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POSTED: Monday May 25th 2009
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Official website of the 2010 FIBA World Championship launched

The official website for the world’s most important basketball event in 2010.

GENEVA, Switzerland/ISTANBUL, Turkey/25th May 2009 – FIBA, in cooperation with the Turkish Basketball Federation, announces the launching of turkey2010.fiba.com, the official website for the FIBA 2010 World Championship for Men that will take place in Turkey from 28th August to 12th September 2010.

The official website of the world’s most important basketball event in 2010 is available in both English (turkey2010.fiba.com/eng) and Turkish language (turkey2010.fiba.com/tur).

turkey2010.fiba.com includes all-event related information on FIBA’s premier championship and will offer, during the competition itself, in-depth coverage of the 2010 FIBA World Championship, including game previews, live results and stats of all games, game reports, hundreds of action photos, exclusive interviews and blogs.

In addition, during the 2009 Continental Championships qualifying to Turkey 2010 and during the FIBA World Championship itself, thanks to FIBA’s recent agreement with Perform, basketball enthusiasts logging on turkey2010.fiba.com will be able to access live and on demand streaming of the games, as well as 90-second highlight clips, video interviews and features.

About FIBA

FIBA (http://www.fiba.com), the world governing body for basketball, is an independent association formed by 213 National Federations of basketball throughout the world. It is recognised as the sole competent authority in basketball by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Its main upcoming events are the 2009 FIBA Zone Continental Championships that qualify for the 2010 FIBA World Championships for Men and Women, to take place in Turkey and in the Czech Republic respectively.


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Keywords · FIBA · Turkish Basketball Federation · FIBA 2010 World Championship · Basketball

Name: Marcos Beltra
Organization: FIBA International Basketball Federation
Email:
Phone: +41 22 545 00 00
URL: http://www.fiba.com/

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    Name: Marcos Beltra

    Organization: FIBA International Basketball Federation

    Email:

    Phone: +41 22 545 00 00

    URL: http://www.fiba.com/

     

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