The members of Pristava got together this weekend and played in a Co-ed 4's sand volleyball tournament. Competition this year was fierce, as all teams were head to head at each game. All 6 teams competed in pool play, where most games were split each team earning one win and one loss. Thetournament lasted from 2 pm until dark. Luckily the weather cooperated and only wind was a factor. Thank you to those who fixed up the two Pristava sand courts!
Pristava is looking to host another sand volleyball tournament this year. August 10 will be a doubles tournament. The team make up can be of any gender, but the net heights will be at 8 ft (men's height). For more details e-mail jzakelj@aol.com
England may have underperformed at South Africa 2010, but Matjaz Kek is adamant. “I don’t care how they played in the first two matches. I believe we’re facing the toughest match for Slovenia under my management.”
POLOKWANE, South Africa - Slovenia are growing in confidence at the World Cup having beaten Algeria and seen England and the United States take points off each other in the opening round of Group C matches.
Their 1-0 win over the Algerians on Sunday was their young nation's first World Cup victory. Their only previous appearance at the finals, in 2002, ended in three defeats.
"That means a lot to me and to everybody in the team," captain Robert Koren, who scored the goal, said after the match.
"For such a small country, to go to the World Cup is already a big achievement, but for us it's a big thing today because we got our first three points.
Today we are suppose to arrive to the fnish according to the original plan. Storms, wind and floods stoped us. We still have almost 500 miles to go. ur advantage on the road is around 3h 30min. To get more precise result we have to add time credit and deduct penaltie. Now that even Gulewitz got time credit for being stoped at the flood is the whole time thing even more complicated. According to my assumption, we have around 4h 30min lead and that lead is hard to overcome if we continue as usual. The race is still long and anything can happen. The winner will be known on friday morning.
Slovenia's Planica hill, the biggest ski-jumping hill in the world, will host the finals of the ski jumping World Cup on Mar. 19 to 22, organizers said on Wednesday.
Delray Beach, Florida - “I didn’t want to leave anything on the court. I might lose, but it would be by going all out – even if I made 60 unforced errors. I didn’t want to be out there just getting the ball back
in.”
That was what Lindsay Davenport said when she won the women’s draw at the U.S. Open back in 1998.
The same spirit might seem to apply to Luka Gregorc, who competed last week at the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships.
ITF will host two golf tournaments in 2009 to raise funds to make the world a better and safer place for children to play, people to work, and communities to grow without the fear of landmines and unexploded ordnance. In partnership with the U.S. non-governmental organization, the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI), the two “Legacy of Hope” events will benefit humanitarian mine action projects in four countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
MERCED, CALIF. -- Astana team director Johan Bruyneel said this morning that one of the four bikes stolen out of a team truck Saturday night or Sunday morning in Sacramento had been recovered. But it wasn't Lance Armstrong's time-trial bike.
Here are two photos from Wyndham "SlovenSKI Weekend". There were 52 people from New York, Pennsylvania, and our group from Cleveland Ohio.
The Nastar giantslalom race is also organized for the group and this year there were 23 participants, competing in different age categories. On Saturday at Noon, most of the skiers meet at the top lodge for a group picture. The flag doesn't need to be brought up, as it is there permanently.
The website for the European DH championships was launched this week: http://www.dhvitranc.eu
The Championships will be held in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, June 12 -14 2009. The race is one week before the Maribor DH/4X World Cup. The venues are less than 3 hours drive from each other. Furthermore, Maribor is followed by the 4-Cross European Championships in Ajdovščina, again less than 3 hours drive.
Park View Education Centre's boys' basketball team is planning one heck of a road trip.
"This will be something they'll remember for a lifetime," said coach Eric Dolliver about the Panthers' intentions to travel to Nova Gorica, Slovenia, for an International Baccalaureate (IB) hoops tournament next November.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Tina Sutej has gotten off the ground quickly at Arkansas.
The freshman pole vaulter from Slovenia capped a whirlwind first week in Northwest Arkansas by topping the provisional qualifying standard for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships on Jan. 9. She cleared 13 feet, 5 1/4 inches.
Cleveland Slovenian Ski Club is entering its third season. This year we are organizing two ski trips. The first trip is a one day ski trip to Holiday Valley, in Ellicottville, NY, on Saturday, February 7th, 2009. Cost is $75 and includes round trip motor coach to Holiday Valley and an 8 hour full access lift pass. The cost for children between the ages of 6-11 is $65. Non- skiers/non-boarders, and all children 5 and under, have the option of paying $30 for round trip bus fare only. Children 5 and under ski for free.
BELGRADE, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia's Mitja Petkovsek has become the first gymnast in history to gather over 1,000 points in World Cup rankings, the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) said on Wednesday.
Petkovsek tops the rankings on the parallel bars with 1,016.34 points, the official Slovenian news agency STA reported.