VLADIVOSTOK John Cominsky Falcons Jersey , Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- More than 150 Chinese cyclists on Wednesday competed in the international cycle race on the Far Eastern Russian island of Vladivostok.
The event was held on the Russian territory for the first time within the framework of the annual cycling festival "Vatternrundan China" at the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China.
About 200 amateur athletes from China, Russia and Colombia featured in the 27-kilometer route around the island, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory in World War II and to the Day of Peace in the Pacific Ocean.
Tatiana Litskevich, the deputy of the director of tour center "Berkut" - the Russian organizer of the event, told Xinhua that "The majority of the cycle race participants visited Vladivostok for the first time, so they didn't struggle to come first. Many participants have been stopping to enjoy the landscape and to take the pictures."
Cycle race's organizers from China were the cycling enthusiasts' club from Changchun and the tourist agency "Far East" Kendall Sheffield Falcons Jersey , the Russian organizer was the tour center "Berkut" with the support of the Vladivostok's Administration and Federation of Cycling in Primorsky Kray.
STRASBOURG, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hold a general assembly debate on Thursday over a call for FIFA to re-run the vote for the 2022 World Cup awarded to Qatar over allegations of corruption.
The report to be debated, "The reform of football governance," was adopted unanimously by the PACE Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media on Jan. 27 Kaleb McGary Falcons Jersey , 2015, and found the 2022 World Cup bid to be "fundamentally undermined by illegality."
The rapporteur, Michael Connarty (United Kingdom), examined evidence obtained by the Sunday Times of illegal payments paid to African football officials by FIFA's Qatari Vice President Mohammed bin Hamman, and found that this invalidated the World Cup 2022 selection process to the degree that it needed to be re-run.
In what a Tuesday press release called "a surprise decision," the assembly voted on Monday to move forward the debate by two months from its previously scheduled position.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter had initially been invited to attend the June 2015 PACE session Chris Lindstrom Falcons Jersey , but he will not be present during Thursday's debate. According to a PACE media officer, this suits some delegates who were reluctant to give such an opportunity to Mr. Blatter, since he is standing for re-election on May 29, 2015, and his opponents would not have the same platform.