On the third gaming day of the chess super tournament in Wijk aan Zee (Holland), Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand defeated Vasily Ivanchuk with black pieces, taking first place in the general classification of 14 participants with 2.5 points. As in the second round, four games ended successfully. The chess players who played white in the Topalov-Bacrot, Gelfand-Adams, Karyakin-Kamsky duels scored one point each.

Wayne Gretzky hands out advances to Alexander Ovechkin Washington's Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin, having scored two goals and one assist in his team's last match against Phoenix, took another step toward winning the Calder Trophy, a prize awarded to the best rookie of the regular season.

Russian figure skaters are capable of winning four gold medals The European Figure Skating Championships kicked off in Lyon, France, on Tuesday, which, despite its continental framework, aroused considerable interest. Representatives of the Old World had the last opportunity before the Games in Turin to present their Olympic programs to the arbitrators, which were subject to changes more than once during the season taking into account innovations in the ISU rules.

Hingis successfully returned to her favorite tournament On the second day of the Australian Open, the central match was the confrontation between Martina Hingis, who recently returned to tennis, and the 30th seeded Vera Zvonareva. For the Swiss, Melbourne is a special place: here she won the main prize three times (1997, 1998, 1999). This is more than she managed in all other Grand Slam tournaments combined.

Alexander Steblin is dismissed Russian hockey is facing big changes. Alexander Steblin, who has long been in conflict with the head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports, Vyacheslav Fetisov, is the president of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) and heads the Professional Hockey League (PHL), may soon be removed from both posts.