2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
With the previous day's cancellation of the Passo di Stelvio, the climb to Tre Cime di Lavaredo became the Cima Coppi. The Passo Tre Croci was the first part of the climb, averaging 7.2% over 8 km (5.0 mi), before a false flat to the short, steep Col Sant'Angelo. The final climb averaged over 11% for the final 4 km (2.5 mi), but reached 18% in places.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
The day's breakaway was formed after around 25 km (15.5 mi) of racing, with a four-rider group consisting of earlier stage winner Adam Hansen (Lotto–Belisol), Pavel Brutt of Team Katusha, RadioShack–Leopard rider Yaroslav Popovych and Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela's Giairo Ermeti. The quartet built up a lead of more than eight minutes at one point during the stage, before the peloton – being led by Euskaltel–Euskadi, Colombia and Cannondale – set about reducing that advantage. As the leaders reached Cortina d'Ampezzo, their advantage was around three minutes; upon leaving the comune, Popovych attacked his companions.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
Brutt and Hansen were able to bridge back up, before Brutt attacked of his own accord. He quickly gained an advantage of around a minute over the others, when Orica–GreenEDGE rider Pieter Weening attacked from the peloton, closely followed by mountains classification leader Stefano Pirazzi (Bardiani Valvole–CSF Inox) and Darwin Atapuma of Colombia. Weening caught up with Hansen, and the duo set off in chase of Brutt, with the peloton around one minute behind the leader, and closing on the climb.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
By the top of the Passo Tre Croci, Brutt was around 30 seconds clear of Weening – who had dropped Hansen – with the leaders group a further 20 seconds behind. In the driving snow, Brutt was caught with around 9 km (5.6 mi) remaining by Weening, Pirazzi, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Gianluca Brambilla and the Movistar Team's Eros Capecchi. Capecchi launched a move at the bottom of the final climb, gaining ground from the others, but behind, Vincenzo Nibali, in the maglia rosa for Astana, was pulled clear from the peloton by team-mate Tanel Kangert.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
Nibali was joined by Colombian duo Rigoberto Urán (Team Sky) and Carlos Betancur (Ag2r–La Mondiale) for a period, and after catching Capecchi, Nibali launched another attack, soloing away to his second consecutive stage victory, and all but securing the race overall. Colombia's Fabio Duarte bridged up to his compatriots, and ultimately won the sprint for second place, seventeen seconds behind, ahead of Urán and Betancur. In the general classification, Nibali extended his overall lead to 4' 43" over Urán, who had moved ahead of BMC Racing Team's Cadel Evans – who cracked on the climb – for second place overall. Betancur was another mover; he moved from seventh to fifth overall, and reclaimed the lead of the young rider classification from Saxo–Tinkoff rider Rafał Majka.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
After the previous five editions of the Giro d'Italia had finished with individual time trial stages, the 2013 edition ended with a mass-start road stage. With no categorised climbs on the route, and very little in the way of undulation during the 197 km (122.4 mi) parcours, it was widely expected to finish in a mass sprint finish in Brescia. Once the riders had reached Brescia, the peloton had to complete eight laps of a 4.15 km (2.6 mi)-long city centre circuit, with the race's final intermediate sprint coming on the third passage through the finish line.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
Going into the stage, the points classification was also set to be settled, as overall leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) held an eleven-point advantage over Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Mark Cavendish, with 41 points on offer during the stage. With little competition in the stage, the field remained together all the way to Brescia.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
Cavendish had reduced the gap in the classification to three points, after taking the honours in the opening intermediate sprint at Sirmione. Vini Fantini–Selle Italia's Stefano Garzelli was allowed to head into Brescia on his own, in his final Giro d'Italia, before Astana took up the head of the pace again. Giairo Ermeti (Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela) attacked for the second day running, and once Cavendish had chased him down and taken the second batch of eight points at the other intermediate sprint, the group came back together for the eventual final sprint.


2013 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
Omega Pharma–Quick-Step led into the final kilometre for Cavendish, with Cannondale in tow for Elia Viviani; after Matteo Trentin pulled off, Cavendish launched his sprint and despite competition from Bardiani Valvole–CSF Inox's Sacha Modolo, achieved his fifth stage win of the race, to become the fifth rider to win the points classification at all three Grand Tours. Nibali finished within the peloton to take the general classification, and his second Grand Tour overall win, after the 2010 Vuelta a España. Ag2r–La Mondiale's Carlos Betancur and Stefano Pirazzi (Bardiani Valvole–CSF Inox) also confirmed their respective wins in the young rider classification and the mountains classification.


2013 Giro del Trentino
The 2013 Giro del Trentino was the 37th edition of the Giro del Trentino cycling stage race. It started on 16 April in Lienz (Austria) and ended on 19 April in Sega di Ala. The race, that was officially presented on 8 April in Trento, consisted of four stages, with the first one divided into two half-stages.


2013 Giro del Trentino
The race was won by Astana rider Vincenzo Nibali, who claimed the leader's jersey in the final stage and won the King of the Mountains classification as well. Mauro Santambrogio (Vini Fantini-Selle Italia) was second and Maxime Bouet of Ag2r-La Mondiale completed the podium. In the race's other classifications, Jarlinson Pantano of Colombia won the Sprints classification and Astana's Fabio Aru won the Young Rider classification, with Astana finishing at the head of the Teams classification.


2013 Giro del Trentino, Teams
Six World Tour teams took part in the race: Ag2r-La Mondiale, Astana, BMC, Cannondale, Lampre-Merida and Team Sky. Among the riders, there were six Grand Tour-winners: Vincenzo Nibali, Bradley Wiggins, Cadel Evans, Ivan Basso, Michele Scarponi and Stefano Garzelli.


2013 Giro del Trentino, Teams
A total of 18 teams were invited to the race:


2013 Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
The 2013 Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol is a women's cycling stage race in Italy. It was rated by the UCI as category 2.1, and was held between 15 and 16 June 2013.


2013 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
The 2013 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini will be the 19th edition of the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, a women's cycling stage race in Italy. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.HC race and will be held between 11 and 15 September 2013.


2013 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Safety concerns
During the 4th and final stage 63 riders abandoned the race or did not take the start, in protest of the lack of security measures during the stage race.


