2014 Indy Eleven season, Background
Indy Pro Soccer's vision is to create a team that is representative of Indiana and creates strong emotional connections with its fans. Those connections will be made with Indiana's youth and adult soccer community and the active young adult urban and ethnic populations. The makeup of the team will reflect the community, so that it can live up to its slogan of "The World's Game, Indiana's Team". The club has secured over 6,000 season ticket deposits for its inaugural 2014 campaign as of October 2013.


2014 Indy Eleven season, Background
The name and club colors were officially revealed to the public on April 25, 2013 during a ceremony held at Indianapolis' iconic Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Indy Eleven named former Indiana University standout, U.S. international and English Premier League and Major League Soccer veteran Juergen Sommer as its first Head Coach/Director of Soccer Operations on June 11, 2013.


2014 Indy Eleven season, Background
On October 1, 2013 the team announced German goalkeeper, Kristian Nicht, as their first signing.


2014 Indy Eleven season, Competitions, U.S. Open Cup
As a member of the NASL, the Eleven enter the Open Cup in the 3rd Round. Indy's win over Dayton was the team's first ever non-friendly match victory.


2014 Indy Lights
The 2014 Indy Lights season was a season of open wheel motor racing. It was the 29th season of the Indy Lights series and the 13th sanctioned by IndyCar, acting as the primary support series for the IndyCar Series. It began March 30, 2014 in St. Petersburg. The 2014 season was the first promoted by Andersen Promotions, who also promotes the other steps on the Mazda Road to Indy.


2014 Indy Lights
It was the final season for the Dallara IPS/Infiniti V8 chassis and engine package that debuted in 2002. A new chassis, to be built by Dallara, will be introduced for 2015 along with an AER turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. 2014 was also the first season with Cooper Tire as the sole tire supplier, replacing Firestone who had supplied tires to the series for its entire previous existence.


2014 Indy Lights
Colombian-American Gabby Chaves, driving for Belardi Auto Racing captured the championship on the second tie-breaker over Schmidt Peterson Motorsports rookie Jack Harvey.


2014 Indy Lights
Early on, the season appeared to be a two-horse race between Chaves and Andretti Autosport's Zach Veach. However, a late-season charge by Harvey put him within striking distance of the championship. Harvey did not capture his first win until the tenth race of the season. However, Chaves managed a second-place finish in the final race of the season behind Harvey in first. Chaves and Harvey tied on points and on the first tie-breaker number of wins with four each. Chaves captured the championship by having five second-place finishes to Harvey's one.


2014 Indy Lights
Despite a season of low car-counts where only eight drivers competed in all 14 races, six different drivers captured victories. In addition to Chaves, Harvey, and Veach, other winners included Matthew Brabham and Luiz Razia who each captured their first and only wins of the season on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and Belardi's Alexandre Baron – a race-winner in Toronto – who was in the championship hunt until reported visa issues forced him to leave the series.


2014 Indy Lights, Schedule
Andersen Promotions announced the 2014 Indy Lights schedule on October 24, 2013. The season consisted of 14 races held over 10 race weekends, consisting of three street circuits, three ovals, and four permanent road courses. All race weekends on permanent road courses were double-race weekends. The series returned to Sonoma Raceway for the first time since 2010. It also raced on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course for the first time since 2007 in support of the new Grand Prix of Indianapolis, although the track was in a different configuration than the one raced in 2007. The series did not return to Iowa Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, or Houston despite IndyCar returning to those tracks in 2014 and did not race at the Baltimore Grand Prix as that race was cancelled for 2014.


2014 IndyCar Series
The 2014 Verizon IndyCar Series was the 19th season of the IndyCar Series and the 103rd season of American open wheel racing. Its premier event was the 98th Indianapolis 500, held on Sunday, May 25. Scott Dixon entered the season as the defending IndyCar Champion, while Chevrolet entered as the reigning Manufacturers' champion.


2014 IndyCar Series
The 2014 season featured eleven different winners, tying a record previously set in 2000 and 2001. Heading into the final race of the season, Will Power led Hélio Castroneves by 51 points. In a race in which Ryan Hunter-Reay's spin produced the only yellow flag, Power finished ninth, while Castroneves – who was penalized for a pit entry violation – finished fourteenth. As a result, Power clinched his first series title by 62 points, and the first drivers' title for Team Penske since Sam Hornish Jr. in 2006. In the manufacturers championship, Chevrolet successfully defended their title ahead of Honda.


2014 IndyCar Series, Schedule
The 2014 IndyCar Series schedule was formally announced on NBC Sports Network's INDYCAR Championship Preview Show on October 17, 2013. The schedule consisted of eighteen races, hosted across 15 tracks and 14 venues. Included were three doubleheader events, in Detroit, Houston and Toronto. The IndyCar Triple Crown featured the three 500-mile races, at Indianapolis, Pocono and Fontana, and offered a $1,000,000 bonus to a driver, if they won all three events, with a $250,000 consolation prize if a driver won two of the three events. Neither prize was ultimately claimed.


2014 IndyCar Series, Schedule
This was the first season since 2002 that IndyCar Series not to feature international races outside USA and Canada after removal of Surfers Paradise in 2009, Motegi in 2012 and Saõ Paulo in 2014.


