our own impressive run in both domestic and european football but it's titles that count and if they mimic side miss out on any come the end of the season few will probably created one of the all of four records without silverware though for the moment that seems unlikely. r.t. . well in the meantime around madrid star christiane iran elbow got stuck during a test drive in the spanish capital and was rested for the four one champions league victory over gala tough serai as well as missing the four no legal win over rail valladolid away gareth bale scored his first ray i have trick but the world record signing still backs the portugal captain to win the ballon d'or in january. to me the world's worst player this is crystal no doubt i think. this season especially was great there isn't the pressure. in the world cup qualifier and and every week very much judy produces every single weekend. and some sad news from

brazil as two people were killed after a crane collapse at the south palo stadium which is set to host the opening match of next year's world cup while six of the twelve venues are yet to be completed by the time that time at the end of this year fifa president sepp blatter said he was deeply saddened by the tragic deaths. now moving on to ice hockey where a new look style about you i have came back from one nil down it was not a struggling three to win a spot track and help cement their chances of reaching the playoffs again something but out of has more on the southern russian team who are showing you might just win things with kids. mazed in the city of new fire about one thousand three hundred kilometers southeast of moscow so are the life ice hockey club was founded in one thousand sixty one and named after in one thousand century a local revolutionary hero thirty years later it established itself as a russian powerhouse and has since become an integral part of the region's identity

after winning the russian superleague in two thousand and eight the team went on the following year to win the maiden regular season of the cage shell in the southern city of finally lifted the coveted getting caught up in twenty eleven however since their triumphs all of your lives have changed the club's direction gutting the budget and relying on home grown players present and past wasn't going to go there just two players left from the team that won the cup in twenty eleven we're now more focused on players who develop through our own system we've transferred back some of our former players is there an easy way forward but step by step we are starting to produce results which is. where i live this seven years ago i get in my mind there could be back and that's what happened it's always good to play for the club that brought you up this isn't i have ten players from the academy this x. responsibility and try to give them as many tips as i can go to idea your resume of

junior has been given the responsibility of building a new team and so for his seems to be succeeding where the team line fourth in the eastern conference in which you're a scene of credits to a roster that can call on a pool of talented local youngsters. that's really cool but unfortunately club loyalty is no longer what it was however i think it's one of the reasons why we're doing so well this season players who take to the ice of their hometown tend to give their best they want to impress their relatives in the supporters we have great fans. we don't want to let down. and it's not just the current crop of young locals who are behind so i want successful performances the club is also on earth in top players from around the world who can provide not only a moment's removed in the standings but also bring in valuable foreign experience to help the sides youngsters improve and progress i tried to so far as players.

what you have to bring to the table every night but it takes three really it's it's a case of missing the big top all the factor everything else that's an area where it's hard to. look things. yeah but i try to bring the leadership and still. be there like one young guys are they really are fickle. the change in some of the alive strategy seems to be passing smoothly and asks only of their fans to have a little bit as the sides junior grow into the roles of champions and bring more silverware to this proud clubs trophy cabinet constantly by the archie. now into basketball an n.b.a. superstar le bron james has vowed to keep getting better as the miami heat forward top scored a twenty eight points to help the champions beat his former club the cavaliers ninety five eighty four in cleveland feel right now i will say i'm the most

complete basketball player and i know i said last year as a physical state i was going to be a better player and i feel like i'm a part of player so i'm not down not down and i'm a sap farm. while one club man kobe bryant has signed a two year contract extension that will take the thirty five year old into his twentieth season with the l.a. lakers the damage is much worse than the worth forty eight point five million dollars the five time n.b.a. champion hasn't played this season with a tag he's accused tendon last april but was happy his team kept pace with him. makes me want to run to all four. you know kind of this adds more fuel to the fire . you know prove to everybody that you know they're right you know everybody else is wrong. while in the euro league says guy moscow secured a top sixteen place with an eighty two seventy four when the devalued yet ukrainian

hosts lead fifty nine fifty eight going into the fourth quarter but the army men then forged ahead here pulled back to within a point after a four three point just didn't play to her top score at karl-heinz and milk they got six combined helped us get sealed their third straight victory. and the russian club locomotive to ban became the first group d. team to qualify for the top sixteen as they thrashed the a two us three test eighty four fifty three in vilnius derek brown top scored for locomotive with twenty points and later coach by shooting was given the joint role of also taking over the russian national team. selection bush's first of all i'd like to say thank you for entrusting me with this job because it's the russian national team it's a very big responsibility we have a big country with a big basketball history and we need to do a lot of work to take the russian team up to the highest level the most important

thing is added to it as we need to make the players understand what a responsibility it is to play for the national team almost just for you which is now let's turn to boxing and a different kind of rematch five years after that controversial heavyweight bout in zurich it on the holyfield was here in moscow and came face to face once again with nikolai valuev the guy i chose as more. evander holyfield is the real deal the former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight division and the heavyweight where he was the only four time winner and claimed victories over fights as such as george foreman larry holmes and mike tyson. now age fifty one then american was in more scope and reunited with another old fart make alive. the man who fired he's a ghost on the books and for eternity by beating holyfield in switzerland with a controversial majority decision to successfully defend his w b a title.

