Articles tagged ‘Sports’
Wimbledon
By Chris | May 3rd, 2008 |
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The Wimbledon Tennis Championships played on the famous grass courts of the All England Club in southwest London are one of the highlights of the sporting year in Britain and probably the most coverted titles to win for any tennis player.
The tournament at Wimbledon lasts for two weeks, this year from 23 June-6 July 2008, [...]
London Marathon
By Chris | April 10th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
This Sunday 13 April sees the 28th annual running of the London Marathon. Around 46,000 runners will attempt to complete the 26 miles and 385 yards from Blackheath near Greenwich to the finish on The Mall a few hundred yards in front of Buckingham Palace, and in the process draw hundreds of thousands of spectators [...]
The University Boat Race
By Chris | March 24th, 2008 | Add a Comment »
The 154th Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities will take place this Saturday 29 March 2008, starting at 5.15pm. One of the sporting indicators that Spring has arrived, the Boat Race takes place over a 4.25 mile stretch of the River Thames from Putney to Mortlake.
Coxed crews of eight represent each university and the [...]
Brazil-Sweden Tickets
By Chris | March 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tickets for the Brazil v Sweden football friendly at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium are now on general sale to the public. The game is taking place on Wednesday 26 March 2008 with kickoff at 7.45pm.
This is Brazil’s third trip to the Emirates in the last couple of years and the previous two games have had a [...]
London to stage NFL games from 2008-10
By Chris | February 3rd, 2008 | Add a Comment »
The NFL has announced that London will host a regular season game in each of the next three years with the 2008 game being the New Orleans Saints v San Diego Chargers taking place at Wembley Stadium on 26 October.
Last October Wembley staged the first regular season NFL game outside of North America when [...]
Brazil to play Sweden at the Emirates
By Chris | January 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brazil are returning to London to play Sweden in a friendly football international on Wednesday 26th March 2008 with the game taking place at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. This will be the third year in a row that the Brazilian national team have played at the Emirates, they beat Argentina 3-0 there in September 2006 and [...]
London weekend football
By Chris | December 14th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
It’s another important football weekend with this week’s big game taking place at the Emirates Stadium where Premiership leaders Arsenal take on the oligarch’s plaything aka Chelsea on Sunday. Arsenal are over due a victory against Abramovich’s boys but injuries made the possibility look unlikely. Now it seems key players Cesc Fabregas and Robin van [...]
BlackRock Masters Tennis 2007
By Chris | December 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Royal Albert Hall is generally known as a fantastic venue for music and concerts but this week it will be staging one of its occasional sporting events when the BlackRock Masters Tennis tournament takes place from 4-9 December.
Its the season ending event of the BlackRock Tour of Champions and features a field of 12 [...]
Design for London’s Olympic Stadium unveiled
By Chris | November 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Britain’s Olympic Delivery Authority today unveiled the design for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium which will be the centre piece of the Olympic park that is being built over the next five years at Stratford in East London.
Its going to be an 80,000 seater although once the games have finished 55,000 will be removed [...]
The NFL Explained
By Chris | October 26th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The ground-breaking first regular season NFL game outside of North America takes place at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday and it’ll be interesting to see how much attention it draws from the British media and casual sports fan. Not a great deal would be my guess, even though the game’s a sellout and there are [...]