2014 IndyCar Series, Schedule
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2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 1: St. Petersburg
Takuma Sato sat on the pole, but he lost the lead at lap 30 to Will Power. On a restart on lap 82, leader Will Power was bringing the field back to green when an "accordion effect" saw the field check-up on the main stretch. Marco Andretti and rookie Jack Hawksworth made contact and crashed into the inside barrier.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 1: St. Petersburg
Power led the most laps, and held off Ryan Hunter-Reay and Hélio Castroneves for the victory. Polesitter Takuma Sato finished 6th.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 2: Long Beach
On lap 56, a controversial crash took out six cars, including the drivers running 1st–2nd–3rd. During a sequence of green flag pit stops, Josef Newgarden inherited the lead. Ryan Hunter-Reay, James Hinchcliffe, and Will Power were running nose-to-tail in 2nd–3rd–4th. Newgarden completed his pit stop, and came out on the track just ahead of Hunter-Reay, momentarily holding on to the lead. Going into turn 4, Hunter-Reay attempted a risky pass for the lead, and he made contact with Newgarden, sending both cars into the wall. Hinchcliffe was collected, as was three other cars in the huge melee that nearly blocked the track.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 2: Long Beach
Late in the race, Scott Dixon led, followed by Mike Conway and Power close behind. Dixon ran out of fuel, and had to pit with two laps to go. Conway held off Power and Munoz to win his second Long Beach Grand Prix.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 3: Barber
Heavy rain and lightning delayed the start of the race. Will Power took the lead at the start and led the first 15 laps. But he spun out in the turn 5 hairpin on lap 16, giving up the lead to Ryan Hunter-Reay. Hunter-Reay went on to lead 40 of the race's 69 laps and ultimately won the race; two weeks after creating a stir and raising tempers around the paddock at Long Beach.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 3: Barber
Due to the late start, the race was changed to a 100-minute timed race but finished under caution when rookie Mikhail Aleshin had a heavy crash into the tire barriers, littering the track with debris.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 4: Grand Prix of Indianapolis
The month of May at Indianapolis opened with the Inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis on the Speedway's road course. With the field lined up for a standing start, polesitter Sebastián Saavedra's car stalled. A huge crash resulted, involving Saavedra, Carlos Muñoz, and Mikhail Aleshin, showering debris along the frontstretch and into the pit area.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 4: Grand Prix of Indianapolis
Late in the race, Simon Pagenaud led Ryan Hunter-Reay. Both drivers were low on fuel, and trying to nurse their cars to the finish. Hélio Castroneves, who had pitted for fuel, was charging through the field, and looking to run down the leaders. Pagenaud held off the challenge, and crossed the finish line just ahead of Hunter-Reay and Castroneves. Pagenaud's car ran out of fuel on the cool down lap. Series rookie Jack Hawksworth, who earned his first front-row start, led a field-high 31 laps and finished seventh.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 5: 98th Indianapolis 500
Indianapolis resident Ed Carpenter won the pole position for the 98th Indianapolis 500.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 5: 98th Indianapolis 500
The race started with a long green flag run of 149 laps. Charlie Kimball and Scott Dixon suffered single-car crashes, then James Hinchcliffe and Ed Carpenter tangled on a restart. The red flag halted the race with 9 laps to go for a crash involving Townsend Bell. After the restart, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Hélio Castroneves dueled for the win, followed closely Marco Andretti. Hunter-Reay won the race by 0.06 seconds, the second closest finish in Indy 500 history.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 6: Detroit (Sat.)
Will Power took the lead with 11 laps to go, and held off Graham Rahal over the final 10 laps to win Race 1 of the Dual in Detroit. Indy 500 winner Ryan Hunter-Reay finished 16th after he spun into a tire barrier on the last lap.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 7: Detroit (Sun.)
Hélio Castroneves won Race 2 of the Dual in Detroit, sweeping the weekend for Team Penske. Will Power finished second, charging from the back of the pack after an early drive through penalty. After spinning out a day earlier, Ryan Hunter-Reay had another bad day, dropping out with electrical problems.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 8: Texas
During the final round of pit stops – on lap 213 of 248 – Ed Carpenter and Will Power were running first and second, but Power was penalized for speeding as he entered the pit lane. After a drive-through penalty, Power dropped to sixth. A late caution on lap 241 bunched the field and allowed Power to close in. Carpenter and second place Juan Pablo Montoya stayed out during the yellow to maintain their track position, but Power and others chose to pit for new tires. The green came out with two laps to go, and Carpenter got the jump on the restart. With fresh tires, Power charged through the traffic, passing Montoya for second in the final corner, and just held him off as Carpenter cruised to the victory.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 9: Houston (Sat.)
Colombian drivers Carlos Huertas, Juan Pablo Montoya, and Carlos Muñoz swept the podium in the first race of the Houston doubleheader. Rain soaked the race, which was shortened from 90 laps to a timed race of 1 hour and 50 minutes. Huertas took the lead with about seven minutes remaining. Under a late caution, the field was coming to a restart with one lap to go. Fourth place Graham Rahal ran into the back of third place Tony Kanaan, sending Kanaan spinning. Muñoz was promoted into third after Rahal received a 30-second time penalty post-race for avoidable contact. Huertas' victory marked the first time a rookie had won an IndyCar race since Rahal at the 2008 Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 10: Houston (Sun.)
Simon Pagenaud led the final 43 laps to win the second race of the Houston doubleheader, for his second victory of the season. Pagenaud's teammate, rookie Mikhail Aleshin, finished second giving Schmidt Peterson Motorsports its first 1–2 finish in IndyCar competition. Points leader Will Power was running third in the closing laps, but a broken suspension with less than two laps to go, dropped him to 11th at the finish.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 11: Pocono
Juan Pablo Montoya, who returned to Indy car racing after six seasons in Formula One and seven seasons in NASCAR, won his first Indy car race since the 2000 CART season. Montoya led a total of 45 laps, and assumed the lead for the final time with three laps to go. In the closing laps, most of the leaders needed one final pit stop for fuel, but both Josef Newgarden and Tony Kanaan tried to stay out and gamble for a late yellow. Neither were able to make it to the finish, and Montoya assumed the lead when Kanaan ducked into the pits on lap 197.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 11: Pocono
Montoya's Penske teammate Hélio Castroneves finished second, and left the race in a tie for the points lead with Will Power. Power led 69 laps, and was in the lead group, but two blocking incidents – the first clipping off Montoya's wingplate, and the second a double move on Castroneves – earned him a drive-through penalty and took him out of contention. The race went caution-free for the first 158 laps, with the only incident a spin by Graham Rahal exiting the tunnel turn. The average speed of 202.402 miles per hour (325.734 kilometres per hour) set the record for the fastest 500 mile race in Indy car history.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 12: Iowa
Tony Kanaan dominated the race, leading 247 laps, but Ryan Hunter-Reay took the victory, after passing Kanaan with two laps to go. With Kanaan leading and Ganassi teammate Scott Dixon running second, Juan Pablo Montoya tangled with Ed Carpenter on lap 281, bringing out the final caution. Montoya accused Carpenter of turning down on him while he was attempting a pass in turn three. Carpenter, who was suffering handling difficulties, admitted to taking a low line, but officials did not issue a penalty for the incident.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 12: Iowa
With under 20 laps to go, Kanaan stayed out on the track under the yellow, while Hunter-Reay, Josef Newgarden, and a handful of other cars pitted for fresh tires. When the green came back out, Hunter-Reay quickly charged through the field, and took the lead with two laps to go. Newgarden followed suit, climbing up to second. Kanaan's loss was the latest in a series of disappointments in 2014. Power fell from 4th to 12th during the final six laps after brushing the wall, which caused a tire to lose air pressure.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 13: Toronto (Sat. & Sun.)
The first race of the Toronto doubleheader was scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Rain and standing water on the course prompted officials to postpone the race until Sunday morning. Sébastien Bourdais won his first Indy car race since 2007, and his first as part of the IndyCar Series.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 14: Toronto (Sun.)
The second race of the Toronto doubleheader was held late Sunday afternoon. Mike Conway was the winner. Tony Kanaan had two podium finishes on the same day. He finished third in the morning race and second to Conway in this race.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 15: Mid-Ohio
Scott Dixon won at Mid-Ohio for the fifth time in eight seasons. Dixon became the tenth different winner in 2014, and the race was the first win of the season for Ganassi Racing. Polesitter Sébastien Bourdais led the early stages of the race, and Dixon, who started last after spinning out during qualifying, worked his way to the front off-sequence in pit stops from the other leaders. Dixon capitalized on an error by Josef Newgarden during his final pit stop. Newgarden ran over an air hose, tripping a crew member, and was penalized for hitting pit equipment. Tony Kanaan suffered another disappointment, spinning out in the first turn after nearly tangling with other cars at the start. He spun around, and collected Marco Andretti.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 15: Mid-Ohio
The points leader going into the race, Hélio Castroneves, suffered throttle problems on the grid, and joined the race four laps down, and finished a lowly 19th. Will Power departed the race as the new points leader by four points over Castroneves. Third in the standings, Ryan Hunter-Reay, was unable to make up much ground in the championship race after a penalty for speeding in the pits, and later spinning out into the tire barrier.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 16: Milwaukee
Polesitter Will Power dominated the race, leading 229 of 250 laps, taking the victory, his first at Milwaukee. Mired in heavy traffic over the final several laps, Power was able to maintain a two-second lead over teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, who came home second. Tony Kanaan, among the leaders most of the afternoon, rounded out the podium in third place — still win-less on the season. Power departed with a 39-point advantage over Hélio Castroneves in the championship standings with two races remaining.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 17: Sonoma
The morning of the race, an earthquake occurred in the region, but did not alter the schedule for the race. Polesitter and points leader Will Power jumped out to the lead at the start. In turn two, points contender Hélio Castroneves, was involved in a multi-car tangle, requiring a lengthy pit stop for repairs. Power led early, but later suffered a spin in turn seven, and eventually wound up finishing 10th.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 17: Sonoma
Mike Conway passed Tony Kanaan on a restart on lap 40, and led for 19 laps. Towards the end of the race, the leaders were trying to stretch their fuel to the finish. With Conway in conservation mode, Graham Rahal came to the lead, with Scott Dixon and Ryan Hunter-Reay now running third and fourth. Rahal was forced to the pits with three laps to go, handing the lead back to Conway. Going into turn one, Scott Dixon blew by Conway for the lead, and won his second race of the season. Conway ran out of fuel and finished 14th.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 17: Sonoma
Will Power stretched his lead over Hélio Castroneves in the championship standings to 51 points. With one race remaining, four drivers were mathematically in contention for the title; Will Power, Hélio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud, and Ryan Hunter Reay. Power could clinch the championship by finishing sixth or better at Fontana.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 18: Fontana
The season concluded with the MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway. Double points were awarded, per new rules for all 500-mile events. Four drivers started the race mathematically alive for the title; Will Power, Hélio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud, Ryan Hunter Reay. Very early in the race, Pagenaud was forced to make unscheduled pit stops due to handling problems, and quickly was out of the title picture. The championship at that point became a three-man battle between Will Power, Hélio Castroneves, Ryan Hunter Reay.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 18: Fontana
Juan Pablo Montoya led much of the early going, with both Power and Castroneves holding steady in the top ten most of the day. The race was slowed by only one yellow, caused by a spin on lap 175 involving Ryan Hunter-Reay, after that it came down to a two-man race for the championship between Penske teammates Will Power and Hélio Castroneves. Scott Dixon finishes the season 3rd in points, 67 points out of the lead. Juan Pablo Montoya finishes the season 4th in points, 85 points out of the lead.


2014 IndyCar Series, Race summaries, Round 18: Fontana
Tony Kanaan finally got his first win of the season, after so many losses, he gets his first since the 2013 Indianapolis 500. With Kanaan comfortably in the lead, the championship battle between Power and Castroneves came down to the final 30 laps. As the leaders cycled through their final green flag pit stops, Castroneves was penalized for an improper entry into pit lane. He was assessed a drive-through penalty, and fell a lap down. Power was able to cruise to the finish line, and his ninth-place finish clinched the drivers' championship title. For the second year in a row, Castroneves finishes the season runner-up and comes home 62 points out of the lead.


2014 Inter-Provincial Championship
The 2014 Inter-Provincial Championship is the second season of the Inter-Provincial Championship, the domestic three-day (though not officially first-class) cricket competition of Ireland. The competition is played between Leinster Lightning, Northern Knights and North West Warriors.


2014 Inter-Provincial Championship
This year's competition was won by the Leinster Lightning, who secured a draw in their final match of the season to win the title. They retained the Championship, having won the inaugural Inter-Provincial Championship.


2014 Inter-Provincial Championship
The Inter-Provincial Series has been funded at least partly by the ICC via their TAPP programme.


2014 Inter-Provincial Cup
The 2014 Inter-Provincial Cup is the second season of the Inter-Provincial Cup, the domestic List A cricket competition of Ireland. The competition is played between Leinster Lightning, Northern Knights and North-West Warriors.


