Universiade Winners To Get Cash Prizes Roma Curva Closed Over Racist Chants Event Notes Boca Juniors Oppose Schedule Change LPGA Will Make Chinese Debut In October Germany, France Get '17 Hockey Worlds Brazil Treating Confed Cup As 'Test Drive' Swedish Ticnet To Donate To Player Fund Event Notes Record-Priced Copa Tickets Sell Out
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Russia To Award Universiade Winners Cash Prizes Up To $5,40005 / 22 / 13Each medalist in the upcoming Kazan World Summer Universiade "will be awarded a cash prize," according to XINHUA. Gold medal winners will be awarded with 168,000 rubles ($5,400). Silver medalists will receive $2,600 and bronze medalists will earn $1,600. Coaches and other sports staff of the 27th Un... Tags: Events and Attractions, Russia |
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Roma Curva Closed Over Racist Chants
AS Roma "will be forced to close" the south stand for one game after racist chanting, while Inter Milan has been fined €50,000 ($65,000), according to FOOTBALL ITALIA. Despite stepping out on to the field ahead of Roma-Napoli on Sunday wearing anti-racism shirts, a section of the ultras in the ...
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Russia "is struggling to beef up its hospitality infrastructure ahead of the 2018 World Cup, with seven of the 11 host cities lagging behind in the number of hotel rooms on offer." Only Moscow, Sochi, St. Petersburg and Kazan "meet the FIFA requirement of 60,000 hotel rooms for host cities" ( IANS, ...
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Boca Juniors Oppose Schedule Change
Argentine football club Boca Juniors Chair Daniel Angelici made "strong statements to protest Boca playing next weekend against Newell's at 9:30pm local time," according to CLARIN. Angelici said that Tuesday, he will make a suggestion in the Argentine FA against the decision made by Football For All ...
LPGA Will Make Chinese Debut In October
The LPGA Tour will stage its first tournament in China at Beijing's Reignwood Pine Valley course from Oct. 3-6, according to SINA. The $1.8M Reignwood LPGA Classic "will be the first stop on a late-season Asian LPGA swing that includes stops in Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan before season-e ...
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Germany, France Get '17 Hockey Worlds
The 2013 Int'l Ice Hockey Federation Annual Congress allocated the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship to Cologne, Germany and Paris. The German-French bid received 63 votes from the delegates. The other bid with Copenhagen, Denmark and Riga, Latvia got 45 votes. Cologne is a well-known venue fo ...
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Brazil Treating Confed Cup As 'Test Drive'
Brazil is using this year’s FIFA Confederations Cup "as a test drive," according to Kenneth Rapoza of FORBES. The government "wants to show that it is ready and prepared to provide top notch security for the major sets of games heading their way." The Brazilian military has mobilized 25,000 so ...
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Swedish Ticnet To Donate To Player Fund
A Swedish ticket agency accused of profiting from a charity football match for a deceased player has said that "it will make a donation to a fund set up in his memory," according to Philip O'Connor of REUTERS. Swedish football side AIK had staged a charity match with Dynamo Zagreb after its "Croatia ...
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Atlético Madrid flew to Singapore on Sunday for a charity game on Wednesday against a team of local stars at Singapore's Jalan Besar Stadium. A total of 22 Atlético players, including Óliver Torres, Saúl Ñiguez and Javier Manquillo, made the flight early Sunday aft ...
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Record-Priced Copa Tickets Sell Out
A "full house is guaranteed at the Santiago Bernabéu" for Friday's Copa del Rey final between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, "even though the ticket prices agreed by the two clubs and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) are the highest ever," according to Miguel Angel Lara of MARC ...
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A-League Sydney FC player Alessandro Del Piero will travel to Japan to play J.League's Sagan Tosu in "DHC presents Special Match" on July 24. It will be Del Piero's second visit to Japan in two years. He participated in J.League Special Match to support the earthquake disaster relief in '12 ( Sydney ...
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