2014 South Napa earthquake, Earthquake, Hydrologic effects
The event was credited with large, temporary increases in the water flow of several nearby streams, including Carriger Creek, Calabasas Creek, Felder Creek, Sonoma Creek, Tulocay Creek, Green Valley Creek, and Wild Horse Creek. In addition, the water levels of several wells in the Sonoma Valley rose suddenly at the time of the quake, in one instance by 5 feet (1.5 m).


2014 South Napa earthquake, Earthquake, Fault creep
In the following months, geologists studying the effects of the event warned that a potential afterslip could cause the previously unmapped portion of the fault in the Browns Valley area of Napa to slowly move up to another 6 inches (150 mm) in the next 3 years.


2014 South Napa earthquake, Earthquake warning
An experimental earthquake warning system being developed by the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory issued a warning upon detecting the P-waves five seconds before the slower, more destructive S-waves arrived in Berkeley. Initially this was reported to be a 10-second warning in Berkeley, but revised information indicates only a 5-second warning was provided. This means the S-waves had already arrived in Napa and Vallejo when the warning was issued.


2014 South Napa earthquake, Earthquake warning
Seismic Warning Systems, Inc., a private earthquake warning company based in Scotts Valley, CA, had installed on-site warning systems at five fire stations in Vallejo in 2002 and 2003. These systems commanded the bay doors to open at these fire stations between 1.7 and 2.4 seconds before the S-waves arrived at each fire station.


2014 South Napa earthquake, Earthquake warning
Earthquake warning systems could potentially give people time to take cover in the event of a quake, preventing injuries caused by falling debris, automatically stopping trains or shutting off gas lines. The system being developed at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (called ShakeAlert) in conjunction with the United States Geological Survey, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Washington, will eventually cover the entire West Coast. The system would cost $80 million in funding to run for five years in California, or $120 million for the whole West Coast. In December 2014, United States Congress approved a $5 million allocation as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 in order to expand funding for development of the system.


2014 South Ossetian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in South Ossetia on 8 June 2014. The result was a victory for the United Ossetia party, which won 20 of the 34 seats in the Parliament.


2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic
The 2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic 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 Captiva Island, Florida, United States, on November 3–9, 2014.


2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic, Singles entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a lucky loser:


2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic – Doubles
Gabriela Dabrowski and Allie Will were the defending champions, however Will chose not to participate. Dabrowski partnered Anna Tatishvili and successfully defended her title, they defeated Asia Muhammad and Maria Sanchez in the final, 6–3, 6–3.


2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic – Singles
Mandy Minella was the defending champion, however she chose not to participate due to a right arm edema.


2014 South Seas Island Resort Women's Pro Classic – Singles
Edina Gallovits-Hall won the title, defeating Petra Martić in the final, 6–2, 6–2.


2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season
The 2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season was the 105th in the club's history. Coached by Michael Maguire and captained by John Sutton, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2014 Telstra Premiership.


2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Season summary, Milestones
On Sunday 5 October 2014, the South Sydney Rabbitohs finally ended their 43-year drought, and claimed the NRL Premiership Trophy after defeating the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the Grand Final, 30–6.


2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Fixtures, Pre-season
In 2014, the Rabbitohs again competed in three pre-season trial matches.


2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Fixtures, Pre-season, NRL Auckland Nines
The NRL Auckland Nines is a pre-season rugby league nines competition featuring all 16 NRL clubs. The 2014 competition was played over two days on 15 and 16 February at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. The Rabbitohs featured in Pool Red and played the Panthers, Storm and Dragons. The top two teams of each pool qualified for the quarter finals.


2014 South Sydney Rabbitohs season, Grand final
GoalsReynolds 5/7 (27' pen, 58', 64' pen, 75', 79')S. Burgess 0/1


2014 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2014 South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election
The South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election was a 2014 by-election on 30 October 2014 for the position of Police and Crime Commissioner in the South Yorkshire Police region of the United Kingdom. It was triggered by the resignation of Shaun Wright, the inaugural South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, who stepped down from the position on 16 September 2014 following the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal. Wright had been head of children's services in Rotherham between 2005 and 2010, while events surrounding the scandal were taking place. The Labour candidate, Alan Billings, was elected.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Background
Wright was the first Police and Crime Commissioner for the area, elected as the Labour Party candidate on 15 November 2012. He was previously a local councillor and member of the police authority.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Background
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham reported in August 2014. Given his prior council role and then current PCC role, there were calls for Wright to resign, including from the Labour Party, and the Conservative Prime Minister and Home Secretary. Labour threatened to suspend him from the party if he did not resign, leading to Wright leaving the Labour Party on 28 August 2014. Wright's deputy, Tracey Cheetham, resigned, calling on him to do the same. On 3 September 2014, Sheffield City Council unanimously passed a symbolic motion of no confidence in Wright, calling for his resignation. (Legislation means there is no power of recall for PCCs and the only way they can be removed is if they commit misconduct in public office, or are convicted of an offence with a custodial sentence of two or more years.)


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Background
On 16 September 2014, Wright resigned as Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire, triggering the by-election.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Candidates and campaign
On 3 October, Barnsley Borough Council (who oversaw the election) confirmed that four candidates had been validly nominated, representing four of the five parties who contested the 2012 election.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Candidates and campaign
David Allen, who came second in the 2012 election, stood again for the English Democrats.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Candidates and campaign
Labour's candidate, Dr the Reverend Alan Billings, was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council 1981-6. A parish priest in Sheffield and a member of the Youth Justice Board for England & Wales and of the England Committee of the Big Lottery Fund. He has worked with the British Army on their ethical policies and was previously director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Candidates and campaign
Ian Walker of Sheffield, the managing director of Rotary Electrical UK, stood for the Conservatives.


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Candidates and campaign
UKIP's candidate, Jack Clarkson is a former police inspector in the South Yorkshire Police. Previously a Liberal Democrat councillor. Then a UKIP councillor, before becoming leader of the UKIP group on Sheffield City Council. UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, said the result of the by-election "would be a key factor in determining the party's general election strategy in the region in 2015."


2014 South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner by-election, Candidates and campaign
The fifth party to stand in the previous election, the Liberal Democrats, did not contest the by-election following the assessment of their leader and South Yorkshire MP, Nick Clegg, that PCCs are "a failed experiment".


2014 Southampton City Council election
The 2014 Southampton City Council election took place on Thursday 22 May 2014 to elect members of Southampton City Council in Hampshire, England. One third of the council (16 seats) was up for election, and an additional vacancy in Millbrook ward caused by the resignation of a sitting councillor who had been elected in 2012 was also filled, meaning a total of 17 of the city's 48 seats were elected. The elections took place on the same day as the elections to the European Parliament.


2014 Southampton City Council election
Southampton Council is elected in thirds, which means the all comparisons are to the corresponding 2010 Southampton City Council election. In Millbrook, the candidate with the most votes was elected for a full term lasting until 2018. The candidate who came second was elected for the remainder of the resigned councillor's term, ending in 2016.


2014 Southampton City Council election
Coxford councillors who formed the Putting People First group originally split from Labour in 2013. Keith Morrell was up for election in the ward in this election.


2014 Southeast Asian Floorball Championships
2014 Southeast Asian Floorball Championships is the inaugural edition of the Southeast Asian Floorball Championships hosted at the Hougang Sports Complex in Singapore from 18–21 December 2014. Four nations participated at the tournament with Indonesia and the Philippines making their international debut in both men's and women's floorball.


