GeoSpotlight: Global Events

London 2012’s ambition is to create a Games where everyone is invited to take part and enjoy the most exciting event in the world. Sport is at the heart and London is at the centre, but the Games are more than London and more than sport. It is a Games for London, the UK and the rest of the world, for sport and culture, for volunteers and business. View Website »

The official web site of Rugby World Cup, including information on ticketing, latest qualifying news, venue information, commercial partners and how you can get involved. View Website »

Super Bowl XLV, pitting the AFC champions against the NFC champions, will be played on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It is the first time the Dallas-Fort Worth area has hosted the game. FOX will provide live television coverage, with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman calling the action. View Website »

Twenty world leaders will come together in Seoul this November to discuss the state of the global economy as it emerges from the financial crisis. Together, they will take the necessary steps to reduce market volatility and move past the crisis, creating sustainable growth going forward.

By pursuing globally coordinated policies, the G20 helped prevent the further collapse of the international financial system in the wake of the United States’ subprime mortgage meltdown and the subsequent Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, even as it laid the groundwork for reforms that would reduce global volatility going forward.

Announced in April of 1982 by leading thoroughbred owner and breeder John R. Gaines, the Breeders’ Cup has served as a positive step toward not only promoting racing, but uniting the industry itself. Breeders’ Cup Limited enjoyed immediate and widespread support from the industry through annual nomination payments for stallions and one-time nomination payments for those stallions’ offspring.

Since the inaugural running at Hollywood Park 26 years ago, the Breeders’ Cup has established itself as the season-ending championship of thoroughbred racing. It is now firmly entrenched in American racing lore with a history and tradition all its own. View Website »

Nearly six and one-half million enthusiasts visited the 2010 Munich Oktoberfest, making the 200th anniversary celebration of the event a huge success.

Visitors consumed seven million mugs of beer during the 17 day festival, surpassing last year's tally by half a million mugs.  The 15% sales increase was pleasing to Oktoberfest vendors. The historical Oktoberfest on the southern part of the Theresienwiese attracted over 500,000 guests, who consumed 310,000 Liters of the historical beer, brewed especially for this event. View Website »

The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)  is a Catholic celebration of the memory of deceased ancestors that is celebrated on November 1 (All Saints) and November 2 (All Souls).

This unique and very important holiday, which celebrates the continuity of life, takes place in Oaxaca with more ceremony, ritual and flair than in any other town in Mexico. View Website »

The Commonwealth Games are held every four years in which all the member nations and territories of the Commonwealth of Nations participate in a multi-sport event which features competitions involving thousands of elite athletes. The Commonwealth Games are one of the world’s largest multi-sport events. The Commonwealth Games include many Olympic sports and also some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth nations like lawn bowls, rugby sevens and netball. View Website »

"We aim to deliver the most innovative Olympic Games and Winter Games which will combine sport and new modern Russia... which in turn will impress the world" - Dmitry Chernyshenko President, Sochi 2104 Olympics View Website »