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Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Rangers" -- "Edmonton" -- 2:3 B, "Washington" -- "Tampa Bay" -- 4:2 -- Ovechkin "B" (1+1), Semin "B" (0+1 ) .
Last season's NHL Most Valuable Player, Alexander Ovechkin, ended his longest goalless streak of nine games in his league career. In 4 min. Before the end of the meeting with Tampa Bay, Ovechkin scored his third goal in the championship with a pass from Alexander Semin.
Russian Rangers forward Nikolai Zherdev failed to convert the shootout in the post-match shootout. Edmonton goalkeeper Jeff Drouin-Deporier was named the first star of the game day. He made 40 saves in regulation and extra time.
Montreal forward Tom Kostopoulos received a three-game suspension for injuring Toronto defenseman Mike Van Ryn in Saturday's game. Kostopoulos will also pay a fine of about 24 thousand dollars.
Pierce's solo in the fourth period.
Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Indiana” – “Oklahoma” – 107:99, “Miami” – “New Jersey” – 99:94, “Phoenix” – “Memphis” – 107:102, “Orlando” – “ Portland - 99:106, Boston - Toronto - 94:87.
The maximum personal performance at the end of the game day was for the second pick of the 2007 draft, Kevin Durant from Oklahoma, with 37 points. A strong-willed victory was achieved by one of the leaders of the Eastern Conference and the current champion, Boston, which was 12 points behind Toronto at the big break. The main figure for the hosts that day was Paul Pierce: 46 min. pure time on the court and 36 points scored, 22 of them in the final quarter (the Bostonians won the last period with a score of 35:22).
Cleveland forward LeBron James and Phoenix center Amar Stoudemire were named the best players of last week.
The Ural girls couldn’t cope with Kirillova’s serve
Volleyball. Super League. 4th round. "Avtodor-Metar" - "Dynamo-Yantar" - 0:3, "Fakel" - "Nugget" - 2:3, "Balakovo NPP" - "University-Belogorye" - 0:3, " Indesit - Leningradka - 1:3, Zarechye-Odintsovo - Spartak - 2:3, Dynamo M - Uralochka-NTMK - 3:1. Leading : Dynamo M, Spartak - 4 wins - 0 losses.
The fourth round of the Women's Super League championship lasted for three days. In the central match between Dynamo and Ural, the 43-year-old setter of the “blue and white” Irina Kirillova was in the starting lineup and made four aces. Her teammate Ekaterina Gamova brought her team 21 points. Ekaterinburg resident Irina Tebenikhina distinguished herself with six effective actions on the block.
The current champion Zarechye-Odintsovo suffered a third defeat in a row and is in the bottom half of the standings. The team is still playing without the injured Ukrainian setter Irina Zhukova, and before the meeting with Dynamo, the team hospital was replenished with the Russian team's finishing player Tatyana Kosheleva, who is worried about back pain.
Fakel forward Anastasia Markova gave a phenomenal match. She attacked 72 times and scored 38 points. The third victory in a row was won by Belgorod University-Belogorye, which began the championship with a home defeat.
Next Sunday, only one undefeated team will remain in the tournament. In the fifth round, the current leaders - the capital's Dynamo and Omsk Spartak - are playing against each other.
The top three track and field athletes in the world have been named
The International Athletics Federation (IAAF) has named the main contenders for the title of best representatives of this sport based on the results of the 2008 season. As a result of voting by fans, journalists and specialists, six nominees were determined. For men, these are two-time Olympic champion stayer Kenenisa Bekele (Kenya), three-time Beijing gold winner sprinter Usain Bolt (Jamaica) and Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles; for women - the triumphant of two summer Games, world record holder in pole vault Elena Isinbaeva, runners Tirunesh Dibaba (Ethiopia) and Pamela Jelimo (Kenya).
The top men's and women's track and field athletes of the season will be announced at the IAAF Gala in Monaco on November 23. Last year's winners were American sprinter Tyson Gay and Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner Meseret Defar. The tradition of determining the strongest athletes of the season is exactly 20 years old. The trophies were won three times by Russians - runner Svetlana Masterkova in 1996 and twice by Isinbayeva (2004, 2005).
Seven sports compete for Olympic status
This coming Friday, at a meeting of the program commission of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne (Switzerland), there will be hour-long presentations of seven sports competing for inclusion in the program of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Let us recall that at the IOC session in 2005, baseball and its women's version of softball were excluded from the 2012 Games program. The international federations of these sports are now campaigning to return to the Olympic family. In addition to these disciplines, Lausanne will host presentations of golf, squash, karate, rugby sevens and roller sports. The 2016 Games program will be formed at the IOC session in October 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is possible that the number of sports at the Summer Olympics will not increase at all.