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Quartet “D” teams completed the group stage of the Champions League first. The Italian Milan and Scottish Celtic made it to the playoffs, and the Portuguese Benfica, having beaten Shakhtar Donetsk away (2:1), deprived the Ukrainian club of the opportunity to continue the European campaign in the UEFA Cup.
The following matches will take place on Tuesday. Group "A". “Marseille” (France) – “Liverpool” (England), “Porto” (Portugal) – “Besiktas” (Turkey). Group "B". Chelsea (England) - Valencia (Spain), Schalke 04 (Germany) - Rosenborg (Norway). Group "C". Real (Madrid, Spain) - Lazio (Italy), Olympiacos (Greece) - Werder Bremen (Germany). In quartet “A” the situation is very confusing: “Porto” - 8 points, “Marseille”, “Liverpool” - 7, “Besiktas” - 6. In quartet “B”, Chelsea with 11 points guaranteed themselves a continuation of the fight for the trophy, Rosenborg has 7, followed by Schalke (5) and Valencia (4). Everything is quite difficult in Group C: Real Madrid, Olympiacos - 8, Bremen - 6, Lazio - 5.
Eight matches will take place on Wednesday. "E". Glasgow Rangers (Scotland) - Lyon (France), Barcelona (Spain) - Stuttgart (Germany). "F". Roma (Italy) - Manchester United (England), Sporting (Portugal) - Dynamo (Kyiv, Ukraine). "G " . PSV Eindhoven (Holland) - Inter (Italy), Fenerbahce (Türkiye) - CSKA. "N". Arsenal (England) - Steaua (Romania), Slavia (Prague, Czech Republic) - Seville (Spain).
For CSKA the match has no sporting significance. The army team will no longer get out of last place in Group G. Ahead by a huge margin are Inter (12 points), Fener (8) and PSV (7). The “red-blues” have only one point. Position in the other fours. "E": Barca - 11, "Glasgow", "Lyon" - 7, "Stuttgart" - 3. "F": "Manchester United" - 15, "Roma" - 11, "Sporting" -- 4, Dynamo -- 0. "N": Sevilla -- 12, Arsenal -- 10, Slavia -- 5, Steaua -- 1.
BASKETBALL. December 11. ULEB Cup (men). 6th round. December 11--12. FIBA European Cup (men). 3rd stage, 1st round. December 12--13. Euroleague ULEB (men). 8th round . FIBA Euroleague (women). 6th round .
The capital's army team begins the second round of the first group stage of the tournament of the continent's strongest teams with a home match (December 12) against an outsider - the Polish "Prokom" (Sopot). In the October opening match of the Euroleague, Ettore Messina's team easily defeated this opponent - 88:69. Position of teams in our group “A” (7 matches played): CSKA - 6 wins, Montepaschi (Italy) - 5, Olympiacos (Greece), Tau (Spain) - 4, Zalgiris "(Lithuania), "Olympia" (Slovenia) - 3, "Virtus" (Italy) - 2, "Prokom" - 1.
The second most important continental trophy, the ULEB Cup, will also feature matches from the first round of the second round. Triumph near Moscow will host Montenegrin Buducnost, the other three Russian teams will go on the road: Nancy (France) - Khimki, Fortitudo (Italy) - Dynamo M, Zadar (Croatia) - - UNICS.
SKI RACING. December 15--16. World Cup stage . Rybinsk.
The program of the stage includes Saturday freestyle races of 15 km for women and 30 km for men; Sunday sprint is also held in skate.
SPRINGBOARD JUMPING. December 14. World Cup stage. Villach (Austria). December 16. World Cup stage. Kranj (Slovenia).
In Austria, flying skiers will compete on the HS-98 jump, and in Slovenia the design jump length is much longer - HS-109.
SKIING combined. December 15--16. World Cup stage . Ramsau (Austria).
On Saturday, the so-called “mass start”, a rather rare discipline, will take place for specialists in northern biathlon. In contrast to the order adopted in the Olympic events, the 10 km race will take place first, and only after that will the ski jumping. But on Sunday the participants will return to the “classics”. First of all - flying, and only then a 7.5 km sprint race according to the Gundersen system, when the points earned on the springboard are converted into seconds behind the leader. Ski jump category "Ramsau am Dachstein" - HS-98.
MOUNTAIN SKIING. December 14-15. World Cup stage. Men. Val Gardena (Italy). December 16. World Cup stage. Men. La Villa/Alta Badia (Italy).
On Friday, the awards will be awarded by super-G specialists, the next day there will be competitions in a related type of program - downhill, and then it will be time for the masters of technical disciplines, who on Sunday will determine the best in giant slalom.
FREESTYLE. December 13. World Cup stage. Tignes (France).
Men and women will compete in moguls.
SNOWBOARD. December 16. World Cup stage. Nendaz (Switzerland).
The winners will be determined for men and women in parallel slalom.
BIATHLON. December 13--16. World Cup stage. Pokljuka (Slovenia).
On Thursday, for the second time this season, the World Cup program will host individual races, the least spectacular type of competition for shooting skiers. On the Finnish Kontiolahti track, Frenchman Vincent Defrasne and Frenchwoman Martina Glagov won the first cup stage.
Dynamic sprint and pursuit races are scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.
FIGURE SKATING. December 13--16. The final stage of the Grand Prix series. Turin (Italy).
In each discipline, six candidates will compete for the awards. Men - Van der Perren (Belgium), Chan (Canada), Takahashi (Japan), Lambiel (Switzerland), Lysacek, Weir (both USA). Women - Kostner (Italy), Asada, Nakano (both Japan), Kim (Korea), Meissner, Zhang (both USA). Sports pairs - Dube / Davison (Canada), Pan / Tone, Zheng / Zheng (all - China), Savchenko / Szolkowy (Germany), Kawaguchi / Smirnov (Russia), McLaughlin / Brubaker (USA). Dance couples - Virtue/Moir (Canada), Delobel/Schoenfelder, Pechalat/Bourzat (all France), Domnina/Shabalin, Khokhlova/Novitsky (all France), Belbin/Agosto (USA).
SKATES. December 15--16. World Cup stage. Erfurt (Germany).
At the purely sprint stage in Germany, for the first time this season, competitions will be held at an ultra-short distance of 100 m. Also, the speedsters will run the “five hundred” and the “thousand” twice each.
SKELETON. December 14. World Cup stage. Lake Placid (USA).
BOBSLED. December 15--16. World Cup stage. Lake Placid (USA).