CSKA Moscow`s slender hopes of qualification for the play-off stages of the Champions League were snuffed out in Milan on Wednesday as the Russians surrendered a two-goal lead to Inter, losing 4-2.
Tommy Haas` apparent garden-variety stomach virus that sidelined him on the decisive day of the Davis Cup semifinal in Moscow in September against Russia took on sinister implications when allegations surfaced Wednesday that he was poisoned.
World number two Rafael Nadal shattered Mikhail Youzhny`s Masters Cup dreams by crushing the Russian 6-4 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters Series tournament on Friday.
The Tour of Hainan Road Cycling Race 2007 kicked off here on Saturday, Dennis Galimzyanov, a cyclist from Russia, won the photogenic prologue in the first-day race.
Russia`s Mikhail Yuzhny will face Spaniard and world No. 2 Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals of the 2 million euro ($2.9 million) BNP Paribas Masters tennis tournament in France.
Several Russia players had to train in socks on Wednesday after thieves stole the team`s boots ahead of this weekend`s European Nations Cup match with Romania.
Marat Safin may play for defending champion Russia in the Davis Cup final against the United States.
Nikolay Davydenko, already at the center of a betting investigation, was fined $2,000 for lack of effort a loss at the St. Petersburg Open.
Two of Russia`s 2007 / 08 UEFA Cup representatives began their group stage campaigns with home draws on Thursday.
Russia`s Mikhail Yuzhny and Dmitry Tursunov will play in the quarterfinals of the St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament Friday.
Two of Russia`s three representatives in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup begin their group stage matches on Thursday with games against Spanish and Dutch sides.
Georgia’s ex-president Eduard Shevardnadze addressed the world community with an appeal to boycott the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, if Russia does not withdraw its peacekeepers from Abkhazia.
CSKA Moscow trainer Valery Gazzayev said his side has no injury problems as they prepare to take on Inter Milan in a must-win October 23 Champions League match in the Russian capital.
The 13th International St. Petersburg Open 2007 begins on Monday, uniting some of the best tennis players from around the world.
David Beckham doesn`t have anything to fear from robot players -- for now. At an indoor field in Tokyo, dozens of robots played soccer while others danced to samba music to cheer them on.
Marat Safin made up his mind to finish the season through his poor comeback after a long break.
UEFA will not investigate a controversial penalty awarded to Russia in its 2-1 victory over England in European Championship qualifying.
Russian politicians rushed to congratulate the national soccer team on Wednesday`s victory against England, many seeing the result as a symbol of the country`s recent political and economic revival.
Although the Davis Cup hasn`t been played in the United States for 15 years, enthusiasm for the international tennis event apparently hasn`t diminished.
England wasted a second-half lead, putting its European Championship qualifying chances in jeopardy with a 2-1 loss to Russia on Wednesday night.
Spain`s Oscar Pereiro received the yellow jersey from the 2006 Tour de France at a ceremony in Madrid, officially replacing US rider Floyd Landis who was stripped of his title for doping.
The Russia camp have blasted England`s `excuse making` ahead of Wednesday`s crucial Euro 2008 qualifier on an artificial pitch in Moscow.
The Zurich Open women`s event opens this year without two popular crowd-pullers - defending champion Maria Sharapova of Russia and Switzerland`s Martina Hingis.
Top seeded Nikolay Davydenko and unseeded Elena Dementieva both of Russia clinched the 2.34-million-dollar joint ATP and WTA Kremlin Cup titles here on Sunday.
Evander Holyfield is in the middle of what you`d expect a 44-year-old former world champion boxer to do on a routine weekday around his Atlanta neighborhood.