2013 Giro di Lombardia
The 2013 Giro di Lombardia or 2013 Il Lombardia was the 107th edition of the Giro di Lombardia single-day cycling race, often known as the Race of the Falling Leaves. It was held on 6 October 2013. Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) won the race for a consecutive time after a solo breakaway initiated on the final climb of the day. Alejandro Valverde finished second before Rafał Majka.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash
On 29 November 2013, a police helicopter operated by Bond Air Services for Police Scotland crashed into the Clutha, a pub in central Glasgow, killing all three crew on board and seven patrons of the pub. Thirty-one more people in the pub were injured.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash
The subsequent investigation concluded that the cause of the crash was fuel starvation due to incorrect operation of the fuel system.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Accident
The helicopter took off from its base at Glasgow City Heliport (which at the time operated from Stobcross Quay adjacent to the SECC) at 20:45 on 29 November 2013. The pilot was 51-year-old David Traill; Traill had flown Chinook helicopters in the RAF for 20 years, latterly as an instructor. He had worked for the police for four years, and had 646 hours of flight experience on the EC135. The helicopter carried two police observers, PCs Kirsty Nelis and Tony Collins. On takeoff it carried 400 kilograms (880 lb) of fuel.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Accident
The flight, callsign SP99, was initially involved in the search for a suspected trespasser on railway lines around Eglinton Toll. It was then tasked to Dalkeith in Midlothian, around 44 miles (71 kilometres) east of its base, before returning to the Glasgow area. A few minutes before the crash, the pilot had received air traffic control clearance to return to Glasgow City Heliport.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Accident
At 22:22, approximately two miles (three kilometres) east of its home base, the helicopter came down on the flat roof of the Clutha bar in Stockwell Street (Clutha is Latin for the River Clyde, which is adjacent to the pub). No distress call was made. A ska band, Esperanza, was playing in the pub at the time of the crash and there were reported to be around 120 people in the building, some of whom were trapped by the collapsing roof. The three helicopter occupants and six people on the ground were killed. Thirty-two others were injured, twelve seriously, one of whom died some days later. One witness, Gordon Smart, editor of the Scottish Sun, stated that he did not see a fireball or hear an explosion, and that the engine seemed to be misfiring.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Aircraft
The accident aircraft was a twin-engined Eurocopter EC135 T2+, serial 0546, registered G-SPAO and manufactured in 2007. At the time of the accident it had flown for 6,351 hours and made 9,385 landings. The helicopter's Certificate of Airworthiness was valid until 4 September 2018.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Emergency response
The building is a former tenement which used to have multiple storeys, but after a fire in the 1960s the upper storeys were removed. The walls were therefore much thicker than would be expected for a building of this height, and the complex construction of the roof complicated the search and rescue operation. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service deployed 125 firefighters to the scene rescuing people trapped in the building for hours after the incident.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Emergency response
The Scottish Ambulance Service sent upwards of 25 ambulances to the scene along with 2 Special Operations Response Teams that specialise in major and inaccessible incidents. They worked throughout the next two days searching and retrieving people from within the Clutha. Urban search and rescue firefighters were also in attendance to shore up unstable parts of the building and to excavate collapsed areas. People rescued from the scene were initially taken by the emergency services to a nearby Holiday Inn hotel. Labour Party MP Jim Murphy was interviewed as he was passing soon after the crash.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Emergency response
32 people were taken for treatment to local hospitals including Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Glasgow Victoria Infirmary, a dozen with injuries classed as serious. An emergency phone number was set up for anyone concerned about family and relatives who may have been in and around the pub, and Glasgow City Council established a family reception centre to "provide advice and counselling to relatives of people who have been injured or people whose relatives are unaccounted for". One of the seriously injured victims died from his injuries on 12 December.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Reactions
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond tweeted confirmation that the helicopter was a police aircraft. He subsequently described the crash as "a black day for Glasgow and for Scotland". Glasgow MSP and Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, British Prime Minister David Cameron, opposition leader Ed Miliband, the Queen, and Pope Francis all publicly expressed their condolences.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Reactions
On the day following the crash, planned St. Andrew's Day celebrations in Glasgow's George Square were cancelled, and flags were flown at half-mast on Scottish Government buildings. Scottish football clubs held a pre-match minute's silence. Special services were held at Glasgow's St Andrew's Cathedral and Glasgow Cathedral.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Reactions
The Prince of Wales visited the crash site on 6 December and met emergency service personnel. Police investigated offensive, racist or sectarian comments made about the crash on social media. A weekend of fundraising events for the families of the victims and the emergency services was held on 3–5 January 2014.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which is responsible for investigating aircraft crashes in the United Kingdom, launched an investigation into the cause of the accident. Assistance in the investigation was provided by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation and the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile aviation incident investigation bodies (the manufacturers of the helicopter and its engine are based in Germany and France). The American National Transportation Safety Board (representing the state of the manufacturer of the engines' FADEC controls), also provided assistance.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation
The wreckage of the helicopter arrived at the AAIB's headquarters at Farnborough, Hampshire on 3 December. The aircraft was not fitted with flight data recorders but the electronics fitted to the aircraft could contain data helpful in determining the cause of the accident.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation, Preliminary findings
The AAIB issued a preliminary report of its findings on 9 December. It confirmed that the rotor blades were attached, but neither they nor the fenestron tail rotor were rotating at the time of impact. No evidence of engine or gearbox failure was found and there were around 95 litres (21 imp gal) of fuel still on board.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation, Preliminary findings
The aircraft struck the building with "a high rate of descent and low/negligible forward speed" and no part of it detached in flight. It came to rest approximately upright.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation, Preliminary findings
On 14 February 2014, the AAIB issued a Special Bulletin on the accident. It stated that the cause of the accident was that both engines had flamed out, but the reasons that they had done so had not yet been determined. The report stated that one of the two tanks supplying the engines was empty and the other contained 0.4 kg (14 oz) of fuel. A third tank, known as the main tank, was reported to contain 75 kg (165 lb) of fuel but the transfer pumps supplying this fuel to the two engine fuel tanks were found with their switches in the "off" position.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation, Final report
The final accident report was published in October 2015. It found the main cause of the accident to be fuel starvation due to the fuel transfer pumps being switched off "for unknown reasons." This resulted in the engines flaming out despite there being 73 kg (161 lb) of usable fuel remaining in the main tank. A failure to land within ten minutes of the first low-fuel warning, as prescribed by emergency checklists, and a failure to achieve a successful autorotation after both engines failed were cited as additional causal factors.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation, Final report
The AAIB also identified as contributory factor that the radar altimeter and the steerable landing light were both unpowered following the engine flame-out, leading to a loss of height information and reduced visual cues during the autorotation manoeuvre. Seven safety recommendations were made.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Investigation, Fatal accident inquiry
In 2017 the Crown Office announced that a fatal accident inquiry would be held into the crash. The Crown Office also confirmed that no criminal charges would be laid following an investigation by Police Scotland. Preliminary hearings were held on 3 October and 4 December 2018, then on 11 January 5 February and 3 April 2019. The inquiry began on 8 April 2019 in a temporary court at Hampden Park football ground, and concluded on 5 August. The inquiry was mandatory in respect of the crew of the helicopter, and discretionary in respect of the customers of the Clutha Vaults. The inquiry sat for 31 days between 8 April and 18 July. Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull provided a written determination which was published on 30 October 2019. No recommendations were made.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Aftermath, The Clutha
The Clutha pub partially reopened in July 2015, with Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attending the opening ceremony.


2013 Glasgow helicopter crash, Aftermath, Civil aviation
As a direct result of the accident and recommendations made by the AAIB, the Civil Aviation Authority mandated that all police helicopters would be fitted with Cockpit Voice Recorders and Flight Data Recorders. Implementation of this was to be completed by 31 March 2020.


2013 Global Cebu F.C. season
The 2013 season is Global's 3rd season in the Philippines premier league, the UFL Division 1. They reached the quarterfinals of the 2013 PFF National Men's Club Championship after they lost to Ceres. They played in the 2013 AFC President's Cup after they top the previously concluded 2012 season, however they were eliminated after finishing third in Group B. Global also competed in the 2013 Singapore Cup, winning the last three matches, which booked them to the semifinals. Likewise, they will also compete in the 2013 UFL Cup.


2013 Global Cebu F.C. season
They signed the service of Brian Reid for the preparation in the President's Cup and after the end of caretakers role of Dan Palami.


2013 Global Cebu F.C. season
The club finished the 2013 season of the UFL Division 1 second behind the champions, Stallion Sta. Lucia.


2013 Global Cebu F.C. season, Squad, League Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Global Cebu F.C. season, Squad, AFC President's Cup Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Global Cebu F.C. season, Squad, Singapore Cup Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship
The 2013 Global RallyCross Championship was the third season of this championship. The season consisted of nine weekends, three in X Games events (including a doubleheader after an event cancellation). Toomas Heikkinen earned his first series championship after a record-setting streak of five consecutive victories.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Rules changes
A penalty box will be added for this season. In case of a false start, the driver must endure a stop-go penalty in this zone avoiding the need to restart the race. Stop-go penalty can be also given for too aggressive car-to-car contact, such causing a competing driver to spin out by pushing their car.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Schedule
(DH): An event in Barcelona at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium May 19 was called off because of weather conditions. The Munich round, originally scheduled for June 30, was converted into a doubleheader round with races on June 29 and 30.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
The first event of the season in Foz do Iguaçu was performed on a purpose built gravel track, with the start/finish straight having the only tarmac section. Fifteen drivers took part in the event. Liam Doran set the fastest laptime in the seeding round. Heat 1 was won by Finnish driver Toomas Heikkinen, who took advantage of a crash at the start of the heat. Ken Block took second place, with Liam Doran placed third, after retiring on Lap 1. Heat 2 was won by Brian Deegan followed by Travis Pastrana is second.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
Nelson Piquet, Jr. finished third despite being penalized for a jump start. Bryce Menzies finished the heat in last place. In Heat 3 the reigning champion Tanner Foust took victory over Steve Arpin. Patrik Sandell and Mauricio Neves finished in third and fourth place, respectively. Scott Speed was the winner of Heat 4 by passing Anton Marklund on the last corner, despite spinning on the first lap. Buddy Rice ended up third, with Eduardo Marques, Jr rounding off the heat. Buddy Rice won the Last Chance Qualifier, meaning he qualified for the final along with second-place finisher Patrik Sandell. Doran's car failure at the start of the race, retires both himself and Bryce Menzies, denying them both of qualifying for the final.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
The Final saw mayhem at the first turn on Lap 1, which shook up the field, placing Heikkinen into the lead from Speed and Marklund after Lap 1. After Lap 2, Speed slowed down, which allowed Marklund to jump into second place. By the end of Lap 3, the race is red flagged, and is scheduled to restart, after retirements from Foust, Pastrana, Block and Rice. On the restart, Scott Speed sat on pole from a six car grid. Travis Pastrana, Buddy Rice, Ken Block and reigning champion Tanner Foust were all unable to make the restart.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
On Lap 1 Toomas Heikkinen aggressively made his way into the lead, ahead of Speed and Arpin by the end of the lap. On the second lap, Arpin took the joker lap, but failed to pass Speed, leaving the top three the same after the end of the lap. On Lap 4, Sandell takes the joker lap to pass Arpin into 3rd place, as Speed starts closing down Heikkinen for the lead. On the final lap, Speed finally used his joker lap to pass Heikkinen on the last corner of the race, to take the gold medal. Heikkinen won the silver, and Sandell the bronze. For all three of them it was their first X Games medals, most notably Speed, who had not ever drove a rally car prior to the event. Steve Arpin finished 4th, ahead of Brian Deegan in 5th, and Anton Marklund in 6th.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
The second round of the season was set to take place in Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, as part of the Barcelona X Games. Spanish drivers Nani Roma and Carlos Sainz, both Dakar Rally champions, arrived to debut in this event. However, after heavy rain all day, the whole event was eventually moved to Munich after several delays on May 19, and the Munich event turned into a doubleheader. Day 1 featured Liam Doran win in his new Mini, while Toomas Heikkinen won gold in race 2. The Subaru PUMA Rallycross Team USA made their 2013 debut, and Townsend Bell made his GRC debut in the #7 Royal Purple Ford Fiesta, for OMSE2.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
Round 4 took place in Loudon, New Hampshire, at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. GRC Lites made their debut there, and Joni Wiman won the first-ever Lites race. In the Supercar class, Travis Pastrana returned, and Tanner Foust led 9 of 10 laps in the final, but crashed in the final corner, handing the win to Heikkinen. The fifth round of the season took place in Bristol. Joni Wiman won the Lites final, which had to be restarted because Kevin Eriksson flipped over on the first lap.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
Patrik Sandell won his heat, but Heikkinen cruised to an easy third victory in a row. Round 6 took place at Irwindale Speedway, as part of X Games Los Angeles. David Sterckx, Rhys Millen, and Stephan Verdier made their 2013 debut, and Reinis Nitišs made his Lites debut. In Supercars, Sverre Isachsen won heat 1, which had to be restarted because Steve Arpin crashed. Heat 2 saw Liam Doran win. Toomas Heikkinen won Heat 3, while Heat 4 went to Ken Block.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
Anton Marklund crashed on the 1st turn of the LCQ, and that caused the 2nd red flag of the day. Marklund was out. On the restart, Rhys Millen and Scott Speed advanced. In the final, Ken Block, Liam Doran, and others crashed on the first turn. Toomas Heikkinen won the final X Games LA gold medal in history. Tanner Foust took silver, and Sverre Isachsen took bronze.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
Round 7 took place at Atlanta Motor Speedway, as a standalone event. Bryce Menzies was replaced by Henning Solberg in the #99 Dodge, and Travis Pastrana was once again replaced by Timur Timerzyanov. Patrik Sandell crashed into a dirt embankment in the LCQ, sending him airborne. Toomas Heikkinen almost secured the championship with another win, while Joni Wiman won in Lites.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
Round 8 took place at the dirt track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where Pat Moro debuted his new Chevrolet Sonic and Dave Mirra helped Prodrive make its official debut, after having rented its Mini to Doran for much of the season. Block, Speed and Deegan took heat victories, while Foust missed the final after rolling his car during the final heat. Speed won the final, while third place for Heikkinen (having qualified via the LCQ) gave him the championship title.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
The season finale took place in Las Vegas during the week of the SEMA Show as a two-day event, with practice, seeding, and the first set of heats run on Wednesday and the second set of heats, LCQ, and final run on Thursday. Heikkinen aimed to continue his streak of eight consecutive podiums with a pair of heat wins, while Foust, Block, and Speed also swept each of their heats.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Season summary
The LCQ saw Nelson Piquet Jr. spin Sverre Isachsen to earn a transfer spot and land his Mitsubishi in the final, but a protest from Isachsen saw stewards disqualify Piquet for aggressive driving and restore the transfer spot to the Norwegian. In the final, a jump start from Foust forced him into the penalty box, giving Block a lead that he would never relinquish. Block would earn his first GRC victory in his 17th GRC start, while Foust ended the season with a runner-up finish and Travis Pastrana completed the podium.


