And the games in London have to compete with other sporting events that have established and devoted audiences.
And Olympic venues are free of the advertisements that encircle other sporting arenas.
"I certainly don't see any other sporting leagues or federations following our lead as far as not being individually represented, " Roddick said.
It has also been buying up other sporting rights, including English Premiership Rugby, as it competes with Sky for the armchair sports fan.
Youngsters were taking part in a range of athletic and other sporting events, as well as other competitions including dance, poetry and singing.
Other sporting celebrities include Boris Becker, Ian Botham, Zinzan Brooke, Kapil Dev, Darren Gough, Gavin Hastings, Franz Klammer, Michael Lynagh, Nigel Mansell and Sir Steve Redgrave.
"It is not enough that the ICC is regarded by other sporting organisations as a leader in the battle against corruption in sport, " said the South African.
As for other sporting venues, the Olympic Green Tennis Centre is now used by the Chinese Tennis Association, and several other sports centres are used by universities.
There are plenty of other sporting events across the country.
What is different from other sporting events is that here the kids are playing with technology and learning to appreciate science, engineering and mathematics by putting it into practice.
As the anchor tenant, West Ham said the team will have primacy of use of the stadium, even though the venue will also stage other sporting events and concerts.
Brokers also provided the respondents with gifts including premium tickets to the World Series, the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, Rolling Stones concerts, and dozens of other sporting events and concerts.
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Other sporting events to have been cancelled or postponed because of the earthquake include the national swimming championships, the Japanese round of the MotoGP championship and international friendly football games.
Other sporting honours include a CBE for Rodney Carr , lately chief executive of the Royal Yachting Association and one of the main driving forces for Britain's Olympic sailing successes.
As well as the roar of 70, 000-plus red-shirted rugby fans cheering on Wales, the stadium has played host to gigs including Paul McCartney, a Michael Jackson tribute concert and other sporting events.
When asked if CheckLight will be priced low enough to make it affordable for Pop Warner parents, Kacyvenski would only say that it'll be affordable and comparable to the cost of other sporting equipment.
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Other sporting honours include a CBE for the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board Giles Clarke and an OBE for services to cricket and charity for retired international umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird.
Chairman of St George's Park, David Sheepshanks, said the focus for elite players will be on making marginal but vital improvements, an approach which has succeeded for other sporting bodies such as British Cycling.
Both countries have some way to go before they produce footballers who reach the same level as their other sporting heroes such as Tendulkar - the second highest Test century maker of all time - and Courtney Walsh - the leading wicket taker in Test history.
With an estimated 200 million skiers and 70 million snowboarders in the world today, there are plenty of people who would do well to heed this advice and his overall message is that responsible participants have nothing more to fear on the slopes in comparison to other sporting activities.
For the past eleven days I have marvelled at the prowess of sportsmen and women from all around the world who have run, jumped, rowed, dived, sailed, shot, lifted and all the other sporting verbs to an extent mere mortals glued to the television cannot even begin to comprehend.
"While it cannot be denied that the IOC contributes to the funding and development of sport across the world, many of the costs associated with running the Olympics are covered by host nations which, in turn, can divert resources away from investment in other sporting projects that might normally be pursued, " Chadwick, of England's Coventry University Business School, told CNN.
But it's the happiness calculations that caught my eye, drawing on research that's been done on other major sporting events.
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Fox said it has used the camera system at the Daytona 500, at last week's NASCAR Sprint All-Star race and other major sporting events.
Super Bowl and other January sporting event tie-ins.
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Reding, while also working on other make-believe sporting heroes, spent time working on Belgium's favorite young adventurer Tintin during the 1950s.
Among other things, the sporting goods market should expand this year amid a healthier economy, less discounting and industry specific events like the World Cup, wrote HSBC in a report in late March.
In a major coup for the city, it will host Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, along with a number of other high-profile national sporting events.
On the estate is a health centre, a convenience store, a pub and two community centres, one with sporting facilities the other with numerous resident-led social events.
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