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The day before game 11 (updated)
Oct 9, 06:58 PM
Veselin Topalov spent his rest day in the steppe around Elista. He was accompanied by Ivan Cheparinov, Francisco Vallejo, and Alexaned Onishtuk. He also tried traditional regional dishes.
Before that, the four of them visited the oldest tree in Kalmykia, the 120 years old “Lonely poplar”. It is considered holy by the local people. It is 20 km from Elista and is visited every day by Budhists.
At the same time not much information has been released about Kramnik’s rest day. However, strange news was reported by Zhivko Ginchev. He said that Kramnik refused to make a doping test after game 9. The test has been requested by the chief of the medical commission Iana Belin, as reported by topsport.bg. “Everything here is very strange, but what can we do about it,” commented Silvio Danailov for the Bulgarian newspaper Novinar. From the Bulgarian delegation also find it strange that such a test comes after the two consecutive victories of Topalov.
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