Sport in May 2007

Wednesday May 9th

• Hockey
• Championship of the world

• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: at the conclusion of the second Round-Robin, the four trade unions qualfiés for the semi-finals are in the order: Emirates TEAM New Zealand, BMW Oracle Racing, Luna Rossa Challenge, Desafío Español 2007. the New Zealanders decided to face the Spanish challenge in semi-final.

Thursday May 10th

• Hockey
• Championship of the world

Saturday May 12th

• Cycling , Turn of Italy 2007, 1 {{Re}} stage:
• Classification stage: Italy, Kazakhstan, Denmark
• General classification: Enrico Gasparotto Italy, Danilo Di Luca Italy, Vincenzo Nibali Italy
• Football , Coupe de France, Finale with the Stade de France
• 2 - 2 5 Shootings with the goal with 4
• Hockey , Championship of the world: Semi-finals
• Russia 1 - 2 (ap) Finland
• Sweden 1 - 4 Canada
• Rugby with XV , Championship of England of Rugby to XV 2006-2007: Finale, Twickenham
• 12 - 44

Sunday May 13rd

• Cycling , Turn of Italy 2007, 2 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Robbie McEwen Predictor-Lotto Australia, Paolo Bettini Italy, Alessandro Petacchi TEAM Milram Italy
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Enrico Gasparotto Italy, Vincenzo Nibali Italy
• Automobile , Formula 1, Grand Prix of Spain. Brazilian the Felipe Massa gains its second Grand Prix of the season over Ferrari. It precedes Lewis Hamilton on McLaren which takes the head of the championship.

• Cycling : Four days of Dunkirk: final victory of French Matthieu Ladagnous of the French of the Plays.
• Football , Championship of Belgium: its 29e championship gains.
• Golf , The Players Championship: The American Phil Mickelson gains the tournament with a final score of -11 pennies par. It precedes Spanish Sergio Garcia of two blows and a doublette made up of Stewart Cink and Jose Maria Olazabal.
• Handball , League of the champions female, Final outward journey
• HC " Lada Togliatti" 29 - 29 Slagelse DT
• Hockey , Championship of the world: Finales
• Final: Finland 2 - 4 Canada
• 3rd place: Russia 3 - 1 Sweden
• Tennis Masters of Rome: Spanish Rafael Nadal continues his domination on the ground beaten by gaining his 77e consecutive victory. It is its 3rd consecutive victory in Rome, exploit which had never yet been carried out.

Monday May 14th

• Cycling , Turn of Italy 2007, 3 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Alessandro Petacchi TEAM Milram Italy, Robert Förster Gerolsteiner Germany, Maximiliano Richeze Panaria-Navigare Argentinian,
• General classification: Enrico Gasparotto Italy, Danilo Di Luca Italy, Andrea Noah Italy
• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: Beginning of the semi-finals. Emirates TEAM New Zealand gains the first regatta vis-a-vis Desafío Español 2007. In the second semi-final, victory of Luna Rossa Challenge over BMW Oracle Racing. The semi-finals proceed with best of the 9 handles.

Tuesday May 15th

• Basketball
• NBA: German Dirk Nowitzki was elected MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the regular season of NBA. It is the first European to receive this distinction. He precedes Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and LeBron James
• Playoffs NBA 2007: gràce with their victory by 100 to 87 over the Golden delicious State Warriors, the Utah Jazz are qualified for the final of the Western Conference. They gain the series by 4 to 1.
• Voile : Cut Louis Vuitton: semi-finals. Second victory of Emirates TEAM New Zealand vis-a-vis Desafío Español 2007. In the second semi-final, BMW Oracle Racing takes its revenge on Luna Rossa Challenge and totals 1 everywhere regatta.

Wednesday May 16th

• Cycling , Turn of Italy 2007, 4 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Riccardo Riccò Italy, Damiano Cunego Italy,
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Free Pellizotti Italy, Andrea Noah Italy
• Football : UEFA Cup 2006-2007, Finale with Hampden Park of Glasgow
• 2 - 2,3 Shootings with the goal with 1

• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: semi-finals. Desafío Español 2007 gains its first regatta vis-a-vis Emirates TEAM New Zealand and totals 1 to 2. In the second semi-final, Italian of Luna Rossa Challenge includes the advantage on BMW Oracle Racing by gaining the third handle.

Thursday May 17th

• Basketball , Playoffs NBA 2007: The Detroit Pistons reach the finale of Conference Is while triumphing over the Chicago bulldozers by 4 victories with 2. The last match of the series is gained with Chicago over the score from 95 to 85.
• Cyclisme , Tour of Italy 2007, 5 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Robert Förster Gerolsteiner Germany, Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole Norway, Alessandro Petacchi TEAM Milram Italy.
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Free Pellizotti Italy, Andrea Noah Italy
• Football : Cut of Italy, Final return to San Siro of Milan
• 1 - 2 (7 - 4 on the whole)

Friday May 18th

• Basketball : Playoffs NBA 2007 : the San Antonio Spurs gain the 6th meeting by 114 to 106 vis-a-vis the Phoenix Suns and are qualifent for the final of Western Conference.

