"This tour comes at a time where we can achieve a lot ahead of the World Cup and it was required in our World Cup build-up, as it was in South Africa's, " he said.
Westwood was one of nine members of Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team to tee it up for the tournament, along with skipper Colin Montgomerie.
And all of a sudden, the levees start collapsing and all of the water just backs into the city and fills it up like a cup of tea.
The Celtic Manor was accused of distancing itself from Newport in the 2010 Ryder Cup build-up, as it advertised itself as Usk Valley and being an hour and a half from London.
"Every time a team plays Leeds, they see it as a cup final and will up their performance levels, " says Ritchie.
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As he takes the drink, it splashes up out of the cup and onto his arm.
She won her first World Cup race in Sweden in December and followed it up with victories in Croatia and Austria last month.
He described it as "the mini-World Cup" and convinced me that the team were fresh and "up for it", despite their hectic schedule of late.
Instead, it builds up to the rugby world cup final in 1995, which was held in South Africa and which the home team won.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Brazil demanded Saturday that FIFA assign a new representative to work with it as it gears up for the 2014 World Cup after Secretary General Jerome Valcke said the country needs a "kick up the backside" to be ready in time.
In every house we visited, your cup gets topped up apparently forever, until you drain it entirely or demur.
"Pinch a cup of porridge oats from the breakfast buffet, tie it up in a sock, float the sock in a hot water, then use as a puff to massage your body, " Coombe added.
To make it easier to share your World Cup passion, CNN has teamed up with the location based social networking service Foursquare on an innovative project for World Cup fans in the 32 competing nations.
The defending team--for 132 years the New York Yacht Club--traditionally ran the final two-boat Cup race, while the challengers ran the elimination races leading up to it.
Koenig is shown handing Keyes a cup of coffee, then backing away with her hands up, as if it's a robbery.
We do seem to have a media circus building up with momentum every time we come to a World Cup, it's a little bit earlier this year than normal.
But an outstanding performance at Headingley on Friday underlined he is back to his very best, and if it was up to me I would have JJB as a World Cup certainty.
Qualification for the Olympic triathlon relies on a system of points, examples being 1, 000 for winning a World Championship series grand final, 800 for winning one of the other six series events leading up to it, and 500 for winning a Triathlon World Cup race.
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Because, really, you can never truly feel close to a coffee machine until it's taunted you to jump up and down to fill your cup of joe.
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It's a huge year for both with the World Cup and Paralympics coming up in the next six months, and Sunday represents a huge opportunity in front of a big audience.
And it is clear that the amount of honour on offer at the Solheim Cup has gone up in proportion to the rise in prize money at LPGA tournaments.
We've got the World Cup coming up and I'd hate to see guys go into their shells but it's decision-making - when is the right time to attack and the right time to defend - and we haven't done that well enough.
Some two months ago Mr Valcke said that that Brazil needed a "kick up the backside" and appeared more concerned with winning the World Cup than organising it.
It is the latest distraction in the build-up to this summer's World Cup.
It also highlighted the subsequent cover-up by South Yorkshire Police following the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
"I dreamed the dream that I'd be lifting the World Cup - but it wasn't to be, " said Fleming, after announcing he was giving up the captaincy of the one-day team.
Busch ended up in second, .002 seconds behind in Sprint Cup's closest finish since it went to electronic timing in 1993.
They will be given nine matches a year, up from six, while it is expected they will also be entered into the Churchill Cup.
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