elves' the closing ceremony of you remember at the opening ceremony but finals ring failed to open and the organizers recapture about moments in the closing ceremony also if you harm back to the nine hundred eighty olympics in moscow where the big bear he shed a tear the same thing happened here at the closing ceremony in solitary but it's been a memorable games of everyone and everyone who did attend a closing ceremony just had a absolutely wonderful time as they took in wonderful big shiny past and musical past what russia's given to the world over the last couple of centuries was an amazing final day sixteen for the russians and especially for cross-country skiers who hadn't brought home the medals than they would have hoped for german course all of the salt you gave i will changed in the men's fifty kilometer my referred in has face what the podium for the first time in history with cough. and cold serve claiming a gold silver and a bronze go by convair silver in the relay just the day before and also

a great day for the bobsled as well alexander's recall of pilotage rushing to man to gold earlier in the competition and again he teamed up with great man and two others as well bring russia gold in before man bobsled just as it were to man be led from start to finish setting track records on the way and what a great games it has been for the russians in setting a new mark of thirteen gold medals and thirty three medals overall breaking the record of a set in a back in a nine hundred ninety four so all looking good for the future of russian winter sports the twenty second olympic winter games two thousand and fourteen are war there too to see the sochi yeah seven years of planning and finally the big day and riot as russia has to be first in the winter olympics the twenty second games got off to a spectacular start and solid she with a memorable opening ceremony and for a free time a limb picked ice hockey champion legendary soviet goaltender treats yank launching

the flame was one of the greatest achievements of his line if. those who ignite the olympic flame go down in history for many years to come because it's a task that is only given to the most popular in the most worthy sportsman it means the world to me because i'm representing the team of my youth the hockey team that is an eight time elim peak champion i feel honored out of all the players they chose me when the competition got under way the pressure was firmly on the russians especially to improve upon the poultry three gold medals they had won in vancouver four years ago and they were given a boost by a figure skaters who won three golds on home ice a team competition and then pairs with maxine trying. helping seal both and in the women's individual competition after a surprise package at the lena sought to cover bridges for performance of our life

to be retiring south korean superstar euna kim and claim russia's first ever gold in batter vents goddesses i would have to says i'm very proud to have won a gold medal at the age of seventeen it's such a great feeling it's about who with everything including myself sometimes i said to my mom i can't do this anymore i'm tired and she says ok give it up i'll still love you anyway but then i realize that i won't give up and will take my gold ten years ago russia didn't even have a sliding center very roughly this which makes for feats of gold medalists alexander tried to cough in the skeleton of a two man bobsled team of alexander's or because of and alex a boy order even more remarkable given the fog it always helps when you're competing at home because of the support you get from your friends and relatives we felt we couldn't let them down and we did our best we used to performing well on any track but winning at the home olympics is twice as sweet much has been made of athletes not competing for the country but berth for these games and russia have

lost as much as fear of gained by a flying start daddy had. i was brought up in siberia but switched to better roots and won three golds on the bare flank while on a sissy equipment won the sprint gold for ducted country survive however three time olympic short trying to champion victor on flight with his native south korea bosses after being overlooked for vancouver olympics and switched his allegiance to russia a decision which paid off as the twenty eight year old won three golds and a bronze to give russia a bit first and the medals and the sport's only appear that i would have to win a medal right away in taking the fifteen hundred meter bronze help me set the tone and take gold in the following events you have winning in sochi was much tougher than and touring because i was performing after a difficult recovery from injury this time around. unlike our vic wild wasn't the start of a maiden's parallel slalom when he married snowboarder. yet the twenty seven year

old american turned russian has gone from strength to strength winning two golds at his home games with the first of his two top of the podium finishes coming just minutes after his wife had won bronze in the women's parallel joined slalom i didn't have any good friday we had states that i wasn't going to reach the goals that i wanted and for sure it's an opportunity to get the balls. to be able to do what i wanted to do to me she brought a new attitude say because he's a way late he's way more aggressive than i am maybe a little more impressive more like a more of a more of a boss if you if you will and. he made me engage in whatever i'm doing in life to do it one hundred percent it's been a record breaking games for russia the broken records of twenty three medals and eleven gold space one in lillehammer in one thousand nine hundred four but whose nation also has one of the youngest squads with an average age of just twenty two

