plus walking tall russian big ukrainian their last friendly before the european boss people championships as the new look squad aims to repeat their two thousand and seven trials. and ice task to we look ahead to the new ice hockey season is to pay a child giants not horns and i shall start alexander ovechkin unveils russia's kid with a sore chilean picks. but first let's kick off with mobile and after weeks of negotiating totaling a gas bell has joined realm of dread on a six year deal for a world record free of almost one hundred thirty three million dollars the twenty four year old while star will receive over four hundred sixty six thousand dollars a week in wages the move eclipses the one hundred twenty four million dollars which right outside manchester united were cristiana rinaldo in two thousand and nine bale joined spurs as a left back from southampton six years ago and last season scored twenty six goals in forty four appearances. while chelsea have signed cameron strike at some less so

that russian club when understood free transfer a one year deal the search a two year old rejoins coach jerry is a marine you know who led us into the landslide to the trouble in two thousand and ten last month and she's billionaire own most of them and got the most slashed the club's big budget selling a host of top players including brazil we filled up also to chelsea boss christopher samba and russia got the eve order to number. and retired in june star david beckham has been back in training with his former club the l.a. galaxy but despite still proving his skills on the pitch the thirty eight year old has no plans for a comeback on the hanging up his boots in may in contrast former teammate landon donovan has signed a three year contract extension as america's all time top scorer looks to add to his tally of fifty six goals in rio next year. most of the time i'm going to be guaranteed. player as long as i'm training on playing well and. this is the best

place for me to be leading up to the world cup and so i took all that into account all that into consideration but it was so overwhelmingly obvious that this is the place i want to be leading into hopefully my fourth world cup. well meanwhile pep wadia enjoys a marina and faced each other again as by in munich beat ten month chelsea five four on penalties in the european super got final in prague fernando torres volley the blues in front off to a minutes then straight after the break frank rebury equalized from twenty five yards chelsea a last remaining us to a second booking later on but two minutes into extra time a them has not restored barely eat better check them produced a flurry of saves but couldn't stop having martin as leveling with the last kick of the game and off the nine successful penalties manuel neuer safe from remember lou kaku to give quadea his first trophy with fine in my opinion the best the most. the team that deserves more to win last but that's football sometimes it happens in

food will not always the best team the best team wins not always a team that deserves more win the game we have the opportunity to win the first time for this club the super cup you know so no by all the titles around the world it is the first time in we are so proud for for this club to be bigger. well three days before their european super got triumph by and dropped their first points of the buddhist league as season after they were held to a late one one draw at struggling freiburg couldn't she care we put a dominant bond ahead officer to three minutes but the defending champions had to settle for a point often little less though the snatch a stunning piece that equalized a fine and i'm second two points adrift of brasil dortmund. while a governess second leg draw a time to ten month athletico madrid was enough to see barcelona try on away goals

and lift a record eleven spanish super cup that developers produced great sides either side of the interval visit of ben hunt the police sent off late on the last minute boss were awarded a spot kick start strike at little messi get the ball to the coach but although martino still playing his first piece of silverware after guiding the cats one giant one until the away leg. now with the european boscobel championships about to get on the way russia finished their preparations with a comfortable friendly win at home to ukraine and head to slovenia in a confident mood positive but apple has more. it's been six years since russia lifted that big is boston all too often as they edge close being in the euro basket decided in madrid they did lots man then failed to defend their title but did play in bronze in twenty zero zero zero zero zero zero five members of that's broad will miss this year's event including all-star forward and that he could enter into my

famous go as the two meter a sixteen centimeter or seven foot tall center took a break to prepare for a leap for the new n.b.a. season but only just is my training is going well but it's a pity i can't help the side of this tournament it's hard to watch the game sitting in the stands and not playing i believe that these guys can achieve a lot blot his sins gun and the role of head coach has now passed to us to look at ourselves in the build up to the european championships the russians steered his side through in mind fran lives with mixed results and it was only after claiming victory in the last match at home to ukraine that the olympic bronze medalist felt a real sense of optimism despite trailing twelve points to two in the first few minutes against ukraine the russians for back to be dominating on the court and just as he had been in the last summer olympic bronze medal match against argentina minnesota's alex he should be at was the nation's leading scorer this time sinking

