The winning streak of Donetsk "Shakhtar" in the national championships on Saturday was unceremoniously interrupted by Kharkiv "Metalist". Mircea Lucescu's charges, who in the domestic league and the Ukrainian Cup were accustomed to victories, were beaten by the team from Kharkiv with a score of 1:0.

Belgian "Bruges" will long remember their visits to Ukraine this year. After a slap from Donetsk "Shakhtar" in August, Trond Sollied's team was beaten in fine style in Dnipropetrovsk by "Dnipro" with a score of 3:2.

The Ukrainian men's chess team, after the games of the sixth round, has solidified its lead at the Chess Olympiad taking place in the Spanish city of Calvià. On Wednesday, the Ukrainians defeated the chess players from Azerbaijan with a score of 2.5:1.5.

Donetsk "Shakhtar" in the current Champions League campaign has earned its first points, secured its first victory, and scored its first goals. On Wednesday at the RSK "Olimpiyskyi" in Donetsk, the Scottish "Celtic" was crushed 3:0. All three goals were scored by the team's Brazilian legionnaires.

True, in the first 10 minutes of the meeting it seemed that "Real" would tear "Dynamo" apart like a hot water bottle tears a rag. However, this was the only stretch in the match where the Spaniards played at decent speeds, demonstrating solid and powerful football.

Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Athens, Ukrainian Hanna Bezsonova became the winner of the Grand Prix stage in rhythmic gymnastics, which ended on the weekend in Berlin. In the all-around, Bezsonova scored 104.982 points, beating Russian Olga Kapranova, who finished second, by more than three points.

For the third time in recent years, the draw has brought "Volyn" and "Dynamo" together in the Ukrainian Cup. Unfortunately, our footballers have never managed to overcome the Kyivans. This year, the Lutsk side had the most realistic chance to get past Dynamo.

The first so-called world championship between people and computers has ended in Spanish Bilbao. Ukrainians Serhiy Karyakin and Ruslan Ponomariov, as well as Bulgarian Veselin Topalov, were crushed by the machines "Junior", "Fritz 8" and "Hydra" with a score of 8:3.5.

The Ukrainian student futsal team won gold medals at the world championship. In Spanish Palma de Mallorca, the Ukrainian national team defeated the Brazilian national team 3:1 in the final.

The Ukrainian national football team lost two points by drawing 1:1 in the World Cup 2006 qualifying match against Greece at the NSC "Olimpiyskyi". After the final whistle, the reigning European champions were hugging each other, and it seemed as though they had once again recalled their success from three months ago.