The congress of the World Chess Federation – FIDE has confirmed the penalty, imposed by the European Chess Union to the Bulgarian Chess Federation, thus excluding it from the organization. It also requires immediate actions of the Ethic Committee against the BCF as an organization and against its board members in person. President of BCF Silvio Danailov has been banned from taking any positions within FIDE for a period of 18 months ahead, Dnevnik reports. The penalty of the ECU follows the refusal of BCF to provide payment documents for the period 2011 – 2014, when Silvio Danailov headed the European chess. The Bulgarian federation will appeal its expel before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.
Bulgarian artistic gymnast Valentina Georgieva won the gold medal in the vault final of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku (Azerbaijan). Thus, she earned a quota for the Summer Olympics in Paris, although official confirmation from the..
Viktoriya Tomova won a prestigious victory at the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. In the first round, Tomova defeated 6:4, 7:6(5) Sofia Kenin (USA) who won the 2020 Australian Open. In the next round, Bulgaria’s best female tennis..
Bulgarian tennis player Yanaki Milev qualified for the singles semifinals of the clay tournament in Antalya (Turkey) with a prize fund of 15 thousand dollars. Milev, ranked number 3, prevailed over Giuseppe La Vella (Italy), the sixth in the..
Grigor Dimitrov showed incredible performance and qualified for the semi-finals of the Masters 1000 series tournament in Miami. The..
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