IMG Worldwide, cialis the world’s leading sports, entertainment and media company, in partnership with the Fengtai Sports Bureau of Beijing announced the formation of the Inaugural Beijing International Triathlon, set to take place Sunday, September 16, 2012, at Qing Long Lake Park, in the Fengtai District of Beijing, China.

Triathletes from around the globe will take part in this all-new Olympic distance triathlon and enjoy the unique culture, tradition and hospitality of China. The race will also draw top professional triathletes who will compete for $100,000 in prize money.

This all-new triathlon will be part of the Escape to Alcatraz Triathlon Series, as the first qualifying event in Asia for the iconic Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. Coveted race slots for the infamous and grueling 2013 Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon will be awarded to the top 50 men and women across each group and division of this new race.

The course will showcase the eco-friendly environment and cultural attractions in Fengtai including a 1.5 km swim at the heart of Qing Long Lake Park; a challenging 40 km bike race through quaint villages of Fengtai to Qian Ling Mountain, the highest peak in Southwest Beijing; and a final 10 km run along stone paths, wooded trails and beautiful bridges showcasing the unique architecture of Qing Long Lake Park. This race will be part of an intimate three-day, lifestyle sports event that will showcase all the tradition and warmth China has to offer locals and visitors alike.

“IMG Worldwide is thrilled to support this inaugural event that solidifies Beijing as a racing destination and international sporting hub,” said James Leitz, Senior Vice President of IMG. “We have been working closely with the Fengtai Sports Bureau of Beijing and the Fengtai government to ensure that this race is successful in its first year and becomes an important annual event on the international triathlon calendar.”

The Beijing International Triathlon will also feature a Corporate Challenge Division to introduce the thriving corporate community in China to the sport of Triathlon. Companies will compete in a relay team format for the coveted Corporate Cup and the chance to return to the 2013 Beijing International Triathlon and defend their title.

In addition to the triathlon on Sunday, September 16, the weekend will include a welcome reception and dinner for all participants on Friday, September 14, as well as an all-day Fitness Expo showcasing products and services for health conscious consumers on Saturday, September 15. Participants and their families will also have the opportunity to enjoy pre-race city tours and course tours throughout Beijing and Fengtai.

Additionally, IMG will partner with Beijing Television (BTV) to produce a one hour program featuring the Beijing International Triathlon that will broadcast throughout Beijing as well as Austral-Asia, Americas, United Kingdom, Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

“We are thrilled to host triathletes from around the world for the Beijing International Triathlon,” said Fengtai District Vice-Governor Li Junhui. “Our goal is to develop the Fengtai District into an international sports, convention and leisure tourism destination that takes advantage of the area’s eco-friendly environment and showcases the hot-springs resorts and cultural attraction.”

NFL owners approved a $200 million loan Thursday to help the San Francisco 49ers build a stadium south of Santa Clara.

The team plans to bid for future Super Bowls for the 68,000-seat stadium, which will be built adjacent to the 49ers’ facility.

“It’s huge,” 49ers CEO Jed York said of the league’s approval. “We’ve been at this since 1997. We’ll have shovels in the ground soon.”

In addition, Gideon Yu, the former chief financial officer of Facebook who joined the 49ers last April, will join York as a co-owner of the team, both Yu and York told ESPN.com’s Mike Sando.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that Yu’s ownership stake is 1 percent of the team.

“I’m an enormous football fan,” Yu said. “We’re doing some transformational things for the 49ers right now with the new stadium, with the new coaching staff, with the new front office. To be a part of this generational transformation that is going on here, I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather do than this.”

Owners approved another part of the funding package two months after the team and Santa Clara announced they’d received an $850 million loan to cover most of the estimated $1 billion cost.

The rest of the cost will be covered by the league’s loan, a hotel tax and Santa Clara’s redevelopment funds.

“We will definitely be in by 2015,” York said, “with hopes of 2014.”

Asked about hosting a Super Bowl the next one available would be the 50th game in 2016 York said, “This will definitely be a fitting setting for a Super Bowl game and we will bid.”

The 49ers have to address their current Candlestick Park lease with the city of San Francisco that runs through 2014.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said: “Today’s vote is an important milestone for the 49ers and their fans. It is a solid endorsement that adds to the strong support of the South Bay community. This step will allow the 49ers to move forward toward making the dream of a new stadium a reality.”

San Francisco is the first franchise approved for funding under the NFL’s G-4 loan policy initiated after the new collective bargaining agreement was reached last summer. It replaces a plan that allowed a maximum of $150,000 per team in loans.

FIFA have put to bed a controversial issue in Brazil after they clarified that beer will be sold at the 12 venues of the 2014 World Cup finals, according to FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke.

Voting on the bill for the World Cup Law has been held up over differences between the tournament hosts and world soccer’s governing body, notably on the sale of alcoholic drinks at sports venues which is banned in Brazil.

The bill was scheduled to have been voted on by the chamber of deputies at the end of last year but it has been delayed by several issues including the sale of beer, with FIFA demanding protection of sponsors’ trademarks.

