2011 Euroleague Final Four in Barcelona

Euroleague Basketball is pleased to announce Barcelona as the host city for the 2011 Euroleague Final Four. With conversations between Euroleague and the Municipality of Barcelona for a future Final Four being at an advanced stage, both parties are confident that the city is ideal to host the final of the top European club competition on the weekend of May 6-8 at the Palau Sant Jordi.

It will be the third time that Barcelona’s Palau Sant Jordi will host the Euroleague Final Four. In 1998, Kinder Bologna lifted its first Euroleague trophy by downing AEK Athens 58-44 in the title game behind 14 points from Antoine Rigaudeau. In 2003, FC Barcelona seized the Euroleague crown at home with a 76-65 victory over Benetton Treviso. Barcelona also hosted the 1969 European Cup final.

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Tony Hawk & Friends will come to Barcelona during Euro Tour

Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk and the Birdhouse team will be heading to Europe this summer for a skateboarding tour that include stops in the cities of Berlin (Ger), Rome/Ostia (Ita), Barcelona (Spa) & Brighton (UK).

Tony is a role model for fans of all ages. He was named Choice Male Athlete at the Teen Choice Awards 2004 and had won the same in 2001 and 2000. He is an active participant in the Make-a-Wish Foundation, which honored him as its Favorite Male Athlete in 2002. With the creation of the Tony Hawk Foundation in 2002, Tony has also been helping others experience the same excitement he did as a young skateboarder, learning to skate and building the self-confidence that resulted in his success.

The monumental vert ramp - Europe’s biggest - will be set on the recently inaugurated Plaza del Mar, facing the Mediterranean Sea with an unobstructed view guaranteed of San Sebastián beach.

On the music side, the Quiksilver presents Tony Hawk and Friends tour in Barcelona will gather two major US artists: Joey Cape, founder and voice of Californian punk rock band Lagwagon and Tony Sly, founder, guitarist and voice of California’s No Use For a Name. Exclusively for the show, Joey and Tony will turn themselves into Dj’s before playing a live acoustic session at the After Party, Playa del Masnou (from 9:30pm at ‘El último Xiringo’).

Sunday 18th July - Free entrance at 18:00pm

Live FIFA World Cup 2010 from Barcelona

Núñez i Navarro Hotels will offer you for free the FIFA World Cup matches on TV. We have all the matches, all the national teams, both on the Group Stage and the Rounds of 16, Quarters, Semifinals and the World Final of July 11th.

The FIFA World Cup, also called the Football World Cup or the Soccer World Cup, is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of World War II.

Seven nations have won the title. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. Italy, the current champions, have won four titles, and Germany are next with three titles. The other former champions are Uruguay, winners of the inaugural tournament, and Argentina, with two titles each, and England and France, with one title each.

Stay at our nine hotels in Barcelona city center and follow your national team from your hotel room in Barcelona !!

2014 Basketball World Championships will be host in Barcelona

Barcelona is to be a host city in the 2014 Basketball World Championships (from August, 30 to September, 14 2014). Last Tuesday May 25, the Mayor, Jordi Hereu, and the Chairman of the Spanish Basketball Federation, José Luís Sáez, signed an agreement formally recognising Barcelona as one of the host cities for the 2014 Basketball World Championships.

The agreement means Barcelona will hold four last-sixteen matches, two quarter-final matches and one semi-final match, as well as two official friendly matches involving the Spanish national team and various events to promote basketball.

Together with Barcelona Bilbao, Seville, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Madrid and Granada will also be host cities for the 2014 Basketball World Championships.

Bike Week in Barcelona

From 10 to 16 May, bicycles will be playing a leading role in the city. And that’s because the ninth annual Bicycle Week is now on, under the slogan “Agafa la bici. Compartim cívicament la ciutat” [Take your bike. Let's share our city in civic spirit].

The Bicia’t will be taking place on 12 May, giving the Catalan Cycling Club (BACC) an occasion to host a breakfast for people who cycle to work and turn up between 7.30 am and 10.30 am at the points located in Rambla de Catalunya-Diagonal, Diagonal-Provença, Zona Universitària, Lepant and Arc de Triomf.

Let’s not forget the Bike Show and the Bicycle and Skate Festival, organised by the Barcelona Sports Institute, at the Fòrum on 15 and 16 respectively. In addition to the usual activities, this year’s Bicycle Week also includes a refresher course on basic bike mechanics.

Another notable activity involves free loans of bicycles to encourage more people to get out on their bikes and realise they can cycle through the city. Other free activities will include a children’s bicycle circuit, Biciescola beginner’s bike courses, technical inspections etc. You will need to book for many of these activities.

