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The winners of the 2010 Wimbledon singles championship will each receive £1 million for the first time in the 124-year history of the tennis tournament, an 18 per cent increase on last year.
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American sports agent Casey Wasserman has been added to the board of the US bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
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This weekend's Japanese MotoGP race was called off and Formula One cars were stranded in China as the cloud of volcanic ash originating from Iceland made much of Northern Europe a no-fly zone.
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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has signed all government guarantees required by FIFA, world football’s governing body, to accept the country’s bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022.
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[Update: The conference has been postponed until May 18 and 19 due to the current flight ban in place over much of Europe] Five weeks before the announcement of the host nation for Euro 2016, the French football community is hosting a conference to discuss the 12 stadia involved in the country’s bid.
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International business conference Leaders in Performance has issued the findings compiled from the 14 leading coaches and performance-related experts that participated in its US Study Tour event in last month.
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Fresh Indian security fears have caused the semi-finals of the 2010 Indian Premier League to be moved to the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai following two low-intensity blasts at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Saturday evening.
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French Professional League president Frederic Thiriez has pledged to double Euro 2008 revenues if France is awarded the 2016 edition of the event.
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The SportAccord Convention, whose eighth annual convention takes place in Dubai from April 25-30, has posted ‘Ten Golden Rules for Building a Sustainable Sporting Event’ in partnership with CH2M HILL.
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If public sector support is the new sponsorship, don't expect it to be like taking candy from a baby.
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The 2011 Formula One calendar will be the biggest ever, with 20 races, after Bernie Ecclestone confirmed the addition of an Indian Grand Prix, and the continuing participation of the Turkish and Chinese Grands Prix.
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Bernie Ecclestone has said Formula One is making “a big push” to have Grand Prix in the Russian city of Sochi, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Amsterdam's 9,000-capacity Wagener Stadium will host the semi-finals and finals of field hockey's 2009-10 Euro Hockey League (EHL).
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Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt will return to China for the first time since the 2008 Olympics for the Shanghai meeting on May 23 of the new Diamond League athletics series.
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The story of the foundation of the English Premier League will be told by David Dein, former vice chairman of Arsenal and the Football Association, and one of the architects of the league, at the Soccerex Asian Forum.
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Dynamite charges flattened the 65,639-seat Texas Stadium, the former home of the Dallas Cowboys NFL team, on Sunday, in front of a public audience of over 20,000 and amid a novel marketing campaign by food manufacturer Kraft.
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German sportswear company Puma will enter a team in the next Volvo Ocean Race, in 2011-12, after finishing second in the 2008-09 competition.
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American baseball fan Marc Filippino calls foul on the food served up in the English Premier League