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Hockey. NHL. Regular season . "Atlanta" - "Washington" - 2:4 - Vic. Kozlov "V" (1+0), Semin "V" (1+0), Fedorov "V" (1+0), Ovechkin "V" (0+2), "Rangers" -- "Montreal" -- 3:1, Philadelphia - Florida - 2:1, New Jersey - Toronto - 1:4, Carolina - Islanders - 9:0 - Babchuk “K” (0+4), Samsonov “K” (0+1), “Tampa Bay” - “Pittsburgh” - 4:6 - Malkin “P” (0+2) , “Ottawa” - - “Boston” – 3:2 – Volchenkov “O” (0+1), “Nashville” – “Chicago” – 2:4, “Minnesota” – “Dallas” – 3:1, “ Edmonton -- Los Angeles -- 1:2 - - Frolov "L-A" (1+0), "Vancouver" -- "Calgary" -- 4:1, "Phoenix" -- "St. Louis - 1:5, San Jose - Colorado - 1:0 B.
The Islanders, having lost to Carolina (0:9), suffered the biggest defeat in the history of the club, ESPN reports.
Five times in 36 seasons in the NHL, the club lost by eight goals. The last time this happened was in December 1988. Then the Islanders lost to St. Louis with a score of 0:8.
New Orleans clinches a spot in the playoffs
Basketball. NBA. Regular season . “Toronto” – “Atlanta” – 110:118, “Charlotte” – “Philadelphia” – 101:98, “Miami” – “New Orleans” – 87:93 OT, “Oklahoma City” -- "San Antonio" -- 89:99, "Memphis" -- "Portland" -- 93:96, "Chicago" -- "New York" -- 110:103, "Houston" -- "Orlando" "- 93:83, Sacramento - Lakers - 104:122, Clippers - Minnesota - 77:87.
New Orleans became the seventh Western Conference team to earn a spot in the playoffs. The best players for New Orleans were Paul, who scored 26 points, Stojakovic (24) and West (20).
Lukanin won bronze at the European Championship
Vladislav Lukanin became the bronze medalist of the European Championship, which takes place in the capital of Romania, Bucharest. The Russian, competing in the weight category up to 69 kg, showed a total result of 330 kg (147 kg in the snatch and 183 in the clean and jerk). “Gold” and “silver” went to Arakel Mirzoyan from Armenia - 336 kg (151 plus 185) and the Frenchman Vesel Dabaya - 333 kg (147 plus 186).
The strongest will compete in the team championship
The official website of the International Skating Union (ISU) has published a complete list of athletes who will take part in the team tournament. Let us remind you that these competitions will be held for the first time in history from April 16 to 19 in Tokyo. Each of the six countries can field a team of four singles and two pairs.
Japan will be represented by strong singles players - Takahiko Kozuka, Nobunari Oda, Mickey Ando and Mao Asada. As part of the Canadian team, world championship bronze medalists Tess Virtue and Scott Moir, as well as singles dancers Patrick Chan and Jeannie Rochette, will fly to the Japanese capital. Among the French athletes are world championship medalist Brian Joubert and dancers Nathalie Pechalat - Fabien Bourzat. The Chinese decided to field only one strong pair, Dan Zhang - Hao Zhang. The Americans are sending Rachel Flatt, Carolina Zhang to Japan, and for the men - Jeremy Abbott, Evan Lysacek. Ice dancing will be presented by students of Natalia Linichuk and Gennady Karponosov - Tanit Belban and Benjamin Agosto.
Svetlana Kuznetsova was presented with a state award
Tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree. Before the meeting of the presidium of the board of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy, the award was presented to the athlete by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov. “It’s very nice to receive this award,” RIA Novosti quotes Kuznetsova. - This is a great pride for me. It’s good that I was able to get it in person, I just have a break between tournaments.”
In 2008, Kuznetsova helped the Russian women's team win the Fed Cup final. The St. Petersburg native won two singles matches against Carla Suarez-Navarro and Anabel Medina Garrigues. A year earlier, in the decisive match against the Italians (4:0), Kuznetsova also brought the Russian team two victories, beating Mara Santangelo and Francesca Schiavone.
Isinbayeva will take part in the “Golden League”
Two-time Olympic champion and world record holder in the pole vault, Elena Isinbaeva, confirmed her participation in each of the six stages of the Golden League this season. In addition to the Golden League stages, the Russian plans to compete in three more competitions before the World Championships in Berlin.
The main prize of the Golden League is a jackpot equal to $1 million in gold bars. To become the owner of a share of the jackpot, an athlete must win all six stages and take part in the World Athletics Final. In addition, there is an additional prize of $500,000 for athletes who win any five events in the series.
Olympians will be seen on the streets of Manchester
Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain has become the latest international athletics star to be invited to Manchester for the CityGames race through the city centre. This unusual competition, according to the organizers, will become part of an advertising campaign dedicated to the summer athletics season in Europe and the World Championships in Berlin. On May 17, Ohuruogu will run the 150m, as will three-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt. Christina's main opponent will be a runner from the Bahamas - Olympic champion Debbie Ferguson-Mackenzie, who won the Commonwealth Games in the 100, 200 m and 4x100 relay in Manchester seven years ago. Usain Bolt will be challenged by Olympic 4x100m relay champion Briton Mark Lewis-Francis and European youth champion Simeon Williamson. The newly-minted Old World indoor champion Dwayne Chambers will not be in this company. The organizers did not invite the sprinter involved in a doping scandal.