United Sports: track cycling, skiing, and ice Gladiators

Joe Allen, euronews:

"Hello and welcome to Sports United, magazine who travels the world to bring you the emotion and intensity of sports very high level. Here's a taste of what to expect this week: explosiveness and intensity with the world track cycling, the slides and technology with the world cup skiing, and then control and madness with Ice Speedway Gladiators.

The trail to the stars

After Bordeaux in 2006, France has again been chosen to host the World Championships in track cycling. Last week, some 380 cyclists from 37 nations were talking muscle power of their legs, with five days of racing in a brand new velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, near Paris. Here are some of the highlights of the championships "

Ladies first, and the new world record set by Australia's continued rocket. A four-stage rocket: Annette Edmondson, Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Melissa Hoskins. For their coronation, they offer the scalp of Britain, quadruple world champion title.

Untenable at home, France finishes best nation in the medals table, thanks to François Pervis, winner of the keirin and retains his title by the kilometer looped 1'00,207.

These world were also those for the return Grégory Baugé. Back smashing to climb again at the top of the speed hierarchy. Fourth title in the discipline, the ninth of his career, got face Russian Denis Dmitriev.

Even better, this time in the women with the Australian Anna Meares who won the eleventh world title of his career - nobody did better - by winning at 31 proof keirin. And if one likes to also account for its silver and bronze, we get to 26, also a record.

Queens Snow

Joe Allen:

"At all three, Tina Maze, Anna Fenninger and Mikaela Shiffrin won all female individual world championship titles in early February. Recovered from his emotions, this trio has returned to World Cup events, but all could not keep their momentum. "

Anna Fenninger. Double gold medalist at the world of Beaver Creek, Giant Slalom and Super-G, the Austrian again tasted victory in Maribor, Slovenia, the giant slalom. This second win of the World Cup season allows him to take command of the ranking of the specialty.

Mikaela Shiffrin. Only 19 years and already undisputed queen of slalom, double world champion title. The stakes Maribor have not withstood the American. This twelfth win of his career in the World Cup slalom, it's never-seen in a skier so early.

Tina Maze. After the titles in downhill and combined with overgrazing, Beaver Creek, return to the country has a bitter taste. The Slovenian made a mistake in slalom and giant. It remains in the overall lead in the World Cup, but Anna Fenninger is now only 84 points.

Samsonov ever further

Joe Allen:

"The World Table Tennis Tour was in Qatar last weekend for the third round of the Super Series demanding. The best table tennis players were meeting in Doha, with one goal, the highest step of the podium. "

This is Vladimir Samsonov who had the last word in Doha. At 38, the Belarusian bounced back after his first-round step in Kuwait. Opposed to the final in the German Dimitrij Ovtcharov, the former world number one is needed in five innings. Already a winner in Doha in 2003, Samsonov is now in 27 individual titles in 38 finals played Pro Tour, a record in the men.

In the women's honors are for Elizabeta Samara. A little surprise, since Romania, seeded number seven, final beats head number three series, the German Han Ying, without conceding any race.

Spotlgiht: Ilias Iliadis

Joe Allen:

"The judo season in full swing, there has recently had the Düsseldorf Grand Prix, so we wanted to put a spotlight on a serial winner, Ilias Iliadis, and try to learn a little more about him, former Olympic champion and current world champion. "

Ilias Iliadis, judo world champion (- 90kg):

'' Little, I really was a child very, very difficult and I went to a dojo and I saw this respect, respect for everyone, for teachers, respect for the tatami. "

"This is what I chose. This is my sport is my life. "

"No matter whether you are strong or not, what matters is to deprive the enemy of its strength."

"We must first learn to respect his opponent, and then afterwards you have to win."

"When I fight, I want to feel it. The first time, I want to feel his strength, how it moves sideways. And then I do my best. "

"I feel the adrenaline, I feel powerful ... It's the best feeling I know."

"My name is Ilias Iliadis, and here is my home."

Inside sport: the gladiators ice

Joe Allen:

"There are disciplines that have a promising name. What say you of the Ice Speedway Gladiators. As for the true gladiators, the danger is omnipresent, but this sport aficionados love it. "

Imagine riding on a roll full throttle chainsaw on an ice speed ring. This is the daily life of these gladiators there. Fed to the nitro-methanol, their mounts are equipped with wheels adorned with 28 mm nails.

In this game, the best, it is the Russians, like Dmirty Khomitsevich "it's the same ice for everyone, said the 2003 world champion was prepared his motorcycle to any quality of ice. That's when the ice is soft. When it's good weather like today, it's a good workout. (...) It puts pressure in the tires and suspensions. Each driver tries to apply the best pressure, depending on the track. Once it's done, I put the gas and go. "

There is a little less than half of the championship remaining. The penultimate stage is scheduled for March 7 in Assen, the Netherlands.

Chris Gayle, setting the points

Joe Allen:

"He had not realized century since June 2003. But the master of the bat West Indies Chris Gayle has silenced his critics last week in a match of the World Cup against Zimbabwe. He signed the first double century in the history of the competition. The left-hander struck six and 16 totaled 215 points, before being released.

Thank you for your loyalty, we leave on record images. See you next week. "