The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has suspended ‘Hawkeye’ following an error during the All-Ireland minor hurling semi-final yesterday at Croke Park.

The controversial error saw Hawkeye brand a perfectly good point as a ‘miss’ during the All-Ireland minor hurling semi-final between Limerick and Galway. 

The goal-line technology was brought in by GAA chiefs this year – making its debut at the All-Ireland Club Finals on St Patrick’s Day inCroke Park.

The use of the device had to be subsequently suspended for next All-Ireland senior semi-final match between Clare and Limerick as a result of the failing. 

The association added that it expected the system to be fully working again for next week’s matches at Croke Park, with a statement reading:

“Following an inconsistency in the generation of a graphic by Hawk-Eye during today’s minor hurling semi-final, the decision was taken to suspend use of the score detection system for the senior game.

“A full review of the technology, in conjunction with Hawk-Eye, commenced this evening and its finding will be examined by the GAA tomorrow.

“It is expected that Hawk-Eye will be in full working order for next Sunday’s minor and senior football semi-finals.”

“The United Nations has long recognized the key role that sport federations can play in contributing to human progress and achieving the Millennium Development Goals,” Mr. Lemke declared. “I am glad that today we can formalize the efficient collaboration we have had with the IJF over the past years and I look forward to more meaningful projects together,” he added.

“Judo teaches many of the fundamental values for succeeding in life such as respect for your counterpart and respect of the rules. These are all essential lessons of life, in particular for societies that have been or are in conflict,” Mr. Lemke ended.

“Judo is much more than a sport; it is a philosophy, an art of life and an outstanding education tool,” stressed the IJF President Marius Vizer. He continued: “At IJF, we are entirely aware of that potential and are committed to harnessing it to the fullest, in close cooperation with the United Nations and their dedicated entity, the UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace.”

The cooperation between the UN and IJF will mainly be carried out through the work of the IJF’s Judo for Peace Commissionas well as through the IJF’s involvement in UNOSDP’s Youth Leadership Camps.

So far, the IJF has contributed to all three of the camps organized in 2012 by the UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) in Doha (Qatar), Hennef (Germany) and Macolin (Switzerland). Each time, an IJF instructor was present on the ground to teach the young participants how to use judo for conflict prevention and management purposes.

Reciprocally, the Special Adviser and UNOSDP have also contributed to the IJF projects and participated in several IJF ‘Judo for Peace’ seminars, where the main topics were judo as an educational tool in peace-building activities and the promotion of human rights.

Major UK sports retailer JJB Sports has admitted defeat as it announced plans to appoint administrators.

Just five years ago, buy cialis JJB’s shares were worth £10 a piece but yesterday the stock was suspended and remaining investors – including Microsoft magnate Bill Gates – will see their holdings wiped out.

The group will appoint KPMG as administrators in the next few days in a move that is likely to promote further debate over how it has been managed in recent years.

As many as half of its 180 stores are expected to close in a so-called pre-pack sale process once administrators are appointed, viagra order threatening a large number of the 4, cheap 000 jobs at the firm.

JJB’s story of dramatic rise and fall began when former Blackburn Rovers footballer and Wigan Athletic owner Dave Whelan bought a single store in Wigan in 1971 before an aggressive expansion drive saw it climb to more than 400 stores by 2007.

In 2007 Mr Whelan sold his family’s holding for £190m to a joint venture formed by Icelandic financial group Exista and Chris Ronnie, who previously worked at Umbro and Sports World owner Sports Direct.

The group was hit hard by the squeeze on consumer spending triggered by the financial crisis and by the stellar performance of rivals Sports Direct and JD Sports. By late 2008 it was in a battle for survival.

The group has been through six chairmen in the last four years, covering a period in which it also incorrectly applied VAT to children’s clothing, resulting in a £5m tax liability. And despite numerous fundraisings and closing half of its stores, it has been unable to revive fortunes.

Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct business is seen as favourite to pick up a large chunk of the business, although the number of stores will depend on the stance of the competition watchdog.

In a statement, JJB said: “The board has determined that any sale of the trade, assets and brands will be effected through an administration process.”

Liverpool FC’s managing director, Ian Ayre, has insisted progress has been made on a new stadium being developed.

Ayre has also given renewed hope to fans wanting the club to redevelop Anfield as opposed to building a new stadium in Stanley Park.

Ayre points to the issue of ‘right to light’, which impacts nearby housing through the necessity to build upwards, as being one of the major obstacles in the way of a redeveloped Anfield. Ayre insists however that ‘great dialogue’ has finally taken place with local residents in relation to overcoming the issue.

“People assume that because we haven’t made a major announcement, or can show any spade in the ground, that nothing has gone on and no progress has been made. There is progress. The most important thing for us, especially under this owner, has been about certainty on the stadium. We are not going to make comments that we’re doing something until we’ve got certainty. And that certainty quite often is in other people’s hands,” explained the 49-year-old in a welcome change from endlessly discussing the club’s search for a new manager.

“In the case of staying at Anfield that certainty is with residents in and around that area that we would need to convince. We’re having some great dialogue with them. When we have that certainty we will make the announcement and move on it. It’s all right for people to say Liverpool is a big football club – 60,000 seats, why don’t you just go and get on with it? But look at the economics of that, of a £300m build for 15,000 new seats. It’s pretty hard to make that stack up. The work is going on and a decision will be announced when we’ve got certainty.”

If Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group choose to go ahead with the new development on Stanley Park then the key has always been to sell the naming rights to help fund the build. On this matter Ayre added: “We are fairly well down the line with a couple of major brands who have shown significant rights in naming rights for a new stadium.”

The comments will come as a timely boost to fans worried by a lack of physical progress and the recent disclosure that costs relating to the stadium amounted to £35m in the last financial year.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) is feeling the pressure from it’s decision to drop the sport from the Olympic program from 2016 after British windsurfer Nick Dempsey critisized the organisation for doing so.

ISAF announced on Saturday that the discipline would be replaced by kiteboarding after this summer’s Games in London.

The announcement has shocked those within the British windsurfing setup, with 2004 Olympic bronze medallist Dempsey believing those who made the decision are “out of touch”.

“It is bizarre. I don’t quite know how the ISAF have come up with the decision, but they have,” Dempsey said.

“It is based on a group of out-of-touch old guys that have no idea what they are talking about and are slowly ruining the sport.

“It is massively out of the blue. A big shock and really disappointing. I can’t actually believe how many people are so passionate about it and emotional about it.

“I think there is going to be quite a backlash and they are certainly not going to lie down and give up. I think people will be working very hard to get the decision overturned.

“It has to try to get back in for the 2020 Games. I think without that windsurfing will fade away a little bit.

“It has to be in the Olympics for it to carry on as an everyday sport. It needs that main kind of media platform at the top to feed everything else.”

Dempsey’s shock has been echoed by Royal Yachting Association Olympic manager Stephen Park, who was disappointed with windsurfing’s exclusion despite acknowledging that it is a major boost for kiteboarding.

Park said: “The recent decision by the ISAF to remove windsurfing from the Olympic programme is clearly a massive blow for windsurfing, while equally a huge opportunity for kitesurfing.

“Having said that, I think windsurfing will continue as a sport, continue as an event and there are plenty of other events that have dropped out of the Olympic programme and indeed come back in.

“I would not go as far as to say it will be the death of windsurfing albeit that it may turn out in history to be the death of it as an Olympic event.

“But with each demise comes a new birth, the new birth of kitesurfing.”

order helvetica, stomach sans-serif;”>ESPNcricinfo, a leading cricket website has agreed a mobile advertising deal in India with Idea Cellular.

Idea Cellular is a major sponsor of ESPNcricinfo’s mobile website and apps in India, as well as the main web portal, to target cricket fans with a sustained and multi-faceted presence.

Multiple Idea Cellular ads – both static and rich media banner ads, inviting user interaction with Brand Idea – will be on display across the ESPNcricinfo mobile site and app.

Picturesque media banners will allow Idea to deliver multiple messages to consumers at different times throughout their visit to their app.

The campaign aims to ensure that on any single visit to the ESPNcricinfo mobile site or web portal, Idea is one of the most visible brands. Additionally, Idea Cellular will also sponsor the home page and rankings sections of the ESPNcricinfo mobile site, and, display advertising online.

Tom Gleeson, vice president, digital media, ESPN International, said: “Around the world, and especially in India, cricket is a sport consumed heavily on mobile media. More sports fans are following the sport on mobile phones and ESPN is now ideally placed to help leverage this opportunity for brands and to serve fans wherever they are.

“The nature and scope of this campaign enables Idea Cellular to deliver multiple messages during users’ visits and further demonstrates our unrivalled ability to connect brands to cricket fans both in India and worldwide.”

F1’s cost-reducing programme, viagra sale the Resource Restriction Agreement (RRA), price cheap has been extended through to 2017 after teams agreed to new terms.

The current agreement, there that was set to expire in 2012, includes a clause limiting each team to spending just Ä40 million on external services. The cap was set to reduce to Ä20 million in 2011, but Auto Motor und Sport said the teams have agreed to set the limit next year at Ä30 million. Moreover, team staff numbers were set to be capped at 350 people, reducing to 280 a year later, but have now been set at 315.

“The good news is that the teams have agreed to extend the duration of the RRA,” Formula One Teams’ Association chairman Martin Whitmarsh confirmed. “In doing that, there’s been some adjustment, so it’s been agreed in principle and everyone has signed up to that. In some areas it’s been tightened, in some areas it’s been slackened.”

The existing agreement also limits things like staff numbers at grands prix, the use of wind tunnels and CFD, and track testing.

“I think there was a danger that we wouldn’t be able to extend it [the agreement],” continued Whitmarsh.

“I think all the teams took a sensible approach to come together and to agree to extend it for a long period of time.”

Ferrari, meanwhile, confirmed that the new agreement will be in place until 2017.

Brandon Sawalich, asthma senior vice president at Starkey Hearing Technologies, ed has been elected to the Board of Directors for Special Olympics Minnesota (SOMN).

Sawalich will join other members of the Board in working closely with SOMN’s management team to set strategy, support progress and ensure the realization of the organization’s opportunities for service and the fulfillment of its obligations to all its constituencies.

“Brandon is a longtime supporter of Special Olympics Minnesota, and we’re thrilled to be able to work even more closely with him to help guide our organization,” said David Dorn, president and CEO of SOMN. “His business and philanthropy acumen from his years at Starkey Hearing Technologies, in addition to his passion for our mission, vision and values, make him an excellent addition to our Board of Directors.”

“I look forward to taking my support of SOMN to the next level in this role on the Board of Directors,” Sawalich said. “I am passionate about this local organization and eager to help set strategy and realize new opportunities for the children and adults served by SOMN.”