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In Lodzi, a draw of the final tournament of the European 2011 championship was held among women's basketball teams, which will be held from June 18 to July 3 next year in three cities of Poland. The Russian national team at the first group stage will perform in the cattle in quarter “A” and play with Slovakia (June 18), Lithuania (19th) and Turkey (20th). The second round will be released for the three best participants from every four. Next, two new sextots will be formed, where participants in the playoffs begin, starting with the quarterfinals. The matches of the tournament with the release will be held in Lodz.
The composition of the remaining groups of the initial stage: “B” (bydgosh) - Belarus, Czech Republic, Israel, Great Britain; “C” (Katowice) - Spain, Poland, Montenegro, winner of the last stage of qualification; “D” (Katowice) - France, Greece, Latvia, Croatia. In the second round, the six will be formed on the principle of “A” + “B”, “C” + “D”.
Recall that the previous European Championship in 2009 was held in Latvia and the “gold” was won by the France team, which defeated the Russians in the final. The upcoming continental championship is part of the selection for the 2012 Olympics in London (Great Britain). Only the Old World champion will receive a ticket for foggy Albion, four more teams that took 2-5th places will be able to continue the struggle for the Olympic vacancies in the world qualification tournament.
Meanwhile, one of the leading basketball players of the national team Svetlana Abrosimov along with Timothy Mozgov from the male team claims to be the best player in Europe in 2010. Voting is held on the official website of the Continental Department of the International Basketball Federation (Fiba-Europe). In the summer, he moved from the Khimki BC to the New York NIX Club, where in most matches he goes to the site in the starting lineup, Abrosimov in the 2010 season achieved a unique result. Svetlana became the champion of Russia and the owner of the Cup of the country as part of the UMMC (Yekaterinburg), and in the ranks of the American "Seattle" achieved victory in the female NBA. Earlier among Russians, Maria Stepanova (2005, 2006, 2008) and Andrei Kirilenko (2007) were recognized as the best players in Europe.
New record of attendance of hockey matches
NHL. Regular championship. “Columbus”-“Rangers”-3: 1, “Toronto”-“Montreal”-3: 1, “New Jersey”-“Detroit”-1: 4, “Washington”-“Colorado”-2: 3, “Saint-Louis”-“Carolina”-1: 2 (bull.), “Vancouver”-“Tampa-Bay”-4: 5 (from), from). “Los Angeles”-“Minnesota”-2: 3 (from), “Boston”-“Philadelphia”-1: 2 (from), “Buffalo”-“Pittsburgh”-2: 5, “Alenders”-“Atlanta”-4: 5, “Nashville”-“Florida”-3: 0, “Phoenic”-“Dallas”-5: 2, “Dallas”-5: 2, “San Jose”-“Chicago”-2: 1 (from).
Detroit striker Pavel Datsyuk made the most significant contribution to the victory of his team on someone else's ice. The Russian distinguished himself with a clogged washer and two productive transmissions.
The main attention of the North American hockey public on this day was not at all to the NHL matches, but to the game League (NCAA). University teams Michigan and Michigan STATE set a new attendance record in the history of the game - 113,411 spectators gathered at the open -air stadium. The previous world record was set in the opening match of the 2010 Planet Championship in German Gelsenkirchen. The game Bundestim and the American team was then watched by 77,803 fans.
Toronto played a deficit of 25 points
Basketball. NBA. Regular championship. “Clippers” - “Memphis” - 83:84, “Charlotte” - “Boston” - 62:93, “Chicago” - “Minnesota” - 113: 82, “Houston” - “Cleveland” - 110: 95, “Atlanta” - “Indiana” - 97:83, “Detroit” - “Toronto” - 116: 120, 120, 120, 120, 120, 120. “Dallas” - “Utah” - 103: 97, “Sacramento” - “Miami” - 83: 104.
Several teams at once extended their protracted winning series. Having occupied the second place in the tournament table of the Western conference "Dallas" won the 12th victory in a row, the leader in the "East" "Boston" is the tenth, and the strongest club of the Southeast Division "Miami" is the eighth. European Champion 2007 Russian Andrei Kirilenko entered the starting lineup of Utah, spent 22 minutes of pure playing time on the site, but brought his team only six points. It is interesting that all five jazzmen who began the match completed it with negative performance indicators of plus minus, and five basketball players who joined the game from the bench of spare are positive.
Toronto managed to play a 25-ocher deficit that occurred in the third period during the match with Detroit. In the final quarter, the team based in Canada was irresistible - 37:17.
Yuryeva returned after the disqualification
The Russian shooting skier Ekaterina Yuryeva, who has served a two -year disqualification term for the use of the forbidden drug (recombinant erythropoetin), last Saturday came to the first official start. It was the stage of the Cup of the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU) in Italy, on the highway near the town of Martelle. Yuryeva took part in an individual race of 15 km and finished in sixth place with two misses (each is punishable by a penalty of a minute) and a lag of 69 seconds from the winner and compatriot Evgenia Sedova.
Yesterday, Yuryeva performed in the sprint race and here improved her result, taking fifth place with one unraveled target. The representative of Russia won again. This time, Natalya Guseva, the highest step of the podium, rose. She was ahead of Yuryev for 1 min. 42 sec. Recall that the IBU Cup used to be called the European Cup and still has the status of the second echelon of biathlonists. The elite performs in the race of the World Cup.
Yuryeva, before her scandalous disqualification, won nine times at the stages of the World Cup in personal races and three times in the relay. At the 2008 World Cup in Sweden, she won a full set of awards-“gold” in an individual race of 15 km, “silver” in Purit (10 km) and “bronze” in the mass start (12.5 km).
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