Locog invited the eager public to pre-register online for the 8m Olympics tickets and 2m Paralympics tickets, issuing also a warning against fake tickets sellers on which lawyers already are pressing charges. For creating extra seats on those heavily wanted events like rowing and cycling, some sessions like beach volleyball will me made shorter.

There are available more than 300,000 tickets over what was expected for Olympics and 500,000 more for Paralympics; rumors say that the cheapest ones will come with prices around £20, price including free transport to London in the day of the event. Although this online pre-registration is only being marketed in the UK, anyone in the EU may apply for tickets, no barriers.

Locog’s chief executive, Paul Deighton stated for public that nobody can buy a ticket until 2011, anyone selling tickets until then it is a scammer and should be denounced to police. The tickets will be distributed 75% for public, 8% for sponsors and broadcasters and 4% to travel and hospitality packages resellers, while the rest will go to national Olympic associations and to the IOC.

For those who want to pre-register for a ticket, visit organizer’s website or call 0844 847 2012, provide the information requested and wait for the next spring when tickets will go on sale.

For some Marathon runners in Xiamen, South China running 20 miles a day or doing strenuous preparation to run a marathon is probably not their cup of tea because they have other plans as to how to complete the run. Marathon officials have disqualified more than 30 runners of the top 100 finishers in the Xiamen Marathon. Looking through video footage of the even, officials found that quite of a few of the runners deployed unsportsmanlike methods to complete their marathon.
Cheating methods deployed by in the race includes giving the timer chip to a faster runner who then ran with two chips, some got lift in vehicles for many miles during the run while other hire impostor to do the running for them.

Unlike say 100 meter sprint, Marathon which take the best sports men and women over 2 hours to complete leaves a lot of time for cheats to find a sneaky ways to gain unfair advantage, many years ago in London marathon, before time-recording chips were introduced, two runners tried to cheap by one running half of the marathon and the second completing the rest, they managed to swap their number successfully, they would have got away with it for one minor detail the cheats over looked, one of the men had moustache but the other did not, comparing the picture of the man who finished the race with a particular number with the man who started the race with the same number, official saw that he had no moustache at the start of the race but a full moustache at the end of the race.

Cheating in Marathon dates back a long time, in the 1904 Olympics, the gold medalist Fred Lorz was later found out to have has a lift in his managers car for about 11 miles of the 26 miles race.

David Haye wins WBA Heavyweight boxing belt

His sheer height and weight gives him huge advantages over his opponent. Over his opponent in the WBA heavyweight title fight today, Valuev had 11 inches height advantage and he is 7 stones heavier but David Haye, 29-year-old Londoner became the David that indeed slayed the Goliath Valuev at Nuremberg, Germany on the 7th of November on points. The three judges scored the fight 116-112, 116-112 and 114-114 to make make David Haye the new WBA heavyweight champion.

Before the match, most commentators were expecting Valuev to win the fight, most boxing fans are probably expecting a Valuev, bookmakers said there was about four times more money being placed on a Valuev win than on Haye win.

World record holder, Radcliffe, 35 clutched her left let as she hobbled past the finish line in pain.

Britain’s world record holder finished fourth and clutched the back of her left leg in pain as she came home.The race race was won by two-time Olympic 10,000m champion Derartu Tulu of Ethiopia, who was just able to keep  Russia’s Ludmila Petrova at the last half mile to the end of the race.

Paula Radcliffe was supposed to run in the Birmingham half marathon as a sort of warm up preparation for the New York Marathon, she pull out at the last minute due to tonsillitis.  In an interview she gave after r Sunday’s race, she revealed tendinitis behind her knee had started to take its toll before the halfway stage.

“I knew I was fit coming in, it felt great, then at 11 miles it just went,” Radcliffe said.

“For the last miles I was just thinking ‘just hang in there’ as long as I could. Just try to stay with them.”

Radcliffe said she had had a cortisone injection last week to help ease the problem.