• Cycling , Turn of Italy 2007, 6 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Shine Felipe Laverde Ceramica Panaria Colombia, Marco Pinotti T-Mobile Italy, Christophe Kern Crédit Agricole France.
• General classification: Marco Pinotti Italy, Swiss Hubert Schwab, Danilo Di Luca Italy
• Ministry for the Sports : The transfer of power, with the head of the Ministry for the Sports of gouverment French, between Jean-François Lamour and Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, takes place this Friday May 18th, as of the end of morning. As implied it many media, of which the Team, since a few days, Mrs. Bachelot, 60 years, near to the Prime Minister Francois Fillon, returns to the government to the head of a vast ministry gathering Santé and Sport.
• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: semi-finals. Emirates TEAM New Zealand widens the gap with the classification by laying out for the third time of Desafío Español 2007. In the second semi-final, Luna Rossa Challenge makes in the same way vis-a-vis American of BMW Oracle Racing. The two teams carry out thus by 3 regattas to 1.

Saturday May 19th

• Football : Cut of England, Finale with Wembley.
• 1 - 0

• Football , Championship of Germany: its 5th championship
• Hockey gains
• National league of hockey: the Ottawa gain the Conference Is by gaining the series by 4 victories with 1 vis-a-vis the Buffalo
• Cyclisme , Tour of Italy 2007, 7 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Alessandro Petacchi Milram Italy, Thor Hushovd Crédit Agricole, Paolo Bettini Italy.
• General classification: Marco Pinotti Italy, Swiss Hubert Schwab, Danilo Di Luca Italy
• Rugby with XV :
• European Challenge: finale with London
• 16 - 22
• Super 14, final
• bulldozers 20-19 Sharks
  C' is the final prmière opposing two franknesses from South Africa and the bulldozers become the first frankness from South Africa to hold the trophy.
• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: semi-final. Luna Rossa and TEAM New Zealand is with a victory of the qualication after their respective victories over BMW Oracle and Desafío.

Sunday May 20th

• Automobile , Rally, Championship of the world of the rallys 2007, Rally of Sardinia: Finnish Marcus Grönholm benefits from the abandonment of French Sebastien Loeb to take again the head of the championship. He precedes his compatriot and fellow-member at Ford Mikko Hirvonen.
• Baseball : the Huskies of Rouen gain the Challenge of France of baseball 2007.
• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 8 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Kurt Asle Arvesen, Paolo Bettini Italy, Assan Bazayev.
• General classification: Marco Pinotti Italy, Swiss Hubert Schwab, Danilo Di Luca Italy
• Football : Championship of Portugal: its 22e title at the time of the last day gains. It precedes it and the
• Handball , female Ligue of the champions, Finale return
• Slagelse DT 32-24 (to go 29 - 29) HC " Lada Togliatti"
• Motor bike , Championships of the world speed motor bike, Grand Prix of France motor bike: Australian the Chris Vermeulen sign its first victory in MotoGP under the rain. Gràce with its victory in 250cm, Spanish Jorge Lorenzo accentuates its domination. In 125cm, victory of Spanish Sergio Gadea.
• Rugby : Cut of Europe of Rugby to XV, Finale:
• 25-9 with the Stage of Twickenham to London
• Tennis , Tournament of Hamburg: Switzerland Roger Federer puts an end to the series of 81 successes of sharpened on beaten ground of Spanish Rafael Nadal. It gains the tournament by 2-6, 6-2, 6-0.
• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: semi-final. Italian of Luna Rossa takes down their qualification by gaining to them 5th victories. They gain the semi-final by 5 victories with 1 over BMW Oracle. In the second semi-final, Spanish of Desafío delays the expiry by gaining its second victory. TEAM New Zealand mêne by 4 to 2.

Monday May 21st

• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 9 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Danilo Napolitano Italy, Robbie McEwen Predictor - Lotto Australia, Alessandro Petacchi Milram Italy.
• General classification: Marco Pinotti Italy, Andrea Noah Italy, Serguei Yakovlev Astana

Tuesday May 22nd

• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 10 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Leonardo Piepoli Italy, Danilo Di Luca Italy, Andy Schleck Luxembourg.
• General classification: Andrea Noah Italy, Marzio Bruseghin Italy, David Arroyo Savings bank Spain
• Hockey , National league of hockey: the Anaheim gain the Western Conference by gaining the series by 4 victories with 2 vis-a-vis the Detroit

Wednesday May 23rd

• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 11 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Alessandro Petacchi Milram Italy, Gabriele Balducci Acqua & Sapone-Coffee Mokambo Italy, Robbie McEwen Predictor - Lotto.
• General classification: Andrea Noah Italy, Marzio Bruseghin Italy, David Arroyo Savings bank Spain
• Football : League of the champions 2006-2007, finale with the Olympic stadium of Athens
• 2 - 1

• Veil : Cut Louis Vuitton: semi-final. TEAM New Zealand, gràce with its victory over Desafío gains this semi-final by 5 regattas with 2. The New Zealand challenge joined Italian of Luna Rossa finally.

