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Competition is hotting up to keep nation fit on tight budget
Opinion
There’s little doubt that during extended spells of economic uncertainty, people develop an enhanced sense of budget consciousness.
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A healthy workforce equals more chance of a healthy profit
Opinion
If the state of the nation’s economic health was not sufficiently bad for us to worry about, there’s also plenty of evidence to suggest that the general condition of our physical health is, at best, ropey.
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Banks open for business in the global battle to get lion’s share
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "This tour is already guaranteed to go down in history as the Lions’ most profitable, comfortably surpassing the £4 million net profit made on the tour of South Africa in 2009."
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Scandal threat keeping the Tour de France cheap for its sponsors
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "In Porto-Vecchio on Saturday, the Grand Depart will signal the start of the one hundredth Tour de France, a 212 kilometre opening stage hugging the island’s east coast."
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Entrepreneurs now making sure golf tourists know the score
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "Fabio Peral and Antonio Conde realised that by applying a straightforward statistical method to the inevitably subjective process of rating golf courses and golf travel packages, they could effectively eliminate bias and rank the golf industry more effectively and objectively. And so, on June 7, Golfboo.com was born."
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Abramovich kicks the soft approach into touch at Chelsea
Opinion
Peter Sharkey writes "Jose Mourinho appeared in a blaze of flashbulbs, ready to sprinkle some much-needed stardust on an organisation widely disliked for the manner in which it has tried to assume the mantle of a ‘big club’ without necessarily appreciating the corresponding need for humility such status infers".
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French league plays Russian roulette with Monaco
Opinion
People consider Rybolovlev’s billions a threat to French football. His decision to challenge the LFP through the courts is seen as establishing an extremely dangerous precedent.
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London 2012 Olympics legacy inspires a chain reaction
Opinion
A greater number of people have taken up cycling, either as social or occasional riders, commuters or holiday cyclists.
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Peter Sharkey: Organisers may have to forget profit at Rugby World Cup
Economic Development
Even though we’re more than two years away from the Rugby World Cup in England, concerns regarding its funding are already to the fore.
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Peter Sharkey: A major player comes into the market
Economic Development
Though it wasn't quite on a par with that other major sporting announcement made last week, in terms of commercial scale it was enormous, significantly affecting equity prices in two companies with a combined market value of £37 billion.
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Peter Sharkey: Sir Alex's successor must satisfy Wall Street as well as fans
Economic Development
It was a classic 'hold the front page' moment. The biggest news in domestic sport since Britain was awarded the Olympic Games in 2005.
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Peter Sharkey: BHA must clean up racing if they want to keep Al Maktoum in º£½ÇÊÓƵ
Economic Development
Horse racing has always possessed a faint whiff of roguishness, a sense that, away from the sport's highest echelons, were you to lightly scratch the surface, evidence of small-scale wrong doing and fixing would become immediately apparent.
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Peter Sharkey: Germans putting the bite on their Euro competitors
Economic Development
It felt less like the cultured passing of a baton and much more like the ripping of football's figurative staff from the very bosom of its spiritual home for the past five years, an act executed with the force and brutality of a seriously aggrieved party.
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Peter Sharkey: Premier League stragglers living dangerously
Economic Development
There's never a good time to experience relegation from English football's top flight, but going down this season could be financially disastrous for the three as yet unknown clubs who must formally sever their Premier League ties next month.
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Peter Sharkey: The Midland golf gourse labelled 'better than Augusta'
Economic Development
As most of us were preparing to finish work on Wednesday night, Augusta’s annual par three competition, traditional curtain-raiser to the Masters which starts on Thursday, was getting under way, bathed in customary early spring sunshine.
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Peter Sharkey: Football clubs need help from banks for financial fair play
Economic Development
In the Championship and divisions one and two of the Football League, 10 percent of clubs are showing evidence of what the firm calls ‘financial distress’, a sharp rise on the three percent level it reported in October.
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Peter Sharkey: Nike walks the walk with the Trash Talk shoe
Economic Development
At first glance, Nike's green "vision of the future" reads much like any other corporate PR - but Nike has gone beyond righteous-sounding words.
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Peter Sharkey: New agent could see the Bradley Wiggins brand soar
Economic Development
If Bradley Wiggins does move to a new management team, he can expect to generate significant sums of money for the rest of his life.
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Peter Sharkey: Cash concerns for Formula One teams - but not Red Bull
Economic Development
Despite its ready association with glamour, jean-clad film stars and oodles of money, the next two years promise to be exceptionally tight for Formula One.
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Peter Sharkey: New golf courses being aimed at the super-rich
Economic Development
In these straightened times, one wonders why billionaires are prepared to contend with the criticism and condemnation that invariably accompanies their application to build new golf resorts when so many existing courses are up for sale and participation in the game is falling.
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Peter Sharkey: The Aston Villa letter which spawned the billion-pound game
Economic Development
Earlier this week, telecommunications giant BT clinched another audacious rights deal as the company continued its determined attempt to make a serious impact upon the domestic television market when its two BT Sport TV channels launch this summer.
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Peter Sharkey: Formula 1 reaps rewards of playing by the rules
Economic Development
Sport's infrequent dalliances with stock markets have tended to be unconsummated affairs.
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Peter Sharkey: Huge profits out-muscling the war on drugs in sport
Economic Development
Imagine the enormous returns on investment available should you be in a position to both supply performance-enhancing drugs to sportsmen and then illegally influence a sporting outcome after you’ve also bribed the referee.
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Peter Sharkey: Sports fans could benefit from Sky's battle with BT
Economic Development
We should not expect BSkyB simply to stand aside and allow BT to loosen its grip on Premier League football without a fight
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