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The ‘Earth’ golf course in Dubai, designed by Greg Norman, is to host the world’s richest golf tournament, the Dubai World Championship, which has a prize fund of $10 million.
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The British government’s estimates of the cost of hosting the 2012 Olympics were ‘entirely unrealistic’ according to the body which oversees government expenditure.
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The first International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission visit to Sochi, the 2014 host city of the Winter Olympics, will start tomorrow.
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Juventus Football Club has announced details of its off-season tour of South East Asia and Australia.
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Media agencies around the world stuck to their threat to boycott coverage of Twenty20 cricket’s Indian Premier League, which got underway last Friday.
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Sochi Mayor Viktor Kolodyazhny will now head up the state agency responsible for Olympic construction, Olympstroy, after replacing Semen Vainshtok.
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Prague’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games suffered a setback on Tuesday after it received less than half of the funding it originally requested.
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The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has confirmed the venue for the canoe/kayak slalom events during London 2012.
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Texan billionaire, Allen Stanford, is set to offer the England and Wales Cricket Board $20 million for a one-off Twenty20 match against a West Indies all-star side during England’s tour early next year.
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Fulford PR added the Volvo Ocean Race to its sports PR portfolio in a deal with the organisers of the 4th leg of the world’s most challenging yacht race, ONE15 Singapore Ocean Race Pte Ltd.
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Powerboat P1 has confirmed Vigo as the venue for the first ever Powerboat P1 Grand Prix to be staged in Spain.
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Sochi 2014, the Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, has appointed Weber Shandwick to support the development and implementation of its international communications strategy in 2008.
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The English Premier League’s controversial plan to introduce an ‘international round’ was backed on Wednesday by leading officials from the Spanish and German Leagues.
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A record 400 athletes from 45 different countries, including 78 British competitors, will compete at the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester from May 7 - 11.
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The Olympic Delivery Authority revealed yesterday that the budget for the London 2012 aquatic centre has more than tripled to £242 million.  
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The build-up to Wimbledon will have a different look from next year, with a new joint men's and women's tournament planned for Eastbourne.
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The leaders of the Madrid 2016 Olympic bid have announced that 30 sponsors have committed more than €12 million of support for the campaign.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge has called ‘for a rapid peaceful resolution in Tibet’ following the protests that blighted the London leg of the Beijing 2008 torch relay.