Inhabitat.com’s Bridgette Meinhold reports:
A bubbly new soccer and rugby stadium is popping up in Melbourne that will feature a highly engineered exterior structure combined with many sustainable features. Designed by Cox Architects, the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium is a marvel of architecture and engineering with it’s bubble-like facade inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome. Construction is fully underway, allowing a glimpse into how the cantilevered structure is being put together.
When completed in 2010, the stadium will seat 30,000 spectators as they watch both the Melbourne Victory Soccer Team and the Melbourne Storm Rugby Club. The stadium will also house a sports medicine facility and many administrative offices for the city’s sports organizations. The stadium’s design was inspired by the geodesic dome and it features a unique cantilever design that provides shelter for the spectators without inhibiting their view of the game below. More…
The New York Times‘ Rob Hughes writes:
Cheating in sports has been around a very long time, but is there more of it in the world today? And if there is, surely with modern science we can deal with it?
The sports pages Tuesday were indicative of the trend: The jockey banned for providing inside information to bettors, the motor racer allegedly instructed to deliberately crash to alter the outcome, the rugby player who feigned a blood injury, the dopers in athletics, and, of course, the furor in soccer over top players simulating fouls to obtain penalties by deceit.
On Tuesday, UEFA, which oversees soccer in Europe, banned Eduardo da Silva, the Arsenal forward, for two matches. A disciplinary panel decided to over rule the match referee, by concluding from video evidence that Eduardo deceived the referee into thinking he was tripped by Celtic’s goalkeeper Artur Boruc in the Champions League last week. More…
Richard Pound, 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Vancouver Organizing Committee, Montréal, Canada
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Richard Pound is director of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and, since 2007, has been a member of the International Council Arbitration for Sport. He is the founding Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (1999-2007) and remains a member of its Foundation board. In February 2008, he was awarded the Laureus “Spirit of Sport” Prize for his work as head of the World Anti-Doping Agency. In addition, Mr. Pound has been named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world for his relentless efforts to rid sport of performance- enhancing drugs. More…
