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The match between the USSR and the USA took place on the night of September 1972 at the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle Arena. The match became one of the most dramatic matches in the history of basketball. The American basketball players were unable to maintain a 50:49 advantage in the last three seconds of the game.
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The first victory at the Dakar came to the team from Naberezhnye Chelny in 1996. The Kamaz team has been trying on the main rally marathon for a long time, there were hits on the podium, but for the time being it was not possible to conquer the top.

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The first performer of the quadruple jump is officially 14-year-old Japanese Miki Ando, who landed a quadruple salchow in the final of the junior Grand Prix series in 2002. ____________

At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, Russian judoka Dmitry Nosov suffered a broken arm in a semifinal fight. He had the right to refuse the final fight for the bronze medal, but decided to go all the way — and still won the award for Russia.

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The 2006 Turin Games were Evgeny Plushenko's finest hour. Having flawlessly rolled back both the short and free programs, he won gold, achieved an advantage of 27 points.

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Viktor Ahn is the most decorated athlete in the history of short track. He played for the Republic of Korea until 2011. He won three Olympic gold medals under the Korean flag. On December 26, 2011, he took Russian citizenship.

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The biggest scandal of 2021 in sports is the incident with the Averin gymnasts at the Tokyo Olympics. For the first time in 25 years, gold in the individual all-around went to a non-Russian woman. And the judges recognized the athlete who dropped the object as the winner.

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At the 2022 Olympics, after Russia won the team tournament, 15-year-old Kamilla Valieva was found doping in a doping test. It was a tragedy for the whole figure skating.

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Two-time Olympic champion in pole vault Yelena Isinbayeva has completed her sports career, she announced this at a special press conference in the Olympic Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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The 2018 FIFA World Cup is the 21st FIFA World Cup.

For the first time in its history, Russia became the host country of the World Football Championship, in addition, it was held in Eastern Europe for the first time.

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Russian Russian chess master Alexander Alekhine and Cuban crown winner Jose Raul Capablanca won the World Chess Championship in Buenos Aires in the autumn of 1927. The World Chess Championship ended with the first ever victory of a Russian chess player.

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On October 22, 1929, in the Bogorodskoye district of Moscow, the future champion and football player Lev Yashin was born into an ordinary Soviet family.

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The victory at the 2008 World Cup was really significant for the Russian national team. It was the first gold at the World Championships since 1993.

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Yes, there were victories in the World League, the European Championship, and the World Cup, but there was no main thing: Olympic gold. It didn't happen until 2012 (And everything went to the point that it wouldn't happen in 2012 either. In the final, Russia played with the main favorite, Brazil).

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We did not have curling traditions, but the coach of Olga Andrianova and athletes Olga Zharkova, Lyudmila Privivkova and others achieved their first successes. In 2002, the Russians became the fourth in the European Championship, and in 2006 they won the continental championship.

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Colorado's championship in the National Hockey League 2022 could not be called a surprise, but the game of Valery Nichushkin, who turned 27 in March, was a surprise.

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At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Kabaeva was considered the undisputed favorite.But a blunder in the performance with the hoop threw her away from the fight for gold. ... Alina went to the 2004 Olympics in Athens again as the main favorite. And this time, nothing could stop her on the way to her dream.

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In 2022, Ovechkin continued to upset rivals and delight Russian fans. He overtook Gordie Howe and became the second in the history of the league in goals scored. Now he has more than 800 heads.

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In 1988, Karelin participated in the Olympic Games for the first time and immediately became the winner.Losing to the Bulgarian athlete after the first period, he still snatched victory literally 15 seconds before the end of the fight, using a special "reverse belt" technique

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Aliya Farkhatovna Mustafina is a Russian gymnast, two—time Olympic champion in uneven bars exercises, five-time Olympic medalist, was born on September 30, 1994.