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Spyros Capralos has been re-elected President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee for a third four-year term. Capralos was the only candidate for the presidency and received 22 out of 22 votes.

The Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) today welcomed its third intake of students for its flagship educational programme: RIOU’s Master of Sport Administration (MSA), with praise for the ground-breaking course coming from the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Secretary General, Gunilla Lindberg.

The 2015 Glasgow European Judo Open will be held on 10th October 2015 at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow for the third consecutive year.

Olympics silver medallist Javier Gomez punched his ticket to a third Olympics, while Gwen Jorgensen will toe the line at her second Olympics, as both athletes won the 2015 Triathlon Test Event on iconic Copacabana Beach on Sunday.

British Weight Lifting’s Micky Yule achieved an international personal best of 190kg in his third and final lift at the 2015 IPC Powerlifting Asia Open Championships yesterday (Monday 27 July) to finish in fifth place at the latest Rio 2016 qualifying event in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Local favourite Johnie Berntsson (SWE) and his Berntsson Sailing Team took full advantage of the champagne sailing conditions in Marstrand today with six wins out of seven races in Qualifying at Stena Match Cup Sweden, the third World Championship Event of the 2015 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT). 

Reigning FEI World Cup™ and world champion Boyd Exell (AUS) won the third leg of the FEI World Cup™ Driving held in Stockholm (SWE) last night leaving home driver Fredrik Persson and young Belgian Glenn Geerts behind.

There was a frenzy of French excitement at the third leg of the Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2014/2015 Western European League in Lyon today when the reigning FEI European individual champion, Roger Yves Bost, emerged victorious on home ground.