Thursday May 24th

• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 12 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Gilberto Simoni Italy, Andy Schleck Luxembourg.
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Marzio Bruseghin Italy, David Arroyo Savings bank Spain
• Football , Championship of Switzerland: The preserve its championship of Switzerland

Friday May 25th

• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 13 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Marzio Bruseghin Italy, Leonardo Piepoli Italy, Danilo Di Luca Italy.
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Marzio Bruseghin Italy, Andy Schleck Luxembourg

Saturday May 26th

• Football :
• Cut of Germany, Finale with the Olympiastadion.
• 2 - 3 .
  Le club of the south of the Germany removes the test for the fourth time of its history and puts an end to forty years without trophy, the last of its nine championships going back already to 1968.
• Cut of Scotland, Finale with Hampden Park.
• 1 - 0
  Un goal of old the Resident of Auxerre and Of Rennes Jean-Joel Perrier-Doumbé (85e) made it possible to build doubled Coupe - championship in. This victory offers to Celtic its thirty-fourth crosses national and the fourteenth doubled of its history.
• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 14 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Stefano Garzelli Italy, Gilberto Simoni Italy, Paolo Bettini Italy.
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Marzio Bruseghin Italy, Andy Schleck Luxembourg
• Rugby with XV : match international:
• 29 - 23
• 58 - 10
• 22 - 20
• Equestrian sport :
• the French jockey Olivier Peslier gains the 2.000 Guineas Irish over Cockney Rebel, and is thus offered doubled, having gained the 2000 Guineas Stakes English a few front weeks.

Sunday May 27th

• Automobile
• Formula 1, Grand Prix of Monaco: Spanish Fernando Alonso precedes his fellow-member at McLaren, the British Lewis Hamilton and the pilot Ferrari Felipe Massa.
• 500 miles Indianapolis: victory of an outsider the British Dario Franchitti in front of the New Zealander Scott Dixon and the bréslien Photogravure Castroneves.
• Cycling : Turn of Italy 2007, 15 {{E}} stage:
• Classification stage: Riccardo Riccò Italy, Leonardo Piepoli Italy, Ivan Parra.
• General classification: Danilo Di Luca Italy, Eddy Mazzoleni Italy, Andy Schleck Luxembourg
• Equestrian sport
• the admiral Mauzun, French trotter associated with Jean-Michel Bazire, gains the Elitloppet, the greatest Swedish trotting race.
• Mid Dancer, associated with Cyrille Gombeau is essential in the Grand Steeplechase of Paris.
• Finsceal Beo gains the 1.000 Guineas Irish over its grounds, associated with Kevin Manning
• the Tattersalls Gold Cup returns to Notnowcato assembled by Johnny Murtagh.

Monday May 28th

• Hockey , National league of hockey: finale of Cut Stanley, first match of the series with Anaheim
• Ducks d' Anaheim 3 - 2 Senators d' Ottawa

Wednesday May 30th

• Basketball : Playoffs NBA 2007 : the San Antonio Spurs are qualified for the Final NBA by gaining the series by 4 victories with 1. At the time of the fifth meeting, they beat with San Antonio the Utah Jazz on the score from 109 to 84.
• Hockey , National league of hockey: finale of Cut Stanley, second match of the series with Anaheim
• Ducks d' Anaheim 1 - 0 Senators d' Ottawa

Thursday May 31st

• Football : International medium ground English Owen Hargreaves sign a five year old contract in favor of Manchester United. The amount of the transfer borders the 25 million euros.

Principal sporting appointments of the month of May 2007

• April 27th with the May 13rd: Hockey, Championship of the world of hockey 2007
• 4 with the May 6th: Basketball, Euroligue, Final Furnace
• 4 with the May 6th: Championship of the world of the rallys 2007, Rally of Argentina
• May 6th: Motor bike, Grand Prix motor bike of China
• May 12th with the June 3rd: Cycling, Turn of Italy
• May 12th: Football, finale of the Coupe de France of football
• May 13rd: Championship of the world of Formula 1 2007, automobile Grand Prix of Spain
• May 13rd: Handball, League of the champions of handball female 2006-2007, Final outward journey
• May 16th: Football, UEFA Cup 2006-2007, Final
• May 19th: Rugby with XV, Super 14, Finale
• May 20th: Motor bike, Grand Prix of France motor bike
• May 20th: Handball, League of the champions of handball female 2006-2007, Final return
• 18 to the May 20th: Championship of the world of the rallys 2007, Rally of Sardinia
• May 20th: Football, finale of the F Challenge Cup
• May 20th: Rugby with XV, finale of the Cut of Europe of Rugby to XV
• May 23rd: Football, League of the Champions 2006-2007, Final
• May 25th - July 8th: Volley ball, world League
• May 27th: Championship of the world of Formula 1 2007, automobile Grand Prix of Monaco
• May 27th with the June 10th: International Tennis, of France of Roland-Garros 2007

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