Team GB’s gold medal winning Olympic triathlete and back-to-back European Triathlon Union champion, Alistair Brownlee, got the ‘inside track’ on Yas Marina Circuit ahead of his Arabian Gulf debut this Saturday at the fourth US$230,000 Abu Dhabi International Triathlon. Putting the pedal to the metal on the iconic Yas Marina Circuit – which features in [...]Champ Brownlee Revs Up is a post from: Time-4-Sport



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Stephen Muzhingi partners with FedGroup in Pursuit of Ultimate Achievement (Comrades Marathon Champion 2009,2010,2011. Two Oceans Champion 2012, and multiple Gold Medalist in both events) Ultra Marathon running legend, Stephen Muzhingi is back to his best and in pursuit of the ultimate achievement in South African road running – to be the champion of the [...]Muzhingi Partners with Fedgroup is a post from: Time-to-Run South Africa



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The 2013 Longtom Ultra and Half Marathons have been officially cancelled due to financial constraints. Contracting of a major corporate title sponsor for the 2013 event has been postponed to the 2014 budgetary year.* Therefor the 2013 event will once again be hosted without the financial assistance of a title sponsor. * “The 2011 and [...]Longtom Marathon cancelled is a post from: Time-to-Run South Africa



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Rome - The centre-left coalition is set to win control of Italy's lower house but is short of winning a majority in the Senate, according to statistics released by the Interior Ministry early on Tuesday.

The data were based on votes from 99.9 percent of polling stations, showing that Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani and his leftist coalition secured a narrow victory in the lower house with 29.55 percent of the ballots counted, only 0.38 percent higher than Silvio Berlusconi's alliance.

However, the election's final results are still hanging in the air as frontrunner Bersani's coalition only won 121 seats in the 315-seat Senate, while billionaire Berlusconi won 117 seats.

According to Italy's electoral laws, any party or coalition needs 158 seats in the Senate to become a majority. The party that ranks first but falls short of a majority in the Senate will be given additional seats to reach majority on a regional basis.

The "Bonus rule" has lessened the predictability of the final results as Bersani lost most of the key regions to Berlusconi, while Five Star Movement's Beppe Grillo surprisingly grabbed dozens of seats, making it impossible for Bersani to guarantee 158 seats unless he forms a coalition with his rivals.

The party or the coalition that wins the most votes in the lower house can be assigned to form a new government. But a prime minister needs the support of both the lower house and the Senate to govern, as both houses have equal law-making powers, which makes the country's voting system notoriously complex and difficult to be understood even by Italians.

Earlier on Monday, outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti complained that a similar "Bonus rule" in the lower house could be disproportionate to the voting result.

Meanwhile, on day one of his visit to Germany, in the immediate wake of the general election, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano declined to comment on the outcome.

Entrusted by the Constitution with brokering and approving government coalition agreements following elections, Napolitano said: "I do not wish to comment on electoral results. Political parties need to think things over and provide me with proposals during the consultation process." - SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua-Agi

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Pretoria – The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, says the benefits derived from biodiversity or ecosystem services are estimated at R73 billion, contributing to 7 percent of South Africa’s GDP per annum. The biodiversity economy, which is part of the national Green Economy, is therefore South Africa’s competitive edge in growing the [...]Biodiversity contributes to economy is a post from: EconSpire



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