This is how a country’s Olympic medal haul compares with… the average pay of IT staff August 5, 2016 The Olympic Games will no doubt be watched closely by the world's IT staff. They may have a lot riding on it. At least according to one very original study, which claims to have found "strong correlations" between a nation's Olympics performance and how much their software developers are paid. Salary-benchmarking site Emolument.com's theory is that [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics: Wada and IOC come under fire from man who exposed Russia’s doping operation and Lance Armstrong August 4, 2016 The former chief investigator of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has launched a scathing attack on the leadership of the under-fire body on the eve of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Jack Robertson, who helped bring down Lance Armstrong and worked for the organisation until January, says he leaked details of Russian state-sponsored doping in order [...]
Olympics betting: Rio carnival on the cards with record medals for Team GB August 4, 2016 Shares in coffee companies will likely nudge upwards over the next three weeks as the late night drama from the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro keeps the country awake. Pollsters Opinium teamed up with Sporting Index this week and found that the UK will lose up to 302m hours of sleep watching Team GB cycle, [...]
Outside the UK, only one country thinks Brexit was the right decision for Britain, according to pollsters August 4, 2016 Just one out of 16 countries believes that the Brexit vote was the right decision for the country, according to new polling figures. Ipsos Mori last month quizzed 12,525 people online across nine European and seven non-European countries, but found that in only one did a majority support the Brexit verdict – Russia. 54 per [...]
City A.M. Unregulated Rio 50 special: Rio 2016 Olympics and sponsorship – which athletes are pulling in the big bucks? August 4, 2016 In a special edition of the Unregulated podcast, Emma Haslett and Frank Dalleres analyse City A.M.'s Rio 50 list of the most marketable athletes at the Rio Olympics and Paralympics. Jon Izzard, of sports sponsorship specialists Synergy, explains why brands want to work with athletes, who will earn the most from the Games… and why there are no Russians [...]
Ed Warner interview: UK Athletics chairman hits out at scandalously weak and lily-livered IOC over handling of Russia doping scandal August 1, 2016 UK Athletics chief Ed Warner has issued a scathing assessment of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) failure to impose a blanket ban on Russia competing at this month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The build up to the Games, which start on Friday, has been overshadowed by the World Anti-Doping Agency-commissioned (Wada) McLaren report, [...]
City Moves for 1 August 2016 | Who’s switching jobs August 1, 2016 Independent Oil and Gas Independent Oil and Gas has appointed David Peattie as chairman. David has 35 years’ industry experience and was most recently the CEO of Fairfield Energy, an oil & gas company owned by a syndicate of North American and European private equity investors, led by Riverstone and Warburg Pincus. David began his [...]
Olympic bosses convene panel to determine Russia’s participation at Rio Games July 31, 2016 Olympic bosses have convened a three-man panel which will now have the final say on whether Russia’s athletes are eligible to compete at the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decreed last week that individual sports’ governing bodies must determine whether or not prospective competitors are clean after opting against a [...]
Olympic Games in Rio will de devalued by Russia absence, says president Vladimir Putin July 27, 2016 Russia president Vladimir Putin insists the banning of his nation’s competitors will devalue the achievements of medal-winning athletes at next month’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. More than one hundred Russians have so far been barred from the Games, which start on 5 August, including 67 of their 68-strong athletics team. The International Association [...]
Galvin at The Athenaeum: the brothers are on top form again with their latest Mayfair venture July 26, 2016 I’d been planning a self-congratulatory column when I reached 100 restaurant reviews for City A.M. but I took my eye off the ball and now we're up to number 105. When the centenary klaxon should have been sounding, I was too busy drooling over the tinned black pudding at Six Portland Road. So I’ll spare you [...]