The British Equestrian Federation's performance director, Will Connell, paid tribute to Laurens's impact on the sport.
While talks go on about the sale of the banks' shares, Ecclestone's grip on the sport remains is undiminished.
You need to be focused on the sport -- like over 5, 000 wrestlers you will get only 10 that make it.
But still: the Big Ten stood 33-52 in bowl games since 2000, 3-6 this season, 1-4 on the sport's showcase bowl day.
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What this all adds up to in terms of gold, silver and bronze depends on the sport and the extent of bias.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report warns football is at risk from criminals buying clubs, transferring players, and betting on the sport.
Mr. LIGGETT: Well, funny enough, the organization - you might expect everybody to be rather depressed and say, well, this is a major hit on the sport.
But still: Entering Monday night's Wisconsin-Oregon Rose Bowl, the Big Ten stood 33-51 in bowl games since 2000, 3-5 this season, 1-3 on the sport's showcase bowl day.
Despite growing up in the tropics, she showed a natural talent and became hooked on the sport after qualifying for her first World Cup event in December 2000.
Playoff home teams in baseball, basketball and hockey keep anywhere from 50% to 100% of ticket revenues, depending on the sport and the number of games in the series.
The idea that the best way of betting on the sport of kings could pass into the hands of financiers and bookies may have been too much for them to stomach.
He is only 26, one of tennis's most physical players ever, the maestro of that crazy, loopy Western forehand, an 11-time Grand Slam winner who'd already dropped a massive footprint on the sport.
Massa signed a new one-year deal with the most successful team in F1 history in October, although he admits he did consider turning his back on the sport when he was struggling for pace.
"Players are increasingly reluctant to play in the UK, which reduces broadcaster and sponsor interest, and therefore the impact of that event on the sport and the local and national economy, " says The Lawn Tennis Association.
Despite the gloom that descended on the sport in Scotland after a solitary victory in this year's Six Nations tournament, McKie was bullish about the attractiveness of the post and the health of rugby in the country.
Last week Federer told CNN it was "naive" to think tennis is free of players who use drugs to enhance their performance and called on the sport's governing bodies to pour more funding into the fight against it.
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The Ralph W. Miller Golf Library in the Industry Hills Sheraton Resort featured some 5, 000 tomes on the sport, including a rare 1597 volume that contains one of the first mentions of golf (as a distraction from archery practice).
From boat companies to lure manufacturers and makers of beef jerky, sponsors heap free goodies on the college fishermen and fisherwomen throughout the year, helping to defray the high cost of angling as well as to keep them hooked on the sport.
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"It's up to us to come out of this affair and show everyone that we do see this as a crisis but also as an opportunity, because there is a danger that it could have a fatal effect on the sport, and I don't want that to happen, " McQuaid added.
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For English fans, persistent failure on the sport's greatest stage, with the exception of the country's home triumph in 1966, will always be tainted by the idea that English football once ruled the world -- even if only by virtue of the fact that no other country outside the British Isles had yet to discover the sport.
The impact of all this finely honed breeding and expensive investment on the actual sport of bull riding is that many on the circuit now believe the bulls are improving faster than the riders can keep up with them.
So long and have a great weekend and maybe we'll see you back here on the BBC Sport website for the live football over the weekend.
Goode said he hoped the furor would not have a negative effect on the racket sport longer term, given the swift response by its governing officials.
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In 1997 Britain elected a government that promised a vote on banning the sport and Mr Downing, seeing the writing on the wall, left the next year. (Fox-hunting was eventually banned in 2004.) After three years with a hunt in Alabama, he moved to Virginia, where English-style fox-hunting has been popular since George Washington's day.
Click here to listen to full match commentary from 1500 BST on the BBC Sport website.
Results will be announced on the BBC Sport Academy and BBC Sport websites by 2 June 2006.
No response from Olympic officials on whether the sport is seriously being considered.
Highlights of Blackburn v Chelsea will appear on the BBC Sport website from 2200 GMT on Thursday (UK users only).
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Highlights of Manchester City v Arsenal will appear on the BBC Sport website from 2200 GMT on Thursday (UK users only).
But the success of the league will depend on the quality of the sport and how much people want to watch.
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