SPORTING NEWS
The latest sporting news from the sport industry:
| Advertisers set to spend $400m on Chinese TV commercials | 12.08.2008 |
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| Advertisers will spend more than $400m (£208m) on TV commercials in China during the Beijing Olympics, putting the turbo-charged Asian economy on track to become the world’s second largest ad market by 2010, according to a media forecast published today. | |
| ...more | source:www.sports-city.org |
| Boost for Durban’s Olympic ambitions | 12.08.2008 |
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| Durban’s bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics has been given a major boost, with the International Olympic Committee picking the city - ahead of Hong Kong - as the venue for the IOC General Assembly\'s congress in 2011. | |
| ...more | source:www.sports-city.org |
| adidas Techfit apparel for Aussie athletes for Olympic | 12.08.2008 |
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| adidas and the Australian Olympic Committee joined together to unveil the 2008 Australian Olympic Uniforms. Merging the traditional Australian colours with adidas’ technological advances, the uniforms are set to ensure that the Australian team performs at its best at the 2008 Olympics. | |
| ...more | source:www.fibre2fashion.com |
| Organisers asked to open up route to spectators | 11.08.2008 |
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| Olympic officials have been asked to open up the roads to more cycling spectators on Sunday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) complained over-exuberant security had marred the finish to the men’s race. | |
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| China’s huge market is biggest Olympic prize | 11.08.2008 |
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| More than 17 million people live in Beijing , China , the host city for the Summer Olympics that opened Friday. | |
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| America’s Cup in dock as row intensifies | 11.08.2008 |
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| The staging of the 33rd America’s Cup continues to be fought by lawyers rather than sailors, with BMW Oracle, the American team backed by Larry Ellison, the computing mogul, appealing against a court ruling last week that a Spanish team would be the challengers of record to Alinghi, the holders from Switzerland, and thus be the team with whom the rules for a multi-challenger event are negotiated. | |
| ...more | source:www.sports-city.org |
| Elmec Sport brings US Coach collection | 11.08.2008 |
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| Elmec Sport, according to the undersigned agreement with the company Coach Inc, granting Elmec Sport the exclusive right to import and distribute in Greece its handbags, shoes and accessories collections, announces the opening of its second point of sale within a surface of 180 sq.m., based on the Coach design, in the most commercial street of Kolonaki, at 28 Tsakalof str. | |
| ...more | source:www.fibre2fashion.com |
| Copenhagen Won’t Bid For An Olympic Games | 08.08.2008 |
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| The mayor of Copenhagen, Ritt Bjerregaard, said Thursday during a visit to Beijing, „after the Games in Athens four years ago many thought“ of Copenhagen as host city of an Olympic Games, „but after what I have seen here in Beijing, I have to say it is out of the question“. | |
| ...more | source:www.sports-city.org |
| IOC wants Beijing Games gamble to pay off | 08.08.2008 |
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| When the curtain for the Beijing Olympics is raised on Friday, it will not only be the Chinese organisers who will be hoping the opening ceremony is a major international hit. | |
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| Sponsors the real winners in swimming suit row | 07.08.2008 |
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| Whenever Michael Phelps or Libby Trickett breaks a world record, it is not just the spectators in the stands that jump to their feet and applaud. | |
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| Ten Sports launches service in Europe | 07.08.2008 |
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| Ten Sports launched its service in Europe last week. | |
| ...more | source:www.sports-city.org |
| IOC unimpressed by Sochi 2014 progress | 07.08.2008 |
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| The IOC was less than enthusiastic with progress for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. | |
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| PUMA confirms a single-digit sales increase on a currency neutral basis | 07.08.2008 |
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| PUMA AG announces its consolidated financial results for the 2nd Quarter and 1st Half-Year of 2008. | |
| ...more | source:www.fibre2fashion.com |
| Beijing venues set high standard for London 2012 | 06.08.2008 |
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| For some of those accompanying Team GB, these Olympic Games can only be looked at with an eye to four years in the future. | |
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| Late Beijing Games crises are lessons for IOC | 06.08.2008 |
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| The Beijing Games preparations have been an extraordinary experience but the crises that marked the final run-up are important lessons for the future, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. | |
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| Government backs AOC plan for Brisbane Olympics | 06.08.2008 |
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| THE Queensland Government is considering a bid for Brisbane to host the Olympics as early as 2024, the Premier has revealed after AOC endorsement. | |
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| Vectran Fiber key to Flywire hitting the track in Beijing Olympics | 06.08.2008 |
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| When athletes from around the world go for the gold at the Beijing Olympics, a super strong yet lightweight and flexible fiber being used in a revolutionary new type of running shoe construction from Nike, may help propel them to victory. | |
| ...more | source:www.fibre2fashion.com |
| IOC starts legal action over Beijing Olympics ticket scam | 05.08.2008 |
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| The International Olympic Committee began legal action against a website yesterday that allegedly set up a worldwide Olympic ticketing scam. | |
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| China confident of safe Olympics | 05.08.2008 |
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| Days before the Olympic Games open in Beijing, the Chinese authorities have said they are confident that athletes and spectators will be safe. | |
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| Referees strike may delay SPL start | 05.08.2008 |
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| The start of the Scottish Premier League this weekend could be delayed because of a strike threat from the country’s Referees’ Association (SRA). | |
| ...more | source:www.sports-city.org |