you know we have you know everybody mccorkle everything that's iris and i you know everybody came out of the court should read and played well. a strong start by saying scratch her and i chew and i'm in the top sixteen or shall grease a richards of a bottom of a group but two straight losses not a great start for club but one of the oldest in the early behaving to regain those former glories rich of a whole fleet i don't see. well meanwhile former n.b.a. star dennis rodman signed happy birthday to north korean leader kim jong un before leading a squad of former n.b.a. players in a friendly game against north korea's team in pyongyang the hall of famer dedicated the game to his best friend kim who turns thirty one on january the eighth happy by what it is that a woman has become appeal to the north korea's government fourteen thousand people one day to match the all stars forty seven was to thirty nine in the first off the teams were mixed up so this.

is not about money just one thing despite what just toss that is why do want to try to have an issue we're sure over the viewers you know. people come here and say hey your career is not enough but. you know the marshall was actually trying to change this country. while jumping on me while in the n.b.a. last thursday two time defending champions miami stumbled to the first of two straight defeats in new york going down one hundred two points to ninety two at the knicks the wrong james scored in just eight hundred three a game draw in white twenty story as the pink led by five points at the halfway stage yet anthony's twenty nine helped to inspire and next fight back with the home side running out ten point win is next day miami also lost to be even phonebook in that spot while the knicks and now for much reduced. three. now to

a different kind of hate self the tennis world number one serena williams said she wasn't afraid of the thirty five degree temperatures at the australian open as the american five time champion prepared to open against seventeen year old local wildcard actually bhatti. have been training my whole life in the heat some i think i'm pretty used to it and i mean obviously he is just completely different than any other he voted so. it's ok and you just got to be ready to play in any circumstances and on the men's side for time as defending champion novak djokovic used last argentine as one minako seventy five six won in an exhibition match in melbourne before kicking off his title defense against sliding back lukash lascaux cave edge was joining the other hot from rockefeller dot andy murray and roger federer the serbian six time grand slam champion is targeting his fifth grand down on now with one point boris becker as his new coach. it's great to be back a i love

australia i love coming back here i miss that also. you know last couple of couple weeks i've been spending a lot of time of course on the court with my team and off according to jim and doing everything necessary to get ready for a start of the season and of course the first grand slam. and on the eve of the australian open the bitch once again who knew that chocolates to journalists at the pre-tournament press conference something that's becoming a bit of a tradition while the women is defending champion victoria azarenka valorous hopes they can also maintain their winning ways at melbourne park as the twenty four year old targets her third straight title. i think you know she was she was joking i said like it became a tradition you know do this every year and this is you know there are trying our hardest to make sure we do the surgery but you know it's been fun last year as hopefully thinking. next year might not be fun for the world's highest paid

baseball player alex rodriguez is set to lose around twenty two million dollars after the new york yankees third baseman is banned until the end of the season following a don't think scandal a rod suspension was actually cut from a would be record of two hundred eleven to one hundred sixty two games but will still keep him out of the postseason matches the thirty eight year old plans to contest the ban in federal court. now into winter sports and the canadian ice hockey team will soon head to sochi even to defend their olympic title while one former all star player is already in the east helping out the latest team to join the k h l council game but top of caught up with mentor shaq captain jonathan cheechoo here in moscow. right winger johnson she sure has been always cheesing his ice hockey dream born into a native crease settlement called moose factory in the canadian province so from tyra she made his community proud by making his way into the san jose sharks where

he set the club record in gold and walked away with the morris rocket reshot raunchy in two thousand and six after fifty seagull season but after a few injury field campaigns he struggled to earn the sports in the n.h.l. roaster and decided just walk north america's second tier age for europe's top division the cage becoming a welcome addition to its newest addition creation side medalist shark biggest obstacle was coming over and just basically help put an n.h.l. on hold like i had last three years and try to make it back and you know it just wasn't great fits for me. but over here i wanted to come play this is probably the first to go so the n.h.l. so for me i wanted to you know i had a high level still and coming over here i think provided that opportunity it's been a long and rocky road on the journey that brought cheechoo it was not great where maybe shaq i making the occasional debut in their fifty fourth year while thirty

