NEWS UPDATE
Sports theme park plans for Barcelona stadium
A new theme park is set to open on the site of the Barcelona Olympic Park. Scheduled for a 2015 launch, the 66,000sq m (710,000sq ft) park will be dedicated to sport and will occupy the current Olympic Stadium – the main venue of the 1992 Olympic Games – the Palau Sant Jordi sports hall, the Olympic and Sports Museum Juan Antonio Samaranch and the Bernat Picornell swimming pool.
Among 56 activities and attractions are simulators and other forms of interactive digital technology, giving visitors the experience of being elite athletes. Read more:
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Dubai could submit a bid as early as next year, if it wishes to host the 2024 Games Dubai to bid for Olympics ‘within next eight years’
The club had been looking for funds to improve its existing team facilities
Pompey fi rst club to use crowdfunding
Portsmouth FC has become the fi rst professional football club to successfully complete a crowdfunding facility project, having raised its target of £250,000 (US$417,000, €311,000). The club teamed up with specialist football fan-funding platform Tifosy to create new training facilities. The proposed new centre will sit alongside the club’s new fi rst- team training facility close to the Portsmouth Roko health club and enables the club’s youth team players to train in the vicinity of starting regulars.
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Ali Omar, director of Dubai Sports Council, has stated the emirate is planning to launch a bid to host the Olympic Games “within the next eight years”– possibly targeting the 2024 or 2028 Summer Games. Speaking to local media, Omar said a bid was very much “on the agenda”. “Hosting the Olympics is a dream,” he said. “We hope to submit such a bid within the next eight years, God willing.” In November 2013, the United Arab Emirates won the right to host the World Expo in Dubai in 2020 – the fi rst time the expo will be held in the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia. According to
Omar, Dubai’s successful Expo bid – and Qatar hosting the 2022 World Cup – has raised the profi le of the Gulf region as a destination for major events. “Qatar’s move put professional sports in the whole Gulf Arab region in the focus of the world’s attention,” Omar told Khaleej Times. “Further, Dubai winning the bid to host Expo 2020 defi nitely brings more world attention to this part of the world.” The Dubai bid has already garnered
support from sports leaders – former IOC president Jacques Rogge and Lord Coe are among those to have voiced their approval. Read more:
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London 2012 economic legacy worth £14bn
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have provided the UK economy with a trade and industry boost in excess of £14bn. The fi gure comes from the second annual update of the Inspired by 2012: The legacy from the Olympic and Paralympic Games published by the DCMS, the London Mayor and UK Trade and Investments.
The opening ceremony – an unforgettable occasion that kicked off the ever best Olympics
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Included in the £14.2bn are contract wins for UK businesses and additional sales and new foreign investment. Read more:
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