The city of Cochabamba in Bolivia, arthritis will host the South American Games in 2018 it was announced over the weekend.

The election took place this Saturday, cialis cheap December 14, in Rio de Janeiro, during the session of the General Assembly of the South American Sports Organization – Odesur. The application of Cochabamba received the personal support of the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. On Friday 13th, Morales came to Rio de Janeiro specially to meet the president of Odesur, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, and to ratify the support of his Government to the candidacy of the city of Cochabamba to host the South American Games 2018.

The other candidate city for the Games was Lima, Peru, which, however, withdrew its application on Friday, before the meeting. 

“First I wish to thank the leaders of Odesur, but also the leaders of Peru and the Peruvian people, because they understood the importance of the Games returning to Bolivia. We have to work hard from now. It is a joint task of all the Bolivian people. We will be organizing a big mobilization, as we always do in the case of international events, to be able to show a good image of Cochabamba and of Bolivia in the 2018 Games”said Morales.

The president of Odesur, Carlos Arthur Nuzman highlighted the personal commitment of the Bolivian president. “We are very pleased with the determination of the Bolivian government to hold the event. The visit of President Evo Morales to Rio de Janeiro demonstrates that commitment and confirms the growing importance of the Games in South America, which every day achieves more importance on the world stage. The 2016 Olympics will be in Rio de Janeiro, the Youth Olympic Games 2018, in Buenos Aires, the Pan American Games 2019, in Lima, the Universiade 2019, in Brasilia, and we still have the Football World Cup in Brazil next year”, said Nuzman.

Nuzman also stressed the historical importance achieved by the South American Games 2018. “It is a great pleasure to hold the Odesur South American Games in Cochabamba. These games were created in Bolivia and therefore the return of the competition to their country of origin is a very important moment for sport, for the youth in Bolivia and, more than that, for the whole country before our continent” explained Nuzman.

The General Assembly Odesur also witnessed the presentation of the Organizing Committee for the South American Games – Santiago 2014, which has secured classification for ten sports at the Pan American Games Toronto 2015: karate, rugby, wrestling, bowling, equestrian (jumping and dressage), field hockey, handball, modern pentathlon, cycling and triathlon. Santiago 2014 is still awaiting confirmation of waterskiing to qualify for Toronto. In addition, the organizers of the South American Beach Games in Vargas, Venezuela, confirmed that the event will be held between 14 and 24 May, 2014.

Rugby Travel and Hospitality Limited (RTH), doctor the official travel and hospitality provider appointed by the IRB, anabolics has revealed that 400 global tour operators have expressed an interest to become an Official Travel Agent for Rugby World Cup 2015.

The response, symptoms which is a record for this stage of the process and is greater than the response for the previous two Rugby World Cups combined, includes significant uplifts in traditional and new Rugby markets and represents a further significant boost for an event which is exceeding all delivery milestones as England prepares to welcome the world’s biggest Rugby stars and more than 400,000 overseas fans in two years’ time.

Expressions of interest to become an Official Travel Agent have been received from 34 countries, including Brazil, Chile and the Netherlands for the first time as well as Namibia, Kenya, Spain, Romania, Georgia, Dubai and Hong Kong. A significant increase in applications has also been received from tour agents in senior playing territories, with the most notable increase in Argentina and Italy.

With RWC 2019 set to be staged in Japan for the first time, the number of applications has tripled and a number of their largest agencies are now included in the appointment process.

RTH are currently in the process of appointing Official Travel Agents from around the globe to develop and sell match ticket-inclusive supporter tour packages to deliver a fantastic fan experience. Official appointments will be made in September and announced in November 2013 and the official travel programme is due to go on general sale across the globe in January 2014.

RTH Chief Executive Andrew Burton said: “We are delighted with the high level of interest to be appointed as an Official Travel Agent for Rugby World Cup 2015.”

“It is estimated that over 400,000 supporters will travel to England for what will be the biggest sporting event in the world that year. The Official Travel Agents appointed later this year will offer a wide range of ticket inclusive supporter tour packages, so fans from around the world can guarantee tickets for the games they want to see.”

