Ovchinnikov suspended for five matches

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The Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union yesterday decided to disqualify Dynamo Moscow goalkeeper Sergei Ovchinnikov for five matches and conditionally until the end of the season.

On July 25, in the match “Moscow” - “Dynamo”, Ovchinnikov, dissatisfied with the award of a corner kick, began to sharply challenge the decision of referee Igor Zakharov. Having received a yellow card for unsportsmanlike behavior, the goalkeeper began to express his dissatisfaction in an even more rude manner and even grabbed the referee by the chest, using obscene language. Zakharov sent Ovchinnikov off the field. Realizing his guilt, the Dynamo goalkeeper after the match apologized to the referee and his team, whom he had unwittingly let down, and in the following days he contacted a number of media outlets with a request to make his repentance public.

The contract with the NHL will not be signed

The President of the Russian Hockey Federation, Vladislav Tretyak, said that Russia will never join the agreement of the other leading European countries in this sport with the North American National Hockey League. This agreement regulates compensation for the transfer of players from Old World clubs to the NHL. Tretyak said that during his negotiations with the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the NHL, he was unable to fully defend the interests of Russian clubs. But Tretyak called our country’s accession to the IIHF-Europe-NHL agreement one of his programmatic theses after the spring elections to the post of head of the FHR.

The absence of an agreement with the NHL threatens our clubs with the fact that if a player moves to an overseas league, the issue of compensation will either not be considered at all or will entail long litigation. NHL teams, for their part, may not release Russian players to the World Championships in Moscow in May. Vladimir ILYIN

Our basketball players lost to Lithuania

The Russian men's basketball team lost to the Lithuanian team in the final match of the Federation Super Cup in Vilnius - 61:77. The trophy went to the hosts of the tournament, with the Israelis in second place, beating Senegal 80:68. Our team, which eventually took third place in the table, made an unreasonable bet on three-point shots. Sergei Monya and Viktor Khryapa between them made 13 attempts to shoot at the Lithuanians’ ring from behind a six-meter arc, but the ball hit the target only three times. Ilya TRISVIATSKY

CSKA will go to Ruzomberok

All participants in the third qualifying round of the Champions League are known, the winners of which advance to the group stage. The upcoming opponent of the best team in Russia, CSKA, was determined based on the results of the return match between Ruzomberok (Slovakia) and Djurgården (Sweden). The hosts, who lost away a week ago with a score of 0:1, decided to advance to the next round only two minutes before the end of the rematch.

Already by the 18th minute, the Slovak club took the lead with a difference that suited it - 2:0. In the middle of the second half, Djurgården were left in the minority due to a sending off. However, a quarter of an hour before the end of the match, the guests scored a goal that made them winners on aggregate. Ružomberok finally achieved their goal: the club’s only foreign forward, Czech Nezmar, scored the third goal shortly before the final whistle.

Ruzomberok became the national champion for the first time last spring. True, the level of the Slovak league is extremely low. The team prefers to make do with home-grown players, inviting several Czechs to join local players. The team started the new national championship in July unsuccessfully, suffering two defeats in three games. The city of Ružomberok, with a population of 30 thousand inhabitants, is better known not for football, but for its famous women's basketball team, a two-time winner of the Euroleague. Ilya TRISVIATSKY

Arkaev and Barsuk fell to the level of “qualifiers”

The best Russian men's pair Roman Arkaev - Dmitry Barsuk failed at the stage of the World Tour of beach volleyball in Klagenfurt (Austria), which is part of the Grand Slam series. Due to their weak performance this season, the Russians are losing points in the technical rankings and for the first time in two years they were forced to start the tournament with qualifications, albeit as the first seed. However, Arkaev and Barsuk immediately lost to the 32nd strongest pair of the qualifying round, Austrians Felix Blauel and Alexander Huber - 22:24, 16:21. Vladimir ILYIN

Chakvetadze upset Petrova

Four Russian women reached the third round of the first category BTA tournament with a prize fund of $1.34 million in San Diego (USA). Maria Sharapova, who made it to the 1/8 finals before the rest of her compatriots, was joined by Vera Zvonareva, Anna Chakvetadze and Elena Dementieva.

The author of the main sensation of the game day was 19-year-old Chakvetadze (pictured) . In the Russian derby, she defeated the third racket of the competition, Nadezhda Petrova - 6:3, 6:7 (5:7), 6:2. Elena Dementyeva easily dealt with American Ashley Harkleroad, who recently married Alexander Bogomolov Jr., the son of a famous former Soviet tennis player, - 6:2, 6:2. Vera Zvonareva turned out to be more resistant to hot weather than her rival Shuai Pen. The Chinese player was unable to advance to the third set due to heatstroke, although the game had been relatively even up to that point. The first game went to the tennis player from the Celestial Empire - 6:3, and in the second game Vera prevailed in the tiebreaker - 7:6 (7:5). Elena Vesnina lost to Finland's Emma Laine in a marathon match - 7:6 (7:1), 6:7 (5:7), 4:6. This meeting lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes. Ilya TRISVIATSKY

"Astana" achieved its first success

The Pro Tour multi-day race on German roads is dominated by cyclists from the countries of the former USSR. The prologue through the streets of Dusseldorf, 5.5 km long, was won by Russian Vladimir Gusev from the American team “Discovery Channel”; in the second stage, 198 km long, a representative of the new “Astana” team, Asan Bazaev, won with a sprint dash at the finish line. This is the first success in the Pro Tour for the Kazakh cycling group, which replaced the Spanish Liberty Seguros, disbanded due to doping scandals. Let us remind you that the leader of Astana is Alexander Vinokurov. Ilya TRISVIATSKY

Vladimir ILYIN