Synchro has got the Fina Swimming World Championships underway in Melbourne.…
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Month: March 2007
Elvis leaves unlucky Irish all shook up
By Barry Newcombe, chairman, AIPS rugby commission France retained the RBS Six Nations’ rugby union title with a last-gasp victory at the Stade …
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Rugby World Cup moves to restrict coverage
The World Association of Newspapers and a coalition of the world’s leading news agencies yesterday protested against severe restrictions placed…
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World Sailing: accreditation now open
The media accreditation process for the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Cascais, Portugal, has begun.…
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SJA Awards: What they had to say
The plaudits have been coming in all week following Monday’s hugely successful 2006 SJA Sports Journalism Awards, sponsored by UK Sport and stag…
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2012 Olympics will cost £9bn says Jowell
Government funding for the 2012 Olympics will rise to £6 billion, with the rest of the £9 billion costs met from London’s council tax paye…
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Key sports figures to leave in Indy “cull”
At least two of the Independent group’s longest serving and most-respected figures from their sports desks are to leave under the newspapersR…
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“Woolers” is laid to rest
By Barry Newcombe, SJA Chairman The funeral service for Ian Wooldridge, the Daily Mail sports columnist, took place today at the church of St Mary Mag…
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Lloyds TSB confirmed as 2012 first sponsors
From insidethegames.com Lloyds TSB was today formally announced as the first domestic sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in a dea…
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Reason and Frost: an appreciation
By John Samuel Those of us in our mid and late 70s whose childhood and teens were much bound up with World War Two have suffered the loss of a trio of…
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