According to a press statement released by the CATERHAM F1 TEAM today, “Tony Fernandes and his partners have sold the team to a consortium of Swiss and Middle Eastern investors, advised by former F1 Team Principal Colin Kolles”
The Statement also revealed that Under the terms of the sale, the team will continue to race as Caterham F1 Team and will remain based at Leafield for the foreseeable future.
The new ownership takes charge with immediate effect. Former Dutch F1 driver, Christijan Albers, assisted by Manfredi Ravetto, will take over the day-to-day running of the team, reporting directly to the board and replacing Cyril Abiteboul who will leave the team to pursue new challenges.
Christijan Albers:”We are aware of the huge challenge ahead of us given the fight at the bottom end of the Championship and our target now is to aim for tenth place in the 2014 Championship. We are very committed to the future of the team and we will ensure that the team has the necessary resources to develop and grow and achieve everything it is capable of.”
Shanghai’s magnificent Oriental Sports Center, which hosted the 2011 FINA World Championships, will provide the backdrop to spectacular performances on July 15-20 during the 19th FINA Diving World Cup, which will gather the best divers in action, Olympic and World medallists from previous championships.
The six-day competition, held every two years, has nine events on the programme: women’s and men’s 3m springboard and 10m platform, individual and synchro. This year’s edition also features a Team Event.
ISAF is seeking a modern, lightweight catamaran designed with spinnaker and daggerboards to be used at future editions of the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship.
ISAF Youth Sailing
Following the selection of the Nacra 17 for use at the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition, ISAF Council adopted submission 052-13 at the 2013 ISAF Annual Conference which sought to determine the most appropriate multihull for use at the ISAF Youth Worlds.
An important aspect of the ISAF Youth Worlds is that all the equipment is supplied to competitors so the selected manufacturer will be required to supply and maintain at their cost the multihull equipment for the event each year. Key criteria include that the equipment represents a clear pathway to the Olympic Games, is cost effective, visually appealing and athletically challenging for competitors.
A request for information has been published here and ISAF seeks applications by 15 August 2014. Further information is available in the request for information.
Students from Europe and Oceania selected to study at state-of-the-art Russian International Olympic University
The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) today reinforced its commitment to disseminating best practice amongst its 204 member NOCs as it awarded two students from the Republic of Moldova and Vanuatu scholarships to study on the Master of Sport Administration (MSA) course at the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU).
The two full scholarships – provided courtesy of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation – have been awarded to Natalia Brebu, Secretary General of the Moldovan Tennis Federation, and Trevor Toka, National Sports Programmes Coordinator, Research Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Youth Development Sports and Training. The scholars were proposed by their countries’ NOCs following ANOC’s call for applications through the NOC network in March earlier this year.
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ANOC President Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah commented:
“We are delighted to be able to offer these two scholarships to Natalia Brebu and Trevor Toka.
The National Olympic Committees of the Republic of Moldova and Vanuatu, like many NOCs, do not always enjoy the same opportunities that the bigger, more established NOCs are afforded.
It is our job at ANOC to ensure that all 204 NOCs – big and small – receive the very highest level of service and are given access to Olympic best practice so they can continue to grow and develop.
The RIOU scholarships are an excellent way of doing this and we thank Vladimir Potanin and his foundation for providing this opportunity.”
This will be the second year that ANOC has awarded scholarships to study the MSA course to its members with Evelyn Hopp from the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), Jorge Mario Marroquín Menéndez from Guatemala and Llanga Pathirathnalage Wijeratne from the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka all taking part in the inaugural course in the last academic year.
RIOU Rector Professor Lev Belousov said:
“We are very pleased that ANOC will continue to have a presence at RIOU next year. Just last week the ANOC scholars on the inaugural MSA, along with their fellow students, received qualifications after they successfully completed the inaugural programme. Now we look ahead with excitement to next year’s intake of students who – just as those that have just graduated – will benefit from our state-of-the-art campus, excellent facilities and world-class lecturers.”
The National Under-17 team, Golden Eaglets would depart Abuja for Cairo on Wednesday for a two-tie international friendly match against their Egyptian counterparts.
A squad of 25 players and nine officials breezed into Abuja from their base in Calabar on Tuesday en route to Cairo.
Also expected on the trip is Coach Siji Lagunju, the chief technical officer at the Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF).
The tune up friendly was at the instance of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Egyptian Football Association (EFA) ahead of their team’s African U-17 Championship qualifiers.
Golden Eaglets
While the Golden Eaglets were drawn by into the second round of the CAN Under-17 qualifiers for Niger 2015, the Junior Pharaohs dispatched Sudan 7-3 on aggregate in the first round and they would respectively meet Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo respectively later this month.
Last May ,the Golden Eaglets handed a 3-2 and 3-1 defeat to the Junior Pharaohs in Kaduna and the return leg in Cairo would see the two sides do battle twice again on July 4th and 6th.
Before departing Kaduna last time, Egypt’s coach Gamiel Mohammed Ali vowed to pay back Nigeria in their own coins and it remains to be seen how that is plausible on the strength of Golden Eaglets rich vein of form.
“We are expecting a more difficult game in Cairo,”stated Prince Udofia, Golden Eaglets’ coordinator. “Of course, the Egyptians would want to avenge their last defeats against us but our team has really improved over time.
“It is going to be competitive and I think it would be good preparatory matches for our qualifiers against Congo,” he added.
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