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SPORT The Minsk Times Thursday, September 26, 2013 11 Possible The worst start during change of format performance in KHL By Igor Grishin René Fasel, the President of the International Ice Hockey Dinamo Minsk Federation (IIHF) recently lost for the fifth spoke about plans for the World Championships during time in succession, the opening of the 137th continuing their General Congress of the IIHF. This is in response to the worst start in KHL Kontinental Hockey League’s By Yegor Glebov (KHL) suggestion of holding the World Championship Cities change, arenas change and every two years in February. competitors change. However the “We will continue to play the scoreboard, which is still not Dinamo men’s World Championship every Minsk’s friend, does not change at all. year including Olympic years, and Alexander Andrievsky’s team suf- this especially to give the younger fered their fifth successive defeat and players an opportunity to show- returned home in far from the best of case their development on an in- moods. The saddest thing is that this is ternational stage,” stated Fasel. a game the Dinamo team could have “The tournament will con- won. The opposition players of Loko- tinue to take place in the first motiv Yaroslavl were average in attack week of May, with the exception and quite weak defensively. This defeat of Olympic years, where the nec- means that Dinamo Minsk have lost 7 essary timing adjustments will be out of their 8 matches this season. made.” Again, the Minsk players did “We will continue to play with not manage to play a game without sixteen teams. Most likely in four making some very basic errors, and groups of four, but this is still sub- again missed a puck at the beginning ject to discussions with our com- of the game, when the pads of Lars mercial partner.” And lastly, the Because of defensive errors, Lars Haugen had to do his best Haugen were hit by Staffan Kronwall. President informed the assembled Already 1:0 down, at the beginning fence. During two periods the game very big ones. It is possible to win with ship that they have played this season. body, for sportive reasons, the of the second period, the captain of was quite equal. We had problems only one goal, but it is very difficult,” said On September, 10th they defeated quarterfinal games will be played the Dinamo team, Alexey Kalyuzhny in killing penalties, and there were Interim Head Coach, Alexander An- HC Slovan Bratislava, at the Minsk- with the cross-over format. scored his first goal of this season moments when we had the chance drievsky after the match. Arena, 2:0. Apart from their recent and levelled the score in a powerplay. to score. However we started making Before playing in Yaroslavl, Al- losses, Dinamo have also lost to Riga However it was the first and the last these errors and the game changed. In exander Andrievsky’s team have Dinamo (1:2), CSKA Moscow (1:2, in Medals at the success of the Minsk guests, while the the third period our strongest play- lost to Severstal Cherepovets (2:4), overtime) and HC Lev Praha (1:3). hosts kept their 9,000 fans happy on 3 ers tried to fight, but they lacked the SKA St. Petersburg (1:5) and Atlanta The Minsk team’s next match will first day of occasions. needed strength. We have scored just Mytishchi (2:3). Dinamo players have be played on September, 28th at the “It has not been the first time we 11 goals in eight matches. Certainly, achieved just one victory, from the 8 Bobruisk-Arena against Avtomobilist championship have made such gross errors in de- there are questions — and they are matches of the 6th KHL Champion- Yekaterinburg. Belarusians win bronze in cycling’s Road World Championships Silver of home During the first day of the Road World Championship in Tuscany, Belarusians Vasily Kiriy- enko and Konstantin Sivtsov ap- tournament peared on the winner’s podium. Together with teammates from of 4:0, and in the quarterfinal she Sky the Belarusian cyclists were defeated Eun Hee Lee from South the 3rd placed bronze winners Korea 4:3 in a closely fought match. of the 57km elite team race. First In the semi-final Alexandra faced place went to the Belgian cycle Linda Kremers from the Nether- team Omega Pharma-Quick Step lands, comfortably overcoming her and the silver was won by the Aus- opponent 4:2. tralian team Orica-GreenEdge. In the men’s singles, the Belaru- The British cycle team, Sky, sian national team’s veteran, Yevg- which finished 22.55 seconds Andrey Kravchenko eny Shchetinin was successful in all behind the champions, included the preliminary rounds, defeating not only, Kiriyenko and Sivtsov the Hungarian Martin Palatinus, but also the British cyclists Chris Russians Taras Merzilkin and Artur End-of-year Froome and Jordan Thomas, Grigoriev, and also the Bosnian Ad- the Norwegian, Edvald Boasson mir Duranspahic with scores of 4:0. Hagen, and Australia’s ‘Richie’ In a dramatic semi-final duel the 43 review Рorte. year old Belarusian fought head-to- Alexandra Privalova head with 32 year old Japanese Kaii By Yegor Glebov all-round athlete, Eduard Mikhan, Yoshida, but eventually lost 3:4 in a took 7th place with 24,068 points. By Igor Leshin tight 7-set match. Shchetinin won Belarusian decathlete Andrey 172 sportsmen took part this sea- bronze for his valiant efforts, and his Kravchenko wins Grand Prix of son, competing in 15 competitions Belarusian Alexandra Privalova opponent went on to win the tour- the International Association of the Grand Prix series. wins silver at the Belarus Open nament, comprehensively defeating of Athletics Federations (IAAF) In the female event the best Table Tennis 2013 which was his 16 year old compatriot Kohei in all-round events among Belarusian heptathletes was held in the Minsk Palace of Sambe 4:0. Following the results of per- Yana Maximova who took 11th place Tennis However, the loser of the adult fi- formances in 2013, the 27 year old with 18,222 points. She was followed The Belarusian sportswoman nal became the winner in the youth Belarusian collected 25,084 points by fellow Belarusian Yekaterina Net- could not match Germany’s Sabine tournament, beating another Japa- across all tournaments, beating the svetaeva with 17,875 points. Ukrain- Winter in the final, losing 1:4. But nese sportsman Yuto Higashi — 4:2. Moscow World Championship’s ian Anna Melnichenko became Kirienko adds this win to his on the way to this crucial match, Al- The Korean Eun Hee Lee, beaten by prize-winner, Canada’s Damian the best with 19,310 points. In all, recent success at the Vuelta de exandra Privalova comfortably beat Privalova in the quarters, was the best Warner (24,980 points) and Ger- 169 sportswomen from all over the España where he won the 18th Swede Linda Bergström and Bela- in the female competition and defeat- many’s athlete Pascal Behrenbruch world took part in heptathlon com- stage of this prestigious days-long rusian Yelena Dubkova with scores ed the Japanese player Eku So 4:3. (24,768 points). Another Belarusian petitions during this season. event..