Bulgaria’s participation in the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing ends without medals for the country. The Games close today. Bulgaria participated with 16 competitors in 7 sports - alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding, figure skating and sledding.
Alpine skier Albert Popov was the most successful among the Bulgarian team, finishing 9th in the slalom and 17th in the giant slalom.
Bulgarian open-water swimmer Tsanko Tsankov swam one of the most difficult swimming marathons in the Ocean's Seven, his manager Nikolai Iliev reported. Tsankov swam the longest of the seven marathons, from the Molokai Island to Oahu in the..
In one of the mountains near Sofia - Vitosha, a new mountain race - Hut Hop Race will take place today starting at 10 am. The race is a run/walk with elements of map orientation using any navigational aids. Organizers are Kiril Nikolov "Dizela",..
Nurgyul Salimova scored her first victory at the Grand Prix chess tournament in the Kazakh city of Shymkent . In an eighth-round match, she defeated Mongolia's Batkhuyag Munguntuul with the black pieces. Salimova took the initiative from the start and..
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