MELBOURNE, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The Australian city of Melbourne has been named the world's best sporting city of the past decade, beating London, New York, Tokyo, Berlin and Sydney to the crown.
Melbourne won three out of 14 categories at the 2016 Ultimate Sports City awards in Switzerland on Wednesday, including the title of 'Sports City of the Decade'.
The Victorian city, long touted as Australia's sporting capital, also took out gongs for best sporting city for its size and best venues.
Since 2006, Melbourne has held the Commonwealth Games, FINA World Swimming Championships, AFC Asian Cup, ICC cricket World Cup, the annual Australian Open tennis tournament, Formula 1 Grand Prix and more recently the pre-season tours from football giants Real Madrid and Liverpool.
Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews said Melbourne's combination of world-class events and spectacular venues - such as the world famous 100,000-seat Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) - had created a sporting city "simply without peer".
"Now it's recognized that Melbourne has been unrivalled for the past decade, and the future is just as exciting," Andrews said in a press release on Thursday.
However, it wasn't all good news for the Victorian government with Melbourne relinquishing its title for best major events strategy to the New Zealand city of Auckland.
Melbourne also fell short of becoming the best current sports city, which was claimed by New York.
Overall, Melbourne was shortlisted for eight categories.
Victoria's sport minister, John Eren, said the win capped off a glorious golden era for the city, but the government wouldn't rest on its laurels.
"The eyes of the sporting world are on Melbourne all-year round. We have all the top-class events, and we want more of them," Eren said.
"Whether it's a Formula 1 Grand Prix, a tennis Grand Slam, the world's best spring racing carnival or a one-off blockbuster at the MCG, Melbourne is at the top of the bucket list of sports fans right around the globe."
In 2006 there were a few great sports cars that stood out from the crowd. The cars below stood out from the crowd. Even in the sports car industry there is a lot of competition Cheap Authentic Jerseys , I love talking about sports cars and why they are so good or so bad. 2006 was the year of some cracking little sports cars.
The Audi A3 2 litre Turbo has enthusiasts on the edge of their seats and the Audi's responsiveness and how well it sticks to the road, but not only that the Audia A3 is a beautiful car the exterior the interior its just perfect.
The Audi A3 is powered by and intercooled turbo charged engine Cheap Jerseys From China , the two litre engine is not by any means massive but with its 16 valves the Audi manages to get up to 197mph which is nothing to be sniffed at. Audi's just seem to get better and better and the introduction of the six speed transmission and front wheel drive gives great handling and a gear for every possibility.
The next car that has stood out from the crowd is the Honda Accord and with its fresh new look with the interior being completely redesign, the rear and the front of the Accord has also changed a lot an it is looking very nice.
When you buy a Honda it will always hold its value so when you go to resell it in the future you will not lose as much money as you might have thought. The high resale value is because Honda have such a good reputation for over engineering cars which can only give great reliability. The Honda Accord also comes in a V6 version which comes with a state of the art suspension stability system that gives better handling and road holding.
Those of you who have started to get to know me will know that I love Porsche Cheap Jerseys China , and the Porsche Boxster is a great car it takes all the great things from the 911 and twists them to make this fantastic looking car. The twenty four valved double over head cam engine with 2.7 litres is just a massive power plant for such a small car. With the perfect weight distribution it makes the Porsche Boxster an incredible car to drive. With Boxster the performance is not just in the engine it also has massive stopping power which is so important with a car of the Boxster's performance.
Over the course or history sports cars have just got better and better and they styling