Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Monday, May 26, 2014
Rio Olympics 2016 budget dwarfed by London 2012, Sochi 2014
Rio Olympics 2016 today revealed a budget of 7 billion Brazilian real (£1.8 billion/$2.9 billion/€2.1 billion) for its hosting of the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
The updated figure represents a 27 per cent increase above the original cost estimation of 5.5 billion real (£1.4 billion/$2.3 billion/€1.7 billion) for the sporting showpiece, but this is owing to introduction of four new sports - rugby sevens, golf, Paracanoe, and Paratriathlon - to the Games programme and inflation, according to the Organising Committee.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Gilas Pilipinas next target should be Olympics, says Jaworski
For annexing the silver medal in the recent FIBA Asia Championship, the Philippines regained its place in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, ending years of futility in.
If Philippine basketball’s living legend Robert Jaworski will have his way, the next target would be to get back to the Olympic Games hoops tournament for the first time since the Munich Summer Games 31 years ago in 1972.
Friday, August 16, 2013
FIBA Asia will no longer the qualifier for World Cup, Olympics
Starting 2017, the FIBA-Asia Championships will no longer be the qualifier for either the Olympics or World Cup as it is transformed from a biennial competition to a once-in-four-years conclave as a stand-alone continental tournament.
This year’s FIBA-Asia Championships marked the last World Cup qualifier and the 2015 edition will be the last Olympic qualifier for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
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