The draw of the Olympic competitions of skaters at a distance of 5000 m was held. Russian Ivan Skobrev will run in pairs with the Italian Enriko Fabrice. According to Reuters , according to the results of the draw, athletes will go on ice in the 13th pair. Another Russian skater Alexander Rumyantsev will be launched by the third paired with the Poles Slavomir Khmura.

Gus Hiddink The coach of the Russian national team Gus Hiddink after a meeting with the newly elected president of the Russian Football Union Sergey Fursenko on February 4 spoke for a long time about its results with general phrases. But this Saturday, the Dutchman opened the veil of secrets through the press. In his newspaper column, Gus spoke about leaving the Russian team.

Olympic champion Turin, deputy of the State Duma Svetlana Zhurova called her favorites from among the athletes of the Russian national team, preparing for a performance in Vancouver. “She always worried about Zhenya Plushenko. And now I really want him to win. I also returned to the sport after a long break. And I perfectly understand what to return to the previous level. I personally worry about all the pupils of the Great Tamara by Moskvina. This time - for Yuko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov.

The NATO counter -terrorism group under the command of representatives of the US Armed Forces began on Saturday to conduct a large -scale military operation against the Taliban movement in southern Afghanistan. The operation began before dawn with the US Air Force aircraft to the positions of militants in the Gelmend province. This is the first phase of the operation designed to establish control of the Afghan government in this region.

Men's competitions in the highlight on the Wistler highway will be held from a female start. According to Reuters , this decision is caused by a tragedy that occurred the day before with the 21-year-old Georgian Sanger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died during training. The athlete flew out of the sleigh at a speed of 145 kilometers per hour. After the incident, the organizers improved the side at the exit from the turn and changed the profile of the ice gutter.

The 21-year-old Georgian Sledon Levan Gureshidze did not take part in the Saturday Seventh round of the training ranges on the Olympic highway in Wistler. According to Sovetsky Sport , at night Gureshidze and coach Felix Kumaritashvili flew home. On the eve on this highway, another Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili flew out of the sled and received an injury that led to his death.

The President of the Olympic Committee of Russia Leonid Tyagachev expressed condolences in connection with the tragic death of the Georgian sanitary, Nodar Kumaritashvili as a result of the accident during training.

The International Sails Federation decided not to make changes to the competitions of the sanctuary at the Games in Vancouver. As planned originally, on Saturday morning, two training rake training will take place in Canadian time, and in the evening, the final will be held for men, ITAR-TASS reports. Despite the death of the Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili, as well as the falls of many other tanks, such a decision. Read the continuation of the story

The teacher opened shooting at colleagues at the University of Alabama in the city of Khantsville. As a result, three people were killed, the same amounts were wounded. To arrange a bloody massacre, a woman could encourage the decision of the university’s leadership not to renew the contract with her. The shooter herself declares that there was no shooting at all, and all her victims are alive.

Estonian President Toomas Henrik Ilves expressed his condolences to his Georgian colleague Mikhail Saakashvili in connection with the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, training in the Vancouver of the Georgian Sledoon. "Now, when the whole world is following the Olympics in Vancouver, we join condolences in connection with the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili," RIA Novosti quotes the excerpt from the letter of Henrik Ilves. Ilves is now in Vancouver.

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Representatives of the International Olympic Committee and the Organizing Committee of the 2010 Olympic Games will hold an emergency meeting about possible changes in competitions in sanitary sports in connection with the tragic death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died in the hospital after the accident in training. IOC officially confirmed his death. The meeting will begin at 5 am Moscow time, the Mayak radio station reports.

The Moscow riot police and human rights activists decided how riot police should behave with participants in mass shares, Nikolai Svanidze, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, said on Saturday. "The meeting with the Moscow riot police, the initiators of which they themselves performed, went very positively. This is important, since it indicates that they are open and want to establish relations.

Swiss jump Simon Aman - the first champion of Vancouver Source: AFP The first gold of the XXI Olympic Games was won by the Swiss athlete Simon Ammann . A flying skier won the jumping competitions from the springboard, gaining 276.5 points in the sum of two attempts. Having defeated Vancouver, Ammann became a three -time Olympic champion. Silver in the jumping competitions from the springboard was won by the Pole Adam Kid, Bronze - Austrian Gregor Schlirectsauer.

The organizers of the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Vancouver, only after the end of the solemn event, managed to eliminate the technical problems that arose during it. During the lighting of the Olympic fire, a special design consisting of four rods, which appeared from under the ground, was deprived of one of the four supports. Nevertheless, the athletes who were entrusted with the honorary right to light the fire of the competition managed to light the bowl.