Leave the streets of Reykjavik behind and head out onto the Sólheimajökull Glacier and the surrounding snow-covered mountains on a snowmobile.

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he FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa is an international event with great historic importance to the African continent. It will be the first FIFA World Cup ever to be hosted in Africa since the competition began in 1934, and I am convinced that Africa is ready to welcome this momentous FIFA World Cup with open arms. I am also convinced that the host nation, South Africa, will be up to the task, not least because it has abundant potential and resources. The experiences acquired during the hosting of the 1995 Rugby World Cup and the United Nations summit in Johannesburg in 2002 will stand the co...

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The BWF World Championships is held every year except for the year of an Olympic Games. It is a showcase of the very best in the sport and it determines who are the World Champions in each of the five disciplines – men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

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he Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be a new highlight on the world’s sporting calendar. A pioneering initiative by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the YOG will be an Olympic Games for 14-18 year olds. Featuring 26 sports, including some innovative ones such as beach wrestling and BMX biking, the YOG will showcase the best the world's youth has to offer. The successful host city can expect to welcome up to 3,200 athletes and 800 officials during the maximum 12-day Summer Games period. But the Games will be about much more than sport. There will be a whole range of educatio...

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he 5th World Conference on Women and Sport will be held in 2010 in Sydney, Australia.It is being organised under the auspices of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) with the support of NSW Sport and Recreation, University of Technology Sydney and Sydney Olympic Park Authority.It follows those conferences held in Brighton, U.K. (1994); Windhoek, Namibia (1998), Montreal, Canada (2002) and Kumamoto, Japan (2006).The Organising Committee will publish information on this site in relation to dates, venues, themes etc as soon as it becomes available. To keep up to date with all...

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Bahrain will host the 2010 International Children's Games, the president of the International Children's Games (ICG), Torsten Rasch, said yesterday in Iceland. "The Manama 2010 ICG Bid Committee communicated a strong bid presentation that convinced the ICG Assembly of their ability to host the World's Youth in the Kingdom of Bahrain," he said during the ICG general assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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he Grand Slams are the four most prestigious competitions in tennis - the Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. The ITF sanctions and works closely with the four Grand Slams through its presence on the Grand Slam Committee, and supports each event with administrative, officiating and media services. Four of the ITF’s leading National Associations - Tennis Australia, the French Tennis Federation, the United States Tennis Association and, in the case of Wimbledon, a joint Committee of Management consisting of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club and the Lawn T...

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This event is "a Gaudi", Bavarian for fantastic fun, as four-person teams career down an iced piste at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on ancient peasant sleighs.

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FIM World Championship Supercross comes to Qwest Field in Seattle for the fifteenth race of the season.

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he World Equestrian Games are comprised of the world championships for eight equestrian sports. The Games are held every four years, two years prior to the Olympic Games, and are governed by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The World Equestrian Games are comprised of the world championships for eight equestrian sports- jumping, dressage, eventing, driving, reining, vaulting, endurance and para dressage. The Games are held every four years, two years prior to the Olympic Games, and are governed by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). The FEI is the i...

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