and a half and with the facilities barely inherit from the sochi games the seven years . planning for the country's first ever winter olympics look like braille leave a long legacy and a bright future for winter sports in russia richard bumpy three dancey. and russia were the only team breaking records over the seventeen days of competition in tsotsi as the bolshoi arena broke their own mark to win their ninth icehockey gold and retained their title with a three nothing victory over sweden in the final event of the olympics my father cops men never trailed throughout the tournament and finished their campaign unbeaten and they smothered much fancied sweden from the start of scoring the goal in each period and were never seriously threatened canada also becoming the first back to back a limping champions since the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred four and one nine hundred eighty eight. while all ai not beyond olen became the most

decorated ever winter olympians with thirteen medals by helping norway win gold in the mixed biathlon relay ahead of the czech republic and italy it was the forty year old second gold at saatchi following his triumph in the ten kilometers sprint and his eighth overall from six olympic games his total takes him about combative and daley who won twelve olympic medals in cross country skiing. while another cross-country skier might be again became the most decorated woman in winter games history the norwegian won the women's thirty kilometer mass start to claim her third goal in sochi and six gold of ten olympics medals overall the thirty three year old led norway to a sweep of the podium with today's a you know how in silver and kristen starting this they are taking bronze the eigen also won gold in the fifteen kilometers ski athlone and team classic sprint.

and the netherlands finished an impressive fifth in the medal table thanks to bad dominance in speed skating winning twenty three of the thirty six available medals including eight golds and four clean sweeps of the podium it won five medals in sochi two gold and three silver to become the most successful athlete in dutch olympic history at the age of twenty seven. and the look at the final medal table sees her russia's top three thirty three over all thirteen of them gold as we heard the country's best performance for twenty years where eleven gold and twenty three medals were won in norway finished second in sochi followed by canada the usa and those speedskating dutch. yeah let's turn to fighting talk after three rushers were on the college of the world's biggest m.m.a. arena the u.f.c. with two of them claiming victory but rather broke down the action with

a russian promoter. the sea essentially the ultimate test and curry a pinnacle for every professional mixed martial artist blues champions belt around the waist making a fire the undisputed bass on the planet when it comes to russians flyweight by labor good enough probably the closest one to the top is latest win over brazil and john legere improve his record to three victories out of three belts in the world's toughest competition although the poor interest promoter and you have see corner man kamil good dear is sure but good you know still has much more to offer. ali worked out the game plan perfectly don't give your opponent a chance that's the way allie did it against linacre he fought the fight where he wanted to be bold stand up and on the ground i least still has a lot to show was overseas he doesn't reveal all the tools he possesses his

wrestling is underestimated where he could have shown much more against linacre but he chose to save that for future fights it's great that ali was a totally different fighter in all of his three you have c. bouts in his debut fight he proved his nickname the pointer in the second one he looked good as a striker and in the third he unveiled his awesome ground game so any of his potential opponents still don't know what he's really capable of you have see one six and nine saw another russian making his dad be well to wait on him a lot of overcame visa issues but failed to beat american neil magni decision. frankly speaking i was sure a guy son of a lot of would win despite all the delays with his visa which didn't allow him to prepare properly but he failed it's a pity i believe he is simply a better fighter let them fight ten more times and while lot of would beat neil magni ten times in a row magni showed even more than his best and all my lot of i think there was some

mental pressure there. he couldn't handle plus he wasn't fit enough for the balance and he lacked experience as he tried to save his energy for the final round but then he was just too exhausted to change anything but i'm sure in his next fight he'll be different people who have nothing to lose and will unveil his real potential he will show a great fight trust me. and this third who i'd wait match up or see the highlander might get mad of prove he's the russian to watch against tony martin. without doubt it was one of you have see one hundred sixty nine style i'd real the way rashid mug a matter of escape from that submissions stole the show i think you were always in control he got caught but he has plenty of experience after the fight he told me that it looked much more painful than it really was for him he's a very flexible fighter and that expression on his face it wasn't pain but his efforts to escape from the submission so he got through this terrible first round

and then shoulders much better striking skills and clearly won the fight. after these three fires two more russian steps into the of c. cage as the peak of the country's warriors came for more deadly victories and that debbie belt. a bit but an artsy. and all that brings us to hof time in the sports show but will soon be back with the tool for you at twenty six jane and much more don't go away.

a transit route to vnukovo rippled your best way to the heart of moscow. i don't see how european countries who are member of the european union can solve the problem without leaving the european union so it's obvious that countries like great britain or france you name friends especially with increasing poverty in my opinion they have a difficult they have a difficult time to solve these problems but i think at least they should rearrange the principle rules all free movement of persons and improve the system. well paul told him a language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm not in a position to the know i will leave them to state clearly a comment on your latter point i come on to say it's ok as

a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words when you know they had a direct question he prepared for a change when you punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to question. welcome back to the second half of the sports special where we move on to football and russia have been drawn with sweden in the group stage for you right twenty sixteen in france. oh yeah. it also throws you.

