Sports - development news
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16 May 2012
Serving up Success - Manchester Primary School Squash Competition
The Manchester Primary School Squash competition saw three schools from across Manchester compete to be crowned Manchester Champions 2011-2012 at the National Squash Centre on Thursday 10 May.
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9 May 2012
Manchester: Award winning city of sport
Manchester is gearing up for a great weekend of sport as Sunday 20 May sees thousands of competitors take to the streets for the Great Manchester Run and Great CityGames.
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7 March 2012
Manchester athletes destined for great things
Sprinter Clovis Asong, 17, and BMX Racer Valerie Zebrokova, 14, have both been selected onto their sport’s governing body’s programmes for talented athletes and are on course to become future Olympians.
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5 March 2012
Paralympic hopeful fitted with ‘Blade Runner’ style supports
Paralympian Ian Jones is to be fitted with supports using the same technology that helps ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius.
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9 February 2012
1,500 School Children Invade The National Squash Championships
School children across Manchester have been given their first taste of squash after visiting the National Squash Centre, Eastlands, during the 2012 National Championships.
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19 October 2011
Celebrating the completion of the National Indoor BMX centre
The completion of the National Indoor BMX centre will be celebrated at an event on Friday 21 October 2011 at 1pm.
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17 October 2011
Staff and Volunteers invited to Commonwealth Games event
The Manchester Commonwealth Games workforce including all staff, contractors and volunteers are invited to attend a Tenth Anniversary planning event.
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29 June 2011
Manchester’s Olympic Thai in
The Sport Authority of Thailand have announced a partnership with Manchester City Council that will see Thailand’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes train in the city for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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19 May 2011
Launch of Eastlands BMX Club
Star BMXer Kyle Evans launched the Eastlands BMX Club at Ravensbury Community School on Monday 17 May.
