It should be noted that quite recently the miners' lead over "Dynamo" was 5 points. In a week, the match "Shakhtar" vs "Dynamo" will take place in Donetsk, and most likely, if the result is negative for Schuster's team in this encounter, the German specialist will have to say "Auf Wiedersehen!" to the Shakhtar region.

Dnipropetrovsk's "Dnipro" achieved the greatest progress among Ukrainian teams in the ranking of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).

The national team of Ukraine under the leadership of Oleh Blokhin continues to disappoint its fans both with results and with its play. After a draw with the Libyan team, Blokhin's charges lost 1:0 in Skopje to the Macedonian national team.

In Athens on Tuesday, a draw was held for the groups among the women's handball teams that will participate in the Summer Olympic Games from August 13 to 29, 2004, in Athens.

Ukrainian Hanna Bezsonova took third place in the all-around at the pre-Olympic test tournament in rhythmic gymnastics that ended in Athens. The top two spots at these competitions went to gymnasts from Russia. Irina Chashchina won the "gold," and Alina Kabaeva took the "silver.

The head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Oleh Blokhin, has announced an expanded list of players called up for the training camp ahead of the friendly match Macedonia TsUkraine, which will take place on March 31 in Skopje.

In the first quarterfinal match of the Champions League, Italian "Milan" crushed Spanish "Deportivo" with a score of 4:1, and practically secured themselves a place in the semifinals of the most prestigious European tournament.

Finally, big-time football has returned to Lutsk. The renewed, and therefore somewhat mysterious, "Volyn" hosted at "Avangard" one of its main competitors in the fight to stay in the league - Kirovohrad's "Zirka".

On March 18, a court hearing was held in the Hamburg city court to consider the issue that has become a stumbling block in relations between the Klitschko brothers and the professional boxing club headed by Klaus-Peter Kohl, "Universum Box-Promotion," for which Vitali and Wladimir have been fighting since October 1996.

Heavyweight Corrie Sanders, who is preparing for the fight for the WBC world champion title against Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko, which will take place on April 24 in Los Angeles, stated that if he wins this bout, he will also have a rematch with Wladimir. If Sanders loses, he will leave professional boxing.