2013 Global RallyCross Championship, Results, Drivers standings
Points are awarded to the top sixteen finishers using the following structure:


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election
Elections to Gloucestershire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 53 electoral divisions elected one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. No elections were held in South Gloucestershire, which is a unitary authority outside the area covered by the County Council.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election
Control of the council went from the Conservative Party to no party having overall control. Turnout across the county was 32% with 151,250 votes cast. The Conservatives gained most votes in four of the six parliamentary seats, the Liberal Democrats coming first in Cheltenham and UKIP in the Forest of Dean. The Conservatives were the only party to win a county council seat in every district.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election
All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election
It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election, County Council single-member electoral review 2012-13
Going into the elections, the Conservatives held a majority of 21 seats. Due to boundary changes and a reduction in the number of councillors from 63 to 53 following a public consultation by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England the notional results to be used for the purposes of election planning and comparison before the election were: Conservatives - 36, Liberal Democrats - 10, Labour - 4, People Against Bureaucracy - 1, Greens - 1, Independents - 1. This gave a notional Conservative majority of 17 seats.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election, Summary
The Conservative Party lost 13 notional seats, although the numerical loss was larger due to the reduction in the total number of councillors. The Liberal Democrats remained the second largest party by total seats and percentage vote, while the Labour Party had the largest net gain of five seats. UKIP won representation on the county council for the first time, winning three seats.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election, Summary
The number of Independent councillors rose to two, while both the Green Party and People Against Bureaucracy saw their only councillors re-elected.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election, By-elections between 2013 and 2017, Mitcheldean
A by-election was held for the Mitcheldean Division on 23 October 2014 following the death of Independent councillor Norman Stephens.


2013 Gloucestershire County Council election, By-elections between 2013 and 2017, Churchdown
A by-election was held on Thursday 5 May 2016 for the Churchdown Division due to the death of County Councillor Bill Whelan.


2013 Glynhill Ladies International
The 2013 Glynhill Ladies International was held from January 18 to 20 at the Braehead Curling Rink in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the 2012–13 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a round robin format, and the purse for the event was GBP£8,000, of which the winner, Binia Feltscher, received GBP£2,500. Feltscher defeated Heather Nedohin of Canada in the final with a score of 8–1.


2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl
The 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game held on January 6, 2013, at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. The 14th edition of the bowl began at 8:00 PM CST and aired on ESPN. The Kent State Golden Flashes of the Mid-American Conference competed against the Sun Belt Conference champion Arkansas State Red Wolves.


2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl, Teams, Arkansas State
Arkansas State won the Sun Belt championship, finishing the season with a 9–3 record and a 7–1 record in conference play. The team made its second consecutive appearance in the bowl and for the second consecutive year was playing without its head coach. Arkansas State had lost the prior appearance to Northern Illinois in the 2012 game.


2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl, Teams, Kent State
The GoDaddy.com Bowl was Kent State's first bowl game appearance in forty years; the team last played in the 1972 Tangerine Bowl. Kent State went 11–1 in regular season games and 8–0 in MAC play before losing the MAC Championship Game to Northern Illinois; their eleven victories set a team record. The team finished the season ranked #25 in the AP Poll. Kent State coach Darrell Hazell was MAC Coach of the Year and accepted the head coach position with the Purdue Boilermakers  prior to the game.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma
The 2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma was an IndyCar Series race held on August 25, 2013 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. The race was the fifteenth of the 2013 IndyCar Series season, and was won by Will Power of Team Penske.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Report, Background
The previous race of the season, the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, was won by Charlie Kimball. The 2012 edition of Sonoma race was won by Ryan Briscoe.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Report, Background
Entering the race, James Hinchcliffe and Scott Dixon were tied for the most wins with three. In the points race, Hélio Castroneves held the lead with 453 points, followed by Dixon (422), Ryan Hunter-Reay (388), Marco Andretti (377) and Simon Pagenaud (350) rounded out the top five.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Report, Qualifying
Dario Franchitti won his 33rd career and final pole position, his fourth of 2013 and third at the track, with a lap time of 1:17.5271. Teammate Scott Dixon started second with a time of 1:17.7196, Team Penske teammates Will Power and Hélio Castroneves were in third and fourth, respectively. Ryan Hunter-Reay closed out the top five starting spots. Charlie Kimball, Justin Wilson, Graham Rahal, James Hinchcliffe and Simon Pagenaud rounded out the starting top ten. JR Hildebrand, making his return to IndyCar since the Indianapolis 500, started 18th, while Ryan Briscoe, running his final race of the season, started 22nd. Lucas Luhr started his IndyCar debut in 25th. The race was also Tony Kanaan's 311th, tying him with Jimmy Vasser for most consecutive IndyCar starts.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Race
The race featured a track record seven cautions, four of which came in turn 7. Meanwhile, Scott Dixon and Will Power battled throughout the day, but during the final pit stops under caution, Dixon sped out of his pit box and struck Power's right rear tire carrier, sending the carrier into another pit member, while another was injured by an air gun. None of the three were seriously injured, and were treated with ice. As hitting pit crew members and pit equipment results in a penalty, Dixon fell back to 21st and finished 15th.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Race
The penalty became controversial after Dixon believed Power's crew member walked in front of Dixon's car intentionally. Dixon eventually called the ruling "pretty annoying"; IndyCar race director Beaux Barfield stated that replays Dixon hadn't seen of the incident showed him driving too close to Power's car, which was getting serviced at the time. As for Power, he led for the remainder of the race, and beat Justin Wilson by 1.2 seconds for his nineteenth career IndyCar victory and first in 25 races, while Dario Franchitti, Marco Andretti and Simon Pagenaud closed out the top five. The win was Power's third at Sonoma in four years, as he continues to be the only IndyCar driver with multiple wins at the track.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Race
Sometime during the later portion of the race, Andretti made contact with Power, which led to a confrontation between Andretti and Power's car owner Roger Penske after the race.


2013 GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, Race
The points standings featured Castroneves increasing his then 31-point lead over Dixon to a 39-point lead (479 points to 440), while Ryan Hunter-Reay (417), Marco Andretti (409), Simon Pagenaud (380) and Dario Franchitti (379) remained as the top six, Justin Wilson and Will Power leapt past James Hinchcliffe and Charlie Kimball for seventh and eight, respectively, dropping Hinchcliffe and Kimball to ninth and tenth.


2013 Gobowling.com 400
The 2013 Gobowling.com 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 4, 2013, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Contested over 160 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.023 km) triangular superspeedway, it was the twenty-first race of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Kasey Kahne of Hendrick Motorsports won the race, his second win of the season, while Jeff Gordon finished second. Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, and Dale Earnhardt Jr rounded out the top five. The race was one of the most competitive races held at Pocono Raceway, as there were nine cautions, 14 different leaders, and 27 lead changes.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Background
Pocono Raceway is a three-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked differently; the first is banked at 14°, the second turn at 8° and the final turn with 6°. However, each of the three straightaways are banked at 2°. The front stretch at Pocono Raceway is 3,740 feet long, the longest at the track. The back stretch, is 3,055 feet long, while the short stretch, which connects turn two with turn three, is only 1,780 feet long. Jeff Gordon was the defending race winner after winning the race in 2012.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Background
Before the race, Jimmie Johnson was leading the Drivers' Championship with 740 points, while Clint Bowyer stood in second with 665 points. Carl Edwards followed in the third with 655, seven points ahead of Kevin Harvick and 39 ahead of Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in fourth and fifth. Matt Kenseth, with 615 points, was in sixth; five ahead of Kyle Busch, who was scored seventh. Eighth-placed Greg Biffle was one point ahead of Kasey Kahne and six ahead of Gordon in ninth and tenth. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Chevrolet was leading with 143 points, twelve points ahead of Toyota. Ford was third after recording only 99 points before the race.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions are scheduled to be held before the race. The first session, scheduled on August 2, 2013, was 90 minutes long. The second and third, held a day later on August 3, 2013, will last 50 minutes each. In the first practice session, Kurt Busch was the quickest with a best lap time of 50.600 seconds. Kyle Busch followed in second, ahead of Greg Biffle and Jeff Burton in third and fourth. Joey Logano was scored fifth quickest with a best lap time of 50.929, 329 thousandths of a second slower than Kurt Busch. Kahne, Marcos Ambrose, Ryan Newman, Denny Hamlin, and Edwards completed the top-ten.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
During the qualifying session, Johnson, whose car was late to the qualifying grid, recorded his thirty-first career pole position, and set a new track record with a lap time of 49.819 seconds and a speed of 180.654 mph (290.734 km/h). Kyle Busch, who completed his lap in 49.823 seconds, will start alongside Johnson on the grid, in front of Edwards, Newman, and Kurt Busch. Logano, with a lap time of 50.111 seconds, was scored sixth ahead of Biffle  and Ambrose in seventh and eighth.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Practice and qualifying
Hamlin and Aric Almirola completed the first ten grid positions with lap times of 28.162 and 28.191. After the session concluded, Johnson explained why his car was late to the qualifying grid, "We had a left rear toe (tire angle) was off by a thousandth of an inch. The system is pass-fail... a thousandth of an inch. I'm glad we got it sorted out."


