Monte-Carlo, Monaco – Hosts for the 2011 World Cross Country Championships and 2012 World Race Walking Cup were agreed during the second day of the IAAF Council Meeting in Monaco.

Council also heard progress reports from a number of future host cities, including the 2010 World Indoor Championships (Doha), the 2010 World Cross Country Championships (Bydgoszcz), the 2010 World Junior Championships (Moncton), the 2010 World Race Walking Cup (Chihuahua) and the 2011 World Championships in Athletics (Daegu).
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MONTE CARLO (Reuters) – Jamaican triple Olympic and world champion Usain Bolt headlines a group of nine athletes contracted to compete in the new Diamond League circuit next year, league organisers and the IAAF announced on Saturday.

Bolt’s chief rivals, compatriot Asafa Powell and American Tyson Gay, are also under contract for the 14 meetings.

Distance runner Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, pole vaulters Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and Australian Steve Hooker, women’s 400 metres sprinter Sanya Richards of the United States, high jumper Blanka Vlasic of Croatia and javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen of Norway are the other contracted athletes.

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Guangzhou- Indian Olympic Chief Suresh Kalmadi was reelected unopposed for the third consecutive term in Guangzhou, dureing the Asian Athletic Association’s 18th general body meeting.

Mr. Kalmadi was first elected in 2000 at Jakarta since then he has introduced many development projects in Asian Athletics including Asian All Star meet, Asian Indoor Championship and Asian Grand Prix series.

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BOSTON (PRNewswire-FirstCall) – Fenway Sports Group (FSG) today announced it has secured JetBlue Airways, Boston’s largest domestic carrier, as the official airline of Boston College Athletics. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

JetBlue’s sponsorship of the Eagles features fixed and electronic signage in Boston College athletic facilities including Alumni Stadium, home of Boston College football and Conte Forum, home of Boston College basketball and hockey. Additional sponsorship elements include on-field, on-court and on-ice promotions; a comprehensive online marketing program featuring rotating web banners and fixed advertising positions on bceagles.com; a branded email promotional campaign; and print advertisements in Boston College Athletic publications and in-game program guides.

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Monte-Carlo - After a careful review process which started over 9 months ago, the IAAF is delighted to announce that IEC in Sports (IEC) will become the new IAAF media partner for the territories of Europe and Africa for the period 2010-2013. The agreement will cover all IAAF World Athletic Series competitions.

The IAAF and IEC will immediately begin the process of selling rights in the relevant territories, with priority given to the upcoming events of 2010, starting with the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar (12-14 March).

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CINCINNATI- Procter & Gamble announced today a series of Team USA athlete marketing alliances that will extend through the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. This announcement comes shortly after P&G and the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced a 17 brand marketing partnership, across five USOC sponsorship categories for the 2010 and 2012 Games.

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Beijing will bid for the 2015 athletics world championships, Chinese media reported on Thursday, pitting the host of the 2008 Olympic Games with other contenders including Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro.

The city’s sports authority contacted IAAF officials in Berlin last month, and the world athletics governing body will soon come to check facilities, probably in October, Beijing sports bureau chief Sun Kanglin told the Beijing Youth Daily.

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Monte-Carlo – The IAAF is pleased to announce that it has concluded an attractive television rights agreement in Japan with Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) for the IAAF World Athletics Series competitions. With this new agreement covering all events through 2019, TBS becomes one of our longest standing partners. Since the Japanese commercial broadcaster first became an Official IAAF Broadcaster in 1997, TBS has introduced state of the art production and broadcasting and has consistently provided world class programming in Japan. The agreement covers all events of the IAAF World Athletics Series across all media platforms in Japan.

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Berlin, Germany – The IAAF is delighted to announce the continuation of its partnership agreement with Seiko as a worldwide sponsor of the IAAF World Athletic Series of competitions.

The renewal was brokered by Dentsu, the IAAF’s worldwide marketing partner for the World Athletics Series which includes the biennial IAAF World Championships in Athletics, the pinnacle of the sport’s global competition programme.
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Artificial Life today announced a partnership agreement with the Berlin Organising Committee 2009 GmbH (BOC 2009 GmbH) to implement MoPA-TV(TM), the company’s innovative cross platform technology at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics berlin 2009(TM) to entertain the audience in the Olympiastadion Berlin and at event sites in the City of Berlin.

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