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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded SKY Network Television Ltd the right to broadcast the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014, and the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016.  SKY has acquired the broadcast rights on all media platforms in the following territories: New Zealand , Cook Islands , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Nauru , Niue, Palau , Independent State of Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tonga , Tuvalu and Vanuatu .  IOC President Thomas Bach said: “The IOC is delighted to have reached this agreement with SKY. With 13 medals, the New Zealand Olympic team enjoyed one of its strongest ever performances at London 2012 . We look forward to working with SKY to ensure that fans in the region will enjoy fantastic broadcast coverage of their athletes competing in Sochi and Rio .”   IOC Finance Commission Chairman Richard Carrión , who led the negotiations, ...

The aircraft, registered as ET-AQW was operating on flight number ET815 from Addis via Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar and back to Addis. Arusha residents have never witness the giant plane landing near their farms so harshly. Perhaps this is a wake-up call that Arusha is a big city that needs International appearance.    

Nangwa Village ndipo hatua ya kwanza ya Sydney Gidabuday ilipoanzia kabla ya kuzaliwa Marekani wakati sisi wazazzi wake tukisoma huko. Sisi wazazi wote wawili tumezaliwa na kukulia wilaya ya Hanang Tanzania. Pichani ni mimi Wilhelm Gidabuday nyuma ya baba na mama. Pichani tukikimbia kwa nyakati tofauti mimi (baba kulia na mtoto wangu kushoto). Sijawahi kuota ndoto kwamba mtoto wangu pekee atakuja kurithi mchezo uliyenivusha kutoka kijiji cha Nangwa hadi California. Christmas hii asante mungu kwa kumuwezesha Sydney Wilhelm Gidabuday (wa tatu kulia) kuwa kati ya wanafunzi wachache wa jimbo la California kufuzu zawadi yenye heshima tele ya kimichezo na kielimu.

Information was just received from a regular airline source in Tanzania that Ethiopian Airlines apparently had an unscheduled landing of a B767-300ER at the Arusha Municipal Airport around 13.15 hrs local time.  The airport’s runway is reportedly only 1.620 metres long, or 5.315 feet, too short for regular B767 operations, so the question is now being asked what prompted this high risk landing at ARK (IATA three letter code) / HTAR (ICAO four letter code).  The airport’s elevation is given in official documents as 4.550 feet above mean sea level or 1.387 metres. The aircraft, registered as ET-AQW was operating on flight number ET815 from Addis via Kilimanjaro to Zanzibar and back to Addis. From initial reports it appears that none of the passengers or crew have been injured and that the plane made it to a complete halt just before the end of the runway. The airport has also reportedly been closed for any other flights in and out of ARK requiring the resch...

Susana Schnarndorf and Daniel Dias Young sprinter Verônica Hipólito also recognised at Brazilian Paralympic Committee end-of-year event in Rio. On the eve of the 1,000 days until the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games milestone, swimmers Daniel Dias and Susana Schnarndorf were named best athletes at the 2013 Brazilian Paralympic Awards. The winners were announced at an awards gala held on Wednesday night (11 December) at Rio's Museum of Modern Art. The awards, promoted by the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB), are chosen by a public vote on the CPB website. Dias and Schnarndorf produced great performances in the IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal this year. Dias ended the event with six gold medals and Schnarndorf won the 100m breaststroke and took bronze in the 400m freestyle. Verônica Hipólito’s debut performance at the IPC Athletics World Championships, in Lyon - gold in the 200m and silver in the 100m - earned her the title of Best Revelation. ...

December 3 - Kenya is planning to build a new blood centre in Nairobi to help the fight against doping in the country, it has been revealed. Work on building the centre is due to begin in the Kenyan capital next month and will be constructed with the help of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Athletics Kenya Isaiah Kiplagat has confirmed. "We are going to build a blood centre in Nairobi starting January," Kiplagat told CapitalFM Sport . "The centre will serve Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the central Africa region. "This will reduce the cost and time it takes to get results whenever we take our samples to Germany or South Africa." Kenya finished fourth overall at this year's IAAF World Championships in Moscow with a total of 12 medals, including five gold, all won by its middle and long distance runners.  But the country has been at the centre of suspicion recently due the number of athletes to have test...