Olympic Games

LUXEMBOURG - Filip Filipovic, a member of Serbia's water polo team, was declared Europe's best player in 2014, according to LEN, the European governing body for aquatic sports.

American ski queen Lindsey Vonn will be the headliner and gold medal favourite when the alpine world championships open with the women's Super-G on Feb. 3.
   

BELGRADE - President of the Olympic Committee of Serbia (OKS) Vlade Divac met in Belgrade with Azerbaijani Ambassador to Serbia Eldar Humbat oglu Hasanov, and expressed his belief that Azerbaijan will play an excellent host to the European Games in June.

The inaugural European Games will be held on June 12 to 28 in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku.

ASTRAKHAN- Serbia claimed an impressive 17-8 (4-2, 4-1, 5-2, 4-3) victory over Russia in a Men's Water Polo World League 2015 Group B third round match in the Russian town of Astrakhan on Tuesday.

This was the third consecutive victory for the team coached by Dejan Savic, after previously beating Spain in Nis (9-1) and Germany in Hamburg (19-10).

RUSE - Serbia's shooter Andrea Arsovic won the first place at the 21st International Air Rifle and Pistol Competition in the Slovenian city of Ruse on the second day of the tournament.

On Sunday, Arsovic had the best score of 209.2 points in an air rifle event, ahead of her compatriot Jelena Zivkovic, and Marta Zeljkovic from Croatia.

RUSE - Serbia's shooter Andrea Arsovic triumphantly began 2015, winning trophies in women's single and team events at the 21st International Air Gun Competition, in Ruse, Slovenia.

Arsovic finished first in an air rifle singles event with the score of 206.8 points on Saturday, ahead of the Croatia's Snjezana Pejcic (205.5) and Tanja Perec (185.0).

Gross domestic product would have been 2.5 percent lower and employment would have been reduced by 44,000 jobs had the 2004 Olympic Games not been staged in Athens, according to the conclusions of a report by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) on the event?s impact on the Greek economy.

Boston was chosen Jan. 8 as the US candidate to host the 2024 Olympics, hopeful of showing the world's finest athletes its determined recovery from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing tragedy.
      

By Thomas Bach, President, International Olympic Committee

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BELGRADE - In the year that is about to end, Serbia has had the world's top-ranking male tennis player and the best men's water polo team in the world, with its athletes claiming many medals in swimming, athletics, kayaking and wrestling, but the silver medal won by the Serbian men's national basketball team at the Mundobasket in Spain is what the nation will remember 2014 for.