Dutch Hans Stacey, driving on MAN, has won 11-th stage of "Dakar" rally in class of lorries between Kayos and Bamako (special route being 231 km). Leader of rally by results of 11 stages Vladimir Chagin on "KamAZ" finished on 3 position, being 11 minutes and 10 seconds behind. Stacey occupies second position in rally, losing 3 hours and 19 minutes to Chagin.
Famous Russian figure skater Irina Slutskaya is pleased with new uniform BOSCO SPORT developed for the winter Olympic games-2006 for Russian team. She told about it to journalists in Olympic training centre on Wednesday.
Vladimir Chagin, driving on "KamAZ" (total time 45:55:04) won 9-th stage of "Dakar-2006" rally. "KamAZ" of Firdaus Kabirov, who was second in championship, got in crash.
A battle between strongest Russian boxers of first heavyweight category, Grigory Drozd and Pavel Melkomyan, has ended in Munich.
Russian crews of Vladimir Chagin and Firdaus Kabirov, driving on "KamAZ" lorries, lead in prestige world autorally "Dakar-2006" by results of 8 stages. Tangled labyrinths of canyons were the most difficult part of 508-km special route. As the day before another obstacle became the mellow dunes. By 4 a.m. only half of participants managed to finish in Atara. The remaining half continued to struggle with African desert at night.
Owner of World Cup of last season, Russian luger Albert Demchenko couldn`t finish first attempt in 6-th stage of World Cup in German town Konigssee because of fall.
Russian racers on "KamAZ" lorries kept leadership in rally-raid "Dakar-2006" in class of lorries after 7-th stage of the competitions, which took place between Zuerat and Atar (length of special route being 499 km).
Russian tennis player Elena Dementeva couldn`t reach the final of representative exhibition tournament Watsons Water Champion`s Challenge in Hong Kong, losing in 2 sets to Belgium sportswoman Kim Cloisters, who takes second position in world classification.
Canadian hockey team won in hockey world youth championship, defeating Russian team with smashing score 5:0 in Vancouver. This is the 12-th victory of Canadian national team in history of youth world championship. The third place took Finnish team, which defeated USA team with score 4:2.
Vladimir Chagin and his KAMAZ crew members Semen Yakubov and Sergei Savosin have won the sixth stage of Dakar-2006.
Ruisian State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov thinks, that Russian combined team must take the maximum challenge at the Olympic Games in Turin and enter the Top 3 of total won medals.
Greek "Panatinaikos" has kept the leadership in group C of basketball ULEB Euro League, winning CSKA with score 89:84 in Moscow.
Driving on "KamAZ" Russian racers were ahead in 5-th stage of "Dakar-2006" rally-raid between Ouarzazate and Tan-Tan.
American Serena Williams, who returned to tennis-court after series of traumas, was defeated by Russian Elena Dementeva with smashing score 3:6, 1:6. The game, which took place within the frames of exhibition tournament in Hong Kong, lasted only for 57 minutes. This is the first victory over Serena Williams in Dementeva`s career.
Russian hockey team defeated USA team with score 5:1 in semi-final of youth world championship. In final Russian hockey players will play with Canadian team, which won the Finnish team with score 4:0 in another semi-final. Decisive duel of the tournament will take place at night of January 6.
Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko defeated Bulgarian sportswoman in 3 sets in tournament, which takes place in Oakland, and passed to quarter-final.
Russian Vladimir Chagin, driving on "KamAZ", has won 4-th stage of "Dakar-2006" rally this Tuesday. This was informed in telephone conversation by organizers of competitions.
Russian team "KamAZ-Master" had to address to technical commissars of the race for help after third stage of rally-raid "Dakar-2006".
The third stage of "Dakar-2006" rally has ended with victory of Russian Vladimir Chagin, racing on "KamAZ" lorry.
Dancers Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov have won the Russian Championship on figure skating held in Kazan.
Elena Sokolova became the champion of the country for third time in career. Victoria Volchkova took the second place and Lilia Biktagirova - the third one. World champion Irina Slutskaya missed the competitions, which take place in Kazan, because of flu.
Two times gold champions Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin exempted themselves from the Figure skating championship, taking place in Kazan these days.
Before the new season start, all tennis and around-tennis world discusses the famous Swiss Martina Hingis’s come back to sport after three-year break.
Leading Russian woman-figure skater Irina Slutskaya has to miss Russian Championship on figure skating, which starts on Monday because of illness.
Russian championship of figure-skating starts this Monday in Kazan. By results of the tournament members of national team for participation in European championship, which will take place in Lion (France) on January 16-22, will be determined.