17:51
AT 2002 WINTER OLYMPICS RUSSIANS TO PERFORM AS SUCCESSFUL AS IN NAGANO
At the 2002 winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in the United States Russian athletes will win as many medals as in 1998 in Nagano in Japan. Leonid Tyagachev, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, voiced this opinion at a press conference in Moscow. More details...

17:57
MUSCOVITES WIN TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT FOR LIMITED-ABILITIES ATHLETES
This North Russian city hosted a 12th international table tennis tournament for persons affected with locomotor system diseases or injuries. More details...

10:47
EDUARD MALOFEYEV RESIGNED AS HEAD NATIONAL FOOTBALL COACH OF BELARUS
Eduard Malofeyev resigned from the post of head national football coach. He cited the failure to accomplish the task set the national team - to qualify for the final tournament of the world football championship as the cause of his resignation. More details...

19:20
APOSTOL ANDREI YACHT SETS SAIL FOR 2ND ROUND-THE-WORLD VOYAGE
On Sunday the yacht Apostol Andrei has set sail from St. Petersburg for a second voyage around the world, said chiefs of the Adventure club, which owns the yacht, and its crew to journalists at a meeting. More details...

21:05
RUSSIAN MARAT SAFIN AGAIN WINS INTERNATIONAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT IN LYON, FRANCE
Russian tennis-player Marat Safin again won the international tennis ATP tournament in Lyon, France, Thursday More details...

18:50
YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV BECOMES FIVE-TIME KREMLIN CUP WINNER
Yevgeny Kafelnikov became five-time Kremlin Cup winner beating German Nicholas Kiefer 6-4, 7-5 in two sets, RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the Olimpiisky sports complex. More details...

13:26
KREMLIN CUP ENTERS SECOND DAY
The $2,185,000 Kremlin Cup enters its second day at the Olympiisky sports complex today. More details...

00:48
RUSSIAN WEIGHTLIFTER BOY NOT TO JOIN SWEDISH OR IRANIAN TEAM
Vladislav Lukanin, 16, European junior weightlifting champion, resident of Sochi on the Russian Black Sea coast, turned down Iran's and Sweden's invitations to naturalise and join their national teams. More details...

15:40
WELL-KNOWN SPORTSMAN ASLAMBEK BISULTANOV DIED
The Russian wrestling federation announces with deep regret the sudden death of USSR honoured master of sports, world champion in free-style wrestling, champion of Europe and the USSR, many-time World Cup winner Aslambek Bisultanov. He was 45 years old.

15:17
ST. PETERSBURG TO HOST INTERNATIONAL FIGURE SKATING TOURNAMENTS IN NOVEMBER
Russian sportsmen at a Goodwill Games figure skating tournament in Brisbane, Australia, won all the four sets of gold medals: Yevgeny Plyushchenko /men's event/ and Irina Slutskaya /ladies' event/, Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze /pair/ and Irina Lobacheva and Ilya Averbukh /dance/. More details...

18:16
BAYERN TO ARRIVE IN MOSCOW ON MONDAY FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GAME AGAINST SPARTAK
The holders of the European Champions League Cup, FC Bayern Munchen, will arrive in Moscow on Monday, September 24, for a Champions League Group H game against Spartak Moscow, a Bayern spokesman has told RIA Novosti. The game will be held at the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium on September 25, at 20:00 Moscow time. More details...

19:33
CREW FROM RYAZAN EMERGES VICTORIOUS AT 2ND INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTIC FESTIVAL
An international aeronautic sport festival, Kaluga-2001, organised by the Russian Aeronautic Society and the Slavneft oil company, is over in Kaluga, 200 kilometers away from Moscow. Twelve balloons from Russia, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine participated in the competition. Numerous spectators could see also other craft, such as a radio-controlled thermal balloon. More details...

19:02
RUSSIA'S ANZHI SOCCER CLUB PROTESTS UEFA DECISION
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) on Tuesday decided to hold only one game to name the winner of the UEFA Cup encounter between Russia's Anzhi Makhachkala and Scotland's Glasgow Rangers. UEFA decreed that the game be held on a neutral ground on September 27. On Wednesday, UEFA named the Legia Stadium in Poland's Warsaw as the game's venue. More details...

14:25
RUSSIA WON MOST MEDALS AT GOODWILL GAMES, WHICH FINISHED IN AUSTRALIA TODAY
Russian athletes have won most medals at the Goodwill Games, which finished Sunday in the city of Brisbane, Australia. At the eleventh hour, they have managed to overcome the Australian team, the Games' leader in the overall medal tally until the very last day. More details...

13:50
LAST DAY OF GOODWILL GAMES IN AUSTRALIA BROUGHT RUSSIA ONE GOLD, THREE SILVER AND ONE BRONZE MEDALS
Russian athletes have won one gold, tree silver and one bronze medals on the last day of the Goodwill Games held in Australia. More details...

10:07
NATIONAL HISTORICAL FENCING CHAMPIONSHIPS BEGIN IN MOSCOW
The 5th historical fencing championship of Russia has begun in Moscow. Over 40 clubs engaging in this kind of sport participate in the sports event, representing Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czechia and other countries More details...

19:56
MOSCOW TO HOST CHESS SUPERTOURNAMENT IN DECEMBER
In the first half of December, Moscow will host a chess supertournament involving the 12th, 13th and 14th world chess champions - Anatoly Karpov, Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik. The Three Ks tournament, timed to coincide with the 90th birthday of the 6th world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, will be held within the framework of the 1st Mikhail Botvinnik memorial competition. More details...

12:52
YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV DEFEATS WORLD NUMBER ONE GUSTAVO KUERTEN
Yevgeny Kafelnikov has defeated in three sets world number one tennis player Gustavo Kuerten thus reaching the US Open semifinals. The history of Grand Slam tennis tournaments for the first time witnesses two Russian sportsmen in the semifinals. More details...

20:50
RUSSIA'S OLIMPIADA IVANOVA SETS WORLD RECORD IN 20 KM WALK
On the last but one day of the track-and-field events at the Goodwill Games, Russia's Olimpiada Ivanova, the winner of the world title in Edmonton, won a gold medal and set a new world record in women's 20-km walk. More details...

15:58
YEVGENY KAFELNIKOV AIMS FOR U.S. OPEN SEMIFINALS SPOT
On Thursday, the places in the second men's singles semifinals at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows will be decided. Despite predictions of the majority of experts, Yevgeny Kafelnikov's chances to be one of the four best players are no worse than those of his Brazilian rival, Gustavo Kuerten. More details...

02:04
MOSCOW TO HOST 2012 OLYMPICS? 10,000 SAY YES
More than 10,000 signed an appeal for Moscow to host the 2012 Olympics on Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's initiative. More details...

18:09
21ST WORLD UNIVERSIADE ENDS IN BEIJING
On Saturday night the closing ceremony of the 21st World universiade was held in Beijing. Closing it, president George Killian of the World University Sport Federation said that in Beijing was held "the best" Universiade in the history of such games. More details...

10:53
RUSSIAN GYMNASTS WIN MEDALS AT GOOD WILL GAMES IN AUSTRALIA
Russian gymnasts have won new medals in Good Will Games in Australia. At free calisthenics competitions on Friday, just as earlier, two Russian gymnasts, Alina Kabayeva and Irina Chashchina, competed against each other. As a result, the two Russian women received four medals. More details...