Tour de France: Rui Costa to the punch with Spanish

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Tour de France: Rui Costa to the punch with Spanish The corridor Spaniard Carlos Barredo (QuickStep) tried this Friday attacking the Portuguese Rui Costa (Caisse d'Epargne) with a bicycle wheel, and the two then engaged in a dogfight scene, after the sixth stage of Tour de France.
Both cyclists were fined by the commissioners of the race at 400 Swiss francs (535 euros) for misconduct and assault, but were not expelled, something that could have happened if the incidents had occurred in competition.
"These are things of the race due to tension. We lost our heads. I know that my attitude was not correct and I take the penalty. These things should not happen," said Barredo.
After exchanging blows, the runners were separated by other elements present in the target zone.

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Italian Lampre leads

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Alessandro Petacchi, 36, was faster than all his younger colleagues in the calmer days of the Tour.
The hearts of the cyclists do not take any more excitement and therefore the short trip between Cambrai and Reims (153.5 km) was a peaceful ride, excited by the fugitives of the day. Dimitri Champion (AG2R), Iban Mayoz (Footon-Servetto), Nicolas Vogondy (bbox-Bouygues Telecom), Francis De Greef (Omega Pharma-Lotto) and Inaki Isasi (Euskaltel) has not waited for the final sprint of the peloton and immediately jumped to the first pedaling.
The teams of the sprinters, tired of falls and missed opportunities, would not lose one more chance to discuss how the step should be. With Cervelo to lead the chase so the escapees were swallowed to enter the final ten kilometers. The conditions seemed ideal for a fight between two giants of the greatest sprint: Mark Cavendish and Thor Hushovd.
But what was supposed to be a sprint two was merely a struggle of small nudges, ignored by Alessandro Petacchi who, on his return to the tour, he returned to find their way to victory. "Ale Jet" looks like a young man of 36 years, immune to the passage of years, and the prolonged absence of major international race velocipede.
In five days, the Italian Lampre leads already won two stages, and is a serious candidate for the green jersey. The other, the yellow remains securely in the body of Fabian Cancellara.

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Successful or not, the Spanish national team will parade in Madrid

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Win or lose the 2010 World Cup final next Sunday against the Netherlands, the Spanish national team football will parade the streets of Madrid on Monday.

"Whatever the final outcome of the capital will make the selection party," reads a statement released today by the municipality of Madrid.
"The city council organized in collaboration with the Spanish Football Federation, a large reception to the players as a sign of support and admiration unanimous," also refers to the municipality.
The Spanish victory in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup against Germany (1-0) was celebrated by thousands of people throughout the night in Madrid. The final between Spain and Holland will be held at 19:30 (Lisbon time) next Sunday (broadcast live on RTP1)

 

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The Man Of Team Columbia

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After days of disappointments, the man of Team Columbia responded to the perfect work of his team reaching 11. Nd won stages in Tour
The "bad boy" of the sprint is back and at the highest level. Shut up the critics that Mark Cavendish win the Tour again, relaunching its aura of best sprinter in the peloton. The merit will have to share it with your team, Team Columbia, relentless in pursuit of flight of the day and preparing to attack the goal.
The train of "Cav", co-author of his seven wins in last year's edition, left the priest himself, only in the final meters, as with most rivals out of the fight. And this time, the British did not waste the work of their colleagues and hit the goal line Boasson Hagen and Gerald Ciolek to secure their first victory this year, 11. º in three editions of the "Grande Boucle".
But the rider of Team Columbia was not the only star of the day. Highlights were also Jurgen van de Walle (QuickStep), Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne) ae Julian El Fares (Cofidis), who jumped from the peloton at km 13 and fought until the final ten kilometers. The last of the "brave" to give up the trail was the Spanish champions, who with a mission to find a sponsor to ensure the continuity of the Caisse d'Epargne in mind, withstood up to four kilometers from the target.
In the serene leadership continues Fabian Cancellara, immune to the confusions of the league.

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The loss for the 2010 World Cup can go to € 750,000,000

 


Between what has been invested and the direct revenue, can South Africa have a loss of approximately EUR 750 million with the 2010 World Cup.
  Still, the president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma,wants his country to the race for the Olympic Games in 2020.

 There are a total of 10 stadium in nine cities, four of them renovated and six specially built for the World Cup, some of them in cities that do not have a team of top flight football or rugby. "Some of these stages simply not able to cover the costs. In this sense they are losing money,"  said in the past months, the Daily Mail & Guardian, the economist Stan du Plessis, University of Stellenbosch. 

The South African government has invested about 2.6 billion dollars in the World Cup stadiums, two of them in small towns of Nelspruit and Polokwane, to just four games in the group stage, an unreasonable burden for many analysts. 

According to them, what they intend to do is to organize a schedule of activities such as concerts or sporting events, monetize the building. Cape Town now has a spectacular stadium, which cost more than $ 400,000,000.

In turn,  Port Elizabeth stadium, which is known by the premiere game of Portugal and the Ivory Coast (0-0) ,cost 160 million dollars and no one knows what is its future after the World Cup. However, the city is considering attract some professional team to take their seat.

According to Stan du Plessis, the only stadium in Durban and Soweto, Soccer City, will be long-term profitable.

The calculations were presented on Friday by Finance Minister of South Africa

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