2014 Inter-Provincial Cup
The Leinster Lightning won this year's competition with a game to spare, after beating the Northern Knights at Waringstown. In the final match of the season, at Rathmines against the same opposition, the Lightning won again to finish the competition with a 100% record of four wins out of four.


2014 Inter-Provincial Cup
The Inter-Provincial Series has been funded at least partly by the ICC via their TAPP programme.


2014 Inter-Provincial Trophy
The 2014 Inter-Provincial Trophy is the second season of the Inter-Provincial Trophy, the domestic Twenty20 cricket competition of Ireland. The competition is played between Leinster Lightning, Northern Knights and North-West Warriors.


2014 Inter-Provincial Trophy
The North-West Warriors won the 2014 competition, winning by three points from Leinster Lightning. The final days matches, scheduled for Pembroke CC in Dublin, were abandoned due to bad weather, meaning that the Warriors maintained their lead at the top of the table.


2014 Inter-Provincial Trophy
The player of the tournament was David Rankin of the North-West Warriors.


2014 Inter-Provincial Trophy
The Inter-Provincial Series has been funded at least partly by the ICC via their TAPP programme.


2014 Inter-Provincial Trophy, Table
The points system has changed for 2014, with 4 points now awarded for a win, 2 points for a tie or no result, and 1 bonus point available to a team winning a match with a run rate of 1.25 times that of the losing team.


2014 Intercity Football League
The 2014 Intercity Football League (known as the MediaTek Intercity Football League for sponsorship reasons) was the eighth season of the Intercity Football League since its establishment in 2007. The season began on 7 June 2014， Taipei City Tatung were the defending champions.


2014 Intercity Football League, Clubs
A total of 8 clubs will contest the league, including five sides from the 2013 season and three new clubs.


2014 Intercity Football League, Preliminary stage
The preliminary stage are held from May 16 to 18, 2014. All three matches are held in Bailing Stadium.


2014 Intercity Football League, Preliminary stage
The top two team qualified to the "2014 Intercity Football League".


2014 Intercity Football League, Standings and results
This season is divided into two half seasons, every team have their own home venue. Each half season's champion will have a final match to determine which is the final champion. If each half season's champion are the same team, then this team would be the champion of 2014 season.


2014 Intercity Football League, Final match
The winners from each season will play a match to determine which is the champion of 2014 season, and enter the 2015 AFC Cup play-off stage. As the winners from each season are the same team, so Taiwan Power Company win the 2015 AFC Cup play-off slot. However, due to their low AFC MAs' ranking, they can not participate in this tournament.


2014 Interim-Union budget of India
The Interim Union Budget of India for 2014–2015 was presented by Finance Minister, P.Chidambaram on 17 February 2014, 11 AM  publicly to the citizens of the India.


2014 Intermediate League World Series
The 2014 Intermediate League World Series took place from July 29–August 4 in Livermore, California, United States. Nogales, Arizona defeated San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico in the championship game.


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey
The 2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the second edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. It took place in Monterrey, Mexico, on 6–12 October 2014.


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey – Doubles
This was the doubles event in a professional tennis tournament in Monterrey, Mexico.


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey – Doubles
Florencia Molinero and Laura Pigossi were the defending champions, having won the event in 2013, but lost in the first round.


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey – Doubles
Lourdes Domínguez Lino and Mariana Duque won the title, defeating Elise Mertens and Arantxa Rus in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–4).


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey – Singles
Adriana Pérez was the defending champion, having won the event in 2013, but chose not to participate.


2014 Internacional Femenil Monterrey – Singles
An-Sophie Mestach won the title, defeating Lourdes Domínguez Lino in the final, 6–3, 7–5.


2014 International Bernese Ladies Cup
The 2014 International Bernese Ladies Cup was held from January 10 to 12 at the Curlingbahn Allmend in Bern, Switzerland as part of the 2013–14 World Curling Tour. The event was held in a triple-knockout format, and the purse for the event was CHF 20,500, of which the winner, Eve Muirhead, received CHF 6,000. Muirhead defeated Anna Sidorova of Russia in the final with a score of 6–3.


2014 International Challenge Cup
The 2014 International Challenge Cup was held from March 6 to 9, 2014 in The Hague. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles on the senior, advanced novice, and basic novice A levels, and pair skating at the senior and junior levels.


2014 International Champions Cup
The 2014 International Champions Cup (or ICC) was a friendly association football tournament played in the United States and Canada. It began on July 24 when Olympiacos defeated Milan 3–0 at BMO Field in Toronto, and ended on August 4 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This tournament followed the 2013 edition and was staged throughout the United States, with one match held in Canada (Toronto). The participating teams were Liverpool, Manchester City and Manchester United of England; Milan, Inter Milan and Roma of Italy; Olympiacos of Greece; and defending champions Real Madrid of Spain. Manchester United won the tournament, having beaten Liverpool 3–1 in the final.


2014 International Champions Cup
The group match between Real Madrid and Manchester United at Michigan Stadium had an attendance of 109,318, a record crowd for a soccer match in the United States.


2014 International Champions Cup, Format
The tournament consisted of two groups of four: Group A and Group B. The groups were played as a round-robin, with each team playing three matches. The winners of each group played in the final at the Sun Life Stadium on August 4.


2014 International Champions Cup, Format
Three points were awarded for a win in regulation time, two for a win by penalty shootout, one for a loss by penalty shootout, and zero for a loss in regulation time. A team's placing was based on (a) points earned in the three group matches (b) head-to-head result, (c) goal differential, (d) goals scored.


2014 International Championship
The 2014 International Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 26 October and 2 November 2014 at the Sichuan International Tennis Center in Chengdu, China. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2014/2015 season.


2014 International Championship
Ding Junhui was the defending champion, but he lost 5–6 against amateur Wang Zepeng in the qualifying round.


2014 International Championship
Ricky Walden won his third ranking title by defeating Mark Allen 10–7 in the final.


2014 International Championship, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2014 International Championship, Wildcard round
These matches were played in Chengdu on 26 October 2014.


2014 International Championship, Qualifying
These matches took place between 22 and 25 September 2014 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 11 frames.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election
The 2014 International Court of Justice election began on 6 November 2014 at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. In the set of triennial elections, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently elect five judges to the Court for nine-year terms, in this case beginning on 6 February 2015.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), based in The Hague, is one of the principal organs of the United Nations. Also known as the World Court, it adjudicates legal disputes between states, and provides advisory opinions on legal questions submitted by other UN organs or agencies.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background
The court consists of 15 judges, with five judges elected every three years. (In the case of death or other vacancy, a judge is elected for the remainder of the term.) Judges are required to be independent and impartial; they may not exercise any political or administrative function, and do not act as a representative of their home state.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background
Elections of members of the Court are governed by articles 2 through 15 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background
The five judges whose terms expire in February 2015, with their nationality, are:


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background
Judges Bennouna and Donoghue stood for re-election, while the other three did not.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
The General Assembly and the Security Council proceed, independently of one another, to elect five members of the Court.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of votes both in the General Assembly and in the Security Council. The words “absolute majority” are interpreted as meaning a majority of all electors, whether or not they vote or are allowed to vote. Thus 97 votes constitute an absolute majority in the General Assembly and 8 votes constitute an absolute majority in the Security Council (with no distinction being made between permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council).


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
Only those candidates whose names appear on the ballot papers are eligible for election. Each elector in the General Assembly and in the Security Council may vote for not more than five candidates on the first ballot and, on subsequent ballots for five less the number of candidates who have already obtained an absolute majority.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
When five candidates have obtained the required majority in one of the organs, the president of that organ notifies the president of the other organ of the names of the five candidates. The president of the latter does not communicate such names to the members of that organ until that organ itself has given five candidates the required majority of votes.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
After both the General Assembly and the Security Council have produced a list of five names that received an absolute majority of the votes, the two lists are compared. Any candidate appearing on both lists is elected. But if fewer than five candidates have been thus elected, the two organs proceed, again independently of one another, at a second meeting and, if necessary, a third meeting to elect candidates by further ballots for seats remaining vacant, the results again being compared after the required number of candidates have obtained an absolute majority in each organ.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
If after the third meeting, one or more seats still remain unfilled, the General Assembly and the Security Council may form a joint conference consisting of six members, three appointed by each organ. This joint conference may, by an absolute majority, agree upon one name for each seat still vacant and submit the name for the respective acceptance of the General Assembly and the Security Council. If the joint conference is unanimously agreed, it may submit the name of a person not included in the list of nominations, provided that candidate fulfills the required conditions of eligibility to be a judge on the ICJ.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Background, Election procedure
If the General Assembly and the Security Council ultimately are unable to fill one or more vacant seats, then the judges of the ICJ who have already been elected shall proceed to fill the vacant seats by selection from among those candidates who have obtained votes either in the General Assembly or in the Security Council. In the event of a tie vote among the judges, the eldest judge shall have a casting vote. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  United Nations document A/69/253–S/2014/521


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates, Qualifications
Article 2 of the Statute of the ICJ provides that judges shall be elected “from among persons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of recognized competence in international law”.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates, Nomination procedure
Nominations of candidates for election to the ICJ are made by individuals who sit on the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). For this purpose, members of the PCA act in "national groups" (i.e. all the PCA members from any individual country). (In the case of UN member states not represented in the PCA, the state in question may select up to four individuals to be its "national group" for the purpose of nominating candidates to the ICJ.)


