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Paralympics: Maintaining the post-London 2012 momentum
Craig Spence, the IPC’s communications and media director, explains how last summer's Paralympic Games affected the governing body and the motivation for launching the new IPC Athletics Grand Prix series. Read more...
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London's Euroleague Final Four: the verdict
A certain game of soccer this weekend may be the only major European final taking place in May of any interest to the majority of London-based sports fans but not so for the city’s basketball lovers. For earlier this month the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four rolled into town. Read more...
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Rugby sevens: How and why Russia are promoting the short-form game
SportsPro caught up with Vyacheslav Kopiev, president of the Rugby Union of Russia, at Twickenham Stadium during May’s Marriott London Sevens to find out how preparations for the 2013 RWC Sevens in Moscow are going and discuss the wider potential of a sport poised to make its Olympic debut in 2016 in the country. Read more...
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Why Hayley McQueen believes Lionel Messi is the world’s most marketable athlete
Ahead of the release of SportsPro’s World’s Most Marketable Athletes list, we caught up with Sky Sports News presenter Hayley McQueen at last month’s Soccerex European Forum to get her take on a selection of the world’s most marketable athletes. Read more...
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Allan Padgett on the benefits of Tour Tracker
The product of six years and more than 50,000 hours of development and testing by a team of expert engineers, Tour Tracker has become professional cycling’s premier online and mobile race coverage platform. Lead developer and company founder Allan Padgett explains why it is a turn-key solution unrivalled within the marketplace. Read more...
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Stephen Vaughan: Why Gloucester is a perfect RWC 2015 host
The organisers of the 2015 Rugby World Cup today confirmed the 13 host venues for the tournament. Among the final shortlist, which includes seven soccer-specific stadia and only two rugby grounds, is Gloucester Rugby’s Kingsholm Stadium. Following today’s announcement SportsPro caught up with the club’s managing director Stephen Vaughan to get his reaction. Read more...
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Tom Barnes: Introducing the all-new IMG Sport Video Archive
The IMG Sport Video Archive, which manages, markets and distributes the world’s largest dedicated sports library, is now offering its vast selection of content for the first time via a new online video platform. Ahead of the platform’s launch on Wednesday, SportsPro caught up with Tom Barnes, the archive’s international sales manager, to discuss what’s in store. Read more...
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Why Land Rover opted for the Extreme Sailing Series
The Extreme Sailing Series has announced Land Rover as one of its main partners for the next three years. As the ink was drying on the most important sponsorship contract in the series’ seven year history, Mark Turner, the owner of OC Sport, the sports marketing and management firm which runs Extreme Sailing, sat down with SportsPro to talk through the partnership. Read more...
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Arnoud Fiolet: The European Turf Group
Arnoud Fiolet is the managing partner of the Netherlands-based European Turf Group (ETG), a young enterprise that aims to connect stadium contractors with artificial turf suppliers around the world whilst educating the marketplace about the latest product innovations on offer. Read more...
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Andy Robinson: How Liverpool are enhancing the Anfield experience
Liverpool Football Club have today announced a partnership with US wireless network providers Xirrus to install a Wi-Fi network in Anfield’s Centenary Stand ahead of their Premier League clash with West Ham United on Sunday. Andy Robinson, Liverpool FC’s head of digital media and technology, explains the what, why and how of the new system. Read more...
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