i'm honored to meet this legendary book so once again he's come to see a series must go i hope this won't be the last time many of us when we were still kids and kids growing up now watch a band as fights because here today is a true legend in boxing back in december the twentieth two thousand and eight in the city of zero which holyfield was attempting to become the oldest heavyweight to win a major belt at the age of forty six and he was up against maloof eleven years his junior twenty three centimeters taller and forty three kilograms hevia was the big five for me because when about a fight and so their way what would happen when. i was when i when i walked by the people asked me why would you fight a. fight up like the one with i say into all they telling me hour to hour now like tell a master developer you don't understand i said your knowledge is power isn't how

you apply what you know i. was aiming for his first title difference during his second brain is that he be a champion the fight was a time to try but so would the veteran holyfield surprising all his critics at times the towering russian seemed to be struggling and couldn't find an answer to knock out his opponent about twenty distance with many including holyfield himself believing he'd won it however the stone crowned so follow it handed victory a swift rematch was expected but it never happened and holyfield has no regrets about things that i don't like never have that to get spiders because we both get in the ring we play and somebody else to make of this isn't so we should ever be all bad each other like says about it see that he don't use he don't use referee i don't change the referee hit all jews the judges i don't use it does i've never been bad. some five years on and there has been an unexpected rematch between these

two champions in moscow and with no hard feelings but with a book some story that still divides opinions and joins the crowds from the oldest heavyweights to the youngest contenders michelangelo's auntie. and that's about one go away. science technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered.

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a journey for the soul. only see. right from the sea. first rate. and i think the church. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. be in the. welcome back to the sports show and we raise you with a new mixed martial art judo and at the recent challenge cup in moscow a unique category was contested called absolute between fighters of different weights and heights robert thought onion explains all the skills defeating

size spirit overcoming power and here is a prove the mixed martial art of hoodoo also known as furious karate it was introduced by japan in one thousand nine hundred eighty one and incorporates all major fighting techniques from boxing and my tie to judo and wrestling. it is also the only come with sport that has no weight classes but categories determined by combination of flyers weight and height. but ever this time around there was a dramatic change to the competition the most kuku to challenge at just one category known as absolute mini book giants and light weights were allowed on the same canvas alexi had it done of the two thousand and nine world championships cilla medalist and one of russia's wyler's in the sport declare his way to the

tournaments title after edging out his competitor it and the two thousand and eleven world cup winner. in the semis at the boot in an impressive performance against and even bigger man nikolai vineyards in the finals because she proved that pure class skills and speed can allow you to be those who are much bigger and stronger at least in terms of regulated competition it is a great inspiration for other fighters we all grew up watching movies with bruce lee that's where they really had just a single absolute category that you're playing in this new me up of the show it was a long tournaments at first i face more opponents than me and it wasn't any easier i just found my game later on against the bigger guys my cardio got better i moved faster lighter on my feet equals the event also saw a single women's fight no less dramatic though the local hero eighteen time russian

jam band getting a break of a placed ukraine's that it even noah the russian had beaten her opponent twice before but this time around the outcome was different it was the ukrainian who had a slight edge in the fight that anna did with serious foot injury. yes i'm doing it that actually i am a bit disappointed i didn't want to win this way when we are both going to take part in the twenty fourteen world championships so i hope will finally settle the score there. is now on the fast track and during the olympic program and down there the hands having the widest range of fighting techniques the furious karate he's probably one of the most efficient ways to represent real life situations in sports most of which came on or was the point we compete in kimmel no uniforms unlike

another mixed martial arts and yes it affects the striking and wrestling techniques but look you would not go out just wearing boxer briefs right sult sell me what is more realistic and closer to a real fight with. robert r.t. moscow. now back to football and in england's two man has been charged with conspiracy to defraud after allegations of match fixing something chelsea manager chose a worrying you just doesn't get simply don't don't understand though is it possible for somebody. to go into football binge and but dissipated. in metrics always believe that we all are in love with the game. while there were mixed feelings for rory mcilroy as the two time major winner eagles the seventh hole then birdied the last to win the australian open by a single strike his first title of the season but the twenty four year old was

happy to have a story after coming from social stand to deny local hero adam scopes the chance to complete the wet triple crown of australian p.g.a. last us open titles i wanted to get a win by the end of the season and you know finally i've been able to get one of the more satisfying than not is being able to go to the best players in the world on the strachan and come out on top bottom is a phenomenal goal for a great competitor and i'm probably an even better guy and tennis world number two know about djokovic she says he was stunned by the view as the australian open champion once again faced top ranked rival rafael nadal but this time in a friendly to promote tourism in argentina the two played against each other six times this season with three wins a pace. this is one of the most interesting places around the world and this is a separate jewel billboard's you know the whole country just about boys course

