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Three positive crown cases among Ukrainians – game against Switzerland on the brink

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Three positive crown cases among Ukrainians

After three Crown Cases In the Ukrainian team it is clear whether Tuesday’s Nations League match in Lucerne against Switzerland can take place. Jewgeni Makarenko, Eduard Sobol is Dimitri Risnyk tested positive for coronavirus. Makarenko and Sobol played on Saturday against Germany (1: 3).

For now, the doctor from the canton of Lucerne and UEFA have coached the team Andrei Shevchenko allowed to train on Monday evening, as reported by the Ukrainian association. The crown tests that the Ukrainians conducted before training will decide whether the match will take place or not. (pre / sda)

Djokovic beats Schwartzman with confidence

Novak Djokovic started the ATP finals with a regular win. The Serbian faced the Argentine in London Diego Schwartzman 6: 3, 6: 2 to. Schwartzman, who qualified for the eight best players season finale for the first time, was only able to keep up with the world number one in the first few minutes. He also took the lead with a break in the first set, but had to give up his serve immediately. After the 2-2, the South American, small compared to the competition, has only won three games. After 78 minutes Djokovic finished the match with a successful volley. (pre / sda)

BVB has to do without Haaland

The striker of the Norwegian national team Erling Haaland he will also have to comply with the quarantine obligation on his return to Germany. The Norwegian authorities and the association made this clear. The national team had agreed to leave the country in solitary confinement until the end of the ten-day quarantine to be issued, reports the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.

Haaland will therefore miss Borussia Dortmund against Hertha BSC on Saturday. Violating the Norwegian Infection Protection Act could result in up to two years in prison. After a positive test by defender Omar Elabdellaoui, the entire national team was quarantined and the Nations League match against Romania was canceled. The away match in Austria on Wednesday could be a selection B. (RAM)

Dillier finds a new employer

Professional cyclist Silvan Dillier found a new team. According to the newspaper “Het Nieuwsblad”, Aargauer will drive for next season Alpecin-Fenix around the superstar Mathieu van der Poel. The Belgian team automatically secured the right to start in the World Tour, home to the most important races, by winning the overall standings in the second-class European Tour.

Dillier’s contract with French side AG2R La Mondiale expires after three seasons at the end of this year. His biggest success so far was 2nd place in classic Paris – Roubaix, when he had to admit defeat to Peter Sagan in the final shot in 2018. In 2017, Dillier, still dressed as BMC at the time, also won a stage in the Giro d’Italia. (ram / sda)

Mascherano resigns

The longtime Argentine international Javier Mascherano ended his career at the age of 36. The former FC Barcelona player, who last made a living in his home country at Estudiantes de La Plata, played between 2003 and 2018 147 international matches for Argentina – as many as no one else.

With Barça, Mascherano has won a total of 18 trophies in eight seasons. In 2011 and 2015, the defensive midfielder triumphed with the Catalans in Champions League. (ram / sda / afp)

IOC: Olympia takes place in Tokyo

Due to the corona pandemic on Summer 2021 out of place The Tokyo Olympic Games will take place as planned. The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, agreed on this with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday in Tokyo.

He is determined to host the games in his country’s capital next year, Suga said, according to local media. Bach thanked Suga for his efforts in hosting the games. They should become a symbol of the militia in the post-Crown era, Bach said. (ram / sda)

Johnson with the Masters tournament winning record in the United States

With five shots ahead and that Record result of 268 hits has the American golf pro Dustin Johnson won the 84th US Masters in Augusta. For the 36-year-old from the state of South Carolina, it was the second triumph in one of four major tournaments. In June 2016 he won the US Open. Johnson is Leader of the world rankings and for many years one of the consistently strongest players. In the past, he had narrowly missed several other Grand Slam level tournament wins.

He made the excellent impression he had made throughout the entire tournament up to that point Tiger Woods in the final round on a single hole. On the 12th hole, a very short but very treacherous par 3, he hit the ball three times in the water. Eventually there were detours through sand bunkers and a weak, shifted putt disastrous score of ten bars. Seven above par on a single hole. In 22 appearances at Augusta, an eight on the 15th hole, a par 5, had previously been the worst result of the Woods hole. The almost unbelievable incident forced Woods to retire from a presumably safe position in the first midfield of the 60 finalists. (zap / sda)

Aebischer, Kasami and Lang were named later

National coach Vladimir Petkovic has before Tuesday’s game against the, essential for maintaining the championship in the Nations League Ukraine three players nominated in Lucerne. Michel Aebischer (YB), Pajtim Kasami (Basel) and Michael Lang (Mönchengladbach) strengthen the Swiss squad.

Petkovic decided on the latest nominations because with Jordan Lotomba and Silvan Widmer two defense attorneys tested positive for coronavirus and with Nico Elvedi and Remo Freuler two suspended against Ukraine. For Kasami, who moved from Sion to Basel this season, is the first formation since March 2016. (zap / sda)