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Burundi to host EAC forces week

Bujumbura city will host this year’s edition of the East African Military Games and Culture Week from 14 to 28 August 2011.

Hundreds of service men and women representing the various services of the Defence Forces of the EAC partner states are expected to take part in the event that the Republic of Burundi hosts for the first time.

A variety of sporting disciplines have been lined up including; handball (men), football (men), netball (women), cross-country (men and women) and basketball (men) as well as various cultural events reflecting life in the EAC.

Partner States’ Ministers of Defence, Chiefs of Defence Forces and other distinguished guests are expected to attend.Alongside the sports event the EAC Defence Sector will also be celebrating 10 years of cooperation which will climax in November 2011 with the theme “One People, One Destiny: Yet another Decade for Deeper EAC Defence Cooperation”.

According to a press release from African Press Organisation, the event organising committee and the hosts have made good progress in the preparations for the event and various venues to host the different sporting disciplines have been identified within Bujumbura city.

Entry will be free of charge. the primary objective of the Military Sports and Culture Week is not competition but to contribute to confidence building and nurturing good spirit and working relations among the EAC Defence Forces to appreciate their diverse cultures. the East African Military Sports and Culture Week has been held on a rotational basis since 2005 when the first edition was held in Kampala, Uganda. Other editions of the games have since been held in Nairobi/Kenya (2006), Zanzibar/Tanzania (May 2007), Kampala (June 2008) and Kigali, Rwanda (2009).

The Sports and Culture Week is held within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Defence Matters, which was signed in 1998 and revised in 2001. the MoU has specific provisions for Sports and Cultural co-operation as well as JointMilitary Exercises, among the EAC Defence Forcesbo.

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      Olympic Venezuelan Committee Looks to London 2012

      Caracas, Mar 2 (Prensa Latina) The technical commission of the Olympic Venezuelan Committee (COV) aspires to enter 150 athletes to the Olympic Games of London 2012 to improve the results of Beijing-2008.

      On Tuesday, the COV president Eduardo Alvarez announced in the first meeting with the press media the scopes of the Olympic Hope Program and the arrangements concerning the sports event.

      Alvarez pointed out that although 150 Venezuelan athletes will not be surely present, “this is the number we are hoping for”, and remembered that Venezuela took 110 athletes to Beijing.

      To be considered a candidate the sports national federations take into account age, competive level, if there is any chronic injury, the capacity of concentration and the personal marks, he explained.

      According to the official, 70 Venezuelan sportsmen and women are already pre-qualified, and must gain the tickets in international competitions as the Pan American Games of Guadalajara (October this year, in Mexico).

      London 2012 will host 10,000 athletes from 206 countries in 26 sports and 39 events.

      Julio Cesar Leon, the first Venezuelan who took part in an Olympic competition in 1948, will be the special guest for Venezuela to the sports event.

      Olympic Venezuelan Committee Looks to London 2012


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        Winter World Cup in Qatar raises questions

        FIFA said on Thursday that talk of dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was “speculative,” as suggestions of holding the event in winter raised the prospect of a clash with the Winter Olympics.

        The president of world football’s governing body, Sepp Blatter, said last week that he expected that Qatar’s cup would be held in the winter, after the emirate was controversially chosen for 2022 despite its searing summer heat.

        While that would represent a historic shift for the world’s most popular sports event, the idea also brought about the possibility for the first time of a clash with the Winter Olympics, which is held in the same year.

        “There had never been any reference to a date,” a FIFA spokesperson told AFP, while confirming that Blatter “expects that Qatar will be a winter World Cup.”

        “what he stressed is that first the request must be made by the organising committee of Qatar,” the spokesperson added, insisting that talk about more specific timing was “speculative” for now.

        Blatter has said the issue could be discussed at a FIFA executive committee meeting in March.

        “Given that both the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and FIFA distribute revenues across the global sport industry, there is a need to ensure that a winter world cup does not negatively impact on the ability to generate revenues,” said Geoff Walters, of the Birbeck Sports Business Centre at London University.

        While it was bidding, Qatar outlined high tech and innovative plans for cooled stadiums for the World Cup. Its organisers showed little sign of preparing to stage the event in the cooler winter climate in the Gulf.

        So far, the Winter Olympics, which are staged every four years, have been held in the northern hemisphere during the coldest or most snowbound period around February. The International Olympic Committee will choose a host for 2022 in four years’ time.

        “if it was decided that the World Cup will take place in the winter months of 2022 then FIFA will have to work with the IOC in order to avoid a clash,” Walters explained.

        “There are a number of key stakeholders that such a clash could impact on, including the broadcasters and sponsors.”

        Winter World Cup in Qatar raises questions


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