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Bird flu is no problem for oil workers
Chronicle of sporting events
Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. Semi-final. “Edmonton” – “Anaheim” – 5:4 (series score 3:0) – Samsonov “E” (0+2).Edmonton is one step away from reaching the Stanley Cup finals. To win the Western Conference finals, the Oilers only need to win one match against Anaheim. It's an easy task considering the Mighty Ducks haven't won on the road against Edmonton in over seven years.
The last match of the Western Conference finalists went like a swing. Most of the home team was struck by a certain virus, which, given the fact that Edmonton was meeting with the Ducks, was dubbed “bird flu”. Some of the Oilers' players, including Russian Samsonov, did not even show up for the morning skate. However, Edmonton played most of the match very quickly, and the score at the beginning of the third period was already 4:0 in favor of the hosts. Anaheim goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov (pictured) , who was considered the most reliable goalkeeper in this Stanley Cup, has never allowed so many goals in a row in the playoffs.
And only here the consequences of the “flu” began to show. Edmonton conceded three goals in four minutes. However, the Oilers again managed to increase their advantage to two goals, but Anaheim again reduced the gap to a minimum, and then, having removed the goalkeeper, missed the opportunity to send the game into overtime. Andrey VDOVIN
Our chess players are leading at the World Olympiad
At the 37th World Chess Olympiad in Turin, after three rounds, the Russian men's team is in the lead with 10.5 points, ahead of the teams of China and Uzbekistan in additional indicators (sum of opponents' points). In the second round, our team, through the efforts of Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeniy Bareev and Sergei Rublevsky, defeated Latvia (4:0), for which our former compatriot Evgeniy Sveshnikov plays. In the third round, Vladimir Kramnik played for Russia for the first time in the tournament on the first board. He defeated the German representative Arkady Naiditsch, and Bareev defeated Christopher Lutz. Morozevich drew with ex-Muscovite Artur Yusupov, and only Rublevsky suffered a defeat, unable to cope with Alexander Graf. As a result, it was 2.5:1.5 in favor of the wards of head coach Sergei Dolmatov. In the women's competition, Lithuania took the lead with 9 points. Before the fourth round, China and Russia were half a point behind, having beaten Polish chess players on the third day of competition - 3:0. Vladimir ILYIN
Grudin recruited a player from the Hungarian championship
The Russian Basketball Federation (RFB) has announced a plan for preparing the country's women's team for the World Championships in Brazil, which will be held on September 12-23.
The national team, led by Igor Grudin, will hold four training camps. From June 15 to 28, the girls will train at the base in Novogorsk, July 13-28 - in Italy, August 2-14 - in Spain and August 16-29 - again in the Moscow region. Our team's schedule includes participation in several international tournaments. In China, the rivals on June 30-July 2 (Shanghai) and July 5-7 (Beijing) will be the hosts, Australia and the current champion of the Old World, the Czech Republic. In Spain, on August 11-13, the girls will compete with the local team, Poland and Lithuania, and on August 30-September 2 they will play with Australia and the Czech Republic on the site of their opponents in the Euro 2005 final. There are also separate sparrings in the training program - July 26-27 with Italy in Bologna and August 18-19 with France in Novogorsk. For optimal adaptation, our girls will go to Brazil six days before the start of the World Cup, on September 6.
According to the general manager of the national team, Mikhail Lokshin, Grudin also came to the attention of the 18-year-old center of the Hungarian club Pecs, Ekaterina Lisina (height 198 cm), almost unknown to Russian fans. She comes from Penza and has not previously played in any of our reserve teams. Basketball players who have contracts with clubs in foreign summer leagues are excluded from the team's training. These are NBA players Svetlana Abrosimova (Minnesota), Irina Osipova (Detroit), plus Maria Stepanova and Oksana Zakalyuzhnaya from the South Korean championship. If Stepanova is almost a 100% candidate for the national team, then the issue of attracting the remaining three girls to the national team is supposed to be considered immediately before the world forum - depending on when they are released from their clubs and in what form they will be. Ilya TRISVIATSKY
Toronto will be the first to pick
Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. Semi-final. “Detroit” – “Miami” – 86:91 (series score 0:1).
Miami managed to inflict a guest defeat on the reigning Eastern Conference champion. At the same time, the draft lottery was held in New Jersey. The winner was Toronto. The Raptors only had an 8.8% chance of landing the first pick in the draft, but luck was on their side. The second choice will be Chicago, which exchanged this right from New York last year. Third - "Charlotte". The worst team of the regular season, Portland, only finished fourth. Andrey VDOVIN
Alexey Paramonov will be awarded the FIFA Order
The famous Soviet football player, Olympic champion in 1956, member of the USSR national team, Spartak player Alexei Paramonov will be awarded the FIFA Order. The award ceremony will take place next week in Munich at the FIFA Congress. The FIFA Golden Order, which is awarded for special merits in the development of world football, was established in 1984. Among representatives of the USSR and Russia, eight people were awarded this award. Among them are football players Lev Yashin, Nikita Simonyan, Valery Lobanovsky, Nikolay Latyshev, Konstantin Beskov, as well as Chairman of the USSR Sports Committee Marat Gramov, Honorary President of the ROC Vitaly Smirnov and ex-President of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskov. Olga ERMOLINA