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Among 12 teams competing for the cup, Spain, the official defending champion, was the first team with Slovenia, to take the field last night at the Zagreb Arena.

Slovenia did not make it easy but Spain ensured they opened UEFA Futsal EURO 2012 Group B with victory, looking now for a fourth straight title.

Today, Feb 1st, will be the turn of Italy, winner of the edition of 2003, with its team having gone through 2011 unbeaten, against newcomers Turkey in Group C, this group including also Russia.

For the event, Mondo proudly provided its Fast Break System 2 Laminated flooring as well as nets and goals and ports in both halls where the matches take place, i.e. the great Arenas of Split and Zagreb.

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C’era anche Arrigo Sacchi all’incontro Spagna - Italia under 17 tenutosi la scorsa settimana a Llanes nelle Asturie. Le due squadre di giovanissimi calciatori si sono sfidate sul campo con manto in MONOFIBRE 3NX firmato Mondo. Si tratta del primo nelle Asturie certificato dalla Federazione Spagnola e non è un caso che il mister italiano, ospite d’onore, per definire le prestazioni del manto sintetico abbia utilizzato un aggettivo che non lascia spazio a dubbi: “Eccezionale!”

The Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC will face off in the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge this weekend, with two schools representing each league in the two-day, scored competition.
The A&M Challenge promises to be one of the strongest meets of the 2012 indoor season, with almost all of the teams being Top 25 ranked!

Representing the Big 12 at the meet, which begins Friday, will be Texas A&M and Texas Tech. The SEC counters with Florida and Tennessee. The Pac 12 rounds out the field with squads from Arizona State and Oregon.

At the 2011 competition, 13 meet records were set while the Big 12 (Kansas State, Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Texas Tech) defeated the SEC (Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina) in both the men's and women's competitions.
 

The 2010 UEFA European Futsal Championship finals and the UEFA Futsal Cup 2011 were two important events that put on display not only the quality of teams competing but the surface in which the games were played, a surface designed by Mondo .

The date is Saturday, December 3, 2011, at 14:30.
Place? The field of Trigoria.
And the teams in the competition? The Primavera of AS Roma and Bari
The turf on which to run and chase you relentlessly shoes tireless heroes of our youth is one of three synthetic grass, approved DBS Professional, developed by MONDO.
The surface of the field is done with the new 3NX fiber, designed in the research center of Gallo d'Alba, where the famous sports flooring and running tracks were created ... Mondo.

In a BBC interview, Usain Bolt has confirmed his intention to end his track career at the 2017 World Championships in London, when he was 31.
"If the Olympics go well, then surely I will continue - Bolt said -. It will be nice to compete in one last World Championship and then retire to London. We will see. "The athlete added that if he competes in London in 2017, it will be only in the 200m.

The Samsung Diamond League has announced the dates of the events planned for 2012. The third season of this prestigious competition will take place in stages in the same places that have hosted races in 2011: Doha (Qatar, 11/05), Shanghai (19/05), Rome (31/05), Eugene (USA, 2 / 06), Oslo (7 / 06), New York (9 / 06), Paris (6 / 07), London (13 and 14.7), Monte Carlo (20/07), Stockholm (17/08), Lausanne (23/08), Birmingham (26/08), Zurich (30/08), Brussels (7 / 09).

It's official: Mondo will be the supplier of the track and field facilities for the XIV World Indoor Championships
The Championships will be held in Istanbul from March 9-10, 2012.It is another opportunity to try all
Alba's organizational strength and formidable performance of its products!

The Ape Nursery-Tau and its designers studio Atelier2 won the second prize for contemporary architecture of the Ludwig Foundation of the Uberti, who this year had as its theme the architecture created in municipalities seriously affected by the earthquake in Abruzzo. The award ceremony will take place on December 5, at noon, in the museum MAXXI in Rome, where it will have an exhibition of the winning projects. For information and details: www.fondazioneludovicodegliuberti.it.

The IAAF Council meeting in Monte Carlo has decided which cities will host the four Competitions of the IAAF World Athletics Series in 2014. Copenhagen will host the World Half Marathon Championships, Marrakech will host the Continental Cup (13 and 14 September 2014), Eugene, Oregon in the United States, will host the Junior World Championships, Sopot, Poland, will host the World Indoor Championships.

The IAAF Council has announced it will host in London in 2017, the sixteenth edition of the World Championships. The British capital beat off competition from Doha. Recalling that in 2013 Moscow will host this important event and in 2015 Beijing.
"We fought hard to make this stage remain an athletic stadium, and now we can all agree that this will happen; going from 85 to 25,000 seats would have made a stage too small, now we will have 60,000 seats and I'm very happy, " said IAAF President Diack Lamie talking about the future of the Olympic Stadium in London, which will host the Olympics in 2012 and 2017 World Championships.

The multi-purpose clinic "The three angels for life" with the leader Architect Joan Di Virgilio, won second prize in the "Works" Award of Ludovico degli Uberti. This is a building with PVC materials on the walls and red pixels PT Compact Red floor, both produced by Mondo.

Usain Bolt and Sally Pearson were awarded Athlete of the Year 2011 during the traditional IAAF World Athletics Gala, held in Monte Carlo. For the the third time the Jamaican sprinter wins the prize, while it was the first time for the Australian champion in the 100m hurdles. The other finalists were Yohan Blake and David Rudish for  the men, and Valerie Adams and Vivian Cheruiyot for the  women.

