TSE Group Plc announced the signing of a new contract through its Sports Performance Division with the Brazilian Olympic Committee to specifically improve Brazil’s elite performance planning in the lead up to London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The company added that the contract will be headed by its Senior Consultant of the Sports [...]
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Television ratings for golf may not collapse as dramatically as has been feared in the wake of the Tiger Woods scandals. Indeed, they may soar precisely because of it once the major tours launch this spring. That is the view of Florida sports lawyer Michael Buckner. He says: “The public’s fascination with reality-television, which uses [...]
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TSE Consulting has signed a new contract with the Brazilian Olympic Committee to improve Brazil’s elite performance planning in the lead up to the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The project is headed by Steve Roush, TSE Senior Consultant – Sports Performance. Steve joined TSE in February 2009, having just left his eight-year [...]
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Brazil will spend some 900 million reals ($530 million) to assure security during the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, the country’s justice minister has said. “We will expand investments in public security threefold, but we need even more [funds],” Tarso Genro said at a seminar on averting violence [...]
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So Tiger Woods, Rick Pitino and David Letterman are comparing scorecards, and . . . There’s going to be no end to the jokes and speculation about the world’s greatest golfer. Particularly now that Us Weekly has a story out saying that Jaimee Grubbs, a cocktail waitress who appeared on the “Tool Academy” reality TV [...]
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Police in Rio de Janeiro dismantled a group that targeted rigging bids for government construction projects for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics. Police arrested 12 individuals on corruption and conspiracy charges on Wednesday using raids with 120 officers. Police named the bust “Operation Monopoly.” Falvio Porto, director of the Center for [...]
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Brazil plans to revamp its hotel ratings system and refurbish 13 sports stadiums by 2014 in preparation for hosting the Fifa World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Venue developments will include the £250m refurbishment of Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Soccer Stadium and the opening of a football museum. “There will be a huge amount [...]
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Brazil will host the World Cup, the world’s most popular sporting event, in 2014, and two years later the Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro. Both will be enormous challenges to Brazil’s organizational abilities. Brazil has long been a candidate to host the World Cup, last held there in 1950, as well [...]
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Fireworks and confetti filled the air over Copacabana beach on a Friday morning last month and 30,000 people, many wearing the national colours of green and yellow, leapt and danced for joy as Rio de Janeiro won its bid to hold the 2016 Olympic Games. It was, as many pointed out, an historic moment. Coming [...]
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Naturally we in the Cidade Maravilhosa are delighted to have beaten out the Windy City and snatched the 2016 Olympics from under the nose of the not-quite-glamorous-enough first couple of the United States: even Obama can’t compete with Copacabana when it comes to wowing Olympic committees. But now that the cheering has died down along [...]
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