labor is that. while two thousand and nine formula one champion jenson button returned to his hometown of froome in england to turn on the christmas lights before spinning his wheels to entertain the crown's while seventh on f one when michael schumacher lavished praise on reading champion sebastian vettel off to his fellow germany is right there are two wins in a single season. let alone his teammate. but. it's definitely. true champion. i'm really happy for him if somebody can break all these records i preferred him to be somebody else. well the prospect of russia's first ever formula one race at saatchi has further basted the country's general interest in sport and as richard one poor reports the new golden find of soviet and russian sport is hope to turn enthusiasm into a new wave of competitors. the university games the world of critics championships

formula one the sochi olympics and the world cup the first time since the soviet era russia has regaining its state is a sporting epicenter and to encourage a new generation of champions over four hundred limbic and paralympic stars past and present have given their support to a new sports fund which is due to get underway in two thousand and fourteen among them was four time olympic gymnastics champion alexey nam of who's also a member of the lara sports academy which encourages children ramberg load to get involved in sports and i have a thirty seven year old wants to kick sand a similar scheme closer to home. with me just as our task will be to visit schools until the kids how we managed to become a little bit champions and how they can do that as well we want them to be proud of doing sport and to do it because they want to not just because they are lots of

money from it i want to use my own experiences to help kids understand why they should get involved in sport. sporting charities are nothing new in russia with many big names such as n.b.a. star andrei kirilenko sitting up coaching camps going to schools and hoping to inspire young prodigies however in memory of would like to unite all these organizations under one banner to try and maximize the potential of getting as many children as possible into sports and a form of gymnasts believes russia's first ever winter olympics in sochi will have a positive effect in trying to achieve this. it will be an amazing experience and a great tool to get kids more involved i mean will be to try and put on an olympics to remember which i'm confident we can do of course there are a few nerves as the whole world will be watching us after a disappointing performance of the last winter games in vancouver but an excellent

showing in the paralympics russia's investment in solid she or year training facilities and it's africa it's made to countries hoping to both shine it is made an olympics and inspire its youth and a new fund aims to be van help some of those youngsters turn golden dreams into gold medals richard on board fleet r.t. moscow. now with the winter season finally underway in russia's bobsled and skeleton stars had to settle for silver medals at the opening world cup event in canada that can alexanders a cause of state his four month populated during second place alongside germany and behind american olympic champion steven holcomb while reigning world champion allison star alexander to call finished second best to latvian star martins to cause and russia's first ever women's european champion and nikita was promoted to cells that link britain's lizzie arnold after noel picas pace of the usa was

disqualified. and finally to the such a winter olympics and nine months after online booking began tickets for the games are now on sale while wednesday also i want one hundred days to go until the opening ceremony of the paralympics michael crouch anchor reports. now tickets have already been on sale since february of this year however now you can finally get a physical copy of that ticket that you have bought for the sochi olympics and paralympics and while people are lining up to pick up their individual tickets the mascots behind me have assured me that they too have picked up there is so they will definitely be on hand at the games the moscow in sochi ticket offices open the mid reports that over sixty percent of the tickets had already been sold president putin said he was pleased with the price structure which started from just five hundred rubles or sixty dollars. as have tried to ensure tickets are easy to obtain but some customers say they still faced a few obstacles it's always difficult otherwise they wouldn't be any any any idea

of doing that it should be difficult i'm actually. proud that it's quite difficult because it creates the craves and the the. wish to get. it was difficult to get them because i had to come here twenty four i was earlier and stand in line you know put on their way to least which change has to couple of times which created a few problems but after waiting this long it's a good to finally have them in my hands. meanwhile and. who claimed ice dancing bronze with partner maksim at the last games in vancouver said she expects world pairs skating champions. and maxim trying to go all the way in. our figure skating pair simply have to win gold as for the other sports of course it will be more difficult never the less well all hoping for a medal at least i'm not saying gold but the medal for sure. i stand to touch on

enough to one olympic gold and tour in two thousand and six the same year you've won the men's singles he then claimed silver in vancouver and is currently fighting to be fit for saatchi where nothing thinks he's russia's only podium hope in the men's event. i think it's going to be really hard for if. i don't see anyone else really if he manages even third place it will be a major victory for him and for us i wish him every success in trying. meanwhile the countdown to the sochi twenty fourteen paralympics reach one hundred days on wednesday people gathered at the black sea resort to celebrate the milestone as well as catch a closeup glimpse of some of the two hundred sixteen paralympic medals. that. it's great not only one hundred days to go until paralympic games as well but from celebrating we also decided to interview a park full of sculptures made by schoolkids with the help of professional

sculptors it's not a little something we hope will make the olympic and paralympic winter games even more memorable. and those memories will start to be made in just over two months time as the first of such as two olympic tournament gets underway on february the seventh market party. and that's all the sport i find. war is probably the most complex difficult human activity. but. all of us are still locked up. in the phenomenon of friendly fire probably extends back to the invention of gunpowder.

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cities of russia. relayed by georgians awesome people for sixty five thousand killings. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a live fake torch relay. on r t r g dot com.

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