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Bulgaria’s Pironkova reaches first career WTA final in Sydney

January 9, 2014January 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s top-ranked female tennis player, Tsvetana Pironkova, reached her first WTA Tour final at the Apia International in Sydney after

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Fifth time lucky for legendary Jágr

January 9, 2014February 6, 2014 Daniel Bardsley for The Prague Post Sochi Olympics

It was 16 years ago that Jaromír Jágr was part of the team that won Olympic gold for the Czech

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Uruguay, England and Italy drawn into 2014 World Cup ‘group of death’

December 6, 2013December 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Uruguay, England and Italy – winners of a combined seven World Cups among them – were drawn into the 2014

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Greece vs. Romania: the mother of all battles begins

November 15, 2013November 15, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency

Two teams will battle for one spot in the 2014 World Cup as Greece take on Romania in the first

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Bulgaria’s Ludogorets secures Europa League knockout stage spot

November 8, 2013November 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s football champion Ludogorets Razgrad qualified for the Uefa Europa League knockout stages with two matches to spare after a

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Romania’s Halep wins WTA Tournament of Champions in Sofia

November 3, 2013November 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Romania’s Simona Halep won the year-end WTA Tournament on Champions in Sofia on November 3, her sixth title in 2013

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Sofia hosts WTA Tournament of Champions

October 29, 2013October 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian capital Sofia will play host to the WTA Tournament of Champions for a second year running in 2013, at

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Bulgaria’s sentenced Olympian expelled from Brazil

October 24, 2013February 11, 2014 Alex Bivol

Bulgaria’s Olympic weightlifting champion Gulubin Boevski, sentenced to nine years and four months imprisonment in Brazil last year on charges

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Bulgaria’s Dimitrov secures first career ATP title

October 21, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov became the first Bulgarian tennis player to win an ATP Tour title in the open era, prevailing

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