2014 Southeast Asian Swimming Championships
Swimming at the 2014 Southeast Asian Swimming Championships was held 14–24 June in Singapore. It consisted of 41 events, swum in a long course (50m) pool. 4 disciplines of swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming, with over 200 participants from 7 countries.


2014 Southeast Europe floods
Between 13 and 18 May 2014 a low-pressure cyclone designated Tamara and Yvette affected a large area of Southeastern and Central Europe, causing floods and landslides. Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered the greatest damage, as the rain was the heaviest in 120 years of recorded weather measurements. By 20 May, at least 62 people had died as a result of the flooding, and hundreds of thousands had been forced from their homes. Towns of Obrenovac in Serbia and Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina account for most victims, after being inundated by several-meter high waters from nearby rivers.


2014 Southeast Europe floods
Floodwaters caused over 2,000 landslides across the Balkan region, spreading damage across many towns and villages. The rains activated torrents and mudslides, and subsequently several rivers in watersheds of Sava and Morava rose and flooded surrounding valleys. Official counts indicate that over 1.6 million people were affected in Serbia and Bosnia, after a week of flooding.


2014 Southeast Europe floods
Assessments of the damage range up to 3.5 billion € for Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Damage in Serbia, jointly estimated by EU, World Bank group and UN officials, stands at 1,55 billion euros. Officials in Bosnia stated that the damage could exceed that of the Bosnian War. The events initiated a large international aid campaign, with numerous countries, organizations and individuals donating humanitarian, material and monetary support for the affected areas.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Meteorological history
On 13 May, a  low-pressure area formed over the Adriatic Sea, as polar air from Central Europe penetrated into the Mediterranean basin. The cold polar air mass met with humid subtropical air, leading to very low pressure. On 14 May, the low moved over the Balkans, becoming stationary. As a result, extremely heavy rain fell within the region; Serbia (in the area around Belgrade) and Bosnia were most affected. Serbian and Bosnian meteorologists named the formed cyclone "Tamara". On 15 May, the daily amounts of rainfall broke historical records in Belgrade (107.9 mm), Valjevo (108.2 mm) and Loznica (110 mm). By 15 May, the monthly rainfall in Belgrade had broken the historical record (175 l from 1897), reaching 205 l. By Saturday, May 17, the rain had subsided, and the weather gradually became warmer and sunnier, somewhat easing relief and rescue efforts. On 18 May, the cyclone moved further northwest.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Meteorological history
The main flooding region was the watershed of the Sava river, which forms a border between Bosnia and Croatia, flows into Serbia, and drains into the Danube in Belgrade. On Wednesday, 14 May, heavy rainfall caused torrential floods across mountainous regions, which destroyed bridges and infrastructure, and caused numerous landslides. The deadliest impact occurred on Thursday, 15 May, when water levels in several right-bank tributaries of the Sava suddenly and uncontrollably rose at an unprecedented rate, flooding towns in their valleys.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Meteorological history
The Bosna river in central Bosnia completely flooded the cities of Doboj, Maglaj, Zavidovići and Šamac, while the Kolubara, near Belgrade, did the same to Obrenovac; those cities had the major share of victims. Subsequently, the Sava itself rose to record-high levels, threatening the cities of Slavonski Brod, Šabac and Sremska Mitrovica and numerous villages, but the damage was relatively contained as the population, helped by army and volunteers, strengthened flood defenses. Nonetheless, embankments gave way in several places.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Meteorological history
Heavy rainfall was also experienced in the region on 3 and 4 May, affecting Romania, Italy and Bosnia. The event produced limited damage but left a number of flooding incidents and high rivers. A state of emergency was declared in parts of Bosnia by local government.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
Though heaviest affected areas were in the valleys of the Sava and Kolubara rivers, the center of the flood was the drainage basin of the Bosna river and its mouth into the Sava. Water in the Sava then broke through the newly constructed embankment on the left bank in Croatia and flooded the Lower Syrmia region. The water then uncontrollably rushed into the Bosut river which flows back into the Sava in Serbia.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
In Serbia, the heaviest floods were in the Kolubara river basin where the major rainfall caused extreme torrents in the mountains, causing the hydrological coincidence, a fact that high tidal waves appeared simultaneously on both the left and the right tributaries of the Kolubara. Rivers of Peštan and Vraničina also spilled over, flooding the surface mine "Tamnava-Zapadna Polje", within the Kolubara mines (see Lake Paljuvi). The flooded mines captured 200 million m3 of the flood water.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
Belgrade's Institute "Jaroslav Černi", funded by UNDP, compiled a study "Improvement of the water protection in the Kolubara drainage basin". Hydrological section of the report concludes that the cyclone caused the "continual rain of temperate intensity", which however lasted for too long (over three days). In May, the measured 48-hours rainfall was higher than the millennial rains in Loznica while the return period in Belgrade and Valjevo was 400 years.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
Return periods of the flow in the Kolubara was 120–520 and at the confluence into the Sava, when the Kolubara flooded Obrenovac and the mines, the discharge was 1.456 m3/s (51.4 cu ft/s). If the system against the floods was finished and functioning properly, and that mines and Obrenovac weren't flooded, the discharge would be 2.460 m3/s (86.9 cu ft/s).


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
In the drainage basin of the Bosna river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the rains in some places were exceeding the return period of 5,000 years (Vidmar A., et al., "The Bosna River floods in May 2014", Journal on Flood Risk, p. 1–25). At the same time, during the massive overspill in the basin, the return period of the maximal discharge (4.121 m3/s (145.5 cu ft/s), 15 May 2014) was only 152 years and of the wave volume (1,463,000,000 m3 (5.17×1010 cu ft)) was 189 years.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
After the reconstruction of the flood in the controlled environment, it was concluded that the discharge of the Bosna at Doboj would be 5.000 m3/s (176.6 cu ft/s) on 16 May 2014. A discharge of the Sava, right after the mouth of the Bosna, at the Šamac bridge, was 6.000 m3/s (211.9 cu ft/s) on 17 May (Abdulaj R., et al., Velike vode donjeg toka rijeke Save tijekom svibnja 2014, Hrvatska vodoprivreda, 207, 14–16, 2014). Downstream, in Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia, the discharge of the Sava was 6.420 m3/s (226.7 cu ft/s) (Hidrološki godišnjak RHMZ Srbije za 2014).


