The city of Edmonton has appointed TSE Consulting as lead consultants in its bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. TSE will assist Edmonton until the selection of the host city in Sept. '15. TSE recently worked with winning hosts such as the city of Lima for the 2019 Pan Am Games and Sport Event Denmark in its successful bid for the 2019 ISAF Sailing 2018 World Championships as well as IIHF World Championships 2018 (TSE). ... The Int'l Cycling Union said that "it is to introduce an immediate change" to its Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) process, "ensuring that from now on all decisions pass through a committee." The change "comes in the wake of the recent controversy involving Team Sky's application for a TUE for glucocorticosteroids on behalf of Chris Froome at the Tour of Romandy in late April." Froome "was suffering from a chest infection aggravated by asthma" (London TELEGRAPH, 6/23). ... Keen to "convince the government on hosting 2019 Asian Games," the Indian Olympic Association "sought to present a united front," with President N. Ramachandran saying that "there is no division in the IOA top brass on the issue of bidding for the hosting rights of the Games." Ramachandran said, "It is a misconception that the IOA is divided on the issue of 2019 Asian Games bid. I want to make it clear that there is no difference of opinion between the president and secretary general vis-a-vis Asian Games. There was no misunderstanding either" (PTI, 6/24). ... German fourth-tier football club Wattenscheid 09 has successfully completed cooperation talks with Turkish top-flight side Galatasaray. Galatasaray announced at a press conference on Tuesday that it will financially and athletically support the club for the next five years (SID, 6/24).
