The International University Sports Federation (FISU) have awarded the 2019 Winter and Summer Universiades to Krasnoyarsk, drugs Russia and Brasilia, Brazil.

Krasnoyarsk was the sole bidder for the Winter Universiade after Valais withdrew their bid in September. They intend to instead bid for the 2021 event.

As regards the Summer Universiade, there were initially three candidates: Brasilia, Budapest and Baku. But Baku withdrew their candidature in October and Budapest followed but intends to bid again for 2021 after the FINA World Championships.

“It is the most beautiful day in my life. I thank FISU for the confidence it has demonstrated by allowing us to organise the Universiade. We hope to see you in Krasnoyarsk. Welcome to Siberia!”,  Lev Kuznetsov, the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region, exclaimed.

“Brazil has a long-standing tradition of university sport and I am convinced that Brasilia will organise an outstanding Universiade!” Aldo Rebelo, Sports Minister of Brazil, declared.

FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien said he was delighted with the selection of the host cities of the 2019 Winter and Summer Universiades: “Siberia represents the future of Europe. Moreover, this region is part of a country – Russia – that banks a lot on the association of sport and education. As for Brazil, it is back on stage after a long absence. Attributing the Games to Brasilia will allow us to implement a development policy for sport and education not only in Brazil, but also throughout South America.”

New HQ Announced

FISU also announced they will move to a new headquarters in 2016.

Their current offices are located in the Maison du Sport Internationale (MSI) in Lausanne and they will move to a new building that is to be built in 2016 on the campus of the University of Lausanne.

The FISU offices in the MSI have become too small to accommodate the growing number of FISU staff members. FISU will share the facilities of the new building with Cluster Sport International (CSI), the Académie des Sciences et Techniques du Sport (AISTS) and the Institut des Sciences et du Sport de l’Université de Lausanne (UNIL-ISSUL). The building will be located on the campus of the University of Lausanne in Dorigny, next to Lake Geneva.

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Rotterdam is set host a new professional squash tournament in the form of the Double AR Rotterdam Open Squash 2013 this autumn with the Italian stringing manufacturer, adiposity Double AR, drugs confirmed as primary sponsor.

The Dutch capital of sports hosted the combined World Championship for men and women in 2011 which Hans Zoethoutmaar, deputy director of Rotterdam Topsport, heralded as “one of the sporting highlights in our city over the past ten years” and has high expectations of the new event: “We truly hope that we can turn the Double AR Rotterdam Open into an annual event and look forward to seeing many familiar faces in action again on the show court of Victoria”.

The Double AR Rotterdam Open Squash 2013 is a registered PSA Challenger 15 championship and offers total winnings of $15,000. Among those competing, world top 10 players Dutch No 1, Laurens Jan Anjema, and the UK’s Adrian Grant are expected to participate.

Primary sponsor, Double AR, Executive Director, Brenno Zuccarello, said of the new sponsorship: “The sponsorship of the Double AR Rotterdam Open offers us the opportunity to increase our brand awareness in squash, but also provides our younger Double AR players with an opportunity to gain valuable world ranking points on the PSA World Tour. We were looking to sponsor a PSA event for quite some time and found the perfect partner in Rotterdam, given its central location in Europe and its tremendous track-record of hosting world class squash events”.

The Double AR Rotterdam Open Squash 2013 will take place from 27 August – 1 September at the Victoria squash club in the city of Rotterdam.

English Premier League club, store Stoke City have today announced that they are looking into expanding the Britannia Stadium with the addition of more seats in the south east corner. 

The Club are taking the opportunity to obtain planning permission to ‘fill-in’ the area between the Seddon Stand and the Marston’s Pedigree Stand, diagnosis which currently accommodates the giant video screen, medical to bring the capacity of the stadium up to the 30,000 mark. 

With the supporter base continuing to grow since promotion to the Premier League in 2008, the decision gives the Club flexibility to expand the stadium when the costs in the construction industry are comparatively low. 

Commenting on the decision, Chief Executive Tony Scholes said: “The decision to apply for planning permission to expand the Britannia Stadium comes after careful consideration for a number of years. 

“The atmosphere generated by our sell-out crowds since promotion to the Premier League has undoubtedly played a huge part in the Club’s continued success and we have to be mindful of the fact that any expansion could have an affect on that. 

“We have always said that we would be open to the possibility of expanding the stadium should we continue to remain in the Premier League and have the supporter base to fill it on a consistent basis. 

“Home support levels are continuing to hold up very well as we enjoy our fifth season in the League and this was highlighted no more so than at our last home game with Queens Park Rangers. 

“The attendance of 27,529 was our highest of the season so far and with the visitors only taking up the smaller allocation it shows that the continued interest of our fantastic support remains there.” 

In the coming weeks, the Club will work on the potential make-up and nature of a South-East corner and what section of supporters it would be aimed at. 