Waiting for the World Athletics Gala 2011, the Council of the IAAF, chaired by the President Lamine Diack, met in Monte Carlo to analyze the progress of the venues that will host the upcoming IAAF World Athletics Series competitions. The first event in chronological order is the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul scheduled from March 9-11, 2012 in the new Atakoy Athletics Arena. May 12-13 in Saransk (Russia) will be held  the 25th of the World Race Walking Cup in Barcelona, July 10 to 15, the Olympic Stadium of Montjuic, will be played in the World Junior Championships. 2012 is also the year when we celebrate the centenary of the IAAF (July 17, 2012). To celebrate the event, the Council decided that Barcelona will host November 24, 2012 a special edition of the annual International Athletics Foundation Gala, as well as, a series of events around the city for the IAAF. The Gala will be an opportunity to present the IAAF Centenary Book, written and edited by historian and statistician Mel Watman together with industry experts such as Roberto Quercetani, David Miller and Alain Billouin. In addition, during the evening will be announced the names of the first athletes who will inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame. The IAAF Council also discussed the progress of the current work in Moscow for the 14th edition of the World Championships in Athletics, to be held at the Luzhniki Olympic Complex Stadium in the Russian capital  August 10-18, 2013.

After the Boston Marathon, the Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai has also won the 42nd edition of the New York Marathon with a time of 2:05:06, a new record. Second place in the marathone went to another Kenyan Mutai Emmanule, while the third went to the Ethiopian Tsegaye Kebede. Among women, success for the Ethiopian Nut Firehiwot in 2:23:15, ahead of compatriot at the finish line and Deba Buzunesh Kenyan Mary Keitany. Success for Alex Zanardi hand bikes in the category. The marathon was attended by about 47,000 people from 23 nations.

Friday, November 11, 2011, the All Star Volleyball match will be staged at Monza Palalper between the Italian national team, coached by Mauro Berruto and a selection of samples of Major League Volleyball. For the national team is an important test to address a few hours before leaving for Japan where he will play the FIVB World Cup, the first chance to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. This edition of the All Star is dedicated to the memory of Marcello Gabana, President of Water Paradise Monza Brianza, who two years ago, on November 14, 2009, lost his life along with his pilot in plane crash. The All Star Volleyball will be played on the court manufactured by Mondo with a flag made ​​of Mondoflex performance, the same surface that was used for the Italian Super Cup, which was played in Cagliari a few days prior.

First victory in the World Super Cup Itas Diatec Trentino, in a PalaRockefeller exhausted, defeated Cagliari Cuneo Bre Banca Lannutti 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 18-25, 25-20). The team has taken on the Radon Stoytchev rematch of last season's Super Cup, held in Turin at the end of a match played at the highest levels. Best player of the competion was awarded to Jan Stokr.

Italian Super Cup Winners

1996 Traco Cuneo Alpitour
1997 Casa Modena Unibon
1998 Sisley Treviso
1999 TNT Alpitour Cuneo
2000 Sisley Treviso
2001 Sisley Treviso
2002 Noicom Brebanca Cuneo
2003 Sisley Treviso
2004 Sisley Treviso
2005 Sisley Treviso
2006 Lube Banca Marche Macerata
2007 Sisley Treviso
2008 Lube Banca Marche Macerata
2009 CoprAtlantide Piacenza
2010 Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo
Itas 2011 Trentino Diatec

Mondo will be the official sponsor of the 2011 Super Cup of volleyball, held in Cagliari on November 1st. The Diatec Itas Trentino and Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo will compete on the the famous surface Mondo Performance Tricolore, which was inaugurated in 2008 with the All Star Volleyball played at Monza in the Italian national team selection and a "Rest of the World" with the best player of the Series A1. From the 2009/10 season the Tricolore surface has become a symbol of the team champion of Italy, starting from Piacenza and passing last season from Cuneo to PalaTrento installed this year. This surfaces also accompanies all the events of Volleyball League A.

Mondo will attend on November 1, 2011 Super Volleyball, providing and installing PalaRockfeller of Cagliari to the classic tri-color court. In a single match, competitive and extremely fascinating, the two teams that will compete in the 2010/2011 season have won the Scudetto and Italian Cup volleyball A1: the Diatec Itas Trentino and Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo. In green, white and red Italian flag, surrounded by the typical blue color uniforms of the national disciplines, the surface created by the Gallo d'Alba is the ideal stage for the consecration of the challenge "national" that there is. A stage that can also rely on expertise and support of Mondo that will be offered for the duration of the event, such as taking care of logistics, installation, and finally the perfect  dismantling of the court flag.
The field flag is made Mondoflex Performance, a sports flooring consists of a surface layer made ​​of natural and synthetic rubber, finely textured, flexible substrate coupled with closed cell foam, reinforced with armor. The surface ensures top performance and the ultimate in physical protection for the  players.  Dut to its technical features that can facilitate the detachment in elevation and the damping rate of relapse, the "tricolor" Mondo provides added shock absorption because of the special elastic deformation it undergoes upon impact.

The Briton Mo Farah is the winner of the 2011 edition of the European Athlete of the Year Award presented by Mondo. What is about to end is an outstanding year for him. In February he set the record in Birmingham in the European indoor 5,000 m with 13:10.60; in March, he defended his title on the 3000 meters at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Paris; in June has made ​​the European record in the 10,000 m with 24:46.57, ran in July 5000 on the record of the year m 12:53:11, the second fastest time ever and the European national record. The apex of his extraordinary year was the gold medal in the 5000m at the World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, where he managed to bring to Europe the world title in this discipline after waiting almost twenty years.  In second place  in the European Athletes of the Year was  sprinter Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre  and third was another Briton, the 400m hurdles world champion David Greene.

Today, 19th october, starts Euroleague 2011-2012, the teams participants are 24.

The IAAF has announced the names of 20 athletes (10 men, 10 women) candidates for the World Athletes of the Year Award. The selection was made by a group of eight experts from the IAAF athletics. The vote, by members the IAAF Council and IAF, Federations of the IAAF, Committees and Commissions of the IAAF, IAAF Meeting of Directors, IAAF Ambassadors, Representatives of the IAAF athletes, top athletes, members of the international press and staff members IAAF will continue until midnight on Sunday, October 23. Following the collection of votes  three men and three women finalists will be selected. The Council of the International Athletic Foundation will select the athletes and winners will be announced on November 12th during the annual World Athletics Gala. The 10 male candidates are: Yohan Blake (Jamaica), Usain Bolt (Jamaica), Mo Farah (Great Britain), Robert Harting (Germany), Kirani James (Grenada), Patrick Makau (Kenya), Koji Murofushi (Japan), David Rudish (Kenya), Christian Taylor (USA), Jesse Williams (USA).
The 10 women candidates are: Mary Abakumov (Russia), Valerie Adams (New Zealand), Veronica Campbell Brown (Jamaica), Tatyana Chernova (Russia), Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya), Anna Chicherova (Russia), Lashinda Demus (USA) Carmelita Jeter (USA), Amantle Montsho (Botswana), Sally Pearson (Australia).

