament.
They thrashed Azerbaijan 8-0 while England, Croatia, Belgium and the Czech Republic easily won their World Cup qualifying matches.
Indian eves suffered a disastrous 1-2 loss against 27th seed England in the 14th and final round of the women's section of the Chess Olympiad.
Indian men finished sixth after beating Bulgaria 2.5-1.5 in the 14th and final round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian eves came up with yet another emphatic performance in the 10th round of the women's section of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
Indian eves cruised to an emphatic 2-1 victory over eighth seeds France in the eighth round of the 36th Chess Olympiad.
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