RIO DE JANEIRO Dikembe Mutombo Jersey , March 11 (Xinhua) — Football’s governing body FIFA will Wednesday make available the final batch of World Cup tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tickets will go on sale from 8am (Brasilia time) on FIFA’s official website, the body said in a statement.
Some 160,000 tickets will be offered for group and knockout-phase matches.
Seven World Cup fixtures have already been sold out: Brazil-Croatia (Sao Paulo) Pete Maravich Jersey , England-Italy (Manaus), USA-Portugal (Manaus), the final (Rio de Janeiro), a semifinal (Belo Horizonte) and two quarterfinals (Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre).
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Yin Hang of China celebrates after the women’s 50km race walk on Day 10 at the IAAF World Championships 2017 in London, Britain on Aug. 13, 2017. (XinhuaHan Yan) Yin Hang of China celebrates after the women’s 50km race walk on Day 10 at the IAAF World Championships 2017 in London, Britain on Aug. 13 Dominique Wilkins Jersey , 2017. (XinhuaHan Yan) Yin Hang (L) of China celebrates with Ines Henriques of Portugal after the women’s 50km race walk on Day 10 at the IAAF World Championships 2017 in London, Britain on Aug. 13, 2017. (XinhuaHan Yan)
LONDON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — Portugal’s Ines Henriques won the inaugural women’s 50km race walk world title in style Atlanta Hawks Dennis Schroder Jersey , setting a world record of four hours five minutes and 56 seconds on the final day of the London World Championships on Sunday.
Henriques broke her old mark of 4:08:26 set earlier this year to become the first female winner of the 50km race walk at the world championships.
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A pair of unknown Chinese athletes became the surprising medalists as Yin Hang won the silver in an Asian record time of 4:08:58 and Yang Shuqing set a personal best of 4:20:49 to bag the bronze.
Yin, 20, was just in her second formal competition of the 50km race, the first being a domestic trial.
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Earlier in the men’s race, three-time European champion Yohann Diniz of France savored the world championships glory at the age of 39.
Diniz finished the most streneous event in 3:33:12, a Championship record time Dennis Schroder Youth Jersey , to become the oldest male athlete in World Championships history to claim a gold medal.
Although the Frenchman’s winning time was short of his own world record of 3:32:33, it is the second fastest time in history.
Japanese Hirooki Arai took the silver in 3:41:17 and his fellow countryman Kai Kobayashi was third in 3:41:19.
LONDON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Dutch woman Dafine Schippersretained the women’s 200 meters title at the World AthleticsChampionships here on Friday.
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Ta Lou was also excited after taking a second silver, “Anothersilver but I am so happy. At the camp before these championships Ifelt a problem in my legs but I didn’t want to tell my coach. Iprayed that I would be ok and I have been.
“I did all I could in that race. To get a silver medal is morethan I could have asked for. I am so grateful for having achampionships like this. It has been a special week for me.
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BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) — Closing down “zombie companies,” properly helping the affected workers and trimming sideline businesses that impair the core competence of the centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are among the measures the government will introduce in the coming two to three years to deepen the reform of these important SOEs.
The decision was unveiled during an executive meeting of the State Council chaired by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
“Centrally-administered SOEs have played an indispensable role in China’s social and economic development, and we should give them full credit in that regard,” Li said. “Yet crucial problems exist with them, too. Now we must tackle them step by step, which is essentially deepening the SOE reform.”
Most of the 106 centrally-administered SOEs in China operate in sectors that are crucial to the country’s social and economic development, such as telecommunication and energy.
Major problems with the bloated centrally-administered SOEs include weakness in core business, too many sideline businesses, low efficiency and excessive layers of administration and management.
The excessive layers of hierarchy and redundance persisting in the centrally-administered SOEs are also part of the reasons why it has not been easy to push through the reform over the years.
Despite the difficulties, Li has reiterated on many occasions that the government resolves to carry out such reform, describing the determination as that of “a brave warrior cutting off his own hand to save his body,” given that the reform will affect the interests of some people.
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