2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Cunego was the first to try to sprint for the stage win, after a hairpin left-hand turn, but Evans timed his sprint better and won, putting Cunego second on the stage. Cunego rode the Giro's first mountain stage the next day with the race's elite behind a winning breakaway. Cunego climbed Monte Terminillo with Evans, Vinokourov, Ivan Basso, and Stefano Garzelli to sixth place. Petacchi quit the race before this stage began, claiming difficulties with bronchitis and that he was unable to recover sufficiently from one day's racing to the next. Stage 10 into Bitonto featured perhaps the race's first true field sprint finish. Lacking Petacchi, Hondo rode the sprint for himself and finished eighth.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Righi nearly came to blows with Evans after stage 12. On what had seemed a straightforward sprint stage, a ten-rider breakaway including most of the Giro's overall contenders slipped away in the final kilometers and finished 10 seconds ahead of the peloton. Evans was the notable absence from the group, and had tried to pull the peloton fast enough to catch them. Righi, for his part, tried to obstructively ride a slower pace and allow Cunego, who had made the split, a better chance at the stage win.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Cunego was only ninth in the sprint, and Righi and Evans were both fined after the stage by the UCI. Cunego was dropped by the race's favorites on the ascent of Monte Grappa in stage 14, and finished eighth, ceding two minutes to them. At this point, he was 15th in the standings, over 11 minutes back. Cunego was fifth on Monte Zoncolan the next day, losing a further two minutes to stage winner Basso. Cunego managed only 14th in the climbing time trial to Plan de Corones in stage 16, but managed to move into tenth overall with that result.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
A big breakaway got away in stage 17. Lampre had Hondo and Marzano in this group; only the small Colnago–CSF Inox squad also had two riders make the break. The race's elite were content to let this breakaway stay away since no overall threat was represented. After a flurry of attacks and counter-attacks on the stage-concluding climb to Pejo Terme, Hondo approached the finish in the leading group with Steven Kruijswijk and Damien Monier. Monier then soloed to victory ahead of them, but Hondo beat Kruijswijk to the line for second. Cunego moved up to ninth after this stage.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Stage 18 was the Giro's last straightforward sprint stage. Hondo again rode for himself in the finish, coming home fifth. Cunego had a bad day on stage 19, losing eight minutes on the Passo del Mortirolo and falling back out of the top ten. In stage 20, Simoni broke away with Bbox Bouygues Telecom's Johan Tschopp and approached the summit of the Passo di Gavia, the race's highest climb with him. Tschopp, however, easily outkicked the veteran Italian to claim the Cima Coppi.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Giro d'Italia
Cunego again lost time in this stage, but Righi finished the stage just seconds behind the race's elite and was ninth. Cunego finished the race the next day in 11th place overall, 17 minutes back of Giro champion Basso. The squad was 12th in the Trofeo Fast Team standings and fourth in the Trofeo Super Team. Despite several top-ten finishes, Lampre left the Giro without any victories.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Cunego and Petacchi were again the team's squad leaders for the Tour de France. During the race, the team rode with a slightly modified name, dropping "Vini" off their jerseys to compete as "Lampre-Farnese" instead.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In the first road race stage, several crashes took place in the final kilometers, which limited the number of riders present to sprint for the stage win. Petacchi was one of only five riders who avoided being caught up in the crashes, and won the stage ahead of Mark Renshaw, Thor Hushovd, Robbie McEwen, and Mathieu Ladagnous. In stage 2, Gavazzi indirectly caused the great multitude of crashes that happened that day.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
A member of the morning breakaway, Gavazzi slipped on the Col du Stockeu in Spa, and as a camera bike swerved to avoid hitting him, it too crashed, causing motor oil to spill on the roadway. The oil trickled well downhill, and by the time the peloton came through about five minutes later, it was all over the road, leading to the crashes of some 60 riders from nearly every team in the race. Petacchi was again the victor in the much simpler and much safer flat stage 4.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
He figured into the sprint finishes to stages 5 and 6, but lost out to Mark Cavendish in both. In stage 9, Cunego, already 45 minutes down in the overall standings, made a winning breakaway. He, Sandy Casar, and Luis León Sánchez sought the stage win with Christophe Moreau, Anthony Charteau, and bridging overall favorites Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck just behind them. Casar appeared to be more familiar with the course, as he took an aggressive line on the course's final left-hand turn, with the finish line located just around that corner. He took the win, with Cunego third.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Petacchi and Hushovd spent the majority of the second half of the Tour disputing the points classification green jersey. Hushovd held it from stages three through ten, but when Petacchi finished five places higher in the stage 11 field sprint, he took it back. The next day, in a stage concluding with a climb, Hushovd made the morning breakaway and won the stage's second intermediate sprint, taking the jersey back from Petacchi. Again the next day, Petacchi finished higher in the field sprint at the finish, and again took the jersey back from Hushovd.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
He held it for three days, but lost it to Hushovd yet again after stage 16. Hushovd had led the peloton across the finish line for tenth on the day, while Petacchi did not cross the finish line until 28 minutes later. Neither scored points in stage 17. In stage 18, Petacchi was third and Hushovd a distant 14th, giving Petacchi the jersey once more, with a lead of 10 points with one road race stage remaining. As long as Petacchi did not finish lower than third, he was assured to win the classification.


2010 Lampre–Farnese Vini season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
While Cavendish won the stage, Petacchi finished second to Hushovd's seventh, meaning Petacchi had won the classification and the green jersey. He became the fourth rider in history to win the points classification in all three Grand Tours for his career. The squad's highest-placed rider in the final overall standings was Cunego in 29th, at a deficit of 56 minutes and 53 seconds to Tour champion Contador. The squad was 21st in the teams classification, better only than Team Milram.


2010 Lanark County municipal elections
Elections were held in Lanark County, Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2010 Lao League, Clubs
The season ran from 27 February to 11 April and all matches were played on Saturdays and Sundays at the Chao Anouvong Stadium in Vientiane. Bank of Laos were champions.


2010 Las Vegas Locomotives season
The 2010 Las Vegas Locomotives season was the second season for the United Football League franchise. They finished with a 5–3 record and defended their UFL Championship by defeating the Florida Tuskers, 23–20, in the 2010 UFL Championship Game.


2010 Las Vegas Locomotives season, Personnel, Roster
Rookies in italicsRoster updated November 22, 201052 Active, 2 Inactive


2010 Las Vegas Locomotives season, Standings
y-denotes team has clinched a 2010 UFL Championship Game berthx-denotes team has been eliminated from championship contention


2010 Las Vegas Locomotives season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Sacramento Mountain Lions
Sacramento attempted to avenge a 26–3 home loss earlier in the season to Las Vegas and did so with a 27–24 win on the road at Sam Boyd Stadium. The Mountain Lions survived a scare after the Locos tied the game at 24 in the fourth quarter, after Sacramento lead 21–0 in the second. Chase Clement was stellar in his debut for the Locos, throwing a touchdown and running for two in Las Vegas's comeback attempt that came up just a bit short.


2010 Latin Billboard Music Awards
The Billboard Latin Music Awards recognize the most popular Latin music on the charts, featuring top solo performers and Latin groups in such categories as pop, rock, tropical, Mexican Regional music and Reggaeton.


2010 Latin Billboard Music Awards
New award categories in 2010 include Latin Artist of the Year and New Latin Artist of the Year. Leading the pack for most nominations this year was Tito El Bambino with a total of 18 nods followed by Wisin & Yandel with 14 nominations and Aventura with 12. Other Latin stars with multiple nods included Shakira, Paulina Rubio, Nelly Furtado, Luis Fonsi, and Banda el Recodo.


2010 Latin Billboard Music Awards
In 2010, nominees were announced on February 14 — followed by the 17th annual Billboard Latin Music Awards official broadcast, televised on Telemundo in on April 29, 2010 live from Coliseo de Puerto Rico, José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico — marking the first time ever that the awards show has taken place outside the continental US and its traditional home in Miami.


2010 Latin Billboard Music Awards, Awards, Hot Latin Song of the Year, Vocal Event
- Alejandro Sanz feat. Alicia Keys – "Looking for Paradise" (Warner Latina)


2010 Latin Billboard Music Awards, Awards, Latin Pop Airplay Song of the Year
- Luis Fonsi – "Aqui Estoy Yo" (Universal Music Latino)


2010 Latin Billboard Music Awards, Awards, Tropical Airplay Song of the Year
- Luis Enrique – "Yo No Se Mañana" (Top Stop)


2010 Latvian Athletics Championships
The 2010 Latvian Athletics Championships were held in Jēkabpils, Latvia on July 9–10, 2010.


2010 Latvian Figure Skating Championships
The 2010 Latvian Figure Skating Championships (Latvian: Latvijas Čempionāts daiļslidošanā 2010) was held in Riga from 12 to 13 December 2009. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles.


2010 Latvian First League
2010 Latvian First League (Latvian: Latvijas Pirmā Līga 2010) is the 19th season of top-tier football in Latvia. It began on 1 May 2010 and will end with the last games on 6 November 2010.


2010 Latvian First League, Top goalscorers
* Players in italics left the clubs they are listed in during the season.


2010 Latvian Higher League
2010 Latvian Higher League (Latvian: LMT Virslīga 2010) was the 19th season of top-tier football in Latvia. It began on 9 April 2010 with the first round of games. Liepājas Metalurgs were the defending champions, having won their second league title last season.


