XIAMEN ingrosso nike air max tavas , China, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- IAAF President Lamine Diack, who is on a vist to Xiamen ingrosso nike air max lunar 90 , said Wedensday that the haze should not curb the marathon race.


The annual Xiamen International Marathon made its debutance in 2003. The 2014 edition will take place on Thursday.


Diack believes that although hazy weather covers large area of middle-east China where many cities held marathons in 2013, the cities' managers would not slow down the pace to promote the sport.


He noted that the government will make more efforts to control the pollution, focus on air surveillance and forecast the weather for local people.


Xiamen ingrosso nike air max deluxe , as a coastal garden city, is well-known for its coastal course promises and good air along the seashore.


The organizing committee, raising the environment protection as a main topic of the 2014 marathon race ingrosso nike air max trainer 1 , has recruited 500 families to be green runners and course guards, who volunteer to clear up the rubbish along the course.




SAN JOSE， July 7 (Xinhua) -- Christiana Figueres， the Costa Rican diplomat who led the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to its successful completion in 2015， entered the race to become UN Secretary-General on Thursday.


Figueres' candidacy was supported officially by the Costa Rican government during an event at the National Theater of San Jose， with numerous ministers and luminaries in attendance.


Costa Rican astronaut， Franklin Chang Diaz， introduced Figueres to the stage， who entered with her family under the flag of the UN.


Figueres began her speech by hailing the fact that five women have already entered the race for the UN's top job， including former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark， UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova， Argentinean Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra， former Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic， Moldova's former Foreign Minister Natalia Gherman and Argentina's Minister of Foreign Affairs Susana Malcorra.


"The great injustice of this century， of which we are all responsible， is that economic and social pressure is being heaped on the most vulnerable. We now have over one billion people without food security， with degraded lands and without drinking water，" said Figueres.