Russia wins 2014 Winter Games
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The Black Sea resort of Sochi, boosted by the personal intervention of Russian president Vladimir Putin, won the right to stage the 2014 Winter Olympic Games on Wednesday.
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BEIJING  - World champion Yevgeny Plushenko and Irina Slutskaya won the men&#39;s and women&#39;s singles titles as Russian skaters dominated the ISU Grand Prix finals.
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Russia beat France 3-2 in a dramatic final to win the Fed Cup for the first time.
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Alex Kovalev scored the winning goal and minor league goaltender Illya Bryzgalov held his own against the American stars as Russia beat the United States, 3-1, last night in the World Cup of Hockey in Minneapolis.
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Russia is to set up a special environmental commission to work alongside the country's bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, a top official has said after the World Wildlife Fund warned environmental concerns could scupper the bid.
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Germany&#39;s Martina Glagow won a 15-kilometer biathlon event Thursday for her first World Cup victory this season, and compatriot Sven Fischer won a men&#39;s 20-kilometer race.
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Anastasia Myskina won the Kremlin Cup for the second straight year, running off 10 straight games to defeat Elena Dementieva 7-5, 6-0 Sunday in the tournament&#39;s first all-Russian final.
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Sweden shut out defending champion Czech Republic 4-0 Sunday to win hockey&#039;s world championship, becoming the first country to win that title and Olympic gold in the same year.
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A victory for Russia's Sochi in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics would affect millions of lives in Russia, leaders of the bid said on Sunday.
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Russia on Thursday carried out a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Yuliya Nesterenko of Belarus wins 100m gold ahead of Lauryn WIlliams.
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SOCHI, Russia  - Russia faces a challenge to be ready on time to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials assessing the country's bid for the Games said on Friday.
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Russia's Yuriy Borzakovskiy produces a trademark sprint finish to take Olympic 800m gold.
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Robert Esche and Rick DiPietro combined on a shutout, and John-Michael Liles arrived just in time to score a goal to lead the defending champion Americans to a 2-0 victory over Russia on Friday night in their final World Cup of Hockey exhibition game.
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Albert Demtchenko of Russia won the men's singles Sunday to break up a sweep by the powerful German team of all five races at a Luge World Cup event.
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Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin were crowned European figure skating ice dance champions on Friday after a perfect performance in the final of the event's three legs.
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Russia secured its third Fed Cup title Sunday after Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to beat Francesca Schiavone 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-5 in the first reverse singles and gave the hosts an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Italy.