capital meant there was a race against time to get the pitch fit for this encounter. in belfast has certainly taken a turn for the worse with some of the worst conditions at this time of year in living memory all teams will tend to try and play again on saturday but with yet more snow expected this time may have to be played at a later date this was the first time a for international football match had been cancelled in belfast to given the circumstances it was completely understandable. but the match is called off by the referees obviously because the picture was unplayable we're obviously very disappointed here there is purple so she is in the trade very hard as you can see to clear a percentage of the pitch but obviously just there the referees didn't seem suitable for the game to go ahead plan b. was to try and play the game a day later however the snow was unrelenting and such a prospect of distinctly unrealistic. as you can quite clearly see it was going to be i was in no chance of any football whatsoever as the pitches on the quite

a few centimeters of snow or talks are underway to try and hold the game here at the end of may or the start of june and even despite the fact that russia didn't play they still sit top of their group four points clear of their nearest rivals israel i'm portugal have both played a game or the windsor park stadium is a rather dated football venue and will soon be rebuilt from scratch there is no wonder so heating or even have a snow been cleared the pitch would have been too waterlogged to even attempt to try and play a game of football was when a very difficult trip for everyone but the people have suffered more than most abilify and so how difficult journey has it been for you because what. is this the just on and off. the weather's been awful yes today we spent all day walking around the town as the game was called off and we were soaking wet and our market were really surprised at the weather as we thought it would be around the fifteen to seventeen degrees around the time of year. sewer deposit you if i heard the news

that the match would go ahead after all so we decided to calm and check for ourselves our flight back home was probably due to takeoff when the match should have started but it's a bt the game didn't take place much. it's been a frustrating trip for all concerned however russia's fans will have a chance to return to windsor park just over two months time and hopefully then the snow will be long gone richard three d'arcy belfast northern ireland. well russia's lead at the top of group f. was given a boost after third place portugal came from two goals down to snatch a late three three draw against second place israel in tel aviv it was portugal who took the lead inside two minutes is a neat defender who know how that hitting them in front from a corner but israel hit back with two fine first half efforts on tommy met. and then a rocket from then then best that. and the home side looked to be cruising with

twenty minutes to go as they gave themselves a to go cushion gershon on rising above three one but the advantage was quickly reduced elder pos to get five footing enough to skipper cristiana right now that had spread and in the third minute of stoppage time to go home laid out what used to head against the crossbar can try out stabbed in the rebound to break israeli hearts israel and portugal now both have eight points from their five matches for behind group leaders russia who have that gave in hand. while heavy snow couldn't prevent the usa from beating costa rica one nil in their qualifier in colorado ten times he's called the only goal after sixteen minutes in his first start as captain america on the referee stopped play after fifty four minutes due to the incessant snow but surprisingly the game did soon resume costa rica's and michael umana had a goal disallowed for offside and the host hung on for the wind to go second in

their group behind honduras. now to euro league basketball where group elitist says god has sealed a spot in the last eight but for the russian side him key will have to wait and see with two games to go and five teams chasing three playoff places consenting but apple has more. the outcome of one result decided the fate of three teams from group eat as say is cause seventy six to six a victory at the new coffin ensured the army man real madrid and their face old ones to the next stake sixteen points from sasha cohen so the russian champions speak up a win that put them joint top with ryall the bandolim swung from one end of the cord to the other until two minutes to go says cause militia hit his third triple of the night to make it sixty six sixty two and sunny williams ball full drive confirmed a four point triumph for the visitors although ryall boy aged seventy four seventy three by pounding to nyc us at home and there has lost seventy nine seventy one and

the risk has defeated carried them under it and the stumble side into the last game . in group first place was sealed by barcelona were extended their best ever winning streak to ten games edged closer to who can play off sport after downing turkish outfit finn and watch in one thousand nine hundred to six at home however it was the visitors who took an early lead in storm to ten point cushion midway through the opening quarter but the home side swiftly for the back up to the deficit to a single point and in the second game could build on their advantage heading into the main intermission with a comfortable forty nine thirty seven score in iraq to refuse to give up and almost managed to pull level but the home side woke up things to bad that a corporate defeat on guard came off the bench to sink a season high twenty three points to be named the most elegant play of the week for the first time to dad like many managers and you know i i have i made some shots

and when are they good game and their fire you know i said the most important thing was that we want a game and now they've got two in foreign games left and we just try to win with two matches to go next week could prove crucial for the russian teams host a ten year old the champions real madrid in a clash to decide who wins. the group and home court advantage while he and q. are one of five teams battling it out for free tickets to the playoffs and take on spanish side the hollow barrage of home port constantin by the r t. so after all that let's now take a look at the best of the rest of the week from around the world of sport. on monday the denver nuggets had the benefit of a controversial last gasp decision to win one hundred nineteen points to one hundred eighteen and over time the chicago bulls with one point seven seconds left the bulls thought they won when marco belinelli took a shot to the latter fans and what do you know what tipped him the ball but as the

