Dmitry

Just found this interesting. MOLLY – THE WORLD’S FIRST DOPING DOG COMING TO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP! Molly, the world’s first doping detection dog, works to detect prohibited substances and helps in the selection during a doping control. Molly lives in Falun, Sweden. She is an 8-year-old Springer Spaniel work together with a dog handler, who is also a doping control officer. Molly will appear during the Bandy World Championships for Group B, Group A and Women in Sweden in the end of March and beginning of April. Molly will help with the on-site doping controls, but when is of course a secret. http://www.worldbandy.com/2023/02/28/molly-the-worlds-first-doping-dog-coming-to-world-championship/

World championships 2023 schedule Åby, Växjö, Sweden All times GMT+1 MEN A All games: 2x45 min ROUND ROBIN TUESDAY - MARCH 28 10.30 USA-Finland 13.30 Norway-Sweden 17.30 Opening ceremony WEDNESDAY – MARCH 29 12.00 Finland-Kazakhstan 16.30 Sweden-USA THURSDAY – MARCH 30 10.00 Finland-Norway 16.30 Kazakhstan-USA FRIDAY – MARCH 31 12.30 Kazakhstan-Norway 19.00 Sweden-Finland SATURDAY – APRIL 1 11.30 USA-Norway 16.30 Kazakhstan-Sweden PLAY OFFS SUNDAY – APRIL 2 10.15 Bronze game – Team 3-Team 4 16.30 Final game – Team 1-Team 2 MEN B All games: 2x30 min ROUND ROBIN FRIDAY - MARCH 24 09.00 Netherlands-Switzerland 11.00 Germany-Slovakia 13.00 Hungary-Czech Republic 16.00 Slovakia-Netherlands 18.00 Czech Republic-Germany 20.00 Switzerland-Hungary SATURDAY – MARCH 25 08.00 Germany-Hungary 10.00 Slovakia-Switzerland 12.00 Czech Republic-Netherlands 15.00 Slovakia-Hungary 17.00 Switzerland-Czech-Republic 19.00 Netherlands-Germany SUNDAY – MARCH 26 08.00 Czech Republic-Slovakia 10.00 Germany-Switzerland 12.00 Netherlands-Hungary PLAY OFFS SUNDAY – MARCH 26 15.00 Game for place 5 – Team 5-Team 6 (1:2) 17.00 Semi final – Team 1-Team 4 19.00 Semi final – Team 2-Team 3 MONDAY – MARCH 27 13.00 Game for place 5 – Team 5-Team 6 (2:2) 15.00 Bronze game – Losers of semi finals 17.00 Final game – Winners of semi finals WOMEN Pool A & B, game for place 5: 2x30 minutes. Qualification for final, bronze game and final: 2x45 min POOL A – ROUND ROBIN WEDNESDAY - MARCH 29 10.00 Finland-USA 19.00 USA-Sweden THURSDAY – MARCH 30 12.30 USA-Finland 19.00 Sweden-Finland FRIDAY – MARCH 31 10.00 Sweden-USA 17.00 Finland-Sweden POOL B – ROUND ROBIN WEDNESDAY – MARCH 29 08.00 Ukraine-Switzerland 14.30 Switzerland-Netherlands THURSDAY – MARCH 30 08.00 Netherlands-Ukraine 14.30 Switzerland-Ukraine FRIDAY – MARCH 31 08.00 Netherlands-Switzerland 15.00 Ukraine-Netherlands PLAY OFFS SATURDAY – APRIL 1 09.30 Game for place 5 – B2-B3 14.00 Qualification for final – A2-A3 SUNDAY – APRIL 2 07.45 Bronze game - Loser A2/A3-Winner B1 13.00 Final - A1-Winner A2/A3

It's hard to predict but I think there are chances to be in top-3 in Group B after Germany and Hungary. Slovakia looks like the main rival in the fight for the third place. For women if there are no Norway team (at least its participation wasn't announced) - 4th place. But who knows maybe the Netherlands can try to beat the USA and took the sensational bronze medals .