2010 Latvian Higher League
With the re-expansion of the league to 10 clubs, the format of the competition was altered for the third year in a row. The ten clubs played 18 rounds of matches, once at home and once away, against each of the other nine clubs in the league. After this, another nine rounds of matches were played for a total of 27 matches. The clubs finishing in the first five positions after 18 rounds received the benefit of hosting five of their last nine matches.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Teams
Due to a match fixing scandal last season, Dinaburg FC were excluded from the Latvian Higher League and were relegated to the Latvian First League.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Teams
Promoted to the Higher League from the First Division automatically were last season's First Division champions, Jelgava.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Teams
Daugava Rīga finished in 8th place in last year's Higher League competition and competed in a promotion/relegation playoff against the runners-up of the First Division, Jaunība Rīga. Jaunība Rīga won this two-legged playoff 1–1 (1–0 on away goals scored) and won promotion to the Higher League for this season and Daugava Rīga was relegated to the First Division.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Teams
Despite finishing last year's First Division competition in 9th place, Daugava Daugavpils were offered a place in this year's Higher League competition, which the club accepted.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Results, Relegation play-offs
At season's end, the 9th place club in the Latvian Higher League, Tranzīts Ventspils, was supposed to face the runners-up of the Latvian First League, FC Jūrmala, in a two-legged playoff, with the winner being awarded a spot on next year's Higher League competition. However, before this playoff began, the LFF received information from Tranzits that it would not participate in the playoff and, further, was forfeiting its place in the Latvian Higher League. Because of this, FC Jurmala achieved promotion to the Higher League automatically.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Top goalscorers
* Players in italics left the clubs they are listed in during the season.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Awards, Golden boot
Nathan Júnior from Skonto also scored 18 goals during the season, but while Rakels had scored all his goals from game-play, Junior netted 3 goals from the penalty spot.


2010 Latvian Higher League, Awards, Team of the tournament
Defenders: Jevgēņijs Simonovs (Daugava Daugavpils), Kaspars Dubra (Skonto Riga), Tomas Tamošauskas (Liepājas Metalurgs), Vitālijs Maksimenko (Skonto Riga), Māris Smirnovs (Tranzit Ventspils), Yuriy Shelenkov (Daugava Daugavpils)


2010 Latvian Higher League, Awards, Team of the tournament
Midfielders: Ruslan Mingazov (Skonto Riga), Jurijs Žigajevs (Ventspils), Arturs Zjuzins (Ventspils), Valērijs Afanasjevs (Daugava Daugavpils), Michael Tukura (Ventspils), Takafumi Akahoshi (Liepājas Metalurgs)


2010 Latvian Higher League, Awards, Team of the tournament
Forwards: Nathan Júnior (Skonto Riga), Deniss Rakels (Liepājas Metalurgs), Daniils Turkovs (Skonto Riga), Oļegs Malašenoks (Jelgava)


2010 Latvian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Latvia on 2 October 2010. It was the first parliamentary election to be held in Latvia since the beginning of the economic crisis during which Latvia had experienced one of the deepest recessions in the world.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election
A total of 1,239 candidates representing 13 parties or alliances stood in five electoral constituencies equivalent to the four regions of Latvia and Riga city. With 1012 of 1013 polling stations counted, results showed an increase in support for the incumbent coalition government of Valdis Dombrovskis, with 58% of the vote and 63 of the 100 seats.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Background
It appeared that early elections would be held in early 2009, when the government was faced with violent protests over the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 on Latvia and some politicians saw early elections as the only way to confront the people's anger. The elections were to be averted if the Saeima passed constitutional reform laws, including a law to allow referendums on dissolving parliament, by 31 March 2009; if this had not happened, the President of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, would have dissolved parliament.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Background
After surviving a vote of no confidence in early February, PM Ivars Godmanis resigned on 20 February 2009 after the two largest parties (People's Party and the Union of Greens and Farmers) called for his dismissal. A new government was formed, headed by Valdis Dombrovskis. There were also discussions that President Zatlers might use the parliamentary dissolution power of Latvian President to call a referendum on holding early elections. Zatlers stated on 23 February 2009 that early elections might be necessary, and that he was willing to extend the deadline for reforms from 31 March for one week to 7 April 2009 due to the collapse of the government.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Background
The tasks given to parliament were: pass constitutional amendments to allow the people to dissolve parliament, passing electoral reforms and setting up an economic supervisory council for the recovery plan and international loans. The tasks given to the government were: coming up with a recovery plan and implementing it, appointing a new head for the Corruption Prevention Board, and reorganising the government and public administration. Zatlers stated he would hold talks with politicians from all parties on 31 March 2009 and announce his assessment of the situation on the same day.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Background
On 31 March 2009, Zatlers announced he would not dissolve parliament. The Saeima was to consider constitutional amendments as early as 9 April 2009.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Changes to the electoral law
Several changes to the election law took effect for this election. The so-called "locomotive law" (Latvian: lokomotīvju likuma) meant that candidates were restricted to standing in one constituency. In addition to completing registration forms in paper format, for the first time, parties also had to register electronically. Voting hours were shortened, with polling stations closing two hours earlier at 8 pm instead of 10 pm. Finally laws relating to election spending were tightened, in particular, laws against third party advertising on behalf of political parties were strengthened.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Contesting parties, New electoral alliances established
In the run-up to the election, three right-wing parties (New Era Party, Civic Union and Society for Other Politics) established an alliance called Unity on 6 March 2010. Furthermore, most of the parties constituting the Harmony Centre alliance (National Harmony Party, New Centre and Social Democratic Party – but not the Socialist Party of Latvia and the Daugavpils City Party) had merged into the Social Democratic Party "Harmony" on 10 February 2010. On 22 April 2010, the People's Party and the Latvia's First Party/Latvian Way formed an electoral alliance (including the newly founded businessmen's movement For a Good Latvia) called For a Good Latvia.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Contesting parties, New electoral alliances established
Unity on 28 May 2010 declined to include For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK and the far-right All For Latvia! in their alliance; these two parties then decided to form an electoral alliance.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Pre-election debates
Numerous televised debates took place prior to the election. These involved either the party leaders or other senior party figures. In all, seven debates took place on the LNT Channel, five of these were held on a regional basis and all involved parties which were polling 2% or above in opinion polls.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Pre-election debates
A total of eleven debates took place on the LTV Channel, five of which were held on a regional basis, with one debate between the Prime Ministerial candidates and a further five held on the basis of five themes: Finance, Prosperity, Health, Economy and Development, and Education and Culture. Like the LNT debates, these involved parties which opinion polls indicated would poll 2% or more. A twelfth debate was held on LTV between the remaining seven parties or electoral lists which were not expected to poll 2%.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Pre-election debates
The two debates held on the PBK Channel involved the four parties which the opinion polls indicated would poll 5% or more. However outgoing Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis refused to take part in the debate, following controversy over previous remarks made by the debate's moderator Aleksandr Gordon. Unity decided not to send a replacement and were absent from the debate.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Opinion polls
Pre -election polls had indicated that the outgoing government could be re-elected however they had also pointed to the possibility of one of the main opposition parties, Harmony Centre, making gains and becoming the largest party in the Saeima.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Opinion polls
According to a poll conducted in June by Latvijas fakti, Harmony Centre would get 18.5% of the vote; Unity, 16.2%; Union of Greens and Farmers, 11.3%; For a Good Latvia, 5.3% and National Alliance, 4.4%.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Opinion polls
A later Latvijas Fakti poll conducted between 25 and 27 September 2010 showed 21.2% support for Harmony Centre, 19.2% for Unity, 9.9% for Greens and Farmers and For Fatherland and Freedom on 5.2%. For a Good Latvia, led by members of the previous government, was at 7.8%. About 19 percent of the 1,004 respondents were undecided. The margin of error was 3.2 percent.


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Conduct
OSCE/ODIHR Limited Election Observation Mission provided, among others, the following recommendations:


2010 Latvian parliamentary election, Aftermath
Though the result made a variety of coalition options possible, including a coalition government formed by Harmony Centre and The Union of Greens and Farmers, Dombrovskis said that Unity and the Greens and Farmers had agreed to continue working together and form a government, to be approved by parliament on 2 November. For Fatherland and Freedom was also expected to be part of the government. However Domrbovskis also said that he was seeking a cooperation deal with Harmony Centre in a bid to win additional support for further budget cuts. "We offer an opportunity to sign a cooperation agreement with Harmony Center, to agree on cooperation in parliament, maybe, also delegating a minister."


2010 Laugavegur Ultramarathon
The 2010 Laugavegur Ultramarathon was an ultramarathon race held in Iceland on July 17, 2010. A total of 279 runners started the race; 267 runners finished, among them 189 men and 78 women. The oldest participant was Jørgen Nautrup of Denmark, who was born in 1942 and finished the race in 7:28:41; the youngest participants were Jón Hinrik Höskuldsson and Guðrún Ólafsdóttir of Iceland, who were born in 1991 and finished the race in 8:46:02 and 7:02:57, respectively.


2010 Laugavegur Ultramarathon
Cut-off times for the race were 4 hours at the Álfavatn aid station (after approximately 22 km) and 6 hours at the Emstrur aid station (after approximately 38.5 km).


2010 Laurence Olivier Awards
The 2010 Olivier Awards were held on 21 March 2010 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.


2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple nominations and awards
The following 25 productions, including one ballet and four operas, received multiple nominations:


2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, Productions with multiple nominations and awards
The following five productions, including one opera, received multiple awards:


2010 Lazio regional election
The Lazio regional election of 2010 took place in Lazio, Italy, on 28–29 March 2010.


2010 Lazio regional election
Piero Marrazzo of the Democratic Party (PD), who was elected President in 2005, seemed a strong candidate for the centre-left in 2010, being the most popular of the possible candidates and the winner in most head-to-head contests with leading centre-right figures. However, an abrupt scandal invested him in October 2009 and finally led to his dramatic resignation.


2010 Lazio regional election
After that, the candidate of The People of Freedom (PdL) seemed a shoo-in for victory. As Lazio had been a traditional stronghold of Fini's National Alliance party, that merged into the PdL as junior partner of Berlusconi's Forza Italia in 2007, Renata Polverini, supported by Gianfranco Fini, was chosen.


