Rafa
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Oh okay then, it makes more sense
I was just checking to see if the ioc is okay with it or not,,,.
Btw good job tokyo on 100% full fiber optic coverage of the city, Qatar is followimg your footsteps, in 2014 we will be done..
The only reason a media village concept even exists is if hotel rooms are insufficient.
Yes, they are fine with existing accommodation, rather than "potetial" media villages.
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Cape Town meets Rio Olympic Organizers
30 Aug 2011 11:01Submit a commentBizLike
Calvyn Gilfellan, CEO of Cape Town Routes Unlimited (CTRU) will meet this week with Leonardo Gryner, CEO of Rio's 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games as part of a marketing drive in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Before this meeting, where Gilfellan will share the marketing lessons learnt through South Africa's successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he will represent the destination at the SAA Sao Paulo Tourism Workshop and the Visit SA Expo in Buenos Aires.
"It is crucial that we maintain the top-of-mind awareness in the South American market made possible by the World Cup. The number of Brazilians to our destination increased by almost 70% from 15 580 in 2009 to 26 340 in 2010. We cannot afford to rest on our laurels and must maximise our efforts in developing markets like these," he says.
"International marketing platforms are opportunities to touch base with tour operators to find out what their customers are looking for, so that we can position ourselves better and consequently draw more tourists from South America to our destination.
"Before and during the World Cup, Cape Town and the Western Cape hosted various Brazilian delegations, which came to see how we were preparing to host the world for the biggest sports spectacular. Various initiatives, like the highly successful Casa "little" Brazil, will be exported and translated into the Brazilian context when that country hosts both the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games in 2016. It is a real privilege for us to share our knowledge and experience with our Brazilian compatriots. We wish them all the best as they too make history preparing to host these two mega-events," he concludes.
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Today, during the report of Rio de Janeiro 2016, to the IOC session, one of the IOC Members asked about the seating capacity of the Joao Havelange stadium.
The IOC Member was concerned by the seating capacity of 65,000 because now for the London Olympics there were 1 million requests for the 100 meters athletics and many for the ceremonies. He asked if the stadium could be increased.
Guzman answerred that first the plan was from 41,000 to 60,000 temporary. But now they want 60,000 permanent and they are going to research a possible increase to 80,000 temporary for the Games. That's no guarantee for the final number of seats however, only guarantee for a research.
It is possible.
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Casey is speaking at a Conference in Cape Town in July. Interesting times
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whats wrong with favouring the Swiss for timing equipment?
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At least both bids have something in common right?
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Its always one of the first things to get the boot in budget cuts and reviews.
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If the CWG Fed are dumb enough not to have a proper technical report or shortlist then I hope they vote Hambantota and get all that will come with it.. . Abuja was clearly not ready from CWG reports and yet it got to the vote!
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fantasy bid capabilities
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OCOG budgets don't mean much.
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How to buy votes 101
Barcelona & Qatar Foundation agree £125m shirt deal
Barcelona have ended their 111-year history of refusing commercial shirt sponsorship by signing a record £125m deal with the Qatar Foundation.
The Catalan giants have paid to carry the Unicef logo for the last five years and the children's charity will share shirt space with the new sponsors.
Barcelona have a sizeable debt but now claim to be "the undisputed brand leader in world football".
The deal will be worth £25m a year from next season through until 2016.
In July, an audit revealed Barcelona's debt to be £369.5m after a loss of more than £64.36m in the 2009/10 season.
The new sponsorship arrangement could free up some transfer funds for coach Pep Guardiola - who worked as an ambassador for Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
The Qatar Foundation is a non-profit organisation concerned primarily with education projects in the Middle East.
It is chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the wife of the Emir, who was central to Qatar's final World Cup bid last week.
Senior club executives said the deal was a "remarkable milestone because it represents a record level of revenue for a football club and has more value still in the current economic climate".
Manchester United and Real Madrid both earn a little over £20m a year for their rights, while Bayern Munich make closer to £23m.
Marketing experts will seek to find a way for both logos to be displayed on the Barcelona shirts, although if that is not possible the Unicef name will take priority.
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Who do you guys think The Kaiser voted for?
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Qatar Qatar Qatar.....its just Doha, suburbs aren't cities.
