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The cost of the 2014 games has risen The budget for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is to be increased by £81m, it has been announced. The organising committee for the games said funding for the event would rise to a total of £454m.
Tags: commonwealth games, organisers committee, games organisers, India, New Delhi, BBC, Glasgow, Steven Purcell, Hampden Park, Alex Salmond, Scotland, Television licence, Sport in London, Summer Olympics, allnews
Wary of further slippages in the capital's preparations, the Commonwealth Games Federation today decided to form an independent monitoring panel for the 2010 edition of the Games and bluntly reminded the Organising Committee that time was the "biggest...
Tags: New Delhi, Commonwealth Games Federation, organisers committee, CGF, India
Fifa local organising committee chief executive Danny Jordaan told reporters on Wednesday that he was not a candidate in the recent Safa election and therefore has no opinion on it. Jordaan was speaking at a press briefing on the completion of the 2010...
Tags: South African Football Association, Danny Jordaan, South Africa Will, organisers committee, local organisers, SAfrica, Safa, governing body, Fifa, PSL
Oscar-nominated director of Billy Elliot and The Reader - first staged An Inspector Calls at York's Theatre Royal. The production, restaged in 1992 at the National Theatre in London, took a radical approach to the text, presenting the action in a house...
Tags: London Organising Committee, Damon Albarn, preliminary discussions, artistic director, london organisers, paralympic games, opening ceremony, organisers committee, Beijing, United Kingdom, London
Reacting to Commonwealth Games Federation president Michael Fennell's harsh criticism of the capital's lethargic preparation for next year's Games, Sports Minister M S Gill on Tuesday summoned Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi to assess the...
Tags: Suresh Kalmadi, organisers committee, Commonwealth Games Federation, Michael Fennell, New Delhi, India
World Cup organisers said Thursday that a wave of protests over poor public services will not affect preparations for the games, adding that all is ready for the final draw in Cape Town in December. Of course we hope these matters are resolved as soon...
Tags: world cup, Dr Danny Jordaan, Cape Town, organisers committee, final draw, South Africa
The World Cup organising committee will "engage" construction industry trade unions about a looming strike over wages, it said in Johannesburg on Thursday. The organising committee has promised Fifa the stadiums to be used for the World Cup will be finished...
Rahul's father Rajiv Gandhi had been inducted in the organising committee and played a big role in the Asian Games in 1982. There has also been speculation that Rahul could even replace Kalmadi as the chief of the organising committee. Rahul is known...
Tags: Kalmadi New Delhi, Suresh Kalmadi, organisers committee, games village, India, Organising Committee
Before leaving he declared that the meeting will help disperse the "clouds of uncertainty" hovering over the quadrennial spectacle. Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - will discuss the modus operandi for successful World Cup preparations. Butt...
Tags: Haroon Lorgat, India-Pakistan, ICC, organisers committee, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
The new Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth was dropped Tuesday as a site for next year's Confederations Cup because construction has fallen behind schedule...Jerome Valcke cited technical problems with the roof, but said the venue will be ready...
Tags: world cup, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port Elizabeth, confederations cup, South African, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, LOC, elizabeth stadiums, FIFA, organisers committee, Irvin Khoza