The official travel and hospitality programme has been one of the major Rugby World Cup success stories with more than 450,000 tickets sold to fans from around the world through a network of agents across the France 2007 and New Zealand 2011 tournaments, delivering significant revenues for the International Rugby Board to invest in the development of the Game at all levels.

Rugby World Cup Limited Chairman Bernard Lapasset said: “This unprecedented response truly reinforces the strong stature of the Rugby World Cup brand in the global sporting marketplace. We are confident that fans travelling to England in two years’ time will experience not just world-class Rugby played on some of the world’s best-known Rugby stages, but will be welcomed with open arms to an exciting nationwide festival that will showcase the very best of Rugby and England.”

Hotel Solutions Partnership and Braemar Golf have announced an exclusive strategic alliance which offers integrated golf, ambulance hotel and hospitality advisory services to owners and operators of resorts which incorporate golf facilities.

The services offered include initial assessments / audits, viagra 100mg concept recommendations, strategy development, brand options, membership structures, operational and asset management solutions and implementation support.

Ian Graham, CEO of Hotel Solutions Partnership, said: “We have partnered with Braemar Golf recently on two projects and have all enjoyed working as a single client facing team. It is evident to us that together we have vast experience of working as part of a wider ‘project team’ including owners, operators, master planners, architects, etc.

“As a single client facing team, we know that Hotel Solutions Partnership associates and Braemar’s executives have contributed positively to turnaround situations as well as to concept creation opportunities. Just as Hotel Solutions Partnership associates live and breathe hotels, Braemar’s team has a deep understanding of golf and importantly its successful commercial operation.”

Keith Haslam, Managing Director of Braemar Golf, added: “Braemar was born out of Gleneagles Golf Developments, and the team has huge wealth of experience in hotel and resort development and management and therefore working on golf projects with a hotel or resort element has been a natural fit for us and this alliance with Hotel Solutions Partnership will allow us to leverage further the value and expertise Braemar can bring to clients…we are passionate about golf and genuinely understand the commercial realities of the industry and the challenge of creating and managing golf facilities where they are part of a wider hotel or hospitality project.”

Braemar Golf is an international golf services company based in St Andrewswith its roots firmly based in the heritage and traditions of the “Home of Golf”. The company has taken a knowledge and experience of delivering great golf experiences and used it to support and manage high quality golf developments in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa as well asChinaand thePacificIslands. Braemar Golf is owned and run by its management team and offers clients a personal commitment, integrity, attention to detail and tailored approach that will create a mutually beneficial working partnership.

Hotel Solutions Partnership is a network of 25 independent consultants living and working around the world. It is a virtual team of peers, all completely independent. Members are strategic thinkers and domain experts. Each has had many years of experience working in hotels and hotel company regional and corporate headquarters with considerable cross-border and independent consultant experience.

As individuals and as a team, they have worked in more than 110 countries. Recently, Hotel Solutions Partnership has delivered assignments in the Bali,Belgium,Ireland,Mongolia,Poland,South Korea,Spainand theUK. All the team are sensitive to cultural differences and diversity and this enriches their work. The scope of the team’s advice and recommendations include actionable operational and branding advice and implementation support around the world.

“Together we are a great resource for pragmatic value adding advice for owners and operators of hotel-led golf resorts as well as golf resorts with hospitality elements,” concludes Keith Haslam

Wie das Magazin Sponsors berichtet, denture sind The Sportsman Media Group und das Red Bull Media House neue Promoter der World Rally Championship (WRC). Ab 2013 sollen die beiden neuen Partner maßgeblichen Anteil an der Weiterentwicklung der Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft haben.

In einer Mitteilung des Automobil-Weltverbandes FIA heißt es: „Der Promoter wird dafür verantwortlich sein, medic in die WRC zu investieren und diese zu entwickeln, um ihr Profil, ihre Reputation und ihren kommerziellen Wert zu verbessern.“ Als mittelfristige Schwerpunkte für die neuen Partner definiert die FIA die internationale TV-Präsenz und die Entwicklung einer Strategie für digitale Medien.

Neben Red Bull und The Sportsman sollen auch der WTCC-Vermarkter Eurosport und ein Interessent aus Südafrika im Rennen um die Rolle des WRC-Promoters gewesen sein. Der bisherige Promoter North One Sport hatte sich im Januar zurückgezogen, nachdem die Muttergesellschaft Convers Sports Initiatives Insolvenz angemeldet hatte.