2010 Lazio regional election
Polverini, a woman, was a strange choice for a centre-right party as she was the respected leader of the General Labour Union (UGL), a trade union close to the former National Alliance but independent from it, and a self-proclaimed "socialist", so that she was praised by left-wingers, including the popular newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano, and criticized by a right-wing newspaper, Il Giornale, that refused to endorse her.


2010 Lazio regional election
After that, the list of the PdL was disqualified from participating in the election in the Province of Rome, that accounted for four-fifths of the total electorate of Lazio, the election was fairly uncertain, with Bonino in the lead according to some opinion polls.


2010 Lazio regional election
Despite this, on election day, Polverini beat Bonino in hard-fought battle thanks to a 3.7% swing.


2010 Le Mans Series
The 2010 Le Mans Series was the seventh season of Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Le Mans Series. It featured five events between 11 April and 12 September 2010. For the first time in 2010, Formula Le Mans (FLM) cars were run in a fifth class in the series, running alongside Le Mans Prototype cars and GT cars, rather than as a support series. It was also the final season when GT1 cars were allowed to run in the series.


2010 Le Mans Series
Stéphane Sarrazin won the LMP1 championship despite sharing his car with Nicolas Lapierre for most of the season; Sarrazin did not run with his usual Team Oreca Matmut outfit at the 1000 km of Spa, instead gaining championship points with his Peugeot Sport teammates in a precursor to the 24 Hours of Le Mans the following month. Despite this, Sarrazin won only one race, winning at the 1000 km of Algarve with Lapierre and Olivier Panis. Lapierre was second ahead of Rinaldo Capello, who won at Paul Ricard with Allan McNish.


2010 Le Mans Series
Other class victories went to Sébastien Bourdais, Pedro Lamy and Simon Pagenaud at Spa, Greg Mansell and Leo Mansell at the Hungaroring, and Nicolas Minassian and Anthony Davidson at Silverstone. In LMP2, Thomas Erdos and Mike Newton claimed the championship for the second time, after their more consistent finishes helped them to fend off Strakka Racing's Jonny Kane, Danny Watts and Nick Leventis, who won three races to one for Erdos and Newton. The only other win was taken by Miguel Amaral and Olivier Pla at Spa.


2010 Le Mans Series
The GT1 championship went to Larbre Compétition pairing Gabriele Gardel and Patrice Goueslard, as they were the only team to attempt every race in the championship. Julien Canal and Fernando Rees joined them in various races but were not a factor in the championship. The only team to beat Larbre during the season was the Marc VDS Racing Team car of Eric De Doncker, Bas Leinders and Markus Palttala, who won at Spa. GT2 proceedings saw a second successive title for Felbermayr-Proton duo Marc Lieb and Richard Lietz, winning three of the season's five races.


2010 Le Mans Series
The other two were taken by AF Corse duo Gianmaria Bruni and Jaime Melo at Algarve and at Silverstone. Another tight championship battle was fought out in the Formula Le Mans class, with DAMS' Andrea Barlesi and Gary Chalandon holding off Hope Polevision Racing driver Steve Zacchia by just two points. The season's five races were shared between four different entries, with Barlesi and Chalandon only winning at the Hungaroring with Alessandro Cicognani. Zacchia won at Spa with Wolfgang Kaufmann and Luca Moro, Damien Toulemonde, Ross Zampatti and David Zollinger won at Paul Ricard, while Jody Firth and Warren Hughes won twice, in the Algarve, and at Silverstone.


2010 Le Mans Series, Schedule
On 27 October 2009 the ACO released a preliminary calendar for the 2010 season featuring three named events and two unconfirmed events, plus the traditional pre-season test session at Circuit Paul Ricard. The calendar was further revised with two additional events at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve and the Hungaroring. The Paul Ricard race was also extended to eight hours in length. The 1000 km of Silverstone was also the part of the inaugural Le Mans Intercontinental Cup for LMP1s, and it was also the first time that the race had been run on the circuit's "Arena" configuration.


2010 Le Mans Series, Schedule
Except for the 8 Hours of Castellet, as the name implied an eight-hour time limit, all races ran for either 1000 km or six hours, whichever came first; partially wet weather and a red flag period caused the 2010 1000 km of Spa to run slightly less than the 143 laps it was originally scheduled; the top three finishers completed 139 laps at the end of six hours. The 2010 1000 km of Hungaroring race was also run at a distance shorter than the 1000-km scheduled distance after six hours.


2010 Le Mans Series, Championship Standings
Points were awarded to all race finishers, with unclassified entries failing to complete 70% of the race distance or entries failing to reach the finish not earning championship points. One bonus point was awarded for winning pole position (denoted by bold), and a further bonus was awarded for the entry which sets the fastest race lap (denoted by parenthesis). Entries which changed an engine prior to the required two race minimum were penalized two points, with a four-point penalty for every subsequent engine change.


2010 Le Mans Series, Championship Standings
Points were allocated in one of two ways, dependent on race length.


2010 Le Mans Series, Teams Championships
The top two finishers in the LMP1, LMP2 and GT2 championships earned automatic entry to the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, provided that the team was running for the full season. Partial season entries (teams that run on a part-time basis, e.g. race-by-race) were not eligible for automatic entries for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.


2010 Le Mans Series, Teams Championships
GT1 championships were not awarded any automatic entries as the GT1 category was phased out by the end of the year (see New 2011 regulations section).


2010 Le Mans Series, Teams Championships, FLM Standings
All teams in the Formula Le Mans category utilized the Oreca FLM09 chassis and General Motors 6.3 L V8.


2010 League of Ireland Cup
The 2010 League of Ireland Cup, also known as the 2010 EA Sports Cup, was the 37th season of the League of Ireland  knockout competition.


2010 League of Ireland Cup
The competition was won by Sligo Rovers who defeated Monaghan United in the final on 25 September 2010 at the Sligo Showgrounds.


2010 League of Ireland Cup
A total of 29 teams competed in the 2010 competition. The ten Premier Division, twelve First Division clubs were joined by five A Championship teams plus Letterkenny Rovers, the 2009 Ulster Senior League champions, and the Kerry District League representative side. For the Preliminary, First and Second Rounds of the competition, all participating clubs were split into 4 regional pools with the further rounds of the competition having an open draw. Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers, Dundalk and Sporting Fingal all received automatic byes into the Second Round of the competition due to each club's European football participation. The 2010 competition commenced with the Preliminary Round in March 2010.


2010 League of Ireland Cup, Preliminary round
The draw for the Preliminary round took place on 11 March 2010. Fixtures were played on 23, 29 and 30 March 2010.


2010 League of Ireland Cup, First round
The draw for the First round took place on 11 March 2010. Fixtures were played on Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 April 2010.


2010 League of Ireland Cup, Second round
The draw for the Second round took place on 11 March 2010. Fixtures were played on Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 May 2010.


2010 League of Ireland Cup, Quarter-Finals
The draw for the Quarter-finals took place on 12 May 2010. Fixtures were played on Tuesday 1 June 2010.


2010 League of Ireland Cup, Semi-Finals
The draw for the Semi-finals took place on 2 June 2010. Fixtures were played on 17 August 2010.


2010 League of Ireland First Division
The 2010 League of Ireland First Division season was the 26th season of the League of Ireland First Division. The First Division was contested by 12 teams and Derry City won the title.


2010 League of Ireland First Division, Overview
This season the division featured 12 clubs. The regular season began on 6 March and concluded on 30 October. Each team played the other teams three times, totaling 33 games. Derry City finished as champions and were automatically promoted to the Premier Division.


2010 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Premier Division
The second and third placed First Division teams, Waterford United and Monaghan United, played off to decide who would play the winner of the Premier Division play-off. The winner of this play off would play in the 2011 Premier Division.


2010 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs, Premier Division
Bray Wanderers won 7 – 6 on penalties and retained their place in the Premier Division


2010 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs, First Division
The tenth placed First Division team, Salthill Devon, played the highest placed non-reserve team, Cobh Ramblers, from the 2010 A Championship. The winner of this play off would play in the 2011 First Division.


2010 League of Ireland First Division, Promotion/Relegation play-offs, First Division
Salthill Devon won 3 – 1 on aggregate and retained their place in the 2011 First Division


2010 League of Ireland Premier Division
The 2010 League of Ireland Premier Division was the 26th season of the League of Ireland Premier Division. The division was made up of 10 teams. Shamrock Rovers were champions while Bohemians finished as runners-up.


2010 League of Ireland Premier Division, Overview
Airtricity were announced as the new main sponsor for the League of Ireland on 26 February. The prize fund for the season was set at €911,000. The 2010 Premier Division featured 10 clubs. The regular season began on 5 March and concluded on 29 October. Each team played every other team four times, totalling 36 matches. On the final day of the season, Shamrock Rovers won the title with a 2–2 draw away to Bray Wanderers. Second placed Bohemians finished level on points with Rovers but lost out on goal difference.


2010 League of Ireland Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation play-off
The eighth and ninth placed teams from the Premier Division, Galway United and Bray Wanderers, played off after the regular season was completed. The winner would retain a place in the 2011 Premier Division. The loser would play off against the winner of the 2010 First Division play off. The winner of this match would also gain a place in the 2010 Premier Division.


2010 League of Ireland Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation play-off
Galway United retain their place in the 2011 Premier Division


2010 League of Ireland Premier Division, Promotion/Relegation play-off
Bray Wanderers won 7 – 6 on penalties and retained their place in the Premier Division


2010 Lebanese Elite Cup
The 2010 Lebanese Elite Cup is the 13th edition of this football tournament in Lebanon. It will be held from August to September 2010. This tournament includes the six best teams from the 2009–10 Lebanese Premier League season.