The English champion in the long jump J.J. Jegede is a great show, performing in three Mini jump at the London launch of the 2012 BMW car, which took place at the Potter's Field in London. The three cars lined up measured about 6 feet in length; Jegede jumped without a safety net and little margin for error. If you think that normally the jump of a world-class athlete measuring 7 to 8 meters. To allow the athlete to have the right platform and the elevation of the pit with sand was placed at the same height of the roof of the Mini, and the platform was built with Mondotrack 13 mm, a material specifically designed to achieve high performance, was placed free-standing down the 35m runway, .
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The Russian Mariya Savinova athlete, world champion in the 800 meters, is the winner of the the 2011 European Athlete of the Year an award presented by Mondo. This is the fourth Russian athlete to win it, after Irina Privalova, Yelena Isinbayeva and Svetlana Masterkova. During the past year, Mariya Savinova, 26, has only lost one of ten races in whichshe  has participated in, among the outstanding victories was the finals of the World Championships in Athletics in Daegu with her personal best time (1:55.87)> In addition to winning the SPAR European Team Championships in Stockholm and the final of the Diamond League in Zurich. The top three champions of the prize is all the world  include Russia's  Mariya Abakumov and Anna Chicherova in second and third.
 

The British athlete Jodie Williams is the winner of of the 2011 European Athletics Rising Star Award, presented by Mondo. The junior world champion, won the 100 meters final at the European Junior Athletics Championships in Tallinn, held in July, with a time of 11.18.  Records of the national junior championships and leadership. Just 24 hours after the final 100 meters, was complete and she also won the final of the 200 m, with a seasonal best time, 22.94. The 18 year-old British athlete went on during the 4x100 m helping his team win the bronze medal at the Kadriorg Stadium in the capital of Estonia. In second place in the rankings for the award of the Netherlands was ranked Daphne Schippers, followed by Russian and Swedish Darya Klishina Angelica Bengtsson

David Storl, the reigning shot put world champion, is the winner of the 2011 European Athletics Rising Star Award, presented by Mondo. The German athlete won the gold medal at the recent World Championships in Athletics in Daegu with the measurement of 21.78 m. In second place was Paweł Wojciechowski, the world champion in the pole vault, one third of the 100 Junior European Champion runner-up in me, Daegu, French Vicaut Jimmy. The European Athletics Rising Star is an award that has existed since 2007 and is awarded to athletes under 23.

Recently held in London was one of the highlights of all the pre-Olympic period, the official presentation of the track to be used for all track and field events in the 2012 London Olympics. The best British athletes and children of the local school West Ham Church Primary School in Newham were able to see and test the track produced by Mondo - Mondotrack FTX, laid in August 2011. "This is a milestone for us - Seb Coe commented, Chairman of LOCOG - seeing the Olympic Stadium come to life is very exciting. Then to see the best British athletes out on the track with the children of a school gives a good idea of the role that this facility will have after 2012. "Red, combined with the gray color for the outer areas, with a dimension out of the ordinary, with a total area of 16,000 square meters, the track affects mainly for its technical specifications, 2008 in Beijing contributed to the achievement of less than 38 records among the world's Olympic and continent category, without regard to the various personal records. With a thickness of about 13.5 mm, Mondotrack surfaces is one of the world's fastest and has been certified to ensure the highest level in the classification of surfaces suitable to host the Olympics and Paralympics (Level 1). "It's been 34 years from our first participation, Montreal 1976 - said Maurizio Stroppiana, Managing Director of Mondo SpA - Still the emotion it elicits to see our beautiful track installed in the place where the Olympic Games will take place is always greater than that previously experienced. "

The 38th edition of the Berlin Marathon saw the Kenyan Patrick Makau beat the world record,which belonged to Haile Gebreselassie  the Cushite, with a time of 2:03:38. It was a real triumph for Kenya, which finished second with Stephen and Edwin Chemlani Kimaiyo finished third in the men's race, and Florence Kiplagat won the women's trial with a time of 2:19:44.

For the third consecutive year, the EAA has chosen MONDO as the sole partner of the European Athletics Awards, a gala evening in which European athletics celebrates itself by awarding champions who have excelled in 2011.

Sunday, September 18th Arena on the track in Milan will challenge athletes from 30 nations, including 15 winners of a medal in the last World Championships in Athletics in Daegu. Among the athletes expected is certainly David Rudish, the world champion of 800 m, which will attempt to beat the world record he achieved ​​in 2010: the goal is to get under 1'41 "01. In the same competition will present the Polish Marcin Lewandoski, fourth in Daegu, and the Italians Mario Scapini and Giordano Benedetti. The spotlight is also on the South African Oscar Pistorius, who has managed this year to participate in the world in the 400 m able-bodied of Daegu There will be a lot of Italy in the Arena, from Antonietta Di Martino, bronze medal in Daegu in the high jump, triple jumper Simona La Mantia and. Among the most anticipated races of the challenge men's 100 meters, with the presence of the four blue baton, came in fifth at the World Championships 4x100: Di Gregorio, Collio, Tumi and Cerutti. In the same race eyes will turn to two other Italians, and Riparelli Galvan, and the French Pognon, who has a personal best of 9 "98. Italy still a lot of women in the 400 m, with the girls 4x400, that the world almost came in the final, and in the 800 meters, where it waits for a big test of Marta Milani. The athletes will race on the  Mondo Sportflex SX 12mm Classic track , who is also sponsoring the event.

