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  • Audit, Compliance Committee holds first meeting

    Audit, Compliance Committee holds first meeting

    Zurich – Switzerland, August 10, 2012: The new FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee held its first meeting under the chairmanship of Domenico Scala at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich today. The creation of this committee and the appointment of Scala as its chairman were approved by the FIFA Congress held in Budapest on 25 May…

  • IOC bans Alex Schwazer from competing at London

    IOC bans Alex Schwazer from competing at London

    London – GBR, August 10, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it had declared Italian athlete Alex Schwazer (race walking) ineligible to compete at the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London for an anti-doping rule violation. Schwazer, 27, provided a urine sample on 30 July in Calice, Italy, that tested positive…

  • IAAF World Championships Moscow

    IAAF World Championships Moscow

    Monte-Carlo, August 10, 2012: There is one year to go to the start of the 2013 IAAF World Championships which will be staged in Moscow, Russia from 10 to 18 August 2013. By the end of last year’s 13th edition of the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, Korea, teams from 200 National Member Federations comprising…

  • ESPN STAR Sports to broadcast U19 Cricket

    ESPN STAR Sports to broadcast U19 Cricket

    Dubai, August 09, 2012: ICC’s global broadcast partner ESPN STAR Sports will take the coverage of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2012, via its licensees, to a huge global audience with live broadcast of all the 10 matches to be played at Tony Ireland Stadium, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. This announcement follows previous live broadcasts…

  • Every sport has its major events

    Every sport has its major events

    London – UK, August 04, 2012: every sport, That event will take place tomorrow evening (Sunday) and it is shaping up to be the greatest of all-time. The four fastest men in history all made it safely through the heats, and they will square off against one another first in the semi-finals, then again two…

  • Jade Jones’ Gold Makes Olympic History

    Jade Jones’ Gold Makes Olympic History

    London – GBR, August 09, 2012: Day two of taekwondo at the London Olympic Games brought waves of Great Britain’s Union Flag and massive cheers as Jade Jones took the gold medal in the women’s -57kg final to go with her historic Youth Olympic Games gold medal from Singapore 2010. Jones, making history by capturing…

  • Ruolin Chen (CHN) revalidates 10m title

    Ruolin Chen (CHN) revalidates 10m title

    London – GBR, August 09, 2012: The seventh final of the diving programme at these Games, the women’s 10m platform, was not very thrilling in terms of the gold medal outcome, but was amazingly interesting if we consider the minor medals. 2008 Olympic and 2011 world champion, Ruolin Chen (CHN) calmly displayed her supremacy during…

  • Eva Risztov tired of the pool

    Eva Risztov tired of the pool

    London – GBR, August 09, 2012: Eva Risztov, a veteran of pool swimming at two Olympic Games, an athlete who retired from swimming eight years ago, found that she had the golden touch in The Serpentine in Hyde Park today. The 26 year old Hungarian survived a strong challenge from USA’s Haley Anderson to collect…

  • Water polo women final day

    Water polo women final day

    London – GBR, August 09, 2012: The USA played their fourth Olympic water polo tournament before achieving their highest reward, an Olympic gold medal. Two USA players, Brenda Villa and Heather Petri now have four medals, one from each women’s tournament since competition was inaugurated in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Spain achieved its historic…

  • Assessment of the Judo at the Olympics

    Assessment of the Judo at the Olympics

    Assessment, A few days after the end of the Olympic Judo Tournament, the time has come to analyze everything that happened in London. The judo world is now entering a new cycle, which will end with the 2016 Games. An extensive analysis of the past four years that saw judo profoundly change will be conducted…

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