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Traditionally, capital punishment is meted out on execution grounds, sometimes even in a sports stadium.
Wembley is the former owner of the UK's iconic Wembley sports stadium in north west London.
"I was scheduled to sing at a music extravaganza in a sports stadium, " she says.
There are reports from Pristina of people being herded into a sports stadium, possibly as hostages.
The venue includes the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, the Commonwealth Indoor Sports Stadium and three sports halls.
Nelson Mandela's wife, Graca Machel, was among the mourners at the sports stadium in Daveyton near Johannesburg.
But Mr Obama decided to move it to a local sports stadium that has room for 75, 000.
It was earmarked for a new national sports stadium but the proposal was rejected after years of disagreement.
Rescue teams brought people evacuated from the hard-hit town of Beichuan to Mianyang's sports stadium for food and shelter.
Attuqayefio dismissed suggestions that playing at Kumasi Sports Stadium gives Kotoko the edge.
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Mr Obama is holding a rally in a school sports stadium in Pennsylvania.
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In Damascus on Wednesday, two mortar shells hit a sports stadium, killing a soccer player, Syria's state-run news agency said.
At his inauguration last week in the national sports stadium, President Koroma did several laps of honour in an open-topped car.
It's understood the party is to propose a Belfast city centre site for a sports stadium to help boost the economy.
He recently staged a rally of around 70, 000 of his red-shirted supporters at a sports stadium, to address them by telephone.
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With a capacity of more than 100, 000, this is the largest cricket stadium in the world, and the 10th largest sports stadium.
Among its noncore holdings are a baseball team and a sports stadium.
Even as thousands cheered the dignitaries arriving at the Nairobi sports stadium, some in the crowd had Kenya's past violence on their mind.
On Sunday ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam praised Kim Jong-il's role in the rocket launch at the giant rally in a Pyongyang sports stadium.
There was sniper fire and exchanges of small-arms and machine gun fire throughout the day around the sports stadium, where rebels had advanced on government lines.
Citigroup and other financial service companies are sweating out a public relations disaster for spending on sports stadium naming rights while taking TARP money from the government.
They can expect to have a sports stadium or school in Ramallah or Hebron built for them by the Palestinian Authority and underwritten by American or European taxpayers.
Despite losing the game, Rwanda left the Accra Sports Stadium with their heads held high after taking the lead in the 16th minute through Hassan Milly's header from a corner.
He has started populist battles against developers over tax subsidies for a downtown sports stadium, against the city utility over electricity rates for the old and against landlords over rent.
The main road to Greece has been renamed for Alexander and the national sports stadium named after his father, and plans are afoot to erect a huge statue of Alexander in central Skopje.
Like the city's other prestigious projects - the ballpark, a sports stadium and hotels - what once must have seemed like smart regeneration turned out to be a pointless burden as the recession hit home.
"It is easier to look for a friend's face in a sports stadium filled with 100, 000 people than to search for a Higgs-like event among trillions of collisions, " said Luciano Ristori, a physicist at the U.S. facility.
Tensions were stoked further as Mr. Anwar, the opposition leader, called for a mass rally at a sports stadium in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday evening, where he says he will provide evidence of electoral violations he says cost his opposition alliance the election.
For example, the company is exploring ways sports franchise owners, stadium owners and others in professional sports could trade to hedge economic risks to their industry, such as failing to make the playoffs.
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