Als Sponsor ist der Energydrink-Hersteller Red Bull bereits in der WRC aktiv, unter anderem als einer der größten Partner von Serien-Champion Sebastien Loeb und dessen Citroen-Werksteam. Bis Ende des vergangenen Jahres unterstützten die Österreicher auch den inzwischen in die Formel 1 zurückgekehrten Finnen Kimi Räikkönen.

Über das Tochterunternehmen Red Bull Media House wird das österreichische Unternehmen zusammen mit The Sportsmann nun auch für die Produktion und Distribution verantwortlich sein. Es ist durchaus denkbar, dass die Übertragungen im deutschsprachigen Raum fortan auch beim Red-Bull-Sender Servus TV zu sehen sein werden.

F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that the deal for the French Grand Prix to make a return to the Formula 1 calendar has been completed.

The race is set to take place at the Paul Ricard track from 2013 to 2021, meaning that a France will host a grand prix every alternate year.

Reports over the weekend said authorities had “finally agreed” a figure for the sanctioning fee with the F1 chief executive and Ecclestone confirmed the news on Sunday.

“The deal is done,” he told L’Equipe. “We agreed the financial terms with the sports minister David Douillet, in my office on Tuesday. We are still discussing a few things about money: ‘You give me this, I want that’. But, for me, there is no doubt, we will sign it now.”

The Ecclestone-owned Paul Ricard circuit is expected to share an annually-alternating grand prix date with Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps, beginning in 2013.

Ecclestone added that the outcome of the forthcoming presidential elections in France will not spoil the deal.

“Whatever the outcome, I don’t care,” said Ecclestone. “That’s a local issue that doesn’t concern me.”

If the race does go ahead next year it will be the first French Grand Prix since 2008 when the event was held at Magny-Cours.

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The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have announced the results of its annual election to its Main Committee, and confirming that Angus Fraser, medstore John Barclay, adiposity Hugo Loudon and Robert Griffiths were successful in the ballot.

The four men will take up their three-year positions on 1st October 2012 after the votes from 5,973 ballot papers were counted.

“MCC will continue to be well served from October, with a Committee intake that boasts an excellent amount of cricketing skills and expertise,” MCC Chairman Oliver Stocken said.

“I look forward to welcoming everyone on to the Committee in the autumn.”

MCC also confirmed that Matthew Fleming, Charles Fry, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Colin Maber will stand down as Elected Members on 30th September 2012.

by Ismail Uddin

Jeremy Lin, impotent which has swept up Knicks fans and raced through sporting goods stores, is gripping Wall Street as well as shares soaring to record status.

On Monday, shares of Madison Square Garden Company, which owns the Knicks, the arena where they play and the cable network that broadcasts their games, hit a record high because of the sudden emergence of Jeremy Lin, the team’s previously unknown point guard.

Shares of MSG rose 3.8 percent Monday to a record-high $32.32, with three times the average number of shares being traded.

Analysts who follow the stock say that Lin could not only continue to benefit ticket prices, merchandise sales and television ratings, but also provide the impetus to end the dispute between MSG and Time Warner Cable, which has been unable to broadcast Knicks games this year.

“No doubt on the court Mr. Lin’s accomplishments rank with the career starts of LeBron James, Isiah Thomas and Shaq,” Rich Tullo, the director of research at Albert Fried & Company, wrote to investors. So, Tullo asked, will Lin help the Knicks and MSG off the court, too? “In our view, the answer is yes.”

Sales of all merchandise at the Knicks’ official online store and Facebook page have risen more than 3,000 percent in the past week, said Delivery Agent, which runs the online store. Some items, like the Jeremy Lin replica home jersey, are sold out.

There is nothing new about teams, networks or merchandise makers cashing in on a player’s success. Detroit went crazy over the Tigers’ Mark Fidrych in 1976, and the Los Angeles Dodgers experienced Fernando-mania over Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. Ditto when Ichiro Suzuki made his debut in Seattle with the Mariners in 2001. Ricky Rubio is making a splash with the Minnesota Timberwolves this season.

But Lin is unique because of how quickly he has turned into a star on the court and a moneymaking machine off it.

