Sports weekend with Izvestia

Winter Olympic Games

The XXV Winter Olympic Games will end in Italy at the end of this week. The day before, on February 19, Nikita Filippov of Russia won the first medal in ski mountaineering. In the last two days of the competition, our skiers, Savely Korostelev and Daria Nepryaeva, have a chance to repeat this success. They will compete in 50 km mass start marathons in the classic style. These will be their last chances for medals at these Games. Also, on February 21, Anastasia Semenova will compete in the speed skating mass start.

February 21st:
13:00, cross-country skiing, men, 50 km, Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium (Val di Fiemme, Italy);
17:00, speed skating, men, mass start, semifinals, Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium (Val di Fiemme, Italy);
18:40, speed skating, men, mass start, final, Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium (Val di Fiemme, Italy).

February 22: 12:00 p.m., cross-country skiing, men, 50 km, Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium (Val di Fiemme, Italy).

Live broadcasts on Okko.

Ski at the root: Nikita Filippov got a chance to medal in a new Olympic discipline

18 athletes will compete for the first set of awards.

Tennis. The ATP-500 tournament. Semi-finals and finals

The next major tennis tournament in the Middle East is coming to an end. One Russian, last year's tournament winner Andrey Rublev, continues to fight in Doha. On February 20, Karen Khachanov could have joined him in the semifinals, but he lost to world number one Carlos Alcaraz in three sets. Now the best of the Rublev – Alcaraz pair will play the strongest of the other semi-final in the decisive match for the trophy. The Frenchman Arthur Fis has already joined it. Czech Jakub Menshik and Italian Yannick Sinner will compete for the second place. The winner of the final will receive 500 points in his ranking of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

February 20, semifinals:
18:00, Rublev – Alcaras;
21:30, Fis – Menshik/Sinner.

February 21, 18:30, final. Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex (Doha, Qatar).

Live broadcasts on the ATP website.

Hockey. KHL Regular Season

Next weekend, the KHL will host four landmark matches. On February 21, the two leaders of the Western Conference will play — the first-place Yaroslavl Lokomotiv will host their main pursuer Dinamo Minsk. On the same day, the army derby will take place in St. Petersburg - SKA, which unexpectedly found itself at the end of the Western playoff zone (eighth place), will meet at home with the fifth-placed CSKA Moscow.

In addition, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, which is located on the fourth line in the West, will play two significant home matches: on February 21, it will host the third team in the East, Ak Bars Kazan, and on February 23 it will face Dinamo Minsk.

February 21, 17:00: Arena-2000 (Yaroslavl); SKK "Ice Palace" (St. Petersburg); KRK "Nagorny" (Nizhny Novgorod).

February 23, 17:00, KRK "Nagorny" (Nizhny Novgorod).

Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.

Magnitogorsk is pulling: will Metallurg be able to pass the KHL season without slumps

Razin's team leads by a wide margin in the regular season, and the fight for entry into the playoffs is almost over.

Football. Cup of Legends

Traditionally, a football tournament among veterans, the Legends Cup, is held in Moscow in February. The audience will see such iconic figures of the recent past in our football as Denis Glushakov, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Marinato Guilherme, Igor Semshov, Sergey Ignashevich, Alexey Berezutsky, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Kevin Kuranyi and many others.

February 21st:
12:15 p.m., Lokomotiv vs Zenit;
14:00, Spartak – World team;
15:00, Zenit — CSKA;
16:00, the world team – Dynamo;
17:00, CSKA Moscow – Lokomotiv;
18:00, Dynamo – Spartak.

February 22nd:
13:30, fifth place match;
2:30 p.m., third place match;
3:30 p.m., the final.

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

Football. The French Championship. PSG – Metz

In the French Ligue 1, for once, there is competition in the fight for gold. Paris Saint-Germain, the richest club in the country, was not a champion for the last time in 2021. Since then, he has won the national championship four times in a row. And now I'm very close to losing the title. After 22 rounds, the capital club is second, losing one point to Lance. Against this background, Russian goalkeeper Matvey Safonov gradually ousted his competitor Luc Chevalier from the base. In order to gain a foothold in the number one status, our goalkeeper needs to play well in the upcoming home match of the 23rd round on February 22 against the championship outsider Metz.

February 21, 23:05, Parc des Princes Stadium (Paris, France).

Live broadcasts on Okko.