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates, Nomination procedure
Every such "national group" may nominate up to four candidates, not more than two of whom shall be of their own nationality. Before making these nominations, each "national group" is recommended to consult its highest court of justice, its legal faculties and schools of law, and its national academies and national sections of international academies devoted to the study of law.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates, 2014 nominees
By a communication dated 31 January 2014, the Secretary-General of the United Nations invited the "national groups" to undertake the nomination of persons  as judges of the ICJ, and submit the nominations no later than 30 June 2014.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Candidates, 2014 nominees
The nominated candidates for the 2014 election are as follows:


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Election, Day 1
The Mauritanian delegation withdrew the candidacy of Jemal Agatt prior to the first round of voting. The Congolese and Madagascan delegations withdrew the candidacies of Sayeman Bula-Bula, and Eugénie Liliane Arivony respectively prior to the fourth round of voting in the General Assembly. Having received majority support in both the General Assembly and the Security Council, Mohamed Bennouna, James Crawford, Joan Donoghue, and Kirill Gevorgian were elected to the Court at the end of the first day of voting.


2014 International Court of Justice judges election, Election, Day 3
Prior to the third day of voting the Argentine delegation withdrew the candidacy of Susana Ruiz Cerutti.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election
Six judges of the International Criminal Court were elected during the 13th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court scheduled for 8 to 17 December 2014 in New York. The judges were elected for terms of nine years and took office on 11 March 2015.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Background
The judges elected at this session replaced those six judges which were elected at the second election of ICC judges in 2006 for a full term of nine years; they will also serve for nine years until 2024.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Background
The election was governed by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Its article 36(8)(a) states that "[t]he States Parties shall, in the selection of judges, take into account the need, within the membership of the Court, for:


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Background
Further rules of election were adopted by a resolution of the Assembly of States Parties in 2004.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Judges remaining in office
As of August 2014, the following judges are scheduled to remain in office beyond 2015:


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Nomination process
Following these rules, the nomination period of judges for the 2014 election lasts from 28 April to 20 July 2014. It was extended once due to the lack of candidates from Asia until 3 August 2014. The following persons were nominated as of 4 August 2014:


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
Minimum voting requirements govern part of the election. This is to ensure that article 36(8)(a) cited above was fulfilled. For this election, the following minimum voting requirements will exist; they will be adjusted once the election is underway.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
Assuming that there is no change in the bench, the voting requirements will be as follows:


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
Regarding the List A or B requirement, there are two seats reserved for List B judges. This requirement must be fulfilled under any circumstances.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
Regarding the regional criteria, there are three seats reserved for regional groups: two for the Eastern European States and one for the Asian States.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
Regarding the gender criteria, there is one seat reserved for male candidates.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
The regional and gender criteria can be adjusted even before the election depending on the number of candidates. Paragraph 20(b) of the ASP resolution that governs the elections states that if there are less than double the number of candidates required for each region, the minimum voting requirement would have been a (rounded-up) half of the number of candidates; except when there is only one candidate which would result in no voting requirement.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Minimum voting requirements
The regional and gender criteria will be dropped either if they are not (jointly) possible any more, or if after four ballots not all seats are filled.


2014 International Criminal Court judges election, Ballots
All results are from the ASP homepage if not otherwise noted.


2014 International Crown
The 2014 International Crown was a women's golf team event organized by the LPGA, played July 24–27 at the Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, a suburb northwest of Baltimore. This was the inaugural International Crown, a biennial match play event contested between teams of four players representing eight countries. The field in 2014 consisted of 31 professionals and one amateur, and the winning team, Spain, earned $400,000, or $100,000 per player.


2014 International Crown, Format
The first three days, Thursday through Saturday, featured round-robin pool play matches at fourball. Each match was worth two points for a win and one point for a halve. Following the completion of pool play, the top two teams in each pool and one wild card team (determined by a playoff of the third place teams) advanced to singles play. The five remaining teams were re-seeded based on points earned in pool play, and each team played one singles match against each of the other teams on Sunday. The total points earned in pool and singles play determined the team champion.


2014 International Crown, Teams
On November 13, 2013, eight teams qualified to participate in this event, based on the combined world rankings of the top four players from each country: Australia, Chinese Taipei, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. The team members were finalized on March 31, 2014, and divided into two pools. Due to a world rankings error, the teams from Australia and Chinese Taipei switched seeds and pools.


2014 International Crown, Teams, Revised
Late changes: for Japan, Rikako Morita declined to play; Shiho Oyama (ranked 47), the first alternate, also declined to play; Mamiko Higa (ranked 50) finalized the Japanese team.


2014 International Crown, Results, Day three pool play
Spain and Thailand advanced to singles played from pool A and Japan and Sweden advanced from pool B. The United States and South Korea each finished third in pool play and engaged in a sudden-death playoff for the wild card spot in singles play. Park and Ryu (KOR) eliminated Kerr and Thompson (USA) on the first playoff hole and South Korea advanced to singles play.


2014 International Crown, Results, Singles play
Spain swept its four singles matches and secured the title after the third win. Sweden and South Korea both won two matches while Japan and Thailand had one victory each.


2014 International Cup of Nice
The 2014 International Cup of Nice (French: 2014 Coupe Internationale de Nice) was the 19th edition of an international figure skating competition held in Nice, France. It was held on October 15–19, 2014. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior level, and in singles on the junior level.


2014 International GT Open
The 2014 International GT Open season was the ninth season of the International GT Open, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It began on 3 May at the Nürburgring and finished on 2 November, at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya after eight double-header meetings, and a total of sixteen races.


2014 International GT Open
The overall GT Open title – determined by race results within two specific classes as well as overall results – was claimed by SMP Racing Russian Bears duo Roman Mavlanov and Daniel Zampieri, taking three class and overall race wins over the course of the season. Mavlanov and Zampieri won the championship by 10 points ahead of V8 Racing's Nicky Pastorelli and Miguel Ramos. Pastorelli and Ramos won five races overall, and took two further victories in the Super GT class, taking the most wins over the course of the season.


2014 International GT Open
A point further behind in third place was 2013 champion Andrea Montermini, with team-mate Niccolò Schirò, at Scuderia Villorba Corse. Although Montermini and Schirò outscored Pastorelli and Ramos on gross scores, a dropped score per the series' sporting regulations cost the Villorba Corse duo the runner-up position. Montermini and Schirò took two race victories, at Jerez and Barcelona. Other overall wins were taken by Maxime Soulet, who won races at the Nürburgring with Nick Catsburg and Portimão with Isaac Tutumlu, while Tutumlu also shared a victory with Archie Hamilton at Spa-Francorchamps. The only overall win for a GTS car came in the final race of the season, as Viacheslav Maleev and José Manuel Pérez-Aicart – team-mates to Mavlanov and Zampieri – headed the field.


2014 International GT Open
In the respective class championships, Mavlanov and Zampieri won the Super GT drivers' championship by five points over Pastorelli and Ramos. Again, just like the overall championship, Montermini and Schirò outscored Pastorelli and Ramos on gross scores, but a dropped score per the series' sporting regulations cost the Villorba Corse duo the runner-up position. In GTS, AF Corse driver Giorgio Roda was crowned champion, having shared his car with Andrea Piccini, Paolo Ruberti and Marco Cioci over the course of the year.


2014 International GT Open
Roda won races at the Nürburgring and Monza, to win the title by nine points ahead of Pérez-Aicart, who won five races in class. Maleev finished third in class, after he missed the Silverstone round, where he was replaced by Joan Vinyes. In the teams' championships, V8 Racing won in Super GT by 51 points ahead of SMP Racing Russian Bears, while AF Corse comfortably won in GTS, finishing 123 points clear of their nearest rivals.


2014 International GT Open, Championship standings, Drivers' Championships
For the Drivers' Championships, the best 13 results counted towards the final championship standings. Any other results were discarded.


2014 International German Open
The 2014 International German Open (also known as the bet–at–home Open – German Tennis Championships 2014 for sponsorship reasons) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 108th edition of the event known that year as the International German Open and was part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2014 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany, from 14 July through 20 July 2014. Unseeded Leonardo Mayer won the singles title.


2014 International German Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 International German Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 International German Open – Doubles
Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski were the defending champions, but lost to David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco in the first round. Marin Draganja and Florin Mergea won the title, defeating Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2014 International German Open – Singles
Fabio Fognini was the defending champion, but lost to Filip Krajinović in the second round. Leonardo Mayer won the title, defeating David Ferrer in the final,  6–7(3–7), 6–1, 7–6(7–4).


2014 International German Open – Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2014 International Hill Climb Cup
The 2014 FIA International Hill Climb Cup was the first edition of the FIA International Hill Climb Cup, after the merging of the FIA European Hill Climb Cup and the FIA International Hill Climb Challenge. The season consisted of fourteen rounds, starting on 27 April with the Subida Internacional Ubrique Benaocaz in Spain, and ended on 5 October with the Bergrennen Mickhausen in Germany.


