VANCOUVER, February 8, 2010 -  The President and CEO of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, has arrived in Vancouver to lead a team of 150 Sochi 2014 specialists taking part in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Observer ... 

President, Sports Press Association of the Islamic Republic of Iran TEHRAN, February 7, 2010 - Marjan Kalhor will be the first ever Iranian woman athlete who is to take part inthe Winter Olympics.Iran will participate in the prestigious 21st Winter ...

VANCOUVER, February 7, 2010 – Olympic accredited press and rights holding broadcasters are now invited to register for the Olympic Village Media Tours in Vancouver and Whistler, on February 9 and 10 respectively.The forms, for accredited press, are being ... 

GUANGZHOU,  February 7, 2010 - The 16th Asian Games (www.gz2010.cn/en), part of the worldwide Olympic movement and governed by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has named three-time Olympic Games Sportscaster Jeff Ruffolo to host Radio Guangdong’s ...

Chairman, AIPS Nordic Ski and Biathlon Commission OLSO, February 6, 2010 - During the winter Olympic Games in Torino 2006 Norway won a disappointing two gold medals  - Lars Bystøl (Ski jump) and Kjetil Andre Aamodt (Super-G). If the Norwegians ... 

From FIFA Please scroll down for Spanish, French and German ZURICH, February 6, 2010 - The FIFA Referees Committee, meeting in Zurich yesterday (5 February 2010) under the chairmanship of Ángel María Villar Llona (Spain) has appointed 30 refereesrepresenting ...

VIENNA, February 2, 2010 - France’s national handball team has added the European title to its already impressive haul of silverware. With their victory in the Men’s EHF EURO 2010 final against Croatia in the Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria, ... 

LAUSANNE, Februaru 2, 2010 -  Online accreditation for journalists and photographers is operational starting today. All media, save the host broadcasters, are requested to register at the FIG website under Media. Accreditation is open exclusively ...

From FIG LAUSANNE, January 30, 2010 - The FIG Presidential Commission, comprised of the President and his 3 Vice-Presidents, convened at the head office in Lausanne (SUI), January 27 – 28. As expected, 2010 is a year of world championship events in ... 

LAUSANNE, January 30, 2010 - The IOC's new Director of Communications Mark Adams will give  three scheduled press briefings prior to the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The first briefing will kick off in the Main Press ...

VIENNA, January 30, 2010 - The Main Round of the 9th Men’s EHF European Handball Championship wascompleted this evening (Thursday) in the Austrian cities of Vienna and Innsbruck.The line-up for the semi-finals is Croatia versus Poland and also a repeat ... 

GENEVA, January 30, 2010 - Veteran Israeli journalist and one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors Noah Klieger was the keynote speaker in Geneva on Wednesday as the United Nations celebrated the 65th anniversary of the liberation of World ...

FISU Media Officer BRUSSELS, January 29, 2010 - The members of the Organizing Committee of the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade held an inaugural meeting at a local convention center on January 26th, 2010, attended byabout two-hundred national and local ... 

From LaureusLONDON, January 29, 2010 - Spectacular performances at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin and the World Swimming Championships in Rome, plus a remarkable year by the world’s top women’s skier Lindsey Vonn, have produced a string ...

General Secretary, AIPS Handball Commission VIENNA, January 29, 2010 - Kiel and Sweden handball legend, Stefan Lövgren, took a break from his new day job, commentating at the European Championship for Swedish TV, to launch the media accreditation ... 

TIJUANA, January 28, 2010 - The head of Baja California’s Sports and Physical Culture Institute, Saúl Castro Verdugo was voted unanimously as a new permanent member of the Mexican Olympic Committee  (COM).Castro Verdugo received the distinction ...