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One of the success stories on the road to the 2010 Winter Games is the tremendous support of Canadian companies. In fact, domestic sponsorship for the Games has surpassed the $700 million mark, achieving 90 per cent of the overall sponsorship target set by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for...
An international sports arbitration panel has ruled that paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will be eligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics. Pistorius, 21, had both his legs amputated below the knee as an infant; he runs on legs made of carbon fiber — which some say gives him an unfair...
A group of Spanish athletes have backed a campaign aimed at combating racism in sport. The campaign, which encourages Spaniards to "say no to racism in every language", is organized by the Spanish Olympic Committee, the Spanish Paralympic Committee and Madrid's Regional Government. The group...
Sprinter Graeme Ballard has won two silver medals at the Paralympic World Cup, and in the process has taken another huge step on the way towards the Beijing Paralympics. Fellow Chorley Athletic Club member Michael Churm just missed out on the medals in the competition at Sportcity in Manchester,...
WEBWIRE – Thursday, May 22, 2008 Osaka, Japan .– Panasonic, the leading brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is best known, today announced that the company has agreed on a partnership with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games(BOCOG) to become...
