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Russian Championship. Premier League. 23rd round. October 20. "Dynamo" - "Spartak" (Nch), "Shinnik" - "Luch-Energia". October 21. "Saturn" - "Rostov", "Amkar" - CSKA. October 22. "Torpedo" - "Spartak" (M), "Moscow" - "Rubin", "Zenit" - "Lokomotiv", "Tom" - "Wings of the Soviets".
In the tournament of the strongest teams of the Old World, CSKA will host English Arsenal on Tuesday, and Spartak will play Inter Milan away on Wednesday. After the qualifying rounds, there were no Russian clubs or teams from other countries of the former USSR left in the UEFA Cup.
"FORMULA-1". October 22. Brazilian Grand Prix. Sao Paulo.
The last stage of the World Championship will take place at the Interlagos circuit. In order to defend the title he won last year, Spaniard Fernando Alonso needs to meet one of two conditions. Firstly, he finishes in the points zone, that is, he takes a place no lower than eighth, secondly, his main competitor Michael Schumacher does not become the winner of the race.
BASKETBALL. October 16-19 and 21. Super League. Men. October 16--22. Super League. Women .
In the men's super league, the strongest team in Europe, CSKA, will complete its eastern tour. On Tuesday, head coach Ettore Messina’s players, after flying from Vladivostok, will play in Surgut with the local “University”, and the very next day they will hold a meeting in Novosibirsk with the railway workers. The red-blues' first home match in the Russian championship is scheduled for Saturday. The army team's opponent will be Dynamo near Moscow.
Today the matches are UMMC (Ekaterinburg) - Dynamo-Energia (Novosibirsk), Dynamo (Kursk) - Baltic Star (St. Petersburg), Dynamo (Moscow region) - Shelen-ETK (Krasnoyarsk) and NUR (Kazan) - CSKA (Samara) starts the championship of the women's super league. In total, a dozen clubs are participating, fighting for eight spots in the playoffs. Here are the main acquisitions of the main contenders for gold. The center of the Russian national team Ekaterina Lisina (from the Hungarian Pecs) and the Greek point guard Anastasia Kostaki, who has experience playing in the WNBA club Houston Comets, came to the camp of the current champion CSKA (formerly VBM-SSAU). The silver medalist UMMC (Ekaterinburg) has a new head coach - Czech Milan Veverka. The 2002 NBA champion, American Nikki Teasley, who last year played in Europe for the Hungarian Sopron, arrived in the Urals. Plus, the 2005 European vice-champion, center Marina Kuzina, replaced Nadezhda Orenburg for a more titled club. Her colleague in the role, three-time participant in the All-Star Game of the overseas league, Cheryl Ford, also preferred Yekaterinburg. And finally, another American, Adia Barnes, changed the uniform of the Turkish Mersin to the UMMC club colors. The ranks of Spartak near Moscow, which moved from Khimki to Vidnoye, were replenished by the head coach of the Slovak Natalya Heikova, Svetlana Abrosimova (from VBM-SSAU), Serbian Ivanka Matic, Pole Agnieszka Bibrzycka and 34-year-old veteran Olga Panteleeva, who also played for the USSR junior national teams.
SPORTS GYMNASTICS. October 16--21. World Championship. Aarhus (Denmark).
14 sets of awards are up for grabs - in individual and team championships for men and women, in competitions on individual apparatus (six for the stronger sex and four for girls). Even before the start of the championship, the International Gymnastics Federation named 31-year-old Oksana Chusovitina, who was defending the colors of the German national team for the first time, one of the heroines of the tournament. For the modern realities of this sport, performances at this age are a real phenomenon. Moreover, Chusovitina is by no means an extra - last year, under the flag of Uzbekistan at the world championship in Melbourne (Australia), she won silver in the vault.
The Russian national team will perform in the following composition: Alexey Bondarenko, Maxim Devyatovsky, Dmitry Gogotov, Sergei Khorokhordin, Nikolai Kryukov, Yuri Ryazanov, Alexander Safoshkin, Anna Grudko, Yulia Lozhechko, Svetlana Klyukina, Polina Miller, Anna Pavlova, Kristina Pravdina and the most titled in the team Sydney Olympic champion Elena Zamolodchikova. Let us recall that a year ago our gymnasts on the Green Continent were content with only one medal - Safoshkin’s “silver” on the rings.
Finals schedule: October 17 - teams (men), 18th - teams (women), 19th - all-around (men's, women's), 20th - floor exercise, pommel horse, rings (m. ), vault, bars (w.), 21st - vault, bars, crossbar (m.), beam and floor (w.). Among the competition participants there are absolutely miniature girls: Ukrainian Olga Shcherbatykh weighs only 29 kg, and Puerto Rican Leisha Lopez is 125 cm tall.
TENNIS. WTA tournament (women). Zurich (Switzerland). ATP tournament (men). Madrid (Spain).
The strongest female tennis players in the world, after the Moscow tournament of the first category, go to competitions of the same rank in Switzerland. Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy and Alicia Molik from Australia received the Wild Card. Among the Russians, Maria Sharapova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Elena Dementieva, Dinara Safina, Anastasia Myskina and Maria Kirilenko have been previously announced. Last season, American Lindsay Davenport beat home court Patty Schneider in the final match here. A year earlier, Sharapova competed in the decisive match, but failed to cope with Molik. The men will compete for the title at the penultimate Masters tournament of the season. Synthetic greenset turf was installed in Madrid.
BOXING. October 16--21. Team World Cup. Baku (Azerbaijan).
Teams from Russia, the USA, Thailand, Africa, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Cuba are participating. At the preliminary stage, the participants are divided into two fours, the winners of the quartets meet in the final.
HOCKEY. October 17, 19, 21 and 22. Super League.
The main match of the week will take place on Tuesday. The current champion and leader of the current tournament, Ak Bars, hosts the finalist of the previous championship, Omsk Avangard, in Kazan. On this day, Dynamo will play with Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, and will miss the next round on the calendar and will be able to gain strength before the ultra-long flight to Sunday's match against Khabarovsk Amur.
SNOWBOARD. October 21-22. World Cup stage. Solden (Austria). Parallel giant slalom .
SHORT TRACK. October 20--22. World Cup stage. Changchun (China).