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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has signed an agreement with a group of pharmaceutical companies to cooperate in identifying athletes who use doping. Under this agreement, doctors will provide WADA with information about new drugs that can be used to improve endurance. In addition, companies will try to minimize the potential for unauthorized use. Pharmacists also intend to help conduct doping tests as new drugs are created.
Bolt is ready to run a hundred meters
Three-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt from Jamaica will compete in the 100m instead of the previously announced 200m at the Diamond League stage in Lausanne. Let us remember that this is Bolt’s second start in the current series following the competition in Shanghai. After the Chinese tournament, the best sprinter on the planet was forced to take a break due to an Achilles tendon injury. “Bolt has confirmed that he has fully recovered from his injury. However, after consulting with the doctor who treated him in Munich, he decided to run the 100m rather than the 200m to avoid aggravating the injury,” AP quoted one of the organizers as saying. The tournament in Lausanne will take place on July 8.
The Clippers have named their head coach.
Vinny del Negro will become the new head coach of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Los Angeles Clippers. An agreement in principle on this issue was reached on Tuesday. Del Negro previously coached Chicago, but was fired from the team in May of this year. Former Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy stepped down in February to focus on his duties as the team's general manager. The Clippers spent the remainder of the season under interim head coach Kim Hughes.
The Los Angeles Clippers won just 29 of 82 games last season and missed the playoffs for the 15th time in 17 years.
A biathlon complex will be built near Rybinsk
A competition was held in Demino for the right to carry out a municipal order for the design of a biathlon complex, which includes a semi-outdoor shooting range with associated infrastructure and a warehouse for storing weapons and ammunition. The authorities of the Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl region have allocated a plot of land near the village of Voksherino for a new sports facility. Designers must complete the work and undergo state examination by October 1 of this year.
Let us remind you that a modern base for training skiers is located in Demino. For several seasons in a row, the World Cup in cross-country skiing has been held there.
Tennis players returned to clay
After the end of the British Open, many of the world's leading tennis players took a break, so second-tier players have a good chance to excel at this week's tournaments. In Swedish Bastad and in the capital of Hungary, girls compete on clay, playing for 220 thousand dollars in these European cities.
In Sweden, Italian Flavia Pennetta is seeded number one, but none of the Russians are entered here. At the top of the tournament bracket in Budapest is the Russian Alisa Kleybanova, who in the opening round beat the Bulgarian Cecile Karatantcheva, competing under the flag of Kazakhstan, 7:5, 6:4. Anna Chakvetadze defeated Maria Koryttseva (Ukraine) at the same stage - 6:2, 6:0. Last night Kleybanova played for the right to reach the quarterfinals with Patti Schnyder (Switzerland), and Chakvetadze competed with Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru.
Men in Newport (USA) extended the season of playing on grass. Here we can note the entry into the second round of the son of the multiple world record holder in pole vaulting, Sergei Bubka Jr., who began qualifying. At the start of the main draw competition, he beat Australian Chris Guccione - 7:6 (7:0), 6:4. The first match after his epic battle at Wimbledon against American John Isner (the fifth game ended with a score of 70:68) was played by the loser of this historical game, Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. He defeated his opponent from Colombia, Alejandro Falla - 6:3, 1:6, 6:3.
Russians entered the fight for the Yeltsin Cup
A traditional, already eighth international tournament with the participation of women's national volleyball teams for the Cup of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, is taking place in Yekaterinburg. Yesterday, the Russian team, led by head coach Vladimir Kuzyutkin, entered the fight directly for the trophy and defeated rivals from Belarus, playing under the leadership of the mentor of our Uralochka, the legendary Nikolai Karpol, - 3:0 (25:15, 25:19, 25: 12).
At the preliminary stage, the teams are divided into two groups, but to make the tournament calendar more eventful, each participant is scheduled to have one friendly match with an opponent from another group. The Russians held their sparring on the opening day of the Yeltsin Cup and prevailed over China in five games - 3:2 (13:25, 25:22, 19:25, 25:17, 15:13). 2006 world champions Maria Borisenko and Ekaterina Gamova entered the court only in the first set. In our group “A” Italy prevailed over Belarus - 3:1 (25:20, 22:25, 26:24, 27:25).
In Group B, Holland was at first stronger than Germany - 3:1 (23:25, 29:27, 25:10, 25:21), and on the second day of the competition the volleyball players from the Land of Tulips lost to the Chinese - 2:3 ( 12:25, 25:22, 15:25, 25:23, 15:17).