Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Construction work is underway to deliver enhanced Rowing and Canoe Sprint facilities for the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced today.



The Rowing and Canoe Sprint events during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place at the Eton College Rowing Centre at Dorney Lake near Windsor. Set in a 450-acre parkland, the venue currently consists of a 2,000-metre, 8-lane rowing lake, return lane and associated competition facilities.



The venue's existing facilities will be enhanced to provide improved facilities for athlete warm-up and Canoe Sprint events during the London 2012 Games. The venue was visited today to view the construction work underway on the enhanced facilities by Matt Smith Executive Director at the International Rowing Federation (FISA), Alison Nimmo ODA Director of Design and Regeneration, and Debbie Jevans Director of Sports at the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG).



Matt Smith, Executive Director at the International Rowing Federation (FISA) said: "Eton Dorney has already established itself as one of the best rowing courses in the world. It will be a great venue to host the Olympic and Paralympic events in 2012. It was good to visit the site again and to see construction work underway early-on. I look forward to seeing these enhanced facilities take shape in the run-up to 2012."



Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee said:

"Eton Dorney is a superb venue set in the heart of rowing country. These enhancements show our commitment to providing the best possible facilities at Games time, whilst avoiding spending unnecessary money on creating new venues. Eton Dorney is a world class venue that hosts elite level competition as well as community events, it is a venue of which we can all be proud."



Alison Nimmo, ODA Director of Design and Regeneration, said: "Eton College Rowing Centre is a first-class venue and the enhancements we are delivering will create the best possible facilities for the world's best athletes to use in 2012. The start of construction work at Eton Dorney is an important milestone and shows we are making good progress not just on the Olympic Park but across the 2012 project at venues around the country. These are essential works but we have organised our construction activity to minimise disruption to the regular users of Dorney Lake."



Ivor Lloyd, Managing Director at Eton College Rowing Centre, said: "We have a fantastic venue and the improved infrastructure will help optimise the showcasing of the event for the worldwide media coverage. In legacy there will be additional operational benefits for the venue by bringing us up to the latest design standard for an International course."

The construction of enhanced facilities at Dorney Lake includes:



- The installation of a new 50-metre span finish line bridge over a widened entrance to the return lane for two-way vehicular traffic and segregated pedestrian traffic



- Construction of a cut-through between the competition lake and the return lane, with a new bridge over the cut-through



- The upgrade of the existing gravel/stone access road up to the competition venue to facilitate construction works and for use during the Games



Construction work is now underway on site with a 50m temporary bridge now lifted into place to provide temporary access across the return lane. Work to demolish and remove the existing finish line bridge is also well underway and works to construct the new, enhanced finish line bridge is due to start on site next month. The Eton Dorney enhancement works are expected to be complete in Spring 2010.
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New Zealand Cricket has told its selectors to never again consider six former Black Caps for any representative selection after they played in the rebel Indian Cricket League competition.

It appears the players won't even be allowed to hold contracts to play for State Championship teams, and will be limited to playing on for match payments on a game-by-game basis a huge blow to their prospects of playing any more meaningful cricket in New Zealand.

NZ Cricket has advised selectors to disregard for national or "A" team inclusion current prospects Daryl Tuffey and Hamish Marshall, or the recently "retired" Chris Cairns, Nathan Astle, Craig McMillan and Chris Harris.

The six former test players have drawn the ire of the establishment for competing in the lucrative but unsanctioned ICL, which completed its first season of operation this month amid unanimous condemnation from the International Cricket Council's member nations.

Of the sextet, Cairns, Harris and Astle are almost certainly past their use-by dates for national duty, but Tuffey, McMillan and Marshall if the latter opted to reverse his Kolpak status may have entertained thoughts of a comeback.

That now seems impossible following revelations of an agreement to actively discourage the selection of rebel players at all levels struck between the chief executives of all the test-playing nations.

New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan said yesterday he'd been in contact with Lalit Modi, a vice-president of the Indian cricket board, and had phoned Modi to clarify NZC's position and would be speaking to him again on the issue.

But he confirmed the policy of discouraging the selection of the rebels.

"We have a preference that our selectors take into consideration the fact that that these guys have been playing in an unsanctioned competition, an event that isn't in the best interests of New Zealand or world cricket, and that we'd rather that they didn't play," said Vaughan.

"I don't think we can say that they're ineligible for selection. We'd prefer to say that the selectors will be encouraged to consider other players.

"There's an understanding that we don't support the ICL and that we don't want to give them unnecessary traction."

The international pact came to light after the Indian board of control took exception to the inclusion of Tuffey in an Auckland XI that played the Bangladeshi tourists, claiming the selection of a rebel undermined the intent of the agreement.

"All the boards had agreed in principle at the last ICC CEO's meeting that any player who is part of an unauthorised tournament will not be encouraged," Niranjan Shah, the BCCI secretary, told the Times of India.
"This is a violation of a gentleman's agreement. Lalit Modi will write to New Zealand Cricket to protest against this move."

NZC had earlier made clear its position on contracted players participating in the rebel league, saying it would regard the action as a breach of contract. But until last week it had not spelled out its position on the status of non-contracted players.

The impact of the CEOs agreement will probably be felt again this week, when the announcement of the England squad to tour New Zealand will almost certainly highlight the exclusion of rebel players Darren Maddy, Paul Nixon, Chris Read and Vikram Solanki.

