Paula Radcliffe and Dennie Phelps / GettyImages
Paula Radcliffe and Dennie Phelps / GettyImages

THE NEIL WILSON COLUMN / An exclusive, authoritative series from Sports Features Communications
LONDON, Jul 27: Seated alongside UK Athletics’ chief coach Charles van Commenee, sprinter Dwain Chambers, the IAAF world indoor 60 metres champion, was paraded before the world’s media by UK Athletics in Barcelona this week as one of their prospective medallists at the European championships.
The Annecy region has one of the purest lakes in all Europe / Annecy 2018
PyeongChang: bright future ahead for the region
THE JOHN GOODBODY COLUMN / An authoritative and exclusive series from Sports Features Communications
KEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications
LONDON/MUNICH, Jul 17: Willy Bogner has rejected suggestions of a crisis over Munich’s 2018 Winter Olympics bid. Bogner, bid ceo, was responding to media questions after claims of a disagreement over proposals for the involvement of nearby Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The unique feature of the Munich bid is that, if it beat off competition from Annecy and PyeongChang when the IOC votes next July it would be the first city to have hosted both summer and winter Games. But that involves staging some ice events at Konigsee as well as Alpine events in Garmisch.
Willy Bogner: trying to take Munich's bid forward / lake images
Willy Bogner: trying to take Munich's bid forward / lake images
Fifty year homage to the 1960 Olympics / Image: CONI

LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
TAMPA/MUNICH, July 15: Stakeholders of the Munich 2018 Olympic bid gave a unanimous thumbs-up to a 10 per cent budget rise taking it to €33 million.
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