Lin’s emergence has created a frenzy for Knicks tickets, even in other cities. The average price for tickets to games in New York has risen to more than $100 a ticket, from $85, according to Jason Berger, who runs the ticket broker AllShows.com.

“We had sold more front-row seats in the last month than we had for the entire season last year,” Berger said. “There are still some good deals out there for future games, but we expect those deals to be harder to find as the excitement grows.”

Plenty of fans are tuning in. MSG Network had its highest-rated Knicks broadcast Saturday, when the team played in Minneapolis. In the four games Lin has started, the average household rating on MSG Network has increased 70 percent compared with the previous 20 games.

Despite the hype, Richard Greenfield, an analyst at BTIG, said the Knicks would have to have a lot more success before he is convinced Madison Square Garden will benefit over all.

“Lin has helped the stock price, but the underlying business has not changed,” he said. “No one knew him a week ago, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.”

by Ismail Uddin

According to a source familiar to Bloomberg, ed the National Football League (NFL) owners and players are discussing a labor contract in which players would get about 48 per cent of all revenue.

The report claimed that the potential deal would eliminate a provision of the previous collective bargaining agreement that allowed owners to deduct US$1bn from total revenue before splitting the rest with players.

The league and its players have met in small sessions over the last few weeks in an effort to end a three-month lockout with talks believed to have progressed over the past month to ensure training camps open on time in July and that the season starts on schedule in September.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters after yesterday’s meeting: “We don’t have an agreement. We have a very strong view of the priorities, drugs a very strong view of what we need to accomplish in the negotiations and a determination to get there.”

Goodell didn’t disclose specifics and wouldn’t comment further on the status of negotiations, bronchi though he said more meetings have been scheduled.

Under the NFL’s labor contract that expired after last season, players received about 60 per cent of revenue once the $1bn credit had been deducted. Under the new proposal, the players’ share would never dip below about 47 per cent, according to the source.

According to the UK’s Minister of Sport Hugh Robertson, the biggest threat to next year’s London 2012 Olympics comes from doping.

Robertson stated: “Remember that 80 percent of unsecured income that the London organising committee needs to raise is secured against ticketing.

“If people buying these tickets cease to believe that what they are paying quite large sums of money for is anything other than a fair contest then the integrity of the Games will be lost. It’s as simple and complicated as that”.

Robertson revelations came in the wake of World Anti-Doping Association director general David Howman’s comments that the criminal underworld controlled a substantial part of world sport, and that the trafficking of prohibited performance-enhancing drugs was more lucrative than heroin.

Robertson added: “I think that the lesson I took from my conversation [with Howman] was it’s a very serious threat and it’s big business for criminal bodies”.

Richard Budgett, the chief medical officer for the Games, spoke at an anti-doping conference at Twickenham rugby stadium, explaining that every measure possible would be taken against doping.

According to media reports, 5,000 dope tests will be conducted, compared to the 4,500 at the 2008 Beijing Games and the number of tests would reach a daily peak of 400. Additionally, a confidential 24-hour hotline has also been introduced, that will allow athletes to pass on any information they may have about doping in sport.

The Wimbledon Championships won’t be moved to avoid a possible clash with England’s bid to stage the 2018 soccer World Cup, apoplectic according to Bloomberg News.

An evaluation report into the England 2018 bid released last week by FIFA had pointed out a clash between the tennis Grand Slam event and the soccer tournament.

“It is a FIFA requirement that no other major sporting event is hosted in a host city during the event period and the fact that the Wimbledon tennis championships take place in London during late June/early July could have an impact on the public attention given to the FIFA World Cup,” soccer’s world governing body said in the report.

“We haven’t been approached,” by the England bid organizers, Wimbledon spokesman Johnny Perkins said in an interview at tennis’s ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 arena in east London. “Even if there had been an approach, we can’t just move it,” he added. The tennis year runs from January until November and features 62 men’s events and 53 women’s tournaments..

In the experience of Wimbledon organizers, having two major sports events at the same time can have a positive effect on both, Perkins said.

“When England hosted Euro96, it was fantastic,” Perkins said. “There was a huge mutually supportive sports atmosphere.”

The Wimbledon Championships will be held June 20 through July 3 next year.

Source: Bloomberg