Friday, September 16th the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels hosts the 35th edition of the Memorial Van Damme, the last act of the  2011 Diamond League. The meet, which takes place annually in late summer, always sees the participation of the best athletes in the world and has recorded over the years a world record. Many are veterans from  Daegu World Championships in Athletics were present at the meeting.  In addition to Usain Bolt, David Rudish is expected (gold medal in the 800 m), Ibrahim Jeilan (gold in the 10,000 m), Blanka Vasic, Milcah Chemosh Kevin and his brother Jonathan Borlée, Oscar Pistorius and many others. As with the  Daegu Stadium,  the King Baudouin Stadium is  Daegu equipped with a track produced by Mondo: Mondotrack FTX.

The 2011/2012 season of Italian football begins with a first for our country: a stadium owned by a football team. The new stadium for Juventus was the testing ground for the agreement signed with Mondo, whicht has become the Official Supplier of the New Stadium Juventus for the next 5 years. In particular, for the construction of the new facility, Mondo is providing 37,907 seats 9 Mondoseat model for the entire complex. The seats were constructed by placing great emphasis on strict international standards on safety, and are equipped with various devices to fight against tampering and vandalism for the safety of the athletes. In addition to the seats, the company has provided the Alba Surface (One and Decors) for the dressing rooms, warehouse, kindergartens, offices, local public safety and first aid, press offices, the media conference and the dining rooms Mondo has also provided the synthetic grass (Deco 11) for Merchandising and it covers the area between the foothills of the east side (NSF Mondoturf 15), for entry to the VIP area and the edge of the playing field (MondoLandscape).

Angelico Biella Basketball has chosen the 1,500 meters of beautiful Sauze d'Oulx in the Upper Susa Valley, the pre-season retreat. The team as a guest of Grand Hotel La Torre, has provided cutting-edge facilities (weight room, football field, the field of sand for beach volleyball, spa and indoor pool), including those inside the building of Sauze, recently installed by Mondo, include the basketball court @ @ @, with electronic billboards and basketball wall units.

The World Championships in Athletics in Daegu ended with the world record in the 4x100 quartet, achieved by Jamaican: Usain Bolt, Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake. These great sprinters finished the race with a time of 37 "04, beating the old record of 37" 10 set ​​at the Beijing Olympics. Silver medal went to France (38 "20) and bronze went to Saint Kitts and Nevis (38" 49). Good results for the Italian quartet, who finished fifth, which eventually made ​​the semi-finals would be on the podium. The in Daegu World Championships competitions were held on Mondo Sportflex Super X Performance.

The game of August 31, 2011, played at the Stadio Romeo Menti Castellammare di Stabiae, including Juventus and Verona Stabiae, not only marked the return of the bell in the Serie B team after 60 years of absence, but also in the onset of Mondo Series Italian B with its latest generation of synthetic turf Mondoturf NSF single-fiber 11 45 AE Star FTS. With the field of single-fiber Mondoturf NSF Romeo Minds has been FIFA 2 STAR certified in a very short time even though it was installed in 2009 and since then has received only routine maintenance. Castellammare di Stabiae field is the nineteenth Mondo field to have earned this prestigious certification, others are in Europe (Portugal, Greece, Holland, Cyprus, Germany and Finland), in Canada, New Caledonia and Morocco.

Less than a month from now is the beginning of the XIII World Athletics Championships in Daegu, the most important sporting event of 2011. From Saturday, August 27 to Sunday, September 4 more than 2,000 athletes from 200 teams, will compete for the world championships in front of viewers from around the world.  It will generate moments of great emotion and the highest level of competition.
In addition to the athletes, the main athletes of this prestigious sporting event, will be photographed many times and as well as the new  track Daegu Stadium Mondo Super X Performance.

For information and schedule of events visit the official website www.daegu2011.org or www.iaaf.org

It took place at the Olympic Stadium, in front of 7,200 spectators, the Athletics Meeting in Barcelona, ​​which has recorded four new records of the event and two of the best performances by European athletes. The records of the meet were achieved ​​by the Jamaican Yohan Blake in the U23 100m with a time of 10.6, Bulgaria's Vanya Stambolov in 400m hurdles with a time of 54.38, the Cuban Yariskey Silva in the pole vault with 466, the Russian Yekaterina Gorbunova , which has built both the 1500m record in European competition is the best performance of the year with a time of 4:01:02. The other European best performance of the year was that of the Kenyan Ilham Tanu, who runs for Turkey, in the 1500m with a time of 3:32.94.

Have been completed in Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) the CAC Championships first place in the medal count was achieved by Jamaica (10 golds, 6 silvers, 10 bronzes), which preceded Mexico (7,6,7) and Trinidad (6.3, 5). In total 17 nations won at least one medal. Challenges in the expectations between relays, Jamaica won the 4x100m 4x400m men and women, the Bahamas won the 4x400m men, while Trinidad was first in the 4x100m women.

The marathon in Rio de Janeiro, an event which was part of the fifth edition of World Military Games scheduled in the Brazilian city, was won by Frenchman Patrick Ngoi, who became the military world champion owith a time of 2:18:17. In the women's marathon success went to North Korean Kim Kum Ok, who in a time of 2:35:22 also won her the military world competition.

Oscar Pistorius has won during the 22 nd International Meeting of Lignano Sabbiadoro the time it takes to compete at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu and the 2012 Olympics in London. 45.07 With the South African athlete has achieved his personal best in the 400m. But bad news coming from France: the indoor world champion and world record holder in the triple jump, Teddy Tamgho, will be forced to miss the World Championships because of injury during the Under 23 European Championships in Ostrava.

He did it! The meeting "Sport Solidarity" in Lignano Oscar Pistorius has exceeded the minimum for some much-needed access to the London 2012 Olympic Games. The result is terrific. The athlete finished the 400 meters in 45 "07. In fact beating the Jamaicans Lancedord Spence (46 "23) and Mason (46" 50). The goal required to go to London is 45 "25, but Pistorius did even better. His talent is unquestionable, but we like to think that a little 'of the credit also goes to the reception and Italian Lignano fast track that saw him speeding like a rocket.

