After defeating the Brazilian team √2:1, the Germans secured first place in Group E. In another match, the hosts of the Olympics tied with the Swedes √ 1:1. Teams from groups “A” and “C” played in the men’s competition on Saturday. In Adelaide, the Italians easily beat the Honduras team √ 3:1. In the capital of the Olympics, the Australians lost to the Nigerians √ 2:3. In Brisbane, the Czechs lost to the Kuwait team with the same score, and the US and Cameroon teams lost in Canberra √ 1:1.

In the semi-finals of the tournament held in Tashkent, the Russian tennis player beat the Swiss Georg Bastl √ 6:2, 6:2. In the decisive match, Safin will play with the Italian David Sanguinetti, who in a bitter fight defeated the Frenchman Julien Boutte √ 7:6, 7:6. Immediately after the end of the Uzbekistan President's Cup, Safin will fly to Sydney, where the Olympic tennis tournament will begin on September 19. RELATED LINKS

In Chechnya, the units of the federal forces detained five militants suspected of undermining the Ural car of the Kaliningrad team in Grozny on Thursday. This was reported by the press center of the united group of troops. From the explosion, the commander of the Kaliningrad collector Major Viloria Buslovsky died. According to the employees of the press center, one of the arrested has already begun to testify.

The wife of the President of the International Olympic Committee Juan Antonio Samararanch, Maria Teresa Salisachs, is at death. This was announced by the president of the Russian Olympic Committee Vitaly Smirnov. The head of the Olympic movement urgently flew to Spain this morning, as officially announced "to a sick wife." Before leaving, the head of the IOC said that he would try to return to the Olympics later. Maria Teresa Salisachs is sick with cancer.

Like Felicia Ballanger in the women's round, he finished with an Olympic record. The new Olympic achievement is now 1 minute 1.609 seconds. German Stefan Nimke, who came second, lost almost a second to Quilly. Australian Shane Kelly finished third, to the delight of the track owners. Russians were not represented in this type of program.

Residents of the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov region, with a minute of silence, honored the memory of the dead a year ago as a result of the attack. At the house 35 on the Oktyabrsky highway today a memory square was opened. The cemetery took place in a memorial service for 19 dead citizens, including 2 children.

The twentieth stage was laid in the mountains. The racers finished a climb that was more than 10 kilometers long and had an elevation difference of 1,100 meters. The leader of the stage race, Roberto Heras, covered this section of the route the fastest. Together with the Italian Gilberto Simoni and the Spaniard Roberto Lyseca, he broke away from the main group by 45 seconds. Russian Pavel Tonkov retained third position. Now he loses to the Spaniard 5 minutes 35 seconds.

In Tbilisi, a group of persons who found radioactive substances was detained. Three Georgian citizens and one Armenian citizen intended to sell them for a large amount. Employees of the Ministry of State Security of Georgia from the detainees seized 3 grams of uranium powder-235 and 20 containers with plutonium. The criminals tried to sell Uranus for 100 thousand dollars, and Plutonium √ for 750 thousand. It is still unknown where they acquired these substances.

In the first match of the preliminary stage, our pair lost to the Romanians Otilia Badescu and Michaela-Joanna Steff. Kusch and Melnik lost the first game with a crushing score of √ 10:21. In the second game the game went point to point, but the Romanians again prevailed √ 22:20. In doubles, participants are divided into 8 groups of four in each. Only the winners of the group tournaments advance to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, he beat the Cuban Ivan Treveho. The outcome of the duel decided one accurate injection √ 15:14 in favor of Kolobkov. A Frenchman of the south Obri, Swiss Marcel Fisher and Korean Lee San Ki also made their way into the semifinals. Recall that Pavel Kolobkov is the only Russian spit that received a ticket to Sydney. The current Olympiad is the fourth in the career of Paul, but there is no gold medal in his collection yet.

Olympic champions of Atlanta - the Dutch team - beat the British team 4:2 in the first round. Other results of the men's tournament: Pakistan √ Canada √ 2:2. Germany √ Malaysia √ 1:0. Spain √ Korea √ 1:1. In the women's tournament, the Argentines defeated the Koreans √ 3:2, and the teams of Germany and New Zealand tied √ 1:1. On Sunday, Australian hockey players and one of the main contenders for victory in the men's tournament - the Indians - enter the fight. RELATED LINKS

Aleksey Filipets, who performed at a distance of 400 meters by rabbit, in the last of the 6 preliminary swims showed only the 5th result - 3: 52.21, for more than 7.5 seconds, lagging behind the Australian Vunderkind of Jan Pepe (3: 44.65), which became the fastest on the Sydney path in preliminary trips. And at a distance of 400 meters with complex swimming in women Oksana, the rope showed the third time in her swim, but she did not fall into the number of eight fastest.

The two -time world champion in the 54 kg weight category for a clear advantage won the Argentinean Keferino Labarda. The referee stopped the battle in the third round, awarding the victory to Malalabekov. Taymuraz Khursilava from Georgia, Alisher Rakhimov from Uzbekistan and Talaibek Kadirali from Kyrgyzstan, also went to the next circle. On Saturday, the first fights in the weight category of 67 kg will be held, where the Olympic champion of Atlanta Oleg Saitov is acting.

“From the international crew on board the international spaceship, we would like to wish good luck and success to all participants in the Games in their fair fight,” says the message from the Russian-American crew of the Atlantis spaceship. The cosmonauts conveyed a special greeting to the wrestlers, since many of those on board had wrestled in schools or universities in their youth.

The Police of the Spanish country of the Basque discovered and neutralized six grenades installed next to the open-air museum near the city of San Sebastian. The ammunition was hidden on a grief overgrown with forest. Apparently, we are not talking about an attempt to attempt, but about the preparation of the explosion. If the grenades exploded, then the gas station located nearby would have taken off into the air.