three year old cheechoo became the team's captain and made history by scoring their first to make a chill go had fun time in madison they've been great fans over there and it was great for them. for me to be able to experience it now first call and how loud it got and how excited they were. just been having a lot of fun. i like the fans over here they really get into it you know pretty much every rink is a noisy rink and. you know you get some places where you know maybe the fans are know as much about hockey as. it's a do over here i think pretty much everybody over here knows you know the game has been around the game it's kind of like planning canada i see. lags behind football in the sport lobbying contrails gradation mcmahon wish jock a very poor fuel or its home and have earned many admirers in russia is due to the attractive for an attacking style with just eleven games to go in their maiden

regular season of the capital side a comfortably in the frame for the playoffs and almost sent for their debut in the knockout stages i think our job is just to get to the playoffs and then you know once you get the playoffs anything can happen and it doesn't matter where you're seated i think we're seeing in every every league a lot of times here an eight seed when said you know like where it's just getting hot at the right time i think that's the key for us is the pitch at the right time . and you can do that you get the goaltending behind you anything's possible however the biggest guys hold on to this season will take place inside she is the ball drops at the winter olympics on february the twelfth and with the world series being announced a month before the games start she choose expecting in memorable tournament. there's some solid looking teams there. u.s. russia sweden. they all look pretty solid and you can never count the fans out they

always come out and compete hard so. it's looking to be a. really high intensity you know i think it's going to be a great olympics washing with his old injury wounds from the n.h.l. now well behind him cheechoo is determined to lead his new team to glory and ensure the twilight of his career sees the success in creation that he dreamed off back in canada. archie. and all that brings us swiftly to half time but we'll be back with the pazzi packed with all build up to the winter olympics stay change during the short break. because he doubted states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flack i mean globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot

dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america and as a guy who lives in moscow i could say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing a new national idea a new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but twice in the twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after a glorious victory now you see why people here aren't exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea there is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but sadly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should i say against america near universal belief in the

constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion.

welcome back to part two of the sports show now with the clock ticking down to the sochi olympics sports fans have been planning their journeys to get to the black sea resort but one russian will be doing it the hardest way as michael craft explains in the thirty one day run up to the twenty fourteen winter olympics there's still bags of time for you to get to sochi from moscow you could actually fly there and back a whopping one hundred eighty times you could drive there and back thirty six times or even take the train thirty times but one man has decided to take a more grass roots form of transportation that will give him only one realistic chance of making it to the opening ceremony on the seventh of february and that is by running and while the idea of traveling seven hundred kilometers on foot might sound crazy the man attempting to do it isn't dimitri yet often is a seasoned runner of twenty two marathons and fifteen alterations including the grueling marathon the saab and

a two hundred fifty kilometer run through the sahara desert but for this epic trek on home soil you know him has one simple aim so to be such the main goal is just to complete the run i wanted to experience what it would be like to run such a distance seven hundred kilometers in thirty days i've run shorter distances in the past and i joined them but no i want to test myself against a four digit distance. idea for the most go to such a run came when you talk and realize that one of the world's biggest sporting events was about to take place in his country and he couldn't take part in it so we decided to run over fifty five kilometers a day for thirty days in order to reach the black sea resort in time for the opening ceremony on february the seventh while hoping to raise awareness of a debilitating condition that's the second leading cause of death worldwide at the dutch. another main goal of my run is to support the fight against stroke that fact

that you can reduce the risk of having strokes by run in is one of the main reasons behind this which is also why it is a charity run while you can is supporting the russian fight against stroke fund the run him self will also have backup on route as his formidable olympic journey and the course he's hoping to promote have prompted others to run some of it by side. with a break when i first heard of the idea it inspired me and when i heard that me too it was running cologne over to help him realize his dream so i'll be following his every step and making sure he gets there you have a shot if i wanted to support me three by writing with him at least at the beginning because i believe this is very important that such a moment for our country when the whole world will be watching us to be able to take part in these grand to vand in some ways and i hope it will stay in people's hearts for a long time to come it often will be posting photos via instagram on the runs

official website throughout the journey and so the nation and the rest of the world can give the support to this intrepid runner on his multi marathon journey to ensure he gets to the games on time like have janko r.t. moscow. and when those such a games get underway russia will be looking to take some medals in short track speed skating and robert got on and tells us who and why. russia is still far from being a monk short tracks powerhouses but when it comes to speed skating everything may be changing fast last january the two thousand and thirteen european championships in sweden so the russians claim their first ever by thousand meter relay gold with one of the team's leaders. also repinning his two thousand and twelve success and clinching his second wife hundred meter continental build a year on there is a huge opportunity to make it to the next level on home ice at the two thousand and

