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Russia, U.S. To Join Efforts For 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Security06 / 19 / 13Security issues at large-scale sporting and public events, including the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, "will become an area of interaction" between Russia and the U.S., according to RIA. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama "met late on Monday on the sidelines of the G8 sum... |
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Non-Olympic Sponsors Have Free Rein
Non-Olympic sponsors ran advertising in Thursday's newspapers featuring Olympic athletes as they seek to take advantage of the end of the advertising blackout period, according to Matthew Chapman of MARKETING MAGAZINE. Brands trying to capitalize off of the Olympics include U.K. Athletics main spons ...
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More Paralympic Tickets On Sale
Paralympic Games organizers have released an extra 45,000 tickets as "steady demand for a slice of London 2012 action continues," according to Nick Pearce of the London TELEGRAPH. Most of the tickets on sale this week are for athletics sessions, although a "limited amount" of wheelchair basketball, ...
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London Sponspors To Support Parade
London Games sponsors Visa, British Airways, BP and BT "are to provide financial support for the Olympic and Paralympic victory parade" taking place on Sept. 10, according to John Reynolds of MARKETING MAGAZINE. The London 2012 sponsors are providing additional funding, "on top of their original mul ...
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Olympic Notes: Marathon Gold Brings In $80,000
Recently-crowned Olympic marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich returned home Wednesday to "a rapturous welcome in Uganda, an $80,000 cheque and a pledge that his parents will get a new house." Kiprotich, who beat the heavily-fancied Kenyan team to claim Uganda's first Gold Medal in 40 years at the Lon ...
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U.K. Sport In A Bind After '12 Failures
Minority sports that "revelled in their moment in the Olympic sun are facing the realities of a tough future," according to Robin Scott-Elliot. U.K. Sport, the body that distributes elite funding to Olympic sports, is "in the process of determining how much each governing body should receive" toward ...
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Debate Rages On Post-Olympics Plans
Public figures from all over London have “made a variety of suggestions ranging from the socially and environmentally conscious to the caustic,” on what should be done with the Olympic Park, according to Moody & Buchanan of the LONDON TIMES. Mayor Boris Johnson “confirmed ...
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French Olympians Tally $2.8M Bonus
The French Ministry of Sports will have to pay a sum of €2.3M ($2.8M) to its Olympic medalists, according to Olivia Derreumaux of LE FIGARO. The Ministry of Sports had set a €50,000 ($61,380) bonus for a Gold Medal, €20,000 ($24,552) for Silver and €13,000 ($15,958) for Bronze. T ...
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U.K.'s Royal Mail is "coming under increasing pressure" to honour Paralympic Gold Medalists with their own stamps as it did for London Games Olympians. Shadow Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has "waded into the row," urging Royal Mail to reconsider its decision to honour every Gold Medal-winning perf ...
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Korea Defends Troubled Footballer Park
South Korea’s sporting and political authorities "lined up to support" Olympic footballer Park Jong-woo after his Bronze Medal was withheld for "displaying a political slogan" following the team’s win against Japan Friday, according to Alastair Gate of the WALL STREET JOURNAL's Japan Rea ...
Carrion, Others In Line To Succeed Rogge
With the London Games over, the "race to succeed" IOC President Jacques Rogge has begun, according to the DPA. Richard Carrion, who looks after the IOC’s finances and negotiates TV rights, is "on most people’s lists of aspiring presidents for the committee." Other candidates include IOC ...
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