2014 International Hill Climb Cup
In Category 1, Bulgaria's Nikolay Zlatkov was the inaugural champion, winning three events during the season. He won the championship by 35 points ahead of Italian driver Fulvio Giuliani, who also won three events. Third place in the championship went to Karl Schagerl of Austria, who won his home event of the Sankt Andrae. The remaining events were shared between Igor Drotár, Andreas Gabat, Raúl Borreguero, Tomasz Nagorski and Tiago Reis, while Fausto Bormolini won the last two events during the season, but was ineligible to score championship points. In Category 2, Václav Janík of the Czech Republic was crowned champion by 21 points ahead of Switzerland's Tiziano Riva with another Czech driver, Jiří Svoboda, edging out Simone Faggioli by half a point for third place in the final championship standings.


2014 International Pfeffer Peace Award
The 2014 Pfeffer Peace Prize was awarded to Dr. Widad Akrawi for her struggle against illicit arms trading and her fight for equal rights.


2014 International Pfeffer Peace Award
According to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, she has created momentum in favor of a UN resolution on a strong and an effective Arms Trade Treaty to prevent the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons that might be used for acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, or terrorism, and lobbied for the UN Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict and the UN Resolution 2117 dedicated to halting illicit transfer, destabilizing accumulation, and misuse of small arms and light weapons around the world. Akrawi is an advocate for justice and peace, the first person from Kurdistan to win a Peace Prize, and the third person from Europe to win the Pfeffer Peace Prize after Diana Francis from England who shared the prize with Hildegard Goss-Mayr from Austria in 1990.


2014 International Pfeffer Peace Award, Motivation
In a press release, the Fellowship of Reconciliation indicated that it had chosen Dr. Akrawi for being the first young woman of Middle Eastern descent to advocate bans on the illicit trade of small arms and light weapons as well as sexual violence in times conflict. It stressed that "she has campaigned against gender-based violence, torture, and other human rights abuses" and is "an advocate of chemical and biological disarmament, conventional disarmament, and international peace and security." The Executive Director of FOR pointed out that the momentum Dr Akrawi created in favor of three UN resolutions "are outstanding contributions to shifting the current culture of violence," and that they were grateful for her work.


2014 International Pfeffer Peace Award, Dedication
Dr. Akrawi dedicated the award to the "50 million refugees who have been displaced as a direct result of conflict, persecution or the irresponsible transfer of conventional arms." She particularly mentioned the Yazidis, Christians, and all residents of Kobane region.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season
The 2014 International Premier Tennis League season (2014 IPTL season, officially the 2014 Coca-Cola International Premier Tennis League Presented by Qatar Airways season pursuant to sponsorship agreements with The Coca-Cola Company and Qatar Airways) is the inaugural season of the professional team tennis league contested by four teams in Asia.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Competition format
Four teams will compete for the IPTL Challenge Trophy and a US$1 million grand prize by earning the most points in the team standings. A team that wins a match tie is awarded four points. A team that loses a match tie but wins at least 20 games in the match earns two points. A team that loses a match tie but wins at least 10 games earns one point. Each team will play 12 matches: three at home, three on the road and six at neutral sites. Each match comprises five sets each of a different category as follows:


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Competition format
The order of play is decided by the coach of the home team. If two teams are playing at a neutral site, then a coin toss determines which coach chooses the order of play. The first serve in the first set is determined by a coin toss. The team that served last in the last game or tiebreaker of the previous set will receive during the next set.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Competition format
Each team can call a power point once in each set when receiving serve, and the next point played will count double. Effectively, a player trailing 15–0 can directly get to 15–30 by winning the power point.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Competition format
Games are played to four points using no-ad scoring. Each game won by a player or doubles team adds one point to the team's score in the match. The team with the most points at the end of the five sets wins the match. Each set is won when a team is the first to reach six games won. If the score is five-games-all, a timed five-minute shoot-out will be played. The player or doubles team leading at the end of five minutes wins the set.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Competition format
If the team that wins the fifth set is leading the match, the match is over. If the score is tied after one team has won the fifth set, a timed seven-minute men's singles super shoot-out is played. The result counts as a game point won. If the team that wins the fifth set is trailing in the match, the match will go to sudden-death overtime effectively extending the fifth set. If the leading team wins one game in overtime, it wins the match tie. If the trailing team wins enough games in overtime to tie the score without losing a game, a timed seven-minute men's singles super shoot-out is played to decide the winner of the match tie. A coin toss decides who serves first in the super shoot-out.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Competition format
In the event that two or more teams share the highest points on the final tally, the criteria to decide the champion are


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
Mahesh Bhupathi announced the founding of the International Premier Tennis League on 25 May 2013, in Paris. The initial plan was to start the league with six charter franchises in Asia with the inaugural season commencing in November 2014.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
On 21 January 2014, IPTL announced the locations of the six charter franchises for the league's inaugural season. Five franchises would play their home matches in Bangkok, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai and Singapore. A sixth franchise would play its home matches in an undisclosed city in the Middle East. There was confusion surrounding the announcement. Some media outlets reported that there would be five franchises, not six as had been previously announced, and did not include the Hong Kong franchise among the five. Later news reports in February 2014, indicated that there would be five franchises including one based in Hong Kong but not one in the Middle East.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
IPTL conducted its inaugural player draft on 2 March. Right up until the day before the draft, the media remained under the impression that the Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur franchises would participate in the league and that the Middle East franchise was doubtful. However, only four teams participated in the draft: Bangkok, Mumbai, Singapore and Middle East now referred to as the Dubai franchise. No mention was made by IPTL of the Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur franchises which had abruptly disappeared.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
By May, the Dubai franchise was being referred to as the UAE Falcons, the Mumbai franchise had been named the Indian Aces, and the Singapore franchise was being referred to as the Singapore Lions.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
On 10 May, IPTL announced that the Bangkok franchise would be moved to Manila, Philippines due to political unrest in Thailand.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
On 19 June, an IPTL press release revealed the owners of the four franchises to the general public. The owner of the Indian franchise, Micromax Informatics Ltd. proved to be the reason the team was no longer called the Mumbai franchise, because it preferred to have the team play its home matches in New Delhi. A group called PVP Ventures led by entrepreneur Prasad V Potluri (Telugu: ప్రసాద్ వి పొట్లూరి) and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar had been the original franchise owners with a plan to play home matches in Mumbai.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
While league managing director Bhupathi said PVP Ventures had been replaced by Micromax, because PVP missed a payment deadline, PVP said it had withdrawn from the league due to lack of clarity over how IPTL's business model was progressing and disagreements over player contracts. PVP did not want the team to be solely responsible for payment of player salaries and favored  the league being obligated as well.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Founding of the league and charter franchises
By June, the Manila franchise had been named the Manila Mavericks, the Falcons had become the UAE Royals and the Lions had become the Singapore Slammers.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Inaugural draft
For the inaugural draft, each team was subject to a salary cap of US$10 million. Players who had expressed a willingness to participate were selected by the league and placed into categories. Teams could bid on these players with the player signing with the highest bidder in an auction-style format. Bids would be taken on 28 players in which the teams expressed interest in signing including players not categorized by IPTL. Each team participating in the draft was required to sign at least six players and could not sign more than ten.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Inaugural draft, Draft results
Four charter franchises (Bangkok, Dubai, Indian Aces and Singapore) participated in the draft held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 2 March 2014.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Standings
Standings are determined by points with four points awarded for each match won, two points awarded for each match lost in which te team won 20 or more games and one point awarded for each match lost in which the team won between 10 and 19 games. In case of a tie in point, teams are placed by games won percentage.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Standings, Position summary
The following table shows the day-by-day position of each team in the league standings.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Television coverage
On 22 August 2014, IPTL announced it had reached an agreement for the Middle East and North Africa television broadcasting rights with Abu Dhabi Media. On 16 October 2014, IPTL announced that STAR Sports would broadcast the league's matches live in both standard definition and high definition in India during its inaugural 2014 season. The league's matches will also be available live on STAR Sports's website. On 4 November 2014, Integrated Sports Media announced it had reached a deal with IPTL to televise every league match of the 2014 season on a pay-per-view basis in the United States. On 7 November 2014, IPTL announced it had reached agreements on television broadcast contracts with ABS-CBN in the Philippines and SingTel in Singapore. ABS-CBN will telecast the matches in the Philippines on the ABS-CBN Sports+Action and Balls channels.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Television coverage
The league also said there would be television coverage of its matches in the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Southeast Asia,  Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil. In total, television coverage of IPTL matches will be available in more than 125 countries worldwide and reach over 300 million households.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Sponsorship
On 3 November 2014, IPTL announced that The Coca-Cola Company had become the league's title sponsor.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Sponsorship
On 26 November 2014, IPTL announced that Qatar Airways had become the league's presenting sponsor.


2014 International Premier Tennis League season, Result
The 1st season of IPTL was won by the Micromax Indian Aces with the runners-up being the Musafir.com UAE Royals


2014 International Rules Series
The 2014 International Rules Series (officially the 2014 Virgin Australia International Rules Test) was contested between Gaelic footballers from Ireland and Australian footballers from Australia. The 18th series of international rules football since the concept's inception in 1984, Ireland entered as defending champions, with Australia seeking their first series win since 2010. The match was played at Perth's Patersons Stadium on Saturday 22 November.


