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The International Cricket Council yesterday awarded the next two World Twenty20 tournaments in 2012 and 2014 to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively. England was awarded the 2013 Champions Trophy, nine years after they last staged the event.
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Alexander Zhukov, Russian deputy Prime Minister and Russian Olympic Committee President, yesterday approved a programme to encourage and reward sustainable, innovative solutions in Olympic construction. The programme rewards the most environmentally-friendly design and construction methods used by Olympic venue construction firms to raise the bar of green standards for sports facilities, accommodation centres and infrastructure.
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The Business India Forum, held at Christies’ in London on July 22 2010, and partnered by SportBusiness Group, has confirmed a line-up of speakers including Ishan Saksena, Chairman of QPR football club, and Tushar Das Ghose, strategic partner consultant at Microsoft.
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Football's governing body FIFA has confirmed it is investigating allegations made by an Australian newspaper over the country’s bid to host the World Cup in 2022.
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The ISAF World Match Racing Tour has signed a three-year deal with Sail Racing for the Swedish apparel manufacturer to provide branded team clothing on the Tour. The deal starts from the Stena Match Cup Sweden on July 5.
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has announced he will make his final appearance in the Tour de France, cycling’s biggest event, next month.
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Auckland, New Zealand will host the 2012 International Triathlon Union World Championship Series Grand Finals after beating bids from Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
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Rugby Expo 2010 has confirmed a number of high-profile speakers for the rugby-focused exhibition and conference, including Harlequins CEO Mark Evans and Ross Young, General Manager of the IRB Rugby World Cup.
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The £165 million planned extension of the ExCeL exhibition and convention centre, venue for seven Olympic and six Paralympic events at the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, has been officially inaugurated at a special ceremony over the weekend.
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The SportAccord Convention, the annual world summit of sport attended by representatives from around 100 international sports federations, will be held in the city of Quebec in 2012.
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FINA, the international swimming federation, will provide insight into how cities can work more effectively with their national federations to host FINA Championship events during the first FINA World Aquatics Convention from September 27 to 29 this year. The Convention takes place at the Conrad Resort in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
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The Mayor of London has called for the marathon and triathlon events at the 2012 Olympics to be moved to weekends, from midweek under the current schedule.
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A crowd of 30,000 attended a day of celebrations in Annecy on Wednesday to celebrate the French city being chosen as one of the candidates to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Soaring demand is powering an increase in the production of vuvuzela horns at Chinese factories.
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The International Olympic Committee executive board has accepted all three applicant cities - Annecy (France), Munich (Germany) and Pyeongchang (South Korea) - as official bid cities for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
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The four year cycle of the World Cup is a neat way of considering the changes in our industry.
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Sportswear manufacturer adidas is expecting record sales of football products this year, of €1.5 billion, helped by the World Cup.
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Dave Checketts, owner of Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake and National Hockey League team the St Louis Blues, has been announced as a speaker at this year’s Leaders in Football conference.