First WCH for men in Group A since 2019 was announced. Last WCH in Group B finished just before the pandemic started in 2020. And this will be the first time for men's and women's WCH at the same place and the same time. World Championships 2023 (Eriksson Arena, Åby, Sweden) Men Group A (March 28-April 2) Group B (March 24-27) Women Group A (March 28-April 2) No Group B this year.

A new session for the team event in the artistic swimming confirmed. https://twitter.com/fina1908/status/1592479617897889792

Unfortunately, 19-year-old player Timur Fayzutdinov from Dynamo St. Petersburg in the Junior Hockey League (MHL) died three days after hitting the puck in his head.

Faroe Islands are going to start its football championship on May 9.

X Games Minneapolis 2020 Cancelled

FIA Motorsport Games, initially scheduled to take place on 23-25 October 2020, will now be held on 22-24 October 2021

FIDE Candidate Tournament has postponed.

Except FIDE chess tournament national and international sports comeptitions in Russia postponed. (Maybe only some small competitions was at this weekend).

The 24 hours of Le Mans postponed to 19–20 September 2020

Chess Candidates Tournament for World Championship match have just started.

There were 30000 fans at the Russian football match Zenit - Ural today. Fans chanted "We all will die".

Formula 2, Formula 3 and Indycar series has postponed at least until May.

Russian Basketball VTB League with clubs from Belarus, Poland, Estonia, Kazakhstan has been suspended.

Bandy World Championship moves to October. https://www.worldbandy.com/2020/03/11/world-championship-a-moves-to-october/

Kazakhstan won't participate in bandy WCH https://www.worldbandy.com/2020/03/09/kazakhstan-is-withdrawing-from-world-championships/

March 6, Friday 9th place second match Switzerland — Somalia 4:1 7th place match Japan — Czech Republic 3:1 5th place match Netherlands — Latvia 5:4 Bronze match Slovakia — Mongolia 3:2 Final Hungary — Ukraine 4:1 Classification 1. Congrats! Division A next year! 2. The best result for the team in history 3. The best result for the team in history 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

March 5, Thursday Qualification 5-8 places Japan — Netherlands 3:5 Czech Republic — Latvia 1:3 9th place first match Somalia — Switzerland 0:10 Semifinals Hungary — Slovakia 5:0 Mongolia — Ukraine 1:3 So the final will be Hungary vs. Ukraine. Hungary is a favourite but Ukraine have a chance to promote in Div. A first time.

There are rumours in Russia that ice hockey World Championship can move to Sochi if Switzerland can't resist vs. coronavirus.

He competed in Russia until 2018

March 4, Wednesday Quarterfinals Hungary – Japan 4:1 Czech Republic – Mongolia 1:2 Netherlands – Slovakia 2:3 Ukraine – Latvia 5:1 Tomorrow Semifinals Hungary - Slovakia Mongolia - Ukraine Semifinals, bronze match and final: 2 x 45 minutes

Group stage results March 1, Sunday Netherlands - Hungary 2:3 Czech Republic - Ukraine 0:2 Latvia - Slovakia 0:4 Mongolia - Somalia 10:0 Netherlands - Czech Republiс 2:2 pen. 4:3 Hungary - Switzerland 7:0 Japan - Somalia 9:0 Slovakia - Mongolia 0:4 March 2, Monday Netherlands - Ukraine 2:2 pen. 2:4 Latvia - Somalia 11:0 Czech Republiс - Switzerland 4:1 Japan - Mongolia 1:2 Hungary - Czech Republic 5:1 Ukraine - Switzerland 4:1 Slovakia - Somalia 8:0 Japan - Latvia 1:2 March 3, Tuesday Hungary - Ukraine 2:0 Netherlands - Switzerland 6:0 Japan - Slovakia 0:2 Latvia - Mongolia 0:2 Today's Quarterfinals Hungary – Japan Czech Republic – Mongolia Netherlands – Slovakia Ukraine – Latvia

Men's Bandy FIB Division B World Championship 2020 has started in Irkutsk and Shelekhov. Unfortunately, has decided not to play this year, withdrew due to circumstances regarding visa process and the excessive costs and withdrew due to coronavirus. But at least is back this year. In 2019 Estonia won the tournament and promoted to Division A, and the Netherlands dropped to Division B. Group A Group B At the group stage games will be played 2 x 30 minutes.