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On Thursday in the Israeli city of Beersheba, the team world championship ended with the 9th round matches. The Ukrainian national team, which was the reigning champion of the tournament, relinquished its title long before the competition's finish.
The day before, the World Boxing Council issued an official statement regarding the departure from boxing of the WBC heavyweight champion, Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko.
In the eighth round of the World Team Chess Championship, the Ukrainian national team defeated the Israeli team with a score of 2.5:1.5. The Armenian team in the penultimate round unexpectedly defeated the tournament leader – China with a score of 2.5:1.5.
Ukrainian boxer Vitali Klitschko, who was supposed to fight Hasim Rahman for the WBC world championship title on November 12, will never enter the ring as a boxer again.
Lutsk "Volyn" has been fined 500 cu for ignoring the requirements to pay the transfer fee to "Dnipro" for footballer Maksymyuk. "Volyn" failed to comply with the previous two decisions of the PFL Bureau.
Two rounds before the end of the World Team Chess Championship, the maximum the Ukrainian national team can count on is bronze. In the seventh round, the Ukrainians drew 2:2 with the Cuban team.
On November 7, WBC President Jose Sulaiman announced that if the treatment of the injury sustained by world heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko under the WBC version requires more than three months, he will be stripped of his title.
Ukraine, paired with Poland, has entered the top three candidates to host the final part of Euro 2012.
As a thorough medical examination showed, it was a meniscus injury of the right knee joint.
At the team world championship, which is taking place in Israel, the Ukrainian national team in the sixth round lost to the leader of the competition - the Chinese team - with a score of 1.5:2.5. Andriy Volokitin, Serhiy Karyakin and Ruslan Ponomariov drew their games, while Oleksandr Moiseyenko lost.