XXXII El Corte Inglés Race - Ciutat de Barcelona

Next Sunday, May 30th 2010, El Corte Inglés Race will again bring athletes and amateurs to Barcelona streets, on which is the largest urban race in Europe.

 Registration, totally free, is already open and everyone can join the race. You can register both by internet or personally at El Corte Inglés shopping centers. Registration will finish on May 27th through internet; or May 29th on shopping centers.

All participants will receive for free a a fragment of the original tartan of the Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, inaugurated on the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, and recently renovated. And the first 10.000 participants will also receive a free ticket for the European Athletics Championship to be held in Barcelona during July 2010.

El Corte Inglés Race is one of the most important and better known popular races. This is greatly due to the support given by both public and private institutions and, most of all, to the massive response of the citizens of Barcelona who, through their participation, have made it possible for the celebration of this sporting event to be eagerly expected year after year. By the year 1994 the number of participants in the Cursa had grown to 109,457 athletes, a number of runners that still today holds a Guinness Record.

LA Lakers in Barcelona. Pau Gasol comes back home

Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves and New York Knicks from NBA, and Regal FC Barcelona and AJ Milano from Euroleague Basketball, will play a series of preseason games this October as part of NBA Europe Live. Barcelona, London, Milan, and Paris will host the games.

On October 7th, Los Angeles Lakers will play Regal FC Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi. The match is included in the NBA Europe Live tour and brings Pau Gasol back to the city. The match will be presented on 22 April by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who is coming over to Barcelona.

“I started with FC Barcelona when I was 16 and I still have many fond memories of my days playing for them. The match will be particularly special for me as I’ll be able to show my team-mates what a beautiful city Barcelona is” Gasol remarked in comments published by the organisers.

You can find more information at FC Barcelona website.

Camp Nou will host the King’s Cup Final

The final of the Copa del Rey (King’s Cup Final), between Sevilla and Atlético de Madrid, will in principle, be played in Barcelona, at the Camp Nou, on 19th May.

Should Atlético de Madrid fail to reach the final of the Europa League, the date for the cup final will be 13th May.

It was initially set for 26th May but the day had to be changed because the teams could not play their international players, owing to the World Cup in South Africa.

Atlético de Madrid reached the final after knocking out Marbella, Recreativo, Celta and Racing, while Sevilla defeated Atlético Ciudad, Barcelona, Deportivo and Getafe.

Source: www.bcn.es

New York - Barcelona Transoceanic Sailing Record

Last Thursday 8 April, participants in the New York - Barcelona Transoceanic Sailing Record set off from Ambrose Light in Hudson Bay (New York), on a new ocean sailing challenge. This record will be recognised by the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC), an international body acting under the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), which regulates sailing speed records throughout the world.

For the first time in history an attempt is being made to establish a sailing record between an Atlantic  and a Mediterranean city. Until now records transatlantic records have been set between geographical points rather than cities.

Now, though, the two vessels taking part, Spain’s Imoca Open 60, owned by Estrella Damm and manned by Alex Pella and Pepe Ribas, together with the North American Stan Schreyer, and W Hotels, with Spaniards Pachi Rivero and Toño Piris, accompanied by North American Peter Becker, are trying to cover the distance between New York and Barcelona.

That means they have to sail a total of 3.900 nautical miles, or 7.226 km, in as short a time as possible. That could be between 18 and 22 days.

The crossing will end in Barcelona harbour between 25 and 30 April, approximately, depending on weather conditions.

Web de la Fundació per la Navegació Oceànica de Barcelona

Barcelona will host the 2012 World Junior Athletics Championships

The International Association of Athletics Federations Council has agreed that Barcelona will host the 14th IAAF World Junior Athletics Championships in 2012.

The decision was taken the last Monday 15th March 2010, in the city of Doha (Qatar), where Barcelona was also chosen as the venue for its centenary celebrations.

Barcelona’s Mayor, Jordi Hereu, announced that “thanks to this new nomination, Barcelona is continuing to consolidate its status as an international sports event capital, showing once again its organisational capacities and the popular enthusiasm such events arouse“.

The junior athletics championships feature athletes under the age of 20 (born on or after 1993 in the case of the 2012 championships) and have been held biennially since the first in Athens in 1986.

Over 2.000 athletes will be taking part in the teams making up the delegations from over 180 IAAF members. There are 44 events with medals.

Furthermore, next July will see Barcelona play host to the European Athletics Championship.

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