People in sports | Cohen keeping options open

Sasha Cohen: With the U.S. Figure Skating championships less than two months away, last year's champion hasn't decided if she'll try to defend her title.

Cohen, who will perform today at the Marshalls Challenge on the campus of Boston University, said Saturday she plans to compete at the 2010 Olympics and 2009 world championships.

"I've been keeping my options open and been training to stay in shape," Cohen said. "But I have not made any new programs."

Cohen, 22, has competed in six U.S. championships, never finishing worse than third. She finished second to nine-time U.S. champion Michelle Kwan four times before breaking through last year with Kwan resting an injured hip.

Zinedine Zidane: France's three-time FIFA World Player of the Year will visit the birthplace of his parents for the first time in 20 years, traveling to Algeria to meet President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and see children in hospitals during a four-day stay.

Zidane's parents were born in Aguemoun village in the Kabylie region. After the 1998 World Cup, he became a symbol of a multicultural France and is adored in Algeria.

The Associated Press