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Kuban fired Yakovenko
Chronicle of sporting events
The first coaching resignation has occurred in the Russian football Premier League. The now former coach of Krasnodar “Kuban” Pavel Yakovenko has been relieved of his position. In the first five rounds, his players earned only three points without winning a single victory. The team is now in last, 16th place. Yakovenko was replaced in Kuban by Leonid Nazarenko, who last season headed Dynamo Makhachkala. Previously, Nazarenko already worked in the Krasnodar club (1993-1995, 2004).Grigorieva won the Boston Marathon
Russian athlete Lidiya Grigorieva became the winner of the traditionally prestigious Boston Marathon. This race has been taking place in Boston for 111 years, but it has been a long time since athletes have had to compete in such difficult weather conditions. Throughout the classic 42.2 km, runners had to contend not only with the challenging distance, but also with cold and rain. As a result, the lowest results were shown in the last thirty years.
In this weather, Kenyan athletes, who have won in Boston for the last eight years, were unable to organize a worthy resistance. As a result, Lidiya Grigorieva broke away from her rivals three kilometers before the finish, and Elena Prokopchuk from Latvia and Mexican Madai Mendez, who were pursuing her, were unable to maintain the pace set by the Russian woman. The result of Grigorieva, who already had victories in the marathon in Los Angeles (2006) and Paris (2005), in Boston was 2:29.18. The first among men was Kenyan Robert Cheryot (2:14.13).
This Boston Marathon will go down in history because American astronaut Sunita Williams ran it in space at the same time as the athletes on Earth. She covered the classic 42.2 km on a simulator on board the ISS. It took her almost four and a half hours, and during this time Williams managed to make three orbits around the planet. Konstantin IVANOV
Kirilenko is back in the game
Basketball. NBA. Regular season . “Miami” – “Boston” – 89:91, “New York” – “New Jersey” – 95:104, “Memphis” – “San Antonio” – 101:91, “Milwaukee” » -- Atlanta -- 102:96, Houston -- Phoenix -- 120:117, Denver -- Minnesota -- 122:107, Utah -- Portland -- 130:93 -- Kirilenko (2 points + 5 blocked shots + 4 rebounds + 4 assists), Sacramento -- New Orleans -- 118:125.
Utah's Russian legionnaire Andrei Kirilenko returned to the court after missing the Jazzmen's five previous matches due to an injury to his left thumb. However, the Russian did not manage to show off his performance in his club’s crushing victory over Portland - in the 23 minutes that Kirilenko spent in the game, he shot only three times and managed to score two points.
The victory over Portland prevented Utah from gaining home-court advantage in the first-round series of the playoffs. As you know, there the Jazzmen will meet with Houston, which, in turn, beat Phoenix and secured a strategic advantage in the elimination matches with Utah. Andrey VDOVIN
Ronaldinho is the richest footballer
France Football published the salaries of football players and fees for coaches. The highest paid player, according to an authoritative French magazine, was Barcelona midfielder Ronaldinho, whose contract is estimated at 24 million euros per year. If the leader of the Brazilian national team decides to move to Milan this summer, his salary will increase, and he will be even more unattainable for competitors. Second place in the France Football list is taken by Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham - his earnings are 17 million euros per year. Arsenal forward Thierry Henry closes the top three highest paid players with €15.7 million.
The list of expensive coaches is headed by Jose Mourinho. His annual contract is valued at 10 million euros. Recently, the German publication Bild indirectly confirmed this information, reporting that one of Mourinho's possible successors at Chelsea, Jurgen Klinsmann, has been offered a contract for exactly this amount.
Second place in the list of highly paid coaches is occupied by Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson with an annual contract of 6.1 million euros, third is Fabio Capello (Real Madrid, 5.8 million euros). France Football valued the contract of the head coach of the Russian national team Guus Hiddink at 5 million euros and placed it in fifth place.
In turn, according to unofficial data, the highest paid player in the Russian Premier League is Andrei Arshavin. The Zenit midfielder's contract is estimated at 2.5 million euros per year. The most expensive coach in our football also works at Zenit: Dick Advocaat’s salary is estimated at 2 million euros. Andrey VDOVIN
Kendo masters will gather in Podolsk
In Podolsk, near Moscow, on April 21-22, the tenth anniversary national championship in kendo (stick fencing), which received the status of an open championship, will be held. 200 of the strongest kendoists from Russia and Ukraine will gather at the Vityaz Sports Palace. The main prize of the championship - the "Peaceful Heart" challenge cup - is awarded to the winner in the team competition. The Cup was given to our kendoists on the eve of the very first Russian Championship in 1988 by former Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Mr. Hashimoto practiced kendo and reached fifth dan.
Two more prizes - for winning the team championship and individual competitions - were established by the general sponsor of the championship - the Japanese Air Conditioners Association, which supports this type of Japanese martial art in memory of the first general director of the company, kendoist Vitaly, who tragically died two years ago Savilov. By agreement between the Japanese Air Conditioners association and the organizer of the competition, the Russian Kendo Federation, the tenth anniversary Russian Championship was declared the championship in memory of Ryutaro Hashimoto and Vitaly Savilov.
The competition will be judged by twenty famous Japanese sensei of 6th-8th dan. They will determine which club is the strongest in Russia and who will go to Lisbon to represent our country at the European Championship. The current anniversary championship will be held with the active assistance of the administration of Podolsk and the government of the Moscow region. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Russia Yasuo Saito, Boris Gromov, Mr. Ryo Hashimoto (son of Ryutaro Hashimoto), President of the Japanese Air Conditioners Association Viktor Morozov and members of the family of Vitaly Savilov are expected as guests of honor. Vladimir ILYIN