Dutch city Rotterdam are prepared to battle it out with Buenos Aires in Argentina, denture Glasgow in Britain, viagra 100mg Medellín in Colombia and Guadalajara in Mexico for the rights to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games

The bid is expected to arrive before tomorrow’s deadline, although the capital, The Hague, rather than Rotterdam been assumed to be preparing a campaign. Andre Bolhuis, the President of the Netherlands Olympic Committee*Netherlands Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) said: “We are pleased to have such an enthusiastic partner for this beautiful event as Rotterdam.”

If successful, it would be the first time the Netherlands have hosted the event since Amsterdam in 1928. Antoinette Avenue, the Rotterdam Councillor with responsibility for sports, recreation, arts and culture added:

The Netherlands has only ever hosted the Olympics once before, at Amsterdam in 1928, despite having competed in every Summer Games since London 1908.

“By bidding for this event we hope to motive and inspire people, both abroad and in the Netherlands

“It is a chance to discover and come into contact with other cultures and have fun together.

“These Olympics provide a great opportunity for our city.”

Tokyo are using the lessons learned form their failed 2016 bid to improve their bid for the 2020 Olympics.

“We have worked hard to improve the plans we presented in 2016, abortion and to make sure that they are fully integrated with the city and its people, buy ” Tokyo 2020 president and Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda said Thursday.

Tokyo submitted its bid to host the 2020 Olympics on Monday, bronchi delivering the file to the International Olympic Committee’s headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, two days before a Feb. 15 deadline.

A major improvement of the 2020 bid is that the main Olympic stadium will be in the center of the city as opposed to the 2016 plan for a pier on the Tokyo waterfront, which the IOC deemed as too inaccessible.

Tokyo, which hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, is up against Doha, Qatar; Istanbul, Turkey; Madrid; and Baku, Azerbaijan.

In a move that could benefit Tokyo, Rome scrapped its bid on Tuesday with the Italian government saying it can’t supply the required financial backing at a time of economic crisis.

“That Rome has withdrawn was a surprise and I can sympathize with how difficult that was,” Tokyo 2020 CEO Masato Mizuno said. “Luckily, Tokyo has been given the support of the national government.”

The proposed new 80,000-seat main stadium would be built on the same site as the main stadium for the 1964 Olympics.

As with its 2016 campaign, Tokyo is promising a compact bid for 2020 with 28 of the proposed 31 competition venues within an 5-mile radius of the Olympic and Paralympic Village.

Tokyo is promoting its 2020 bid as a symbol of Japan’s recovery from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left over 15,000 people dead or missing on Japan’s northeast coast.

The IOC will study the bids and decide in May whether to retain all the candidates or pare the list. The IOC will select the 2020 host city at a meeting in Buenos Aires in September 2013.

by Ismail Uddin

Dow Chemical Chairman and Chief Executive Andrew Liveris has claimed that the ever mounting pressure over their 2012 London Olympic Sponsorship is ‘beyond belief’ considering that they weren’t involved in the 1984 Bhopal disaster, the root of all the protests.

Dow purchased United States chemical firm Union Carbide, whose toxic gas leakage caused the deaths of thousands of people. Following the incident, the chemical firm paid the Indian Government $470 million (£310 million/€351 million) to settle its liabilities.

To the disbelief of Liveris, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) have asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to drop Dow Chemical as a sponsor and have even threatened to withdraw their athletes if they fail to comply. Liveris said: “It was not us

“The fact that you can speak back with science and fact rather than emotion and hysteria is your only defence.

“We are on the ground there [in India] describing to everyone that will listen to us, including the newspapers, what our involvement is with the Olympics and what our involvement wasn’t with Bhopal.

“To keep coming back to the notion that you acquire a company where there is a bright line on the liability that was settled way beyond your time, and to hook you into that event, it’s beyond belief that people are still trying that.

“The obvious reason people are trying that is because we are a healthy company with deep pockets that people want a second bite of the cherry on.