2014 International Rules Series
Unlike previous years, the series was reduced to a single one-off test match, which Australia won 56-46 to record their first series win in four years and the Cormac McAnallen Cup. The win also levelled the overall series wins between the two sides at 9-9. Selection eligibility was again altered for the Australian team, with only players previously selected in an All-Australian team eligible to represent Australia.


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Australian team
For the first time since 2004 only players selected for any All-Australian team were eligible for selection to represent Australia. The change was made so as to attempt to boost public interest in the series. In April 2014, the AFL announced that 2008 and 2013 Hawthorn premiership coach Alastair Clarkson would coach the Australian side and that Collingwood club president and public figure Eddie McGuire would take on the promotional role of Chef de Mission.


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Australian team
McGuire stated of the series a need to recapture the prestige associated with playing for Australia; "putting the coat of arms over our hearts again to take on the Irish ... we'll turn this into something special. We will make sure only the very best players will be picked in the first place and that they will be desperate to play".


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Australian team
In July 2014, AFL executives announced that Fremantle 2013 Grand Final coach Ross Lyon would be Australia's assistant coach for the test match and that multiple All-Australian players Luke Hodge, Scott Pendlebury, Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield had committed to representing Australia. The league subsequently announced that Geelong premiership coach Chris Scott would join the coaching panel as a second assistant coach. The Australian jersey for the test match was announced on 4 October, with the inclusion of the green and gold v-design a significant point of difference from previous designs. In November, three-time premiership player and Geelong captain Joel Selwood was selected as captain of the Australian team.


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Australian team
The squad was announced in October 2014. Due to the eligibility criteria of having been selected for an All-Australian team, Brownlow medalist Matt Priddis couldn't be selected. Star trio of Gary Ablett, Lance Franklin and Scott Pendlebury were notable absentees, being ruled out because of injuries. Fremantle best and fairest Nat Fyfe, originally selected for the test match, was ruled out of the match after sustaining a shoulder injury during Australia's warm up win over a New South Wales Gaelic football team. The Australian team and the series itself was sponsored chiefly by airline company Virgin Australia, with the company logo featuring prominently on the Australian team jersey. The Seven Network and its digital multichannel 7mate broadcast the match in Australia and Sommet Sports broadcast the match in New Zealand.


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Irish team
Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) president Liam O'Neill announced in April 2014 that former Roscommon footballer Paul Earley would once again serve as manager and coach of the Irish team, joined by a back room team identical to the 2013 series, including Tony Scullion (Derry), Seamus McCarthy (Tipperary), Jarlath Fallon (Galway) and Nicholas Walsh (Cavan/GWS Giants). The Irish team will be sponsored on the team jersey and sports kits by live stream service GAAGO. Irish language TV network TG4 will broadcast the test match live into Ireland.


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Irish team
Ireland plan without reigning Footballer of the Year Michael Darragh MacAuley (broken finger) and last year's Player of the Series Ciarán Sheehan, who is tied to AFL club Carlton. Last year's captain Michael Murphy and fellow 2014 All-Ireland finalists with Donegal, Patrick McBrearty and Neil McGee, all returned.


2014 International Rules Series, Background, Irish team
The Irish touring squad was announced on 28 October 2014. Donegal's All-Ireland winning captain Michael Murphy was again selected for the role of captain of the national team, while Cork's Aidan Walsh was selected as vice-captain. In total, 15 counties are included across the 25 man squad, Mayo leading the way with four Irish-based players and Brisbane Lions prolific back-man Pearce Hanley being the only AFL player selected in the side. All-Ireland champions Kerry feature only one member in the team.


2014 International Rules Series, Rule changes
It was announced that several rule changes would be made for the 2014 test match so as to accommodate key position Australian players seeking opportunity to compete. In July 2014, the AFL and GAA introduced several rule changes:


2014 International Rules Series, Squads
† Nat Fyfe was selected in the Australian team though did not participate in the test match after being injured in the warm-up match


2014 International Rules Series, Squads
† Niall Morgan and Padraig O'Neill were selected in the Ireland squad, though did not participate in the test match after failing to make the final 23-man team


2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina
The 2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy between 28 July and 3 August 2014.


2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received a special exemption into the singles main draw:


2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry by a lucky loser spot:


2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina – Doubles
Iñigo Cervantes Huegun and Juan Lizariturry became the inaugural doubles champions, beating Lee Hsin-han and Vahid Mirzadeh 7–5, 3–6, [10–8]


2014 International Tennis Tournament of Cortina – Singles
Filip Krajinović won the inaugural tournament by defeating Federico Gaio 2–6, 7–6(7–5), 7–5