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
Before the race, NASCAR decided that there would be a competition caution on lap 20 because of Saturday practice being washed out.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
Jimmie Johnson led the field to the green flag, but the field had only gotten through the first turn when the first caution came out for a crash, as Juan Pablo Montoya washed up the track into Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., causing Stenhouse to spin out. Matt Kenseth was also collected. Montoya would finish three laps down in 28th, Kenseth would finish in 22nd on the lead lap, and Stenhouse would end up in 34th place, 46 laps down.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
The race restarted on lap 5, with Johnson still leading. On lap 16, the second caution of the race came out when Denny Hamlin spun and hit the wall in turn 3. Hamlin would ultimately be credited with a last place finish. Due to its proximity to lap 20, NASCAR declared this to be the competition caution.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
On the restart, Johnson continued to lead, and led until lap 33 when he pitted for a green flag pit stop, handing the lead to Brad Keselowski. A cycle of green flag pit stops was carried out over the next fifteen laps. Due to some cars staying out on the previous caution, the lead changed several times between lap 33 and lap 48. Keselowski led one lap before pitting. Kurt Busch then led seven laps before pitting. Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Matt Kenseth and Jamie McMurray then each stayed out to lead a lap before pitting, which cycled the lead back to Johnson on lap 48.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
On lap 53, the third caution came out when David Gilliland cut a right-front tire in the Tunnel Turn and hit the outside wall. Johnson and most of the leaders pitted under the caution. Ultimately, Johnson had a slow pit stop and ended up restarting in the middle of the pack. At the restart on lap 58, Keselowski led the field to the green flag. He led for four laps before a fast-charging Kasey Kahne managed to overtake him. Kahne led for ten laps before taking a green flag pit stop (he and Keselowski were on an off-sequence strategy). Ryan Newman held the lead for two laps before pitting, which handed the lead to Johnson. Johnson led until lap 75, when he pitted, giving the lead to Tony Stewart.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
On lap 78, the fourth caution flag came out when Johnson cut a right front tire coming off the first turn and slapped the outside wall. This damaged his car significantly, and he stayed at the back of the lead lap for most of the remainder of the race, until his crew discovered that a spark plug had been knocked loose. Once this problem had been fixed, he rallied back to a 13th-place finish. Kahne reassumed the lead under caution.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
At the restart on lap 82, Kahne and Keselowski were again at the front of the field. Over the next 13 laps, the two drivers exchanged the lead several times, until the fifth caution came out on lap 96 when David Stremme cut a right front tire in turn 1. Most of the leaders pitted under this caution, but Martin Truex, Jr. stayed out and assumed the lead for the restart on lap 100. He then led the next three laps. On lap 104, the sixth caution came out when Aric Almirola cut a left rear tire and spun in turn 3 after contact with Timmy Hill.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
Kahne reassumed the lead under caution and continued to lead at the restart on lap 107. On lap 110, the seventh caution flag came out for a four car accident at the Tunnel Turn exit. Danica Patrick was racing Travis Kvapil for 17th place when the two made contact and both cars got loose and spun. Kvapail was able to save his car, but Danica ended up being hit by Paul Menard and Jeff Burton.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
The race restarted on lap 116 with Kahne still leading. Kahne continued to lead until a set of green flag pit stops on lap 130. As Kahne  pitted, Kurt Busch assumed the lead for two laps before pitting, handing the lead to Almirola for lap 132. Almirola led that lap, then Dave Blaney assumed the lead for three laps before pitting on lap 135. David Ragan then held the lead for one lap before the lead cycled back to Kahne.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
With 15 laps to go, three of the four Hendrick Motorsports cars were leading the field, with Kahne leading Gordon and Earnhardt, Jr. The top five (the three Hendrick cars, plus Newman and Kurt Busch) were Chevrolets. Kahne was able to use lapped traffic to build up a 7.5 second lead on Gordon. This continued until lap 150, when the eighth caution came out for debris, erasing Kahne's lead on Gordon. Kahne restarted on the outside lane on lap 153. Kahne held the lead until Gordon overtook him in the Tunnel Turn. Gordon appeared to be on his way to his first victory of the season, but on lap 156, his lead was erased when Matt Kenseth spun in the Tunnel Turn.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
On the last restart on lap 158, Gordon restarted on the inside and Kahne restarted on the outside. Gordon got a jump on the restart ahead of Kahne and Newman. Kahne caught up to Gordon and the two cars raced side by side down the Long Pond straightaway. Kahne cleared Gordon in the Tunnel Turn and assumed the lead at the white flag. He then held off Gordon and Kurt Busch over the last lap to win his second race of the season and his second Pocono race win.


2013 Gobowling.com 400, Report, Race
Newman finished fourth, and Earnhardt, Jr. finished fifth. Keselowski finished sixth, the highest non-Chevrolet finisher in the field. Joey Logano finished seventh, Kyle Busch finished eighth, while Stewart and Greg Biffle rounded out the top ten.


2013 Gold Coast Sevens
The 2013 Gold Coast Sevens was the first tournament of the 2013-2014 Sevens World Series. It was held over the weekend of 12–13 October 2013 at Robina Stadium (known for sponsorship reasons as Skilled Park) in Queensland, Australia. It was the eleventh edition of the Australian Sevens tournament and the first stop of the 2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series.


2013 Gold Coast Sevens, Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played everyone in their pool one time. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Bowl/Shield brackets.


2013 Gold Coast Sevens, Teams
The participating teams and schedule were announced on 11 September 2013. They are the same teams as the previous year.


2013 Gold Coast Sevens, Dream Team
The 2013 Gold Coast Sevens 'Dream Team' as voted for by the fans.


2013 Gold Coast Suns season
The 2013 AFL season is the Gold Coast Suns' third season in the Australian Football League (AFL). The Gold Coast Suns reserves team also competed in the NEAFL. The club was again captained by Gary Ablett, Jr. and coached by Guy McKenna.


2013 Gold Coast Suns season, Draft picks
The mini-draft allowed teams to pre-list players for the following season.


2013 Gold Coast Titans season
The 2013 Gold Coast Titans season was the 7th in the club's history. Coached by John Cartwright and co-captained by Greg Bird and Nate Myles, they competed in the NRL's 2013 Telstra Premiership. Gold Coast finished the regular season in 9th (out of 16) and failed to qualify the finals for the third consecutive year.


2013 Gold Coast Titans season, Representative honours
The following players have played a representative match in 2013.


2013 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards
The 2013 Golden Icons Academy Movie Awards was the second edition of the ceremony to reward excellence in African cinema. It was hosted by Ramsey Nouah.


2013 Golden Spin of Zagreb
The 2013 Golden Spin of Zagreb (Croatian: Zlatna pirueta Zagreba) was the 46th edition of the annual senior-level international figure skating competition held in Zagreb, Croatia. It was held at the Dom Sportova on December 5–8, 2013. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2013 Good Times Bonspiel
The 2013 Good Times Bonspiel was held from September 6 to 8 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta as part of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. It was the first ever edition of the event. Both the men's and women's events were held in a double knockout format. The purse for both the men's and the women's events was CAD$8,000 each.


2013 Good Times Bonspiel
The Terry Meek rink from Calgary won the men's event, defeating Bert Martin's rink from Airdrie. Lloyd Hill, also from Calgary, won the consolation event.


2013 Good Times Bonspiel
On the women's side, 2010 Olympic silver medalist Cheryl Bernard and her rink from Calgary defeated Jocelyn Peterman's team from Red Deer. Crystal Webster's rink, also from Calgary won the consolation event.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500
The 2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on October 27, 2013, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.526-mile (0.847 km) oval, it was the thirty-third race of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series season, as well as the seventh race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Jeff Gordon of Hendrick Motorsports won the race, his first and only win of the season, breaking a 33-race winless streak, while Matt Kenseth finished second and Clint Bowyer finished third.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, Report, Background
Coming into the race, Jimmie Johnson was the chosen by the pundits to be the favorite along with Kyle Busch, Kasey Kahne and Matt Kenseth. Ten drivers were depicted as the underdogs for this race including Danica Patrick, Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcos Ambrose and Paul Menard.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, Report, Background
Johnson had the advantage in the Sprint Cup Series championship points while Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon were within easy striking distance of taking the championship lead away from him.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, Qualifying results, Race
David Ragan blew his engine on lap 109, with Kyle Larson having a similar incident on lap 160. Tony Raines developed problems with his brakes on lap 220 while Dave Blaney was involved in a terminal crash on lap 357. The final DNF of the race came from David Reutimann, who had troubles with his rear gear on lap 451 and had to leave the race prematurely.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, Qualifying results, Race
Approximately 22% of the race was held under a caution flag while the average green flag run was nearly 22 laps. Most of the yellow flags in this race were caused by accidents, debris and cars spinning dangerously out of control.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, Qualifying results, Race
Jeff Burton, Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson had the fastest pit crews in the race, with the average time on pit road being 41 seconds.