2010 Leeds City Council election
The 2010 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 6 May 2010 to elect members of Leeds City Council in England. It was held on the same day as the 2010 general election and other local elections across the UK.


2010 Leeds City Council election
As per the election cycle, one third of the council's seats were up for election. The subsequently elected councillors replaced those elected when their individual seats were previously contested in 2006.


2010 Leeds City Council election
The result of the election saw the Labour Party gain five council seats and take minority control of the council. They held 48 of the 99 total seats and negotiated a confidence-and-supply agreement with the two Green Party councillors to achieve a majority. It replaced a six-year coalition between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which had also been supported by the three Green councillors before the election.


2010 Leeds City Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:


2010 Leeds Rhinos season
This article details the Leeds Rhinos rugby league football club's 2010 season. This is the fifteenth season of the Super League era.


2010 Leeds Rhinos season, Super League, Table
Source: . Classification: 1st on competition points; 2nd on match points difference. Competition points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.


2010 Leeds and Grenville United Counties municipal elections
Elections were held in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2010 Legends Tour
The 2010 Legends Tour was a series of professional golf tour events for women aged 45 and older sanctioned by the Legends Tour. Based in the United States, it is an offshoot of the main U.S.-based women's tour, the LPGA Tour. The tour was founded in 2001, and is intended to allow women to prolong their competitive golf careers on the model of the successful Champions Tour for men.


2010 Legends Tour, Schedule and results
The 2010 Legends Tour consisted of five events. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of Legends Tour events she had won up to and including that tournament.


2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic
The 2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 42nd edition of this event and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2010 ATP World Tour. It took place at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington, D.C., USA, from August 1 through August 8, 2010.


2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, ATP entrants
List of Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles entrants, as of July 26, 2010.


2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw


2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles
Mardy Fish /  Mark Knowles defeated  Tomáš Berdych /  Radek Štěpánek, 4–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–7]


2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Doubles
Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete together. Damm partnered up with Oliver Marach, but they were eliminated by Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in the first round. Lindstedt chose to play with Horia Tecău, but they were eliminated by Marcos Baghdatis and Stanislas Wawrinka in the first round. Mardy Fish and Mark Knowles won the title, defeating Tomáš Berdych and Radek Štěpánek 4–6, 7–6(9–7), [10–7] in the finals.


2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic – Singles
Juan Martín del Potro was the defending champion, but didn't participate due to a wrist injury. David Nalbandian, ranked 117th, defeated Marcos Baghdatis 6–2, 7–6(7–4) in the final.


2010 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team
The 2010 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented Lehigh University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Andy Coen and played its home games at Goodman Stadium. They finished the regular season with a 9–2 record overall and a 5–0 record in Patriot League play, making them conference champions. The team qualified for the playoffs, in which they were eliminated in the second round by Delaware.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup
The 2010 Leinster Football Association Senior Cup, also known as the 2010 Leinster Senior Cup, was the 109th staging of the Leinster Senior Cup association football competition. The 2010 Leinster Senior Cup marked the return of the competition following a ten-year absence.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup
20 teams competed in the 2010 competition. The teams entered included the League of Ireland clubs affiliated to the Leinster Football Association, the top four clubs from the 2008–09 Leinster Senior League Senior Division and the two 2009 Leinster Junior Cup finalists. The 12 clubs from both the League of Ireland Premier Division and League of Ireland First Division automatically qualified for the First Round of the competition while the eight clubs from the A Championship, Leinster Senior League and the Athletic Union League entered into a Preliminary Round.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup
The 2010 Leinster Senior Cup kicked off with the Preliminary Round on 26 January 2010 and concluded with the Final on 2 August 2010 when Shelbourne defeated Bray Wanderers 4–0 at the Carlisle Grounds, Bray.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup, Preliminary round
The draw for the Premliminary round took place on 13 January 2010.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup, First round
The draw for the First Round took place on 13 January 2010.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup, Quarter-Finals
The draw for the Quarter Finals took place on 10 March 2010.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup, Semi-Finals
The draw for the Semi-Finals took place on 6 May 2010.


2010 Leinster Senior Cup, Final
The draw for home advantage in the final took place on 23 July 2010.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship
The 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship was that year's installment of the annual Leinster Senior Football Championship held under the auspices of the Leinster GAA. It was won by Meath who defeated Louth in an eventful final on 11 July. A contentious goal was given. Irate Louth fans pursued the referee around the pitch at the final whistle, bottles were hurled from the stand and the mayhem was compared to soccer player Thierry Henry's handball that cheated the Irish soccer team of their place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup the previous November. Coincidentally, 11 July was also the date of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final, which was played in South Africa later in the evening.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship
The winning Meath team received the Delaney Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Kildare beat them there.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final
The 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final was the last football match of the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship, played between Louth and Meath on 11 July 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin. Louth were appearing in their first Leinster Senior Football Championship Final in 50 years. The game is memorable for its contentious conclusion, such that in 2020 it was described as "the most controversial Leinster final ever".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final
Meath won by 1–12 to 1–10, thanks to a controversial late goal by Joe Sheridan. The goal was deemed illegal by television replays but was declared valid by referee Martin Sludden, from County Tyrone. He then blew the final whistle. Irate Louth fans stormed the pitch and commenced a process of chasing and physically assaulting the referee, who had to be led away by a Garda escort in scenes broadcast to a live television audience. Other scenes of violence saw bottles being hurled from a stand, one striking a steward who fell to the ground. The situation led to much media debate in the week that followed, the violence was condemned by senior politicians (some of whom were in the stadium), and there were calls for the game to be replayed—though, ultimately, this did not happen.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final
Seán Moran of The Irish Times said the next day: "What will be most vividly remembered of the 2010 final was compressed into a minute at the very end of the match with Louth getting ready to celebrate a deserved win – first over their neighbours in 35 years – and a resilient display".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final
Colm Keys of the Irish Independent said it was "hard to disagree" that it was "the greatest injustice for many a year in Croke Park", and remarked: "The 320th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne is being commemorated today, but that surely didn't throw up a talking point to match a Joe Sheridan goal that will have the counties divided by the same river at odds for years to come".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, History of rivalry
Louth and Meath were rivals of old, both winning the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in the 1950s; however, this was to be Louth's first appearance in the Leinster Senior Football Championship Final since a 1960 loss to Offaly. According to Colm O'Rourke, "there was a time in the late 1940s and '50s when Meath and Louth were the two best teams in the province [of Leinster] and played some memorable championship games". Keith Duggan of The Irish Times reported that the two teams "fight like alley cats".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, History of rivalry
They had last met four years previously in a preliminary round of the Leinster Senior Football Championship, with Meath emerging victorious. Louth had last defeated Meath in 1975, also at Croke Park. Three matches were required to produce a winner when the two encountered each other in July 1949. Other meetings include a draw in a semi-final of the 1951 Leinster Senior Football Championship, with Meath narrowly winning the replay. Meath also defeated Louth in the 1952 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final. Following on from Louth's aforementioned 1975 victory, there were other Meath wins in 1998, 2002 and 2006.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Route to the final
Preliminary Round: Louth 1–11 Longford 1–7; Meath 1–20 Offaly 2–7Quarter-finals: Louth 1–22 Kildare 1–16; Meath 2–14 Laois 0–10Semi-finals: Louth 1–15 Westmeath 2–10; Meath 5–9 Dublin 0–13


