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The Arade river will be hosting great water sport events over the next two weekends, the Formula One PowerBoat UIM World Championship, on 8th and 9th May, and the Formula Future National Championship.This weekend, the National Championship of the Formula Future is taking place on the Arade river. Intended to have taken place last weekend, the event was postponed due to bad weather and is now being held one week prior to the F1 UIM PowerBoat World Championship.

Angus September, the Ambassador for South Africa in Portugal, made a presentation regarding the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup and the involvement of Portugal in the competition at a conference held at the Hotel Montechoro in Albufeira on February 25. “The 2010 FIFA World Cup is of extreme importance to South Africa and Africa as a whole. We are very proud to be able to welcome Carlos Queiroz and the Portuguese national team to South Africa and are ready to receive them at their base in Magaliesberg,” said Angus September.

Alberto Contador (Astana) has won the 2010 Tour of the Algarve in Portugal after placing second behind Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne) in the race's final individual time trial stage on Sunday.Contador finished the stage 13 seconds adrift of Sanchez, but it was enough to give the 2009 Tour de France champion his second consecutive victory in the five-day Portuguese stage race. Contador's performance in the TT was all the more remarkable as the Spaniard's Specialized Shiv time trial bike had been judged illegal by the UCI. A replacement bike was drafted in at the eleventh hour.

The 36th edition of the Volta ao Algarve have already started in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. the five-day Volta ao Algarve's start list has been bolstered by a greater concentration of stage racing talent which previously had been split between Portugal and the United States. Twenty-three teams will contest the Volta ao Algarve including 11 ProTour, six Professional Continental and six Continental squads. The defending Volta ao Algarve champion, Alberto Contador, will kick off his 2010 season in Portugal.