BRIEFLY : BOLDON BOLTS TO DOUBLE WIN.

UCLA's Ato Boldon, in an exceptional tuneup for next month's world championships in Greece, won the 100- and 200-meter events Sunday in the Stuttgart International track meet.

The Bruins runner from Trinidad and Tobago won the 200 in 19.77 seconds, the third fastest in history. His winning time in the 100 was 9.90.

Boldon pulled away from Maurice Greene of the United States and Frankie Fredericks of Namibia on the last curve to win the 200. The winning time bettered his own best mark this year of 19.82.

Greene finished second at 19.89, Fredericks third at 19.93.

``I think I'm in the best form of my life in the 200,'' Boldon said.

In the 100, Boldon easily beat Greene - the U.S. champion who was timed in 10.04 - and nearly matched his best time this year of 9.89.

MACCABIAH GAMES: Olympic gold-medal gymnast Kerri Strug, visiting Israel for the first time, will carry the torch today to officially open the Maccabiah Games.

Strug is a guest of honor of the Games but said she also came to lend support to her roommate at UCLA, gymnast Deborah Mink. More than 5,600 Jewish athletes from 53 countries will participate in the Maccabiah Games, which run today through July 24.

BASEBALL: The Cuban national baseball team canceled its eight-game U.S. tour, two days before it was scheduled to start and two weeks after a member of the club defected during another road trip.

The Cuban Baseball Federation cited fears of ``destabilization'' of the team if it were allowed to play in the United States, according to USA Baseball, this country's governing body of amateur baseball.