2013 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, Qualifying results, Race
There were seven total penalties during the course of the race. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was penalized twice for too many men over the wall. Ken Schrader, and Kasey Kahne were also penalized for too many men over the wall. Ryan Newman was penalized for Lug nut(s) not installed, and Ken Schrader and David Reutimann were both penalized for too fast entering pits.


2013 Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik
The 2013 Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik was a one-day women's cycle race held in Belgium on May 26 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 1.2. The race was won by  the Emma Johansson of Orica-AIS.


2013 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, and the winners were announced on November 13. Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.


2013 Gracia-Orlová
The 2013 Gracia-Orlová is the 27th edition of the Gracia-Orlová, a women's cycling stage race. It is an UCI 2.2 category race and is held between 24 and 28 April 2012 in the Czech Republic. It consists of a prologue and 5 stages.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Prologue
The prologue started in Havířov located in the east of the Republic, only 12km from the Polish border and less than 40km from Slovakia at 17:00 local time. The prologue was 2.2 km (1.4 mi) and consisted of a straight kilometer followed by a few technical turns and again back the straight kilometer to the finish line. Ellen van Dijk won the prologue, just as in the 2012 Gracia-Orlová. Behind Van Dijk her Specialized–lululemon teammate Lisa Brennauer finished second Aleksandra Burchenkova finished third. With Evelyn Stevens in fourth place made that 3 Specialized–lululemon finished in the top 5.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 1
The first stage started in Dětmarovice with a 18.1 km (11.2 mi) travel south to Havířov. The riders swung east and encircled the lake to the south-east of the city. The course had during this section different small climbs, some steep but rising no more than 50m. At 45 km (28.0 mi) and 70 km (43.5 mi) started bigger climbs, but not that big as the mountains of stages 3 and 4. The last section after the last descent, about 20 km (12.4 mi) from the finish line, was a flatter section with hills no higher than 50m. The race ended on top of a steep climb.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 1
Due to the fall of the main bunch in the last three kilometer zone riders on place 1–101 were credited with the same time. The fall happened before beginning of the final climb. Evelyn Stevens (Specialized–lululemon) won at the top of the climb the side-by-side sprint ahead of teammate Ellen van Dijk. Behind them Alena Amialiusik (BePink) finished third.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 2
The second stage was a 13 km (8.1 mi) individual time trial which took place in the morning starting from 9:30. The riders rode from Havířov to Ostrava and back. The time trial would have been two rounds but was shortened to one. The course has some humps witch sections reaching a gradients near 6% and had a sweeping bend at the turning point.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 3
The race sets out once again from Orlová in the afternoon on the same day as stage 2. This time the race began in the north of the town and heading north briefly before turning south-east towards the same lakes as in stage 1, then turns south at Stonava and south-west at Albrechtice. It passes the lakes Terlicko and Zermanice before progressing south via Dobra and Nosovice. The first 30 km (18.6 mi) had only a couple of small hills but from here the terrain begins to climb more steeply. At Raskovice, with 12.4 km (7.7 mi) to go, the race entered the mountains with the finish line located 800m above sea level, at the Visalaje ski resort.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 4
The fourth stage featured over the course of its 118.1 km (73.4 mi) four main mountains. One reaching 1000m with a 6% gradient climb of 600m over 10km to get there, one reaching 800m with a 5.3% climb of 425m in 8km, one to 900m with another 6% climb over 4km before it flattens out slightly over the last kilometre to the summit and a final climb to 550m with a 12.5% section over the last kilometer to the top. Then there was another very steep, short climb to the finish line.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 4
The race started without team RusVelo. Team manager Zabirova navigated the team to the wrong village also called Lichnov, about 70 km (43.5 mi) from Lichnov where the start took place.


2013 Gracia-Orlová, Stages, Stage 5
The stage 5 route, winding through Orlová, was a 16.7 km (10.4 mi) long circuit with some very steep climbs but no higher than 270m above sea level. The circuit was completed six times, giving a total distance of 100.2 km (62.3 mi).


2013 Grambling State Tigers football team
The 2013 Grambling State Tigers football team represented Grambling State University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Doug Williams in the third season of his second tenure as head coach and ninth overall after coaching the Tigers from 1998 to 2003. They competed as a member of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and played their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium in Grambling, Louisiana. The Tigers finished the season with a 1–11 record.


2013 Grambling State Tigers football team
Head coach Doug Williams' contract was bought out after the first two games of the season. He was replaced by interim head coach George Ragsdale, the team's running backs coach. Ragsdale was subsequently fired on October 17 after losing five games in a row and replaced with Dennis Winston as interim head coach. In response to a number of players being dissatisfied with the conditions of the facility and practices of the athletic department, Grambling State refused to play the October 19 game against Jackson State University. As such, their game against the Tigers was forfeited. On October 22, the players officially ended their boycott, and the team returned to the field for their next game against Texas Southern University.


2013 Grambling State Tigers football team
On December 4, 2013, Broderick Fobbs was introduced as Winston's replacement as full-time head coach of the Tigers.


2013 Grand National
The 2013 Grand National (officially known as the John Smith's Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 166th annual running of the Grand National horse race at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England. The showpiece steeplechase, which concluded a three-day meeting (one of only four held at Aintree throughout the year), took place on 6 April 2013. The maximum permitted field of 40 runners competed for a share of the £975,000 prize fund, which made the National the most valuable jump race in Europe.


2013 Grand National
The race was won by 66/1 shot Auroras Encore, who was ridden by jockey Ryan Mania for trainer Sue Smith. The 11/2 favourite Seabass, ridden by Katie Walsh, finished in 13th place. During the race only two horses fell and six unseated their riders; 17 completed the course and all 40 that ran returned safely to the stables.


2013 Grand National
The race was broadcast on Channel 4 for the first time as it took over the broadcasting rights for a four-year period to 2016. The BBC had broadcast the race every year since it was first televised in 1960 and first aired on radio in 1927. The BBC retain the UK radio coverage rights.


2013 Grand National, Safety changes
In addition to modifications made for the previous year's race, Aintree announced that a number of further changes had been made for the 2013 National.


2013 Grand National, Safety changes
Twelve of the 16 fences on the course were rebuilt with the timber frames within them replaced by a softer material known as "plastic birch". The fences are still covered with at least 14 inches of spruce and will remain the same height. The starting line was also moved 90 yards closer to the first fence, further away from the spectators' stands and thereby reducing slightly the overall distance.


2013 Grand National, Safety changes
Aintree and the Professional Jockeys' Association jointly issued a note urging participating jockeys to avoid a false start by paying more attention to the starter's orders, and to better control their speed during the race.


2013 Grand National, Safety changes
In response to the further changes, David Muir of the RSPCA said: "They have done more than I thought they would. Fundamentally the changes that have been made are major already. They've taken the cores of the fences out, there is a cooling down area now, there's a water system and there's a reduction in the number of drop fences; [however] we'd still like to see changes to Becher's Brook, the drop is still a concern."


2013 Grand National, Race card
Entries for the race had to be submitted by 30 January 2013. Aintree announced that 84 horses had been entered for consideration in the 2013 Grand National, including last year's runner-up Sunnyhillboy, as well as Seabass and Cappa Bleu, third and fourth in the 2012 race respectively. Others hoping to return to the National for 2013 included Oscar Time, Big Fella Thanks, What A Friend, Cloudy Lane, Calgary Bay, and 2011 winner Ballabriggs.


2013 Grand National, Race card
Eight of the entrants were trained in Wales, including Cappa Bleu; the only Welsh-trained horse to have won the Grand National was Kirkland in 1905. Thirty-two of the 84 were trained in Ireland.


2013 Grand National, Race card
Handicap weights were announced by the British Horseracing Authority in London on 12 February. The top weight of 11 st 10 lb was allotted to Tidal Bay, trained by last year's winning trainer Paul Nicholls, however the horse was withdrawn two days later with a stress fracture of the lower cannon bone on his right hind leg. 2010 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Imperial Commander now carries top weight. The National's official betting partner, Betfred, put Seabass (11 st 2 lb), On His Own (10 st 10 lb), and Prince De Beauchene (11 st 3 lb) as joint-favourites upon announcement of the handicaps. Prince De Beauchene was later withdrawn with a stress fracture.


2013 Grand National, Race card
There were scratchings' deadlines on 26 February and 19 March, after which 57 entries remained. 1 April marked the five-day confirmation stage at which 49 horses remained and were ranked according to their ratings. On 4 April the final field of 40 runners was declared:


2013 Grand National, Race overview
The starter Hugh Barclay got the field of 40 horses off and running at the first attempt, the start line having been moved 90 yards closer to the first fence and further away from the spectators' stands. Seabass was sent off as 11/2 favourite, with jockey Katie Walsh becoming the first female rider to start a Grand National as favourite. Her brother Ruby Walsh was second-favourite on board On His Own.


2013 Grand National, Race overview
For the first time in history, all 40 runners made it to the Canal Turn – the eighth of the 30 fences – without mishap. Across the Bay led over the Turn from Balthazar King, while three riders were unseated. Andrew Thornton became the first of only two jockeys in the 2013 National to fall from his mount as the field streamed over the 12th fence.


2013 Grand National, Race overview
The Chair is the penultimate fence on the first circuit and marked the end of the race for champion jockey Tony McCoy who was unseated from Colbert Station. Thirty-two of the 40 participants were still in contention going onto the second circuit, led by Across the Bay from Balthazar King, Oscar Time, and Teaforthree.


2013 Grand National, Race overview
All the remaining runners safely jumped the second Becher's Brook, the first time since 1996 that the famous fence had not claimed any fallers. Ruby Walsh fell at Valentine's (the 25th fence) after which several runners had been pulled up, leaving 21 still racing. Irish-trained Oscar Time and Welsh-trained Teaforthree led the field, with Auroras Encore emerging in third position. At the final fence, Paul Carberry pulled up Chicago Grey while Mumbles Head refused and two other horses unseated their riders.