The number of Season Ticket holders has sky-rocketed since the Club’s return to the top flight with over 20,000 currently watching the Potters week-in, week-out and young supporters now making up a significant portion of that figure. 

“Stoke City are proud of a number of initiatives that are run throughout the local community to engage with current and potential new supporters,” added Scholes. 

“The Club have already seen an increase from 15% to 25% of fans aged 21 and under visiting the Britannia Stadium which is very encouraging.

“A possible expansion could, for example, enable us to look into housing supporters currently in the Family Stand who struggle to relocate to a group of seats together when they grow beyond the Family Stand age limits.” 

Singapore could become an international sports business hub if the right education and guidance is provided for young people, says sports marketing expert Patrick Nally.

Nally is credited as having redefined sports marketing and making the Olympics and FIFA World Cup into multi-billion-dollar events.

“There are two things happening here,” Nally said. “You have the big events where people come and go, and then you have people struggling to try and make things work at the local level.

“You have some agencies but they tend to be international ones, who benefit in being here from a tax point of view but run their own sports marketing for other parts of the world.”

“Young talent who see it as a career path must be developed because nobody I am aware of is recruiting people out of Singapore as none are being trained in that area here. And I’m talking about sports as a business, not sports management. I think this is an opportunity missed.”

“If Singapore was suddenly home to the 10 or 20 biggest sporting brands, it would be in a strong position to be a global Forbes 100 list,” Nally said.

“If you look at the amount of money that the country is investing in sport, my goodness just put a small proportion into education so that people understand the sports industry. It will actually reap substantial dividends,” he said.

The PGA TOUR, ailment has announced today that the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship will return to The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain for the 2013 event. 

The Accenture Match Play Championship, which is the first in a series of four World Golf Championships, has been played in the Tucson area since 2007 and at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain since 2009.  The 2013 event will be held February 18-24 and will again feature the top 64 players in the world from the Official World Golf Ranking.  This year’s Accenture Match Play Championship was won by Hunter Mahan (USA) over Rory McIlroy (NIR) in February.

“We look forward to returning to Tucson next year for what promises to be another exciting Accenture Match Play Championship,” said Roxanne Taylor, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Accenture. “The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain has been a great venue for world-class competition, and Tucson has been a terrific host city, particularly with the tremendous support from the Conquistadores.”

“We had an incredibly successful 2012 Accenture Match Play Championship, with great crowds, beautiful weather and tremendous support from the Tucson community,” said PGA TOUR Executive Vice President of Championship Management, David Pillsbury.  “We’re excited to continue the long-standing tradition of world-class golf in this marketplace at least through 2014, and we think The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain is an outstanding venue to host the Accenture Match Play Championship again next year.”

“The Tucson Conquistadores are thrilled to see the Accenture Match Play Championship return to The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain for 2013,” said Jim Berwick, 2013 tournament chairman. “Our organization has worked to help the PGA TOUR stage an amazing, world-class event here in Tucson, with the end result being a positive impact on local kids through the charity dollars the tournament generates.  We’ve had a great run at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain over the past few years and look forward to continuing that momentum in 2013.”

“We have truly valued our relationship with the PGA TOUR and we welcome the return of the Accenture Match Play Championship for 2013,” said David Mehl, the developer of Dove Mountain.  “It is a privilege for our Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain Golf Club to be the host of this great World Golf Championships event again next year.”

cialis Arial, symptoms Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #000000; line-height: 18px;”>Transporters from the world of motor racing and Formula One are to face tougher scrutiny at UK customs after drugs were found in the trucks of a Superbike World Championship team last month.

Quantities of cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis were discovered in the vehicle belonging to Paul Bird Motorsport, which runs the Kawasaki Racing Team. Four staff from the team have been arrested and released on bail.

On the back of the incident, a source at the United Kingdom Border Agency said that there was now likely to be a ramping up of checks on motor racing transport vehicles, telling the Daily Telegraph: “Our intelligence analysts will be looking much more closely at motorsport vehicles from now on, including Superbikes and even Formula 1. They have been pulled over very rarely and that will now change.”

Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has hinted that he could quit his role if Rupert Murdoch’s media group succeeds in a proposed bid to take control of the sport, the Sunday Times reported.

Having previously dismissed the idea of retirement, Ecclestone, 80, said in an interview with the newspaper: “I’m old enough to get a pension, so I don’t have to get a job. I’d have to be sure the people (who end up owning F1) are people I would like to work with and whether they would want to work with me.”

A source familiar with the situation told Reuters last week that News Corporation had held early talks with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim and at least one of the sport’s big car manufacturers about forming a consortium to acquire control.

Separate sources had previously told Reuters that private equity firm CVC, the current owner, was conducting a strategic review and could sell.