Portland, clinic Oregon, unhealthy has been annaounced as the host for the 2016 World Indoor Track & Field Championships after the IAAF Council on Friday voted to bring the meet back to the U.S. for the first time since 1987.

USATF President Stephanie Hightower, USATF CEO Max Siegel, and TrackTown USA President Vin Lananna presented the joint Portland bid to the IAAF Council on Friday morning in Monaco. Birmingham, England, also bid for the event and will host the 2018 event.

The 2016 World Indoor Championships will mark the first time a World Athletics Series (WAS) event has been held in the United States since the World Cross Country Championships in 1992.

“We thank the IAAF Council and President Diack for entrusting us with the 2016 World Indoor Championships,” Siegel said. “We are honored and proud to be given the opportunity to again host the world’s national track & field teams on U.S. soil. USATF and TrackTown have the vision and execution that will make the meet a truly world-class experience.”

“We plan to leave a lasting legacy of new facilities, a renewed passion, and a new model to present indoor track and field,” Lananna said. “We will work tirelessly to create the most awe-inspiring event ever held in the U.S. for the athletes, fans, officials, media, partners and the entire IAAF family. We want to demonstrate our commitment with action.”

The three-day meet will be held in March, 2016, at Portland’s Oregon Convention Center (OCC). As configured for World Indoors, the facility will easily accommodate more than 8,000 spectators. A new 200-meter IAAF-certified track will be built and then repurposed as a legacy of the event.

Birmingham Win Adds to UK Events

Birmingham will look forward to welcoming the World Indoors back to the National Indoor Arena in 2018 following a £26 million refurbishment, having staged a successful event in 2003, and also playing host to its European equivalent in 2007. 

UK Athletics CEO Niels de Vos said: “This is a fantastic day for British Athletics and represents the best possible outcome. 

“To have secured world championships in 2015, 16, 17 and 18 represents a golden four year period for athletics. 

“We are all very proud of what ourselves and the cities of Cardiff and Birmingham have achieved today – it is unprecedented and is fabulously exciting.” 

IAAF vice president Lord Sebastian Coe said: “The IAAF recognised that the Birmingham bid was a winner and the Council were delighted that the city was happy to be awarded the World Champs in 2018. 

“For athletics in the UK it makes great strategic sense, giving us an amazing opportunity to maintain the incredible momentum athletics has built up in the UK.”

Kent County Cricket Club have announced former captain, asthma chairman and president David Clark has died at the age of 94.

Clarke played 75 matches for the county following his debut in 1946, and he skippered the side for the final three seasons of his career before retiring in 1951.

He went on to take up many roles with the MCC, managing the tour of India in 1963/64, and he also spent four years as Kent chairman from 1970.

Clark later won the honourable role of MCC president in 1978, and he held the same post with Kent in 1990 while also chairing a host of committees within the MCC.

He played a crucial role in setting up a committee in 1965 to review the structure of the MCC and the County Championship, and the subsequent findings were dubbed “the Clark report”.

Former Kent chairman and president Carl Openshaw said: “David Clark was one of the most influential figures in English cricket in the second half of the twentieth century.

“He was only the second man after Lord Harris to have held the posts of captain, Chairman and President of Kent County Cricket Club, and he also played leading roles in the MCC and in the administration of English cricket.”

Nike have showed their unswayed support for Lance Armstrong following allegations of doping against the American cyclist.

The 41-year-old has been accused by the United States Anti-Doping Agency of running “the most sophisticated, prostate professionalised and successful doping programme the sport has ever seen” during his career, viagra 40mg which resulted in a record seven Tour de France titles. 

Armstrong, was stripped of his seven titles as well as given a lifetime ban from the sport when the American decided not to contest the doping charges against him.

The USADA published a 1,000-page report claiming that 11 of the cyclists US Postal Service teammates had testified against Armstrong. 

Nike said in a statement: “We are saddened that Lance Armstrong may no longer be able to participate in certain competitions and his titles appear to be impacted. 

“Lance has stated his innocence and has been unwavering on this position. Nike plans to continue to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a foundation that Lance created to serve cancer survivors.” 

Hong Kong-based mobile communications company, 1010 has become a major sponsor of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and will be the title sponsor for the club’s Match Racing Series.

The two-year deal will also see 1010 leverage the National Match Racing Championship and an International Match Racing Regatta, held in May each year, that also form part of the Match Racing Series.{jcomments on}

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, treatment along with 26 Volunteer Centers, advice has begun recruiting candidates to become volunteers at the Sochi 2014 Games.

