Ukrainian Women's National Team To Play Without Lagno

Ukrainian Chess Federation congress took place in Kiev in order to elect the UCF President. As a result, Viktor Kapustin was re-elected. He has been UCF President since 2010.

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The website sport.segodnya.ua published the interview with Anna Muzychuk. Namely she talked of her decision to change the federation:   

The coach of the Ukrainian women's national team GM Mikhail Brodsky gave an interview to XSPORT, we offer you extracts below. Namely Brodsky told about the situation in the team prior to the start of the Olympiad which opens on August 1 in Tromso.  

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Today round 1 of the 72-nd Ukrainian women chess championship is going to take place in Kharkov. The competition is one round robin one and will be over on october, 3-rd. Ten players are fighting for the title. Among them are: Kateryna Lahno 2542, Maria Muzychuk 2466, Natalia Zhukova 2442, Anna Ushenina 2433, Inna Gaponenko 2404, Tatiana Kononenko 2374, Oksana Gritsaeva 2319, Ekaterina Dolzhikova 2313 (current title holder), Anastasiya Rahmangulova 2254 and Irina Andrenko 2228.

Ukrainian national teams were met by xsport journalists at the airport. Namely, Natalia Zhukova who won individual gold on the 4th board gave a short interview. According to Natalia the women's team (which finished third) could have achieved a better result if all of the members of the team were in an optimal shape.