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Hydrology
If the entire flood control system in all three countries functioned, and that there were no overspills and floods, a hydrological coincidence of joining the highest Sava and Kolubara water levels would occur. That means that in Belgrade, downstream from the mouth of Kolubara into the Sava, the Sava would bring almost 9.000 m3/s (317.8 cu ft/s). The riparian zone along the Sava in Belgrade, called Savski Nasip and enhanced with the embankments, is deigned for receiving 6.500 m3/s (229.5 cu ft/s), so the city would probably suffer a major damage. Additionally, due to the illegal construction of the houses in the Savski Nasip area, the riparian zone is being destroyed and its volume is reduced.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions
Serbia was the most severely affected, with several major cities in its central region completely flooded, and landslides in mountainous regions. Bosnia, in particular its Republika Srpska entity, was also inundated to a crippling extent. Eastern Croatia and southern Romania also experienced flooding and human victims, while Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovakia were affected by the storm.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
The city of Obrenovac was hit hardest by the floods, with an estimated 90% of the town flooded. During the night between 15 and 16 May, nearby Kolubara river, collecting waters from southerly mountains, suddenly rose several meters above its banks and flooded the city, catching the residents by surprise. The entire city was evacuated. During 18 May, the water level dropped, which enabled the evacuation of the citizens of Obrenovac to be carried out by trucks instead of boats. As of 20 May the total number of evacuated persons exceeded 30,000.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
In Krupanj in western Serbia (located in a valley of several small rivers) torrents, mudslides and landslides devastated the infrastructure and destroyed dozens of houses. Because of road damages, the town was completely inaccessible for three days, and the road to Loznica was blocked until 18 May. Electric power was cut for almost the whole municipality. Around 500 houses were seriously damaged and at least 20 houses are completely uninhabitable Part of the village of Rebelj in Valjevo municipality was annihilated by landslides. In the Drina river valley, on the border with Bosnia, heavy rain activated landslides, cutting off several villages and closing roads. At Mali Zvornik, a giant hill threatened to slide into the river and cut its flow, endangering that town and Zvornik across the river.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
Peak flood waters from Sava river hit Šabac on 18 May, but the embankments survived, strengthened by efforts of the army and several thousands volunteers. Flood waters on the river reached 6.3 metres (21 ft), the highest on record, endangering Šabac and Sremska Mitrovica on the left bank. In anticipation of the floods, a 7.3-metre-tall (24 ft) temporary embankment was erected.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
Further east, along the valleys of Morava and Mlava rivers, city centers of Paraćin, Petrovac na Mlavi, Svilajnac and Smederevska Palanka were flooded.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
During the flooding period, an estimated 300,000 households were left without electric power. Serbia's energy minister, Aleksandar Antić, has appealed to individuals to conserve power as best they can. The largest thermoelectric power plant in Serbia, TPP Nikola Tesla, which supplies close to 50% of electricity in Serbia, lies in the vicinity of Obrenovac, but was saved from danger. However, flood waters filled the largest coal field of RB Kolubara with 210 million cubic meters of water, more than the volume of Vlasina lake, and its pumping out is expected to take months.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
Further east, the thermoelectric power plant TPP Kostolac, which supplies 11% of electricity in Serbia, was threatened by floods from the Mlava river, but the water had not breached the innermost ring of defenses. During the floods, the hydro plants at Iron Gates reduced their production and opened the gates in order to lower the level of the Danube.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
During the floods, transport across the country, particularly central and western parts, was interrupted or broken. 2,260 public, industrial and infrastructure facilities were flooded, and 3,500 roads were destroyed. The Belgrade–Bar railway was severed at several locations in western Serbia, and has been closed; basic reparations took about a month to complete, and afterwards the trains were forced to take a several-hours detour. Reconstruction of the section in the Gradac river canyon was finished in March 2015, allowing the trains to return to the original route.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
Agricultural damage in affected areas was total, and the amount is yet to be determined. Thousands of cows, sheep, chicken and other domestic animals perished in the floods, and their corpses present a serious health risk for people who started returning and repairing their homes.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
On 20 May, the Government of Serbia proclaimed 3 days of mourning. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić described the flooding as "the worst natural catastrophe that has ever hit Serbia."


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Serbia
In a July 2014 report by the Government of Serbia, the total amount of damage in the country was estimated at 1.53 billion Euro. Of those, 810 million was attributed to direct damage, and 662 million to losses. Two thirds of the damage was attributed to the production sector (500 million direct and 569 million indirect), of which 228 million in the agricultural sector. Total damage on the housing was 227.3 million, while the infrastructure damage (transportation, communications and water management) was assessed at 192 million.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Most of northern Bosnia was flooded, with the Bosna river valley hitting hardest. Other affected areas included the Sarajevo Canton and Tuzla Canton. Northern and northeastern Bosnia, including the region of Semberija, was also flooded. Rivers that flooded included the Bosna, Vrbas, Drina, Sana and Sava. A state of emergency was declared across the nation. Herzegovina in the south and central regions were not hit by floods.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The town of Maglaj experienced the average rainfall of two months in under 48 hours. In the city of Zavidovići, a footbridge was filmed being swept down the Bosna river and crashing into another bridge. In Sarajevo, the Miljacka river swelled almost to the level of city bridges. The entire hamlet of Parići in Hrasno Donje, municipality of Kalesija, was swept away by landslides.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina
As of 20 May, there were 24 confirmed deaths in Bosnia and Herzegovina: 17 in Republika Srpska and 7 in the Federation. At a press conference on 19 May, the Director of Police of Republika Srpska gave the names of 17 confirmed victims: 10 in Doboj, 2 in Šamac, 2 in Modriča and one each in Bijeljina, Vlasenica and Donji Žabar; an additional 7 persons are still listed as missing. Governments of the two entities jointly declared 20 May a day of mourning across the country.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina
It was speculated that the floodwaters might have disturbed land mines left over from the Bosnian War (1992–95) which could cause further danger if moved outside the marked areas.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The chief executive of Željeznice Republike Srpske, the railway operator in Republika Srpska (one of two railway operators in Bosnia) appealed for help in repairing the enormous damage to the railways in the country, stating that they were independently unable to repair the damage, appealing for help from the international community in supplying materials, mechanisation and financial assistance.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Croatia
Croatia was affected by the floods to a lesser extent than Serbia or Bosnia. The most critical area was in southern Slavonia. The embankment on the Sava River was breached near Rajevo Selo and Račinovci, and thus evacuation was ordered for Gunja, Rajevo Selo and Račinovci. As of 19 May, around 15,000 people in easternmost parts of Croatia were evacuated from their homes. One of the most critical points was the embankment of the Sava river in Slavonski Šamac, where the confluence of the Bosna and Sava is located.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Croatia
At that point the embankments were under severe pressure caused by the huge amount of water coming from Bosnia. Several officials stated that if this embankment were breached, the entire region of southern Slavonia, with a population of over 300 000, would be flooded. There were also floods in Banovina region, in the towns of Hrvatska Kostajnica and Dvor, mostly caused by the river Una, whose level had not been as high since 1955. Video:


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Romania
This was the third major flood to hit Romania since late April 2014. Over 8,000 people were isolated and nearly 2,000 hectares of land were covered by water. 125 villages were affected by floods in one day. In total, 30 national and county roads were closed or partially destroyed by water and mud. The waters of the Danube rose so much that the authorities set orange code for flooding for eight days, on the sector Iron Gates–Zimnicea. In Vrancea County, a 50-year-old man was carried away by the flood and found dead the next morning. Bucharest was devastated by a storm accompanied by hail and strong winds. Several streets were flooded, trees were uprooted, and a thick layer of ice covered important transport arteries, paralyzing the traffic in the capital.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Affected regions, Slovakia
Floods and strong winds from the cyclone also reached Slovakia, where an elderly man drowned.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, International response
Many countries and international organizations have offered to provide relief.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Aftermath
Officials say it may take 5 years for agriculture in the affected regions to recover. The managing director of the Kolubara coal field stated that it would take one year for the Tamnava pit to be dredged and dried, while the Veliki Crljeni pit would take around two months to be operational again. He has stated that the Tamnava pit is now an artificial lake. The Kolubara coal fields are open pits from which coal is supplied to the TPP Nikola Tesla. There are enough stockpiles of coal at hand to bridge the period until the coal pits are fully operational, but the delivery system needs repairs.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Aftermath
The European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Kristalina Georgieva stated that Croatia and Serbia have the possibility to apply for aid from the European Union Solidarity Fund, up to one billion euro in one year, but this was later rescinded as a misstatement of the Commissioner. The EU Solidarity Fund in 2014 is 500 million euros, while individual countries can expect around 10 million. The aid can be transferred if the damage is assessed to be over 0.64% of the country's GDP. For Serbia, that would be around 175 million euros in damages. Bosnia, not being a candidate or member country of the EU, is not eligible for aid from this fund.


