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Tai always used to wear his Polish sponsors hat "Betard " who also sponsor his Polish team Wroclaw.

Just a tad early-last seasons fixtures were announced on December 8th.

Appeal held this is a translation of main points Toruń must pay a total of 1 043 000 zł penalty . In addition, the next season will start with eight negative points . At one meeting the fans come on MotoArena for a token sum (previously it concerned three games ) . Also one game in Torun fans of the Green Mountains ( in the number of 770 persons) come for a penny .

Sweden can`t be too far behind Poland in the wages stakes,with the amount of top riders who ride in the country-having said that Tuesday`s are ideal for any riders schedule.

Offical statement from one sport copied from the SEC website November 17 officially comes into force provision introduced by the FIM - Europe prohibits competing in the European Championships competitors who are regular participants at Grand Prix. Therefore, the company One Sport has released an official statement which clearly underlines the inconsistency of this record with European law. "As a result of the decisions that can be made this weekend, about banning the riders of FIM Speedway Grand Prix from start in Speedway European Championships, we want to once again openly protest and point out the illegality of this idea. The adoption of the challenged decision could be particularly incompatible with EU competition law. Lawyers of One Sport are ready to take immediate action, both in terms of investigation regarding the repair damages made to our company, including lost profits, as well as to inhibit the monopolistic practices, the violation of which FIM-Europe and the FIM members are dangerously approaching. Explicit and obvious violation of applicable competition law in Europe will meet with very onerous consequences for the authors. At the present stage of development of the European Union, the competition law is a fundamental tool to work against abuses in the sports associations in Europe. With no controversy, it is common today to say that sports associations are considered as the undertakings or associations of undertakings, which are provided for in article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (ban on abuse of a dominant position). The interference of EU competition law in the activities of sports associations is no novelty - there have been many high-profile cases in recent years, and the subjects which have committed violations, suffered severe consequences. Major interest was especially so called 'Bosman case', which led to a total redesign of the operation of football clubs in Europe. The European Commission also intervened on the anti-competitive practices by the FIA - the International Automobile Federation. FIA was forced to remove the requirement for the owners of racetracks, which required from them to skip organizing different than Formula 1 competitions on the same tracks. Planned FIM-Europe decision regarding the European Championship series, will mean a serious breach of EU competition law. There is already a well-established case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, according to which the attempt to push out of the market a new, highly efficient product (Speedway European Championships) by the dominant subject (FIM-Europe and FIM) in a manner different than the so-called competition on the merits, is contrary to competition law. As an example, one can identify at least for a line of reasoning that went to settlement in cases of Microsoft. EU competition law has an efficient and effective system of enforcement. Ultimately, the Commission should not have any problems with ordering his FIM Europe to remove illegal provisions and regulations. It may also impose giant and sever financial fines. What is more important, is the fact that if the FIM-Europe would not be able to pay the fines, those liabilities will lay on the commited members of the organization, which means – the national federations associated in FIM-Europe. We will not hesitate to use all available means, to oppose the illegal and harmful practices against the interests of the riders and our company. We deeply believe, that such decisions are contrary to the law and it is only an attempt to suppress the development of a competitor of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series. We believe that the right is on our side. All kinds of artificial and unreconciled decisions not agreed with the promoters and limiting the product we are building, are open and obvious violation of competition law. Once again, we would like to underline that competition law has an efficient system of law enforcement and confirmed judgement standards in similar cases. It is obvious, that due to such practices, FIM-Europe can only lose in a longterm perspective. Nevertheless, we declare the willingness and openness to talk about the FIM & FIM-Europe vision of Speedway European Championships in the coming years, starting from season 2015. We hope that together we can come to an agreement and find a compromise satisfying all, however, opennes and sincerity in the talks, are required for such dialogue. We categorically do not agree with the public and open violation of our rights, as the holders of a valid contract to organise the competition for the title of Individual European Champion. We also do not agree to limit the riders' rights to their performed profession on the are of EU. We disagree with such unfair 'game', which will effect mostly with the loss of speedway as a sport and the fans who follow it. We call for a common sense, good will and decision-making in accordance with the compulsory law, to avoid any unnecessary disputes and conflicts." Jan Konikiewicz Karol Lejman ONE SPORT

Fancy doing Riga in 2014-several choices of airlines including Wizzair,Ryanair and airBaltic.