"We regard this as a very serious issue," the ECB's new chairman Giles Clarke recently told The Times. "Selectors will be instructed to take into consideration the fact that these players have played in an unauthorised competition. You can draw your own conclusions from that."

NZC's hardline stance follows that of the boards of India, Pakistan and South Africa, who have all threatened their rebel players with bans not only from playing international cricket but also from their domestic competitions.

"We view them as rebels," Gerald Majola, the CSA chief executive, told Beeld, an Afrikaans newspaper. "They have joined a breakaway organisation. Once they have played even one game in the ICL tournament, it's over and they will never be allowed to play in South Africa again."

Pakistan board chief Nasim Ashraf said: "We were very clear about our policy about the ICL and they [the players] knew they would be automatically banned from playing cricket in Pakistan if they took part."

However, the move to marginalise the rebels has received a predictable response from Tim May, the chief executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations.

"If a player wants to retire from international cricket because he's had enough and wants to spend more time with his family and he can seek employment elsewhere, to allow him to spend more time with his family, then, like any other employee, he should be allowed to," May said. "We will resist that [banning players] with everything we have. That is an unreasonable restraint of trade."

Vaughan said at this stage, NZC saw no need to prevent the rebels playing domestic cricket on a non-contracted, match-by-match basis, but they would monitor the situation and could yet change position.
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

2011 ICC Cricket World cup - Schedule and fixtures

The final fixtures of ICC Cricket World cup 2011 has been announced with India taking Bangladesh in the opening match. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be the hosts with Mumbai hosting the final of the World cup. It seems ICC took lessons from 2007 world cup and has divided the teams in two groups so that big teams qualify.







Match no.

Date
Teams
Venue
1

19 Feb
India vs Bangladesh
Dhaka
2

20 Feb
New Zealand vs Kenya
Chennai
3

20 Feb
Sri Lanka vs Canada
Hambantota
4

21 Feb
Australia vs Zimbabwe
Ahmedabad
5

22 Feb
England vs Netherlands
Nagpur
6

23 Feb
Pakistan vs Kenya
Hambantota
7

24 Feb
South Africa vs West Indies
New Delhi
8

25 Feb
Australia vs New Zealand
Nagpur
9

25 Feb
Bangladesh vs Ireland
Dhaka
10

26 Feb
Sri Lanka vs Pakistan
Colombo
11

27 Feb
India vs England
Kolkata
12

28 Feb
West Indies vs Netherlands
New Delhi
13

28 Feb
Zimbabwe vs Canada
Nagpur
14

1 Mar
Sri Lanka vs Kenya
Colombo
15

2 Mar
England vs Ireland
Bangalore
16

3 Mar
South Africa vs Netherlands
Mohali
17

3 Mar
Pakistan vs Canada
Colombo
18

4 Mar
New Zealand vs Zimbabwe
Ahmedabad
19

4 Mar
Bangladesh vs West Indies
Dhaka
20

5 Mar
Sri Lanka vs Australia
Colombo
21

6 Mar
India vs Ireland
Bangalore
22

6 Mar
England vs South Africa
Chennai
23

7 Mar
Kenya vs Canada
New Delhi
24

8 Mar
Pakistan vs New Zealand
Pallekelle
25

9 Mar
India vs Netherlands
New Delhi
26

10 Mar
Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe
Pallekelle
27

11 Mar
West Indies vs Ireland
Mohali
28

11 Mar
Bangladesh vs England
Chittagong
29

12 Mar
India vs South Africa
Nagpur
30

13 Mar
New Zealand vs Canada
Mumbai
31

13 Mar
Australia vs Kenya
Bangalore
32

14 Mar
Pakistan vs Zimbabwe
Pallekelle
33

14 Mar
Bangladesh vs Netherlands
Chittagong
34

15 Mar
South Africa vs Ireland
Kolkata
35

16 Mar
Australia vs Canada
Bangalore
36

17 Mar
England vs West Indies
Chennai
37

18 Mar
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand
Mumbai
38

18 Mar
Ireland vs Netherlands
Kolkata
39

19 Mar
Australia vs Pakistan
Colombo
40

19 Mar
Bangladesh vs South Africa
Dhaka
41

20 Mar
Zimbabwe vs Kenya
Kolkata
42

20 Mar
India vs West Indies
Chennai
43

23 Mar
First Quarterfinal
Dhaka
44

24 Mar
Second Quarterfinal
Colombo
45

25 Mar
Third Quarterfinal
Dhaka
46

26 Mar
Fourth Quarterfinal
Ahmedabad
47

29 Mar
First Semifinal
Colombo
48

30 Mar
Second Semifinal
Mohali
49

02 Apr
FINAL
Mumbai
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Baltimore Ravens Wallpaper&Pictures

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To be a member of the Baltimore Ravens Cheerleaders, you must be at least 18 years of age. There is no maximum age limit, and the squad has had members who are nearly 40. Candidates must also have a high-school diploma or GED, and they must either have a family, attend college or hold down a full or part-time job.


Cheerleaders are required to perform at all 10 home games, and they must arrive at the games 5 hours before kickoff. Practices are held two days a week from April through January. Each practice lasts from 6:30 pm until 9:30 pm. Practices rotate between an indoor facility in Owings Mills and a cheerleading gymnastic center. In June, there is also a mandatory training camp weekend.


Ravens Cheerleaders are expected to make at least 20 appearances per year, not including home game performances. Girls are paid $100 per home game, and they also receive compensation for each personal appearance made.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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