The reason there is always: January 30

Sportbox.ru recalls significant events in the sport, took place on January 30 from a Russian triumph at the Australian Open before the birth of the former president of the RFU.

1948 Started V Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz (Switzerland). They were attended by teams of 28 countries, with competitors in Germany and Japan - states recognized by the aggressors during World War II - to the competition is not allowed. St. Moritz was chosen due to the fact that due to its neutrality, Switzerland is not affected by the fighting. Better than other made in St. Moritz athletes in Norway and Sweden, who won the same number of medals: 4 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze.

1995 Rolland Kurbis, coach of French club "Toulouse", speaking in the second division, was sentenced to three years probation for financial abuse while working with the club, "Toulon". He forged accounting reports with fabricated accounts and bonuses paid to players, is not reflected in tax reporting. A decade later, he still had to go to jail after kickbacks were discovered with transfer transactions. By the time Kurbis has worked in Russia: in 2004, he was the head coach of Vladikavkaz "Alania".

2005 Five years after the first victory in a Grand Slam tournament, Marat Safin won the Australian Open singles titles. The match against Australian Lleyton Hewitt took a hard time - 1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 4. After the match Safin admitted: "Today I experienced a noticeable relief. Still, winning two Grand Slam something means something. One such event to be won by chance, as it was with me in 2000, in the U. S. Open. To win in Australia, I work hard. " On the way to the title, Safin beat Croatian Mario Anchicha, Belgian Olivier Rochus, Slovakian Dominik Hrbaty and Swiss Roger Federer in the semi-final is incredibly spectacular.

On this day were born

1937 Boris Spassky, the Soviet and French chess player, world champion (1969), champion of the USSR (1961, 1973). He learned to play chess at the orphanage during the war, when my brother and I were evacuated from Leningrad. In two matches for the chess crown was defeated: first from Tigran Petrosian (1966), with whom he won three years later, and Robert Fischer (1972). The fight with the American in Reykjavik, went down in history as one of the most controversial and unpredictable. Fischer played very early and beat Spassky, who was knocked out of the rut week late American to top the match. Vladimir Vysotsky devoted to this confrontation the song "The honor of the chess crown." In 1976 Spassky moved to France to a second wife - the granddaughter of General beloemigrantov Shcherbachev but retained Soviet citizenship. Since 1984, he played for France at the Chess Olympiads, and the first World Team Championship. In 2012, when the scandalous circumstances, returned to Russia, his family officially announced that GM had undergone a series of strokes taken in France against his will.

1956 Nikolai Tolstoy, Soviet football, president of the Russian Football Union (2012-2015). He played for the Moscow "Dynamo" (126 appearances, 6 goals). Prematurely end his playing career due to injury. In the Russian period was the general director of the Moscow "Dynamo", since 1992 headed the Professional Football League, worked at the Russian Olympic Committee. Work Tolstoy in the RAF took place against the background of scandals caused by the acute shortage of finance and attempts to restrict the illegal activities of agents and intermediaries. In May 2015 he was removed from office at an extraordinary conference of the RFU.

Nikolai Tolstoy / Photo: Vasily Ponomarev

1967 Sergey Chepikov, Soviet / Russian biathlete and skier. Member of five Olympiads, twice champion of the Games (1988, 1994) in the biathlon, a three-time runner-up in the relay races (1992, 1994, 2006). World Champion (1989, 2006). Two-time World Cup winner (1990, 1991) - the first among the Russian athletes. At the Olympics in Nagano she performed in skiing, but did not achieve success, and returned to biathlon. At the end of his sports career Chepikov elected deputy of the regional Duma and the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk region, worked as a trainer and consultant on biathlon team of Russia.

1981 Dimitar Berbatov, the Bulgarian striker, played for CSKA (Sofia), "Bayer", "Tottenham", "Manchester United", "Monaco", Greek PAOK. Berbatov - forward with a precise cross from the blow and who loves to attack the second rate. Champion of England (2009, 2011), winner of the Club World Cup (2008), finalist of the Champions League (2002, 2009). Top scorer in the history of the Bulgarian team - 48 goals in 79 games. The youth wanted to play in England, so began to teach English in the film "The Godfather."