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Team selection
On 9 July, both teams announced their teams for the final. Meath announced their team first, with captain Nigel Crawford, returning after injury, replacing Mark Ward in midfield.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Pre-match, Attendance
It was anticipated beforehand that attendance would be at its lowest of the decade, estimated at 45,000 or 50,000 by Ian O'Riordan of The Irish Times. 48,875 people attended the game. The issue of applying fencing around Croke Park to prevent pitch invasions had been discussed prior to the game. The violent scenes which followed the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final renewed this debate in the days afterwards, though President Cooney later said "the last thing we want to do is put fencing up around Croke Park".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
Louth's JP Rooney and Shane Lennon both missed opportunities in the first half. Louth dominated the second half, though spurned numerous opportunities to take a commanding lead over Meath. Rooney scored a goal with seven minutes of the game left. Meath converted two long-range free kicks from Cian Ward, but Louth still led by one point in the final minute. Louth's Colm Judge was sent off in the 69th minute for a second bookable offence. Then came the controversial goal by Joe Sheridan in the fourth minute of stoppage time. The ball was kicked into the square by Graham Reilly.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
It came out to Seamus Kenny, who could have gone for the point, but saw a goal chance and shot. But the ball was blocked by Louth captain Paddy Keenan, and fell into the square, towards Louth full-back Dessie Finnegan. But Finnegan failed to clear and the ball went straight to Joe Sheridan, who fell over the goal line and then threw the ball into the net – both illegal moves. Sheridan was also "inside the square" at the time the ball reached him, in a third illegal move.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary
Yet the goal was allowed and all of a sudden Meath were winning by two points. Referee Sludden checked with the umpire and did not change his mind, blowing his whistle for full-time soon after with the score at Meath 1–12: Louth 1–10, much to the disappointment of everyone associated with Louth. TV replays immediately demonstrated that the referee was incorrect when he awarded the goal to Meath.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Violence
Louth fans poured onto the pitch to express their feelings to the referee, and, in the words of The Irish Times, "all hell broke loose". At least four fans physically attacked Sludden and struck him with violence. One man who was wearing a red shirt shoved Sludden in the chest before being pursued by television cameras as he made his departure. Sludden was awarded a Garda escort as he made haste his escape from the pitch. Stadium director Peter McKenna said the referee was "very shaken" after his experience.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Violence
Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick intervened to physically urge the fans to halt their behaviour, an act later described by the Irish Independent as "a remarkable display of composure from the Dundalk man, who had every right to be spitting feathers at the defeat". Meath substitute Mark Ward was hit by a Louth fan. Children cried and looked sad, and one child allegedly received a wound when hit by a steward. Bottles were hurled from the stands. A steward also received wounds when he was assaulted by a soft drinks bottle. He was given medical attention, and later declared fit to steward further matches.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Violence
Elsewhere in the stadium, former Meath All-Ireland Senior Football Championship-winning manager Seán Boylan was involved in an altercation with an irate Louth fan in a corporate box. Boylan said: "People lose the head all the time" and that he was "more embarrassed than anything".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Joe Sheridan
Joe Sheridan, who scored the controversial goal, described how he had done it: "It was well-worked and it was a definite goal. People are saying I threw it in, but I was heading for the line and I just dropped the ball and it was in the net. I got it and the lad just pushed me into the net. I tried to do whatever I could to hit it and the goal was given, simple as that. I was pushed in over the line so it should have been a penalty anyway. I think it was a perfect goal".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Match officials
Referee Martin Sludden later admitted he had made an error. His referee's report acknowledged a "terrible mistake". However, based on past refereeing errors, his place on the panel of 18 referees to officiate during the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was secure, though the likelihood of him refereeing another match was less so.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Match officials
It was thought likely he had been deducted four points from one hundred for his error by his assessor (1 for missing a foul and 3 for Meath profiting from it with a score), though rules banning the assessor from looking at video evidence meant Sludden may not have been deducted any points if the assessor could not see the incident properly from the stand.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Team managers
Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick said he was "absolutely devastated" on RTÉ. Appearing later on radio station LMFM, he described the referee as "Dick Turpin without a mask", adding "It was pure daylight robbery. I'm very, very annoyed".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Team managers
When questioned at a press conference about Sheridan's goal, Meath manager Eamon O'Brien said: "I can't say and I'm not commenting. I can comment, as I said to RTÉ, that loads of decisions were made during the game that didn't go our way. I can recall three or four balls that were blown for picking off the ground that I didn’t think were off the ground. Nigel Crawford was booked up here and Louth got a point off it. The game goes for 70 minutes, decisions are made and you live with it. That’s it, that’s the way I see it".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Other players
Meath's captain Nigel Crawford gave his opinion on the incident: "I'm sure most players have been involved in controversial situations like that where you get calls for replays and things like that happening, but I just don't think it's possible or I just don't think it can happen. If you start that, where do you end up? Do we go back and say the ball wasn’t on the ground when we touched it and they got a free or whatever? It's just very unfortunate that it happens in a high-profile game right at the end of a game to a team that hasn't won in a long time. It's just a very unfortunate situation".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, View of match participants, Other players
Louth player J. P. Rooney said: "Aaron Hoey was pleading with [Sludden] to consult with his umpires but when he went in, he told them to put up the green flag. [ ...] I know it's wrong, people running at the ref, but you can see why Louth people did it. He brought it on himself and I wouldn't feel sorry for him".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, Media
The Irish Independent said "Meath's Leinster Final goal-that-never-was will go down in history – and not only in Ireland, since by now the images have flashed round the world – among the great injustices suffered in any sport". The Irish Times described "ugly scenes", with Damian Cullen calling it "one of the strangest endings ever to a GAA match", Seán Moran describing it as "the most extraordinary refereeing error since Jimmy Cooney whistled up early 12 years ago", and the newspaper publishing numerous letters on the topic from disgruntled members of the public every day that week.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, Media
The same newspaper's Philip Reid remarked upon the coincidence that these events had occurred on the same day as the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final in South Africa, wondered why goal-line technology could not be used and added: "On this point, it would appear, the GAA and FIFA have something in common: they live in the times of the dinosaur". The events in Croke Park led to less prominent newspaper coverage of the FIFA World Cup Final itself the next day.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, Media
The incident surrounding the goal was likened to Thierry Henry's illegal handball in the France vs Republic of Ireland 2010 FIFA World Cup play-off. Public service broadcaster RTÉ referred to "disgraceful scenes". The GAA website's official match report brushed aside the controversy, saying Sheridan had "smuggled the ball over the line". Eugene McGee, writing in the Irish Independent, said "It will be a stain on the good name of the GAA if this result is allowed to stand". His colleague Martin Breheny said there ought to be no replay and that "no sport can run its affairs on the basis of sentiment".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA administrators
The following day, the GAA released a statement confirming that Sludden admitted he had made an error. The GAA also stated that the rules left it powerless to offer a replay and that this would be decided by Meath, though most Meath players did not wish to facilitate a replay, while former Meath players were said to be in favour of one. The GAA said it would work with the authorities to capture Sludden's attackers.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA administrators
GAA President Christy Cooney said the events were a "watershed" and one where the "circumstances were bizarre. I have never seen circumstances like it as long as I have been a member of this Association". He promised life bans for those who assaulted the referee.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA administrators
Croke Park's stadium director Peter McKenna questioned why Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick had walked onto the pitch to ask the referee about the decision. Gaelic Players Association (GPA) chief executive Dessie Farrell said: "What went on last Sunday was a PR disaster for us all". The National Referees Committee gave a negative response to the idea of goal-line technology being used in future. Retired referee John Bannon said "No one deserves to be attacked, either verbally or physically, especially in Croke Park. [ ...] This attitude still remains part of the GAA's culture, it has never been rooted out".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA administrators
Tyrone County Board (from where the referee originated) sympathised with the Sludden but said the crowd's reaction was "unbelievable". Liam O'Neill, a candidate for the GAA presidency in 2012, later said: "Quite simply, there should have been a re-fixture for that game. Everyone knows that. Everyone knows a wrong was perpetrated".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA personalities
There was significant public and analytical support for Louth and condemnation of the refereeing decision.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA personalities
On The Sunday Game TV highlights programme, Pat Spillane called both the fans and the referee "disgraceful", commenting:


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA personalities
Those were disgraceful scenes at the end. Cowardly individuals attacking a referee who is doing it in a voluntary capacity. There is no place in the GAA for people like that. Scandalous scenes and a bad day for the GAA on that account. A fella doing a job made a human error. He made a mistake. We cannot condone those scenes, they are disgraceful and punishments must be handed out. However, just as disgraceful is that Louth were robbed of their first Leinster title since 1957 by a complete refereeing mistake. Joe Sheridan threw the ball over the line. Under any rules of the game, experimental or not, the goal should not have been allowed.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA personalities
Former Meath player Trevor Giles said: "If this victory stands, it won't do Meath any favours because there will always be a question mark over the result". Former Kerry footballer Darragh Ó Sé described the idea of Meath County Board having the final decision on a replay as "a complete and utter cop-out". Former Kerry footballer and manager Páidí Ó Sé said: "there is no way any referee should have allowed Sheridan's goal to stand". Sligo footballer Eamonn O'Hara suggested that the events gave "the perfect opportunity [for the GAA] to revamp the way match-day officials are selected".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, GAA personalities
Veteran commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh told Ryan Tubridy on his radio show that "Croke Park abdicated responsibility. They should have taken the matter from Meath".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, Politicians
Minister for Justice and Law Reform Dermot Ahern, himself from Louth, made known his condemnation of the violence. He attended the match. Taoiseach Brian Cowen also made known his disapproval later from New York: "I didn't see what happened as the ref was leaving the pitch. But obviously none of that is justified. It was an exciting match obviously. But it doesn't justify anyone engaging in that sort of activity. So I wouldn't like to see it repeated anywhere". Cowen was also at the match.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Reaction, Other
The Garda Síochána announced that it would investigate those persons they said breached the Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Act by battering the referee and others.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Outcome
On 13 July, Louth's county executive committee issued a statement condemning what it described as "the unsavoury incidents after the match". Meath's county board gathered in Navan but did not issue an immediate statement, instead requesting more time to think. They later decided that there would be no replay, this would be "the end of the matter". Meath were officially champions of Leinster for 2010, though Meath secretary Cyril Creavin conceded that it was a "tainted" title and that "Some of the players are devastated with the reaction in newspapers".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Outcome
Louth accepted this: their official statement referred to the July 2010 R238 traffic collision which occurred on the same day as the final, sympathising with relatives of the eight people killed, and opting to avoid legal action in such a context. Therefore, Meath automatically entered the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, with Louth left to qualify for that same stage by playing (and winning) a further game in Round 4 of the All-Ireland qualifiers.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Outcome
Louth were drawn against Dublin in their next game. The appointment of experienced referee Pat McEnaney was scrutinised and praised in advance. In the game, held once again at Croke Park on 24 July, Louth were defeated by 2–14 to 0–13, thus being eliminated from the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. By defeating Louth, Dublin joined Meath in the quarter-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. For Louth so ended "the longest summer the county has witnessed in over half a century".


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Legacy
Louth manager Fitzpatrick found success as a national politician; he was elected as a TD at the 2011 general election and re-elected several times after that. He continued as Louth manager until after the 2012 season, at which point he left.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Legacy
On 15 September 2014, "A Wee Royal Rumble - The Story of the 2010 Leinster Football Final" was broadcast on RTÉ One as part of Scannal, the TV series dedicated to scandalous events.


2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, Legacy
Nearly ten years later, in a newspaper article published on Easter Sunday, Fitzpatrick - who had earlier watched the match for just the third time since (the first having been the night it was played) - stated that he had seen referee Sludden only once since: "I went to Michaela Harte's funeral [in mid-January 2011] and he was ahead of me in the queue. That's the only time. I have never seen or [sic] spoken to him since".


2010 Lennox and Addington County municipal elections
Elections were held in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2010 Lennox and Addington County municipal elections, Lennox and Addington County Council
The County Council consists of the three municipal reeves, mayor of Greater Napanee and the three deputy reeves and the Deputy Reeve of Greater Napanee.