want to give abio side as men were among the top seeds so avoided the likes of defending champion spain germany the dutch and england they were drawn in the relatively comfortable group g. along with sweden captained by p.s.g. star striker lots and he brought him a bitch who missed out on this year's world cup as well as the next in stein moldova montenegro and austria and capello was happy with russia's draw ways from montenegro also in this way then you see that it is good to see this they play well they've got to be confidence and you see the two of them. they didn't qualify for a walk up but they got out of it it goes to qualify for there's a need to respect that that these. in the world would be difficult every game every game would be very important. well euro twenty sixteen has increased from sixteen to twenty four nations and will be hosted by france from now in qualifying groups

the top two teams in each goes through to the finals along with the best third place finisher with the remaining third place teams getting into playoffs to decide the last four spots hosts france quite automatically and play in group i won't receive any points while two time defending champions spain were drawn in the apparently straightforward group c. along with luxemburg macedonia belarus slovakia and ukraine three time winners germany are in group d. and face poland led by don't win striker robert lewandowski along with island georgia scotland and new boys gibraltar who play their home games in portugal and england will draw in a comfortable group b. with sutton arena if you ain't estonia and slovenia and manager roy hodgson's form a side switzerland. in particular for the fans this time that the travelling will be a lot easier than it has been sometimes in the past for a nice places to go to as well so we're looking forward to it and i think that

we've got to be satisfied that it's agree with what we've been sated number one and we have to take responsibility and try and make sure we can get out of it. all meanwhile in germany thomas munis scored a charge as buy in munich went nineteen points clear and forty seven games unbeaten with a four nil triumph at home i have a real up opened with a bullet header in the twenty fifth minute bastin schweinsteiger seemed set up to ya go i'll come to make it two no knock me out money and your kitchen teed up mueller for his second iteration strike and headed home to wrap up the four nil romp the sixty first goal pep guardiola side have scored this season and with favorable results wire could retain their title with just three more victories. was second place by a labor cruising last for the ground on the leaders with a spree one loss in form follows word last dos opened for the host after thirteen minutes when the sydney sun levelled on the stroke of half time at least to stop it

restored evolve lead on the hour and ricardo rodriguez made it three one on the rebound after bentley and i saved his penalty attempt to give the fifth place hosts the fourth straight victory. while new coach marcos longo so how about against their seven game losing streak and rise one spot to surge bottom with a stunning three no debut victory at home to surplus but received open yet michel the saga set up at the get a check just before the right and then scored himself early in the second half i can challenge you wrapped up victory in injury time with a stunning long range free kick slump to replace it and mavic over sightless we don't know at twenty points adrift of top spot. in england wayne rooney crowned an extraordinary week scoring a stunning second goal in manchester united's two know when it crystal palace after signing a record breaking new contract the twenty eight year old indian strike is five and

a half year deal is worth up to half a million dollars a week will see him stay at old trafford until he's thirty three rooney has won five premier league titles and the champions league in ten years at united scoring two hundred eight goals in four hundred thirty games forty two goals behind so bobby children's club record of two hundred forty nine is not into your league basketball where it says go when joint top of group after a one hundred points to sixty five homes thrashing of injury hit mccabe tell of eve country why a familiar face is confident but out of reports. returning to moscow is always special for former russian national had coach david block before it says god hosted he's my kind of a team to decide who go top of your league group after the israeli coach was owned by the russian government with the order of friendship award for leading russia to braun's at the twenty twelve london olympics is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life and it was very very emotional for me to go before the game

to to receive the award because it speaks more to. the global scene that it does even to sport which is which is sometimes more but this was the only reward blood and he's my cardiology at the end it's a scar that my manger a he the israeli side kept the army man and main the opening quarter but answering machine as man piled on the pressure forging it fifteen point gap me the way through the second. then up to the main intermission the game turned into completely one way traffic with taste got dominating at both ends the only question was whether the hosts would reach a century of points and they did to us each board in a game high twenty two and sony whims and it's sixteen to complete the route one hundred to sixty five coming out the second half we picked up the defense of attention a little bit later on in third quarter and as you see resulted in the when we may

we not got a few shots you know to kind of put away the game and we played defense down the stretch so we played big a lot of good as say regardless of. the set of circumstances that we played under missing so many players without a doubt just you know it was the better team than any of that and we will use that . as an excuse my cabbie have known one more is he really defeat and one hundred in twenty five points to santi a drubbing at the hands of free all my. back in one thousand so it is six years despite this latest moving lurks memory maiming and contention hurting a group where well the russian champions keep issue of first place with a six and one record at the midway point in the campaign on standing by the r r g. and next week cisco will host fellow russian side not the multi who lost eighty two

