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  • Ambitious Unions Seek a Life at the TOP

    Ambitious Unions Seek a Life at the TOP

    Dublin – Ireland, August 17, 2012: Unions, The 2012 edition of the innovative IRB Talent Optimization Programme (TOP) has brought 32 up-and-coming Rugby professionals from 20 different countries to the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport in South Africa. Since its inception in 2005, TOP has grown in stature and importance among the IRB’s Member Unions with…

  • ESPN3 to carry World 20-20 at no additional cost

    ESPN3 to carry World 20-20 at no additional cost

    Dubai, August 17, 2012: Cricket fans in the United States will have a chance to watch the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 at no additional cost for the first time in September, after ESPN3 was confirmed by ESPN STAR Sports, ICC’s global broadcast partner, as the network in the US for the tournament. And…

  • ITF World Junior Tennis Finals – 17 August results

    ITF World Junior Tennis Finals – 17 August results

    Prostejov – Czech Republic, August 17, 2012: Please find below Friday’s results from the 2012 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals taking place in Prostejov, Czech Republic on 13-18 August. Sixteen boys and 16 girls teams are taking part in the finals of the ITF’s world junior team competition for players aged 14-and-under. A total of 176 teams…

  • ITTF Nomination for “Sport Event of the Year”

    ITTF Nomination for “Sport Event of the Year”

    Lausanne – Switzerland, August 17, 2012: Pong, The ITTF has applied to the Peace and Sport Organization to be considered for the “Sport Event of the Year”. There are many worthy sports event in the world, but I am proud that we have an event that we can present as a nomination from our sport.…

  • Plavins and Smedins win in first match since

    Plavins and Smedins win in first match since

    Stare Jablonki, Poland, August 16, 2012: London 2012 Olympic Games bronze medallists Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins enjoyed a mixed return to action on Thursday, at the Mazury Orlen Grand Slam. The Latvian pair won their opening match against compatriots Aleksandrs Samoilovs and Ruslans Sorokins 21-18, 21-15. However, they slipped to a 21-15, 11-21, 15-13…

  • India sets up quarter-final date with Pakistan

    India sets up quarter-final date with Pakistan

    Brisbane, August 16, 2012: The quarter-final line-up of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2012 was completed on Thursday with all the Full Members with the exception of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe progressing to the Super League stage. On Thursday, as many as four sides confirmed their berths in the Super League quarter-finals, which will…

  • World Endurance Championships for young Horses

    World Endurance Championships for young Horses

    Lausanne (SUI), August 16, 2012: Bahrain claimed gold in both the seven and eight year old categories at the FEI World Championships for Young Endurance Horses 2012 at Babolna in Hungary at the weekend. HH Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa topped the seven year old section with Dhab, while Jaffer Mirza brought Uszko D’Hotelhoge…

  • Elena Sanctioned after Anti-Doping Rule Violation

    Elena Sanctioned after Anti-Doping Rule Violation

    Germany, August 16, 2012: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the Russian athlete Elena Chistilina, who won two silver medals at June’s 2012 IPC Athletics European Championships, has been suspended for two years for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation. Chistilina returned an adverse analytical finding for Nikethamide metabolite N-ethylnicotinamide in a urine sample provided…

  • FEI President celebrates London 2012

    FEI President celebrates London 2012

    Lausanne (SWI), August 16, 2012: FEI President HRH Princess Haya is proud to announce that London 2012 was a clean Games for equestrian sport, following confirmation that all human and equine samples taken during the Olympic equestrian events at Greenwich Park were negative. “The FEI had a really steep mountain to climb after Athens and…

  • HSBC Sevens World Series Event Postponed

    HSBC Sevens World Series Event Postponed

    Dublin – Ireland, August 16, 2012: The International Rugby Board can confirm that the Unión Argentina de Rugby (UAR) has reluctantly postponed hosting its round of the 2012/13 HSBC Sevens World Series. The decision follows a review of all operational requirements by the Union taken in full consultation with all stakeholders. The UAR will now…

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