954 athletes from 47 countries confirmed their attendance to the European Junior Championships 2011 in Tallin. The event starts today at the historic Kadrioru stadium on a brand new IAAF class 2 certified Mondo track with Mondotrack product in the thickness of 14 mm, light and dark red colors.

The new state of Southern Sudan has been struggling against time to enter the list of countries that will participate in the 2012 London Olympics. The former British colony of Sudan, over the past 50 years has been plagued by famine, coup, terrorism and conflict between the northern (Muslim) and southern (Christian) in the country. After a peace agreement signed in 2005, following a civil war, the southern state gained independence through a referendum that enshrined the separation from the rest of the country. In order to have a National Olympic Committee, needed to participate in the Olympics, serve at least four national federations. Therefore, it is likely that the debut of Southern Sudan in the world of sport will occur with the Commonwealth Games to be held in Glasgow in 2014.

The decision of the London football club Tottenham Hotspur to open legal proceedings against the verdict that awarded to another London team, West Ham, the possibility of detecting the British capital's Olympic Stadium Double Step Games of 2012 postponed to August and a ruling from the judges each case on the future of the plant. The uncertain future of the stadium could affect the probability that London is included among the candidate cities the World Championships in Athletics of 2017, as the IAAF will announce the official list on the 1st of September.

The 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be held in Pyeongchang. The Korean city beat the candidacies of French and German Annecy Monaco in the first round with 63 out of 95 votes available. The victory was celebrated by the Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na and the President of the Korean Olympic Committee, YS Park. This was the third attempt by the South Koreans, who had already participated and lost the 2010 Olympics, to Vancouver, and 2014, went to the Russian city of Sochi. It is the third time the Winter Olympics have been awarded to an Asian city.

Saturday, July 9th at the Meeting of Athletic Madrid the spotlight will focus on the Men's 100 m, for the competition between the former Olympic champion Justin Gatlin and the indoor world champion, Britain's Dwain Chambers. The fans at home will then concentrate on the women's 1,500 m, where two athletes will race in Spain: European Champion Nuria Fernandez and Natalia Rodriguez.

The Englishmen's decathlon team, with 22,989 points, won the First League in Brixen to qualify for the Super League. Belgium also promoted (2 ° 22 468). The three personal best results were those of the Swiss Walter Simon (7973) and British Daniel Awde (7889) and Ashley Bryant (7747). Nell'eptathlon promoted Poland (17,309) and Italy (17,050). Poland had the best athlete Tyminska Parolin (6297), followed by Hungarian Gyorgyi Farkas and Belarus Yana Maksimir.

Hurrah Juventus, the official journal of the Juventus team, is on the newsstands with an interesting interview with Maurizio Stroppiana president of Mondo Spa and Luigi Benedetto's CEO and managing director of Mondo Spa The Spa Mondofin company of Alba is in fact the official supplier of Juventus, which has developed and installed the seats allocated to the new stadium. An evocative geometric design, obtained using the contrast of black and white, trace the outlines of two samples, Gaetano Scirea and Michel Platini, who stand on the east grandstand, while on the north and south sides of the backs of the seats form the two stars badges. For this stadium, Mondo has not only provided the seats, but also the artificial turf on the sidelines and all resilient flooring, including the flooing of the locker rooms and gyms. Having contributed to this project "is a source of great pride - says Stroppiana to Hurrah  Juventus - because this is the most important project in Italy and among the most important in Europe." "Also - Benedetto adds a personal basis - the sentimental aspect is that, as far as I'm concerned, is very strong. Do you think that as a child, at the time of Sivori, Cuneo went to see the training of Juventus."

The Soccer Federation of the German region of Hesse (Hessischer Fussball-Verband, HFV) and the Mondo Track & Turf GmbH have signed an agreement for a period of three years. The meeting between President dell'HFV Rolf Hocke, vice-president for business and finance HFV Stefan Reuss, Sales Director of Track & Turf Onno Brenninkmeijer and Sales Manager for Southern Germany and Switzerland to the Mondo Track Turf & Weber GmbH Kai-Gemmel took place at the Sports Hotel Grünberg.

The contract, in addition to appropriate communication and delivery of informational seminars for associations, provides for the construction of infrastructure by the Mondo ultra modern synthetic grass in the place where stands the HFV.

"Mondo is very happy to have been selected as a supplier of synthetic grass by the HFV - Gemmel said Kai Weber--. This includes the task of restructuring the federation's most important plants with artificial turf system Mondoturf 3NX at the School for Sports Grünberg. Mondo is pleased to support the federation and its associate members in an advisory capacity. "

"We are delighted to have found a partner as competent and renowned in the field of synthetic turf - Rolf Hocke said -. All the more so because there will be the creation of a site with ultra modern artificial turf in Grünberg. This is an important step to ensure the quality of our training. "

It is set to be very interesting challenges to the Meeting Areva 2011, the eighth stage of the Samsung Diamond League, which will take place at the Stade de France in Paris on  July 8th. Usain Bolt in the 200 m along with the European champion Christophe Lemaitre and the young Jamaican Nickel Ashmead. In the 110 hurdles the challenge will be among the American David Oliver and world record holder, Cuban Dayron Robles. The race of 1,500 m will feature the Moroccan Amine Laalou and olympic gold medalist Ashbel Kiprop. There are great expectations for the 100 m women with Veronica Campbell-Brown, Kerron Stewart and Myriam Soumaré. The 800 m women, the challenge of winning two World Championships: Janet Jepkosgei and Caster Semenya. These are some of the most anticipated competitions taking place on the track Mondotrack FTX 13mm, produced by Mondo.  With 15,000 tickets already sold a month before the event, the organizers aim to fill the stadium with 50,000 spectators.