2014 International Tournament of Spain
The 2014 International Tournament of Spain was the 18th edition of the International Tournament of Spain held in Fuengirola, Spain between 28–30 November as a women's friendly handball tournament organised by the Royal Spanish Handball Federation.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship
The 2014 International V8 Supercars Championship (often simplified to the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship) was an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for V8 Supercars. It was the sixteenth running of the V8 Supercars Championship and the eighteenth series in which V8 Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship
Volvo entered the championship with a factory team in a collaboration with Garry Rogers Motorsport and its motorsport arm, Polestar Racing. The team raced the Volvo S60 under the Volvo Polestar Racing brand. It was the first time that Volvo has competed in the Australian Touring Car Championship since Robbie Francevic won the title driving a Volvo 240T in 1986.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship
Jamie Whincup successfully defended his drivers' championship, securing a record sixth title at Phillip Island, surpassing the previous record of five held by Ian Geoghegan, Dick Johnson and Mark Skaife. His team, Triple Eight Race Engineering, also retained the teams' championship. Whincup and co-driver Paul Dumbrell won the Endurance Cup, taking wins at the Sandown 500 and the Gold Coast 600.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Teams and drivers
Twenty-five cars contested the full 2014 championship, down from twenty-eight in 2013.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Season calendar, Calendar changes
The series did not return to the Circuit of the Americas in the United States. The championship returned to Sydney Motorsport Park for the Sydney Motorsport Park 400, having last raced at the circuit in 2012. The event used the Gardner Circuit configuration. The addition of the Sydney Motorsport Park event in August saw the Winton 400 move from August to April.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Season calendar, Format changes
There were two formats used for events outside of the Endurance Cup. "Super Street" events were held at the Clipsal 500, Townsville and Sydney 500 events, with a pair of 125-kilometre races held on Saturday and a 250-kilometre race held on Sunday. All other events featured the "Super Sprint" format, with two 100-kilometre races held on Saturday and a single 200-kilometre race held on Sunday, though the Pukekohe event included an additional 100-kilometre race held on Friday. The Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000 and the Gold Coast 600 – races counting towards the Endurance Cup – retained their respective event formats of a single 500-kilometre, 1000-kilometre and two 300-kilometre races. The 60/60 Sprint format, introduced in 2013, was discontinued.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Season calendar, Format changes
A number of races. including the first race of the Clipsal 500, were held at twilight, coinciding with prime time television broadcasts. The last event held under lights was the opening round of the 1997 season, held at Calder Park Raceway.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Rule changes
2014 saw practice sessions become time-certain, whereby the session finished after a designated amount of time with no allowance for session interruptions, such as red flags. Qualifying sessions run on the same day as each other were allowed a fifteen-minute extension shared between the sessions if required. Additional practice sessions were held at the Winton, Queensland Raceway and Sydney Motorsport Park events.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Rule changes
The 2014 season saw changes to the regulations regarding abandoned starts which require an additional formation lap and for the suspension and resumption of races in the case of a red flag. The procedure used for safety car restarts was also revised. Previously, the lead car controlled the pace until the safety car entered the pit lane at which point the lead car could accelerate.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Rule changes
The new rules dictated that the lead car must maintain a speed between fifty and sixty kilometres-per-hour until it reached the "Acceleration Zone" located before the control line – mimicking the restart procedure used for the second half of the 60/60 Sprint format used in 2013 – at which point the driver could accelerate and racing resumed. This was in response to several incidents where the lead car accelerated too early on the safety car restart, most notably at the 2013 Austin 400 where Fabian Coulthard, Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes were penalised for the infringement.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Rule changes
Following the Clipsal 500, where Jason Bright's car had rolled following a safety car restart, the restart procedure was reviewed and changed for the second event of the championship. The Acceleration Zone was lengthened and the lead-up speed was raised to be between sixty and eighty kilometres-per-hour. Drivers were no longer allowed to overtake prior to the control line. The safety car restart procedure was eventually changed back to the 2013 system, with Todd Kelly stating that the 2014 procedure had been difficult to manage for the drivers.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Rule changes
Cars were required to take on a specified amount of fuel in the Sunday race at all events bar the Endurance Cup events.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Clipsal 500 Adelaide
Craig Lowndes left the first event of the championship leading the points standings ahead of Fabian Coulthard and Shane van Gisbergen. Lowndes' teammate Jamie Whincup won the first race of the weekend ahead of Lowndes and van Gisbergen. Lowndes then won the second race ahead of Scott McLaughlin—in a strong début for the Volvo S60—and Whincup. James Courtney lost the passenger-side front door of his car after contact with Lee Holdsworth. Courtney recovered to take the win in the third race ahead of Lowndes and van Gisbergen. The third race saw a number of incidents occur.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Clipsal 500 Adelaide
Will Davison made heavy contact with the wall at turn eight after a touch from James Moffat, sustaining significant damage to his car. After the safety car period to recover Davison's car, Jason Bright rolled at the Senna Chicane following contact with Garth Tander and Tim Slade with Holdsworth, Scott Pye and Chaz Mostert also suffering significant damage. Nick Percat also crashed at turn eight while running third in the closing stages.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Clipsal 500 Adelaide
Controversial penalties were awarded to van Gisbergen and Rick Kelly, who were alleged to be travelling too quickly at the first safety car restart, and to Whincup, whose car controller was deemed to have worked on the car during his second pit stop. Whincup made contact with Michael Caruso while making his way back through the field, forcing both cars to pit for a lengthy period.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Tyrepower Tasmania 400
Triple Eight Race Engineering dominated the second event of the championship. Jamie Whincup took pole position and Craig Lowndes qualified in second for all three races, though Lowndes was disqualified from the second qualifying session due to a technical infringement. Whincup won the first race, after a controversial incident with Lowndes while the pair battled for the lead, ahead of James Courtney and Mark Winterbottom. Todd and Rick Kelly both failed to finish after suspension and brake failures respectively.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Tyrepower Tasmania 400
Whincup also won the second race, ahead of Winterbottom and Fabian Coulthard, while Lowndes made his way from the back of the grid to fifth place. Lowndes recovered to take a strong win in the third race, with Whincup finishing second and Courtney third. Will Davison finished fourth, equalling Erebus Motorsport's best result in the series. Lowndes maintained his lead in the championship, while Whincup moved up from seventh to second, 70 points behind his teammate.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Winton 400
The Winton 400 saw three different drivers and manufacturers win each of the three races. Fabian Coulthard scored pole for both of the Saturday races and went on to win the first race ahead of Shane van Gisbergen and Dale Wood, who achieved his first podium finish in the series. Russell Ingall, after fitting new tyres during a safety car period, received a drive-through penalty while on course for a podium finish, leading to him labelling the race stewards as "peanuts" in a post-race interview.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Winton 400
Lee Holdsworth gave Erebus Motorsport and Mercedes-Benz their first victories in the series by winning the second race ahead of Mark Winterbottom and Coulthard. Scott McLaughlin took his maiden pole position in qualifying for the Sunday race but he was one of five drivers to be given a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane. Winterbottom took his and Ford's first win of the year in front of James Courtney and Tim Slade. Craig Lowndes held on to the championship lead despite a troublesome weekend, with Winterbottom moving up to second, 28 points off the lead.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, ITM 500 Auckland
Mark Winterbottom won the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy after dominating the weekend in New Zealand. The 2013 Jason Richards Memorial Trophy winner, Jason Bright, started the event strongly by taking pole for the first race and going on to win after early leader Jamie Whincup had steering problems. Shane van Gisbergen and Craig Lowndes completed the podium, while David Wall was put out for the rest of the weekend after contact with Chaz Mostert at the final corner caused his car to make heavy contact with the wall.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, ITM 500 Auckland
Winterbottom won the first of the Saturday races ahead of polesitter James Courtney and Mostert. Van Gisbergen won the second Saturday race, holding off a late charge from Winterbottom, with Scott McLaughlin in third after starting from pole. McLaughlin again took pole for the Sunday race but was beaten by Winterbottom in the race, with Mostert finishing third for the second time during the weekend. Tim Slade had qualified on the front row, but his car had a clutch problem on the formation lap, causing an aborted start and forcing him to start from the pit lane. With Lowndes struggling during the weekend, Winterbottom left the event with a 107-point lead in the championship.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Perth 400
Scott McLaughlin won the first race of the Perth 400, giving Volvo its first win in the series since 1986. Fabian Coulthard and Chaz Mostert completed the podium. Triple Eight Race Engineering returned to form after a run of poor results, with Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup finishing first and third respectively in the second race, split by championship leader Mark Winterbottom. Mostert took his first victory for Ford Performance Racing by winning the third race ahead of Lowndes and Winterbottom. All cars run by the Holden Racing Team and Erebus Motorsport suffered punctures, forcing their drivers down the order. Lowndes trimmed Winterbottom's championship lead to 101 points, while Whincup moved past James Courtney for fourth.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Skycity Triple Crown
Triple Eight Race Engineering dominated the first two races of the Skycity Triple Crown, with Jamie Whincup taking pole position for both races and leading home Craig Lowndes in each. Shane van Gisbergen and Fabian Coulthard completed the podium in each race. Lowndes took pole for the third race, which saw a variety of strategies used by the teams. After using an alternate strategy and starting on hard tyres, as opposed to soft tyres used by most of the frontrunners, Lowndes and Whincup attempted to move forwards in the middle section of the race.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Skycity Triple Crown
Lowndes made contact with the rear of Chaz Mostert's car, puncturing his tyre and dropping him down the order. Mark Winterbottom led in the closing stages, having run soft tyres for the entire race, with Whincup and van Gisbergen behind on fresher soft tyres. Whincup let van Gisbergen through to try to catch Winterbottom but he was not able to do so and Winterbottom held on for the win. With Lowndes finishing seventeenth, Winterbottom extended his championship lead to 161 points.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Castrol Townsville 500
The seventh event in Townsville saw Craig Lowndes lose ground in the championship race. On the opening lap of race one, Lowndes made contact with both Garth Tander and James Courtney before being spun into the wall by Will Davison, failing to finish a race for the first time since 2012. Lowndes and Davison both received points penalties for their roles in each incident, while Todd Kelly also received a points penalty for an incident with Jack Perkins. Lowndes' teammate Jamie Whincup capitalised to win the race ahead of a recovering Tander and Davison.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Castrol Townsville 500
Tander went on to win the second race with Courtney in second place, while polesitter Fabian Coulthard finished third. Lowndes had more problems on Sunday, with a grid penalty dropping him from first to third on the grid, gifting pole to Jason Bright, before an overheating engine dropped him to twenty-third position. Whincup won again, with Tander in second and Shane van Gisbergen in third. Championship leader Mark Winterbottom qualified poorly during the weekend, but managed to finish in the top ten in two of the races to maintain his series lead, with Whincup moving up to second, 96 points behind, and Lowndes dropping to sixth behind Coulthard, van Gisbergen and Courtney.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Coates Hire Ipswich 400
The Ipswich 400 saw the championship lead change hands, with Jamie Whincup moving ahead of Mark Winterbottom. Whincup won both of the Saturday races ahead of his teammate Craig Lowndes. Lowndes had started from pole in the first race but Whincup passed him towards the end of the race to take the win, with Scott McLaughlin finishing behind the pair. McLaughlin, from pole, and Michael Caruso led Whincup and Lowndes for most of the second race. Caruso attempted to pass McLaughlin, but he nudged the Volvo into a spin and received a drive-through penalty.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Coates Hire Ipswich 400
Whincup then held off Lowndes to win the race, with Chaz Mostert finishing third. The Sunday race saw James Moffat take his first career pole position and the first for Nissan since the company returned to the series. James Courtney won the race after starting from second on the grid, with Lowndes in second and Mostert third. Scott Pye scored a career-best result with fourth. Moffat finished fifth after going off the track while attempting to pass Mostert on the final lap. Whincup finished sixth, which was enough to take the championship lead after a tyre puncture for Winterbottom dropped him to twenty-second place.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Sydney Motorsport Park 400
Jamie Whincup took his 58th career pole position in the first race of the Sydney Motorsport Park 400, breaking Peter Brock's long-standing record of 57, while Scott McLaughlin took pole for the second race. The two Saturday races were the first championship races in nearly three years to be held in wet conditions, with Shane van Gisbergen taking both wins. Garth Tander and Craig Lowndes completed the podium in the first race, with Chaz Mostert and Whincup taking second and third respectively in the second.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Sydney Motorsport Park 400
McLaughlin failed to finish both races: his car suffered an engine failure in the first race while he was running in second and a wheel detached on the opening lap of the second race. Tim Slade and Robert Dahlgren were both eliminated from the weekend after accidents during the two races. McLaughlin bounced back by winning the Sunday race from pole position, ahead of Nick Percat, who scored his first podium finish as a full-time driver, and Fabian Coulthard. Mark Winterbottom was given a drive-through penalty for causing an incident which saw the cars of David Reynolds and Scott Pye suffer significant damage. With Whincup finishing fifth, the end of the weekend saw Whincup leading Winterbottom by 135 points in the championship standings.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Wilson Security Sandown 500
Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell dominated the Wilson Security Sandown 500, securing pole position and leading 150 of the 161 laps on their way to victory. The two Holden Racing Team cars filled the podium, with James Courtney and Greg Murphy finishing ahead of Garth Tander and Warren Luff. Mark Winterbottom fell to third in the championship standings behind Craig Lowndes, after Winterbottom and Steve Owen could only finish tenth while Lowndes and Steven Richards finished fourth.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Wilson Security Sandown 500
Lee Holdsworth had a high-speed crash when his car suffered a mechanical failure at the end of the back straight, resulting in heavy contact with the tyre barrier. A wheel was torn off in the accident, which was collected by Jason Bright, forcing he and Andrew Jones out of the race. The only other retirement was the car of James Moffat and Taz Douglas, whose car was retired when the team were unable to disconnect the fuel hose from the car during their first pit stop.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
Ford Performance Racing won its second consecutive Bathurst 1000, with Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris taking victory, from last place on the grid, over James Moffat and Taz Douglas, driving for Nissan Motorsport, and Nick Percat and Oliver Gavin, driving for James Rosenberg Racing. Jamie Whincup, driving with Paul Dumbrell, led for most of the final lap but ran out of fuel at Forrest's Elbow and dropped to fifth. The pole-sitting car of Shane van Gisbergen and Jonathon Webb were in contention until van Gisbergen stalled in the final pit stop and the car would not restart.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
Other leading contenders had various issues throughout the day. Scott McLaughlin and Alexandre Prémat led the most laps but were forced out of contention when McLaughlin hit the wall after being passed by van Gisbergen. Craig Lowndes received a drive-through penalty for spinning Mark Winterbottom in the closing stages, with the two cars finishing tenth and sixth respectively. David Reynolds and Dean Canto had an alternator failure while running second.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000
The Holden Racing Team had a difficult weekend, with the car of Garth Tander and Warren Luff being withdrawn from the event after a major crash in Saturday practice, while James Courtney and Greg Murphy suffered electrical problems throughout the race. The race was the longest in history at seven hours and fifty-eight minutes, including a one-hour red flag period in the middle of the race to enable track repairs to be carried out. Despite finishing fifth, Whincup extended his championship lead with Winterbottom overtaking Lowndes for second place.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Castrol Edge Gold Coast 600
The Gold Coast 600 saw Jamie Whincup further extend his championship lead. Whincup and co-driver Paul Dumbrell finished runner-up in the Saturday race before going on to win the Sunday race. Shane van Gisbergen and Jonathon Webb won from pole on Saturday but incurred a drive-through penalty in the Sunday race and finished fifth. Tony D'Alberto, Alexandre Prémat and Dean Fiore all scored their first podium finish in V8 Supercars during the weekend, with D'Alberto and Tim Slade finishing third on Saturday, while Prémat and Scott McLaughlin finished second on Sunday ahead of Fiore and Michael Caruso.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Castrol Edge Gold Coast 600
The Sunday result also saw the second podium finish of the season for Nissan. Whincup's championship rivals had difficult weekends, with Mark Winterbottom being relegated from the podium on Saturday after bumping and passing Slade at the final corner and suffering an engine problem late in the Sunday race before being spun by Russell Ingall. Craig Lowndes suffered damage in the Saturday race and finished eighteenth and was hurt by strategy on Sunday. With Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris struggling during the weekend, Whincup and Dumbrell easily secured the Endurance Cup.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Plus Fitness Phillip Island 400
Jamie Whincup secured a record-breaking sixth championship at Phillip Island, with a third place and a victory in the Saturday races giving him an unassailable points lead with four races remaining. Scott McLaughlin won the first of the Saturday races ahead of Craig Lowndes and Whincup, while Whincup's closest championship rival, Mark Winterbottom, finished twenty-fourth after going off the circuit. Winterbottom recovered to finish third behind Whincup and Lowndes in the second race, his first podium finish since Hidden Valley.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Plus Fitness Phillip Island 400
Shane van Gisbergen and Fabian Coulthard endured a difficult day after a collision in qualifying damaged both of their cars, causing them to start from the back of the grid for both races. Garth Tander was on course to take victory in the Sunday race before running out of fuel coming out of the final corner, allowing McLaughlin to take the win. Tander finished second ahead of Winterbottom and Whincup.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Sydney NRMA 500
The final round of the championship was affected by storms in and around Sydney, with heavy rain causing two of the three races to be stopped just after half distance. Former series champion Marcos Ambrose returned to the series as a wildcard entry, having last competed in 2005. Ambrose and Craig Lowndes crashed in the first qualifying session. The resulting red flag gave Erebus Motorsport its first pole position, with Will Davison going quickest ahead of Jamie Whincup. Whincup won the first race in dry conditions ahead of Tim Slade and David Reynolds.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Sydney NRMA 500
Despite starting fourth in the second race, Whincup took the lead at the first corner from polesitter Jason Bright. The race was red-flagged after 19 of the 37 laps due to heavy rain before being restarted under safety car conditions to allow the field to complete enough laps for full championship points to be awarded. Shane van Gisbergen and Scott McLaughlin rounded out the podium with Bright in fourth. McLaughlin took his tenth pole position of the season for the Sunday race but could only manage to finish eighth.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Event summaries, Sydney NRMA 500
Conditions similar to those in the second race caused another red flag after 44 of the 74 laps. The race was eventually abandoned and van Gisbergen was declared the winner ahead of Garth Tander and James Courtney. The result saw van Gisbergen take second in the championship ahead of Mark Winterbottom and Lowndes.


