Triathlon Championship Season Begins in Sydney
The 2010 International Triathlon Union season begins on Sunday.
Sydney, the first Olympic venue for triathlon, is the first stop on the 2010 ITU World Championship Series.
This is the second season of the world championship series. Instead of one world championship event, seven races are contested to determine the triathlon world champion.
Each race in the series will be broadcast live to more than 100 countries. A total of $2.85 million in prize money will be awarded during the series.
A new partnership between the ITU and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, the charitable arm of the Laureus World Sports Academy was unveiled on Friday. For at least the next two seasons, Laureus will be the charity partner of ITU. Funds raised will go to projects bringing sport to thousands of young people around the world.
First Woman to Lead Curling Federation
Kate Caithness of Scotland defeated incumbent Les Harrison of Canada to become the next president of the World Curling Federation.
Caithness won the election on Wednesday at WCF General Assembly in Cortina d’Ampezzo. She is the first woman to lead the WCF.
Harrison told the Times & Transcript in Canada that election came down to politics and Europeans wanting more control over the affairs of the federation.
"It was a changing of the guard dictated by politics," Harrison told the paper. "They wanted a change and they managed to make it."
Harrison, 68, served two terms as WCF president. He was involved in the WCF for the past 15 years.
Caithness previously served vice president of the federation. Her involvement in curling started in the 1980s. She led the charge for wheelchair curling to join the Paralympics.
In addition to elections, the WCF General Assembly voted to allow electric wheelchairs at events and to not reduce games from 10 to eight ends.
Nearly 200 Dead in Rio
Floods and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro have killed 183 people, according to rescue workers in Rio. However, that number is expected to climb steeply as crews begin excavation work at a favela where 200 people are missing.
The rain in Rio has let up, for now. Forecasts predict partly cloudy weather through the weekend.
Record breaking levels of rain caused massive flooding earlier in the week.
Billy Payne Guidance for Tiger Woods
Former Atlanta Olympics chief Billy Payne steps back into the spotlight every year now around this time as chairman of Augusta National, where the Masters is being played thisweek.
With the return of Tiger Woods as the leading storyline so far, Payne could not resist taking the world number-one golfer to task for his peccadilloes in comments at the chairman’s press conference Wednesday of Masters week.
"It is not simply the degree of his conduct that is so egregious here; it is the fact that he disappointed all of us, and more importantly, our kids and our grandkids.
"We at Augusta hope and pray that our great champion will begin his new life here [today] in a positive, hopeful and constructive manner - with a significant difference from the past," said Payne in his opening remarks, unprompted by any question about Woods from the press.
The moralizing about a player’s private life is believed to be a first for a Masters press conference – and has generated a wave of comment from around the world.
George Vescey of the New York Times delivers a savage riposte titled "Thanks for the Tasteless Sermon".
USA Today columnist Mike Lopresti takes a more measured view.
"There is nothing on God’s earth more loathsome than a golf club chairman," is the conclusion of Mike Norrish of the Daily Telegraph in London.
Snow Leopard Calls it Quits
Ghana’s first Olympic skier is retiring.
Kwame Nkrumah Achampong said in an interview Friday "I don't think I would want to go through the whole process again, so that was my first and last ever Olympics, somebody else will have the privilege of representing Ghana in future Olympics."
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Vancouver Lost & Found Closes
Around the Rings editor Ed Hula will never see his black umbrella that he brought to Vancouver Olympics
The lost and found for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games closes on Friday at 4 p.m. local time. In order to reclaim at the facility on West Broadway Road, a person must describe the item and provide details on when and where they lost it.
Red mittens, umbrellas and cameras are some of the 4,300 items at the lost and found. Any unclaimed items will be sold or given to charity by Network of Intercity Community Services, which is the organization VANOC contracted to handle lost items.
Hula has given up hope of ever seeing his black umbrella again, a sturdy collapsible from premier London umbrella purveyor James Smith & Sons.
"I am just glad it will be going to people who need it – if it is there," said Hula.
Written by Ed Hula III, Ed Hula and Sam Steinberg.
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