Was Brisbane, Australias Failure To Win World Champs Hosting Rights On The Up And Up?
“If it was based on merit, I think we would have done very well and could have won,” asserts Peter Beattie, Premier of Queensland, the Aussie state that includes Brisbane. No Australian (or New Zealand) cit has ever hosted the World Championships, and it won’t for quite some time, since Brisbane lost out in the bidding to Daegu, South Korea (which gets the 2011 Championships) and Moscow (2013). Money and perks were lavishly being tossed in the direction of IAAF members making the determination, and Moscow even hired Papa Diack, the son of the IAAF President Lamine Diack, as a consultant. “Papa” is already under indictment for embezzlement in Senegal. More, http://www.theaustralian.news.com KIMbia Is Supprting Education In Kenya, And Now You Can Help Only 24 percent of Kenyans attend high school and only two percent go to college. KIMbia’s roster includes athletes like Paul Koech, who has founded a school, and Richard Kiplagat, who graduated from Iona and is now teaching in Kenya. KIMbi
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