100 thousand kilometers above the Earth

18.05.2009
Landing  (photo M. Serbin, cskabasket.com)
The season of long trips is finished for CSKA. The total mileage turned to be unprecedentedly large - in fact the team overpassed almost two and a half times the length of Earth's equator.

The round numbers were pretty close – the trips’ total amount reached 96,396 km. The most distant, of course, was Moscow - New York flight during preseason tour to Orlando and Toronto – 7,502 km. In Russian Championship the most distant was the flight to Vladivostok (6,429 km), in Euroleague - to Madrid (3,408 km). The closest - to St. Petersburg (627 km) and Belgrade (1694 km) respectively.