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Okay, question time. What's Qatar's plans for accommodation? We're talking about 1 city doing all the duties that 8-10 normally do, arent we?
Build it and they will come.
10 stadia of over 40,000 capacity in 25-30km radius!
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Cape Town 2026. The World Cup in one city.
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Wonderful.
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and Gold Coast as a name just screams multi-sport event. Golden Games, Gold medals, Gold logo.
It also sets a deadline for all the GC transport projects planned.
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Report card time, I suppose.
Preparations: Sure, there's no getting around the fact that the lead-up to them was, in every sense of the word, an utter shambles. A textbook case of how not to prepare for the games. And now right up there with the Melbourne '56 and Athens '04 Olympics as a cautionary tale of why learning the ropes from past organisers, and planning well ahead, and keeping a close tab on progress, is important. But that said, it's not the be-all-and end-all either. Like those earlier Olympics, it soon proved that premature judgments of failure tend to come and bite back. And that wasn't helped by he media hysteria that arose in the weeks leading up which went far beyond the point of being objective and really was starting to get just plain nasty and over-the-top. Legitimate concern about crumbling bridges and the village cleanliness and readiness is one thing - but hoax beat-ups about smuggled bombs and mad scrambles on the orders of Sydney or London-based news desks to find footage, any footage, of stray dogs or beggars or athletes with stomach bugs was definitely crossing the line and turned real discusion of real issues into an orgy of schadenfreude.
Preparation Rating: B minus, Chaotic but no disaster.
Security: In the wash-up, to me what was the biggest concern beforehand, and most had me holding my breath right till the end - security - became a non-issue. Possibly because it was in the Indian Government's hands, rather than Kalmadi's committee, the biggest fears ahead of the games didn't materialise. We'll probably never hear how serious, and close to fruition, an of those security threats came, but I think it's fair to say there were real reasons to be worried. London's gonna face a similar challenge. I'm sure we all hope they succeed as well as India did.
Security rating: A Plus. The very fact we didn't hear anything about it once the games started is a credit to the security planning.
Ceremonies: Okay, here we get into objective territory. And I have to confess I have still to watch the CC (it started midnight here, and I'm at work now. Will have to wait till I get home to watch my recording of it). But I was pleasantly surprised by the OC - definitely more heart-felt and self-deprecating than I expected. VERY derivative, but still enjoyable.
Ceremonies rating: A Minus
Competition/Sports: To me, it was the actual competition that was the true saving grace of the games and lifted them from ho-hum to bloody enjoyable. Okay, I was a little disappointed that England didn't provide as tough a competition as I would have hopd in the loead-up to London, and maybe in cycling the lack of some of the big names from the UK took a bit of gloss off the results (that said, I do think Oz is gonna be competitive again at the London velodrome). But what really got me was how the blue riband events - athletics and swimming - seemed to be overshadowed by the truly "commonwealth" sports that so many people like to sniff at. Nearly every games - Olympic and the rest - produce one sport that "wins" me over, and this time around it was Netball that was the eye-opener for myself. For netball, the CWGs ARE the pinnacle, and the competition lived up to it. Fast, exciting, absorbing and scintillating. I'll never make fun of netball again. But that wasn't the only top-class event. Hockey, Diving, Rugby - all produced competition that was world-and-Olympic class, or not far off it, and some memorable matches. And there's a lot to be said for old rivalries - Oz V England, Scots V England, Aussies V Kiwis - for giving a spark to events. And the athletes seemed to be genuinely motivated and overjoyed to be there. This is one case where the athletes can well and truly take a bow. Well done! And I hope the anticipation of a real Ashes battle for the top of the medal table comes to fruition at Glasgow. The Poms will have no excuses, then.
Sports rating: A Plus
Operations: I suppose this is a bit of a catch-all category, and truth to tell, it was a mixed bag. Yes, crowds early on were a real problem. But just about every major games host in recent years bar Sydney and Vancouver struggled to fill up early and non-finals events. Even Barcelona, from personal recollection, had issues with some near-empty venues, and it didn't stop them being the contender, with Sydney, as the "best" games to date. That said, early attendance in Delhi was dire and I suppose just underlined the lack of Indian sporting enthusiasm and tradition. And really showed they should have moved heaven and earth to have Cricket there. But to be fair, crowds did pick up eventually, even if they only really seemed to "go off" at hockey. Ticketing was the other area, along with the preparations, that seemed to be a total shambles, no getting around that. Nobody ever seems to get ticketing totally right, but nobody has ever really got it as totally wrong as Kalmadi's team did. Those aside, apart from the occasional glitch, as happen at EVERY major games, things went reasonably well.
