Dmitry

That is what UEFA published after the draw.

The results 2025-27 Under-21 Euro qualifying group stage draw. Group A: Spain, Romania, Finland, Kosovo, Cyprus, San Marino Group B: Portugal, Czechia, Bulgaria, Scotland, Azerbaijan, Gibraltar Group C: France, Switzerland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg, Estonia Group D: England, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Andorra Group E: Italy, Poland, Sweden, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Armenia Group F: Germany, Georgia, Greece, Northern Ireland, Latvia, Malta Group G: Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina Group H: Ukraine, Croatia, Hungary, Türkiye, Lithuania Group I: Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Wales, Belarus Qualifying group stage ▪ 17–25 March 2025 ▪ 2–10 June 2025 ▪ 1–9 September 2025 ▪ 6–14 October 2025 ▪ 10–18 November 2025 ▪ 23–31 March 2026 ▪ 21 September–6 October 2026 Play-offs ▪ 9–17 November 2026 The nine group winners and the runner-up with the best record (not counting results against sixth-placed teams) qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight other runners-up contest play-offs to determine the four remaining finalists. Hosts Albania and Serbia qualify directly for the final tournament in summer 2027. The final tournament is the qualification for the 2028 Olympics for Europe.

After missing one year, 2025 World Championships are coming in March. FIB 2025 World Championship Men B will be arranged in Sweden. It will be played in the Serwent indoor arena in Uppsala 10-14 March. 2025 World Championship Men B participating teams: The World Championship tournament for men group A will be arranged in Sweden and the venue is Sparbanken Lidköping indoor arena in Lidköping between 24-30 March 2025. The tournament will be held at the same dates and place as the World Championship for Women. 2025 World Championship Men A participating teams: 2025 World Championship Women participating teams:

Valeriy Gontar (cross-country skiing) has started to compete for Slovenia https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=CC&seasoncode=&competitorid=178100&type=result&categorycode=&sort=&place=&disciplinecode=&position=&limit=150

Unusual result. Many favorites lose. From top-4 only Metallurg previously won KHL tournament (last time 2016). Lokomotiv and Traktor played in the final only. But Lokomotiv won Russian championship (last time 2003). For Avtomobilist it's the best result ever.

Just want to check. There aren't any official World indoor records now, correct? There are only Short Track records on a track. In jumping and shot put indoor and outdoor records were fully merged. At least there isn't any information about a term "World indoor records" at the World Athletics website. https://worldathletics.org/records/by-category/world-records

And I've just found that Men's Team Event in Ski Jumping is with 2-person format now — Super Team. https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/Olympic-Games/Milano-Cortina-2026/Milano-Cortina-2026-Event-Programme.pdf#_ga=2.187834024.1637782579.1709071719-1860462306.1709071688

104 chess players from Russia have changed their nationality in 2023. The biggest names are Alexandra Kosteniuk, Sanan Sjugirov, Alexey Sarana, Vladimir Fedoseev, Nikita Vitiugov, Alexandr Predke, Kirill Alekseenko, Maksim Chigaev, Alexander Motylev, Anton Demchenko, Pavel Tregubov, Nikita Petrov, Evgeny Alekseev. 88 did it in 2022 including Evgeny Romanov and Alina Kashlinskaya, 10 in 2021. https://www.sports.ru/chess/1115746343-104-rossijskix-shaxmatista-smenili-grazhdanstvo-v-2023-m-pyatero-peres.html

Kyrgyz Republic is in the process of changing its flag. https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-flag-change-sunflowers-lawmakers-approve-japarov/32740275.html

Denis Taradin who already won Olympic license in kiteboarding competes for

NO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MEN AND WOMEN IN 2024. There will be no World Championships 2024 for men and women. Unfortunately, FIB has to accept that the clubs and national associations that first showed interest in arranging the tournaments have later chosen not to do so. For this reason FIB has no organizers in 2024. Now FIB have turned it’s focus on World Championships 2025 for both men and women. To start the process now gives FIB and the national member associations good conditions to create really good events in 2025. FIB Executive Committee will have a meeting next week and more information might be published after that.

So it looks like relay in Nordic Combined was excluded from the programme, Team sprint instead

I think some European teams may send their reserve players to South America if they will play in those games or at least to stay some of their big players in Europe without travelling across the ocean.

https://youtu.be/iV1lajRsdjY?si=FZ9ylh2-_k90ZC6U&t=593 Interesting goal to the own empty net. The goal was credited to the last Avangard player who touch the puck, and it was not the goalie.

I think this topic is the best for this news. Members of the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) have approved the final steps in the liquidation of the organisation https://gaisf.sport/extraordinary-general-assembly-approves-the-final-liquidation-of-gaisf/