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Int'l Ice Hockey Federation Awards 2017 World Championship To Germany, France05 / 20 / 13The 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... Tags: Events and Attractions, Europe |
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Uganda To Submit '19 AFCON Joint Bid
Federation of Uganda Football Associations said that it plans to "garner regional support to jointly host the coveted" African Cup of Nations tournament in '19, according to XINHUA. FUFA VP Mujib Kasule said that it is going to use the forthcoming 2012 Council for East and Central African Football A ...
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The U.K.'s Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, home of the sailing regattas of the 2012 Olympiad, will host the 2013 Dragon World Championship Sept. 5-13 ( Dragon World Championship ). ... The inaugural Eden Park domestic Sevens Series kicks off Friday at the Jebel Ali Centre of Excellen ...
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Gulf Nations To Race At Sailing Arabia
Oman sailing initiative, Oman Sail, revealed that Gulf nations "will once again battle it out on the Arabian Sea for the third edition of Sailing Arabia -- The Tour from Feb. 10-25," according to GULF NEWS. The only pan-regional offshore sailing race of its kind "delivers 15 days of intense sailing ...
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The Pakistan Cricket Board is anticipating hosting arch rivals India and South Africa in a full-fledged series in the later half of '13. The series is not in the Int'l Cricket Council Future Tour Program, but PCB CEO Zaka Ashraf is trying to convince these countries to tour Pakistan "in a bid for re ...
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ManU To Play A-League All-Stars
The New South Wales government has "agreed to tip in" A$3M ($3.1M) as part of a deal to help the Football Federation Australia bring ManU to Sydney for a preseason game in July, according to Ray Gatt of THE AUSTRALIAN. The deal "will be announced in several weeks." The game will be played against an ...
MercedesCup Tennis Switches To Grass
German Tennis Club Weissenhof, the host venue of the annual MercedesCup, "wants to switch from clay to grass starting in '15," according to the SID. MercedesCup Tournament Dir Edwin Weindorfer said, "It is correct, we are looking to become a grass tournament. We will submit a corresponding request t ...
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Restricted Crowd For African CL Final
Sunday's African Champions League final in Tunis, Tunisia will have a restricted crowd of 35,000 due to "fears of stadium violence and civil unrest," according to Mark Gleeson of REUTERS. After the first leg in Cairo, Egypt ended 1-1, home side Esperance is "poised to take the title for a second suc ...
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World Cup Construction To Top $14B
Brazil's Audit Court revealed the cost of construction for the 2014 World Cup has increased by 14.7% in relation to the original estimates, according to REUTERS. A total of R$27.3B ($13.3B) will now be spent on stadiums and infrastructure for the event. The R$3.5M ($1.7B) increase from original esti ...
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Chinese Athletic Association VP Shen Chunde refuted Japanese reports, saying that the Beijing Marathon "did not refuse Japanese runners' applications." In an interview on the front page of CAA's website, Shen said that the race has welcomed runners from every nation since its inception in '81 and th ...
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Brazil Wants More Tickets For Fans
Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo "will work with FIFA" to try and get more Confederations Cup tickets available for common fans, according to Rodrigo Mattos of UOL.com.br. As things currently stand, 53.17% of tickets for the event are available to the general public. The rest is reserved for "s ...
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