rx helvetica, viagra sans-serif;”>The office of the Mayor of London have set a deadline of three weeks for English Premier League Tottenham Hotspur to accept £17 million ($26m) package to stay in north London and drop a legal challenge over the future of the 2012 Olympic Stadium.

viagra 100mg helvetica, sans-serif;”>The deadline coincides with an October 18 hearing into the decision to award preferred bidder status on the Olympic Stadium to rival club West Ham United. The office of the Mayor of London, wants the club to build a new £400 million ($621m) stadium in Northumberland Park close to Tottenham’s historic White Hart Lane home.

Tottenham believed they had grounds for a judicial review of the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s decision to back West Ham’s bid against its own, claiming that a £40 million ($62m) loan from Newham Council gave West Ham an unfair economic advantage. However, if Tottenham accepts the offer on the table, it will give improve London’s chances to host the 2017 International Association of Athletics Federations World Championships, as West Ham are willing to keep a running track at the venue.

A spokesperson for London Mayor Boris Johnson said: “We have been working to help deliver the Northumberland Park Project for many months and all avenues have now been explored. It is vital that we get clarity from Tottenham Hotspur as soon as possible.”

cough helvetica, clinic sans-serif;”>UEFA President Michel Platini has congratulated the Council of Europe over their stand to stop match-fixing and asks other countries to follow in the footsteps of Spain and Italy in penalising the offence.

shop helvetica, sans-serif;”>”I am delighted to see European politicians taking the threat match-fixing poses to sport seriously,” confederation president Michel Platini said in a keynote speech immediately following Wednesday’s vote among the Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg, France. 

“The Council of Europe has today taken the political lead in the fight against this menace to the future of sport, and I hope the EU institutions will follow.” 

Match-fixing scandals are becoming more and more common with the top tiers of football in Israel, Greece and, most recently, Turkey having investigations and penalties.

India may be suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) because of government interference in the forthcoming election of its national Olympic body, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).

In a letter to the IOA, the IOC said it will propose the country’s suspension at its executive board meeting next week if the elections do adhere strictly to the Olympic Charter and the IOA constitution.

“It is hereby confirmed that a proposal for suspension of the IOA will be presented to the IOC Executive Board at its next meeting on 4-5 December 2012,” IOC director general Christophe de Kepper wrote in a letter to IOA acting chief V.K. Malhotra.

The IOA has been ordered by a Delhi court to hold the elections adhering to the government’s sports code, but the IOC wants the governing body to follow by the Olympic charter.

The IOC has blamed a lack of cooperation from the Indian government and the IOA for the current situation.

“The issues at hand have been discussed for more than two years and have unfortunately not been resolved adequately by the Government authorities and the IOA in spite of all the efforts made by the IOC,” the letter said.

“Consequently, the IOC and Olympic Council of Asia will not send delegates to India at this stage.”

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TE Connectivity (TE) today announced that its InterReach Unison distributed antenna system (DAS) has been deployed to provide clear and consistent mobile service with high call capacity in the Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes in Cordoba, allergy Argentina.

The InterReach Unison DAS at the 57, viagra 100mg 000-seat stadium was deployed in record time to provide service for a World Cup qualifying game between Argentina and Paraguay on September 9, 2012.

Claro, a leading mobile service provider in Argentina, contracted for the DAS project. Claro is also a sponsor of the Argentine national soccer team and wanted the stadium to be at its best – including providing uninterrupted 2G and 3G mobile services in the 1900 MHz band – during the sold-out match with Paraguay. Claro chose TE Connectivity for the deployment because of previous positive experiences with the company and because its InterReach Unison DAS product could be easily deployed within the two-month construction window leading up to the big match.

“TE Connectivity worked with us as a team to get this deployment done and working flawlessly on time,” said Horacio Vigano, chief of new technology deployments for Claro. “We couldn’t have accomplished this without them.”

“TE Connectivity’s vast international experience with DAS in stadiums made us the right candidate for this job,” said Alan Clarke, president of TE’s Wireless business unit. “The InterReach Unison DAS system’s ease of deployment and outstanding performance allowed us to deploy a world-class system within a tight timeframe.”

Nissan Motor Company has employed marketing agency Just Marketing International (JMI) to help in the automotive giant’s motorsports division, malady Nismo, and develop its international and regional motorsports strategy and activity.

The agency has been retained to support, advise on and help deliver global motorsports and performance division activities for the Nissan brand. JMI will also develop and execute regional and global racing programmes for the Nismo LEAF RC, a zero-emissions racing car based on the all-electric Nissan LEAF production model.

JMI will provide Nissan with strategic guidance, consultation and platform development for the manufacturer’s motorsports portfolio, extending to partnership development services to support the range of Nissan and Nismo branded motorsport programmes and activities.

The agency will bring its expertise to bear through its global services of research and strategy, consulting, integrated marketing communications, partnership development and programme management.

Zak Brown, Founder & CEO, JMI, said: “This is a significant new client for JMI. Nissan has strong motorsports roots and is in very exciting times as a company and brand.

“The addition of a blue chip automotive brand to our global client list gives us even further breadth and depth in motorsports and a perfect opportunity to generate significant value for Nissan, as the company makes a decisive push to give its brand more visibility in the motorsports space.”

Simon Sproule, CVP, Global Marketing Communications, Nissan added: “JMI’s knowledge, influence and relationships within motorsports make them a natural partner to help Nissan reach our objectives within the sport. The Nissan brand has a long and successful record in racing; JMI understand the importance of that heritage, but also our desire to make racing relevant to customers and enthusiasts today.” 

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has expressed his concern to President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff over the country’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup. 

Tensions have been building between football’s world governing body and the Brazilian Government and has finally come to a head.

President Dilma Rousseff has been quoted in the Brazilian press as having demanded a “frank conversation” with Blatter to discuss the issues.

FIFA has repeatedly warned the the Brazilian organisers about work delays.

It now seems those concerns, surrounding the building of new stadiums and infrastructure around the tournament, extend to FIFA’s legal demands on the host nation, with football’s world governing body expecting to take total control of all aspects of the event.

One sticking point is believed to be the issue of ticket prices.

In Brazil students and elderly citizens get a 50 per cent discount for football matches and other forms of entertainment, and the Government wants the policy to be extended to the World Cup in 2014.

Another issue is FIFA’s refusal to allow non-rights holders to show matches on television, with the Brazilians wanting local broadcasters to be given some limited access.

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Negotiations between the National Basketball Association and its players union ended with no resolution and will continue today, both sides said after about two hours of talks.

The talks were held in a Manhattan hotel, New York where David Stern, NBA Commissioner, said: “We spent some quality time discussing concepts. Sometimes when you discuss concepts you want to go back and think about it.”

Owners of the league’s 30 teams and the union are negotiating how to split money from a league that had $4.3 billion in revenue last season. Stern says the teams collectively lost about $300 million. The NBA locked out its players when their labor contract expired July 1.

National Basketball Players Association President Derek Fisher refused to say whether any progress was made.

“We talked extensively in ideas and concepts,” Fisher said outside the hotel. “These are things that, if we can get into the range of, get into the zone of, than we can maybe put a deal together.”

The NBA on Sept. 23 postponed the start of training camps indefinitely and postponed 43 preseason games through Oct. 15, steering the situation towards a delay of the regular season scheduled for Nov. 1.