They didn`t throw in any riders other than the 6 seeds-all the others qualified by right.If allowed to maybe more of the top riders outside the seeded riders(last season`s top 3 +3 picks)will try to qualify for the finals.

Glad it`s all sorted for you-make sure you have plenty of Danish krone with you as you will certainly need them-everything very expensive in Copenhagen !

Never had a problem with the e ticket-always works ok on the stadium scanner-my suggestion use the print option.

That's the problem when there are two threads-already talked about on "2014 European championships" thread

Once you have had confirmation that the purchase has gone through, I think you can go back onto the website and there is a print ticket option.

And i would like to clarify that i know you hadn`t.

I am certainly not laying any blame at Armando`s door-he is a top man.However the FIM certainly need to up their act in certain areas-for several days after the delayed Danish challenge semi the media were saying that Pavlic had qualified from Lonigo.-the whole situation with qualification depending how kennett did in Holsted should have been clarified-even the FIM website were saying that Pavlic was in the Poole meeting-it was only FSP from this forum who flagged up the doubts. As for Zagar`s withdrawl i think it is important that the timescale of events is made known so the doubters can be pacified.

10 teams in last years extraleague-so i would suggest about 40 riders at least-certainly Zielona Gora are saying that Dudek was on over that last season(Dudek being chased by Torun for next season)

Andzejs Lebedevs has signed for Rospiggarna

Unfortunately although you very kindly offered to find out what exactly happened within these "procedures " we have never heard what actually happened when Zagar pulled out. Certainly in order Pavlic,Buczkowski and Dilger (through their federation)should have been asked.As Buczkowski was in the country riding for Peterborough the night before i can`t understand if asked why he would turn it down ?

Furher to my earlier answer that phone no is also the customer services number-they are there between 10am and 5 pm mon-fri Danish time.on their website there is also a contact section where you can email them-when my tickets didn`t arrive once they were very helpful.

I thought it would be interesting to try and compare the various strengths of the 3 top leagues in Poland,Sweden and GB I have taken 2013 final averages(less bonus pts)across the 3 leagues-for the Elite league they are the rolling averages. One doesn`t have to be Einstein to realise that the Elite league is the weakest so therefore provide the highest averages of the three(generally) I have shown riders who ride in the 3 leagues first Zagar Eng 8.64 Pol 8.14 Swe 6.32 Batchelor Eng 8.21 pol 7.64 Swe 6.40 NKI Pol 9.46 Eng 9.12 Swe 8.71 Ward Eng 9.07 Swe 8.73 Pol 7.62 Holder Eng 9.23 Swe 8.91 Pol 8.35 Hancock Eng 8.77 Swe 8.54 Pol 7.38 Andersen Eng 8.34 Swe 5.89 Pol 5.49 Buczkowski Eng 7.33 Pol 6.07 Swe 5.93 Lindgren Eng 8.94 Swe 7.03 Pol 6.24 Magic pol 7.04 Eng 6.95 Kasprzak Eng 7.97 Pol 7.35 N Pedersen Swe 9.27 pol 8.78 Woffinden Pol 9.33 Eng 9.20 Hampel Pol 9.61 Swe 9.17 Ulamek Eng 6.60 Pol 5.81 G Laguta Swe 8.50 Pol 8.27 A Laguta Pol 7.88 Swe 7.33 Protasiewicz Swe 8.28 Pol 7.69 Kolodziej Pol 7.89 Swe 7.36 MJJ Swe 7.44 Pol 6.53 Miedzinski Pol 7.49 Swe 7.47 Walasek Pol 8.34 Swe 7.37 Kildemand Eng 8.25 Swe 7.14 B Pedersen Eng 8.12 Pol 5.75 Jonsson Pol 7.40 Swe 6.65 Zengota Pol 6.29 Eng 6.15 Bjerre Eng 8.45 Pol 7.06 Piotr Pawlicki Swe 7.09 pol 6.86 Prem Pawlicki Pol 7.26 Swe 6.65 Dudek Swe 7.49 Pol 7.48 Harris Eng 6.82 Swe 5.90 Vaculik Swe 6.31 Pol 4.95 Holta Pol 6.56 Swe 5.58 Kylmakorpi Eng 7.12 Swe 4.88 Jedrzejak Pol 6.04 Swe 6.00 P Karlsson Eng 8.09 Swe 6.93 Zmarlik Swe 6.78 pol 6.57 I did say earlier in the season that Sweden was the top league for rider strength-these figures show that some riders go better in Poland,some in Sweden.I suppose that`s no surprise as there are many reasons why a riders average is better in one country than another- i suspect that Vaculik picked up a shed load of bonus points in poland which keeps his ave quoted here low.