twenty three of the points in the eighty six to seventy win but this was published i feel some serious possibility and know that man if that is count on me it was all trying my best not to let them down work even harder and claim victories. while city could i self once again proved he was russia's biggest boston the nineteen year old son of the head coach and cleveland cavaliers draft big scheme to shining his second major tournament as his country's much change what turns to you rather than experience but by the way that we have a new team with new coaches getting to know each other's game and we had to win this last match on home ground to gain extra. we're not a tough group of the eurozone but we're hungry for windows that will do our best. job with that easter that's most of the other we have many young players and a lot depends on the atmosphere within the team there are a few things we need to improve but so far i'm satisfied of the way we play tonight's show finish at least seventh in slovenia they will qualify for next

year's world championships in spain in the first group stage they will face twice four winners italy and greece as well as turkey sweden and femur and if they knew form confidence leads to an opening victory against the taylor and so wednesday then russia's younger stars will be hoping for a podium finish as well as a ticket to spain constantine by the our team. moving on to tennis and there have been several big name upsets at the last grand slam of the season the u.s. open in the women's draw two thousand and eleven champion sam stars that was the first round highest profile casualty with a shock three set defeat to american teenager victoria duval the eleven seed lead by a set of four games to two but the seventeen year old qualifier who walked back to stunned the home crowd before crashing out of the next hurdle. and it was a third round exit for check it patrick bit of that as the former wimbledon champion fell ill and bad as two american wildcard alison risk six three six love

and former world number one caroline wozniacki also lost as italian qualifier camilla georgie prevailed in a twenty three set at four six six four six three. while you katherina mccotter is the last russian standing in the women's draw after upsetting wimbledon finalist sabina lisicki of germany six four seven five in the third round before also knocking out polish birdseed national banks got six four six four to reach their second grandson to form the season but maria kirilenko fell victim to the hand. simona halep as the in-form rumanian extended her winning streak to eight matches with an easy six large six one victory and two time grand slam winner spent learn it was not so but also you turned into the net go crashing out if you got the up america seven five six one. and in the men's

draw thirty two year old lleyton hewitt claimed the biggest scalp so far as he knocked out sixty eight one martin del potro who made seventy errors in the second round five set battle to form a champions that lasted just over four hours history in veteran went on to beat yevgeny don't score in four sets and next faces another russian in the last sixteen . thank you now let's move on to ice hockey as some of the stars of the russian national teams unveiled their new olympic kits with the red machine targeting gold at the country's main winter games in sochi next february michael crabtree and co reports. the unveiling of a new kid for any team carries with it a sense of a new start but for russia's ice hockey teams the strips unveiled last week serve more as a reminder of past successes the men's why jerseys have eight gold crowns on them and a gold stars on the red version signifying the eight olympic gold medals won by russia

and the soviet union and the new kids are also meant to galvanize the team and the nation ahead of russia's biggest sporting event yet the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics where the men will hope to make it gold number nine with the help of n.h.l. star alex on but i've yet to get into that every athlete wants to participate in the olympics as it's one of the most important or words in your life but it's one thing to take part two when we were shows always want to win and i think we have what it takes especially with this new kit you always want to perform in a nice kit. and they chelan russia legend alexei yashin took overall charge of the women's national team last december and in preparation for the olympics has now expanded his role to work with the men's squad. was born i'll still be the general manager of the women's team and will continue to work with them but i also now be working closely with the men's team especially with those players based in the u.s.

as i spend a lot of time there and can check up on my performances and fitness more closely. meanwhile just outside of moscow at the noble training center men's head coaching little believe will lead the red machine to gold at the two thousand and twelve world championships was busy working with the sports russian based plays and believed in the thinks there's no discrepancy within the national team between those members who play in the n.h.l. and those from the cage zero zero. we don't have any in hey joe players training here right now but when we gathered in sochi recently to check out the infrastructure the lads had time to catch up the atmosphere within the squad was great plus there were hardly any differences between the n.h.l. players and the k h l players which makes it all the better however the head coach stressed that while spirits are high the squad's main goal was to hone this camaraderie to help them focus on succeeding at the winter olympics. but i wouldn't say there are many difficulties ahead in terms of preparation as everything is

going according to plan but i think the main task will be to really get each player to shake off any personal issues they might have and ensure we put together the most tight knit team possible only this way can we realize our goal. is with just over five months to go until russia's first ever went to games it seems there's no lack of enthusiasm in the men's ice up the team and they'll be hoping that this will be the extreme greedy to help put another star on the red shirt market genco r.t. moscow. and that golden ambition brings us to the end of part one but don't go away as we'll be back with more on ice action after the show break. they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more than yourself if you joined the military for any other reason that you're probably