2014 Southeast Europe floods, Aftermath
Serbia applied for the World Bank aid credit, amounting to a total of 227 million Euros.


2014 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team
The 2014 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team represented Southeast Missouri State University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Tom Matukewicz and played their home games at Houck Stadium. They were a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 5–7, 3–5 in OVC play to finish in a tie for sixth place.


2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 20 through May 25 at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The annual tournament determines the tournament champion of the Division I Southeastern Conference in college baseball. LSU claimed their record 11th tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament has been held every year since 1977, with LSU claiming eleven championships, the most of any school. Original members Georgia and Kentucky along with 1992 addition Arkansas and 2012 additions Texas A&M and Missouri have never won the tournament. This is the seventeenth consecutive year and nineteenth overall that the event has been held at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, known from 2007 through 2012 as Regions Park.


2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament
The SEC implemented experimental instant replay rules at the 2014 tournament. The rules allowed review of fair/foul, home run, and spectator interference calls.


2014 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The regular season division winners claimed the top two seeds and the next ten teams by conference winning percentage, regardless of division, claimed the remaining berths in the tournament. The bottom eight teams played a single-elimination opening round, followed by a double-elimination format until the semifinals, when the format reverted to single elimination through the championship game. This was the second year of this format.


2014 Southeastern Conference football season
The 2014 Southeastern Conference football season began on August 28 with Texas A&M visiting South Carolina on the new SEC Network. This season will feature new inter-division rivalry games: Texas A&M-South Carolina and Arkansas-Missouri.


2014 Southeastern Conference football season, Regular season
Rankings reflect those of the AP poll for that week until week 10 when CFP rankings are used.


2014 Southeastern Conference football season, SEC vs Power Conference matchups
This is a list of the power conference teams (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12) the SEC plays in the non-conference (Rankings from the AP Poll):


2014 Southeastern Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-SEC Teams
The Southeastern Conference coaches voted for the All-SEC teams after the regular season concluded. Prior to the 2014 SEC Championship Game the teams were released. Alabama and Missouri placed the most representatives on the 2014 All-Southeastern Conference Coaches’ Football Team, the league office announced Tuesday. Both had seven total members, while Alabama had a league-leading five representatives on the first team. Twelve of the 14 SEC schools had a member on the first-team All-SEC squad.


2014 Southeastern Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-SEC Teams
Coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players.


2014 Southeastern Conference football season, Home game attendance
Game played at Arkansas' secondary home stadium War Memorial Stadium, capacity: 53,955.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team
The 2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team represented Southeastern Louisiana University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Lions were led by third-year head coach Ron Roberts and played their home games at Strawberry Stadium. They are a member of the Southland Conference. They finished the season 9–4 overall, 7–1 in conference play to finish in a share for the Southland title. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to fellow Southland Conference Champion Sam Houston State 17–21.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, Jacksonville
In their first game of the season, the Lions won, 44–3 over the Jacksonville Dolphins.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, Southern Utah
In their second game of the season, the Lions won, 41–14 over the Southern Utah Thunderbirds.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Tulane
In their third game of the season, the Lions lost, 35–20 to the Tulane Green Wave.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Southeast Missouri State
In their fourth game of the season, the Lions lost, 24–23 to the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Incarnate Word
In their fifth game of the season, the Lions won, 63–7 over the Incarnate Word Cardinals.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, Northwestern State
In their sixth game of the season, the Lions won, 30–22 over the Northwestern State Demons.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Lamar
In their seventh game of the season, the Lions won, 61–34 over the Lamar Cardinals.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, Central Arkansas
In their eighth game of the season, the Lions won, 41–24 over the Central Arkansas Bears.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Stephen F. Austin
In their ninth game of the season, the Lions lost, 27–17 to the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, Houston Baptist
In their tenth game of the season, the Lions won, 76–7 over the Houston Baptist Huskies.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, McNeese State
In their eleventh game of the season, the Lions won, 28–9 over the McNeese State Cowboys.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Nicholls State
In their twelfth game of the season, the Lions won, 62–3 over the Nicholls State Colonels.


2014 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team, Game summaries, @ Sam Houston State
In their thirteenth game of the season, the Lions lost, 21–17 to the Sam Houston State Bearkats in their 2014 FCS First Round playoff game.


2014 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election
The 2014 Southend-on-Sea Borough Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Southend-on-Sea Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 Southern Arkansas Muleriders football team
The 2014 Southern Arkansas Muleriders football team represented Southern Arkansas University in the 2014 NCAA Division II football season. The team was coached by Bill Keopple, who finished his sixth season as head coach at SAU. The Muleriders played their home games at Wilkins Stadium in Magnolia, Arkansas and competed in the Great American Conference (GAC).


2014 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2014 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 20 through May 25 at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, South Carolina. The annual event determined the conference champion of the Division I Southern Conference in college baseball. Georgia Southern won the tournament for the sixth time, earning the league's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This is the last of 18 athletic championships held by the conference in the 2013–14 academic year.


2014 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament was originally held from 1950-53, when the Southern Conference was a large conference composed of several small schools and several large schools, the latter of which would form the Atlantic Coast Conference after the 1953 season. The event was re-established in 1984 and has been held every year since. Western Carolina has claimed nine championships, the most of any school, with The Citadel close behind at eight tournament wins. Georgia Southern and Furman are the only other schools with multiple championships, winning five and two, respectively. Davidson and UNC Greensboro are the only current members to never win a title.


2014 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament
The tournament returned to Charleston for the first time since 2011 after spending the previous two seasons in Greenville, South Carolina. Charleston has hosted the event more than any other city.


2014 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
All ten teams will participate in the tournament, with the bottom four seeds playing a single-elimination play-in round. The remaining teams will then be divided into two brackets and play double-elimination tournaments. The winners of each bracket will play a single championship game.


2014 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Georgia Southern reliever Jason Richman, one of four Eagles selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.


2014 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place between Friday, March 7 and Monday, March 10 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the U.S. Cellular Center. The entire tournament was streamed on ESPN3, with the Southern Conference Championship Game televised by ESPN2. The champion received an automatic bid into the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


2014 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
It was the last Southern Conference tournament for four teams that will officially leave the conference on July 1, 2014. Appalachian State and Georgia Southern, which are upgrading their football programs to the top-level Division I FBS, will join the FBS Sun Belt Conference. Davidson will become a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Elon will join the Colonial Athletic Association.


2014 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Despite all of these departures, the championship game was contested between two teams who will remain in the Southern Conference. Western Carolina reached the championship by coming back from double-digit deficits, including a 15-point second-half deficit to regular season champion Davidson in the semifinals. In the championship game, it looked like history might repeat itself, as the Catamounts came back from an 11-point deficit to as close as 1. However, Trey Sumler missed a last-second three-point shot to tie the game, and Wofford won their 3rd conference championship.


