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Подготовили Ольга ЕРМОЛИНА; Илья ТРИСВЯТСКИЙ
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The head coach of the current world champion volleyball team of Brazil, Bernardinho, included in the preliminary application for participation in the 2010 World League the Olympic champion of Athens, setter Ricardo, who has been excommunicated from the national team for the last two and a half years.
Ricardo, who now represents the Italian Sisley, was for many years the main setter of the Brazilian national team and was one of the main stars of world volleyball. With Ricardo, the South Americans won many titles, but after success at the 2007 World League, where the volleyball player was named MVP, he unexpectedly lost his place on the team. The reason turned out to be a serious conflict with Bernardinho, but the details of the disagreement never became public. Many accused the coach of creating a most favored nation regime for his son Bruninho, who plays in the same role as Ricardo. After the defeat of the Brazilians at the Beijing Olympics, the coach began to be criticized even more, and it is quite natural that in the year of the World Cup he is forced to forget about personal feuds. With Ricardo in the lineup, the team's potential is much higher.
Kovalchuk scored in the match with Columbus
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. “New Jersey” – “Columbus” – 6:3 – Kovalchuk “ND” (1+3) , “Toronto” – “Florida” – 1:4, “Atlanta” – “Boston” - - 0:4, "Ottawa" - "Philadelphia" - 2:0, "Tampa Bay" - "Carolina" - 3:2 - Samsonov "K" (0+1) , "Minnesota" - “San Jose” – 1:4, “Nashville” – “Dallas” – 1:3, “Chicago” – “Phoenix” – 2:0, “Calgary” – “Anaheim” – 3 :1, “Edmonton” – “Vancouver” – 3:2.
Phoenix goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 30 shots on goal in the match with Chicago. San Jose goalkeeper Evgeniy Nabokov saved his team 18 times in the match with Minnesota.
Kidd celebrated his birthday victoriously
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. Washington -- Charlotte -- 86:95 OT, Detroit -- Indiana -- 83:98, New York -- Denver -- 109:104, Dallas -- “Clippers” – 106:96.
Dallas' home victory over the Clippers was a gift for team leader Jason Kidd's 37th birthday. However, luck almost ran out for the hosts when, nine minutes before the end of the third quarter, one of the Mavericks’ key players, Dirk Nowitzki, was sent off the court for arguing with the referee. After that, the team's 16-point lead turned into a four-point deficit. The situation was saved by the birthday boy Kidd, who scored 26 points in the match, which became his best figure of the season.
In the match between Washington and Charlotte, capital team forward Andrew Blatch was benched for the rest of the match after he refused to listen to coach Flipp Saunders. The mentor intended to discuss defensive play with his mentee, but he avoided the conversation. “I warned him that if he didn’t want to talk, he wouldn’t come out on the floor,” Saunders said indignantly. -- The team coaches approached him three times, after which they said that he refused to play. This is the first time in 15 years that I have seen this. A player can be angry with me, but you can’t abandon your teammates when the team has lost 11 matches in a row.”
Tennis players moved to Miami
After the tournament in Indian Wells, the tennis players moved to the east coast of the United States, to Miami. This is the second tournament of the season in the Masters 1000 series for men and the Premier category for women. The first seeds are the Swiss Roger Federer and the Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova, who failed in the opening match of the tournament in Indian Wells. Among the participants in the men's competition are two Russians - Mikhail Yuzhny and Igor Andreev. Nikolai Davydenko, who withdrew from the previous tournament in California, will miss the current one due to injury.
For women, Kuznetsova will be accompanied by a whole group of Russians: Nadezhda Petrova, Elena Dementyeva, Elena Vesnina, Vera Zvonareva, Maria Kirilenko, Vera Dushevina, Alisa Kleybanova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Anna Chakvetadze, Ekaterina Makarova, Alla Kudryavtseva, Regina Kulikova, Anastasia Pivovarova.
Federation elections will take place in April
The reporting and election conference of the Russian Luge Federation will take place on April 25 in Perm. One of the main topics on the agenda will be the election of the head of the organization. Last week, Federation President Valery Silakov announced his resignation. However, his decision was not supported by the athletes.
According to multiple Olympic medalist Albert Demchenko, Silakov’s resignation is not related to the athletes’ poor results at the Games in Vancouver and he was forced to take this step. Our leading luger called everything that is happening in the federation “a raider takeover.” “We were not ready to resign because a few days before we discussed the plan for the next season. Candidates for trainers who will come to work in the summer were being studied. And suddenly such an unexpected decision,” Demchenko said. - The situation is such that people who want to head the Russian Luge Federation have completely different interests. They think that even more funding will be allocated for Sochi and it will be possible to begin to regulate cash flows.”
The leaders of the Russian Luge Federation planned to postpone the date of the conference to a later date in order to prepare for the congress of the International Luge Federation, which will be held on June 15-21 in Sochi. However, this was contrary to the organization's charter, since the previous elections took place in April four years ago.
A reporting and election conference of the Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Federation of Russia is also scheduled for the end of April. The president of this organization, Vladimir Slavsky, said that he would not stand for a new term.