The newly crowned absolute world chess champion spoke to Sport Express the day after he won the reunification match against Veselin Topalov..
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Russian synchronized swimmers swept all four titles at the recent European Swimming Championship in Budapest, going down in history as a success that cannot be surpassed. Natalia Ishchenko, 20, from Kaliningrad won three golds, which has, rightly, brought her to the top of the Sport Express Athlete of the Month chart.
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Elena Dementieva spoke exclusively to Sport Express after she took her 6th career title at Los Angeles in a $600,000 tournament.
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In August Andrei “AK-47” Kirilenko, a “do it all” Utah Jazz forward and Russia’s arguably best player, has embarked on an ambitious individual training program in L.A.
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This month’s round of the SPORT EXPRESS/INTERSPORT award for the Russian athlete of the month will, as usual, involve polls among sports experts and SE readers.
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Russian synchronized swimmers swept all four titles at the recent European Swimming Championship in Budapest, going down in history as a success that cannot be surpassed. Natalia Ishchenko, 20, from Kaliningrad has three golds, which has, rightly, brought her to the top of the Sport Express Athlete of the Month chart.
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From the very beginning of the World Team Tennis (WTT) season the Californian fans have been looking forward to the arrival of Sharapova.
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Nikolay Valuev deservedly won the Sport Express'/Intersport award in June.
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Ilya Bryzgalov's fine performances allowed him to become Russia's athlete of the month in May.
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Alexander Ovechkin is Russia's best athlete in April.
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Olesya Krasnomovets left her first footprint in the international athletics at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, when she came off second best to Nataliya Nazarova in the 400 m race, and won a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay.
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Runner Olesya Krasnomovets, who won the 400 m race and the 4x400 m relay at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, topped the March list.
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Yevgeny Dementiev not only reminded the predominantly Italian Olympic ski audience that Russian skiers were still in the game: what he did amounts to total rethinking of Russia's role in the global ski posture.
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Svetlana Zhurova has always been good at the 500 metres race, while the 1,000 metres has never been her favourite. However, she proved quite the opposite in Dutch Herenven, and her success in the Sport Express-sponsored Russia's best athlete contest in January is hardly surprising.
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Speed skater Svetlana Zhurova, who had taken the Overall World Sprint Championship victory just before the 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy, tops the January list.
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