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Olympic Rush Sport

Olympic Rush

Only a week remained before the opening of the Olympic Games in Turin, and yet the city, in the opinion of many observers, was not yet ready for the main sporting event of the four-year cycle and was…

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How to navigate Turin Sport

How to navigate Turin

Two weeks remain until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, for which the large Italian city of Turin has become the host city. Turin is the first capital of a united Italy, although few people…

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Fan's calendar Sport

Fan's calendar

2006 is the year of the Winter Olympics and world championships in the most popular team sports. The world's strongest national teams in football, basketball, and volleyball are determined once every…

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Waiting for the World Cup draw Sport

Waiting for the World Cup draw

Despite December not being the most suitable time for football, the game of millions is not about to surrender its position. This is unsurprising, as it is in December that the draw ceremony for the…

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Turin-2006: Three Months Left Sport

Turin-2006: Three Months Left

What will the organizers of the Winter Olympic Games, to be held in Italy in February next year, have in store for us?

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Donetsk Romanian Mircea Sport

Donetsk Romanian Mircea

For several seasons now, the Donetsk football club Shakhtar has been banking on foreign coaches. In 2002, Italian Nevio Scala arrived in the capital of Donbas, who secured the team's first ever…

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Farewell to Formula 1 Sport

Farewell to Formula 1

In October, two major events are expected in the world of high-performance sports: the determination of almost all finalists of the FIFA World Cup, which will take place in Germany in the summer of…

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Dirty Games Sport

Dirty Games

Where there is excitement and money, there are fraudsters. And when the outcome of a competition depends on fate, there will always be people ready to take on the role of Themis. So it is not…

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The First Russian World Number One Sport

The First Russian World Number One

Once, some 10-15 years ago, it seemed that tennis and we were completely incomparable concepts. The elite representatives of this sport seemed like alien beings without weaknesses, and our tennis…

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Abroad, Clouds Are Gloomy... Sport

Abroad, Clouds Are Gloomy...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, receiving an invitation from abroad for a Soviet footballer meant only one thing: a chance to earn decent money and live in human conditions. But not for everyone…

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Belarusian hope of London's Arsenal Sport

Belarusian hope of London's Arsenal

Our northern neighbours - Belarusians - cannot boast either a national football team leading the qualifying tournament for the World Cup, or clubs representing the country in the main draw of the…

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Portuguese club in the capital of Russia Sport

Portuguese club in the capital of Russia

The Moscow Dynamo football club has been one of the most popular over the past six months. Not because it is showing spectacular play and is leading the Russian championship. But because it is…

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