fourteen olympic games in sochi. because i think for me it's not about extra pressure and all my home fan support can only encourage and boost my performance when it comes to the olympic games you always want to win the book when you feel the crowd is behind you that is something special it's a save bed the games will be really special for one of the most degraded athletes of the sport victor on this return olympic champion of cyrene two thousand and six for south korea was forced to leave his former team and country due to a conflict with the korean skating union vice president their coach after missing the two thousand and ten games in vancouver and receiving russian citizenship twenty eight year old looking forward to his olympic comeback in sochi. along with his younger teammates three million lists rather an all good billick over who already tasted the flavor of the games in two thousand tanned and claimed the time

to shine has finally come for us on this side of course this time around it is a different story first of all we're much better prepared now in terms of training staff equipment medical service plus i've grown up again the limbic experience and confidence i don't feel any hyper pressure from media or friends of mine the games are coming soon but i sleep pretty well you know. i don't feel nervous ahead of the games we all feel like we've done so much to make it to their limbic team especially within the last season and it paid off the finish line is on the horizon we just need to show our best and such in russia head coach frenchman sebastian cross it scotius in his olympic predictions but one can suspect its expectations traits much stronger than his words we keep the same target for me to come back with at least one million. because olympics is completely different competition so

we can surely want to watch and be in ship but it's different completely different so. even if maybe we can do more if we can come back with one we don't know it will be already a really really good the foyle prelim big test the two thousand and fourteen european championships will take place in dresden germany where the end of january . r.t. moscow region moving on to i saw and alexander ovechkin backed fellow n.h.l. star pablo that soup to become the russian captain of the best when named on the twenty five man pick squad you have get him out and goaltender so we'll follow him off also made the cut after the first choice keeper sort of charges of domestic violence against him dropped last month last time russia won an olympic gold was back in one nine hundred ninety two as part of the unified team but if it says he must first focus on his washington capitals twelve before giving his all for his

country. i don't think about sochi a lot because i'm going to concentrate on forty i'm going to be kind of short on my game here. now and you know i give a hundred percent of what i can to help her win you know often as i got a point i was game before olympic games going to come straight in a fighting game. well there's been a big blow for the american team after star skier lindsey vonn pulled out of sorts because of a nagging knee injury the twenty nine year old claimed the downhill gold in vancouver four years ago and says she's devastated not to be able to defend her title and could be set for more surgery on her right knee. and with the sochi games now less than four weeks away let's take a look at five top russians to watch and their chances of an olympic medal michael graf genco reports.

that's. marks in turn called other favorites to win the pairs title. the russians of the current world and european champions and hold the record for the combined total short program and frisking sports however to do with a stiff competition from germany four time world champions i want to soft and go. score the first ten ever awarded on the judging system and this week's european championships should provide a thrilling test head of the olympics. i learn as a box and i has rediscovered have form in time to shine in sochi after first tasting a surprise victory in the parallel giant slalom at the twenty eleven world championships the twenty four year old has since overcome injury and won both the paolo and giant slalom at last year's russian championships while her husband american born vic

wild is also targeting the podium for his adopted country after winning gold at the russian nationals as well as bronze at last year's world championships. veteran bobsled alexander who called will be competing at his fifth winter olympics he took silver in the format event at turin in two thousand and six and bronze in the two men at my good thirty nine year old has also won six medals at the world championships including gold in the german resort of clinics in twenty eleven and has won before man world cup three times but gold at his home olympics would crown a glittering career. alexander thirty points is the first ever russian to be crowned skeleton world champion twenty eight year old. in competing since two thousand and four and is

improving every year he won the overall scale to the world cup in two thousand and nine followed by bronze at the world championships two years later he took world silver and this p.g.a. just the right time winning the world time last year in vancouver trees across the bronze in sochi is after gold. will turn thirty one on the first day of competition at his home olympics after a modest showing at the two thousand and six games the speed skater was a russian revelation in vancouver taking bronze in the five thousand meters as well as silver in the ten thousand the following year he was crowned european and world around champion and is the host nation's big hope for gold and aims to have a birthday which will live long in his and russia's memory. r.t. . and finally with exactly

a month to go before those games such as main media center opens next to the olympic park in the coastal cluster the brand new building will provide workspace for thousands of journalists and will operate twenty four seven from next week on another media center is due to open also next week for those covering the events in the mountain cluster one dutch volunteer can't wait for the sporting spectacle to begin it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to be in an event this big and i really like. sochi is great it is sunny and it has the mountains. and that's all the sport i thin air. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers

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