Archivo etiqueta «Deporte»
By Mark Lawson (THE GUARDIAN, 23/02/07):
This newspaper recently made a stand for professional equality by deciding that both men and women who appear on stage and screen will be termed “actors”. But, in showbusiness, fairness of opportunity and income having largely been achieved, language remained the final gap. In tennis, it was the other way round: though granted a unisex job description – players – men and women have played under different rules for widely divergent prizes.
Yesterday’s announcement that the 2007 women’s champion at Wimbledon will receive the same cash as (let’s madly dream) Andy Murray finally removes … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Jenkins (THE TIMES, 28/01/07):
There is only one way to save the 2012 Olympics from six years of agony, expense and public outrage. It is to abandon the idea of a Stratford encampment and integrate the Games into London’s existing sporting life. This year is the last opportunity to do so.
The Commons culture committee was right last week to insist that the soaring cost of the Games be borne by the Treasury. Gordon Brown knew when he agreed to the bid in 2004 that this meant state underwriting. It is inexcusable for 10% of all lottery grants … Seguir leyendo
By Tony Blair, the British prime minister (THE GUARDIAN, 23/01/07):
Exactly 2,012 days from today, the London Olympic games will get under way. I know that the opening ceremony on July 27 2012 will spark the same sense of excitement and joy that erupted across the country when we heard that, against all the odds, London’s bid had been successful. Everything leads to, and culminates in, a glorious festival of sport for Olympians and Paralympians. But it cannot end there. The enduring success of the games is measured in the years that follow, not in the time it takes … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Jenkins (THE GUARDIAN, 19/01/07):
The Premiership football clubs yesterday doubled their earnings from overseas television rights to £900m a year. With Sky television, cable and internet, this will give the lucky 20 clubs an annual income from broadcasting alone of £2.7bn, before even counting sales from tickets and shirts. While Italy received £11m for winning the 2006 World Cup, the team that wins the Premiership will collect £50m. Even the bottom club will get £27m.
The British are hopeless at sports where sportsmanship was once dominant, but unequalled at ones ruled by money, such as horse racing, formula … Seguir leyendo
By Leonard Shapiro (THE WASHINGTON POST, 16/01/07):
The news that mega-star David Beckham has joined the Los Angeles Galaxy with a contract reportedly worth $50 million over five years — with another $200 million in endorsement and merchandising opportunities also included in the deal–is generally being cheered at the highest levels of professional soccer in the United States, not to mention at the tattooed lad’s favorite local brokerage house.
But no one is quite ready to say that Beckham’s presence on a Major League Soccer roster is likely to push the league into must-see status on television in this country … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Glancey, the Guardian’s architecture critic (THE GUARDIAN, 13/12/06):
No one really knows how much the London Olympics will cost – not Sir Roy McNulty, head of the grimly named Olympic Delivery Authority, nor Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, nor even the mayor of London. Common sense tells us to assume several billion more than the current figure. Onwards and domewards.To a national chorus of low-level grumbling, this lumbering, bullying, ill-tempered and overpoliticised roadshow will gasp towards completion, with a final hugely expensive sprint, run by relays of cheap imported labour. The games … Seguir leyendo
By Laszlo Andor and Gonzalo Ramos, Hungarian and Spanish directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (THE GUARDIAN, 09/12/06):
Ferenc Puskas was one of the greatest footballers of all time, and the state funeral that takes place in his honour in Budapest today is a mark of his extraordinary achievements. However, when someone becomes a legend in two nations the story is about more than just sport; an appreciation of what Puskas meant to Hungary and Spain can teach us much about Europe’s postwar history.In the Stalinist era Hungary was a prime example of the way that … Seguir leyendo
By Hugh Muir (THE GUARDIAN, 29/11/06):
In the hours after the UK won the right to host the Olympics, Jacques Rogge turned to Ken Livingstone and Tessa Jowell and reflected on the positive headlines. “Enjoy it,” the president of the International Olympic Committee told them. “That’s probably the last positive coverage you’ll have between now and 2012.” Isn’t it depressing that just 16 months have passed and yet all who feared the Olympic bid might get bogged down in a quagmire of whingeing have been proven right?