2013 Grand National, Race overview
At the elbow on the 494-yard run-in, Auroras Encore had extended his lead over Teaforthree and Oscar Time, the latter fading and quickly overtaken by Cappa Bleu. At the line, the pairing of Auroras Encore and Ryan Mania – taking his first ride in the Grand National – won by a distance of nine lengths, Cappa Bleu pipped Teaforthree for second place, Oscar Time finished in fourth and Rare Bob was fifth. Seventeen runners completed the course.


2013 Grand National, Reaction
Sue Smith became only the third woman to train a Grand National winner, after Jenny Pitman (1983 and 1995) and Venetia Williams (2009). Smith said afterward: "I knew the ground was right for him and hoped everything else was. He stayed down the middle and had a bit of luck in running. He didn't have a lot of weight and that helped, too."


2013 Grand National, Reaction
Auroras Encore was jockey Ryan Mania's first ride in the National. He said after his victory: "There are no words to describe it. I got a dream ride round. I couldn't believe my luck." Mania added that he could not "go too mad" with his celebrations as he was due to race at Hexham the next day. He did race the following afternoon, but was injured in a fall during the St. John Lee Handicap Hurdle and had to be airlifted to Newcastle Royal Infirmary where he was described as being in a "stable" condition. He was released from hospital two days later with minor neck and back injuries, saying he was "feeling a bit tired and a bit sore but apart from that I'm OK, it's nothing serious."


2013 Grand National, Reaction
With two equine fatalities in each of the two previous Nationals, much of the media commentary after the 2013 race hailed the fact that all 40 runners had returned safely to the stables and that only two had fallen at the modified fences. The RSPCA's chief executive Gavin Grant said that his organisation was "delighted that the changes seem to have contributed to a safe yet competitive race." Roly Owers of World Horse Welfare added: "Aintree can take considerable credit for the improvements they have made to the course. It is too early to say with certainty whether the softer fences are making a difference, but ... the initial signs are encouraging."


2013 Grand National, Reaction
Channel 4 enjoyed a 61% share of the UK terrestrial television audience at its peak during the race. Though its peak viewing figures were down by 2 million from the 2012 race which was broadcast on the BBC and watched by nearly 11 million in the UK, they were slightly above those registered by the BBC in 2011 and 2009 and more than 1 million above those achieved in 2010.


2013 Grand National, Broadcasting
Channel 4 lead commentator Simon Holt describes the climax of the race.


2013 Grand National, Broadcasting
As the Grand National is accorded the status of an event of national interest in the United Kingdom and is listed on the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events, it must be shown on free-to-air terrestrial television in the UK. Channel 4 took over the broadcasting rights from the BBC for a four-year period from 2013.


2013 Grand National, Broadcasting
Clare Balding and Nick Luck presented Channel 4's coverage, supported by Jim McGrath, Mick Fitzgerald and Graham Cunningham. Reports were provided by Rishi Persad and Alice Plunkett and betting updates by Tanya Stevenson and Brian Gleeson. Balding, Fitzgerald and Persad were previously regulars of BBC's coverage team for the race in recent years. The commentary team was composed of Richard Hoiles, Ian Bartlett (also previously part of the BBC's team) and Simon Holt. As lead commentator for Channel 4, Holt called the winner home for the first time. After the race, Nick Luck, Mick Fitzgerald and Richard Hoiles provided the viewers with a detailed re-run of the race.


2013 Grand National, Broadcasting
Whereas the BBC lost the television rights for the race, its radio station 5 Live broadcast the race as before, the 81st consecutive running of the National to be covered live on BBC radio.


2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
The 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal is the fourth edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 15 September 2013, over a distance of 205.7 km (127.8 mi), starting and finishing in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. It was the 26th event of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. The race is one of only two events which are part of the World Tour calendar in North America, the other one being the 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec contested two days prior.


2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Teams
The race is held under the auspices of the UCI World Tour, and all nineteen UCI ProTeams are invited automatically. There is also one wildcard invitation, taken byTeam Europcar. A Canadian national squad also competed in the race, and as such, formed the event's 21-team peloton. The 21 teams that competed in the race were:


2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, Course
The race consisted of 17 laps of a circuit 12.1 km (7.5 mi) in length, and followed the same path as the 2011 edition. The circuit, around the main campus of the Université de Montréal, was well-suited for climbers and punchers with three climbs per lap. The finish was on an uphill climb with a small gradient of 4%, that was located on Avenue du Parc. There was a sharp, 180 degrees bend to the right situated 500 meters away from the line. The total vertical climb of the race was 3,893 metres. The major difficulties were:


2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
The 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec was the fourth edition of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, a single-day professional bicycle road race. It was held on 13 September 2013, over a distance of 201.6 km (125.3 mi), starting and finishing in Quebec City. It was the 25th event of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. The race is one of the only two events which are part of the World Tour calendar in North America, the other one being the 2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal contested two days later.


2013 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, Teams
As the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec was a UCI World Tour event, all 19 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. There was also one wildcard invitations, which was Team Europcar. A Canadian national squad also competed in the race, and as such, formed the event's 21-team peloton.


2013 Grand Prix GSB
The 2013 Grand Prix GSB was a one-day women's cycle race in the Grand Prix GSB series held in El Salvador on March 7, 2013. It ran from Plaza El Salvador del Mundo (The Savior of the World Plaza) in San Salvador City  to Juayúa over 97 km (60 mi) and has an UCI rating of 1.1. The race was won by the Brazilian  Clemilda Fernandes Silva, beating the Be Pink pairing of Alena Amialiusik and Noemi Cantele.


2013 Grand Prix Hassan II
The 2013 Grand Prix Hassan II was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 29th edition of the tournament, which was part of the 2013 ATP World Tour. It took place in Casablanca, Morocco between 7 and 14 April 2013.


2013 Grand Prix Hassan II, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Grand Prix Hassan II, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Grand Prix Hassan II – Doubles
Dustin Brown and Paul Hanley were the defending champions, but they decided not to compete together this year. Brown played alongside Christopher Kas and defeated Hanley and Lukáš Dlouhý in the first round. Julian Knowle and Filip Polášek won the title, defeating Brown and Kas in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


2013 Grand Prix Hassan II – Singles
Pablo Andújar was the two-time defending champion but lost in the first round to fellow countryman Pablo Carreño-Busta. Tommy Robredo won the title, defeating Kevin Anderson in the final, 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–3.


2013 Grand Prix Hassan II – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2013 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem
The 2013 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 13th edition of the tournament which was part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2013 WTA Tour. It took place at the Royal Tennis Club de Marrakech in Marrakesh, Morocco between 22 and 28 April 2013.


2013 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2013 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2013 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Doubles
Petra Cetkovská and Alexandra Panova were the defending champions but decided not to participate. Tímea Babos and Mandy Minella won the title, defeating Petra Martić and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 6–3, 6–1.


2013 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Singles
Kiki Bertens was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Lourdes Domínguez Lino. Francesca Schiavone won the title, defeating Domínguez Lino in the final, 6–1, 6–3.


2013 Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau
The 2013 Grand Prix cycliste de Gatineau was a one-day women's cycle  race held in Canada on 18 May 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 1.1. The race was won by  the Shelley Olds  of Team TIBCO - To The Top.


2013 Grand Prix de Denain
The 2013 Grand Prix de Denain was the 55th edition of the Grand Prix de Denain cycle race and was held on 11 April 2013. The race started and finished in Denain. The race was won by Arnaud Démare.


2013 Grand Prix de Dottignies
The 2013 Grand Prix de Dottignies was the 12th edition of a one-day women's cycle race held in Dottignies, Belgium on April 1 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 1.2. The race was won by Vera Koedooder of Sengers Ladies Cycling Team, fending off the Rabobank–Liv Giant duo of Iris Slappendel and Sanne van Paassen


2013 Grand Prix de Futsal
The 2013 Grand Prix de Futsal was the eighth edition of the international futsal competition of the same kind as the FIFA Futsal World Cup but with invited nations and held annually in Brazil. It was first held in 2005.


2013 Grand Prix de Oriente
The 2013 Grand Prix de Oriente was a one-day women's cycle  race held in El Salvador on February 27, 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 1.2. The race was won by  the Italian Noemi Cantele of Be Pink.


2013 Grand Prix el Salvador
The 2013 Grand Prix el Salvador was a one-day women's cycle  race held in El Salvador on February 27, 2013 over 93.2 km from San Marcos to Zaragoza, La Libertad. The race has an UCI rating of 1.1 and was won by  the Italian Silvia Valsecchi of Be Pink.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore
The 2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, the third running of the event, was an IndyCar Series race held on September 1, 2013 on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. The race was the sixteenth of the 2013 IndyCar Series season, and was the final running of the Grand Prix of Baltimore. Scott Dixon started on the pole position, while Simon Pagenaud of Sam Schmidt Motorsports won the race.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, Background
The previous race in the season, the GoPro Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma, was won by Will Power. The winner of the previous race was Ryan Hunter-Reay.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, Background
In the season, James Hinchcliffe and Scott Dixon were tied for the most wins with three. In the points race, Hélio Castroneves held the points lead with 479 points, followed by Dixon (440), Ryan Hunter-Reay (417), Marco Andretti (409), and Simon Pagenaud (380) rounded out the top five.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, Background, Qualifying
Scott Dixon won the pole position with a lap time of 1:18.0838 and lap speed of 94.053 miles per hour (151.364 km/h) for his second pole of the year, becoming 14th all-time among IndyCar Series drivers for career poles, passing Danny Sullivan and drawing with Gordon Johncock. Will Power (94.013 miles per hour (151.299 km/h)), Simon Pagenaud (93.637 miles per hour (150.694 km/h)), Justin Wilson (93.115 miles per hour (149.854 km/h)) and Josef Newgarden (93.077 miles per hour (149.793 km/h)) filled out the top five starting spots. Tristan Vautier (92.917 miles per hour (149.535 km/h)), Hélio Castroneves (92.928 miles per hour (149.553 km/h)), Ryan Hunter-Reay (92.919 miles per hour (149.539 km/h)), Charlie Kimball (92.901 miles per hour (149.510 km/h)), and Takuma Sato (92.702 miles per hour (149.189 km/h)) filled out the bottom half of the top ten.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, Race
The race was marred by six cautions, five of which took place between laps 41 and 65, the lone exception occurring on lap 13 with Ed Carpenter's car stopping in turn 5 and Luca Filippi leaving the track in turn 3 due to a fire in the engine compartment. On lap 41, Stefan Wilson hit the turn 7 wall, while seven laps later, Scott Dixon was spun by Graham Rahal in turn 1.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, Race
Five laps later, Will Power collided with Dixon and was sent spinning into the wall, and four laps later, Oriol Servia and Sebastian Bourdais also touched, and the latter was turned. On lap 63, six cars were involved in an accident. Also during the race, Hélio Castroneves was black-flagged for a safety violation. Meanwhile, Simon Pagenaud was able to take the lead and hold off Josef Newgarden to win with a four-second advantage, his second victory of the year. Bourdais finished third, Justin Wilson and Simona de Silvestro closed out the top five; Charlie Kimball, James Hinchcliffe, Sebastián Saavedra, Castroneves and Marco Andretti rounded out the top ten.