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defeated norway to win the four nations ice sledge hockey tournament and russia beat the czech republic to bronze in the final test event before the country's first winter paralympics michel craft anchor reports from the black sea resort. the reigning world champions canada went into the final as favorites with a one hundred percent record in the round robin tournament well no we had just suffered one defeat but it was a five one drubbing at the hands of the canadiens and true to form the north american side is the one two zero up in the first period then he has control of the second coasting to a three an elite and could have scored more the norwegians bravely held off their opponents going into the third canada added to moguls late on to seal a convincing five zero victory i'm cheap the un but intact when i lose this term at the meetings come see the race. you know just know the atmosphere how did how the puck goes off and see the change rooms that was the number one goal this week it's

a one off i've got games is it's just kind of the ratio in the case. you know we have great difficulty so we're we're still doing try to train our you guys valid response and you know september first we want to be here so it's in a way we just want right now and i'm already thinking about all the work we have to do we get home so i will enjoy tonight and he'll jump out of think about it in the back to work or sit in the match to decide to place russia had the chance to make amends for disappointing overall showing after failing to register a single victory while opponents the czech republic were also looking to avoid finishing last and opened in the first period but russia immediately leveled. the home fans urged the team on with trumpets and the familiar cry of shy shy or one more go and russia julie responded scoring twice in a second to take a three one lead though the czechs pulled one back before the break however the floodgates opened for the home nation in the third as russian that's it for an

ounce of goals to finally secure a comprehensive seventy two first victory of the tournament and with the bronze medal. our first game didn't go very well maybe we weren't properly motivated them however against the chicks we were. unfortunately we're third and we simply couldn't let ourselves down we also knew it would be unforgivable to let down our fans coaches and everyone who works with us so we grit our teeth and we got the result we get to feel blimp experience and that it was once all the changes it was good for everyone to test a new venue. and while the competitors had the opportunity to practice in their arena well they'll be vying for gold come march those who planned the test event were also impressed with the new infrastructure great job with the facilities the organization the organizing committee is extremely well organized and cooperative so easy to work with which is important for us coming in and having

a vent like this so at this point we're really happy with you know the preparation that's taking place for the paralympic games and i think we all can look forward to a great great event come march so with all the test event now successfully over the shi'a or puck arena can now focus on the fine details with the seventh of february and the seventh of march now firmly within sight when the seven thousand seat arena is set to be filled with fence shouting the rally cry scheiber for the national team like of genco saatchi well let's stay on the ice as the sixth season of the kontinental hockey gets underway this week and robert father nan takes a closer look at the hold as the nominee and contend as a scone after they face each other in a pre-season tournament here in moscow. saw that in russia nice hokey classics the country's most famous club around the globe and in a most skilled one of their arch local rivals throughout the decades in domestic

leagues up on two occasions and even in the beijing games the ice rink is a battlefield my legs never oak the man who led the reigning champions and i must go to the victory twice in a row and john for charity the american who was with you gotta let hope stanley cup winning team as an assistant coach and cross the atlantic to take over and revive the glorious traditions of the on the men who are going to try and play a fast and. we've done a lot of conditioning the last month. so we have a strength coach. we want to play a scheme and you know we're going to make mistakes as we go along here because some new systems and we're just going to keep trying to improve in that system you know week by week and month by month. by christmas at first game exactly what gave them

. in the maersk up match against the nominee said additional opened two minutes before the first intermission to prove some of the team chemistry is already there for monk who are kennex forwards brandon reed two time winner without bourse alexei models of the likes of seasoned professionals for their father of and alex a break in just some of the new reinforcements this isn't we're just trying to put together a group of guys we've got almost twelve new players so we're not you know we're focusing on just getting better game by game. and just hopefully we can just keep building our team to play like a team like guy and that team managed to level the game in the final period not seem so obvious make it one one on a poke play with a great eight. it would help his one club during the lookout watching from the stands yet though the blue and whites had retained last year's victorious roster