2014 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Southern Conference Women's Basketball Tournament will take place between Friday, March 7 and Monday, March 10 in Asheville, North Carolina, at the U.S. Cellular Center. The quarterfinals will be streamed on ESPN3 while the semifinals and finals will be shown on CSS and streamed on ESPN3. The champion will receive an automatic bid into the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


2014 Southern Conference football season
The 2014 Southern Conference football season was the 93rd season of college football for the Southern Conference (SoCon) and formed a part of the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season.


2014 Southern Conference football season
It was the first season for two newcomers: the Mercer Bears, who previously played in the Pioneer Football League, and the VMI Keydets, who had an 80-year stint in the SoCon before joining the Big South Conference in 2003. The additions of Mercer and VMI, along with East Tennessee State, who is bringing back football in 2015, replaced the departure of Georgia Southern and Appalachian State who joined the Sun Belt Conference, as well as Elon who left for the Colonial Athletic Association.


2014 Southern Conference football season, Previous season
In 2013, both Appalachian State and Georgia Southern were ineligible for postseason play due to their transition to the FBS in 2014. Both schools had down years, each going 4–4 in conference play, with Georgia Southern posting a 7–4 overall mark to Appalachian State's 4–8. At the top of the conference was a three-way tie between Chattanooga, Samford, and Furman, who all posted 6–2 conference records. The three schools were declared co-champions, though only Samford and Furman were selected to participate in the FCS tournament.


2014 Southern Conference football season, Previous season
Samford, who finished ranked #18 in the coaches poll, was defeated in the second round of the playoffs by Jacksonville State on the road, 55–14. Furman, ranked #22, beat South Carolina State in their opening round game in Orangeburg by a score of 30–20. They were knocked out the following week by North Dakota State, who went on to win their third straight national title.


2014 Southern Conference football season, Previous season
Newcomer Mercer finished their tenure in the Pioneer League on a high note, going 10–2 and 6–2 in conference play, narrowly missing out on the playoffs. VMI was 2–10 in 2013, including a 1–4 mark in Big South play, beating Gardner–Webb.


2014 Southern Conference football season, Regular season
Rankings reflect that of the Sports Network poll for that week.


2014 Southern Illinois Salukis football team
The 2014 Southern Illinois Salukis football team represented Southern Illinois University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh year head coach Dale Lennon and played their home games at Saluki Stadium. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 6–6, 3–5 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for seventh place.


2014 Southern Jaguars football team
The 2014 Southern Jaguars football team represented Southern University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Jaguars were led by second-year head coach Dawson Odums. The Jaguars played their home games at Ace W. Mumford Stadium and were a member of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). They finished the season 9–4, 8–1 in SWAC play to win the West Division title. As West Division champions, they played East Division champions Alcorn State in the SWAC Championship Game where they lost 24–38.


2014 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team
The 2014 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a new member of the West Division of Conference USA. They were led by second-year head coach Todd Monken and played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. They finished the season 3–9, 1–7 in C-USA play to finish in last place in the West Division.


2014 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
*Mississippi State won the games on the field in 1975 and 1976, but were later forced to forfeit the games by the NCAA due to an NCAA rules violation in which offensive lineman Larry Gillard received a 33 percent discount at an Okolona, Mississippi clothing store.


2014 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team
The 2014 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team represented Southern Utah University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Ed Lamb and played their home games at Eccles Coliseum. This was their third year as a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 3–9, 3–5 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for eighth place.


2014 Southern Utah Thunderbirds softball team
The 2014 Southern Utah Thunderbirds softball team represented Southern Utah University in the 2014 NCAA Division I softball season. Kyle Magnusson entered his fifth season as head coach of the Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds were picked to finish third in the 2014 Big Sky standings. The Thunderbirds finished third in the conference to qualify for the Big Sky Tournament, where they went 3-1 to win the Big Sky Championship and the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Thunderbirds claimed the title of the 62-seed and opened competition in the Los Angeles region against top seed UCLA. After going 0-2 in the Los Angeles Regional, the Thunderbirds finished the season 23-31.


2014 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2014 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 21–24. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's fourteen teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Bear Stadium on the campus of Central Arkansas University in Conway, Arkansas. The event returned to a campus environment for one year before again being played at neutral Sugar Land, Texas in 2015 and 2016. Southeastern Louisiana won their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2014 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top eight finishers from the regular season will be seeded one through eight. They will play a two bracket, double-elimination tournament, with the winner of each bracket meeting in a single championship final. Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word were ineligible for postseason play as they transition from Division II.


2014 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Tate Scioneaux was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Scioneaux was a pitcher for Southeastern Louisiana, pitching 11 scoreless innings over the tournament, recording 12 strikeouts while yielding nine hits and two walks.


2014 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, took place March 12–15 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. The winner of the tournament received the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


2014 Southland Conference Softball Tournament
The 2014 Southland Conference tournament was held at North Oak Park on the campus of Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana from May 8 through May 11, 2014. The tournament winner, Northwestern State earned the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament. Due to weather delays, the championship broadcast on ESPN3 was canceled, leaving the entire tournament to air on the Southland Digital Network. Southland Conference assistant commissioner Chris Mycoskie and former Southeastern Louisiana pitcher Kati Morse called the action.


2014 Southland Conference Softball Tournament, Format
The top 6 teams qualified for the Southland Softball Tournament. Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word were currently ineligible due to their transition from D2 to D1. Had either of the two teams been in the top 6 spots, the seventh and if necessary eighth teams would have qualified for the tournament and would have taken their respective spots.


2014 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2014 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, a part of the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, took place March 13–16, 2014 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas. The winner of the tournament, the Northwestern State Lady Demons, received the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Tournament.


2014 Southland Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds & Regular Season Standings
Only the Top 8 teams advanced to the Southland Conference Tournament. If a team ineligible for the NCAA Tourney finished in the top 8, their seed fell to the next eligible team. Abilene Christian and Incarnate Word were ineligible for post-season play as they were in the first year of a 4-year transition from D2 to D1. They won't be eligible for the Southland tourney until 2018. New Orleans was ineligible due to low APR scores. This chart shows all the teams records and standings and explains why teams advanced to the conference tourney or finished in certain tiebreaking positions. This was the final season Oral Roberts was part of the Southland field. They returned to the Summit League for the 2014-15 athletic season.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup
The 2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup (SKCC) was the 2014 championship of the largest kart racing series in Scandinavia, with over 850 competitors from all of Sweden. Some of Sweden's best race drivers started their careers in SKCC.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup, Formula Micro
The smallest racing class, with drivers aged between 8 and 11 years old. Aimed as a learning and teaching class of racing and using 95 cc Raket engines, which have a top speed of 80 km/h.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup, Formula Mini
Drivers aged between 11 and 15 years old, and vehicles with engines similar to those used in Formula Micro, with minor improvements. Vehicles have a potential top speed of 90 km/h.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup, Junior 60
An international class with drivers between 9 and 13 years old, and 60 cc engines but lighter vehicles than Micro and Mini classes. Vehicles have a potential top speed of 95 km/h.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup, KF Junior
Another international class, with karts that are bigger and faster, capable of reaching speeds up to 120 km/h. The drivers are aged between 13 and 15 years old. The vehicles' engine capacity is in the region of 125 cc.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup, Rotax Max Senior
A slightly slower class than KF Junior. It is considered a very tough class with many experienced drivers. The Rotax Max Challenge series is held all over the world, and a few of the SKCC drivers also competes in the RMC Sweden. Vehicles in this class are powered by a Rotax 125 cc engine producing 35 horsepower. Karts can reach speeds of 115 km/h.


