Kazakhstan, a former Soviet state, pitched itself as a model for future hosts, embracing all the new reforms with a low-cost bid in a city which already has most of the facilities in place after hosting the 2011 Asian Winter Games. And just like before and after the city was...
But IOC president Thomas Bach, who pushed for and got a unanimous rubber-stamp approval of Agenda 2020 at last December’s extraordinary session in Monaco, declared then that the starting gate was closed.
Du Yanlin, a Beijing activist who was recently detained for taking a selfie in Tiananmen Square to commemorate the 1989 military crackdown, said: “If the IOC wants to champion the purity of sport, it should not allow Beijing to host the Olympics”.
Xi expressed the Chinese government’s “strongest support” for Beijing in a video message to an worldwide Olympic Committee meeting to decide whether Beijing or Almaty, Kazakhstan, gets the 2022 Games.
An all-star team of presenters has been assembled to help Beijing make a final demonstration of its readiness to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games and show the world its capacity to stage the winter sports gala. The voting numbers were not immediately released. Almaty claims...
However, after a relatively untroubled first set on Centre Court, she lost a hugely entertaining second as the two identikit 6ft-plus blondes with matching white visors slugged it out. “She was playing with a lot of confidence and had nothing to lose”. Muguruza took...
“He’s been pitching well lately and he had another tremendous outing”. “It’s been our strength, and the bullpen is struggling a little bit”. “That’s something that we’ve been so good at”.
While all the signals had pointed to Duncan coming back, nothing is certain until, well, it’s certain. Davis was no-brainer to give whatever he wanted and is worth more than what he got in his contract.