Hi Glenn, I have bought from Billetlugen.dk via the internet on at least 4 occasions for the Copenhagen GP. Did you set up an account ? I have generally found it works better that way-certainly for polish GP`s one needs an account. One of my big hates on buying foreign GP tickets are the buying procedures-it might start off in English but half way through the process the English changes to the local language-very frustrating and it`s about time BSI got it sorted !!

I will try and update regularly as news comes out-at the moment the points limit has to be ratified. Czestochowa 1 Michael Jepsen Jensen 2 Rune Holta 3 Grigorij Laguta 4 Peter Kildemand 5 Rafal Szombierski 6 Artur Czaja 7 Hubert Legowik 8 Miroslaw Jablonski 9 Greg Walasek Gdansk 1 Leon Madsen 2 Fredrik Lindgren 3 Thomas H Jonasson 4 Renat Gafurov 5 Peter Karlsson 6 Krystian Pieszczek 7 8 Artur Mroczka 9 Mathias Thornblom Gorzow 1 Neils Kristen Iversen 2 Kristof Kasprzak 3 Thomas Gapinski 4 Matej Zagar 5 Linus Sundstrom 6 Bartosz Zmarlik 7 Adrian Cyfer 8 Piotr Swiderski 9 Lukasz Cyran Leszno 1 Damian Balinski 2 Kenneth Bjerre 3 Grzegorz Zengota 4 Prem Pawlicki 5 Nicki Pedersen 6 Piotr Pawlicki 7 Tobias Musielak 8 Mikkel Michelsen Tarnow 1 Kristof Buczkowski 2 Martin Vaculik 3 Janus Kolodziej 4 Artem Laguta 5 Greg Hancock 6 Casper Gomolski 7 Mateusz Borowicz/Edward Mazur Torun 1 Thomas Gollob 2 Chris Holder 3 Darcy Ward 4 Emil Sayfutdinov 5 Adrian Miedzinski 6 Pawel Przedpelski 7 Oscar Fajfer 8 Max Fricke 9 Wiktor Kulakow Wroclaw 1 Tai Woffinden 2 Troy Batchelor 3 Thomas Jedrzejak 4 Maciej Janowski 5 Jurica Pavlic 6 Patryk Dolny 7 Patryk Malitowski 8 Zbigniew Suchecki Zielona Gora 1 Pepe Protasiewicz 2 Jarek Hampel 3 Andreas Jonsson 4 Alexsandr Loktaev 5 Patrick Dudek 6 Kamil Adamczewski 7 Adam Strzelec 8 Mikkel b Jensen 9 Krzysztof Jablonski

Chris Harris has signed for Rospiggarna

Not strictly true,as the polish play-offs were broadcast on Speedway.tv for the first time this year(subscription internet feed)

From the racing post website posted yesterday THE potential sale of Hall Green and Belle Vue has moved a step closer with a request from sale agent CBRE for formal written offers for the GRA-owned tracks to be submitted by Monday. The asking price for Hall Green is for offers in excess of £2.3m, while at Belle Vue it is £2.4m. However, Sheffield-based A&S Leisure Group, whose MD John Gilburn was once general manager at Belle Vue and has made little attempt to disguise aspirations to one day purchase the Manchester stadium, will not be among the suitors.

The main reason i would suggest is because Corals own Romford-facilities are good,prize money is decent,whereas Wimbledon is being run down by the GRA, and prize money is pathetic.