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New Lotus F1 Team investor: 'We'll be number one in 12 months'
The Lotus Formula One team has confirmed that its owner, Genii Capital, has sold a 35 per cent stake in the business to Infinity Racing Partners. Amongst the investors is US investment banker Mansoor Ijaz. In his first interview, he outlines his vision for the team and insists Lotus will be the sport’s top team in 12 months time. Read more...
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Best of British
Sara Leach is head of marketing for British Champions Series, the top 35 races on the British flat racing calendar. She explains how top-level British horse racing can provide sponsors with a unique platform to promote themselves across some of the most prestigious sporting events in the world. Read more...
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‘I’m not concerned by the number of candidates,’ says Bach ahead of presidential campaign
On the final day of last week's SportAccord Convention in St Petersburg, German Olympic Committee president and IOC presidential candidate Thomas Bach spoke to SportsPro and a small audience of journalists about the campaign that lies ahead of him as he bids to succeed Jacques Rogge in September. Read more...
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Joël Bouzou and Mike Miller on the professionalisation of the WOA and why it has the power to change
In April, former International Rugby Board (IRB) chief executive Mike Miller was appointed to a newly-created role heading up the World Olympians Association (WOA). Weeks into the job, Miller and the president who hired him, Joël Bouzou, spoke to SportsPro about the professionalisation of the organisation and the changes they are looking to enact. Read more...
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C.K. Wu on his IOC presidential campaign and how education is the future of the Olympic movement
Last week Ching-Kuo Wu of Chinese Taipei launched his campaign to replace Jacques Rogge as president of the International Olympic Committee [IOC]. SportsPro sat down with Wu at the SportAccord Convention in Saint-Petersburg on Tuesday to get his take on his education-led manifesto, the challenges facing the Olympic movement and the campaign to come. Read more...
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Paralympics: Maintaining the post-London 2012 momentum
Craig Spence, the IPC’s communications and media director, explains how last summer's Paralympic Games affected the governing body and the motivation for launching the new IPC Athletics Grand Prix series. Read more...
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London's Euroleague Final Four: the verdict
A certain game of soccer this weekend may be the only major European final taking place in May of any interest to the majority of London-based sports fans but not so for the city’s basketball lovers. For earlier this month the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four rolled into town. Read more...
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Rugby sevens: How and why Russia are promoting the short-form game
SportsPro caught up with Vyacheslav Kopiev, president of the Rugby Union of Russia, at Twickenham Stadium during May’s Marriott London Sevens to find out how preparations for the 2013 RWC Sevens in Moscow are going and discuss the wider potential of a sport poised to make its Olympic debut in 2016 in the country. Read more...
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Why Hayley McQueen believes Lionel Messi is the world’s most marketable athlete
Ahead of the release of SportsPro’s World’s Most Marketable Athletes list, we caught up with Sky Sports News presenter Hayley McQueen at last month’s Soccerex European Forum to get her take on a selection of the world’s most marketable athletes. Read more...
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Allan Padgett on the benefits of Tour Tracker
The product of six years and more than 50,000 hours of development and testing by a team of expert engineers, Tour Tracker has become professional cycling’s premier online and mobile race coverage platform. Lead developer and company founder Allan Padgett explains why it is a turn-key solution unrivalled within the marketplace. Read more...
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