seventy nine but by and munich the visitors dominated the opening quarter and led the thirty nine twenty early in the second however in the third malcolm delaney led to the german side to come back by went on to claw route a three point win that put them joint fourth with la coach in group air and boost their playoff hopes. tennis and rafael nadal beat ukraine's alexander gold appalled in straight sets to win the first ever reopen the world number one triumph six three seven six to claim his sixty second career title and remain undefeated in brazil for the twenty seven year old is now tied for seventh on the all time singles titles list there are still forty seven victories behind leader jamie kaunas. while in women's tennis veteran venus williams won her forty fifth career title freezing process at least courtenay a france six three six love to claim victory at the dubai championships final the thirty three year old played courtesy of

a wild card and last want to tie it in luxembourg in two thousand and twelve has now won her last fifteen matches in dubai the american were also moved up from forty falls to number twenty nine in the world rankings. and ingolf australian jason day won his first w. g.c. title after beating victim dressed at the fifth extra hole in a gripping world match play final in our zone or degree so i was aiming to become the first french born player to win on the p.g.a. tour he won the last two holes to extend the match with a birdie the seventeenth and saved part from the bunker at the eighteenth which do . a bogut that's after two incredible escapes do we saw it last on the twenty third the frenchman's drive straight to far right leaving him an awkward pitch while de finally won the tournament by sticking a four foot birdie and claiming a check for one point five three million dollars. the other thing the biggest thing was just you know how much do i want to how much do i want to win i

kept saying that to myself last night visualizing myself with a trophy last night on. you know i'm just glad that i could finish it off but you know it's a close one and finally the olympics may be over but saatchi is now gearing up for russia's maiden formula one race and if one boss bernie ecclestone says the olympic lights would suit a great night race while lotus tried to run one grow show they've michael catch and get his thoughts from moscow's annual race of stars. the twenty four team formula one season will get underway in melbourne on march sixteenth and some of the top teams have been testing their new cars in the balmy temperatures of bahrain. but last weekend one f one driver took a brief trip from the middle east to moscow so instead of staying in a warmer weather conditions to continue with pre-season training roman grudge honest instead opted to come to a chilly and a wet moscow to say hot in their annual race of stars events and test his skills on

the ice in moscow's oldest hippodrome to come here it's like to drive a nice to be. here melted ice conditions i've been racing in which is. driving nice in the winter with the no clue you. in a bust. driving lotus driver garage is noted for his attacking style and finished twenty thirteen seventh overall managing four podium finishes in the final six races as red bull and sebastian vettel again dominated the campaign however this year radical rule changes have been introduced engines have been altered from eight to six cylinders with a turbo injection producing mixed results so far during winter testing with missy it is currently showing the fastest times and making the twenty fourteen championship harder to predict the it's

a very unknown season two for we had only eight days of testing for everyone those four more next week and then we go to melbourne and i'm sure we're going to have some surprises and engine revs is clearly the biggest change of. the way from the position of last year in bahrain so going as quick as they were before these even more we had in the past and while the twenty seven year old braved the moscow ice russia was on route to topping the medal table at their home olympics in sochi . after the games the venue will host russia's first grand prix in a century and the first ever formula one race the development in russian motor sport that's involved along with the black sea resort itself. years ago and yet also. we have such a coming just after the olympic games thing is we have these you know involvement of russian from no one we are going everywhere in the world and of think it's good

that we come here so i'm looking forward to discover the truck the cities and so on and i'm sure we're going to get a good race for time champion vettel has already tested to such a track designed by german supreme ham until with new rules new circuit and new drivers the first russian f one race could play a pivotal role in deciding next year's champion in a venue that's already seen many sporting records broken michael. moscow and that's all the sport i. winter is when the sahara comes to life you away says palm trees are being harvested. people are waiting for the biggest event of the year. the desert festival. this is through

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coming up on our t.v. that's a wrap the sochi winter olympic games have come to an end and impressive closing ceremony capped off the two week of bents we'll give you a look at the final medal count and bring you some of the sights and sounds from the twenty second winter olympic games in new mexico there's worry over a radiation leak at a nuclear waste disposal facility this well reports come in of a newly at the fukushima daiichi power plant in japan the latest on these nuclear concerns coming up and after days of clashes between protesters and authorities major changes are underway in ukraine the country's president has been removed from office by parliament and a new us homes are being made to create an interim of the.