Sports weekend with Izvestia

Winter Olympic Games

A week has already passed since the start of the current Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo and Milan, Italy, and a small group of Russian athletes in neutral status has not yet managed to win a single medal. Our skiers have the best chance of this. One of them, Savely Korostelev, will try to get on the podium on February 13 following the results of the men's 10 km speed skating race.

On the same day, the competitions in men's single figure skating will end, where hopes were on Peter Gumennik. But according to the results of the short program, he was only in 12th place and almost lost the chance to rise high according to the results of the free skate.

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Peter could not cleanly roll out his program, and the skiers could not cope with the shortest distance.

On Sunday, our skier Yulia Pleshkova will make her final start — she will take part in the women's giant slalom.

February 13: 13:45, cross-country skiing, men's 10 km, Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium (Val di Fiemme, Italy); 21:00, figure skating, men's free skate, Milano Ice Skating Arena (Milan, Italy).

February 15, Alpine skiing, giant slalom, women: 12:00 p.m., first attempt; 15:30 p.m., second attempt, Tofane Alpine Skiing Center (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy).

Live broadcasts on Okko.

Basketball. VTB United League All-Star Game

The 10th anniversary All-Star Match of the VTB United League will take place next weekend in Moscow. The national teams of Russian and World Stars will play in the main basketball show of the country. Such famous people as Alexey Shved, Nikita Kurbanov and Andrey Vorontsevich will play for the first one. For foreigners — Melo Trimble, Vince Hunter, Trent Fraser and many others.

February 15, 16:00. VTB Arena (Moscow).

Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Game.

Tennis. The WTA-1000 tournament. Semi-finals and finals

This week, the first tennis tournament in 2026 is taking place, the winner of which will receive 1,000 points in his rating. Only the Grand Slam tournaments are cooler than him, where the first place gives 2000 points. And the one thousandth anniversary of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in Doha is already nearing completion. On February 13, the semi-finals will be held in the capital of Qatar, and Anna Kalinskaya will play in one of them. She will meet with Iga Schwentok from Poland./By Maria Sakkari.

February 13, semifinals: 17:00, first semi-final; 18:30, second semi-final. February 14, 18:30, final. Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex (Doha, Qatar).

Live broadcasts on the WTA website.

Biathlon. The Commonwealth Cup. The fifth stage

After a few weeks of pause, the Russian biathlon season resumed. Sochi hosts the penultimate, fifth stage of the Commonwealth Cup with the participation of the best athletes of our country and Belarus. Viewers will be able to see such stars as Belarusian Olympic champion Dinara Smolskaya, her husband, Olympic silver medalist Anton Smolsky, Russian Olympic medalists Kristina Reztsova, Irina Kazakevich, Alexander Loginov, Eduard Latypov, Karim Khalili, Maxim Tsvetkov, world champion Anton Babikov and many others.

Medals in sprints and pursuit races were awarded in the middle of the week. And on the weekend, the winners in the mass starts and team sprints will be announced.

February 14, mass starts: 11:00, men; 13:00, women. February 15, team sprint: 11:00, men; 13:00, women. Ski and biathlon complex "Laura" (Adler).

Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Arena and Match Planet.

Basketball. Egor Demin in the NBA Rising Stars Match

On the night of February 14, Moscow time, a show will be held with the participation of the brightest young players of the National Basketball Association. The event will take place at the Los Angeles Clippers home arena in Inglewood, California.

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For the first time in many years, a Russian will play in the Rising Stars Match. Egor Demin, 19, was selected by the Brooklyn Nets in the first round of the draft last summer. This season, he successfully made his NBA debut and quickly gained a foothold in his team. Before him, only Andrey Kirilenko (2002 and 2003) and Alexey Shved (2013) were among our Rising Stars.

February 14, 05:00, Intuit Dome (Inglewood, USA).

Football. The French Championship. Rennes — PSG, Monaco — Nantes

On February 13, the 22nd round of the French championship starts with two matches with the participation of Russian foreign players. Goalkeeper Matvey Safonov, who is gradually displacing Luc Chevalier from the PSG base, will go with his team to Rennes, which is fighting for entry into the European cup, and will try to help the capital's club maintain its leadership in Ligue 1. PSG's gap from the second-placed Lens is only two points. Alexander Golovin's Monaco, stuck in the middle of the table, will host Nantes.

February 13: 21:00, Roazon Park Stadium (Rennes, France); 23:05, Louis II Stadium (Fonvieille, Principality of Monaco).

Live broadcasts on Okko.