2013 Grand Prix of Baltimore, Race
After the race, Castroneves continued to lead the points standings with 501 points. Dixon was 49 points behind with 452, while Pagenaud took third with 431. Andretti and Ryan Hunter-Reay were in fourth and fifth with 430 and 427 points, respectively. Wilson (393), Dario Franchitti (388), Hinchcliffe (376), Will Power (371), and Kimball (363) finished the top ten in points.


2013 Grand Prix of Maykop
The 2013 Grand Prix of Maykop was a one-day women's cycle race held in Russia on June 4 2013. The tour has an UCI rating of 1.2. The race was won by the Russian, Natalia Boyarskaya.


2013 Grand Rapids flood
The 2013 Grand Rapids flood lasted from April 12 to 25, 2013, affecting multiple areas in the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. Sudden heavy rainfall, saturation of the ground from rainwater and the flow of tributaries caused the Grand River to rise dramatically, with the river cresting at 21.85 feet (6.66 m) in Grand Rapids on April 21, 2013. The flooding caused thousands of residents in the area to evacuate their homes.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Meteorology
In April 2013, heavy rain throughout the Midwest caused severe flooding in the region. In a period between April 8 and 15, Grand Rapids received 3.50 inches (89 mm) of rain, while the upriver community of Comstock Park received about 5.04 inches (128 mm) of rainfall. Within that period on April 13, the National Weather Service stated that floodwaters in Comstock Park rose from minor to moderate, with the flood stage beginning at 12 feet (3.7 m) and that day's level at 13.3 feet (4.1 m).


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Meteorology
On April 17, Grand Rapids received about 0.83 inches (21 mm) of rain. Rainfall broke a 104-year-old record on April 18 with 9.1 inches (230 mm) of rain falling by 9:30 a.m. EDT.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Meteorology
On April 21, in Comstock Park, the Grand River crested at 17.8 feet (5.4 m), 5.8 feet (1.8 m) above the 12-foot (3.7 m) flood level while in Grand Rapids, the river rose to 21.85 feet (6.66 m), or 3.85 feet (1.17 m) above the 18-foot (5.5 m) flood level. A storm deemed "catastrophic" that had the potential to drop 3 to 4 inches (76 to 102 mm) of rain had also barely missed the Grand Rapids area on the day that the water crested in the Grand River. Rain totals for the month of April were about 11.10 inches (282 mm).


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Impact
On April 21, Mayor of Grand Rapids, George Heartwell, declared a state of emergency. Evacuations of homes were reported along with some reports about boat rescues from houses in the area. In Kent County, about 700 people were evacuated while 1,000 people alone were evacuated from the Plaza Towers in downtown Grand Rapids. Some buildings in Grand Rapids near the riverfront had the Grand River's waterline go over their windows with some individuals able to see fish and ducks swim by through the windows.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Impact
Flood walls and bridges in Grand Rapids caused some increased flooding in cities up and downstream from the Grand River since they impeded the flow of the river, causing water to stand and rise. Wastewater treatment plants in Grand Rapids, Grandville and Wyoming had partially treated wastewater overflow from their facilities. The Grand Rapids wastewater plant had about 429 million US gallons (1.62×10^9 l) of the partially treated water spill into the Grand River.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Impact, Response
The American Red Cross of West Michigan deployed to heavily affected neighborhoods in the area. During the floods, thousands of residents in the Grand Rapids area volunteered to fill over 100,000 sand bags that were to be used throughout the territory. Near the Grand Rapids wastewater facility, a 1.25-mile (2.01 km) wall of sandbags were placed. CSX Transportation also placed train cars full of salt on a 110-year-old trestle bridge that crossed the river near Wealthy Street in order to weigh down the bridge from the rising floodwaters below it.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Aftermath
The state of emergency declared by Mayor Heartwell lasted until May 24 in order to give more time for officials to gather information about the impact of the flooding.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Aftermath
Following the flooding, thousands of sandbags had to be removed with some possibly being stored for future use for other floods. Discussions were also held on whether to turn the wall of sandbags near the Grand Rapids wastewater facility into a permanent berm for future protection.


2013 Grand Rapids flood, Aftermath
In the spring of 2014, Grand Rapids and Walker started a $703,000 contract to install flap gates and to perform repairs to existing flood walls. In August 2014, Grand Rapids also released plans to remove obstructions in the Grand River and to raise the berm near their wastewater plant. After initial claims by Grand Rapids officials that the flood walls in the city were adequate, in November 2014, city officials decided to look at ways to heighten flood walls due to factors involving Federal Emergency Management Agency, climate change and a proposed river restoration project.


2013 Grand Slam of Darts
The 2013 William Hill Grand Slam of Darts, was the seventh staging of the tournament, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The event took place from 9–17 November 2013 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, England.


2013 Grand Slam of Darts
Raymond van Barneveld was the defending champion, but he was eliminated in the group stage. The semi-final match between Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis proved to be the highest quality in darts history as the players averaged 109.76 and 110.99 respectively, the highest combined average ever recorded. The PDC record of 31 maximums set in the 2007 World Championship final was broken as 32 were made in this match in 32 fewer legs. Taylor won the match 16–9 and went on to seal his fifth Grand Slam title by beating Robert Thornton 16–6 in the final.


2013 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Phil Taylor (1) Raymond van Barneveld (2) Scott Waites (3) Michael van Gerwen (4) Adrian Lewis (5) Simon Whitlock (6) Andy Hamilton (7) James Wade (8)


2013 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Gary Anderson Dave Chisnall Kim Huybrechts Mervyn King Christian Kist Wes Newton Kevin Painter Robert Thornton


2013 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Wesley Harms Ronny Huybrechts Paul Nicholson Tony O'Shea Michael Smith Mark Walsh Mark Webster Dean Winstanley


2013 Grand Slam of Darts, Pools
Ricky Evans Richie George Ted Hankey Stuart Kellett Justin Pipe Ross Smith Vincent van der Voort Peter Wright


2013 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stage
All matches first-to-5/best of 9NB in Brackets: Number = Seeds; BDO = BDO Darts player; RQ = Ranking Qualifier; Q = QualifierNB: P = Played; W = Won; L = Lost; LF = Legs For; LA = Legs Against; +/- = Plus/Minus Record, in relation to legs; Average – 3-dart average; Pts = Points; Q = Qualified for K.O. phase


2013 Grand Slam of Darts, Draw, Group stage, Group H
With Wes Newton and Mark Webster finishing level on points and leg difference, a nine-dart shootout between the two took place to see who would play Scott Waites in the second round. The match took place after the conclusion of Monday's group matches, and was the first time since the 2009 Grand Slam of Darts that a nine-dart shootout was required.


2013 Grand-Am of The Americas
The 2013 Grand-Am of The Americas presented by Gainsco and Total was held on March 2, 2013 as the second race of 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series season, and the first Grand-Am race at the Circuit of the Americas.


2013 Grand-Am of The Americas, Qualifying
The qualifying session will take place on March 1. The DP session will commence at 17:15 EST and will last for 15 minutes. GT and GX will qualify between 17:40 and 17:55 EST.


2013 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro
The 2013 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro is the 12th edition of Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro, presented by Academia Brasileira de Cinema (Brazilian Academy of Cinema), honored the best Brazilians films of 2012. The ceremony took place on November 13, 2013, at Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro and was televised by Canal Brasil.


2013 Great Alaska Shootout
The 2013 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout was the 35th Great Alaska Shootout, the annual college basketball tournament in Anchorage, Alaska that features colleges from all over the United States. The event is scheduled from November 27 through November 30, 2013, with eight colleges and universities participating in the men's tournament and four universities participating in the women's tournament. Most of the games in the men's tournament were televised on the CBS Sports Network.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave
The 2013 heat wave in the United Kingdom and Ireland was a period of unusually hot weather primarily in July 2013, with isolated warm days in June and August. A prolonged high pressure system over Britain and Ireland caused higher than average temperatures for 19 consecutive days in July, reaching 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) at Heathrow and Northolt.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave
Following a brief period of cooler weather at the end of July, temperatures temporarily rose again, peaking at 34.1 °C (93.4 °F) on 1 August in the United Kingdom, the warmest the country had seen since July 2006, and 31 °C (88 °F) in Ireland. At 19 days, the July heatwave was the longest continuous period of hot weather in the UK since August 1997.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Timeline
On 4 July the Met Office predicted a long spell of warm weather over England and Wales to last until the middle of the month, with the south-east set to experience close to 30 °C (86 °F), and Scotland and Northern Ireland expected to avoid the warmest weather. In the following week temperatures reached 29.7 °C (85.5 °F) on the south coast and climbed to 30 °C (86 °F) in Northern Ireland, the highest temperature seen there since 2006.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Timeline
Heat waves in the United Kingdom are declared when the threshold maximum day temperature and a minimum night temperature are exceeded for at least two consecutive days. The threshold temperatures differ region by region, but the average is 30 °C (86 °F) for the day and 15 °C (59 °F) for the night. On 12 July, the Met Office released heat wave alerts across much of England, with Yorkshire and the Humber placed in the level three category out of four alert levels.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Timeline
On 17 July, the Met Office upgraded London and South East England to level three following the fifth consecutive day of temperatures over 30 °C (86 °F).


