PA at the IAF 2011 World Athletics Gala, 12 Nov

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Athletics world focuses on Monaco

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

IAAF

Monte-Carlo - This week the eyes of the athletics world will be on the Principality of Monaco which is home to the headquarters of the IAAF. As well as the staging of the annual World Athletics Gala, Monaco will be a hive of administrative work, with a three-day sitting of the IAAF Council one of 19 meetings, workshops and assemblies which concerns the governing and organisation of the sport worldwide.

The IAAF family will gather to celebrate the 2011 World Athletics Gala at the Salle des Etoiles of the Sporting Club d’Eté on Saturday 12 November.

Hosted by International Athletic Foundation (IAF) Honorary President HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco and IAF & IAAF President Lamine Diack, the IAF World Athletics Gala will be highlighted by the announcement of the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year 2011.

The Gala will also give the sport the opportunity to mark further outstanding achievements via a number of other awards and honours including those for Performance of the Year, Rising Stars, Coaching Lifetime Achievement Award among others.

The Gala’s 600+ guests, who will include many of the world’s top athletics stars, past and present, will be entertained this year by Orquesta Broadway, a salsa, charanga dance band which for virtually 50 years has been at the forefront of the Latin Music scene in New York City. The band’s name comes from 135th Street and Broadway in Manhattan where the founding line-up all lived. A three-day meeting of the IAAF Council, Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 November, which will conclude with the decision regarding the host city for the 2017 IAAF World Championships, will be the focus of a packed schedule of meetings which will straddle the Gala. Gatherings of various IAAF Commissions, the IAF Council, the Samsung Diamond League Assembly and meetings between the IAAF and World Masters Athletics… are among those that will be staged before, during, and immediately following the weekend.

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www.iaaf.org/athletes/gala/2011/newsid=62869.html

[MyAdia]

Charlene may attend this event - English speaking people and more important she wants to show of to successful athletes - she wants them to know that they may have won gold but she struck gold. eveything that she does is about showing off.

[paca]

she just wants to be among the other professional drugsters. no clean athletes there, only athletes who didn't get caught..yet

[axelle]

Anyone know if she showed up?

[mrszinck]

She is not there.

[axelle]

Strangeness! More absences at these sports events? One would think those she would go to!

[mrszinck]

Why? She was never really a good athlete… alone in her thought.

Albert is there more in place...

[paca]

she didn't attend the sports and peace forum either. Her interest in sport was only as long as it concerned her and her interests. Now sha has the prince and doesn't need to go to pretend that she really likes sport for sport. She only went to New Zealand for the photoop and the trip to yet another country she hasn't ticked off her list. So unless there is a big photo op in there, she can rub it in to those who made fun of her, she has no interest in going there, when she can use her time better to waste some more millions on ugly clothes and bling