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- Football champions Levski and Norway's vice champion Bran from Bergen drew 0-0 in the first game of the second preliminary round for entry into the football Champions League. The 20,000 spectators in Sofia's Georgi Asparuhov stadium witnessed the unconvincing performance of Italian referee Stefano Farina and a series of mistakes by Levski, the Bulgarian team, who failed to make use of their sporting advantage.

- Petar Stoichev, the Bulgarian swimmer and marathon runner, won the 32-kilometer race in the waters of the great Canadian lakes on Sunday, July 29. It was one round of the chain of sporting events in the World Cup. After his swimming performance in Canada, the 24-year-old Stoichev rose above the leader, Italy's Meca Medina, in the temporary ranking list. Medina has been accused of using illegal drugs. Last year Stoichev was third in the general ranking for the World Cup.

- The beach volleyball team, Ivailo Gavrilov and Vladislav Todorov, won the second tournament of the Devin Cup chain of sporting events on Sunday, July 29. Gavrilov-Todorov, the first professional Bulgarian pair in this sport, demonstrated high class and triumphed over the remaining 16 Bulgarian participants in the first beach volleyball championship in Bulgaria. The event took place in front of approximately 1,000 spectators at Sofia's Maria-Luisa open-air swimming complex.

- Olympic and world champion in the triple jump, Teresa Marinova, won the international Leonida tournament in the Greek town of Sparta on Friday, July 27. The best Bulgarian track-and-field sportswoman for 2000 achieved a result of 14.49 meters, concluding her preparation for the open-air World Championship in Edmonton, Canada, which runs from August 3-12 this year.

- Bulgarian grand chess master Vesselin Topalov, who is ranked fourth in the world, received a personal invitation on Friday, July 27, from the Slovenian chairman of the European Chess Union Boris Kutin, to join the team of the Old Continent. In partnership with the Russian World Champion Gary Kasparov, the 24-year-old Bulgarian will participate in the match between the teams of Europe and Asia. The match is scheduled for August 15-19 in Batumi, a town in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

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