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Gagne organized the defeat of Atlanta
Gagne organized the defeat of AtlantaHockey. NHL. Regular season . “Washington” - “Nashville” - 4:3 B - Viktor Kozlov “V” (1+0), Semin “V” (1+1), Sergei Fedorov “V” (0+1), “Atlanta” » -- Philadelphia -- 0:7, Toronto -- Tampa Bay -- 2:3, Montreal -- Carolina -- 3:2 B -- Kovalev "M" (1 +0), Babchuk “K” (1+0), “Calgary” – “Colorado” – 3:0, “Vancouver” – “Boston” – 0:1, “San Jose” – “ Pittsburgh" -- 2:1 -- Malkin "P" (0+1).
Based on the results of the playing day, a symbolic trio of hockey players who particularly distinguished themselves in the matches was determined. Boston goalkeeper Tim Thomas is recognized as the best. Thomas did not allow the Vancouver hockey players (1:0) to open their net, repelling 31 shots.
The second star was Philadelphia left winger Simon Gagne. The Canadian forward scored 4 (2+2) points in the match against Ilya Kovalchuk’s Atlanta. Calgary goalkeeper Mika Kiprusoff is in third position. He repelled 22 shots from Colorado players (3:0) and kept his goal intact, the league’s official website reports.
Tursunov withdrew from the tournament in Paris
Russian Dmitry Tursunov, following Marat Safin and Mikhail Youzhny, leaves the tennis tournament in Paris. In the second round match, with the score 2:6, 3:4 in favor of his Serbian opponent Novak Djokovic, the Russian refused to continue the match due to a shoulder injury. In turn, Djokovic admitted after the game that he was far from in the best condition. According to him, at the moment he is experiencing great difficulties on the court, however, he is trying to fight for every ball in order to gain optimal physical shape.
One of the contenders for a trip to Shanghai, American Andy Roddick, defeated Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in the second round of the tournament - 6:3, 6:4. Roddick refused to talk about the final championship in China, citing the fact that he had not qualified there yet.
In parallel with the men's Masters, a women's tournament is taking place this week in Quebec, Canada. In the opening match, Nadezhda Petrova defeated her compatriot Maria Mokh - 6:1, 6:2 and in the next round she will meet with American Varvara Lepchenko. Former Russian Galina Voskoboeva, now competing for Kazakhstan, also advanced to the second round of the competition. She turned out to be stronger than Swede Sofia Arvidsson - 6:3, 6:2.
Meanwhile, the new tennis calendar has been harshly criticized by Russian coaches. Thus, Mikhail Youzhny’s mentor Boris Sobkin believes that the new system is more suitable for those players who successfully perform at Grand Slam and Masters tournaments. For all those who score points in other competitions, it will be very difficult to catch up with the leaders. According to him, the new scoring system will lose balance. This means that it will be almost impossible for athletes from the “bottom” who participate in competitions like futures to get to the top.
17th championship banner raised in Boston
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Lakers” – “Portland” – 96:76, “Chicago” – “Milwaukee” – 108:95, “Boston” – “Cleveland” – 90:85.
The match between the reigning NBA champion Boston, which hosted Cleveland, began with a solemn ceremony for presenting championship rings to the Celts. This year they are made of 14-karat white gold, on the front side there is a trefoil (the Irish symbol of “Boston”), which is made up of three hearts of 8 mm emeralds and a trefoil stem of three emeralds. The trefoil itself is surrounded by 64 diamonds, and the surrounding rim has more than 20 diamonds. On one side of the ring is engraved the inscription Banner 17, reminiscent of Boston's 17th championship, and on the other is the inscription Ubuntu, which roughly translates from Zulu to "a person is a person only with the support of other people." It was this phrase that Boston head coach Doc Rivers called the team mantra. On the inside is the name of Red Auerbach, the “patriarch” of Boston.
After this, the champion banner was raised under the arena arches. Almost 20 thousand spectators watched what was happening, and the players of the most titled NBA team lived up to their expectations. Boston won the first match of the season.
In other games of the day, Portland rookie Greg Oden failed to finish the championship game against the Lakers (76-96), Ticker reports. The center left the floor in the third quarter, having previously played almost 13 minutes, during which he made five rebounds, one blocked shot, earned two fouls and did not score a single point. Oden was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 draft but missed all of last season with a right knee injury.
Pechenkina plans to resume performances
World record holder in the 400m hurdles and vice-world champion Yulia Pechenkina plans to resume her performances in the summer. The athlete missed the Olympic Games in Beijing due to health problems. According to her personal coach and mentor of the Russian national athletics team, Valentin Maslakov, his ward has completed courses of treatment and rehabilitation and intends to take part in the world championship in Berlin in the summer. There is enough time for preparation to get into optimal shape. The coach also added that Pechenkina expects to continue her performances and, possibly, will prepare for the next Olympics in London.
Koloskov will lose his posts in UEFA and FIFA
President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko said yesterday that he would not recommend the former head of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskov as a member of the UEFA and FIFA executive committees. Koloskov's term in office at the International Football Federation and the European Football Union expires early next year. And according to the regulations, it is the national federation that must nominate him. “As long as I remain president of the RFU, and I, as I already explained, have no intention of leaving, I will under no circumstances recommend him to the executive committees of UEFA and FIFA,” Vitaly Mutko said yesterday. “It is within my authority as president of the RFU to recommend representatives of Russia to the elected bodies of the European Union and the international federation.”