“Alcoholic drinks are part of the FIFA World Cup, so we’re going to have them. Excuse me if I sound a bit arrogant but that’s something we won’t negotiate,” Valcke said.

“The fact that we have the right to sell beer has to be a part of the Law,” he told the foreign press corps in an interview in Rio de Janeiro, where on Thursday he will hold a meeting with the World Cup local organizing committee (LOC).

Alcoholic drinks have been banned in Brazil’s stadiums since 2003 as part of the Supporters’ Statutes, aimed at preventing violence among hardcore fans at football matches.

Alexandre Padilha, health Minister in President Dilma Rousseff’s government, and other members of parliament linked to health matters have put pressure on Congress to maintain the ban in the World Cup Law.

One of FIFA’s longest-standings sponsors is the U.S. brewer Budweiser, which belongs to the world’s biggest beer-selling group Anheuser-Busch InBev.

“Our partner here is in fact a Brazilian company,” said Valcke referring to the local AmBev which is part of AB InBev.

Another point of discord between the government and FIFA is half-price tickets for students and senior citizens which is the rule in Brazil.

Valcke said this issue would be resolved by creating a special category of tickets worth $25 each with 300,000 available for the group phase to several groups of people including students and the elderly.

He said, however, there needed to be strict controls of the people who qualified for these tickets.

“It’s unfair if a person who can afford a category one ticket buys a category four ticket. We must guarantee this won’t happen because apparently it’s very easy to obtain a student card here,” Valcke said.

UFA Sports has signed an agreement to become exclusive marketing partner of German Handball Bundesliga team Füchse Berlin.

The deal follows a successful 2010/2011 season in which the team finished the season in third place and qualified for the Champions League for the first time in the team’s history.

Füchse Berlin managing director Bob Hanning said: “The marketing agreement was the next logical step in the team’s development. We were impressed with UFA Sports’ network and marketing expertise.”

The deal includes all of the team’s marketing and hospitality rights, whilst UFA Sports will have a three-man team on the ground in Berlin.

“The German Handball Bundesliga is the best handball league in the world, and is really starting to catch the eye of the advertising industry,” said Robert Müller von Vultejus, managing director of UFA Sports. “We look forward to being part of the Füchse Berlin success story and strengthen our business activities in Berlin.”

Neither handball nor Berlin are uncharted territory for UFA Sport. The company recently marketed the global media rights for the 2011 Men’s Handball World Championship, and has a marketing agreement with FC Union Berlin.

The Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) has been restored to full International Rugby Board (IRB) Member Union status with immediate effect after an announcement was made yesterday, April 13, by the sport’s world governing body.

The decision, taken by the IRB Council, after a comprehensive review of membership status of the SLRFU, follows the successful completion of the Union’s Annual General Meeting and Board elections in accordance with its constitution.

The IRB had banned the Sri Lankan union over a month ago following the failure of the SLRFU to conduct appropriate board elections in accordance with IRB Bye Laws.

SLRFU representative sides will participate in Asian Rugby Football Union competitions during 2011.

Sri Lanka has one of the fastest growth rates of Rugby participation in Asia, representing a 250 per cent increase since 2007.

The first event in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Stadium since the London 2012 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony will be The National Lottery Anniversary Run, unhealthy it has been announced today.

The five-mile mass participation run is being held in association with the London Borough of Newham, The National Lottery and the London Legacy Development Corporation, and will be staged by Nova International on Sunday 21st July 2013.

The event will give up to 10,000 members of the public the chance to follow in the footsteps of their sporting idols, running the final 300m to the Stadium finish line on the same track that Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis, Jonnie Peacock and Mo Farah raced to win Gold.

Building on last year’s successful ‘National Lottery Olympic Park Run’, which was the first-ever public event inside the Stadium, the five-mile route will take in iconic venues across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Up to 10,000 places will be available to runners at ticket launch, each with the chance to bring two friends or family members to sit in the Stadium and cheer them on to their own moment of glory.

Nova International is the leader in mass participation sport and has created the event with the London Borough of Newham, The National Lottery and the London Legacy Development Corporation.

Chairman and founder of Nova International Brendan Foster said: “‘The National Lottery Anniversary Run’ will be one of the great sporting events for the public to be part of this year. To run in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and finish in the Stadium – following in the footsteps of legends such as Usain Bolt and Mo Farah – is a unique opportunity. I hope it will inspire a range of new people to participate in physical activity.”

Andy Duncan, Managing Director of National Lottery operator Camelot, said:  “No-one contributed more to Great Britain’s glorious summer of sporting success last year than National Lottery players – indeed, nine out of 10 of our medallists benefited from lottery support.

“‘The National Lottery Anniversary Run’ celebrates this, and the life-changing support our players continue to give to both grassroots and elite sport as part of the £30 million-plus they raise for Good Causes throughout the UK each and every week.  It is also a fitting reminder of the significant contribution that lottery players made to making the Olympic Park become a reality.”

