The final of the russian cup in crosscountry skiing ended in kirovsk, the season was crowned with a 10 km freestyle mass start up mount aikuaichur. The fate of first place in the mens race was decided on the last climb. Saveli korostelev offered the opponents the highest pace, withstand, which only Alexander Bolshunov and evgeniy semyashkin managed to withstand. However, the latter soon literally stood up and reached the finish line only fifteenth, as far as the fight for victory is concerned. Then korostelev was able to make first a small, and then a more significant gap from the threetime olympic champion, who at the end became very difficult; a couple of tens of meters before the line, alexey chervodkin overtook him, but the thirtysend reserve that bolshunov had before the start allowed him to keep the first place in the overall minitour standings. He won the Overall Standings of the russian cup ahead of schedule. Eighteenyearold alina pekletsova, who demonstrated the same speed as
The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making sure the total army and active guard and reserve remains the most decisive land troops in the world. We have drastic reductions in defense funding and the army is going to be forceded to carry out missions with fewer dollars, soldiers and equipment. It has been reduced from 570,000 active duty personal to 490,000 troops this year and last week the army announced they would cut an additional 40000 troops reducing to 450,000. There is talks the army could decline to 420,000 troops and what is worse
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For lost people. Reporter how will it cause inconvenience for you . Oh, man, boy, i aint going to say that on camera. Youre not real happy about. Know it will cause me a lot of inconvenience. Im active person y stay in the house. With the strike will keep me in the house. Definitely looking hopefully they come up with an agreement before tonight. If not, who knows. Reporter septa really urging people to start planning for this. We do know the Bike Share Program being expand. Uber being expanded. Contingency plans are being made for University City as well as for the school district. Excused absences will be allowed so really a lot of planning is going into this but again negotiations continue to be underway at this hour. No real news to report. We will have more in about an hour from now. Guys, back to you. So much to talk about. All right, thank much, brad. Lots of hospitals and schools do have a contingency plan should septa workers strike. You can get all the breaking details on our