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Sports marketing and communications company Helios Partners has been recruited as the lead consultancy for Rome’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics.
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Jim Small, the head of Major League Baseball’s Tokyo office, has insisted that Japan would still be welcome in the 2013 World Baseball Classic even though the country did not confirm its participation by the September 30 deadline.
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Representatives of National Basketball Association (NBA) owners and players are braced for a pivotal weekend of talks over a possible new labour deal after the league’s commissioner, David Stern, painted a bleak picture of the possible scenario if an agreement is not reached.
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Yalcin Aksoy, the general director of Istanbul’s bid committee for the 2020 Olympics, believes the Turkish city has “learned how difficult it is to land the Games” after four failed bids for the event.
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Brazilian Sports Minister Orlando Silva confirmed on Thursday that four cities are in the running to host the opening ceremony and match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, with Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia and Salvador vying for the high-profile game.
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Christopher Lee, senior principal of global design specialist Populous, and Steve Revell, commercial director of leading security provider Rapiscan, have been confirmed as speakers at this year’s Soccerex Global Convention in Rio de Janeiro.
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed that South Africa, the host country of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, will replace Libya as the destination for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
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Quebec City will not bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Mayor Regis Labeaume has announced.
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Lord Sebastian Coe has joined the line-up of speakers for the sixth International Sports Event Management Conference next month.
Business

Our executive conference series continues with a focus on the business of Horse Racing
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New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) chief executive Steve Tew has warned that the country’s participation in future editions of the Rugby World Cup could be under threat unless changes are made to the commercial structure of the tournament.
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Cycling’s new world road race champion Mark Cavendish has become the latest high-profile speaker to join next week’s Leaders Sport Summit.
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Organisers of the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand are confident ticket sales for the tournament will surpass their target of 1.35 million after announcing that more than three quarters of a million fans had attended the first 28 matches of the competition.
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Soccerex has announced that Hublot CEO Jean-Claude Biver will be speaking on the ‘Football Brands the World’ panel at this year’s Global Convention in Rio de Janeiro.
Business

Ten highlights from our gathering of leaders, thinkers and networkers at Sports Marketing 360
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) lockout made its first major inroads into the sport’s calendar on Friday as the league postponed training camps indefinitely and axed 43 preseason games.
Business

Formula One teams are seeking clarification from Bernie Ecclestone over the make-up of the 2012 calendar after stating it was signed off without their support.
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International Tennis Federation (ITF) president Francesco Ricci Bitti played down the chance of a players strike as he was re-elected for a fourth term in office on Friday.