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A new report on bidding for sports events shows that the cost to aspiring hosts is higher than ever. Developing Successful Strategies in Sports Events Bidding, quotes London 2012’s bid budget at £29 million; Sochi is said to have spent $60 million on its successful 2014 campaign and budgets for the 2016 summer Olympic Games bidders are rumoured to be as high $100 million. Cities feel they need to achieve ever higher technical standards and are investing more in PR and marketing.
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Madrid 2016 launched a new city-wide Madrid Sports Day, which will take place every second Sunday of June from this year onwards as part of the city’s commitment to hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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Japan stepped up its bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games with the launch of its new website. 
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Moscow and Singapore will fight it out for the right to host the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympics after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board shortlisted them from its original list of five candidates.
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Nascar CEO Brian France has called for the motorsport to ‘re-energise the bonds with our core fans’ after years of expansion into new US markets.
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The Singapore government has selected the Singapore Sports Hub Consortium (SSHC) led by Dragages Singapore Pte Ltd as the preferred bidder for the $800m Singapore Sports Hub project.
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The Motor Sport Business Forum has chosen Bahrain as its Middle East home for the next five years.
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The TOKYO 2016 Olympic Games Bid Committee unveiled its dynamic 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games concept with an exceptionally compact and green Games located in the very centre of Tokyo and at the heart of city life in Japan’s capital.
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Eurosport Events and FSTC Sports Management announced the launch in 2008 of a new Snooker 'World Series" to be run from May through August of each year.
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The Powerboat P1 World Championship announced its 2008 calendar with the introduction of five new venues, including its inaugural Grand Prix in the Middle East and first ever French and Spanish Grands Prix of the Sea.
Business

Over the next two weeks the first phase of the judging process for the Sport Industry Awards 2008 will take place during which the shortlist in each award category will be decided.
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Senior Tokyo 2016 officials personally delivered their city’s Application File to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016 to the International Olympic Committee at its Lausanne headquarters.
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Velocity Sports & Entertainment, the sports and entertainment marketing agency, added Patrice Desoteux to its UK senior management team.
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Rio de Janeiro unveiled details of its bid to stage the 2016 Olympic Summer Olympic Games, mostly using facilities built for last year's Pan-American Games.
Business

Thirteen major companies signed up as corporate supporters of Moscow’s bid to bring the 2010 Youth Olympic Games to Russia.
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The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Beijing this year could become the first sporting event to attract a record total live audience of one billion, according to a report by global media communications agency Initiative Sports Futures.
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Executives at Comcast-Spectacor, the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment firm, forecast technology playing an ever-increasing role in presenting, selling and communicating events in 2008.
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Canal Plus, Vivendi’s pay-television unit, has agreed to buy Occade Sport, the Lyon-based organiser of sporting events.