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Pat Hickey, Olympic Council of Ireland and European Olympic President, has been named as one of the top 25 most influential personalities in the Olympic Movement according to the prestigious "Around the Rings" magazine.

Olympic Council of Ireland General Secretary Dermot Sherlock received one of the newly created European Olympic Laurels at the 36th EOC General Assembly in Valencia, Spain, for his excellent contribution to Olympic movement.

Cricket has moved a step closer to returning to the Olympic Games after the International Olympic Committee provisionally recognised the sport. It has been brought back into the Olympic movement for the first time since the Paris Games of 1900.

Olympic Gold medallist Michael Carruth attended the OCI's Olympic conference at the weekend and shared many of his Olympic experiences from Barelona 1992.

One of the Australia's leading coaches, Dr Richard Charlesworth, will host an Olympic Seminar in Howth for a selected group from high performance planning, coaching, and sports psychology.

Athens (GRE), Bangkok (THA), Moscow (RUS), Singapore (SIN) and Turin (ITA) were today selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Candidate Cities to host the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010. The cities were selected unanimously from a total of nine Cities, which also included Debrecen (HUN), Guatemala City (GUA), Kuala Lumpur (MAS) and Poznan (POL).

Athens (GRE), Bangkok (THA), Moscow (RUS), Singapore (SIN) and Turin (ITA) were today selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as Candidate Cities to host the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010. The cities were selected unanimously from a total of nine Cities, which also included Debrecen (HUN), Guatemala City (GUA), Kuala Lumpur (MAS) and Poznan (POL).

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin T.D. said yesterday that world markets are key to sustained growth in the future for Irish construction firms. Martin added that the London Olympics 2012 represent a significant opportunity in this regard, with an estimated spend of £9 billion sterling on construction expected to be made in the run-up to the event.

Olympic Council of Ireland Chief Executive, Stephen Martin,was in Limerick at the weekend to deliver a 2012 Olympic seminar for 24 athletes and coaches within Swim Ireland's 2012 squad.

This week at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, the seven Applicant Cities for the 2016 Olympic Games – Baku (Azerbaijan), Chicago (USA), Doha (Qatar), Madrid (Spain), Prague (Czech Republic), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Tokyo (Japan)* – are all attending the 2016 Applicant Cities’ Seminar.

Pat Hickey European and OCI President hosted a workshop for Olympic Council of Ireland sponsors in Howth on Tuesday 25th September.

The 10 candidate cities for the first ever Summer Youth Olympic Games to be held in 2010 met over the last two days in Lausanne. IOC President Jacques Rogge welcomed them and expressed his satisfaction that the high number of candidate cities was “an expression of the enthusiasm with which the whole Olympic Family has responded to the IOC’s initiative to create the Youth Olympic Games on 5 July 2007”.