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When in 2008 the northern English county of Durham and its small historic city became a unitary council – the fifth biggest in England – it was golden opportunity to build a new events and tourism
Read More »When in 2008 the northern English county of Durham and its small historic city became a unitary council – the fifth biggest in England – it was golden opportunity to build a new events and tourism
Read More »The US has officially confirmed that it is bidding for the 2024 Olympic Games but will not reveal its preferred candidate until January 2015.
Read More »The unanimous support for the IOC's Agenda 2020 programme of reform
Read More »The unanimous adoption of Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms may have had a galvanising effect internally on the IOC, but influential figures close to the IOC say the project has created high expectations
Read More »An LA-based company has won the contract to be the official executive producer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2015 Special Olympic World Games, which take place in the city next summe
Read More »Rio de Janeiro staged seven 2014 World Cup matches including the final, but the spotlight will shine even more brightly on the ‘Cidade Maravilhosa’ when it hosts the Olympic Games in 2016.
Read More »A day ahead of schedule, members of the International Olympic Committee approved all 40 Olymp
Read More »The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy – the organisation in charge of building and kitting out
Read More »After steering Glasgow 2014 through its highly successful Commonwealth Games, David Grevemberg is relishing his fresh challenge: running the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).
Read More »The organisers of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, unveiled the latest stadium design today, with details of the cooling technologies described by lead architect Mark Fenwick as a “challenge” to incorpora
Read More »This year’s Glasgow Commonwealth Games was on the receiving e
Read More »Organisers of the Baku 2015 European Games updated leaders of Europe’s 49 national Olympic Committees at the weekend, met by an overwhelmingly positive reaction to the standard of their preparation
Read More »Cities are often seen as the problem rather than the solution when it comes to pollution – particularly in the rapidly developing world.
Read More »The drop-out of several European cities bidding for the 2022 Olympic Games has created “shockwaves”, but IOC reforms and stronger communication from cities will enable them build the public support
Read More »The IOC announced on Tuesday that, as part of its Agenda 2020 recommendations, all o
Read More »Hosting two of the world’s three biggest sports events within the space of a year will is not just a practical and logistical challenge for Japan.
Read More »International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach today (Tuesday) revealed 40 recommendations from the Agenda 2020 review of the Olympic Movement, which detail how to reduce costs and inc
Read More »Glasgow was awarded the hosting rights to the 2017 Badminton World Championships at a Badminton World Federation (BWF) meeting in Lima on Friday.
Read More »The first principle of Olympism is to blend sport with culture, but Olympic Games is still not going far enough to raise the profile of cultural events, according to a prominent UK politician and e
Read More »The findings of FIFA’s long awaited ethics report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were announced today (Thursday), with the judge’s summary saying there was limited eviden
Read More »HOST CITY: Congratulations on your appointment as President of Tokyo 2020.
Read More »As London’s City Hall weighs up whether to go head to head with Paris and bid for the 2025 World Expo, Tessa Jowell told HOST CITY that the benefit to the nation as a whole should be a key consider
Read More »The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) is to return to Milan next year, to coincide with the Expo 2015.
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