home crowd celebrated the referees reviewed the replay which they said showed no this hand was inside the ring and so declared offensive goaltending the goal was disallowed to the firy of chicago coach tom thibodeau hounding the legates victory and extending their winning run to twelve games. on tuesday the dominican republic made history after going undefeated to win the world baseball classic they beat puerto rico three nil in the final in san francisco to cap a perfect two weeks i don't and cannot see all the hits a two run double in the bottom of the first inning and robinson cano was named the tournament's most valuable player the dominican has prevailed in all eight matches in contrast to japan triumphed at the first two editions of the tournament but had lost games on route. then on wednesday he hasn't even reached his teens yet but china as he won't chang

will soon be rubbing shoulders with the big hitters after the twelve year old became the youngest ever golfer to qualify for a european tour event with his dad caddying for him the schoolboy finished on two under par in a two round qualifier and his duty and the china are open in may. and also those days the world's top floor that linnell messy showed off his baby love as the prolific barcelona striker took part in a unicef event in going as aries however the twenty five year old was wearing abounded. on his left leg concealing his new tattoo of the sun goes messy went on to next a penalty with his left foot in argentina's three nil home win against venezuela as they lead their world cup qualifying group by four points from colombia. think.

that on friday croatia beat serbia two nil in an emotional world cup qualifier in zagreb to remain second in group a the match was the first between the two sides of independent states since the war in the former yugoslavia in the one nine hundred ninety s. serbia made the breakthrough midway through the first half of its all each playing to mario manjoo kitsch and which himself made it to nil with eight minutes to go with a suspicion of handball with a goal stood later belgian want to know in macedonia to stay top of the group on goal difference. then on saturday tennis superstar serena williams to borrow a bicycle to beat the traffic before beating japan's six three six three in the third round of the miami open the american world number one came from three last down in the opening set to stay on course for a record six title in florida while the men's top seed novak djokovic dropped just

one game on route to a six one six love victory over a check cashing the salt in his opener. and on sunday there was an incident packed malaysian grown pretty ferrari's fernando alonso crashed out on the second lap lewis hamilton out of miss a viz try to make a pit stop with former team a tyrant much to the surprise pop star gulf and the conscious ingo but the real drama panned out after the final pit stop defending champion sebastian vettel ignored team orders and overtook the red bull to make mark webber to win the second race of the formula one season he later apologized to the look and noise australian while how incident went on to complete the podium but only after his team mates nico rosberg was altered to stay behind. thanks and that's where. brings us to the end of part one but don't go away as we return to snow is our theme not as extreme weather but for extreme sport we meet snowmobile start daniel bode in

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second master class this month and claimed he'd help russian fighters grow tougher this robot that onion found that. a legend in town stephen c. go they have small widely recognized as an action movie star than a great martial artist by the seventh day i get a specialist was the first foreigner to open if you don't screw or dog in the japanese martial arts in japan alice thursday read john to moscow for his second masak less in somewhat seventy the traditional and most popular martial arts school in russia. it was not only demonstration but also what a sum up with the sure good game for my quito we will get in i you know but not

mention usually strike with the arms and. back of the head from the hand and strike to the program striking the face of the strike if we so many come with sports around its i.q. this extremely sophisticated techniques which make it really special i mean the way i think is probably differ from other provide like to teach my students caught up to first when they're younger because i don't like the children to be. putting their joints in danger in an early age and that i don't like to start teaching people like you doing top of their thirteen fourteen fifteen years somebody said otto can i be efficient but i've been in a lot of real fights with my kid on it was damn the fish. and if you asked a guy who was getting thrown around by me hotel yeah. it works and it hurts and hotel you know he has to go it's not some fake thing and i do it as the same with

somebody to send what's there if the right guy is doing it it's very real cvo his also helped to fine tune the skill. of some of the best mixed martial artists like you in which an undersea sewer and intends to gain some russian students to harm the whole crew that you were. bringing some more influence in here to work with the russian fighters there are the words are by far the river great russian fighters but i think it's it's you know it's a beginning process. and they're learning her right or are we going to have a lot of great riders come out of here a lot of refreshed. and cozy he's masa class in the russian capital one of the world's martial arts i can still see go made sure that he would be coming back. about botany on r.t.

moscow. let's move to another combat sport requiring quick reflexes fencing last weekend the prestigious moscow saber event was held in the capital where a russian olympian who was returning from a paternity break crowned a memorable year to take individual gold medal i chose has more. this spectacular moscow say before in some two months has been captivated crowds in the capital since nine hundred seventy three two hundred competitors from twenty three countries took part in those this year which was the st petersburg native who claimed the men's crown twenty six year old nicholas koval it finished third at the london olympics then took time off for the birth of his second child but has now produced a first by beating italian olympic silver medalist diego akira at sea in a tense contest which left him with just a few proud words which was all for because i really wanted to win here in my home country that was my only goal today it was a good tournament and i didn't want to disappoint the russian public. the lineup