Dennis Hone, Chief Executive, London Legacy Development Corporation said: “Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park begins to open from July 2013 and it will primarily be a public park open for people to come and explore and enjoy. This summer we are hosting a series of events to mark the anniversary of the Games and the Park beginning to open. We are delighted that ‘The National Lottery Anniversary Run’ is one such event, welcoming people into the Park to enjoy the fantastic new facilities before the Park fully opens in spring 2014.”

Die Spendenkampagne “Dein Name für Deutschland” der Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe hat wenige Wochen vor dem Start der XXX. Olympischen Spiele in London bereits über 10.000 monatliche Spender gewinnen können. “Wir sind stolz darauf, sale in nur zweieinhalb Jahren über 10.000 Sponsoren – Stand heute 10.607 – gewonnen zu haben, doctor die unsere Athleten mit mindestens 3 Euro im Monat unterstützen”, sagte Dr. Michael Ilgner, Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Deutsche Sporthilfe, anlässlich eines gemeinsamen Pressegesprächs mit der Bundesliga-Stiftung am 10. Juli in Frankfurt am Main.

“Dass neben den vielen Sportfans in der Bevölkerung alle 1.000 Fußball-Profis der Bundesliga und der 2. Bundesliga als “offizielle Sponsoren” mitmachen, ist ein großer Verdienst der Bundesliga-Stiftung, die gemeinsam mit der DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga unsere Aktion “Sportler für Sportler” mit Tatkraft erfüllt und aktiv lebt”, so Ilgner. “Darüber hinaus haben unsere Partner und Kuratoren mit der Kampagne weitere Fördergelder zu Gunsten der Sporthilfe akquirieren können”. Die Spendenkampagne “Dein Name für Deutschland” wurde am 19. Januar 2010 gestartet und ruft die sportinteressierte Bevölkerung auf, deutsche Spitzensportler mit einer monatlichen Spende von 3 Euro aktiv zu unterstützen. Insgesamt hat die Kampagne in den ersten beiden Jahren über eine Million Euro für die Förderung von Talenten und Spitzensportlern generiert.

A new piece of legislation may bring back Ultimate Fighting Championship viagra sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;”>events to Vancouver after the introduction of a provincial law designed to break the deadlock over regulation and supervision of combat sports.

The city was scratched from the UFC lineup in 2012 because civic officials delayed a decision on renewing a trial period that allowed professional fighting events for the two previous years.

On Monday, the B.C. government introduced legislation that will establish a new body to govern those events across the province.

“With a provincial athletic commission, I would have no issue with it,” said Vancouver City Councillor Kerry Jang. “The commissioner will set the safety standards, the insurance – all the things we had to do on our own. … If UFC wants to come back, so be it.”

The move comes just as Ontario is warming up to the sport – allowing its first sanctioned professional event last year after a decade-long ban. A single UFC event can bring in millions of dollars to a community and Toronto is playing host to one event in September.

“It’s great news,” said Tom Wright, director of operations for UFC Canada. “It’s all about a consistent framework for athlete’s safety.” He said the UFC held two successful pay-per-view events in Vancouver but went elsewhere this year – Calgary, Montreal and Toronto – because city hall has still not given the sport the green light.

“In the absence of clarity, we could not come back until the city formally extended the trial period.”

British Columbia has left municipalities to govern such events although it has been pressed for years to take over the role. Now it will join four other provinces in regulating and supervising professional fights including boxing, kick-boxing and mixed martial arts.

Ida Chong, Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister, could not say when the new commission will be running. The regulations will be drafted only after legislation in other provinces is examined. The bill was one of six pieces of legislation introduced on Monday, a last-minute flurry in the final weeks of the spring session.

Ms. Chong said the province will no longer allow municipal regulation of these combat sports, although local governments will be able to ban such events in their communities.

The commission is to provide a consistent standard of qualifications and safety protocols through licensing and permitting. Organizers would have to follow the rules or have their permits cancelled or suspended. Penalties could be imposed as well.

But Mr. Jang said he hopes the commissioner will listen to local communities when it comes to managing events. “Who has to pay for the policing? It has to be us. We need to have some input.”

Promoters of mixed martial arts said the changes are overdue and will help it gain recognition as a major professional sport.

“With this in place, I foresee UFC coming back, bringing millions of dollars to the province of B.C.,” said promoter Darren Owen of the Victoria-based Armageddon Fighting Championship. “This will take the sport to the next level.”

“It’s just better for everybody,” said Stan Peterec, another event promoter who runs a martial-arts gym in Victoria. He said right now it is difficult for organizers to track data about a fighter’s health or whether the fighter has been suspended. Having licenced referees and clear rules “will change everything. It will be a lot safer sport.”

He said the province has been reluctant to get involved until now. “I guess MMA is so big, you can’t push it out of the way any more.”

Although the UFC is currently only interested in one market in B.C. – Vancouver – Mr. Wright said the changes should improve the quality of the sport over all.

Canada plays host to three of the UFC’s 15 events held every year around the globe, and Vancouver’s pay-per-view market is one of the biggest in North America.

“Our sport is a young sport – it’s not even a teenager in terms of years,” he said. Issues such as drug testing and properly trained referees need to be dealt with consistently, he said.

“The sport in this country is one of the fastest growing; we want to make sure it grows responsibly.”