After renewing its partnership with the Piedmont Regional Committee FIDAL, Mondo is once again revealed as a sponsor of the International Athletics Meeting in Turin. Two important agreements that further strengthen the close relationship between the Gallo d'Alba company and Piedmont athletics. The twelfth edition of the "Memorial Primo Nebiolo", in fact, will take place on the mantle prefabricated Mondotrack SX generation, innovative material that last year has attracted praise from many athletes and coaches for his skills and performance, while of considerable comfort. The races will see the participation of prominent athletes, such as Simona La Mantia, European champion in Paris 2011 indoor triple jump, the hammer and Nicholas Vezzoni Dayron Robles, the Cuban Olympic champion in the 110 hurdles (2008) and World champion of the 60 hurdles (2010 ).

The football field of Behrn Arena in Orebro, Sweden, created by Mondo Luxembourg, has been certified FIFA 2 STAR. The old synthetic turf has been replaced with a new one: single-fiber Mondoturf NSF 3NX.

The Regent Street Festival is the biggest event on the street that takes place in central London, after the Notting Hill Carnival. For the second consecutive year, the Sports Zone Basketball has seen the contribution of the surface Mondocourt. The World team is put to work right from the four in the morning on Sunday, June 5th to deliver a few hours after a 6x6 and 10x12 m area that hosted challenges teams of 3 players.  In addition to the performance were public cheeleaders. Fun events like this will accompany the months prior to the beginning of the London 2012 Olympics and once again showcase the presence of Mondo as the official supplier.
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On May 15th, the tennis Championships and Rome Internazionali BNL concluded and celebrated the new champion: Nole Djokovic. The final challenge saw a Serbian athlete beat Nadal with a score of 64 64 in 2 hours and 12 minutes. Queen Maria Sharapova of tennis instead. The beautiful Siberian triumphed with a mix of power, class and determination that made ​​landfall as a hurricane against Samantha Stosur in the final game.
The podium that is seen crowning the new heroes of the BNL International Championships of tennis is that of the Centre Court at the Foro Italico in Rome. A facility which the world are envy of. During the event, the Centre has made itself heard again, as had happened in the previous edition. This stadium is "the Colosseum of tennis," Djokovic said in a press release, while Nadal has even called "the most beautiful stadium in the world."

Rehearsal for the Olympics started Monday, May 30th  on the streets of London, thanks to the athletes who have tested the proposed routes for the marathon and walking competitions to be held in London  2012.  Taking advantage of the feast day (Monday was bank holiday in London) many Londoners  had a taste of what will be the excitement that the Olympics will bring to town in August next year. The five scheduled events on the streets of the British capital (male and female marathon, 20 km of driving men and women, 50 km of driving men) will be held in Central London and finish inThe Mall. Recall that the athletics competitions in London in 2012, of which Mondo is the official supplier, will be held August 3rd to 12th, 2012.

ASD di Montesilvano C/5  are the new Futsal Cup European champions. The result didn't left any doubts: 5 to 2. ASD Città di Montesilvano has defeated the Sporting Clube de Portugal at Almaty and it has become Futsal European Champion playing on a Mondo flooring.

MONDO is once again proud Sponsor of the 2010/2011 UEFA Futsal Cup Finals.
Kairat Almaty and the Football Federation of Kazakhstan (KFF) are going to host the 2010/11 UEFA Futsal Cup finals to be staged at the Baluan Sholak Sport Palace of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
 

The Exhibition La bella Italia - Art and Identity of the capital cities - presented at the Venaria Reale on occasion of the Celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, increased its treasures with great masterpieces of Parmigianino, Velazquez and Bernini and the first editions of the poems of Ariosto and Tasso.

Turin, Italy - Saturday, 19th March 2011, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the New National Museum of Automotive of Turin has been inaugurated by President Giorgio Napolitano. The museum, dedicated to Giovanni Agnelli, reopens its doors after four years of renovation and expansion.
 

Paris, France – 6th March 2011, at the end of the three-day event of the European Indoor Championships, the French athlete Taddy Tamgho set another World indoor record in the Triple Jump at the Palais Omnisport Paris-Bercy.

On the prestigious Londoner journal has been published last Thursday an article about our company, both online and as printed version.

The article results from the interview of the Italian correspondent of Business & Finance, David Lane, with Maurizio Stroppiana, President and CEO of Mondo SpA.

Herat, Afghanistan – Saturday, 26th February 2011, in occasion of a special Peace Match, a new Mondo football field realized with Mondoturf has been inaugurated.
The field has been donated from the ACAI (Association of Italian actors soccer player) to the local population and to the Italian soldiers stationed in Herat.

Sunday 20th February 2011 - Aubière, France - Last weekend during the French National Indoor Championships held in Aubière on a Mondo indoor permanent track Teddy Tamgho of France – with 17.91m - improved his own World indoor record in the Triple Jump, adding one centimeter to the record set during the World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar in March 2010.

Mondo, announced that six Mondoturf fields in Quebec, Canada, have received the prestigious Recommended 2Star designation by FIFA, the world governing body for soccer.

The six fields are at Argenteuil Multisport Centre in Lachute, College d’Alma in Alma, de la Voie Maritime Park in Saint-Lambert, Jean-Yves Phaneuf Park in Granby, Polyvalente Hyacinthe-Delorme school in Saint-Lambert, and Sherbrooke University in Sherbrooke. Mondo now has seven FIFA Recommended 2 Star fields in North America and nine worldwide.

Daegu, Korea – On 17th December the new track of the Daegu Stadium, realized by Mondo, has been inaugurated. The Stadium will host the IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011 from 27th August to 4th September.

Monte Carlo - David Rudisha (KEN) and Blanka Vlasic (CRO) were named the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year for 2010, IAAF President Lamine Diack announced on Sunday 21 November.

The Italian company, supplier to the next Olympic Games in London in 2012, has signed the New Stadium Official Supplier agreement of Juventus Football Club.
The agreement, signed this week by the CEO of Juventus, Jean Claude Blanc, and the president of Mondo SpA, Maurizio Stroppiana, foresees a synergy between the two parties for a period of 5 years.

For the second consecutive year, the EAA has chosen MONDO as the sole partner of the European Athletics Awards, a gala evening in which European athletics celebrates itself by awarding champions who have excelled in 2010.

