The 2012 Senior European Wrestling Championship has ended in Belgrade, Serbia, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine said in a statement on Monday.The Ukrainian teams altogether won 11 medals at the competition and finished second in team standings.
Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan has won a gold medal at the Antalya World Cup in Turkey.In the individual competition, the native of Mykolaiv defeated two-time Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis of the United States 15-6 in a semifinal match, and in the final game she beat Korean Ji Yeon Kim 15-8, the press...
Wladimir Klitschko, after retaining his WBA/IBO/IBF/WBO heavyweight titles in a fight against former cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck, has said that he would like to have his next fight in the United States against American Chris Arreola, BoxingScene.com reported on March 4.
Top seeded Ukrainian tennis player Alexandr Dolgopolov has lost a place in the top twenty of the updated ranking of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), dropping to 21st spot. Another resident of Kyiv - Sergiy Stakhovsky - moved from 74th to 76th position, according to the ATP website....
The 2012 Senior European Wrestling Championship has ended in Belgrade, Serbia, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine said in a statement on Monday.The Ukrainian teams altogether won 11 medals at the competition and finished second in team standings.
Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan has won a gold medal at the Antalya World Cup in Turkey.In the individual competition, the native of Mykolaiv defeated two-time Olympic champion Mariel Zagunis of the United States 15-6 in a semifinal match, and in the final game she beat Korean Ji Yeon Kim 15-8, the press...
Wladimir Klitschko, after retaining his WBA/IBO/IBF/WBO heavyweight titles in a fight against former cruiserweight champion Jean-Marc Mormeck, has said that he would like to have his next fight in the United States against American Chris Arreola, BoxingScene.com reported on March 4.
Top seeded Ukrainian tennis player Alexandr Dolgopolov has lost a place in the top twenty of the updated ranking of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), dropping to 21st spot. Another resident of Kyiv - Sergiy Stakhovsky - moved from 74th to 76th position, according to the ATP website....
The eighth and final UEFA EURO 2012 venue was unveiled on Sunday as thousands of people attended a music festival to celebrate the opening of the National Stadium Warsaw.
A notable event happened during the match between Ukraine and Germany to visiting team national forward Mario Gómez. The player from Bayern went out to the field with the captain’s band within the Bundesliga.
“If there were no preparations for the football Euro-2012, Ukraine would not have experienced for a long time the ‘hotel boom’ witnessed by us in 2011-12, especially in tournament host cities,” Valeriy Zhaldak has said.
Ukrainians have offered over 2,000 versions of lyrics and music for an unofficial Euro-2012 anthem during the first month of the Euro Hit project. Project supervisor Oksana Shavel has told about the course.
The pilot project New Generation Taxi that had been already named sky-taxi has been launched at Boryspil International Airport. It was presented by Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov.
Preparations for Euro 2012 became a daunting challenge for Ukraine, but at the same time the successful solution of this problem contributed to an improvement in the county’s infrastructure.
The transfer of the Ukrainian national team forward has changed little in the life of the top goalscorer of the previous championship. As earlier, Yevhen Seleznyov is the most accurate marksman at his club though, if truth be told, for him to repeat the result of 17 goals the striker will have to score 9 times in the last 10 games of the current season.
Shakhtar forward Yevhen Seleznyov in an traditional questionnaire with the "Ukraine-2012" magazine.
Yevhen, who would you have become if there were no football?
I have not thought about this. I respect other professions, but I see myself only on a football field.
With whom would you like to play in the same team?
With Maradona, the best player of all times.
What kinds of sports, besides football, carry you away?
I prefer sports games. But, of course, football is the king of sports.
Who is the most prominent sportsman of all times?
It’s too difficult to compare but important for all prominent personalities to properly fulfill their job and to advance sports. ...
People’s Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Benyuk joined the official list of Friends of Euro-2012 some months ago. But Mr Benyuk is on friendly terms with football almost since birth. I think it will be interesting for our readers to look at the “game of millions” through the eyes of Bohdan.
Major sporting events, such as EURO, attract not only vigorous fans, but also an elite audience that looks for a platform for communication and establishing business contacts. We asked Thibaut Potdevin, UEFA commercial manager for Ukraine about the Corporate Hospitality program at EURO 2012.
“Depending on a particular situation, I adjust the team differently. I treat guys accordingly. Sometimes it is necessary to tighten the screws, because I feel that imbalance in appeared in the team. On the other hand, sometimes it is necessary to pet the players a bit. I never reveal my cards to journalists.
To fix the problem of 8 years ago, when 16-year-old Francesc Fabregas Soler with a clear conscience was freewheelingly released to Arsenal London, the Catalan club had to part with 29 million Euros for half of the rights to the midfielder.
This guy can easily be met on the Madrid underground, or at a reception by the King of Spain. Before him almost all doors are opened, although based on the composition of his nature other life circumstances would have made him into an engineer or an employee of a scientific laboratory.
One can treat this guy differently, but the fact remains: Russia’s national team with and without Arshavin are two completely different teams. He has an extraordinary role in the team. Even when the play goes wrong, the ball does not obey and everyone is in the dumps.
Preparations for EURO 2012 gave considerable impetus to the development of the aviation infrastructure in Ukraine. In the last one and a half years alone Ukraine has built airports, which together can take up to 22,000 visitors every hour.
EURO 2012 has inclined the country not only to build the objects which were lacking previously, but also to develop new standards and specifications in construction. Four stadiums, airports, dozens of hotels, the same way as infrastructure, were being built and reconstructed.
The choice of training facilities by the teams taking part in the group stage of the European tournament has become a great surprise for Ukraine. It has been conditioned to a great extent by the results of the draw. Meanwhile, it is no great tragedy for Ukraine.
A handsome man from a rooftop Cesc Fabregas
The focused prankster Iker Casillas
Red-cheeked truth seeker Andrey Arshavin
Airport terminals for EURO 2012: the final chord
EURO removes barriers for people with limited capacities Back to list
Ukraine’s training facilities to become transfer
