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RIOU announces 20 scholarships on launch on Sports Administration Masters

  • House of Russia

By David Gold at Russia.Park in Kensington Gardens in LondonJuly 31 - The Foundation of Vladimir Potanin, chairman of the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) Supervisory Board, will award 20 scholarships to deserving students studying the new Master of Sport Administration (MSA) course.

United Kingdom's Minister of State for Universities and Science David Willetts and International Ice Hockey



Preparing for Winter Games is akin to building a small city, Sochi 2014 chief tells conference

  • GSIC 2012

By David Gold at Russia.Park in Kensington Gardens in LondonAugust 2 - Sochi 2014 chief executive and President Dmitry Chernyshenko told delegates here today at the Global Sports Industry Congress that preparing for the Winter Olympic and Paralympics is like building a small city.

related to the infrastructure for the Games.Construction work takes place on the Bolshoi Ice Dome ice hockey


Preparing for Winter Games is akin to building a small city, Sochi 2014 chief tells conference

  • Sochi 2014

By David Gold at Russia.Park in Kensington Gardens in LondonAugust 2 - Sochi 2014 chief executive and President Dmitry Chernyshenko told delegates here today at the Global Sports Industry Congress that preparing for the Winter Olympic and Paralympics is like building a small city.

the infrastructure for the Games.Construction work takes place on the Bolshoi Ice Dome ice hockey


Comprehensive victory over Belgium puts Britain on brink of medal contention

  • Hockey

By David Gold at the Riverbank Arena on the Olympic Park in London August 2 - Britain's women's hockey

I've learnt through the years that it's not going to be brilliant hockey all the time."

Belgium have probably been the fastest improving side in international hockey over the past couple of


London 2012 bus driver arrested after cyclist killed at Olympic Park

  • London 2012

By Duncan Mackay at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 1 - The driver of a London 2012 vehicle has been arrested after a cyclist was killed in a collision on the slip road outside the Main Press Centre (MPC) on the edge of the Olympic Park here tonight.

The crash happened close to the Olympic Hockey Centre, Velodrome and Paralympic tennis arena.Buses taking


Home celebrations as rowers Glover and Stanning earn Team GB maiden gold medal of London 2012

  • Rowing

By Mike Rowbottom at Eton Dorney LakeAugust 1 - Helen Glover and Heather Stanning crossed the line here just before noon today amid a torrent of deep-throated, patriotic sound to register not just the first ever Olympic gold for British women's rowing, but the first home gold of the London 2012 Games.

oarswomen, but for a system.Stanning and Glover, a PE teacher from Penzance who had previously excelled at hockey


RIOU announces 20 scholarships on launch on Sports Administration Masters

  • Sochi 2014

By David Gold at Russia.Park in Kensington Gardens in LondonJuly 31 - The Foundation of Vladimir Potanin, chairman of the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU) Supervisory Board, will award 20 scholarships to deserving students studying the new Master of Sport Administration (MSA) course.

United Kingdom's Minister of State for Universities and Science David Willetts and International Ice Hockey


Blanco surprised by Spain’s early exit from Olympics

  • Football

By David GoldJuly 31 - The President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Alejandro Blanco, has admitted his surprise at the men's football team's early exit from the London 2012 Olympics.

Madrid 2020 press conference last week"Spain has possibilities in basketball, handball, water polo, hockey


More than two million fans see London 2012 events in first three days, figures show

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 31 - More than two million people have already watched Olympic events during the first three days of London 2012, statistics published today revealed, giving a welcome boost to organisers under fire for empty seats at some venues.

A good example was the Team GB hockey game yesterday when all accredited seating was gone."

But we saw yesterday on hockey that actually most of the British spectators also left after the GB [hockey


Andrew Warshaw: Britain earns bragging rights over Argentina in latest sporting skirmish, this time on actual "home soil"

  • Inside the Blogs

politics can, with a collective will, take a back seat.As grudges matches go, the Group A preliminary hockey

Sporting clashes between the two countries rarely need an extra edge but tonight's hockey encounter was

the focal point.A state-supported television advertisement featured former Argentine hockey skipper

We kept it sporting, how hockey should be played."

Argentine skipper Matias Vila was equally gracious: "This is just sport, a hockey match.



Russian International Olympic University course will absorb legacy of Sochi 2014

  • Sochi 2014

By David GoldJuly 29 - The chief executive of the Russian International Olympic University (RIOU), Professor Lev Belousov, has told insidethegames that the new master's course the university is launching tomorrow in London will absorb the legacy of Sochi 2014.

Athletics Championships will be held in Moscow next year, and the city will also stage the IIHF World Ice Hockey


Australia launches campaign to help further its involvement in major sports events

  • London 2012

By David Gold at the Australian High Commission in LondonJuly 28 - A campaign was launched here today by Australia to help the country continue to win major contracts in the planning and organisation of major sports events.

", including the Olympic Village, the army of volunteers supporting the Games and the blue and pink hockey