2014 Southswedish Kart Champion Cup, KZ2
The fastest and most expensive class. Vehicles in this class have a five-stage gearbox, four-wheel braking, and can reach speeds of 140 km/h, with potential to pass this on long straights.


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election
The 2014 Southwark Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Southwark Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election
Labour retained control winning 48 seats (+13). The Liberal Democrats won 13 seats (-12) and the Conservatives won 2 seats (-1).


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Grange
Emmanuel Oyewole was a sitting councillor for Camberwell Green ward


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election, Results by ward, Nunhead
Note: Althea Smith was elected in 2010 for the Labour Party, but defected to the All People's Party.


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections 2014-2018
The by-election was called following the resignation of Councillor Claire Maugham.


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections 2014-2018
The by-election was called following the resignation of Councillor Helen Hayes, the Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood.


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections 2014-2018
The by election was called following the resignation of Councillor Neil Coyle, the Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark.


2014 Southwark London Borough Council election, By-Elections 2014-2018
The by-election was called following the resignation of Councillor Lisa Rajan.


2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Wesley Barrow Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 14 through May 18, 2014. Jackson State won their sixteenth tournament championship, and second in a row, to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The event was originally scheduled for LaGrave Field in Fort Worth, Texas, but was moved due to concerns about player safety.


2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The double elimination tournament features the top four teams from each division, leaving one team from each division out of the field. Mississippi Valley State and Southern did not qualify for the Tournament.


2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top four finishers in each division will be seeded one through four, with the top seed from each division facing the fourth seed from the opposite division in the first round, and so on. The teams then play a two bracket, double-elimination tournament with a one-game final between the winners of each bracket. Alabama State and Arkansas–Pine Bluff won their respective divisions and earned the top seeds.


2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Bracket
* - Indicates game required 11 innings.† - Indicates game required 10 innings.


2014 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Desmond Russell was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Russell was a pitcher for Jackson State, recording 11 strikeouts in the tournament.


2014 Spa-Francorchamps GP2 Series round
The 2014 Belgium GP2 Series round was a pair of motor races held on July 26 and 27, 2014 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Francorchamps, Belgium as part of the GP2 Series. It is the sixth round of the 2014 season. The race weekend supported the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix.


2014 Spanish Athletics Championships
The 2014 Spanish Athletics Championships was the 94th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Spain. It was held on 26 and 27 July at the Polideportivo José Caballero in Alcobendas. It served as the selection meeting for Spain at the 2014 European Athletics Championships.


2014 Spanish Athletics Championships
The club championships in relays and combined track and field events were contested separately from the main competition.


2014 Spanish Figure Skating Championships
The 2014 Spanish Figure Skating Championships (Spanish: Campeonato De España De Patinaje Sobre Hielo 2013-14) was held from 19 to 21 December 2013 in Jaca. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results may be used as part of Spain's selection process for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the 2014 World Championships, and the 2014 European Championships.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix
The 2014 Spanish Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2014) was a Formula One motor race held on 11 May 2014 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Catalonia, Spain. The race was the fifth round of the 2014 Formula One World Championship, the 44th Spanish Grand Prix held as part of the championship, and the 24th in Barcelona. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton won the 66-lap race from pole position. His teammate Nico Rosberg finished second and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo took third.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix
Hamilton won the 35th pole position of his career by recording the fastest lap in qualifying. He led the race until his first pit stop at the end of lap 18, promoting Rosberg to first place for the next three laps. Hamilton's Mercedes had oversteer and understeer as Rosberg retook the lead for two laps when Hamilton made a second pit stop on the 43rd lap. He drew to less than a second behind Hamilton by lap 59. Hamilton responded by increasing his speed when he switched to a higher-powered engine setting to keep Rosberg behind for his first victory in Spain, his fourth in a row in 2014 and the 26th of his career.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix
The race result left Hamilton with 100 points and the lead of the World Drivers' Championship for the first time since 2012. His teammate Rosberg fell to second and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso remained in third. Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull moved to fourth and Ricciardo advanced from sixth to fifth. Mercedes further increased its advantage over Red Bull atop the Constructors Championship to 114 points. Ferrari passed Force India for third and Williams moved to fifth with fourteen races left in the season.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
The 2014 Spanish Grand Prix was the fifth of the 19 races of the 2014 Formula One World Championship, the 24th running of the event in Barcelona and the 44th edition since the inception of the series. It was held at the 16-turn 4.655 km (2.892 mi) Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Catalonia on 11 May. The track is heavily dependent on aerodynamic performance due to its number of quick and medium-speed corners. Overtaking is difficult in Barcelona and it required a balanced car setup between the corners and its more technical portions and the circuit is demanding on every car's tyres.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the white-banded medium-compound tyres and the orange-banded hard-compound tyres. The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race: one was on the pit lane straight between the final to first corners, and the second was on the straight linking turns nine and ten. After the 2013 round, the kerb on the approach to turn one was renewed and the verge behind it was laid with asphalt. The kerbs leaving turns nine and twelve were replaced and the artificial grass beside it was extended. The 7 m (23 ft) wide gravel trap to the outside of turn eleven was replaced with asphalt.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
Entering the event, Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led the Drivers' Championship with 79 points, four ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton in second. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was third with 41 points and Nico Hülkenberg of Force India was fourth with 36 points. Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel was in fifth position with 33 points. Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship with 154 points; Red Bull were in second position with 57 points and Force India were third with 54 points. Ferrari were in fourth place with 52 points and McLaren was fifth with 43 points.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
Mercedes had won every race up to the Spanish Grand Prix with Hamilton winning the previous three races and his teammate Rosberg the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Despite his recent results, Hamilton spoke of his belief that the momentum would shift between him and Rosberg on different tracks and Hamilton sought to narrow the performance deficit: "My job this year was to try to close the gap a little, which I did – it wasn't [nearly] half a second like it was last year in qualifying – it was [less than] three-tenths.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
What I'm really trying to focus on is those circuits where I am maybe weaker, or not as close to him." He also said that he anticipated Red Bull and Ferrari to be closer to Mercedes in Barcelona due to his suspicion that their cars were more aerodynamically efficient. Rosberg spoke of his admittance that he needed to regain momentum and sought to win the race and extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship: "Every weekend is crucial but the results momentum is on his side and I need to try to turn it around."


