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Team Alina Kovaleva still have a slender chance of booking their ticket too! Russia sealed their place in the women’s event at May’s Curling Russian women’s curling 2019 Cup season finale by earning one of two places handed to the highest-ranking points scorers who did not win one of the first three legs. Team Sidorova accumulated nine points in Suzhou and 11 in Jonkoping, with compatriots Team Alina Kovaleva winning only twice in the group stage in Omaha to tot up just six points.

All may not be lost for Team Kovaleva though. Team Sidorova in a best-of-seven match in Sochi to decide which team will represent Russia in the LGT World Women’s Curling Championship 2019 in Silkeborg, Denmark next month. If Team Kovaleva win this week’s duel, then head to Silkeborg and become world champions, they would then grab the automatic Curling World Cup Grand Final place that is given to the world champions. In that case, both Russian women’s rinks would compete in Beijing.

Indeed, even if Team Sidorova won this week’s qualifying match, then won the world title in March, Russia would have two women’s qualifying places for Beijing and would be free to give the ranking points berth to Team Kovaleva. Can’t see the service that you’re looking for? Click the    button to search over 350 services. Swiss University Sports has announced the players that will represent the country in curling at the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk in Russia. The men’s team, known as Team Bern Zähringer Securitas Direct and ranked the second best in Switzerland, is skipped by Yannick Schwaller of the Estonian Business School. It also includes the University of Bern’s Michael Brunner and Romano Meier as well as Marcel Käufeler of the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern and ETH Zurich’s Simon Gloor as the alternate.

Skipping the women’s team is Jana Denied, who is joined by three fellow University of Bern students – Roxane Héritier, Adonia Brunner and Mara Grassi. Larissa Berchtold of the University of Lucerne is the alternate, while Raymond Krenger is the coach. Last month, players who competed at the Russian Women’s Curling Cup in Krasnoyarsk praised the venue which is due to host the sport at the 2019 Winter Universiade. The tournament at the Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace served as the 10th official test event for Krasnoyarsk 2019, scheduled to run from March 2 to 12. The event was won by the Adamant-Saint Petersburg team skipped by Alina Kovaleva, who won silver at the World Championship in Beijing in 2017. Kovaleva’s rink defeated a squad led by Ekaterina Galkina 6-3 in the gold medal match, while Olga Kotelnikova’s team claimed bronze. Kovaleva and Galkina were among those to heap praise on the Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace.

Galkina claimed the event was held on the same scale to any Olympic Games or World Championships. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee’s recognition of the state of Israel. In 2020, the UEFA EURO will celebrate its 60th anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, the tournament will be played across 12 different European cities – bringing the EURO closer to the fans and celebrating the best of European football and culture. It was a gathering far from the type of Sessions we have come to expect these days, David Owen reports. Should breakdancing be an Olympic sport?