country's nonsense to host the winter olympics and expand beery as well as before the world cup in two farms nineteen formula one is determined not to be left behind and we're trying to create its own legacy of one hundred year weights richard i'm told me donte. and history was also made on the streets of the capital this weekend as thousands of runners full through the rain to take part in the first official moscow marathon and michael christian was the. the first ever marathon held in moscow took place in one thousand nine hundred one on the back of russia's first ever summer olympic games the capital seized on the newfound enthusiasm for sport to create the international moscow marathon for peace and the forty two kilometer insurance events was held annually until last year when the organizers decided to reinvent it. this is the first marathon of this guy and here in moscow which is based on major marathons like the ones in london or paris the capital recently successfully hosted the world athletics championships and now it's staging with this fantastic new marathon moscow has o

hockey star alexander ovechkin becomes the first russian to carry the olympic torch to kickstart a record long relay for the salt two winter games. and fast track russia's hottest to win the one prospect's against iraq to test the sochi circuit ahead of russia's first ever f one race next year. but let's start with football because it's been a bad week for the world's top player in all messi as the barcelona forward picked up a thigh injury in the two know when it all maria after also appearing in court for the charges of tax fraud messy netted the opener in the wind to post his eight goal in six legal matches so far this campaign bossa have now won seven active seven club record start to the season messi is ruled out for up to three weeks but before that the twenty six year old argentinian and his father for haye were questioned by a spanish judge after allegedly evading taxes of more than five million dollars an accusation most men deny. it was a losing home debut for world record signing gareth by a laugh to rail madrid lost to city rivals atletico one nil of the birth of diego

first russian to carry the olympic torch after it was late in the traditional greek century of a little pia on sunday the twenty eight year old n.h.l. start made a whirlwind trip before returning to washington on the same day to prepare the capitals the season at chicago on monday you know it's because again. you know i'm proud to be russian the. russian person and you know. it's. it's about it's i mean it's about for for my country and for me for my people and you know i'm very happy to be that kind of guy. and here we have some facts and figures about those upcoming sochi olympics the torch will make an eight day trip from the games traditional birthplace in a limpia to the russian capital before a host of torch bearers that embark on a record breaking relay to sochi by a planes trains and automobiles along with a helicopter and even the help of a few reindeer before arriving in time to light up the twenty second winter olympics after a journey of over sixty five thousand kilometers and lost in hundred twenty three days as the games begin on the seventh of february while heavy rain an

the twenty twenty summer olympic and paralympic games it's from istanbul madrid of the i.o.c. vote in buenos aires the japanese campus saw the final round of voting gaining sixty votes to istanbul's ferdie six madrid earlier been eliminated in the first rounds in and sprint was met with jubilant scenes in japan as tokyo prepares to host the event for the first time since nine hundred sixty four tokyo promoted its beard as the remarkable choice of the title and economic uncertainty they have been on the defensive in the final days of the campaign. mounted concerns over the leak of radioactive water from the tsunami crippled the sheema nuclear plant. and one sport which will be in tokyo's wrestling retained its interests in limbic event despite appearing in every games except one thousand nine hundred it was surprisingly dropped by the i.o.c. in february over the last six months for sport has complained heavily to maintain its status in the lympics been rule changes to make it more spain friendly wrestling gained forty nine over ninety five votes with squash and a joint baseball soft