Candidates, pharm who have successfully passed the online tests, will be invited to an interview. Candidates will be tested on their efficiency, their ability to cope under pressure and their commitment to the Games. Candidates will also be asked to demonstrate their language skills. Candidates selected during the interview stage will begin training, and eventually become volunteers for the Games in Sochi. In total, 25,000 volunteers are needed during the Games.

Applicants will also be asked to demonstrate the reasons why they have applied to become a Sochi 2014 volunteer by answering questions about volunteering and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Questions will also be asked in English so candidates can demonstrate their language skills.

Applicants will be assessed by the number of points they receive, those who receive the highest points at the end of the interview, are likely to become volunteer team leaders at the Sochi Olympic Games. Volunteers who are involved in the Test Events between 2012-2013 will gain valuable experience working at a world-class sporting event ahead of the Games in Sochi.

Interviews will be conducted by staff from the Volunteer Centers and specially trained employees of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee. Interviews will follow a specially designed format developed by recruitment industry professionals.

Danish Kaneria has been found guilty of spot-fixing Kaneria has been found guilty of spot-fixing by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) disciplinary committee. 

According to a statement, Mervyn Westfield was also found guilty.

The ECB said in a statement: “The ECB Disciplinary Panel today announced that Danish Kaneria has been found guilty of two charges under the ECB’s regulations following a contested hearing which commenced in London on Monday June 18.

“Mervyn Westfield was also charged with one offence under the ECB’s regulations to which he pleaded guilty.

“The panel will now consider the appropriate sanction against both players and a decision is expected to be announced later today.”

The former Pakistan leg-spinner earlier had challenged the ECB through his lawyer Farogh Nasim after the organisation summoned the leg-spinner for a disciplinary hearing into corruption charges.

The ECB wanted Kaneria in for the hearing after he was named in a London court as a go-between in the scandal following which his former Essex teammate Mervyn Westfield was given a four-month sentence.

The leg-spinner was arrested in 2010 along with Westfield on suspicion of spot-fixing during an Essex match against Durham in 2009 before being released without charge.

Thought Equity Motion, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based video management and licensing services, announced today that it has extended its exclusive licensing contract with the NCAA.

In addition to licensing NCAA Championship video, Thought Equity Motion now has the rights to license photographs and radio calls from the NCAA’s 89 Championships across 23 sports and all three division levels. The photographs capture an array of memorable NCAA championship moments ranging from action shots, celebrations, and trophy ceremonies to fans, mascots, and cheerleaders.

“With the NCAA’s winter championships including the Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships quickly approaching, we are pleased to be offering NCAA Member Institutions and Conferences, Corporate Champions and Partners, Media Partners and Editorial Agencies integrated digital solutions to fulfill their goals around NCAA championships,” said Kevin Schaff, CEO and founder of Thought Equity Motion. “Our platform’s ‘smart content’ metadata makes digital media easily searchable and our research and project services deliver a strategic content and technology offering for NCAA partners around the 2012 championships.”

Greg Weitekamp, NCAA director of championships and alliances, media services, added: “Thought Equity Motion is now the sole source to license a full-range of ‘non-live’ NCAA media, including fully-produced games, clips, photos and radio calls.

“We are continuously working to open up the excitement and history of the NCAA to our fans, member institutions and partners. Thought Equity Motion’s T3 Platform and Licensing Services have enabled a new level of access to the NCAA digital library and we’re looking forward to expanding these comprehensive digital content offerings to include photographs and radio calls around March Madness.”

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Chuck Greenberg, former chief executive officer and co-owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, is considering purchasing the bankrupt Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League, a lawyer said today in court.

Greenberg is part of Texas Hockey Acquisition Co. and may participate in an auction of the Stars, owned by former billionaire Thomas Hicks, said Greenberg’s attorney, Jeffrey M. Schlerf, of Fox Rothschild LLP.

“They are definitely interested in bidding,” Schlerf said in an interview after the Stars hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Stars filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 15 with a plan pre- approved by its lenders to sell the team at an auction with a so-called stalking horse bid from Vancouver-based businessman Tom Gaglardi.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Peter Walsh agreed to speed up the usual process for approving an auction. Walsh agreed to let the team return to court Sept. 22 to seek approval for the rules.

Greenberg and hall-of-fame pitcher Nolan Ryan led the group that bought the Texas Rangers at a bankruptcy auction last year for about $593 million.

Greenberg announced in March that he was stepping down as Rangers CEO and selling his stake back to the team because of differences with Ryan.