for the women's final was a mirror image of the men's as the fences who'd finished with silver and bronze in london again took to the stage local star saphir had finished second in the british capital and was one of the up again in the russian one is twenty two year old ukrainian although hard to learn with a narrow victory there was no hard feelings from the leaker who kept up an excellent personal record in home a vent there's an image to the story or some of that upset but i'm also glad that for the ninth time i finished among the top three at the moscow saber tournament this is a good tradition for this storm and is one of the most important for me it inspires me no matter what shape i'm in or what my spirits are i just pull myself together to give the best performance for the fans and my friends and relatives. in the team competition russia took on top opponents hungary in their one thousand finale the home team included men's individual champion cover live but despite

a close match the hungary and aged in front to take the overall title by just one point nevertheless this performance bodes well for team success at the twenty sixty every olympics as the russians aim to further boost their status among the world's best the last ice age as we speak remains to be one of the most important place until it's in the world and so we feel remorse means join the save offensive elite michelotto our team for sport. now let's turn to some memorable words and former england captain rio ferdinand says english football should be revamped if the three lions are to win a first major trophy since one nine hundred sixty six the manchester united center back spoke after pulling out ahead of england's eight no thrashing a summary no. the moment spring leading the way and trying people how to do and how it's done and maybe we need to go back to the drawing board member of a real good good look at ourselves well from the bomb all the way to the top in

terms of the culture where you bring in office for a. game ready to play in preparing installments because up to now we've not been able to find the right who are really i mean while another former england captain david beckham fancies a family holiday in china after the paris midfielder played football with local kids in his new high profile role as the communist states ambassador of the beautiful game. i'm hoping that i can bring the children over because victoria's been here before with the children and never been to china i think to experience the culture to experience the country and to see the excitement of the fans you know for the children that would be very exciting. and legendary boxing trainer freddie roach has told top bob am his latest chinese potter will be an immediate success as to time and pick champion zuma shimming held an open workout in hollywood ahead of his professional debut next month. he learns quickly.

he's very he's a great student and you know. any one of the two time gold medalist you know yeah yeah. and he picks things up very quickly. i think. you know with. the world. now let's turn to a story of an extreme sport and extreme courage a snowmobile stand on your boat in return from a serious neck injury in style by winning the best trick award at the twenty thirteen x. games johnson ended up off court up with a flying swede during a trip to st petersburg.

you have to be precise with every single jump or you could be a very heavy price is hard to imagine that just a year ago daredevil daniel broke five bones in his neck after attempting to land it four and flipped into a beetle foam he was lucky to survive doctors said it would take the twenty nine year old two to three years to recover but this week was back in just four months stay strong atheists look forward all the time going forward stay positive that's all the thing you can do and here i am back in business also myself i can write you know i mean writing is my life and if i can draw does not mean that fearless champion stormed back from his accident to produce the form of his life grabbing his second best trick award in style at the prestigious eggs games this january his gravity defying back flips on the two hundred kilogram snowmobile always leave the crowd open miles and he's already earned the status of being a freestyle small cross legend.

you know to keep it there for i mean just look long and that's the but you know number one it's all about doing new tricks i mean the district said no one done before so you like is it even possible to do this trick no one knows there's no answer to it just no book to look it up like it's just possible use that to go sell what dean kicked off his coyote in korea riding a motorbike and at some advance in the summer you can watch him performing back flips on both machines. they have a man ofan often learns his tricks on his own fro dirt bike before trying them on the sled is always aiming for something new pushing the boundaries no matter what. it to rain and not only with the engines. though i still enjoy snowboarding you know you know i mean i'm not kidding the park in a macho so much anymore but free riding. by dean's overriding passion for snowmobiling

has proved that breaking a few blooms one stopped him from breaking a few records as they did it will continues to push his sport and his body to the extreme. on sunday about parties. and finally let's travel south to the winter olympic resort of sochi where many of the purpose built and use for the twenty fourteen games have already been tested this week it was the turn of the jewel of the olympic park the bolshoi i stay which allowed a group of young hockey players and figure skaters to take to the ice while crouching to reports. well with just three hundred nineteen days to go now until the start of russia's first ever winter olympic games it seems that such ease venues aren't stracke to shine come the opening ceremony not least the bolshoi ice

dome which is considered the olympic parks p.s. there is a stance that finally opened its doors to russia's future medal hopefuls with a group of schoolboy hockey players getting the unique chance to spread the ice. who did it in logan the kids are loving the experience they've all got a lot of emotions right now it's a great stadium we've enjoyed every moment on the ice for sure the kids will be talking about this for a long time to come because it was certainly a treat for the youngsters knowing that they were on a stage which will be graced by future olympians the ice dams training was also opens giving a school of young figure skaters the chance to test the facilities. while the head of the local stating federation says the ice has already achieved success fortunes it was no it's great news for sorties figure skaters i mean we used to

have to travel to other towns and cities in the region to skate but now we've got our own place a home arena if you will and the dome is currently open three times a week for children to train on and has confirmed scheduling times for training right up until the games. while omega timing of the official olympic time keeper has also unveiled the system which will be used at all the speed skating events it was first tested at the previous games in vancouver and for the recent world championships in saw cheek where russia took gold medals in both the men and women's events for the first time in seventeen years margaret franco moscow and that's often the sports show i have. mission free couldn't take shouldn't three times for charges free. range month

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