Signatures have been added to an agreement giving MONDO S.p.A. the majority interest in Metaltecnica Venelli Srl, a historical firm of the Como area, specialised in seating for stadiums and indoor arenas.

Mondo is proud to announce that 12 of its contract flooring have been certified with Blue Angel label, the first and oldest environment-related label for products and services in the world.

At last evening’s the IAAF World Challenge meeting in Rieti, Kenyan David Rudisha, reduced the World 800m record to 1:41.01.
Rudisha went through 600 metres in the lead in 1:14.56 and continued to push the pace with his smooth stride. His run in the final straight was a triumphal race against the clock.

Turkey, 28th August – 12th September

Mondo will be part of the biggest basketball event of the year, providing sport flooring, basketball and electronic equipment for all 5 Turkish venues hosting the Championship, and managing all installation and dismantling operations.
 

Mondo is proud to announce that AENOR (Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación) awarded UNE 166002:2006 certification to MONDO TUFTING S.A., Mondoturf production site in Saragoza.
 

MONDO TUFTING S.A. is the first company in artificial turf business area that achieves this certification, that guarantees the quality of R&D activities and textile technologies for synthetic fibers installed in artificial fields.

Mondo is the Official Products and Service Supplier of the event.
Close to 1500 athletes coming from 170 countries worldwide will compete at the Championships.

First buildings ready in Thailand provinces hit by the 2004 tsunami

Less then one month to go until the European Athletics Championships, the Spanish athletes visited first the Montjuïc Stadium, giving all enthousiastic comments to the new track.

The Daf Chemi Service Montesilvano conquest its first shield imposing to Marca Futsal from Venezia the first defeat of the year.

For Montesilvano is the second title, after winning the Italian Championship in 2007. The society of the president Antonio Iervolino, has been rewarded with this shocking success after years of serious engagement and hard work.

Contest match 1 it has been carried out to Montesilvano in province of Pescara and has been played on a new Zetasystem wooden flooring installed from our company during the intense activities of renovation of the Palaroma sport hall; the rearrangement took place last year, for the Mediterranean Games.
The Montesilvano team has always played on Mondo flooring: before the intense activities of renovation of the Palaroma, the team used to train and play its matches on Mondoflex.

Many have been the positive comments on the new wooden flooring, both from the athletes and from the trainers and with great satisfaction now our company congratulate the team on the great victory!

For the renovation of the Palaroma Mondo it has supplied also the goals, the Fenix scoreboard and the seating fro the whole sport hall (Mondoseat 1).

An agreement between LOCOG - the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games 2012 - and Mondo S.p.A. was signed, making the Italian firm the “Official Supplier for Sport Flooring and Equipment” for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Mondo will be the Official Provider both of the surface and of all equipment of the event that will take place in Paris, from 7th to 9th May

In the elegant setting of the Triennale at the Milan Furniture Fair, MONDO presents “DECOLORFUL”, a 200 mq installation which has been designed along with the materials by Aldo Cibic in collaboration with Tommaso Corà and has been entirely created using products from the new Mondo Idea collection.

DECOLORFUL is a true artistic interpretation by one of the most important designers in Italy who playing with the endless graphical and chromatic variations that Mondo Idea, the new made in MONDO rubber flooring, creates an installation made unique by the different perceptive images it offers to its visitors.

“We wanted to create a landscape with a strong symbolic content based on the contrast between volumes and colour, which are perceived differently at different times of the day as the light changes - commented Aldo Cibic. The installation evokes a metaphysical landscape because the five volumes placed in the area with their different proportions create a suspended effect: the tunnel, the chimney, the tank, the cylinder and the column create a warm sensorial experience. We wanted to work on a real De Chirico landscape on a near true-to-life scale and see how the application of motifs could change our perception of the whole scene.”
 

Mondo will represent Italy at FIBA World Championships, in August in Turkey. The company will provide both playing surfaces and equipment and electronic scoreboards, further to seating and tribunes for more than 15,000 supporters.

The event will take place on the new Fast Break System 2 Wood, the innovative wooden slabs flooring system specifically design for top level competitions.
Baskets will be scored in Mondo Athens backborad units and the video screen system Pegasus will show the score to the audience.

With this important supply, MONDO confirms its presence on International basketball fields, as during the last Eurolaugue edition and Beijing 2008 Olympics.
 

Mondo, the company from Gallo d’Alba, Italy, has been selected as Official Supplier of the main and warm up tracks and the equipment for the upcoming IAAF World Indoor Championships which will be held in Doha, Qatar from 12 to 14 March.

The Russian National Championships ended with a new world record at 4x800 m: Moscow team composed of Tatyana Andrianova, Oksana Spasovkhodskaya, Yelena Kofanova, Yevgeniya Zinurova clocked 8:12.41 to establish the first world indoor record of 2010 considering IAAF events.

The final matches of the European Futsal Championships will take place on 30rd January in Debrecen, Hungary.

Both the Papp Laslo Sportarena in Budapestand the Fonix Arena in Debrecen have been equipe with Mondo Futsal System, specifically designed in cooperation with UEFA, the first Federation to pioneer the use of a black pitch in an indoor major continental event.

The innovative surface received good feedbacks from players, who confirmed that the black color did not cause any problem and it was easy to play on it.

Just a little time left to see who will lift the trophy.
 

MONDO recently installed the highest football field in Europe, at CAR Sierra Nevada (High Performance Sports Center in Sierra Nevada), at 2,320 m above sea level.

Monte-Carlo – During the celebrations of the World Athletics Gala hosted by International Athletic Foundation (IAF) Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and IAF & IAAF President Lamine Diack in the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d’Eté, 23-year-old Jamaican Usain Bolt and USA’s 24-year-old Sanya Richards were crowned as the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year 2009.

Mondo was proud to be present once again as Official Sponsor of the event.

The world-wide Athletics family will gather for yet another prestigious celebration when the 2009 World Athletics Gala is held at the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d’Eté.

