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Inés Arrondo
Inés Arrondo (born 28 November 1977) is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Inés has also won the World Cup in 2002 and the Champions Trophy in 2001. Having retired from her sporting career, she entered politics in 2017 when she ran for a seat in the Buenos Aires Province Senate in the Justicialist Front list, led by Florencio Randazzo Aníbal Florencio Randazzo (born 1 March 1964) in an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was Minister of the Interior and Transport during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from 2007 to 2015. An ally of Kirchner's during .... She failed to win a seat. Since 2019, she has been Secretary of Sports in Argentina's Ministry of Tourism and Sports, working alongside minister Matías Lammens. She is the first woman to hold the post. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Tourism And Sports (Argentina)
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports ( es, Ministerio de Turismo y Deportes; MTyD) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees and advises on Argentina's national tourism industry and the Argentine state's sports policy. The current minister responsible is Matías Lammens, who has served since 10 December 2019 in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández. History It was created on 29 October 2001 as an extension of the Ministry of Culture, as the ''Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports'', by President Fernando de la Rúa. The first minister responsible was Hernán Lombardi, but his tenure – as well as the ministry's existence – was cut short by the resignation of De la Rúa and his entire government less than two months later on 20 December 2001. The tourism and sports portfolios were downgraded to a number of secretariat-level agencies of different ministries (chiefly Culture) by the following presidencies until 2010, when it was reinstat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy
The 2004 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 12th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 6–14 November 2004 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina. The Netherlands women's national field hockey team, Netherlands won the tournament for the third time after defeating Germany women's national field hockey team, Germany 2–0 in the final. Teams The participating teams were determined by International Hockey Federation (FIH): * (2003 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy, Defending champions) * (Champions of Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2004 Summer Olympics) * (Host nation and champion of 2002 Women's Hockey World Cup, 2002 World Cup) * (Second in 2004 Summer Olympics) * (Fourth in 2004 Summer Olympics) * (Sixth in 2004 Summer Olympics) Squads Head Coach: Sergio Vigil Head Coach: David Bell (field hockey), David Bell Head Coach: Kim Chang-back Head Coach: Markus Weise Head Coach: Marc Lamme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Nación
''La Nación'' () is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative newspaper, ''La Nación''s main competitor is the more liberal '' Clarín''. It is regarded as a newspaper of record for Argentina. Its motto is: "''La Nación'' will be a tribune of doctrine." It is the second most read newspaper in print, behind ''Clarín'', and the third in digital format, behind ''Infobae'' and ''Clarín''. In addition, it has an application for Android and iOS phones. The newspaper's printing plant is in the City of Buenos Aires and its newsroom is in Vicente López, Province of Buenos Aires. The newsroom also acts as a studio for the newspaper's TV channel, LN+. Overview The paper was founded on 4 January 1870 (replacing the former publication ''Nación Argentina''), by former Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was José Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's largest r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matías Lammens
Matías Daniel Lammens Nuñez (born 5 April 1980) is an Argentine businessman and politician, who served as the country's Ministry of Tourism and Sports (Argentina), Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2019 to 2023, in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Buenos Aires City Legislature. From 2012 to 2019 he was chairman of San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro, a Buenos Airesbased sports club best known for its football team, which plays in the Argentine Primera División, Primera División, the first tier of the Argentine football league system, and is considered one of the "Big Five (Argentine football), big five" of Argentine football. With Lammens at its helm, the club won its first ever Copa Libertadores. In 2019 Argentine general election, 2019, Lammens was the Frente de Todos (2019 coalition), Frente de Todos candidate for Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, compe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florencio Randazzo
Aníbal Florencio Randazzo (born 1 March 1964) in an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was Minister of the Interior and Transport during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from 2007 to 2015. An ally of Kirchner's during most of his political career, Randazzo fell out with her and ran against her for a seat in the Senate in 2017. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province as part of the '' Vamos con Vos'' alliance. Life and times Aníbal Florencio Randazzo was born in Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province, in 1964, to Gladys Campagnon and Juan "Togo" Randazzo, whose father emigrated from Sicily to Argentina. The elder Randazzo was an active Peronist organizer in Chivilcoy and first involved his son, Florencio, in political activity in 1981, during an economic crisis precipitated by Argentina's dictatorship at the time. Enrolling at the University of Buenos Aires in 1983, he graduated with a degree in accountancy in 1989. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires Province Senate
The Senate of Buenos Aires Province ( es, Senado de la provincia de Buenos Aires) is the upper house of the Legislature of Buenos Aires Province, the largest and most populous of Argentina's provinces. It comprises 43 members elected in eight multi-member constituencies known as Electoral Sections. The number of senators that correspond to each of the electoral sections is proportional to their population, as observed in the results of every nationwide census conducted in Argentina every 10 years. Seats may only be added to adjust the proportionality of each section, but never reduced. As in the National Chamber of Deputies and most other provincial legislatures, elections to the Senate are held every two years, so that half of its members are up in each election. The same system is employed in the provincial Chamber of Deputies. The Senate was established with the promulgation of the Constitution of the State of Buenos Aires, a short-lived secessionist state, in 1854. Origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Argentine Legislative Election
Legislative elections were held in Argentina on 22 October 2017 to elect half of the Chamber of Deputies and one third of the Senate. The result was a victory for the ruling Cambiemos alliance, being the most voted force in 13 of the 24 districts. Background The elections took place during the presidency of Mauricio Macri whose ''Cambiemos'' coalition also governed the City of Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires Province. As Cambiemos was a new coalition with few noteworthy political figures, several members of the cabinet were asked to resign from their positions and run for Congress in their respective districts instead. Peronist factions were divided in two main groups; the Citizen's Unity, led by the former president Cristina Kirchner, led the parliamentary opposition to Macri's administration. Another group was composed of politicians from the Justicialist Party and the Renewal Front. Electoral system Chamber of Deputies The 257 members of the Chamber of Deputies are elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Leonas
The Argentina women's national field hockey team ( es, Selección femenina de hockey sobre césped de Argentina, links=no) is governed by the Argentine Hockey Confederation (CAH). The current coach is Fernando Ferrara, who was appointed after Carlos Retegui let go in late 2021. The team is currently second in the FIH Women's World Ranking. ''Las Leonas'' (The Lionesses) have appeared in six Hockey World Cup finals, including the first final in 1974, which they lost 1–0 to the Netherlands. Argentina had to settle with second place in two more finals before winning the tournament for the first time in 2002, beating the Netherlands 4–3 in the final on penalty strokes after a 1–1 draw. Argentina, led by eight-time FIH Player of the Year Luciana Aymar won again in 2010, a 3–1 victory over the Netherlands. Argentina's World Cup-winning coaches are Sergio Vigil in 2002 and Carlos Retegui in 2010. Argentina has been very successful at the Summer Olympics, winning four consecu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting circle and then into the goal. The match is won by the team that scores the most goals. Matches are played on grass, watered turf, artificial turf, synthetic field, or indoor boarded surface. The stick is made of wood, carbon fibre, fibreglass, or a combination of carbon fibre and fibreglass in different quantities. The stick has two sides; one rounded and one flat; only the flat face of the stick is allowed to progress the ball. During play, goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with any part of their body. A player's hand is considered part of the stick if holding the stick. If the ball is "played" with the rounded part of the stick (i.e. deliberately stopped or hit), it will result in a penalty (accidental touches ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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