there yet to regain their imperious form it was the other men use national three three minutes from time to dish it out of netting a brace to seal the final score of q one has completely my congratulations to scoff for this win when the game started we just weren't ready for the temple they set us we managed to pick up the pace in the second period and i would shot them in the third and it was a good game we always want to win and i'm glad we played with heart and we're close to coming from behind so we'll be working even harder now that means the double defending genocide going to be even tougher to the throne citizen while the other men eventually secure the maersk out and could well be one of the main threats to the none has done us but i'm very in there on our team most of. staying with winter sport the new ball place season gets underway in november and veteran russian team

leader alexander so-called is preparing to be in top form for his fifth winter games in sochi author recruiting a former rival in his quest for gold because i didn't get up off has more. nineteen ninety nine was a turning point for alexandre's of course and for russia after more than korea on the lose he switched to bob slate and became a star the siberian native was the first russian to win the european and then the world championships as well as the world cup and now aged thirty nine he's preparing to claim the one man old that so far eluded him olympic gold on his fee for appearance and at his home event horton we're still in training so we're far from top form at the moment we have time and a lot to do before the olympic season gets underway the main thing is to avoid injuries and if we work hard enough we'll get the result it published. i at the two thousand and six games in two in zuckoff to excel when the

four men event and added bronze in the two man board four years later in one coober he then retired to become the minister of sport in his home region offer coots but just a few months later he was back judging the two man team to their maiden world championship gold and after a saatchi delon picked track will also host russia's first ever world championships in two and a seventeenth a date in the targets of call has a yet to rule out i've never said to anyone that i'd quit after the sochi olympics we'll see how we perform there and it all depends on my health if i'm fit enough then who knows what might happen zuckoff is now training under his former rival and canada's most successful bobsled are p.r. looters the forty two year old retired after competing at his feet and also home olympics and then cover and became russia's coach last year now the one time adversaries have teamed up and aim to bring home russia's first man saw me at the

olympic gold i think the thing that's very unique with with alexander and myself is there was always good level of competition when we competed there were never any problems i think there was a high level of respect and that's carried over not only with him but with all the athletes. you know where we're not working together and we're working together for the goal and that's to win when you know it at the olympics for russia to get it i like working with looters well just a couple of years ago we were competing against each other so it didn't take long for us to understand how we'd work together after three decades on the track in two different disciplines and with a host of achievements thirty nine year old zuckoff now has just one target gold for russia and saatchi consignee about out of r t. now after all that wintry action let's catch up with the rest of the week's news from the world of sport sprinkling you sign bold once again failed to show at the diamond league event in zero eight

as the six time olympic champion dominated the men's one hundred meters topping nine point nine zero seconds had the fellow american a fellow jamaican i should say nicole ashmead america's former world an olympic champion justin gatlin completed the podium. but before that manchester united on both met fetus president sepp blatter at the headquarters in surrey to exchange gifts with the jamaican receiving the alma delhomme mascot for next year's football world cup in brazil the country's second biggest city rio one of us our house the next summer olympics in twenty six the bolt aims for his third straight sweep of the medals. to actually go to. rio or actually we may get to be a feat in itself because it would be the first time anybody has ever won treat on zero so me. i think back to our start to my greatness so for me the key thing is

just to go back to defend my title that's my focus while rainy weather couldn't stop the recent running craze here in moscow of thirty thousand how to run around the capital's exhibition center dubbed we run the ten kilometer race was held for the fourth year and it was just one of many events to hit moscow this summer as the capital also prepares to host its first marathon next week. much thought now imagine g.p. champion whole day never ends i was back on top off the edge and inform our market in a straining british grand prix at silverstone to spawn yet exchange the lead three times on the final lap a twenty year old market so he's always winning wrong come to an end on the team right down to the drugs that. as he market under and so swept the podium for a third straight time marcus leads the overall standings by thirty points from the drivers the events of nine points further back and six races left to go on the calendar. and finally the world's top pound for pound boxer

floyd mayweather jr says he's facing a solid competitor a mexican opponents all of that is as the two undefeated fighters held their respective media workouts ahead of their title fight in las vegas next week about us is putting his w.b.c. and w.p.a. light middleweight belts on the line while looking to destroy my weather as the super champion at thirty six the american star is thirteen years older than elvira's and knows he has to dig deep to keep his perfect record of forty four wins intact. you know he's forty two and those sort of obvious you don't see them right you know to get to this point so you know he's a guy i know that i can overlook so i got a good to you to go out for the next i guess to have weeks push was a good day to work hard and just listed a game where they might have. and that's it from a sports team i think. so

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