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Defending champion Australia beats England
Queensland – Australia, August 11, 2012: defending champion, The ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2012 got underway in Queensland on Saturday with host Australia belying its patchy lead-up form to open with an impressive six-wicket victory over England in front of ESPN STAR Sports’ cameras while Bangladesh caused the first upset of the event by defeating…
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Golden Girl in London but Li Xiaoxia is Still #2
London – GBR, August 11, 2012: Named “Miss Number Two” by her supporters, as a result of being the runner up at the World Championships in both 2007 and 2011; China’s LI Xiaoxia, who won gold in both the Women’s Singles and Women’s Team events at the London Olympic Games, still cannot dispel the tag.…
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Top pound for pound Lomachenko is latest
London, Great Britain, August 11, 2012: The AIBA Professional Boxing (APB) Program has underlined its position at the top of world boxing after signing Ukrainian Olympic Champion Vasyl Lomachenko and teammates AIBA World Champions Oleksandr Usyk and Taras Shelestyuk for the competition, which starts next year. AIBA is also delighted to announce that fellow top…
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Argentina’s first gold of the London Olympics
London – GBR, August 10, 2012: Crismanich, A golden night for Korea and Argentina saw the energy of the first two days of competition at the taekwondo venue of the London 2012 Olympic Games carry over to a third. Sebastian Crismanich of Argentina captured not only his nation’s first gold medal in taekwondo at the…
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IOC strips Tyrel Hamilton of Athens gold
London – GBR, August 10, 2012: The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has disqualified American cyclist Tyler Hamilton from the events he competed in at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Hamilton, 41, who finished first in the Men’s Individual Time Trial and 18th in the Men’s Road Race…
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Decisions of FIG executive committee
London – GBR, August 10, 2012: Summary of primary decisions taken and information published by the FIG Executive Committee at its ordinary meeting on August 5 – 7, 2012 at the Grange Tower Hotel in London (GBR). • After reading and discussing the 2013 – 2016 Codes of Points, the Executive Committee has approved the…
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Ethics Committee opens investigation proceedings
Zurich – Switzerland, August 10, 2012: The chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee, Michael J. Garcia, today formally opened investigation proceedings against Mohamed bin Hammam. These proceedings follow the provisional banning of Bin Hammam for 90 days as established by the Ethics Committee on 26 July 2012 after a preliminary investigation…
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Portuguese Athlete Sanctioned after Violation
Germany, August 10, 2012: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the Portuguese athlete Luis Carlos Martins Goncalves, who won two gold medals at June’s 2012 IPC Athletics European Championships, has been suspended for two years for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation. Martins Goncalves returned an adverse analytical finding for Methylhexaneamine in a urine sample…
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Attribute a Gold Medal to Lisa Norden
Women’s Triathlon – Sweden/Switzerland The Swedish NOC and the Swedish Triathlon Federation requests the CAS to attribute a Gold Medal to Lisa Norden London – GBR, August 10, 2012: The ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has registered an application filed by the Swedish NOC and the Swedish Triathlon Federation…
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IAAF Council creates new World Relays competition
August 10, 2012: The IAAF Council has decided to create a new competition called the “IAAF World Relays” with the first editions taking place in Nassau, Bahamas in May 2014 and 2015. This new two day competition will bring together the world’s best athletes, with a schedule that includes the traditional 4x100m and 4x400m events…
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