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The All England Club has released plans for the new-look No 1 Court at Wimbledon. Work on the £70m reconstruction will begin after this year’s championships, and it will first be used in 2019. Just like Centre Court, the new No 1 Court – designed by Sir Robert McAlpine, the company behind London’s Olympic Stadium […]
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The first proposed host venue of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, Khalifa International Stadium, has been completed a full five years before the tournament begins, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC), the organisation responsible for delivering the infrastructure required to host the tournament, has announced. Speaking on the launch of Qatar’s first […]
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The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) yesterday announced the award of the main contractor for Al Wakrah Stadium to Midmac in a joint venture with Porr Qatar. Located about 15km south of Doha, the 40,000-seat stadium was designed taking the dhow boats that carried Qatari fishermen and pearl divers as inspiration. It will […]
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On December 2, 2010 the world woke up to the reality of a changing sporting dynamic exemplified by Qatar winning the bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The stunning success came in Qatar’s first attempt, sending shockwaves across football’s traditional bastions and evoking awe and curiosity, besides triggering off a predictable maelstrom of […]
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A leading lighting expert with experience in illuminating major stadiums across the world said that the project at Khalifa International Stadium will be something completely unique. “We were just recently awarded the contract for state-of-the-art LED pitch lighting for Khalifa International Stadium. We have done this for Stamford Bridge Chelsea, PSV Eindhoven, Amsterdam Arena, STVV […]
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Football’s ruling body FIFA yesterday confirmed the dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar while a news conference with its president Joseph Blatter was cancelled on short notice. The news conference, to be the first in two months for the outgoing Blatter, was cancelled five minutes before its planned start. Instead FIFA issued a statement on […]
Read MoreFrance will host the 25th Men’s Handball World Championship in 2017 and the road to France has already started in Qatar. Both finalists — France and Qatar — are the first two teams to be confirmed participants of this event, which will be staged from January 16 to 29, 2017, in ten cities throughout France. […]
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