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
Several teams made technical changes to their cars. Red Bull introduced a duct near the RB10's rear tyres to redirect airflow and increase its underfloor efficiency. The team also provided Vettel with a new car chassis to improve his performance. Ferrari reverted to using a single pillar rear wing support on the F14 T's centre line, aimed at reducing airflow disturbance and increasing downforce, and therefore grip, produced by the bodywork.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
Force India debuted a new rear wing mainplane and endplates on the two VJM07s, while McLaren's MP4-29s had their rear bodywork altered to house a revised rear suspension arm and the front wing featured new endplates. Sauber introduced a revised aerodynamic package version of its C33 chassis, which included a modified front wing, new side-pod fins, engine cover and deflectors, reducing the car's overall weight. For both of its E22 cars, Lotus brought a reconfigured engine mapping programme along with a revised cooling system and bodywork package and an updated rear wing.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Background
A total of 11 teams (each representing a different constructor) fielded two race drivers each with two extra participants driving solely in the first free practice session. For the first practice session, Sauber test and reserve driver Giedo van der Garde drove Esteban Gutiérrez's car for the third time in the season, and Valtteri Bottas gave his Williams car to GP2 Series entrant and the team's reserve driver Felipe Nasr for the third race in succession.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Practice
Per the regulations for the 2014 season, three practice sessions were held, two 90-minute sessions on Friday and another 60-minute session on Saturday. In the first session, which took place in clear weather, Hamilton lapped fastest with a time of 1 minute, 27.023 seconds, 0.868 seconds faster than McLaren's Jenson Button in second who was quickest until Hamilton's lap. Daniel Ricciardo for Red Bull, Alonso, Rosberg, Kimi Räikkönen, McLaren's Kevin Magnussen, Lotus driver Pastor Maldonado, Sergio Pérez of Force India and Williams' Felipe Massa rounded out the top ten.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Practice
Van Der Garde's brakes failed on the approach to turn one's run-off area; he avoided hitting the left-hand side wall at high speed. Pérez's front-left rear view mirror detached from the mounting although a retaining strap kept it intact. Adrian Sutil in the second Sauber ran wide at the uphill turn nine and lost control of his car. Vettel stopped at the side of turn six with a damaged wiring loom that forced him to miss the second session while his team rectified it.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Practice
In rising air and track temperatures, Hamilton set the day's fastest lap on the medium compound tyres in the second session at 1 minute, 25.524 seconds. His teammate Nico Rosberg was second and Ricciardo was third. Alonso and Räikkönen in the two Ferrari cars were fourth and fifth. The McLaren cars of Magnussen and Button, Massa, Maldonado and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat followed in positions six to ten. Engine problems for Max Chilton of Marussia restricted his running early in the session before he completed several laps later on.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Practice
Yellow flags were waved at the entry to the final corner when a chunk of rear bodywork around the exhaust system of Chilton's car detached, which was retrieved by a track marshal. Chilton later locked his tyres and got stuck in the turn four gravel trap. After the session, Toro Rosso's Jean-Éric Vergne incurred a ten-place grid penalty because the stewards deemed him to have been released from the pit lane with an incorrectly attached right-rear wheel that detached in turn one. The team was fined €30,000.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Practice
The third session was held in warm weather and teams analysed how much the hard tyres degraded. Rosberg set the fastest lap of 1 minute, 25.887 seconds on the medium compound tyres in clear air. Hamilton, Alonso, Massa, Lotus' Romain Grosjean, Magnussen, Ricciardo, Button, Maldonado and Vettel completed the top ten. During the session, where several drivers had rear grip issues, Chilton locked his front-left wheel and got stuck in the turn five outside gravel trap.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying
Saturday afternoon's qualifying session was divided into three parts. The first part ran for 18 minutes, eliminating cars that finished the session 17th or below. The 107% rule was in effect, requiring drivers to reach a time within 107 per cent of the quickest lap to qualify. The second session lasted 15 minutes, eliminating cars in 11th to 16th. The final 12-minute session determined pole position to tenth.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying
Cars who progressed to the final session were not allowed to change tyres for the race's start, using the tyres with which they set their quickest lap times in the second session; teams were allowed to switch tyres for the third session before changing them back for the race. Hamilton went fastest in the third session on his final timed lap to earn his first pole position in Spain, his fourth of the year and the 35th of his career with a lap of 1 minute, 25.232 seconds.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying
He was joined on the grid's front row by his teammate Rosberg who was fastest in the first and second sessions to achieve' Mercedes fourth front row lockout in 2014. Ricciardo qualified third and a set-up change put Bottas fourth. Grosjean started from fifth. An improved car balance, grip and rear stability under braking qualified Räikkönen and his teammate Alonso sixth and seventh. Button in eighth had an overabundance of understeer on his final timed lap. Massa in ninth lost control of the rear of his car braking for the turn 10 hairpin.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying
Vettel did not set a lap time in the final session because of a gearbox fault that emerged when he exited his garage and stopped at turn three. It prompted a brief stoppage with less than ten minutes remaining while track marshals extricated his car. Vettel later changed his gearbox, and incurred a five-place grid penalty, since gearboxes were required to last a minimum of six consecutive races per series regulations. Hence, Hülkenberg, who changed the setup of his car, began from tenth.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying
His Force India teammate Pérez was 11th after slower traffic compromised his final timed lap, which he aborted to conserve his tyre allocation. Kvyat drove on the hard compound tyres for 12th and Gutiérrez was the faster Sauber driver in 13th. Magnussen's running was curtailed by an engine problem that prevented him from recording a fast lap and he had to start from 14th. Sutil in the second Sauber had overheated tyres that lost him time and took 16th as Chilton began from 17th. His teammate Jules Bianchi ran deep at turn 10 on his second timed lap.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying
Marcus Ericsson in 19th qualified ahead of his Caterham teammate Kamui Kobayashi in 20th for the first time in 2014; Kobayashi ran two timed laps on the medium compound tyres but a car imbalance and a delay by Bianchi slowed him. Maldonado failed to set a lap after he lost control of the rear of his car on the artificial grass at the exit of turn three and struck the inside concrete barrier, damaging his front right suspension and stopped the first session for seven minutes.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying, Post-qualifying
The stewards allowed Maldonado to start the race who was judged to have lapped within the 107 per cent limit in all three practice sessions. At the pre-race drivers' briefing, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile race director Charlie Whiting told drivers that if they did not maintain a consistent and acceptable pace and an improvement in behaviour during the formation lap, then they faced being penalised. Whiting's warning came after several drivers raised concerns about the formation laps going too slowly in past events in 2014.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying classification
The fastest lap in each of the three sessions is denoted in bold.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
The 66-lap race took place in the afternoon from 14:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). Overnight rain made the track damp though it was sunny and warm before the race. The air temperature was between 21 to 23 °C (70 to 73 °F) and the track temperature from 34 to 37 °C (93 to 99 °F); conditions were forecast to remain consistent with no rain. 91,480 spectators were in attendance. Autosport theorised that making three-stops would be the optimal strategy but drivers stopping twice would give them better track position. Every driver, bar Vergne, began on the medium compound tyre.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton made a clear start to lead the field entering the first corner. Bottas overtook Ricciardo for third and Rosberg then held him off. Fifth-placed Grosjean locked his front wheels but blocked a pass from Räikkönen at the turn four hairpin. At turn 14, Button put his teammate Magnussen wide into a gravel trap but the latter continued after contact with Vettel. At the end of the first lap, Hamilton led Rosberg by 1.1 seconds with Bottas the same deficit adrift in third.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Hamilton began to pull away from the rest of the field, extending the lead over his teammate Rosberg to two seconds by the start of the fourth lap, with a further five seconds covering Bottas in third and the fourth-placed Ricciardo. In the meantime, Räikkönen defended from his teammate Alonso. Maldonado and Ericsson made contact. On lap six, Red Bull advised Ricciardo to drop back from Bottas so that he did not put additional stress on his tyres by driving in the aerodynamic turbulence created by the airflow of other cars for a long period of time.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
