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South Korea chosen for 2018
Winter Olympics
The South Korean
city of Pyeongchang
has been chosen to
host the 2018 Winter
Olympic Games at the 123rd
International Olympic Committee
session in Durban, South Africa –
defeating Munich of Germany, and
Annecy of France.
Pyeongchang
received
a
majority 63 out of 95 votes,
with Munch on 25, and
Annecy gaining just 7 votes.
For the South Korean city it
was third time lucky, having
previously lost to Vancouver
for the 2010 Games, and Sochi for the
Games in 2014.
IOC
president
Jacques
Rogge
announced Pyeongchang’s victory –
marking the first time a Korean city will
stage the Winter Games.
Successful bid chief Cho Yang-ho said:
‘This is one of the happiest days for our
country, our people and millions of youth
dreaming of winter sport’.
Pyeongchang has a population of 47,000 and
is situated near South Korea’s east coast.
World Athletics
Championships bid by
London
UK Athletics has announced it will
make a bid to host the 2017 IAAF
World Athletics Championships at the
Olympic Stadium in London.
The bid has the full backing of the UK
Government and Mayor of London
and will be led by Lord Sebastian
Coe.
Lord Coe said: ‘The IAAF and the
athletics family have been unwavering
in their support for an Olympic
legacy and played a crucial role in
securing it. A successful bid will be
our opportunity to say thank you for
that constant support by delivering a
fantastic IAAF World Championships
in London that will help drive more
young people in to the sport’.
A decision on the bid is expected on
11th November 2011.
European Games a possibility
Irish International Olympic Committee member
Patrick Hickey, has put forward proposals for
a European Games – an event that would
incorporate all the main Olympic sports.
The proposal is now reported to be undergoing
a feasibility study by Deloitte and is likely to be
put to a vote in November.
If the proposed idea was to go ahead, the
Games could either be in addition to events
such as the European Athletics Championships
and European Swimming Championships, or
even replace them altogether.
Hickey, the president of the European Olympic
Committees, has stated that he has the support
of 47 of the 49 European National Olympic
Committees, which will make the final decision.
The idea of a continent’s independent Games
has already worked elsewhere - later this year
the PanAmerican Games will be held in Mexico,
the Pan Arab Games in Qatar and the All-Africa
Games in Mozambique, while the Asian Games
took place last year in China.
British F1 GP attracts record crowds
A record 315,000-strong crowd attended the F1
Santander British Grand Prix at Silverstone over the
three days of racing.
Of that figure, more than 22,000 fans stayed behind
after the F1 race on Sunday to continue the post-race
celebrations and hear from the drivers at the Grand
Prix Party, which was free to all ticket holders.
Silverstone managing director Richard Phillips hailed
this year’s event as one of biggest and best British
Grand Prix in years, attracting record crowds on all
three days of the circuit’s flagship event.
A record, sell-out crowd of 122,000 were at Silverstone
for the big race on Sunday, with attendances of 88,000
and 105,000 for practice on Friday and qualifying on
Saturday respectively.
Cadel Evans
wins Tour
de France
Congratulations
to Cadel Evans
on the extraordinary
achievement of winning the
Tour de France this year.
Evans becomes the first
Southern Hemisphere rider
to ever win the tour and only
the 3rd non – European to
win it. Widely regarded as
the toughest event in sport,
with this year’s race generally
considered to be one of the
best ever, Evans won it in
the style and manner that will
endear him to all in the cycling
and wider sporting community.
Already a national sporting
hero, Evans is now on track to
become an Australian sporting
legend.
Jacques Rogge, International Olympic
Committee President, has welcomed
a bid from cricket to become part of
future Olympic Games, most likely in
Twenty20 format.
Rogge said: ‘We would welcome an
application. It’s an important, popular
sport and very powerful on television.
It’s a sport with a great tradition where
mostly you have a respect of the ethics.
IOC welcomes cricket Olympic bid
In the Olympics, it will not be Test
cricket, of course’.
If the bid is successful, Twenty20
cricket could debut at the 2020 Olympic
Games.
The sport has appeared at the Olympics
in the past, featuring in the 1900 Paris
Games - Britain beat France to take the
gold in a competition that featured only
two teams.
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