Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) said it supported the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) decision to erase the rider's entire career after August 1998.
Earlier Armstrong stepped down as chairman of the Livestrong cancer support charity he founded.As a sponser Nike Inc dropped him too.Livestrong rubber bracelets are worldwide famous.
Lance Armstrong is an American former professional racing cyclist. He is a former world champion and has also won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between the years of 1999 and 2005.
He was charged with having used illicit performance enhancing drugs in June 2012 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and in August they announced a lifetime ban from competition as well as the stripping of all titles.
Armstrong survived testicular cancer in October 1996.

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London Olympics Application for Android

London Olympics is just around the corner.Here we have a superb application for your android device
A simple, fast front-end application to the official London 2012 Olympics.

A must-have app for Olympic fans and anybody attending the London 2012 Olympics. 


Download link: http://www.appbrain.com/app/london-2012-olympics/com.exelentia.londonolympics

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2014 FIFA WORLD CUP

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be the 20th FIFA World Cup , an international association football tournament that will take place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014.
The logo is called "Inspiration", and was created by Brazilian agency Africa. The design stems from an iconic photograph of three victorious hands together raising the world's most famous trophy. As well as depicting the humanitarian notion of hands interlinking, the portrayal of the hands is also symbolic of the yellow and green of Brazil warmly welcoming the world to their country.

With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have played in every world cup (19) to date.
Russia will be the host in 2018 followed by Qatar in 2022
First tournament was played in 1930.

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2015 CRICKET WORLD CUP

The 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup will be the 11th ICC Cricket World Cup, and will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand.


The tournament will feature 14 teams, the same number as the 2011 World Cup.
The ICC unveiled the logo of the 2015 World Cup after the final of the 2011 World Cup on 2 April 2011.

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2014 Asian Games ..

The 2014 Asian Games, officially known as the XVII Asiad, is the largest sporting event in Asia governed by Olympic Council of India (OCA). It is scheduled to take place in Incheon, South Korea from September 19–October 4, 2014, with 36 sports set to feature in the Games.
                "Diversity Shines Here" is the official slogan of the Games


 Mascots:

The three seals, known as "Barame", "Chumuro" and "Vichuon", means wind, dance and light in Korean language, is in accordance with the theme of main venue.

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ASIAN GAMES ..

The Asian Games, officially known as Asiad, is a multi sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia.. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 games. Since the 1982 games they have been organised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), after the breakup of the Asian Games Federation. The Games are recognised by the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and are described as the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.


44 sports were presented in Asian Games history, including 2010 games in Guangzhou,China.


17th Asian Games will be held in 2014,Incheon,South Korea.

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2014 COMMONWEALTH GAMES ..

The 20th Commonwealth Games in 2014 will be held in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland.
The Games will run over 11 days of competition from 24 July to 3 August 2014.


MOTTO : people,place,passion
Participating teams : 72

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COMMONWEALTH GAMES..

Commonwealth Games Federation seal, adopted in 2001
Motto	HUMANITY – EQUALITY – DESTINY
Headquarters	:London, England,
President	Hon. Michael Fennell (Jamaica)

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.The event was first held in 1930 under the title of the British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.


There are currently 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and 71 teams participate in the Games.There are a total of 21 sports (with two multi-disciplinary sports) and a further 7 para-sports which are approved by the Commonwealth Games Federation.

19th CWG were held in 2010 New Delhi,India.

20th CWG -Glasgow 2014,Scotland,UK

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WINTER OLYMPICS 2014 ..

"sports which are practised on snow or ice."


The Winter Olympics Games are a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.


The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, is a major international multi sport event scheduled to be celebrated from 7 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi ,Russia with some events held in the resort town of Krasnaya Polyana.

In 2014,Sochi will be the first Russian city to host the Winter Olympics. The IOC has selected Pyeongchang, South Korea, to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Fifteen winter sports events were included in the 2014 Winter Olympics.


Mascots :

• the Polar Bear 
• the Hare 
• the Leopard                                                                                                                                       

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LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 ..

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are scheduled to take place in London,England, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. London will become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times, having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948.

Nations participating	127 (qualified) 204 (estimated)
Athletes participating	10,500 (estimated)
Events	302 in 26 sports

The official mascots for the 2012 London Olympics are Wenlock and Mandeville .

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OLYMPICS FACTS..

MOTTO:
The Olympic motto is the hendiatrius " Citius, Altius, Fortius ", which is latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger".The motto was proposed by Pierre De Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.

SYMBOL:
The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field. This was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.Olympic symbol represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.


First Olympic games :
The first Games held under the auspices of the IOC was hosted in the Panatheniac stadium in Athens in 1896.These Games brought together 14 nations and 241 athletes who competed in 43 events.

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How to make a Degree sign on a computer?

You need to finish a science report for school. You have to insert the degree symbol to convey the temperatures of your experiment, but you're not sure how to do it. Thankfully, it is very simple whether you have a laptop or a full desktop computer. Using the "Character Map" or the number pad, you can insert the degree symbol into any Microsoft Word document..


1.Turn on the "Num Lock" key of a terminal-type computer.
 You will see a light on the keyboard indicating that it is on.

2.Place the cursor within the document you want to put the degree sign in.

3.Hold "Alt".

4.Type "0176" on the number pad while holding "Alt."

5.Release the "Alt" key and the degree sign should be in the document..

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