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Ice Hockey veteran Chris Chelios has finished his NHL career at the age of 48. The defender, who played in Turin in 2006 nor his fourth Olympic tournament for the United States announced in Detroit on 31 August his resignation.

“Against this long day, I shuddered,” Chelios said after 26 seasons in the North American professional league. NHL legend Gordie Howe only-standing with 52 years on the ice was older at his farewell. In a total of 1917 NHL games, scoring 218 goals Chelios, three times won the Stanley Cup three times and was awarded the Norris Trophy as most valuable defensive player. In future, Chelios will be working as a consultant for the Detroit Red Wings. As a professional, he was also active in Montreal, Chicago and most recently in Atlanta.

It is unlikely, if your vacation to find a breezy island-specific, the Aegean, not to enjoy the picture of dozen windsurfers who … harness the waves under the hot sun and strong wind. Not excluded, even to envy the fun you seem to enjoy the intense physical exercise and stimulating feeling this adventure that seems to create the popular water sports. Want to make windsurfing-and you can much more easily than we imagine. Read the rest of this entry »

The Olympic runner and world 100 butterfly did not participate in the European Championship to be held in Budapest in August. Read the rest of this entry »

At the beach volleyball players are two teams, each with two to a network shared by a pitch, which at the beach or on sand surfaces is opposite. The ball may touch the body and all are played with.
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The city of Minsk will host next weekend’s elite of rhythmic gymnastics on the way to the 30th World Championship, scheduled in Moscow, September 19 to 26. The last meeting, the seventh season, the World Cup in 2010 before the grand finale in Pesaro, on 28 and 29 August, that is a genuine pre-World, the BelSwissBank, jointly organized by the Ministry and Belarus Gymnastics Association Sport and Tourism, will be staged in the plant’s most important capital, a sports hall of 3,000 seats with direct canal BelTeleRadio Company.

58 individualistic from 25 countries and 16 groups will face no holds barred on a stage certainly important to little more than a month after the European Review of Bremen. And Stani godmothers event Melitina Liubou Charkashyna and the Belarussian team, the Olympic bronze medal, bearing witness to one of the most prestigious schools in this discipline, the whole landscape. Gold Beijing Evgenia Kanaeva, who also meet Cariprato Italy June 19, and fellow Daria Kondakova, Daria Dmitrieva and Yana Lukonina, and yet the Azerbaijani Aliya Garay and Anna Gurbanov, the Bulgarian Silviya Miteva, and the Israeli Neta Rivkin Irina Risenson, Kazakh and Ukrainian Anna Alyabyeva Alina Maksymenko, just to name a few, will try to spoil the party of the host delegation while the blue shows the Chieti Federica Febbo.

The race will see the groups involved Blanchi Elisa, Romina Laurito, Julia Galtarossa, Daniela Masseroni, Elisa Santoni Anzhelika Savrayuk seeking to counter the host of Belarus, Russia and the comeback of the World Cup team China.

Full of promise, speed skater from Japan Miho Takagi shocked spectators present at a training race, their appearance. 15-year-old athlete team of Japan has decided to ride in his new tracksuit golden color, under which were wearing panties “string”. Press bets, will be decided whether the speed skater to make the Olympic Games in their stunning dresses. It also remains an open question whether the judge will make good athlete in a suit, a distance of 1 and 1.5 km, and if you will, what grades will reward courage girls in the choice of underwear.

Recall Miho Takagi is the youngest athlete team in Japan. Perhaps it is due to the age range of strings for sports race at the Olympics.

I know, I know because I have told you a thousand times. And it is absolutely true. Perhaps many of you have taken it as a joke. Something like an eccentricity of such men who do not want to separate the two great pleasures of life. The beach volleyball and women’s tennis are my great passions , and this is absolutely true.
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Athlete: Jelena Gadzijevna Isinbajeva
Sport: Pole Vault
Event: World Championship Helsinki
Year: 2005

Possibly the greatest athlete of all time. She has smashed all brands pole vault. But it was in 2005 when Vernae left with their mouths open to everyone. First was in London on July 22, reaching a height that only two years earlier had seemed impossible: 5 meters. Only two years ago broke the world record to 4.82m, an improvement of almost 20 cm in two years.
But the Aug. 12, 2005 kiss the sky literally to reach 1.5 m.

Beach volleyball is an Olympic discipline since the Atlanta Olympics 96. Both male and female branch is the domain of the United States and Brazil, while Australia is also on the global podium.

The female partner of the United States, Kerri Walsh and Misty May, became the Olympic champion in Athens 2004 by beating the Brazilians Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar, two of the best players in the world.

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