Sporting Weekend in Numbers

Each Monday we highlight the sporting weekend gone by through five key numbers that tell a tale.
80,000,000 – The reported shortfall in expected profits announced late on Friday by RSA Insurance in its Irish division, prior to the suspension of three senior managers including the CEO. RSA is Cricket Ireland’s primary sponsor.
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3 – The number of games played by St Vincent’s GAA club in the last seven days as they drew the Dublin Football Championship after extra time last weekend, won the replay by a point on Wednesday despite a sending off and won the first round of their Leinster Championship run yesterday despite a red card for Ger Brennan after 7 minutes.
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100 – The percentage figure which Lance Armstrong claimed in a BBC Interview would be his transparency in any further investigations by International cycling and sporting bodies into cheating and doping within the sport.
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21 – The minutes played before Italian third division side Nocerina had to forfeit their weekend league match against Salernatina. Eight players had been taken off ‘injured’ after death threats were apparently made to all the players before the game.
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1,100,000,000 – amount in Euros paid by BT Sport to secure exclusive live coverage of the UEFA Champions’ League for three years from 2015.
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