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FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2012
Zurich – Switzerland, August 5, 2012: The general ticket sales for the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2012 presented by TOYOTA will open on FIFA.com on 9 September. The ninth edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, scheduled to be played from 6 to 16 December 2012, will take place in the Japanese cities of…
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Peter Snell to be inducted into IAAF Hall of Fame
Monte-Carlo, August 04, 2012: New Zealand’s three-time Olympic champion and multiple World record breaker Peter Snell is the latest athletics legend to be named as one of the 24 inaugural Members of the IAAF Hall of Fame which has been created to mark the year of the IAAF Centenary. The announcement of this honour comes…
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Statement to mark the conclusion of Badminton
London – GBR, August 05, 2012: During the past nine days, as the London Olympics 2012 have unfolded, badminton fans here and across the world have been treated to an amazing spectacle at Wembley Arena. It has been badminton at its best. We have seen what great theatre and drama sports can be, with some…
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USA end on a high note, Phelps retires
London – GBR, August 04, 2012: With two more victories in the eighth and final session of swimming at these 2012 Olympic Games, the team of USA completed in the best possible way its supremacy in the Aquatics Centre, accumulating a total of 30 medals, including 16 gold (exactly the half of the titles at…
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Olympic Tennis: Serena powers to Olympic gold
London – GBR, August 04, 2012: Please find below Saturday’s results for the 2012 Olympic Tennis Event being held at the All England Club, Wimbledon from Saturday 28 July until Sunday 5 August. All the latest news from the Olympic Tennis Event, including live scores, can be found on the ITF’s official Olympic websites in…
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Ennis, Farah and Rutherford take gold
London – UK, August 04, 2012: The Sydney Olympics in 2000 is remembered for ‘Magic Monday’ – the day in which Cathy Freeman won 400m gold for the host nation Australia. In a similar vein, ‘Super Saturday’ of the London 2012 Games will long live in the memory as the day in which Britain won…
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Cockburn hoping to make history for Canada
London – GBR, August 04, 2012: There are few people better qualified to speak about the growth of Trampoline as an Olympic sport than Karen Cockburn. After all, the fourth Olympic Games featuring Trampoline Gymnastics also happen to be the fourth for the 31-year-old Canadian. Cockburn was there in Sydney for Trampoline’s introduction to the…
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Shiming Zou still the one to beat after win
London – Great Britain, August 04, 2012: Shiming, Twelve sensational bouts lit up the ExCeL arena on the eighth day of competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. There were three weight categories on show during the afternoon session with the Light Flyweights (46-49kg), Light Welterweights (64kg) and Light Heavyweights (81kg) all taking to the…
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Jumping gets off to a dramatic start at Greenwich
London – GBR, August 04, 2012: The first Jumping competition of the London 2012 Olympic Games at Greenwich Park threw up some big surprises today. Olympic course designer Bob Ellis’ track was expected to be a relatively gentle introduction for the Jumping riders, but two of the biggest stars of the game were amongst four…
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Two athletes for failing anti-doping tests
London – GBR, August 04, 2012: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it had excluded Russian athlete Victoria Baranova (cycling-track, women’s sprint) and provisionally suspended Colombian athlete Diego Palomeque Echavarria (athletics, men’s 400m) from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London. Baranova provided a urine sample on 24 July in Ratomka, Belarus,…
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