2010 Lenoir–Rhyne Bears football team
The 2010 Lenoir–Rhyne Bears football team represented Lenoir–Rhyne University in the 2010 NCAA Division II football season. The Bears offense scored 358 points while the defense allowed 223 points.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301
The 2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on June 27, 2010, at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway; contested over 301 laps, it was the seventeenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The event began at 1 p.m. EDT on TNT. It was also broadcast on the radio station Performance Racing Network at 12 p.m. EDT. The race was won by the Jimmie Johnson, driving for Hendrick Motorsports. Chevrolet driver Tony Stewart finished second, and Kurt Busch, was third driving a Dodge.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301
The race was Johnson's fifth win of the season, his third at New Hampshire, and the result meant that he would be second in the Drivers' Championship, 105 points behind of Kevin Harvick and six ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained their lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, 14 points ahead of Toyota and 47 ahead of Dodge, with 19 races of the season remaining.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Background
Prior to the race, Richard Childress Racing driver Kevin Harvick led the Drivers' Championship with 2,334 points, and Hendrick Motorsports driver Jimmie Johnson was second with 2,194 points. Behind them in the Drivers' Championship, Kyle Busch was third with 2,193 points in a Toyota, and Kyle Busch's teammate Denny Hamlin was fourth with 2,183 points. Jeff Gordon was fifth with 2,142 points. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet were leading with 112 points, nine points ahead of their rival Toyota. In the battle for third place, Ford had 69 points, one point ahead of Dodge.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions will be held before the Sunday race—one on Friday, and two on Saturday. The first session will last 90 minutes. The Saturday morning session will last 50 minutes, and the afternoon session will last 60 minutes. During the first session of practice, Juan Montoya was quickest, ahead of Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch in second and third. Tony Stewart followed in fourth as his teammate, Ryan Newman was scored fifth. In the morning session, Johnson was quickest. Kyle Busch, and Newman followed in third, and fourth while Kevin Harvick was fifth. In the third and final practice, Johnson was again quickest with a time of 29.166, over three tenths of a second faster than Jeff Burton in the second position. Kyle Busch was scored fourth, and Johnson's teammate Jeff Gordon was fifth.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Practice and qualifying
During qualifying, forty-five cars were entered, but only forty-three was able to race because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. Montoya clinched his third career pole position, with a time of 28.78. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Kasey Kahne. Kurt Busch qualified third; Rick Hendrick's driver Mark Martin qualified fourth. Newman started fifth, after keeping his speed from first practice. David Reutimann, Joe Nemechek, Sam Hornish, Jr., Clint Bowyer and Johnson rounded off the top ten. The two drivers that did not qualify were Travis Kvapil and Mike Bliss.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
For the race, it was mostly cloudy with highs in the seventies. Steve Keller from Motor Racing Outreach began the pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Afterward, Foghat Records recording artists Foghat performed the United States National Anthem then he & Dingeman family, representing Lenox Extra Mile Hero Pete Dingeman, gave the command to start engines. On the pace laps, Bobby Labonte had to go to the rear of the grid because of changing to a back-up car from an accident in first practice.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Juan Pablo Montoya led the field to the start, and he held the lead going through the first corner, as Kurt Busch passed Kasey Kahne for the second position. By lap six, Jeff Gordon had fallen to eighteenth after starting sixteenth. On the ninth lap, Jimmie Johnson moved into fifth after passing teammate Mark Martin. The field of drivers started to separate after lap 13, as Montoya led Kahne by 1.2 seconds. On lap 14, Max Papis went to the garage because of a brake failure. Over the following laps, Start and park drivers, including Todd Bodine, Michael McDowell and Dave Blaney, went to the garage. Jeff Burton moved into the tenth position after passing Sam Hornish, Jr., as Johnson and Clint Bowyer moved to fourth and fifth because of passing Ryan Newman.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Afterward, Montoya's lead over the rest changed to barely nothing when the first caution came out because of debris on lap 34. Most driver came to pit road for pit stops, as Elliott Sadler and David Gilliland stayed out to gain five bonus points for leading a lap. Kahne became the leader on the restart, as Sadler and Gilliland came to pit road. Kyle Busch moved into second, after restarting fourth, but on the next lap he fell back to the fourth position because Montoya and Kurt Busch passed him. Johnson moved into third after passing Mark Martin, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch, as Gilliland made an unexpected pit stop. A few laps later, Gilliland drove to the garage. By lap 72, Kahne had a 1.8 second lead over Montoya, as Tony Stewart moved into eighth after passing Mark Martin.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Then, Johnson passed Montoya for second, as Kahne lapped Bobby Labonte. On lap 85, Jeff Gordon passed Kyle Busch for the sixth position. On the next lap green flag pit stops began, as Stewart came in early because of not filling the car with fuel completely. Jeff Burton moved into fourth, after passing Kurt Busch. On lap 106, Kahne came to pit road, as Johnson passes him for the lead. As Johnson, made a pit stop, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, became the leaders.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Johnson had a slow pit stop, and moved him back into the ninth position as Kahne became the leader with Kyle Busch in second after he passed Stewart. On lap 120, Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch moved into fifth and sixth, after passing Stewart. After a multi-lap battle with Montoya, Burton moved into third, as Montoya loses another position to Jeff Gordon. On lap 153, Kyle Busch passed Kahne for the lead, with some help from cars that are a lap down.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
A few laps later, Stewart made a pit stop because of being off schedule with the rest of the teams. On lap 164, Regan Smith had a punctured tire and went to pit road safely. Afterward, Smith had a drive-through penalty for exceeding the pit road speed limit. On lap 171, the second green flag pit stops began, as Kahne was catching Kyle Busch. Six laps later, Kyle Busch went to pit road, and allowed Kahne to become the leader, but he would inherit the lead two laps later.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
After the pit stops, Kyle Busch was in the first position, ahead of Kahne and Burton in second and third. Stewart, who made a pit stop before everyone else, was again losing positions as Montoya passed him for the fifth position. Jeff Burton passed Kahne seven laps later, as Kyle Busch led with a 1.9 second lead.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Around lapped traffic, Jeff Burton caught and passed Kyle Busch on lap 201. Kahne became slow and reported to is team that he was having engine troubles on lap 205. By lap 219, Burton had a 2.2 second lead over second place Kyle Busch. On lap 228, A. J. Allmendinger moved into the seventh position, as Johnson moved to fifth after passing Jeff Gordon. On lap 233, green flag pit stops began as Regan Smith came to pit road. Five laps later, the second caution came out because Kahne's engine blew. This run consisted of 201 lap, a new record at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Jeff Burton had a great start, retaining his position, as Kyle Busch maintained second.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Three laps later, Montoya and Jeff Gordon were colliding with each other, as Gordon passed Montoya. On lap 251, Johnson passed Kyle Busch for the second position, as Montoya had fallen to the eighth position. By lap 259, Johnson had begun closing on Burton. Kevin Harvick moved into the seventh position on lap 261. Johnson had caught Burton by lap 272, but the third caution was given because Montoya collided with the wall. On the next lap, Burton stayed off pit road as the rest came in.


2010 Lenox Industrial Tools 301, Report, Race summary
Johnson passed Burton for the lead on the restart because of Burton's older tires. Later on the same lap, the fourth caution came out because Kyle Busch spun sideways. Johnson led the drivers to the first turn, but Kurt Busch collided in the back of Johnson's car and made the pass. On the last lap, Johnson collided with Kurt Busch, making Busch move up the track, as Johnson passed him. Johnson crossed the line first to win his fifth race of the season and his fifty-second overall victory. Stewart finished second, ahead of Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon in third and fourth. In the Drivers' Championship Harvick maintained the points lead, 105 ahead of Johnson in second and 161 points ahead of Kyle Busch.


2010 Lethbridge municipal election
The 2010 Lethbridge municipal election was held Monday, October 18, 2010 to elect a mayor and eight aldermen (at-large), and five of the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 4's nine trustees (as Ward 2). The seven Lethbridge School District No. 51 trustees were acclaimed, five being incumbents. Since 1968, provincial legislation has required every municipality to hold triennial elections. Of the 69,863 eligible voters, only 24,522 turned in a ballot, a voter turnout of 35.1%, and an average of 5.9 aldermen per ballot. One seat was not filled at the swearing-in ceremony, as a result of Alderman-elect Bob Babki's death. The seat was filled following a by-election over three months later.


2010 Lethbridge municipal election, Results
Bold indicates elected, incumbents are italicized, and an asterisk indicates not sworn in.


2010 Lethbridge municipal election, By-election
The 2011 Lethbridge municipal by-election was held Tuesday, February 1, 2011 to elect one aldermen at-large. On October 18, 2010, Bob Babki was elected to the eight alderman council, in the regular scheduled municipal election. He died on October 30, from a suspected heart failure, two days before he would have been sworn into office. Minister of Municipal Affairs Hector Goudreau wrote Mayor Rajko Dodic, and by extension all citizens of Lethbridge, on November 18, that because Alderman-elect Babki was declared elected, a by-election would be required.


2010 Lethbridge municipal election, By-election
The Municipal Government Act requires the City to hold a by-election within 90 days of a vacancy, since the vacancy did not occur until the new council was sworn in on November 1, 2010, it would have been January 30, 2011 at the latest, the two day discrepancy was not explained on the City election website. Of the 68,294 eligible voters, only 8,843 turned in a ballot, a voter turnout of 12.9%.


2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger
The 2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the seventeenth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Binghamton, United States between 9 and 15 August 2010.


2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger, Champions, Doubles
Treat Conrad Huey /  Dominic Inglot def. Scott Lipsky /  David Martin, 5–7, 7–6(2), [10–8]


2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger – Doubles
Rik de Voest and Scott Lipsky were the defending champions, but de Voest chose to not participate this year. Lipsky partnered with David Martin, but they lost to Treat Conrad Huey and Dominic Inglot in the final 5–7, 7–6(2), [10–8].


