Archives for Sport
February 17th, 2012
The Spanish football team, champions of Europe and the world, retains their position as strong leaders in the FIFA World Ranking, in which Germany placed second, bumping the Netherlands into third position, ahead of Uruguay and England, completing the Top 5. The ranking recorded major changes in its top positions, as ...
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November 2nd, 2011
Seven days after his victory in Castellón, García becomes the first Spaniard to triumph at Valderrama. The Spanish golfer entered into the history books of the Valderrama Club this past weekend, being awarded the Andalucia Master of Golf II after presenting his match card with 71 shots (par) on the ...
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November 1st, 2011
The Aramón Group will kick off the 2011-2012 winter season, with more than thirty new attractions in its five ski resorts in Huesca and Teruel. This season, the company is to invest 2.2 million euros in improving the pistes and implementing the new features on each of them, using top ...
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October 25th, 2011
Tarragona will host the XVIII Mediterranean Games in 2017. The Catalan city beat the Egyptian nomination from Alexandria in a vote that took place last week in Mersin (Turkey), reported ABC News. These will be the third Mediterranean Games to be held in Spain, after Barcelona in 1955 and Almeria in ...
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July 13th, 2011
By winning the ninth round of the F1 season on Sunday, Fernando Alonso's 27th win of his career lifts him level with the great Jackie Stewart in fifth position in the all-time lists. The win was Ferrari's first victory of the season and also comes on the 60th anniversary of ...
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May 11th, 2011
Seve Ballesteros, golfing legend, and one of the most gifted players the sport has ever seen, died on Saturday, aged 54, after a long battle with cancer. His funeral will take place at the San Pedro parish church on Wednesday, in his home village of Pedrena in Cantabria. The Ballesteros family say ...
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April 27th, 2011
After verbal jousting, analysis of the 'psychological edge' and quotes from Albert Einstein, Real Madrid and Barcelona will meet for the third time in the space of 11 days tonight. The Bernabeu will play host to the first leg of a UEFA Champions League semi-final El Clasico which has all the ...
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April 15th, 2011
Real Madrid and Barcelona go head-to-head in La Liga on Saturday - the first of four encounters between the teams from now until May 3. Rarely have football fans been treated to such high-profile encounters within such a short space of time. The last match between the two bitter rivals was back ...
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March 30th, 2011
Spain's football league programme will go ahead this weekend after a Madrid court upheld a challenge from six breakaway clubs and blocked proposed strike action. "The court decides the official calendar for the first and second divisions should remain unaltered for the next round of matches," a statement from the court ...
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March 24th, 2011
The Spanish football league season might need an extension due to a threat by the National Professional Football League (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional - LFP) to postpone matches next month in a dispute with the government. The LFP says it is proceeding with a strike on the weekend of April ...
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