Volleyball
Libero of the French team Grebennikov regretted that Russia was left without the World Cup in volleyball
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The libero of the French volleyball team and the St. Petersburg club Zenit Zhenya Grebennikov regretted that Russia had lost the right to host the 2022 World Cup.
Initially, the 2022 Volleyball World Championship was to be held in 10 Russian cities from August 26 to September 11. However, due to the situation in Ukraine, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) moved the tournament to Poland and Slovenia. The Russian national team is deprived of the right to participate in competitions under the auspices of the FIVB.
– Russia was left without the World Cup. How did you react?
– It’s a pity to everyone who organized the World Cup in Russia. Now we have built good halls in Russia, we have been working on communication, this is two or three years. Now the World Cup has been moved to Slovenia and Poland. For Russia, this is not very good, sorry for the Russian volleyball players. The FIVB made such a decision, but this happens in life.
– Russia would be in the favourites?
– I think six or seven teams are favorites: France, USA, Brazil, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, Russia, Italy. Their fans would definitely help Russia.
– Your top three favourites?
– Poland, USA, Brazil. Apart from Russia, which will not be.
– Do you already know the starting six of France? Your new coach, the Brazilian Bernardinho, won the 2002 World Championship, a gold medal in the Athens Olympics and two silver medals in Beijing and London.
– I talked to him, he will soon send the start sheet. The group is more like that year. Let’s see who will be in shape, if there are any injured. In about a month, we will find out who will be at the first training session, ”Grebennikov told the Championship.
Zhenya Grebennikov won the European Championship, the World League and the 2020 Olympics as part of the French team. The 31-year-old volleyball player is the son of the famous Soviet volleyball player and coach Boris Grebennikov. He has been playing at Zenit since 2021.
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Volleyball
A doctor from the Yenisei volleyball club provided emergency assistance to a child on board the plane
The doctor of the men’s volleyball club “Yenisei” from Krasnoyarsk, Shakhriyar Mirzoev, provided emergency assistance to the boy on board the plane.
The incident happened during the New Year holidays on the Kazan-Krasnoyarsk flight. The specialist noticed that the man and child were in the toilet for 20 minutes, and the flight attendant came in there periodically.
“I approached and saw that a boy of about nine was standing at the sink filled with water and blood. At that moment, the flight attendant began to ask if there was a doctor on board, to which I replied: “I’m a doctor, I’ll help now.”
I tried to stop the bleeding using cotton wool and improvised means that the conductors had, applying cold to the bridge of the nose. But this had no effect – everything was soaked in blood. The bleeding did not stop for about 20 minutes.
I tried to calm the child down and began to think about what to do next. I asked the flight attendants for a first aid kit and found ampoules of adrenaline there. Having opened two ampoules, I soaked two cotton pads with the solution and inserted them deep into the child’s nose. After a couple of minutes, I saw that the blood had stopped,” AiF Krasnoyarsk quotes Mirzoev as saying.
The child came to his senses. As it turned out, the boy had undergone surgery to remove his adenoids the day before, which probably caused the bleeding.
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Novosibirsk Lokomotiv defeated Moscow MSTU in the match of the 18th round of the Russian Volleyball Championship.
The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 3–2 (25:21, 20:25, 25:23, 23:25, 15:10) in favor of the guests.
Lokomotiv scored 44 points and ranks second in the Super League standings, MSTU (6 points) is 16th.
In other matches of the day, the Gazprom-Ugra club beat Dynamo-Ural from Ufa at home (3–0, 26:24, 28:26, 25:21), Nizhny Novgorod Gorky lost away to Orenburg (0–3, 28:30, 11:25, 25:27), Belogorye took victory over Yaroslavich in Tula (3–0, 25:17, 25:15, 25:22).
In the Women’s Super League, Minsk in the away match of the 17th round defeated the Zarechye-Odintsovo team with a score of 3-2 (15:25, 22:25, 25:21, 25:15, 15:7).
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Volleyball
Volleyball players of St. Petersburg “Zenith” beat “Nova” and won their fifth victory in a row in the Super League
St. Petersburg “Zenith” defeated “Nova” from Novokuybyshevsk in the match of the 18th round of the Russian Volleyball Championship.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 3–2 (25:17, 25:21, 19:25, 20:25, 15:13). Zenit extended its winning streak in the Super League to five matches.
In other matches of the day, Zenit Kazan beat Krasnoyarsk Yenisey at home – 3-1 (25:18, 25:20, 25:27, 25:20), the Dynamo-LO club (Sosnovy Bor) defeated Kemerovo Kuzbass at home – 3-0 (25:15, 25:19, 25:20).
The leader in the table is Zenit Kazan (16 wins, 45 points), Zenit from St. Petersburg (14 wins, 43 points) is second.
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