Russia’s Kruzenshtern sailing ship has arrived at the Port of Vancouver for the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
VANCOUVER (RIA Novosti) – The tall ship has a crew of some 200 students from Russia’s Baltic Academy and other fishery academies and will become an “additional office” for the Russia House in Vancouver during the Games. [...]
In one of the biggest betting scandals in the history of international football, investigators say that around 200 European games are suspected of having been manipulated.
The free newspaper Metropol considers itself to have been duped:
“All of this has nothing … to do with football. It isn’t about breathtaking dribbling, wonderful cross passes or unstoppable [...]
Singapore – With just 266 days to go before Singapore hosts the world’s first Youth Olympic Games (YOG), Lyo (pronounced as Leo) and Merly are ready to blaze the trail.
The official mascots for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games (Singapore 2010) were unveiled by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports today.
As [...]
Kiev (RIA Novosti) – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has told the government that it is unable to allocate over $1 billion for the organization of Euro 2012, the UNIAN news agency said on Wednesday.
The news agency quoted an unnamed bank source as saying that the NBU was unable to allocate the money for [...]
Lithuanian basketball: past, present and future
In 1891 American teacher James Naismith invented basketball. Year after year it became more and more popular, people played basketball in more and more countries. In 1922 Steponas Darius brought it to Lithuania. It became popular so fast, as TV after World War II.
Level of Lithuanian basketball was so high, [...]
In july 31 Klaipėda will host the finals of the regata. The event s dedicated to the Millennium of the Name of Lithuania
Klaipėda will arrange the greatest world Tall Ships’ Races for the first time. The first historic regatta of tall ships was arranged more than 50 years ago. 20 ships took part in that [...]
German football club VfL Wolfsburg entered the football record books on Saturday 23 May as Bundesliga champions.
Felix Magath’s team took the league by storm to provide the northern German town of 120,000 with a moment as big as the introduction of the VW Beetle and Golf. “Felix signed good and young players. He had the [...]
One of the these games, Canada might put it all together. It could be scary.
In the meantime, the Canadians men’s hockey team will live through a different kind of fright — flirting with 11th-ranked Latvia before prevailing 4-2 in Thursday’s (07.05.2009) quarter-final affair at the world hockey championship.
All’s well that end’s well — Canada moves [...]
Wednesday February 11, 2009 (CET)
14:00 Latvia 0-0 Armenia
16:00 Liechtenstein 0-2 Iceland
17:00 Estonia 0-2 Kazakhstan
17:00 Israel 1-0 Hungary
17:00 Cyprus 3-2 Slovakia
17:00 Serbia 0-1 Ukraine
17:30 Lithuania 3-1 Andorra
Latvia 0-0 Armenia
Armenia and Latvia drew a blank in front of a sparse crowd in sunny Cyprus.
The best chance of the first half saw Maris Verpakovskis spurn a one-on-one chance [...]
England defender Rio Ferdinand believes Wednesday’s friendly against Spain will provide a yardstick to determine the national team’s standing on the world stage.
The Spaniards are currently the number one ranked team in the world after winning the European Championships last summer.
England failed to reach the finals in Switzerland and Austria, but have since shown vast [...]
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