2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger – Singles
The Chilean player Paul Capdeville was the defending champion. However, he was eliminated by Benjamin Balleret in the first round.


2010 Levene Gouldin & Thompson Tennis Challenger – Singles
Kei Nishikori, who received a wildcard into the singles main draw, won this tournament. He defeated Kevin Kim, Benjamin Balleret, Brian Dabul, Alex Bogomolov Jr. and Robert Kendrick 6–3, 7–6(4) in the final.


2010 Lewisham London Borough Council election
Elections to the London Borough of Lewisham council were held on 6 May 2010. The elections were won by the Labour Party, who achieved a landslide victory.


2010 Liberal Democrats deputy leadership election
The 2010 Liberal Democrats deputy leadership election began on 26 May 2010, when the sitting Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable, announced his resignation following his appointment as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. Nominations closed on 2 June, and the balloting took place on 9 June. The election was won by Simon Hughes.


2010 Liberal Democrats deputy leadership election, Candidates
Hughes was, from the start, reportedly leading in the election, having reportedly secured the support of at least 29 Lib Dem MPs. Not all MPs publicly declared their support for either candidate; of those Farron had the support of 11 and Hughes 21. Both candidates were former members of the Lib Dem Front Bench, but neither received a position in the coalition government.


2010 Libertarian National Convention
The 2010 Libertarian National Convention was a biennial convention of the Libertarian Party that was held in St. Louis, Missouri from Friday May 28 to Monday May 31, 2010.


2010 Libertarian National Convention
Mark Hinkle was elected as National Chair; Mark W. Rutherford was elected National Vice Chair; Alicia Mattson was elected Secretary; James Oaksun was elected Treasurer.


2010 Liberty Bowl (December)
The 2010 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 31, 2010. The 52nd edition of the Liberty Bowl matched up the Georgia Bulldogs of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) against the UCF Knights, the Conference USA champions. With sponsorship from AutoZone, the game was officially the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. The game was won by UCF, 10–6.


2010 Liberty Bowl (December)
The game marked UCF's second appearance in the Liberty Bowl. In the 2007 edition, the Knights had lost to Mississippi State. With a 1–1 record in prior appearances, this was Georgia's third trip to the Liberty Bowl.


2010 Liberty Bowl (December), Teams
Georgia running back Caleb King, backup cornerback Derek Owens and reserve offensive tackle A. J. Harmon were suspended for the Liberty Bowl for academic issues.


2010 Liberty Bowl (December), Game notes
The victory marked UCF's first-ever bowl win. No. 25 UCF and Georgia faced each other in the second meeting between the two schools. The Bulldogs won the previous meeting, 24-23, in 1999, in a game sometimes known as the "Burglary Between the Hedges."


2010 Liberty Bowl (December), Game notes
The Knights started fast out of the gate, with Quincy McDuffie returning the opening kickoff 95-yards for a touchdown, but the play was called back due to a holding penalty. Georgia took a 3-0 lead behind a 95-yard drive later in the first quarter. Late in the second quarter, an interception by UCF's Josh Linam set up a 22-yard field goal, and a 3-3 tie at halftime.


2010 Liberty Bowl (December), Game notes
With Georgia leading 6-3 in the fourth quarter, UCF quarterback Jeffrey Godfrey drove the Knights 65 yards for the game's first touchdown, and a 10-6 lead. In the final seconds, Georgia had an attempt at a potential game-winning "hail mary" pass, but it was knocked down by Kemal Ishmael as time expired.


2010 Liberty Bowl (December), Game notes
Latavius Murray rushed for 104 yards on 18 carries, with one touchdown, earning him Liberty Bowl MVP honors.


2010 Liberty Bowl (January)
The 2010 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 2, 2010. The 51st edition of the Liberty Bowl matched the Arkansas Razorbacks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) against the East Carolina Pirates, the Conference USA Champion. With sponsorship from AutoZone, the game was officially the AutoZone Liberty Bowl. Arkansas won, 20–17, in the first Liberty Bowl to go into overtime.


2010 Liberty Bowl (January)
The game marked Arkansas' fourth appearance in the bowl and first since 1987. East Carolina also made its fourth appearance in the game. The Pirates had played in the 2009 edition, a 25–19 loss to Kentucky. Arkansas entered the game with a 7–5 record. East Carolina entered the game with a 9–4 record. It was the first ever meeting between the two football programs.


2010 Liberty Bowl (January), Game summary
Alex Tejada kicked a 37-yard field goal in overtime and gave Arkansas a 20–17 win in the Liberty Bowl after East Carolina's Ben Hartman missed two field goal attempts late in regulation and another in the extra session. Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett was named most valuable player despite going only 15 of 36 for 202 yards and a touchdown. Dominique Lindsay rushed for 151 yards on 33 carries for East Carolina. His 3-yard touchdown run opened the scoring in the second quarter, ending a 99-yard drive by the Pirates. It was 10–0 at halftime, the first time the Razorbacks had been shut out in the first half since September against Alabama.


2010 Liberty Bowl (January), Game summary
The Razorbacks tied it in the third quarter with a defensive touchdown when Tramain Thomas intercepted a pass and ran 37 yards to the end zone. East Carolina took the lead again on Patrick Pinkney's 13-yard touchdown pass to Dwayne Harris with 5:52 left in the third. Arkansas answered 36 seconds later when Mallett threw a 41-yard scoring pass to Jarius Wright to make it 17-all. Pinkney, a sixth-year senior, went 17 of 33 for 209 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.


2010 Liberty Bowl (January), Game summary
East Carolina was physically dominant and Arkansas won despite its inability to convert a single third down. The Arkansas offense was 0–13 on third down conversions (scoring only ten points on offense, in regulation) but was aided by a defensive touchdown after an interception and four missed field goals by ECU (three in regulation, one in the overtime period). This may be the first time a college team has won a game (a bowl game, at least) while failing to convert a single third down attempt.


2010 Liberty Flames football team
The 2010 Liberty Flames football team represented Liberty University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Flames were led by fifth-year head coach Danny Rocco and played their home games at Williams Stadium and Lynchburg City Stadium. They were a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 8–3, 5–1 in Big South play to finish in a three-way tie for first.


2010 Libyan Cup Final
The 2010 Libyan Cup Final was the 20th final of the premier cup competition in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Libyan Cup. The match took place on June 10, 2010 at the 11 June Stadium in Tripoli. The match was contested by 2008 runners-up Madina and 2003 winners Nasr.


2010 Libyan Cup Final
Both sides entered the final looking to end respective droughts without major silverware; Madina had not won a major title since their 2001 League-Supercup double, and Nasr had not won a major trophy since winning this competition in 2002–03.


2010 Libyan Cup Final
After a fairly poor first half, the game sprung into life just past the hour when defender Abubakr al Abaidy gave the Benghazi outfit the lead, chesting Mehdi ben Dhifallah's knockdown and volleying past Osama al Snousi. They were in front for just under four minutes as Guinean midfielder Ismail Bangoura lashed Efosa Francis' pullback into the top corner and equalised for Madina. With time running out and the game in the balance, striker Ihaab Bouseffi did a one-two with Ndubuisi Eze and the 24-year-old cracked a low drive into the bottom corner in the 89th minute.


2010 Libyan Cup Final
The title was Nasr manager Jamaal Bounawaara's (their fourth manager of 2009–10) second Libyan Cup title as a manager, following two cup wins with Ahly Tripoli in his playing career, after defeating Ittihad on penalties in 2002 with Hilal. The win also means Nasr won qualification for the 2011 CAF Confederation Cup.


2010 Libyan Cup Final, Background
Up until the 2010 final, Madina had appeared in three previous finals (1977, 2001 & 2008), winning one of them. They also had two unofficial titles to their name, by virtue of finishing second in the domestic league, (as there was no domestic cup competition organised at this time, the runner-up in the league was unofficially proclaimed Libyan Cup champion and earned a place in the African Cup Winners Cup) in 1987 and 1990. Nasr had appeared in two finals (1997 & 2003), winning both. They also had two unofficial titles (1978, 1984) by virtue of finishing runners-up.


2010 Libyan Cup Final, Background
In the two meetings between the sides in the league that season, they drew 2–2 in Tripoli, with Nasr winning the return fixture 3–1 at the Martyrs of February Stadium. The sides had also met in a two-legged League Cup semi-final; Nasr lost the first leg 1–3 at home, before a 1–1 stalemate in Tripoli saw Madina through to the final.


2010 Libyan Cup Final, Background
The previous and only encounter between these sides in the cup was in the 2007–08 season, where Madina defeated Nasr 2–0 in the semi-finals, before going on to lose to Khaleej Sirte.


2010 Libyan Cup Final, Route to the final
1 Madina awarded 2–0 victory after Ahly Tripoli withdrew from the competition. [ LPL] = Libyan Premier League[LSD] = Libyan Second Division


2010 Libyan Super Cup
The 2010 Libyan Super Cup was the 14th edition of the Libyan Super Cup, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous year's Libyan Premier League and Libyan Cup competitions. The match took place on August 6, 2010 at the 11 June Stadium in the capital, Tripoli, contested by league champions Ittihad Tripoli, seeking an eighth successive title, and cup winners Nasr.


2010 Liechtenstein referendum
A referendum on building an approach road for an industrial zone in Schaan was held in Liechtenstein on 14 March 2010. The proposal was approved by 52% of voters.


2010 Liechtenstein referendum, Background
On 18 November 2009 the Landtag voted 18–7 to spend 15 million francs on an approach road for an industrial zone in Schaan. The road would be 1.4km long, although 75% of the route was already roadway. A separate cycle and pedestrian path would also be created alongside the road.


