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NOVEMBER 27 sees the start of the Olympic Torch Relay from Olympia in Greece to Turin, host of the 2006 Winter Olympics. The 20th Winter Olympics opens in the Italian city on February 10, and competitor countries are stepping up their preparations. According to Bulgarian-language media reports, the country will be sending a delegation of 90 to Turin, including sports people, coaches, managers and guests.
The golf course at St Sofia Golf Club and Spa opens this weekend, April 9 and 10, coinciding with a major landmark in sports broadcasting in Bulgaria - bTV showing the US Masters. On April 8, the course at St Sofia will be open to all golfers to play, and for some final rounds of practice before the tournament the following day. Sunday's tournament will be played over one round, in Stableford format.
FOOTBALL giant CSKA, popularly known as the Reds for their livery, have appointed Serbian Miodrag Jesic as their new head coach, with his compatriot Zoran Kraljevic as his deputy. Kraljevic was Svalia's head coach during the 2002-2003 season, while Jesic previously was the coach of Bulgarian football club Slavia, Belgrade's Partizan, Turkey's Altay, and Iran's Pegah.
NOT that anyone might have thought it possible by now, but discord in the Bulgarian Football Union appears to have attained even newer heights. There was not much good news to be had in the world of Bulgarian sport in the past few days, with the national team slipping down two positions in the monthly FIFA rankings to 39th place...
NOTWITHSTANDING Bulgarian national football team head coach Hristo Stoichkov's prediction of victory, the friendly on February 9 between Bulgaria and Serbia-Montenegro played to a goalless draw. The match was played in sub-zero temperatures, and the Ministry of Defence stepped in to provide 1000 blankets to chilly spectators at Sofia's Vassil Levski stadium.
PERHAPS there was envy, certainly there was awe, certainly too there was excitement, but could there have been that much surprise? Bulgarian-language newspapers fell over themselves to compete in the boldness of their headlines reporting that 18-year-old football wonder Valeri Bojinov was being transferred from one Italian first-division football club, Lecce, to another, Florentina, for the record sum of 13 million euro.
IS Bulgarian football legend Hristo Stoichkov ready to step down as head coach of Bulgaria's national team to defect to Barcelona? Reports to this effect, based on remarks he made in his regular column in Spanish sports newspaper El Mundo Deportivo, caused a major stir in Bulgaria. Bulgarian-language newspaper reports this past week quoted Stoichkov as having written: "I am the head coach of the Bulgarian football team and my thoughts are completely concentrated on qualifying for the Football World Cup
BULGARIA'S Magdalena Maleeva advanced at the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 19 after defeating Russia's Alina Zhidkova. Maleeva, who is 22nd in the rankings, beat Zhidkova 6-4 7-5. Zhidkova is ranked 54th in the world. Maleeva was due to play a third round match the winner of a game between 11th seed Russian Nadya Petrova and Australia's Sophie Ferguson in the next round. After her compatriot Sesil Karatantcheva was defeated, it was left to Maleeva to carry Bulgaria's standard. Karatantcheva,
THE battle to succeed controversial Ivan Slavkov as head of the Bulgarian Football Union, another of the many posts he holds, is set to come to a head on January 17. Slavkov's career as a leader of sports bodies has hit severe turbulence following a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee executive, expected to be endorsed at an IOC general assembly meeting in Singapore in July, that he be ousted from the IOC.
THE past week saw a significant loss for one fallen Bulgarian sports star, a rise in the fortunes of another, and moves to keep on the straight and narrow - both when it comes to doping, and when it comes to curling.
PAMPOROVO, 240km from Sofia and 85km from Plovdiv, boasts a climate with about 120 sunny days during the skiing season.
ITALIAN team Roma are ready with an offer of 10 million euro for 18-year-old football phenomenon Valeri Bojinov, according to Bulgarian-language media reports.
THE Murphy's Misfits rugby team has played its first friendly of the season, and has two exciting matches coming up.
PASSIONS and protest have followed the Bulgarian Parliament's approval of harsh penalties for hooliganism, including the use of foul language, at sports events.
WHILE the every move of competitors from other countries was being followed by their media and their fans at home, Bulgaria's team at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens seemed consigned to invisibility.
THE "para" in Paralympics represents the expression "equal to" - not "paraplegic" as many people appear to think.
ALL eyes have been on Athens in these heady days of the 2004 Olympics - and will be even more so as the Olympic flame is doused on Sunday August 29 at the official closing ceremony.
A MILLION television viewers in Bulgaria joined a global audience of over four billion to watch the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Sun-seekers flocking to Black Sea resorts this summer have a wealth of choices for accommodation.
The northern Black Sea resort of Albena is pulling out all the stops to lure tourists.
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