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Timeline
The heatwave ended on 23 July with heavy thunderstorms, bringing flooding and lightning strikes that caused delays on motorways and railways, power cuts and fires. Despite this, temperatures still remained above average for the time of year. On 29 July, another spell of thunderstorms hit the UK. Manchester for example was hit by three thunderstorms in eight hours. Three days later on 1 August, the temperatures rose again, recording the warmest August temperature since 2003. In some places, 1 August was actually warmer than all of the days in July. London Heathrow recorded 34.1 °C (93.4 °F), which exceeded the previous record of 33.5 °C (92.3 °F) which was recorded on 22 July. By 2 August however, temperatures began to return to normal.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Impact
On 18 July, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reported that the first 9 days of the heat wave had caused up to an additional 760 deaths in the UK.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Impact, Emergency services
The heat wave led to rises in both the number of calls to the emergency services and admissions to A&E departments. The large numbers of people using rivers, lakes and the sea to cool off led to a large increase in the number of calls to lifeguards. The London Fire Brigade reported having to deal with double the number of grass fires in the capital compared to the previous year. Wildfires were also reported in Epping Forest in Essex, the Dorset coast, the valleys of southern Wales and Tentsmuir Forest in Scotland.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Impact, Ecology
Following declines in the summer of 2012 due to wet and windy conditions, butterfly numbers saw a surge due to the prolonged warm weather. The warmer waters around the British coasts also led to an increase in the number of jellyfish sightings, particularly the moon jellyfish.


2013 Great Britain and Ireland heat wave, Impact, Ecology
The death of thousands of fish in rivers and lakes was attributed to the elevated temperatures lowering the amount of oxygen in the water to toxic levels.


2013 Great Southern 4 Hour
The 2013 Great Southern 4 Hour was an endurance motor race held on 26 May 2013 at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia. It was Round 1 of the 2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship and as such it was open to "modified production touring cars" complying with the technical regulations for that championship. The race was won by Bob Pearson and Glenn Seton, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10.


2013 Great Southern 4 Hour, Class structure
As the race was a round of the 2013 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the following class structure applied.


2013 Great Southern 4 Hour, Class structure
There were no starters in Classes E, F or I.


2013 Great Southern 4 Hour, Results
Note: Drivers listed in italics in the above table did not drive the car in the actual race.


2013 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2013 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 21–25. All eight of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at new Jersey Institute of Technology's Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium in Newark, New Jersey. As the Great West is a new conference, the league does not have an automatic bid to the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Third seeded Houston Baptist won their first championship, ending Utah Valley's run of three consecutive titles dating to the event's inception.


2013 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
All eight teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage only and then met in a double-elimination bracket.


2013 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Luke Clements was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Clements was an outfielder for Houston Baptist.


2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 14–16, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois at the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center. Per NCAA regulations as a new Division I conference, the Great West champion would not have received an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament until 2020. The winner, however, did receive an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. This was the final GMC men's basketball tournament as the conference dissolved after the season due to its member schools joining other conferences.


2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
With North Dakota joining the Big Sky Conference for the 2012-13 season, the conference used the same 5-team format they used for 2012 as the outline.


2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
Five teams participated in the 2013 Great West Tournament. This was the last Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament as Houston Baptist left the conference after this season to join the Southland Conference and Utah Valley, UTPA and Chicago State left the conference after this season to join the Western Athletic Conference.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season
The 2013 Green Bay Blizzard season was the team's eleventh season as a football franchise and fourth in the Indoor Football League (IFL). One of just nine teams competing in the IFL for the 2013 season, the Green Bay Blizzard were members of the United Conference. The team played their home games at the Resch Center in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season
The Blizzard began the season under the direction of head coach Robert Fuller but he was replaced after six games by Chad Baldwin. The team ended the regular season with a 4–10 record and did not qualify for the playoffs. They drew an average attendance of 3,812 for their seven regular season games. After failing to turn reach certain unspecified "financial benchmarks", three of the four principal owners of the team agreed to place the franchise for sale in June 2013. If a new owner had not been found by September 1, 2013, the franchise would have suspended operations for the 2014 IFL season.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season, Off-field moves
Shortly before the 2013 season began, the owner of the Cheyenne Warriors died which forced that team to suspend operations and the IFL to revise its schedule to accommodate the now 9-team league.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season, Off-field moves
The March 23, 2013, game against the Chicago Slaughter was "Military Appreciation Night" with free tickets for veterans and all fans in attendance received a personal American flag. Children also received replicas of the special "camouflage" Blizzard jersey.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season, Off-field moves
After the April 7th loss dropped the team's record to 1–5, head coach Robert Fuller was fired and defensive coordinator Chad Badwin was promoted to replace him.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season, Roster moves
Junior Aumavae, a nose tackle who spent the 2012 season playing for the Blizzard, was signed by the New York Jets in late March 2013.


2013 Green Bay Blizzard season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated March 26, 201325 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


2013 Green Bay Packers season
The 2013 season was the Green Bay Packers' 95th season overall, 93rd in the National Football League and eighth under head coach Mike McCarthy. The Packers came into the 2013 season looking to win the NFC North for the 3rd year in a row. They came off a 45–31 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs the previous season. The Packers started the 2013 season in a rematch with the 49ers, to whom they lost 28–34.


2013 Green Bay Packers season
After winning their home opener against the Redskins, Green Bay lost 34–30 in Cincinnati to the Bengals after holding a 30–14 lead in the 3rd quarter. Following the loss in Cincinnati, the Packers won 4 games in a row to sit at 5–2 before losing a Monday Night game at home to the Bears, 20–27. In that game, the Packers lost star quarterback Aaron Rodgers to a broken collarbone in the 1st quarter. He would be replaced by backups Scott Tolzien and Matt Flynn during recovery. In Week 12, the Packers tied the Vikings 26–26; it was Green Bay's first tie since 1987.


2013 Green Bay Packers season
The Packers would lose the next game 40–10 to the Lions on Thanksgiving to sit at 5–6–1, threatening to miss the postseason for the first time since 2008. The Packers then rallied to beat the Falcons 22–21 to even their record at 6–6–1. The following week, the Packers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 37–36 in Dallas after they had trailed 26–3 at halftime. The comeback was the largest in franchise history. The Packers would then lose a shootout with the Pittsburgh Steelers 31–38 at home to sit at 7–7–1, the first meeting between the teams since Super Bowl XLV.


2013 Green Bay Packers season
The following week, the Packers defeated the Chicago Bears 33–28 at Soldier Field to clinch the NFC North in a game in which the winner would clinch the division. The game is well known for a touchdown catch made by Randall Cobb from Aaron Rodgers with less than a minute remaining to seal the win. The play came on a 4th and 8 situation in which Cobb was wide open near the endzone. After the win the team finished the regular season with an 8-7-1 record. The Packers entered the playoffs as the 4th seed in the NFC. In the wild card game, they lost 23–20 in a rematch with the 49ers on a Phil Dawson field goal as time expired. The game was one of the coldest in NFL playoff history, with a temperature of 5 °F (−15 °C).


2013 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Free agents
RFA: Restricted free agent, UFA: Unrestricted free agent, ERFA: Exclusive rights free agent, FT: Franchise Tag


2013 Green Bay Packers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Washington Redskins
Following their loss to the 49ers 28–34 at Candlestick Park in Week 1, the Packers went back home to Lambeau to take on the 0–1 Washington Redskins. On the opening drive, Eddie Lacy suffered a concussion after a helmet-to helmet hit with Brandon Meriweather. He exited the game and James Starks replaced him. The Packers drew first blood with a 28-yard field goal. They then followed it up with a 35-yard touchdown pass to Randall Cobb on 4th and 3 to take a 10–0 lead.


2013 Green Bay Packers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Washington Redskins
The Packers took advantage of Robert Griffin III's limited mobility and shut out the Redskins' offense in the 1st half. The Packers continued to pile up yards and points, first with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Jordy Nelson and then with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Jermichael Finley. By halftime, the Packers had a commanding 24–0 lead. Early in the 3rd quarter, Aaron Rodgers once again connected with Jordy Nelson for a 15-yard touchdown to take a 31–0 lead. The Redskins finally manage to sustain a drive and capped it off with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Pierre Garçon.


2013 Green Bay Packers season, Game summaries, Regular season, Week 2: vs. Washington Redskins
However, the Packers responded with a 32-yard touchdown run by James Starks to make it 38–7. The Redskins managed to score two more touchdowns in the 4th quarter, first a 3-yard touchdown pass to Jordan Reed, then a 9-yard touchdown pass to Santana Moss (failed 2-point conversion). Up 38–20 with 7:36 remaining in the 4th, the Packers managed to sustain a drive to run out the clock and win their first game of the 2013 season. Aaron Rodgers was 34–42 for 480 yards and 4 touchdown passes, while James Starks rushed 20 times for 132 yards and a touchdown. Rodgers managed to tie Matt Flynn against Detroit in 2011 for the franchise record of passing yards in a single game (480). With the win, the Packers were 1–1.