“I keep saying, ‘Please go to India, please talk to the Government of India and please work it out with them’.

“We are very proud to be associated [with the Olympics] and for that matter, the IOC is very proud to have us.”

Nach dreimonatiger, intensiver Arbeit hat der Olympiapark München die Bewerbungsschrift für die Global X Games 2013-2015 bei Veranstalter und Rechteinhaber ESPN fristgerecht abgegeben. „Mit der Abgabe des Bid Books sind wir den Summer X Games einen wichtigen Schritt näher gerückt. Und ich bin überzeugt, dass wir mit unserer Bewerbungsschrift und Eventpräsentation sehr gute Chancen haben, in die engere Auswahl möglicher Austragungsstädte zu kommen“, zeigt sich Olympiapark-Chef Ralph Huber zuversichtlich. 

Tatsächlich handelt sich bei der Bewerbungsschrift nicht um ein gedrucktes Buch, sondern um ein rund 190 Seiten starkes Werk, das ganz zeitgemäß auf einen speziellen ESPN-Server geladen wird. Bebildert mit ca. 100 Fotos und Abbildungen, zahlreichen Darstellungen des Set-Up, sogenannten Renderings, und Konstruktionsplänen wird im Bid Book auf alle relevanten Veranstaltungsbereiche eingegangen und natürlich wie sie in München umgesetzt würden. 

Sollte sich ESPN im April für München und den Olympiapark als Austragungsort entscheiden, würde die bayerische Landeshauptstadt zur europäischen Heimat der weltweit größten und einflussreichsten Actionsports-Veranstaltung werden, bei der sich junge und attraktive Sportarten wie Skateboarden, Freestyle-Motocross und BMX in einer zeitgemäßen Inszenierung präsentieren. 

Neben der Erstellung des Bid Books wurde in den letzten Wochen zudem eine X Games-Website www.xgames-munich.com ins Netz gestellt und natürlich ist die Münchner Bewerbung auch auf Facebook präsent. „Wenn man sieht in welcher Geschwindigkeit sich die X Games zu dem Actionsportwettbewerb schlechthin entwickelt haben und welches Potenzial dieser Event hat, liegt es auf der Hand, sie nach München in den Olympiapark holen zu wollen. Die Stadt und wir bieten für die Dimension und Qualität der X Games ein in jeder Hinsicht optimales Umfeld und das auch noch auf einem Gelände, das vor fast 40 Jahren für eine ähnliche Idee geschaffen wurde“, so Ralph Huber, Geschäftsführer der Olympiapark München GmbH.

The Saudi Arabia Football Federation has today appointed MP & Silva as the official media rights partners for the 2014 Gulf Cup of Nations.

The Arabian football competition will take place on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 13 to 26 November 2014.

The agreement formalised with the tournament’s organisers allows MP & Silva exclusive rights to distribute the Gulf Cup media rights to all devices and platforms, covering all territories domestically and internationally. The partnership also includes exclusive production and sponsorship rights. 

In the last 15 years the tournament has dramatically featured increased stadia attendance, increased TV audience and worldwide attention. This 2014 Gulf Cup edition will have 8 competing nations: Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (host), United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Peter Hutton, Joint-CEO, MP & Silva said: “We have been very impressed with the professionalism and speed that the MENA sports market has been growing in the last decade. We are proud to be part of this process and the partnership with the Gulf Cup organisers is part of our strategic and long-term commitment to the development of sports in the region.”

Ahmed Al-Khamis, Secretary General of SAFF said: “I am thrilled to start this partnership with MP & Silva. I look forward to continue the growth of our tournament’s international television exposure. MP & Silva enjoys an excellent track record and I believe this partnership can help us to take the Gulf Cup to the next level by reaffirming Saudi Arabia’s objective to position itself as the leading sport market of the region.”

MP & Silva is currently partners with the Olympic Council of Asia, and enjoys commercial partnerships with some of the major football federations of the Gulf.