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The Word Matchplay Championship will return to the professional golf calendar next year, taking place in Spain, after being cancelled this year due to a congested schedule.
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The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) will host its general assembly at Leaders in Football in 2010, the second time the meeting has been staged at the football industry conference.
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FIFA and the organising committee for this year's World Cup have said they were not involved in the warm-up match between Nigeria and North Korea in which a crowd stampede left several people injured.
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London-based sports PR company Pitch has been appointed by the England 2018 World Cup bid to manage its public relations in the UK in the run-up to the December vote by FIFA on the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
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Ukraine’s progress over the past two months has satisfied UEFA that the country is capable of staging Euro 2012 alongside Poland. In April, UEFA president Michel Platini said Ukraine had two months to show improvement in its preparations for its four venues or it would be stripped of its hosting rights.
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The Ladies European Tour yesterday started the official bidding process for the 2015 Solheim Cup, the biennial transatlantic women’s match play golf tournament.
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The Australian MotoGP will be held in the southern state of Victoria until at least 2016, with the option to extend until 2026.
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The Olympic Council of Asia has reacted angrily to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)’s decision not to send a team to this year's Asian Games in China. Olympic Council of Asia secretary general Randhir Singh said it is a "setback" for the future of cricket in the region.
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Sunil Gulati, United States Soccer Federation (USSF) president and chairman of the USA bid to host either the 2018 or 2022, has been announced as a speaker at football business event Leaders in Football, taking place for the third time on October 6 and 7 this year at Chelsea FC.
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Football business event Soccerex has confirmed further three Asian football associations for its forum in Singapore, on July 28 and 29.
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A professional baseball league will launch in China this year which is intended by its founders to grow into an Asia-wide league taking in teams from Japan, Taiwan and Korea.
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Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide chief executive Kevin Roberts will deliver an address at this year's Leaders in Performance conference, on leadership lessons derived from sports organisations.
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Chinese golf club owner Mission Hills Group is spending 25 billion yuan ($3.7 billion) on new golfing, retail and community facilities at its club on Hainan island, as economic recovery in China spurs a tourism and property boom.
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Badminton and rhythmic gymnastics have finally agreed to London 2012 organisers' demands that their events take place at Wembley Arena rather than a temporary site at Greenwich, nearer the Olympic park.
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Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) will broadcast daily updates from football business conference the Soccerex Asian Forum under a new partnership between the two entities.
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France, Italy and Turkey will hear this Friday if they have won the right to host the Euro football championships in 2016. Reuters has described the different tactics each country has endorsed in their pitch to Uefa.
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Formula One has agreed a deal with US race promoters Full Throttle Productions for the Texas state capital Austin to host a race from 2012 to 2021.
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Leonardo Gryner has been promoted to general director of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, from his former position within the organisation as communications and marketing director.