1.In the 15th round of the English Championship Arsenal beat Chelsea (3: 1)by winning the Premier League for the first time in two months.
“Manchester United” tied with Leicester (2-2) in Boxing Day, leading twice. “Manchester city” was stronger Newcastle (2-0) and Everton came in second in the table after a fourth straight win.
2. “Real” – best club in the history of the European Cup and Champions League. In the UEFA rating, Bayern are 2nd, Barcelona are 3rd, Manchester United and Milan are in the top 10. “Spartak” – the best club in Russia, CSKA Moscow, Zenit and Lokomotiv follow.
3. Ilya Kovalchuk returned to the KHLby signing a 1 + 1 contract with Avangard.
4. Anna Shcherbakova for the third time in a row won the Russian Figure Skating Championship, Kamila Valieva – 2nd, Alexandra Trusova – 3rd. All three girls received points above the world record for the free program.
Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov won the pair competition, Alexandra Boykova and Dmitry Kozlovsky – 2nd, Daria Pavlyuchenko – Denis Khodykin – 3rd.
5. PSG forward Neymar threw a party for 500 people in Brazil. It will last 5 days. But what about the pandemic ?!
6. In the KHL Dynamo Moscow won SKA had the second match in a row this season (2: 1 OT), Siberia lost to Salavat Yulaev (1: 3), Avangard did not cope with Spartak (2: 3 OT) and other results of the day.
7. Daniil Medvedev and Andrei Rublev will play for the Russian national team at the ATP Cup in Melbourne. Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are also announced.
8. NBA. Portland beat Houston in overtime, Beale’s 39 points and Westbrook’s triple-double did not help Washington against Orlando and other results.
9. Moscow Dynamo won the Russian Volleyball Cupdefeating Zenit St. Petersburg in the final four (3-0).
10. Middleweight ASA Magomed Ismailov fined 10 thousand rubles for a brawl with AMC Fight Nights Global champion Vladimir Mineev. Everything there turned into a mass brawl.
11. МЧМ. Day of smash – Canada scored 16 goals for Germany, the USA scored 11 goals for Austria, Sweden scored 7 goals for the Czech Republic.
12. Biathlete Tamara Voronina won the sprint at the fourth stage of the Russian Cup in Tchaikovsky. Natalya Gerbulova – 2nd, Elizaveta Kaplina – 3rd.
Quotes of the day:
Rodnina on Shcherbakova’s victory in the Chechen Republic after pneumonia: “What heroism? This is the meaning of sport – to control oneself and amaze with technique “
Sergey Lavrov: “Spartak has an energy that makes you stay with him, even when he plays very badly”
Sergey Lavrov on the CAS decision: “We will all draw the right conclusions. The main thing is that there is no collective responsibility “
Shirokov about Tedesco: “In another country, one should not run around the zone like a pig on a rope, but behave more positively”
Evgeny Savin about Belarus: “People are being broken there. People who do this while living in hell. It’s too painful for me”
Ovechkin about Putin: “Best President. Strong, smart and authoritative, amazing in communication “
Magomed Ismailov: “It was unpleasant to see how people beat Mineev. I would have done it myself “
Ovechkin would like to interview Jordan: “There will never be such players in basketball”
Kalinichenko would not have called Rakitskiy to the Ukrainian national team: “Of course not. He knew what he was going for “
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