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Kerzhakov continues the championship race
Chronicle of sporting events
Football. Spanish Championship. 36th round . "Sevilla" - "Zaragoza" - 3:1, "Gimnastic" - "Atlético" - 0:2, "Celta" - "Betis" - 2:1, "Racing" - "Levante" -- 2:3, Athletic -- Mallorca -- 1:0, Recreativo -- Espanyol -- 0:1, Barcelona -- Getafe -- 1:0, Real Madrid "-"Deportivo" - 3:1, "Valencia" - "Villarreal" - 2:3. Leading : Real Madrid, Barcelona - 72 points each, Sevilla - 70.Russian national team striker Alexander Kerzhakov scored another goal in the Spanish championship. The goal of the Russian forward of Sevilla became the winning goal for his team in the match with Zaragoza. Kerzhakov, who came on as a substitute, scored in the 83rd minute with the score 1:1. In injury time, Kanoute removed the last questions about the winner.
Thus, Sevilla continues to fight with Barcelona and Real for the championship title. The Catalans will have a hard time at the finish line. In the last match, Barca leader Ronaldinho was sent off from the field, whose goal in the second minute nevertheless brought victory to the hosts. Valencia dropped out of the fight for gold. After the home defeat to Villarreal, the Bats fell five points behind Sevilla.
Italian Championship. 38th round. Ascoli - Cagliari - 2:1, Catania - Chievo - 2:0, Fiorentina - Sampdoria - 5:1, Inter - Torino -- 3:0, Livorno -- Atalanta -- 4:2, Parma -- Empoli -- 3:1, Regina -- Milan -- 2:0, Roma "- "Messina" - 4:3, "Siena" - "Lazio" - 2:1, "Udinese" - "Palermo" - 1:2. Final standings: Inter - 97 points, Roma - 75, Lazio - 62.
Finished the Italian Championship. In the last round, the fate of third place was decided, which was eventually taken by Lazio, one point ahead of Milan. In addition, it was determined who, together with Messina and Ascoli, would leave Serie A. In a head-to-head dispute between outsiders, Chievo lost to Catania.
French Championship . 38th round. "Lille" - "Rennes" - 1:1, "Lorien" - "PSG" - 0:1, "Lyon" - "Nantes" - 3:1, "Marseille" - "Sedan" -- 1:0, "Monaco" -- "Nancy" -- 2:0, "Nice" -- "Le Mann" -- 3:3, "Sochaux" -- "Saint-Etienne" -- 1:0 , Toulouse - Bordeaux - 3:1, Troyes - Lens - 3:0, Valenciennes - Auxerre - 1:3. Final standings : Lyon - 81 points, Marseille - 64, Toulouse - 59.-
In the last round, Toulouse managed to get third place and a ticket to the Champions League in a head-to-head match with Bordeaux. Lens also claimed bronze, but was unexpectedly defeated by outsider Troyes.
The Chinese took all the gold at the world championship
The individual world table tennis championship has ended in Zagreb. Representatives from China dominated, receiving gold and silver in all five categories. Of the 20 awards, only bronze medals remain for the rest of the world (third place is awarded to the losers of the semi-finals). The winners included Korean Ryu Sung Min, men's pairs from Hong Kong and Taiwan, women's tandems from Singapore and Korea, plus a Hong Kong mixed duet. In singles, only the German Timo Boll and the Belarusian Vladimir Samsonov reached the quarterfinals from the Europeans. Wang Liqing climbed to the top step of the podium in the men's tournament, and Guo Yue in the girls' tournament. The best results for the Russians were shown by Svetlana Ganina (she was in mixed doubles with Igor Rubtsov) and the pair Alexey Smirnov - Fedor Kuzmin, who reached the third round.
The next three world championships (in even years - team, in odd - individual) will be held in the Chinese city of Guangzhou (2008), Japanese Yokohama (2009) and Moscow (2010). Ilya TRISVIATSKY
Tickets to Mexico are being played out in Kalmykia
The selection of candidates for participation in the September final tournament of the World Championship has begun in Elista. At the competition in the capital of Kalmykia, 16 participants based on the results of two rounds of playoffs will determine the winners of four trips to Mexico.
On the first day of play, the Norwegian Carlsen lost to Aronian (Armenia), the Russian Grischuk prevailed over his compatriot Malakhov. Draws were recorded in the fights Leko (Hungary) - Gurevich (Georgia), Ponomarev (Ukraine) - Rublevsky, Gelfand (Israel) - Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan), Kamsky (USA) - Bacrot (France), Yu. Polgar (Hungary ) - Bareev, Adams (England) - Shirov (Spain). Vladimir ILYIN
The FHR Executive Committee approved the rules of the Super League
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF), the regulations of the national championship among super league teams were approved. Two dozen teams will take part in the tournament. The elite division has been expanded from 19 to 20 participants due to the return of the capital's Spartak, which did not play anywhere last season, and the winner of the major league, Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo. The undisputed outsider of the last tournament, Moscow's Krylya Sovetov, was deprived of the status of a Super League club.
Kazakh clubs participating in the Russian top league championship were previously deprived of the opportunity to enter the elite and actually played outside the competition, even without the right to qualify for the playoffs. Now, by decision of the FHR executive committee, our neighbors, along with Russian teams of the second division, have the opportunity to get into the super league. In the 2006/07 season, Torpedo (Ust-Kamenogorsk) and Kazakhmys (Satpayev) competed in our championship; now a club from the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, may be added to them.
In the Super League (the tournament tentatively starts on September 4 and will last until April), the teams will play in three rounds, then 16 clubs will begin to sort things out in a playoff series starting with the 1/8 finals. It is possible that there will be a transition to officiating with two main referees in particularly important championship matches. Vladimir ILYIN
Rain confused the plans of the Roland Garros organizers
At the French Open, bad weather interfered with the match schedule for the second day in a row. On the first day of the tournament, only 7 of the 24 scheduled matches ended. Marat Safin defeated the Spaniard Fernando Vicente - 6:1, 6:3, 6:1, his sister Dinara defeated the Ukrainian Yuliana Fedak - 7:5, 6:4, and before the long “rain” break, the Russian woman in the second game lost 2:4. Yesterday Nikolay Davydenko followed Safin's example and quickly dealt with Italian Stefano Galvani - 6:3, 6:1, 6:1. Ilya TRISVIATSKY