Sweden beats France for third place

SINSHEIM, Germany -- Marie Hammarstrom scored in the 82nd minute Saturday, giving shorthanded Sweden a 2-1 victory over France in the third-place game at the Women's World Cup.

Down a player for almost 15 minutes after Josefine Oqvist was sent off for kicking Sonia Bompastor in the chest, Sweden won a corner kick which the French cleared. But the ball popped out to Hammarstrom, who faked out a defender with a small side-volley, touched the ball a second time, then let fly with a thunderous left-footed strike from the edge of the box.

Lotta Schelin staked Sweden to an early lead, scoring her second goal of the tournament in the 29th minute. Sara Larsson booted the ball from midfield and Schelin caught up to it at the edge of the box. As French goalkeeper Berangere Sapowicz rushed out, Schelin deftly flicked it into the net.

The two then collided, and Sapowicz came down on the outside of her right ankle and was removed from the game.

Gaetane Thiney scored for France in the 56th minute. The teams were the top European finishers, qualifying them for next summer's London Olympics.

Korean doping positivesNorth Korea officials blamed traditional musk deer gland medicine used after a lightning strike for five positive tests for steroids at the Women's World Cup. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said after two players were caught during the tournament this month, the world soccer governing body took the unprecedented step of testing the rest of the North Korean squad and found three more positives.

"This is a shock," Blatter said. "We are confronted with a very, very bad case of doping and it hurts." A North Korean delegation told Blatter and the head of FIFA's medical committee that the steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines based on the deer glands. -- AP