2014 International V8 Supercars Championship, Championship standings, Points system
Points were awarded for each race at an event, to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race, up to a maximum of 300 points per event.


2014 International Women's Club Championship
The 2014 International Women's Club Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the Nestlé Cup, was the third worldwide international women's football club tournament, held in Japan from 30 November to 6 December 2014.


2014 International Women's Club Championship, Participating teams
Jiangsu Huatai from China won the last open spot by winning a qualifying tournament, called the Asian Women's Club Championship by some sources. As with the previous edition the UEFA Champions League winners Wolfsburg didn't participate.


2014 International Women's Club Championship, Prize-pool
The total prize-pool was 10 million Yen (about $85,000) for all teams combined.


2014 International Women's Football Tournament of Brasília
The 2014 Torneio Internacional de Brasília de Futebol Feminino (also known as the 2014 International Tournament of Brasilia) was the sixth edition of the Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino, an invitational women's football tournament held every December in Brazil. The tournament ran from December 10–21, 2014.


2014 International Women's Football Tournament of Brasília, Format
In the first phase, the four teams play each other within the group in a single round. The two teams with the most points earned in the respective group, qualify for the next phase. In the final stage, the first and second teams placed in the Group contest the final. If the match ends in a tie, the team with the best record in the first phase is declared the winner. The third and fourth teams placed in the group contest the third place play-off. If the match ends in a tie, the team with the best record in the first phase is declared the winner.


2014 International Women's Football Tournament of Brasília, Venues
All matches took place at Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha in Brasília.


2014 International Women's Football Tournament of Brasília, Knockout stage
No penalty shoot-out were held. If tied, the team with better group stage record win the match. Thus China finished third and Brazil won the tournament.


2014 Internationale Jänner Rallye
The 2014 Internationale Jänner Rallye was the first round of the 2014 European Rally Championship season, held in Austria between 3–5 January 2014.


2014 Internationale Jänner Rallye
The rally was won by ex-Formula One driver and WRC-2 champion Robert Kubica and co-driver Maciej Szczepaniak.


2014 Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
The 2014 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen is the 27th edition of the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, a women's cycling stage race in Germany. It is rated by the UCI as a category 2.1 race and is held between 14 and 20 July 2014.


2014 Internationaux Féminins de la Vienne
The 2014 Internationaux Féminins de la Vienne was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 18th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000 in prize money. It took place in Poitiers, France, on 20–26 October 2014.


2014 Internationaux Féminins de la Vienne, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internationaux Féminins de la Vienne – Doubles
Lucie Hradecká and Michaëlla Krajicek were the defending champions, however Krajicek chose not to participate. Hradecká paired up with Andrea Hlaváčková as the top seeds and went on to win the tournament, defeating Katarzyna Piter and Maryna Zanevska in the final, 6–1, 7–5.


2014 Internationaux Féminins de la Vienne – Singles
Aliaksandra Sasnovich was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Tímea Babos.


2014 Internationaux Féminins de la Vienne – Singles
Babos went on to win the tournament, defeating Océane Dodin in the final, 6–3, 4–6, 7–5.


2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg
The 2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 28th edition of the tournament and was part of the International-level tournament category of the 2014 WTA Tour. It took place in Strasbourg, France, on 19–24 May 2014.


2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Doubles
Kimiko Date-Krumm and Chanelle Scheepers were the defending champions but chose not to participate this year. Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua won the title, defeating Tatiana Búa and Daniela Seguel in the final, 4–6, 7–5, [10–4].


2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Singles
Alizé Cornet was the defending champion, but lost to Camila Giorgi in the first round.


2014 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Singles
Monica Puig won her first WTA title, defeating Sílvia Soler Espinosa in the final 6–4, 6–3.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois
The 2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois is a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It is the second edition of the tournament which is part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It takes place in Blois, France between 9 and 15 June 2014.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois, Singles main draw entrants, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pair received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois – Doubles
Jonathan Eysseric and Nicolas Renavand were the defending champions, but chose not to compete.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois – Doubles
Tristan Lamasine and Laurent Lokoli won the title, defeating Guillermo Durán and Máximo González in the final, 7–5, 6–0.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois – Singles
Julian Reister was the defending champion but chose not to compete.


2014 Internationaux de Tennis de Blois – Singles
Máximo González won the title, defeating Gastão Elias in the final, 6–2, 6–3.