Category: OLYMPIC
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Mother of Hynd Brothers Chosen as IPC London 2012 Torchbearer
Bonn-Germany, June 6, 2012: Helen Hynd, the mother of Paralympics GB swimmers Sam and Oliver Hynd, has been chosen by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement, to act as a Torchbearer during the London 2012 Paralympic Torch Relay. The 49 year-old from Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, was chosen…
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IOC to live stream London 2012 in 64 territories on its YouTube channel
Lausanne-Switzerland, June 6, 2012: YouTube channel, The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it will live stream the London 2012 Olympic Games in 64 territories on the IOC’s channel on YouTube http://youtube.com/olympic. During the Olympics Games (27 July to 12 August), sports fans in these 64 territories across Asia and Africa will be able…
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Sochi Drives an Inclusive Kids Contest & Environmental Projects
Sochi-Russia, June 6, 2012: Kids Contest, To celebrate International Children’s Day, Sochi 2014 is holding an all-Russian contest of children’s Novellas as part of the Class Mira project. The drive is part of a series of initiatives of the Sochi 2014 Cultural Olympiad aimed at fully integrating children with a disability into society. This unique…
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IPC Reveals May’s Athlete of the Month Shortlist
Bonn-Germany, June 04, 2012: Reveals, The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced its shortlist for May’s Athlete of the Month award, and the public can now vote for the winner via the poll on the www.paralympic.org homepage. The finalists include: Graeme Ballard (Great Britain) The sprinter became a crowd favourite during the first race of…
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IPC Athletics Announces Slot Allocations for London
Bonn-Germany, June 01, 2012: Slot Allocations, A record 101 National Paralympic Committees (NPC) will have athletes taking part in track and field events at London 2012 after IPC Athletics, the international governing body of para-athletics, today (1 June) announced its slot allocation for the Paralympic Games. In London a total of 1,100 athletes (740 male…
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IPC Publishes Sochi 2014 Qualification Guide
Bonn-Germany, May 31, 2012: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has published the Qualification Guide for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games. The event which will take place between 7 and 16 March 2014 will feature a maximum of 692 athletes competing in 72 medal events across five sports. This will make it the biggest Paralympic…
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Record Number of Female Athletics Events Proposed for Rio
Bonn-Germany, May 30, 2012: Female Athletics, IPC Athletics, the international governing body of para-athletics, has published its first draft of the medal event programme for the Rio 2016 Paralympics more than 1,550 days before the start of the Games. The draft Rio programme features 176 different medal events, six more than London 2012, and proposes…
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Games of the XXX Olympiad London July 27 – August 12
LAUSANNE (SUI), FIG Office, May 30, 2012: XXX Olympiad, All that time spent jogging around the grounds of the Lilleshall National Sports Centre paid off for John Atkinson today when he took part in Day 13 of the Olympic torch relay around Britain. Atkinson, the former head coach of the British men’s team and an…
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IPC Plans Anti-Doping Crackdown in Powerlifting Ahead of London
Bonn-Germany, May 30, 2012: To coincide with the publication of its 2011 anti-doping statistics, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced plans to try to test every Powerlifting athlete at least once before they compete at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. According to statistics published by the IPC today (30 May), a total of 646…
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Olympic Council of Malaysia Weekly Highlights
Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia, May 27, 2012: Please find below Weekly Highlights of Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM). 11th Joint International Session for Presidents or Directors of National Olympic Academies and officials of National Olympic Committees – 24th to 31st May 2012 at Olympia, Greece. 32nd MILO Malaysia Youth Table Tennis Championships – 27th to 30th May…