2010 Liechtenstein referendum, Background
The Free List and Transport Club Liechtenstein (VCL) believed it to be the first step in attempts to build a bypass and started an attempt to force a referendum. Between 29 November and 23 December they collected 1,257 signatures, surpassing the requirement of 1,000 in article 66 of the constitution.


2010 Liechtenstein referendum, Results
Due to an error in the count, the reported total number of votes was lower than the sum of the valid and invalid votes.


2010 LifeLock.com 400
The 2010 LifeLock.com 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held on July 10, 2010 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. It was the nineteenth race of the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. The event began at 7:30 p.m. Local Time on TNT. It was broadcast on the radio station Motor Racing Network at 6:30 p.m. EDT.


2010 LifeLock.com 400
Contested over 267 laps, the race had a total of four cautions and ten lead changes among seven different drivers. David Reutimann clinched his first cup victory of the season driving for Michael Waltrip Racing after starting seventh. Carl Edwards finished second and Jeff Gordon finished third.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Background
Chicagoland Speedway is one of ten intermediate tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. The standard track at Chicagoland Speedway is a four-turn tri-oval track that is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long. The track's turns are each banked at 18 degrees and have a turn width of 55 feet. The racetrack has a grandstand capacity of 75,000.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Background
Prior to the race, Kevin Harvick of Richard Childress Racing led the Drivers' Championship with 2,684 points, 212 points ahead of Jeff Gordon in second. Behind them, Jimmie Johnson was third with 2,459 points, and Kurt Busch was fourth with 2,439 points, Denny Hamlin was fifth with 2,400 points. Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, Jeff Burton, Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle rounded out the top ten in the Championship. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 130 points, twenty points ahead of their rival Toyota. In the battle for third place, Dodge and Ford were tied with 78 points each.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Practice and qualifying
Two practice sessions were held before the Saturday race—both on Friday. The first session lasted 105 minutes, and the evening session completed after 45 minutes. In the first practice session, Joe Nemechek was the quickest, ahead of the Chevrolet of Casey Mears and the Ford of David Stremme in second and third. Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson followed in fourth and fifth. In the second practice session, Juan Pablo Montoya was quickest, while Jamie McMurray and Greg Biffle followed in second and third. Johnson and Carl Edwards rounded out the top five.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Practice and qualifying
During qualifying, forty-seven drivers were entered, but only the fastest forty-three raced because of NASCAR's qualifying procedure. McMurray clinched his sixth pole position, with a time of 29.421. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Johnson. Tony Stewart managed to qualify third, and Biffle qualified fourth. Sam Hornish, Jr. qualified fifth and Gordon, David Reutimann, Paul Menard, Martin Truex, Jr. and Montoya rounded off the top ten. The four drivers that failed to qualify for the race were J. J. Yeley, Dave Blaney, Michael McDowell, and Todd Bodine.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
The race, the nineteenth out of a total of thirty-six in the season, began at 7:30 p.m. EDT and was televised live in the United States on TNT. Conditions were sunny with a high 88 °F (31 °C), but there was a fifty percent chance of scattered thunderstorms in the area which could make the track potentially slippery later in the race. Co -director of Raceway Windy City Ministries Glenn Spoolstra began the pre-race ceremonies by giving the invocation. Afterward, Jim Cornelison, the Chicago Blackhawks national anthem singer, performed the United States National Anthem while Duncan Keith gave the command to start engines.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
Jamie McMurray maintained the first position going through turns one and two, but Johnson, who had started second passed McMurray to lead the first lap. Two laps later, David Reutimann moved into sixth, after passing Sam Hornish, Jr. After three laps, McMurray fell to fourth because of car handling problems. On lap 7, Tony Stewart passed Greg Biffle for the second position. Hornish, Jr., who started fifth, had fallen seven positions to twelfth by lap 11. Carl Edwards, after starting eleventh, moved into eighth on lap 15. By lap 20, Johnson had a one-second lead over Stewart in second. Seven laps later, McMurray moved into third by passing Biffle.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
On lap 39, the first caution was brought out because David Stremme collided with the wall. Afterward, teams made their first pit stop. Johnson remained the leader, as Martin Truex, Jr. moved to second for the restart. One lap later, McMurray moved into the second position. On lap 48, Jeff Gordon moved into the seventh position, after passing Juan Pablo Montoya and A. J. Allmendinger. On lap 60, Johnson had led more laps at the beginning of this race than any other in the season.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
Eight laps later, Truex, Jr. and his teammate Reutimann were in the third and fourth positions. On lap 70, Stewart moved into the eight position, as Biffle moved into the top-ten. After seventy-two laps, Kyle Busch, who began in the thirty-third position, had moved to twenty-fifth. On lap 80, Montoya moved into seventh, by passing Biffle. By lap 88, five cars had gone to the garage area of the track, they were Landon Cassill, Casey Mears, Mike Bliss, Max Papis and Joe Nemechek.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
Two laps later, Johnson had a two-second lead over McMurray, as pit stops began. On lap 96, McMurray became the leader as Johnson came to pit road. After missing pit lane the first time, Johnson was scored in the third position two laps later. On lap 108, Johnson passed Truex, Jr. for second, but he was still scored 1.1 seconds behind McMurray. Eight laps later, Reutimann passed Truex, Jr. for the third position. Afterward on lap 120, Martin Truex, Jr. continued to lose positions, as he fell to fourth after being passed by Jeff Gordon.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
Nine laps later, the second caution came out because of debris. The green flag waved for the restart on lap 136, with McMurray and Johnson in first and second. One lap later, Johnson got loose and spun sideways through the grass to bring out the third caution, but he retained no major damage. Johnson fell to the twenty-fourth position after having to make a pit stop under this caution.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
On lap 140, McMurray restarted in the first position. Four laps later, Reutimann moved forward one position into third, after passing Truex, Jr. Afterward, on lap 147, Truex, Jr. lost two positions after being passed by Clint Bowyer and Jeff Burton. On lap 166, McMurray was passed by Gordon for the lead . Three laps later, Reutimann passed McMurray for the second position. On lap 174, Johnson came to pit lane after colliding with the wall. Four laps later, Stewart claimed the eighth position after passing Truex, Jr. On lap 180, the fourth caution came out because Bill Elliott collided with the wall, as Robby Gordon careened into Elliott. Nine laps later, the green flag waved as Gordon led. On lap 192, Biffle began losing positions because of an engine failure.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
Two laps later, Kevin Harvick drove his race car to the garage area. On lap 197, it was said that Harvick's crew members were changing a fuel pump. On lap 212, Edwards passed McMurray for fourth. One lap later, Reutimann passed Gordon for the lead. Fifteen laps later, Biffle's engine failed. One lap later, Johnson made a scheduled green flag pit stop. On lap 233 Bowyer claimed the lead as Reutimann came to pit lane for a stop. Afterward, Edwards and Montoya led as green flag pit stops continued.


2010 LifeLock.com 400, Race report, Race
Green flag pit stops finished on lap 236, after Reutimann reclaimed the lead. On lap 242 Edwards claimed the second position from Gordon. Reutimann remained the leader, and crossed the finish line first to clinch his second career victory in the Sprint Cup Series. Edwards finished second ahead of Gordon, Bowyer and McMurray.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 2010 season was the club's 80th year of existence, the 57th year in professional football, and the 49th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador. Former manager Edgardo Bauza returns to the position after Jorge Fossati left to sign with Internacional. While Liga unsuccessfully defended its 2009 title in the Copa Sudamericana and lost  the Suruga Bank Championship, they became the third team to win back-to-back Recopa Sudamericanas and won their tenth Serie A title.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Squad information, Current squad
Liga's squad for the season is allowed a maximum of four foreign players at any one time, and a maximum of eight throughout the season. The team must also register under-19 players to be used in every match of the league season. The jersey numbers in the main table (directly below) refer to the number on their domestic league jersey. For each CONMEBOL competition, Liga must register 25 players, whose jerseys will be numbered 1-25. Because of this, some players may have different jersey numbers while playing in CONMEBOL matches.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Squad information, Current squad
Note: Caps and goals are of the national league and are current as of the beginning of the season.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Pre-season friendlies
The pre-season friendlies against Universidad César Vallejo was played in two matches at Liga's training grounds. The first match was between the reserves of each team, the second by the starters. The matches were played in two 30-minutes halves. Only club officials and credited media sources were allowed to watch.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Pre-season friendlies, La Tarde Blanca
In La Tarde Blanca, the club's official presentation for the season, Liga hammered visiting Sporting Cristal of Peru 5–0. The effortless win came with goals from veterans Ulises de la Cruz, Christian Lara (2), Édison Méndez, and recently signed Hernán Barcos.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Other friendlies
LDU Quito has accepted an invitation to play against Serie B team LDU Loja for their official debut of the season.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Alfonso Obregón's farewell match
A testimonial match was organized for the retirement of longtime midfielder and former team captain Alfonso Obregón. The match was played at La Casa Blanca on May 16. The game pitted current LDU Quito players against a team called Alfonso Obregón & Friends, composed of famous Liga and Ecuadorian footballers of the past. The legends team would be managed by former Liga manager, and two-time Serie A winning manager with Liga, Leonel Montoya. Alfonso Obregón would play a half for each team in the match.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Serie A
2010 will be LDU Quito's 49th season in the Serie A.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Recopa Sudamericana
As the 2009 Copa Sudamericana champion, LDU Quito played a two-legged tie against the 2009 Copa Libertadores champion Estudiantes de La Plata. LDU Quito successfully defended their title after winning the first leg 2–1 and drawing the second leg 0–0. They became the third team to win back-to-back Recopa Sudamericanas.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Suruga Bank
As the 2009 Copa Sudamericana champion, LDU Quito played a single match against the 2009 J.League Cup champion FC Tokyo.


2010 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season, Competitions, Copa Sudamericana
LDU Quito qualified to their 7th Copa Sudamericana as the defending champion. They entered the competition in the Round of 16.