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Kirilenko is injured again
Gretzky interrupted his coaching career
Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Carolina" -- "New Jersey" -- 4:1 - - Suglobov "ND" (1+0), "Buffalo" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 4:3 - - Afinogenov "B" (1+2 ), Gonchar "P" (0+1), "Atlanta" -- "Florida" -- 2:1 -- Kovalchuk "A" (1+0), "Islanders" -- "Colorado" -- 5:4 - - Yashin "A" (0+1), "Ottawa" -- "Toronto" -- 8:2, "Tampa" -- "Detroit" -- 3:6 - - Datsyuk "D" (2+1) , “St. Louis” – “Philadelphia” – 2:5, “Nashville” – “Columbus” – 7:3, “Minnesota” – “Montreal” – 4:3 (OT), “Calgary” " -- "Boston" -- 3:0, "Vancouver" -- "Edmonton" -- 4:5 (OT) -- Ulanov (0+1), "Los Angeles" -- "Phoenix" -- 4 :1.
Wayne Gretzky's coaching career was cut short. The Phoenix coach left the team and urgently left for his native Ontario, as stated in the official press release, for family reasons. As it later turned out, Wayne Gretzky went to live with his mother Phyllis Gretzky, who is sick with cancer. However, it is unknown whether he will return to the club and whether he will continue to serve as executive director of the Canadian national team.
Another NHL legend Mario Lemieux is also not doing well. The owner and player of the Pittsburgh Penguins was forced to miss another game due to heart problems. This is not the first time this season that doctors have prohibited Lemieux from entering the court due to cardiac problems, and two weeks ago he was even admitted to the hospital for a short period of time. Andrey VDOVIN
Aronian won the World Chess Cup
The winner of the 2005 World Chess Cup, which ended in Khanty-Mansiysk, was the Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian. In the final, Aronian prevailed over the Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomarev. The first two classical games of the final match ended in a draw, and in rapid chess the Armenian representative was stronger. As a result, the World Cup, and with it a cash prize of $100 thousand, went to Aronian. Frenchman Etienne Bacrot took third place in the tournament, defeating Russian Alexander Grischuk in a tiebreaker. Let us recall that following the results of the World Cup, ten chess players were identified who received the right to take part in the qualifying round of the 2007 World Championship: Aronian (Armenia), Ponomarev (Ukraine), Bacrot (France), Grischuk (Russia), Bareev (Russia), Gelfand (Israel), Rublevsky (Russia), Gurevich (Belgium), Kamsky (USA), Carlsen (Norway). Konstantin IVANOV
German biathletes dominated in Slovakia
Russian shooting skiers did not win a single award based on the results of the sprint and pursuit races at the third stage of the World Cup in Osrbly (Slovakia). Yesterday in the women's pursit, after the fourth shooting range, the triumphant individual race Svetlana Ishmuratova was third, ahead of the German Ursula Diesl by 11 seconds. However, on the last two-kilometer lap, the Russian woman lost her advantage - her opponent from Germany, thanks to her speed, not only caught up with the biathlete from Chelyabinsk, but also broke away from her by seven seconds. The victory, as in the sprint the day before, was celebrated by the Swede Anna-Karin Olofsson, who switched to this sport from cross-country skiing only three seasons ago. German Kati Wilhelm made a silver double, and Ukrainian Liliya Efremova’s third place in the sprint was a sensation. Ishmuratova remained fourth in both cases.
Among the men, in the absence of the main part of the Norwegian team, who missed the Slovak stage due to preparations for the Winter Olympics in high altitude conditions, German biathletes achieved unique success. Alas, after Maxim Chudov’s “silver” in the individual race, at the next two starts the Russians were unable to compete with the German team. Following the results of the sprint, Alexander Wolf, Michael Rech and Sven Fischer were located behind each other in the finishing protocol. Another German, Mikael Grace, took fourth place.
Before the pursuit race, the handicap of the German four was not very large - the Norwegian Svendsen started fifth by 23 seconds. later Wolf, however, in terms of distance, changes occurred only within the German quartet. The compatriots unanimously lost to the legendary Fischer on the longer route. The winner was ahead of Wolf by half a minute, and he, in turn, was separated from the bronze medalist Rech by only 0.1 seconds. Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen lost his lead in the overall World Cup standings - Wolf took the lead with 220 points. Ilya TRISVIATSKY
Our handball players regained the title of world champions
In the final match of the World Women's Handball Championship, the Russian team confidently beat their rivals from Romania - 28:23. Head coach Evgeniy Trefilov's wards regained the title of the strongest national team on the planet, won four years ago in Italy.
The hosts of the tournament went through it without a single defeat in nine matches, winning five victories at the preliminary stage, three more at the second group stage, and in the semi-finals they defeated the Danes, the founders of this sport, 30:24. In the opening of the decisive match, the Romanians were in the lead - 2:0, but then the advantage of the hosts, who quickly restored the status quo, was beyond doubt. Bronze medals went to Hungary, which defeated the Danes yesterday - 27:24. Ilya TRISVIATSKY