A Formula One French grand prix will not occur in 2013, viagra 100mg according to the sports daily L’Equipe.

There was speculation that the country’s defunct grand prix, at either Paul Ricard or Magny Cours would be resurrected. 

But L’Equipe said the French sanctioning body FFSA had not, by Tuesday’s deadline, received a request to apply to be added to the FIA’s 2013 schedule.

The deadline was in place ahead of the forthcoming World Motor Sport Council meeting in early December, which is the last chance to make changes to the provisional 2013 race calendar.

Chinese Basketball Association’s (CBA) Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers will buy a private team jet for the 2012-13 season.

The Flying Tigers will become the first team in CBA history to use a chartered jet.

Team GM, cough He Changjiang, ask said: “Xinjiang is very far away from the other teams. During a season, apoplectic players use up a lot of their bodies. So next season, we’ll probably elect to use a private jet.”

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The Board of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) will meet today to discuss and ratify the technical committee’s recommendations for overhauling domestic cricket.

The technical committee recommended significant changes.

Per the recommendations, the Elite and Plate groups will be replaced by three groups of nine teams. Each team will play eight matches during the league stage.

Three teams from Groups A and B, and two from Group C, will qualify for the knockout phase. The quarterfinals, semifinals and the final will be five-day games.{jcomments on}

An excess of 100 former NFL players have filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta claiming that pro football didn’t properly protect its players from concussions.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include former Atlanta Falcon Jamal Anderson, ex-Georgia star Lindsey Scott and veteran quarterback Don Majkowski.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Georgia, claims the league failed to protect NFL players from brain injuries linked to football-related concussions.

They are among more than 1,000 former NFL players suing the league. The cases say not enough was done to inform players about the dangers of concussions in the past, and not enough is done to take care of them today.

The National Football League countered by saying they did not intentionally sought to mislead players about player protecton.

Seven Soccer referees have been given lifetime bans following a match-fixing inquiry into exhibition games earlier this year by FIFA

The probe concerned games held Feb. 9 in Antalya, seek Turkey, price  Estonia and Bulgaria tied 2-2 and Latvia beat Bolivia 2-1, remedy with all seven goals coming from penalty kicks.

The soccer body’s disciplinary panel imposed the sanction against four Hungarians and three Bosnians following a hearing at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland.

Arrests have occurred in Asia, Europe and Africa as the police are clamping down on miscreants who are bringing the sport into disrepute.

The Leaders in Football conference, taking place at Stamford Bridge in London on October 5-6, have announced that Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn is the event’s latest confirmed speaker.

Quinn, a former international striker for the Republic of Ireland, will address delegates on a panel discussing the duties of football club chairmen alongside Stoke City and Bet365 owner Peter Coates.

Quinn successfully brokered a deal to buy a controlling stake in Sunderland in 2006 and under, him the club returned to the Barclays Premier League before Ellis Short completed a takeover in 2008.

Quinn has joined other high-profile speakers such as FIFA Executive Committee members Dr Michel D’Hooghe and Jim Boyce, Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck and Football League chairman Greg Clarke. The Football Association’s independent chairman, David Bernstein, and Jean-Luc Dehaene, chairman of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Panel, will also speak at the event.

Ticket applicants for next year’s London Olympics will not be billed until at least next week after organising officials put back the process by a week, it has been announced.

The 1.8 million who applied for 20 million tickets were originally told to make sure they had enough money in their accounts from May 10 to June 10 but London 2012 says people will now not be billed until at least May 16 as they continue spending this week carrying out ballots for oversubscribed events.

Last week London 2012 sent out an email to the people who had applied for the tickets advising them to ensure they have cleared funds to cover the cost of their applications.

A spokesman for London 2012 stated: “We have always said that the money would be taken from between May 10 and June 24 and we are still working to that.

“The earliest the money will come out is May 16 and that is within that timescale, there is no delay.”

ZOOM Motorsports have announced that George Dennis has been hired as president of ZOOM Motorsports, ailment the exclusive event promoter of Barber Motorsports Park.

Dennis will replace Rick Humphrey and will oversee all races and events at Barber Motorsports Park, order along with Five Star Event Catering, the catering division of ZOOM Motorsports.

Dennis spent the last two years serving as general manager for the Blazer IMG Sports Network and area sales for the Auburn IMG Sports Network. Prior to that, he spent 10 years at Talladega Superspeedway, home to two annual races on the NASCAR circuit, as the senior director of sales and marketing. Also holding sales and marketing positions within the Birmingham Barons Baseball Club, The Birmingham News and Kimberly Clark Corporation, Dennis comes to Bruno Event Team with a wide range of experience in sales and marketing. 

“George has an excellent background in the sports industry, and he is a natural fit as the leader of ZOOM Motorsports,” stated Gene Hallman, CEO of ZOOM Motorsports. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to have him join our team and oversee our event management of this world-class facility at Barber Motorsports Park.” 

Among the many events at Barber Motorsports Park that Dennis will oversee is the Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama, an event that has been named “Alabama Event of the Year” by the Alabama Tourism Department. With more than 80,000 fans traveling from all fifty states for the three-day race weekend, it has become a fan-favorite race on the Verizon IndyCar Series circuit. 

“I am extremely excited to join the team at ZOOM Motorsports and return to the motorsports industry,” Dennis stated. “Barber Motorsports Park is one of the finest road courses in North America, and I look forward to enhancing its great reputation during the 2015 season and beyond.” 

Dennis will begin his role at ZOOM Motorsports on Oct. 13.

The International Triathlon Union and British Triathlon have signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ to create a global Coach Education system designed to standardise and improve coaching education around the world, specifically targeting emerging triathlon National Federations (NF). 

The new ITU coaching pathway, supported by UK Sport, will be based on the International Council for Coaching Excellence’s International Sport Coaching Framework, which is a globally recognised framework for coaching system development. It will also draw on expertise from British Triathlon’s successful UK Coach Education Programmes and the UK Sport’s International Development team.

“We are thrilled to be working in conjunction with the British Triathlon Federation on this ground breaking project,” said ITU President and IOC Member Marisol Casado. “Nobody knows the sport better, nor can do more to impact its grow, than our National Federations. The opportunity to share expertise through an online platform with emerging Federations will be an invaluable tool.” 

The project will be overseen by ITU Sport Director Gergely Markus as well as ITU’s Zita Csovelyak and Rolf Ebeling. Paul Moss, Coaching Development Manager at British Triathlon, has been appointed as Project Development Manager and will work with ITU in directing the development and implementation of the coach education programme. 

As part of the relationship, British Triathlon will help ITU develop an online e-learning platform that is based on best practices utilised in the British Triathlon e-learning platform, as well as high quality learning programmes that are delivered by skilled ITU facilitators. 

Moss said: “Our involvement in this project provides a great opportunity to work in partnership with ITU by helping them to create a fit-for-purpose coaching pathway and programmes, as well as supporting the development of triathlon coaches around the world. 

The system will be formally launched at the 2014 ITU World Championships Grand Final in Edmonton, Canada.