Here’s a summary of the issues thus far. The financing of the games … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Jenkins (THE GUARDIAN, 24/11/06):
King Thibaw, the last monarch of Burma, adored his white elephant to distraction. The beast was so rare that its capture caused national rejoicing and it never left the royal palace. Its tusks were studded with gems, and sprays of diamonds covered its forehead. A gold plaque listing noble titles hung round its neck. Gold umbrellas protected it from the sun, and over its gilded trough rose a great mirror to reflect its majestic beauty. No riches were too precious for the elephant, for on its prosperity rested the good fortune of the king.… Seguir leyendo
By Alice Miles (THE TIMES, 22/11/06):
I am passionate about this! cried Tessa Jowell as she gave evidence on the London Olympics to MPs yesterday. And I thought, oh no, give me politicians who are not passionate; give me politicians who can add up.
Like the Chancellor. I bet Gordon Brown is worried and furious about these Games. The extent to which the Treasury trusts the Olympic planners is clear from the fact that they have demanded a contingency fund of 60 per cent of the budget for cost-overruns, compared with a normal construction contract which would require just 20 … Seguir leyendo
Por Alberto Palomar, profesor de Derecho Administrativo en la Carlos III de Madrid (EL PAÍS, 09/11/06):
La aprobación de la Ley Orgánica de Protección de la Salud y de lucha contra el dopaje en el deporte debe marcar una época en la posición y el papel de los poderes públicos en la materia. Su importancia, desde una perspectiva parcial, es tan relevante para éstos como, en su momento, lo fue la Ley del Deporte de 1990. Que la ley haya obtenido un fuerte consenso social y político nos da a todos la seguridad de que el objetivo es compartido y … Seguir leyendo
Por Pilar Rahola, periodista (EL PERIÓDICO, 03/10/06):
El número de debates estériles que nos mantienen entretenidos, en este país un poco de mentira, es proporcional al grado de mediocridad que nos define. Y, quizá también, a nuestra rotunda pérdida de poder e influencia. Catalunya siempre ha tenido una tendencia suicida a perderse por los derroteros de la estética, y si ello es verdad, lo es especialmente en estos últimos tiempos. Los debates que nos sacuden el polvo político, o que estrujan el sudor intelectual, o que pueblan pomposamente las tertulias matinales, solo rasgan el decorado de lo políticamente relevante, … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan Michie, the director of Birmingham Business School (THE GUARDIAN, 16/09/06):
Just when football was supposed to be entering a new era of transparency, two members of Argentina’s World Cup team sign for West Ham – for an unknown fee, unknown duration and unknown reasons. It was thought that Carlos Tévez might sign for Manchester United, to replace Ruud van Nistelrooy. Instead he and Javier Mascherano have moved to Upton Park from Corinthians, in Brazil.The West Ham manager denied rumours that the deal includes a requirement that they be picked for the first team. It’s also rumoured that … Seguir leyendo
Notebook by Matthew Syed (THE TIMES, 06/09/2006):
WHEN THE RESULT of Marion Jones’s B-sample is released in the next few days it will almost certainly confirm that one of the world’s greatest athletes, someone who consistently proclaimed her innocence with doe-eyed earnestness, was lying and swindling all along. For many it will provide a fitting finale to what is already being described as the Summer of Cheating.
It’s a label with much to recommend it. A series of headline-grabbing drug busts in athletics have coincided with pervasive match-fixing in Italian football, diving at the World Cup, corruption in horse racing, … Seguir leyendo
By Martin Jacques, a visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics (THE GUARDIAN, 19/08/06):
The summer, of course, is the high noon of sport. The World Cup, the European Athletics Championships, Wimbledon, the Tour de France and the British Open are among the highlights. Over the last 10 years, the prominence that sport occupies in global culture has been transformed. It has become one of the key components of the global entertainment industry: great sporting occasions can be accessed by the press of a button in our living rooms, television sports rights have become … Seguir leyendo