After having successfully hosted the 22nd SEA Games in 2003, Vietnam confidently plays the role of the third Asian Indoor Games organizer in 2009. Again, Vietnam is determined to excellently host this large scale Games to make it the most memorable sport event with the Asian culture and oriental style.

FSB, Cologne - The IAKS (International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities) and FIBA, with the sponsorship of Molten, Champion, Mondo and Senoh, have organised a joint Architectural Students Competition for the second time after 2002.
 

Mondo has just signed an agreement to supply materials for the next three editions of the Euroleague Final Four, starting with the event to be held in Paris during May 2010.

Triple Jump world champion Briton Phillips Idowu and 3000m steeplechase world champion Marta Domínguez were presented with the 2009 European Athlete of the Year Awards during the second European Athletics Convention, in Budapest on Saturday night.

Mondo will be the main sponsor of the European Athletics Award Night in Budapest, on 17^th October.

During this prestigious gala night, a number of awards will be presented to reward the best of European Athletics. Hansjörg Wirz, President of European Athletics, adds: “We are very happy to have Mondo on our side for this event. They are a committed partner and their tracks and equipment help our athletes achieve their best performances.”

Mondo will be the Official Supplier of the futsal fields of the European Futsal Championhsips 2010.

Threefold Olympic champion in Beijing, Usain Bolt, and threefold world champion in Osaka in 2007, Tyson Gay, will be competing on the 100m on Friday September 4th - in the Koning Boudewijn stadium during the 33rd Belgacom Memorial Van Damme.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – May 12, 2009 – Mondo, a global leader in the sports and contract flooring markets, today announced that the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute has awarded the GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification to 10 of its rubber flooring surfaces.

The contract flooring products that received certification are Geode, Harmoni, Natura, Punti and Terranova.

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – May 12, 2009 – Mondo announced that the GREENGUARD Environmental Institute has awarded the GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification to 10 of its rubber flooring surfaces.

The contract flooring products that received certification are Geode, Futura, Punti and Natura and Terranova (US market's products).

MONDO is proud to announce that the new football pitch installed at the Michalis Kritikopoulos Municipal Stadium in Athens, Greece with MONDOTURF MONOFEEL AS60 has been certified FIFA 1 STAR.

FIFA Certificatewill be valid until July 15th, 2012
 

The Circuito Permanente de Jerez, worldwide famous racing circuit, located in the city of Jerez de la Frontera, has been equipped with Mondo Landscape Grass.
The Circuit, that hosts both Formula One and Moto GP events, was renewed in May, substituting the natural grass of the escape areas near the curves with Mondoturf Landscape Grass.

Mondo is proud to announce that the football pitch installed at the Finnair Stadium in Helsinki, Finland and the one at the Behrn Arena in Örebro, Sweden have been successfully certified FIFA 2 STAR for the fourth time.

Both pitches were realized with the Mondoturf systems filled with Ecofill and this important certification confirms the durability and the performances of Mondo artificial turf systems.

Narita Express called "N'EX" provides rapid, frequent, and comfortable service to passengers traveling between Narita International Airport and Tokyo Metropolitan areas.

The wide range of Mondo surfaces allowed Mr. Yasutaka Suge ,ex president of GK Industrial Desig, to play with the flooring surface, reproducing the Japanese traditional pattern called 'ICHIMATSU' (checkers) adopted for seats, curtain and wall, too.

Mondo Idea Transport surfaces can transform a treading surface into an integral part of vehicle’s interior design, allowing for a level of personalization not yet seen in the transport sector.

The University of Missouri, home to the leading collegiate recreation facilities in the country, has installed three Mondoturf Ecofill® Star artificial turf fields as part of an extensive renovation. The surface, made by Mondo, will cover 140,000 square feet at MU’s Stankowski Field.

After years of planning and construction, officials at California State University, Chico are eagerly anticipating the fall opening of the school’s expansive new Wildcat Recreation Center (WREC). The 109,000 square-foot facility’s many impressive features include a four-lane Mondo Super X Performance track and a weight and fitness area with more than 20,000 square feet of Mondo Sport Impact flooring.
 

Mondo Landscape Grass made its début at Expo Zaragoza 2008. Different types of products were installed at the Manierismo Rococó Square, the Ice Museum and on the roundabout in front of the Spanish Pavilion.

Mondo will be the Official Supplier of the main and warm-up tracks for the 2010 Asian Games which will take place in Guangzhou (CHN) from the 12th to the 27th of November 2010.

The Italian Men Volley league has decided to assign the new Mondo three-colored field to the National Champions. They will have the possibility to play all matches of the 2009/10 edition on the field with the Italian flag colors realized by the League’s Official Supplier, Mondo.

Mondo products have been chosen for this prestigious event at a variety of sites at the Games, foremost among them the Stadio Adriatico. The stadium is outfitted Mondotrack, the same system installed in the Birds' Nest Stadium for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Track equipment such as hurdles and uprights were also made by Mondo.

6,000 people attended the tenth edition of Memorial Primo Nebiolo.
16 competitions, 128 athletes, 2 hours of contests and the traditional fireworks closing ceremony.
A great event to inaugurate the new track, IAAF Certified, realized with Mondotrack FTX, the same surface installed in Beijing Bird’s Nest.

 

Usain Bolt broke another World Record on 17th May 2009, running the 150 meters street dash in 14.35 seconds at the Manchester Great City Race.

In few hours the Olympic Stadium in Rome will host the final match of the UEFA Champions League.

The stadium, which has already undergone a restyling for this prestigious International event, has been completed with other few adjustments.

In March, the Science and technology museum “Leonardo da Vinci” in Milan has opened a a new interactive area dedicated to Rubber.
The new lab has been inserted in the Materials Collection, Polymeric Material section, into the Plastic Materials sector.
The lab analyzes production, manufacturing, uses and applications of rubber.

The main characteristic of the tramway is its harmonious integration with the surrounding . Marseilles is a typical Mediterranean city, known for centuries for its port - 'The old harbour' - located at the heart of the city centre.