Operations rating: B. No disaster, again, but plenty of room to improve.
Overall: If I was a Samaranch, I think I'd take the lead of a few posters here already on other threads and label them "memorable". Not perfect (no games are), but not unsuccessful either and they sure surpassed expectations (not that expectations were high) by a mile. In the end these were a very Indian games, and like India, chaotic and at times confronting, but they worked. And ultimately, I'd say they left the CGF with a positive legacy. Certainly in a better state than those of, say, Edinburgh 86.
Rols' Overall Rating: A minus. What can I say? They left me wanting more. If the CWGs can achieve that, they came out ahead.
Highly inflated scores.
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The Games verdict will have to wait but they have passed and in many cases only just.
We need to rebuild games, says Fennell
Paul Mulvey
October 14, 2010 - 9:09PM AAP
The Commonwealth has some of the best athletes in the world.
It's just a shame they didn't come to the Commonwealth Games.
Getting them to future Games is the key to the event's viability.
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"It's a challenge. We have to ensure that we attract the best athletes," CGF president Mike Fennell said on the last day of the Delhi Games.
"The month of October, for the sport of athletics is not a good month, that was one of the elements which caused a lot of the big names not to be here.
"We have to look at the timing. Other competitors were turned off by the negative reports over security and other things. We have to project the product in a positive way.
"It's important to attract the best athletes and impress on them that it's important for their careers. We have to rebuild the brand ahead of Glasgow in 2014."
The Glasgow Games are being held in late July, a better time of the season for athletes, but a potential clash with the European athletics championships.
But Glasgow organisers have already been working with international sporting bodies to minimise clashes and potential withdrawals.
"We are at a different time of year, you can't underestimate the importance of that," Glasgow 2014 chief John Scott said.
Glasgow could present the future, as urged by Australian Commonwealth Games Association chief Perry Crosswhite who says the Games should scale down.
"I think you've probably got to look at whether the Commonwealth Games should be that big and whether it should have a huge opening ceremony," Crosswhite said during the Delhi Games.
From Delhi, a city of 17 million, the Games are handed over to Glasgow's 500,000 people.
The only two bids for the 2018 Games come from Gold Coast, also with a population of 500,000, and the Sri Lankan port town of Hambantota, population15,000.
From a main stadium in Melbourne in 2006 with a capacity of 100,000, Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium held 60,000, while Glasgow's Hampden Park will hold 46,000.
The Gold Coast bid will use Carrara Stadium with a capacity of 40,000.
"We think the future is pretty solid and the interest that's been shown by all the countries will continue to demonstrate the Commonwealth Games has a fixed place on the calendar of sports for the future," Fennell said.
But there seems to be a lack of interest, or variety, in bidding for the Games.
Gold Coast bid for the 2018 Games when the ACGA became concerned that it appeared the chaotic Nigerian capital Abuja was the only bid, until the Africans pulled out and Hambantota put in its unlikely application.
Delhi is only the third host city in 19 Commonwealth Games outside the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
Manchester in 2002, Melbourne 2006 and Glasgow 2014 are pretty much the same Games with a different accent.
Despite the controversies Delhi had in staging the Games, at least India gave them some personality, so perhaps it's time to send them more regularly to the developing countries which make up the vast majority of Commonwealth nations.
Whether they have the capacity to stage the Games and attract the best athletes would be a thorny issue.
South Africa has shown it can host World Cup soccer and World Cup rugby tournaments, so let's see a Cape Town Commonwealth Games.
Or perhaps, Hambantota.
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sandy track. Abuja could do better
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That guys used a giant pool scoop and what he picked up was either a gigantic moth or a debris. I watched it live.
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Please correct me. Is the living / residential zone for the Olympic Village planned on an island. Will it present similar security threats to the concerns around the NY and Tokyo Olympic Village or is this a completely different scenario?