OLYMPIC GAMES - We are tremendously proud to announce that the Infostrada Sports Group and the International Olympic Committee have voiced their intention to commit until 2020. We thank the IOC for vesting trust in our company in providing statistics, data and athlete biographies for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Games, the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games and the 2020 Summer Games, to be held in a city that has yet to be appointed as host.
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FOOTBALL - Lionel Messi, fresh off his Ballon d’Or winning night, can now focus on this weekend’s match at Málaga CF and raising up his career goal tally even further. The FC Barcelona star needs four goals to reach 200 in La Liga, a platform that only seven players in history have reached.
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FOOTBALL - With Klaas-Jan Huntelaar high on the Christmas list of several Premier League sides, ‘The Hunter’ can become the first Dutchman to have played top flight football in Europe’s four highest ranked countries - England, Spain, Germany and Italy. Huntelaar has already represented Real Madrid, AC Milan and current employer Schalke 04. Click ‘Read More’ to see which players have completed the set.
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FOOTBALL - Louis Saha achieved a unique feat in Premier League football history as he became the first player in the PL era to appear in the following major derbies: the Manchester Derby (facing City on behalf of United), the Merseyside Derby (facing Liverpool on behalf of Everton), the North London Derby (facing Arsenal on behalf of Tottenham Hotspur) and the Tyne-Wear Derby (facing Newcastle United on behalf of Sunderland.
FOOTBALL - Cristiano Ronaldo is set to play in his 100th international match on Tuesday when his Portugal side takes on Northern Ireland in Oporto. We have sorted the numbers leading up to this century.
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FOOTBALL - When Netherlands take on Andorra on Friday in their World Cup qualifier in Rotterdam, 22-year-old Kevin Strootman will deputise for the injured Wesley Sneijder and he will become the team’s youngest captain for over 105 years. He will become the team’s youngest ever captain in a competitive match, breaking the record set at Euro 2008, by then 24-year-old Johnny Heitinga.
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BASEBALL - Miguel Cabrera is on course to become the first Triple Crown winner in Major League Baseball in 45 years as the Detroit Tigers star leads the American League in three major statistical categories (batting average, home runs and runs batted in) with only two games to go in the regular season. We have listed below all Triple Crown winners in the Major League.
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FOOTBALL - With more than 1,000 goals scored in worldwide qualifying for the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we have listed the global top scorers in qualifiers so far. The leading marksman hails from the tiny CONCACAF nation of Belize, which has already been knocked out of contention.
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FOOTBALL - This weekend, France’s Ligue 1 has kicked off with the reigning champions Montpellier drawing Toulouse 1-1. We have taken a closer look on what made Montpellier a unique winner last season. Click to Read More.
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TENNIS - Roger Federer’s 17th career Grand Slam crown was his first achieved beyond the age of 30. Federer becomes the 11th player aged 30+ to win a Major in the Open era and the first since Andre Agassi won the 2003 Australian Open.
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CYCLING - Going into Stage 8 of the 2012 Tour de France, the leaders in the four major classifications (General, Points, Mountain, Youth) all hail from countries that have never produced a General Classification winner in one of the three Grand Tours. Such honours have never been recorded by riders from Great Britain, Slovakia and/or Estonia. This has never occurred since World War II.
OLYMPIC GAMES - Ian Millar, Canada’s equestrian stalwart, will appear in a record 10th Olympic Games in London and he will become the first athlete in Olympic history to reach this landmark. The 65-year-old made his Olympic debut in the 1972 Munich Games and could have made it 11, had his NOC not boycotted the 1980 Moscow Games.
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TENNIS - Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic set up a meeting against each other in the semifinals of the Wimbledon men’s singles championship. If the Serbian wins, he will retain his number one perch in the ATP world ranking. If Federer wins and wins the final, he will reclaim the top spot in the rankings and equal a Pete Sampras record that has stood since 2000.
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GOLF - Tiger Woods’s victory at the Congressional last weekend gave him 74 career PGA victories and saw him move one clear of Jack Nicklaus, leapfrogging the Golden Bear into outright second place. The only total that Woods is still chasing is the 82 by Sam Snead.
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