One of the best ways to stay fit at a budget is running. Since the current economic pinch, gym membership subscription has decline as people looks for ways to save money. Cancelling you gym subscription should not mean you stop exercising. You are probably already using the treadmill in you former gym, you can swap the confines of a gym for the outdoors and see another way to stay fit, a much cheaper way when compared with running and exercising in gyms.

Here are some of the basics of running on the road, in the park or off-road if you live in rural location.

Get the right footwear
If you are going to be a serious runner, it is absolutely important that you get the right footwear, this is crucial to you ability to run long distance comfortably and injury free. You can buy a pair of trainers at any sports shop but it may be much better to buy from specialist running shop. Good specialist running shop have treadmill with gait analyser that will analyse your unique running style and help decide the kind of running shoes you need, some runners need neutral, others need one that provide support for runners who list to the right or left when running.

Start slowly
When you first start running,do not run fast, run slowly at a pace you are comfortable with. Some people even start by walking. Run or walk for as long as you can cope with, make note of the time or distance you covered, increase the distance at subsequent runs.

Find a running partner
Running with a mate is a lot more fun than running alone, find a running partner with similar running ability to yours and run with him or her, better still join a running club.

Be safe not sorry
Learn to stretch properly before running and after your run, this is important to say injury free and avoid aches the tender muscles the day after a run. You can learn to stretch properly and if you do a search for stretching exercises on any search engine.

Health specialist in South Africa are calling on the South African government ahead of the world cup to legalise prostitution and screen the prostitute so that those with HIV/AIDS will be treated and prevented from spreading the infection. It is estimated that about 50% of South African sex workers are infected with HIV.
South Africa is said to be the centre of global HIV with the highest infection rate in the world.

The call to legalise prostitution was first made by former head of the South African police force who argued that if prostitution and drinking is legalise during the world cup, his men would be freed to tackle more serious crime.

The football governing authorities in UK are preparing information about staying healthy for the over 20,000 England football supporters who are expected to travel to South African to see their team play.

Alternative service to using prostitue at South Africa 2010 is to join an adult dating site. . You can join a south african adult contact site here.

Birminham Half Marathon

For the single marathon runner hoping to attract a date on the day it is potentially a great way to meet members of the opposite sex, over 10,000 runners are expected to participate and a great deal of them are probably single so why not put on your best running shoes and running gear just in case you find a woman or man that catches your fancy. Quite a few runners have been know to find partners are races.

Here are some tips that could help you get a date with another marathon runner at Birmingham 2009 half marathon.
Wear read or any other colour that stands out.
The man or woman you are targeting should be of roughly the same running ability so that you can chat as you run together
First ensure the man or woman is single by looking for tell tale signs or by asking

Tattoo clothing

They have accessories such as best which are in various colours including black, white and various shades of colours in between. If you are the hat wearing type, there are different kinds of hat to complete you sporty look. You can find any or all of the above items at Planet Golf UK.

After the match, a delighted Sharapova said “It was my second final of the year, so I was a bit nervous,” Sharapova said.

“It was very tough because Jelena started off so strong.” It was her fifth career victory over Jankovic in seven meetings.

Both players are former world number ones, but both have had a tough season.

Tokyo and Chicago were eliminated at the first round of voting, leaving Madrid and Rio as the final two cities. Rio won a majority of the 95 votes at the meeting in Copenhagen.

Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said after the announcement that “The world has recognised that the time has come for Brazil.”

Rio’s presentation to the International Olympic Committee delivered a passionate appeal for South America to be awarded the Games. President Lula told the delegates: “Rio is ready. Give us this chance and you will not regret it.”

“Rio will deliver an unforgettable Games. You will see for yourselves the passion, the energy and the creativity of the Brazilian people.”

President Lula said 2016 was an opportunity for the IOC to show that the Games belonged to people of all continents.

US President Barak Obama and his wife did support Chicago bid and were there in person to make Chicago’s case to host the games but issues between the US Olympics committee and IOC over TV rights may have contributed to Chicago’s early exit from the contest to stage 2016 Olympics.