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Basketball. NBA. Regular season . Indiana - Utah - 100:112, Milwaukee - New York - 112:120, San Antonio - Charlotte - 100:86, Sacramento - - Oklahoma City - 98:99, Phoenix - Dallas - 117:122, Clippers - Cleveland - 83:87.
Perhaps the most intriguing game played on Tuesday night was Cleveland's meeting with the Los Angeles Clippers. Cleveland, which was the first to secure a spot in the playoffs early, almost lost to one of the weakest teams in the association. Only in the last quarter, before which Cleveland trailed the hosts by 17 points, did LeBron James manage to turn the tide of the match. The best sniper of the NBA regular season earned ten points in the final period of the game, and seven seconds before the siren, Mo Williams scored a three-pointer, putting the winning point in the game - 87:83.
In total, during the match, LeBron James scored 32 points and made 13 rebounds and 11 assists. In addition to his 22nd career triple-double, James also recorded his 800th steal. Thanks to the play of its leader, Cleveland strengthened its leadership in the Eastern Conference.
Utah won its 12th straight win over Indiana. Thus, the Jazzmen came close to the club record of 12 years ago, when they did not lose for 15 matches in a row. Russian Andrei Kirilenko spent 20 minutes on the court, scored nine points, made three rebounds and one blocked shot.
Washington breaks its losing streak
Hockey. NHL. Regular season . “New Jersey” – “Calgary” – 3:2, “Philadelphia” – “Buffalo” – 5:2 – Afinogenov “B” (1+0), “Columbus” – “Boston” - - 2:0, "Toronto" -- "Islanders" -- 3:2 OT, "Montreal" -- "Edmonton" -- 4:3 OT -- Grebeshkov "E" (0+1), Markov "M" (0+1), “Pittsburgh” — “Florida” — 4:3 B — Malkin “P” (1+0), “Detroit” — “Phoenix” — 3:2 OT — Datsyuk “ D" (0+1), "Nashville" -- "Washington" -- 1:2 OT -- Ovechkin "W" (0+1), Vic. Kozlov "V" (0+2), Fedorov "V" (1+0), Semin "V" (0+1), "Minnesota" -- "San Jose" -- 4:5 OT, "St. Louis" -- "Dallas" -- 5:2, "Colorado" -- "Atlanta" -- 0:3 -- Kovalchuk "A" (0+2), Vyach. Kozlov “A” (0+1).
Washington hockey players broke a streak of four defeats in a row in the NHL regular season. They beat Nashville on the road in overtime. Russian legionnaires made a significant contribution to the victory. Sergei Fedorov scored the winning goal, and Alexander Ovechkin, Viktor Kozlov and Alexander Semin scored assists. At 50 sec. The hosts opened the scoring in the match, but then only the guests scored. At the end of the second period, Ovechkin and Kozlov brought Backstrom into the striking position, who could only beat the goalkeeper. The victory for Washington was brought by a purely “Russian” puck at the very beginning of overtime.
Our skaters have been replaced
On Wednesday, the Russian figure skating team flew to Detroit, America, where they will hold their final training camp before the World Championships starting on March 23 in Los Angeles. On the eve of the team's departure, a replacement was made in its composition. Instead of the third Russian pair of world junior championship winners Lyubov Ilyushechkina and Nodari Maisuradze, Ksenia Ozerova and Alexander Enbert were included in the team. “We decided not to compete at the World Championships in Los Angeles due to Nodari’s injury,” the All Sport agency quoted Ilyushechkina as saying. - We are not authorized to give any further comments on this issue. It's a shame it happened this way. We still wanted to finish the job. But even without this, I think the main task for this season has been completed. Victory at the junior world championship – you couldn’t wish for a better end to the season.”
At the moment, the necessary documents to obtain an American visa are being urgently processed for Ozerova and Enbert. They will most likely fly to the US on March 21st. Thus, in pair skating, Russia will be represented at the world championship by three duets: Yuko Kawaguchi - Alexander Smirnov, Maria Mukhortova - Maxim Trankov, Ksenia Ozerova and Alexander Enbert.
Plushenko will resign as deputy
In the near future, Olympic champion in figure skating Evgeni Plushenko will resign as a deputy of the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg. This was announced by the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. According to Mironov, a fundamental decision on this issue has already been made. “We need Plushenko in Moscow. Evgeniy will work on the sports council,” Interfax quotes Mironov.
Evgeni Plushenko recently headed the created sports council as part of the A Just Russia party, which will be involved in preparations for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. The skater himself intends to return to the sport and has begun preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games.
Svendsen will miss the Canadian round
Three-time world champion Norwegian Emil Svendsen will not compete at the seventh stage of the World Cup in Vancouver, Canada due to a cold. For the same reason, the 23-year-old biathlete missed three races of the World Championships in Pyeongchang, Korea. Most likely, Svendsen will start at the home World Cup in Trondheim on March 19.
Russian Maxim Chudov, whose participation in the individual race at the seventh stage of the World Cup in Vancouver, Canada was in doubt due to illness, will still take the race. The first of our athletes will be Maxim Maximov in number 12, Ivan Tcherezov in 31st, the recovered Chudov in 42nd, and Evgeniy Ustyugov, Andrey Makoveev and Artem Gusev are announced in numbers 53, 66 and 82 numbers accordingly.
Russia moved up to eighth place in the FIFA rankings
On Wednesday, the updated FIFA ranking was published, which is headed by the Spanish national team - 1666 points. The German team is in second position with 1366. The Netherlands closes the top three with 1317.
The Russians moved up from ninth to eighth position with 1,128 points, beating the England team, which had 1,083 points. Italy (1284), Brazil (1260), Argentina (1219), Croatia (1169) are respectively in 4th-7th positions.