Brigita Langerholc

The 2010 20th European Athletics Championships will be held in Barcelona between July 27 th to August 1 st . The European Athletics Championships is the biggest event in the European Athletics’ competition programme. A record 1,368 athletes from 50 countries are entered for this year's event in Barcelona. The event is supported by European Athletics’ long-standing international partners SPAR, OMEGA, EPSON, LE GRUYÈRE and EUROVISION, along with a number of national partners and suppliers...Read Full Story

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The IAAF plans to cut more than $20 million in expenses the next three years, including $4 million in 2010, to weather the global financial crisis, a senior athletics source said Friday. Cuts would come from all areas of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) with the organization also hoping to benefit from an improved exchange rate between the dollar and the euro. The IAAF's executive board heard the proposals at a meeting in Monaco...Read Full Story

Despite calls for change by swimming's governing body, international sports bodies agreed Tuesday to maintain the revenue-sharing formula that will provide track and field with the biggest share of television money from the 2012 London Olympics. The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations, which represents the 26 sports on the London program, rejected a call Tuesday by swimming body FINA to change the criteria for distributing the projected $375 million in TV revenues. Under...Read Full Story

SALVO, North Carolina ( Reuters ) - The workload will be a little lighter when Usain Bolt goes for double gold at this year's world championships and the 2012 London Olympics . The Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion, like most other sprinters, will need to run only six races instead of the traditional eight he faced for a Beijing sprint double. A streamlined scheduled announced Tuesday for the London Games and already approved for the Daegu world championships shaves two races from...Read Full Story

DUBAI (Reuters) - The 28 Summer Olympic sports federations, feeling the squeeze from the global economic downturn, decided on Tuesday to review the way broadcast revenue from the Games are distributed. Federations taking part in London 2012 will share around $375 million from the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) TV deals. Athletics will get the biggest share with $35 million. Soccer, swimming, basketball, cycling, gymnastics, tennis and volleyball, ranked in group two, can expect about...Read Full Story