He used DRS and turned right to attempt to pass Bottas into turn one on the next lap. Bottas had enough momentum to hold third position. Ricciardo radioed Red Bull on lap eight he had decided that their suggestion was correct and fell back from Bottas. On lap nine, the stewards informed the Lotus team that Maldonado incurred a five-second stop-and-go penalty for his contact with Ericsson on lap three and had to serve it at his first pit stop.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Button ran wide on lap 12 and held off Vettel, who was called by Red Bull into the pit lane for the first of three pit stops at the end of the lap. He had the hard compound tyres installed onto his car and emerged in 21st, behind Chilton and ahead of Ericsson with less congestion. Ricciardo entered the pit lane for the medium compound tyres at the conclusion of lap 14 in an attempt to pass Bottas and stay on a two-stop strategy.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Williams elected not to bring Bottas into the pit lane in response and kept him on track to keep a consistent pace without sustaining rear tyre degradation. On the 16th lap, Kobayashi blocked Vettel from passing him before turn nine for 19th. Vettel tried again at the following corner and was successful this time round. After Massa had made his pit stop the lap before, Alonso asked Ferrari to bring him into the pit lane as his rear tyres were worn after the battle with his teammate Räikkönen. The team refused until lap 16 since there were no significant gaps in traffic. That meant Räikkönen entered the pit lane a lap later than Alonso and remained narrowly ahead – partly because Alonso was baulked by Sutil.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Rosberg lowered the deficit to Hamilton to 1.6 seconds by the time of his teammate's first pit stop at the end of lap 18 for the medium compound tyres and a minor front wing angle adjustment. Ricciardo drew to within 12 seconds of Bottas, and when the latter made his first stop two laps later, Ricciardo moved past Bottas, who rejoined the track narrowly ahead of Grosjean.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Rosberg was confused when his engineer Tony Ross called him into the pit lane at the end of lap 21 for the hard compound tyres because he believed he would have a new set of medium compound tyres. He rejoined almost four seconds behind his teammate Hamilton, who was told by radio to increase the gap over the next 20 laps. On lap 24, Räikkönen attempted to pass Grosjean on the right into the first corner for fifth but he ran deep and Grosjean kept the place.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
He tried again into the same turn on the next lap and passed Grosjean, whose motor–generator unit kinetic partially failed. On lap 25, Vergne retired in the pit lane with a broken exhaust. During the same lap, Grosjean locked his tyres into turn ten and allowed Alonso to challenge him. Alonso used DRS to pass Grosjean on the inside for sixth before turn one on lap 26.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
At the front, Hamilton struggled with first over- then understeer on his car. Massa made his second pit stop for the hard compound tyres on lap 28, meaning Vettel's aerodynamics could not be affected by other's cars negatively. Vettel caught Grosjean by lap 32 but entered the pit lane for his second pit stop to switch onto the medium compound tyres because he believed he could not pass the latter on the track. He rejoined the race in 14th. Two laps later, a front-left brake failure put Kobayashi onto the turn one run-off area but avoided hitting the wall.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
He entered the pit lane to retire from the event. Ferrari brought Alonso into the pit lane on the 35th lap in response to Vettel's earlier pit stop. He emerged in tenth, just ahead of Massa. Alonso overtook Magnussen into turn one with DRS for ninth on lap 36 and Vettel passed Massa for eleventh on the next lap. On lap 40, Massa used DRS to pass Magnussen for tenth before the first turn.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
At the end of lap 42, Hamilton ignored an instruction from Mercedes to enter the pit lane and asked for further adjustments to his front wing to counter a possible oversteer with a new set of tyres. He entered the pit lane on the following lap for the hard compound tyres but the stop was problematic: Hamilton's pit crew had difficulty installing the right-rear wheel and he was stationary for 4.3 seconds. Rosberg led for two laps before his second pit stop for the medium compound tyres on the 45th lap.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
He began gaining on his teammate Hamilton, who questioned the decision to bring him into the pit lane before Rosberg. On lap 49, Pérez passed his teammate Hülkenberg for ninth. Three laps later, Vettel entered the pit lane for his second pit stop. Alonso responded by making a pit stop for the medium-compound tyres a lap later. As Alonso exited the pit lane, Vettel overtook him on the outside for sixth into turn one. An oversteer for Räikkönen leaving turn nine slowed him on the back straight and allowed Vettel to pass him braking at the turn ten hairpin for fifth.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Rosberg was less than a second behind his teammate Hamilton by lap 59 and used DRS. However, Hamilton was within a second of Button entering the final corner and used DRS to cancel out Rosberg's pace. It was around this point Hamilton switched to higher-powered engine mode forbidden for use by Mercedes to improve his performance and keep Rosberg behind. As Rosberg returned to DRS range on lap 62, Alonso overtook his teammate Räikkönen between turns three and four for sixth after a short duel.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race
Later that lap, Vettel passed Bottas on the outside for fourth at the turn ten hairpin. Hamilton locked his wheels braking for turn ten and ran wide on lap 65, allowing his teammate Rosberg to attempt an unsuccessful pass. He led Rosberg by six-tenths of a second on the final lap, who attempted a pass with DRS but locked his tyres at turn ten, allowing Hamilton to take his first win in Spain, his fourth in succession in 2014 and the 26th of his career. Ricciardo came third for his first career podium finish and his teammate Vettel was fourth. Bottas came fifth and Alonso and Räikkönen were sixth and seventh. Grosjean earned Lotus' first points of the season in eighth. Pérez and Hülkenberg completed the top ten. The final finishers were Button, Magnussen, Massa, Kvyat, Maldonado, Gutiérrez, Sutil, Bianchi, Chilton and Ericsson.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
At the podium interviews, conducted by former team owner Eddie Jordan, Hamilton was delighted to win for the first time in Spain and said he had not envisioned Mercedes having a large speed advantage over the Red Bull team. Rosberg believed he need one more lap to pass Hamilton and was slightly disappointed to finish second, saying "I wasn't close enough to give it a go there but next lap I would have. But unfortunately that was it." Third-placed Ricciardo stated Red Bull were aware they could not equal Mercedes' performance and that the team focused on tyre conservation.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
In the subsequent press conference, Hamilton said Mercedes' form of five victories in succession meant the team appeared stronger for the foreseeable future and was certain the journalists who criticised his move to the manufacturer in 2013 had changed their views. Rosberg said there was a large amount of positive aspects to take forward from the race and was motivated to extract additional pace to beat Hamilton. Ricciardo said that a loss of traction at the start dropped him behind Bottas but  was satisfied to finish third.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Bernie Ecclestone, the owner of Formula One's commercial rights, was visited by race promoters from 17 different countries in Barcelona. They voiced their concerns over declining attendance figures because of Mercedes' five successive victories and "maintaining the unique feeling of Formula One". Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said of the situation, "We have a choice – we either pack up and go home or we fight. Obviously, maximum points every weekend is putting [Mercedes] in a very strong position, but we are going to push like hell all the way to the last race."


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
In response, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said the marque was aware of potential criticism for a dominant team and stated his belief that an intra-team battle would help maintain interest in Formula One, "We owe this to the fans, we owe to the sport and what we owe to the brand Mercedes. This is our philosophy straight from the beginning with all the risks you have by letting them race."


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
For switching to an engine mode not allowed for use by Mercedes, Hamilton was required by senior personnel to apologise to the team. It was the second time in the season that a Mercedes driver used a forbidden engine setting after Rosberg did so at the Bahrain Grand Prix two races earlier. Wolff banned both drivers from selecting their own engine settings starting from the Monaco Grand Prix.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Bottas said his fifth-place finish was "a step forward" with the updates to his car and believed Williams had to be satisfied with the result and felt they were the third fastest team, "So I really feel that we need to be happy, you always want more and will look to see if there is anything we can do better in the future, but from my side I think the race was one of my best – good start, in the beginning I kept Ricciardo behind even though he was quicker and the Mercedes engine helped with that and yeah, no mistakes on my side."


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Button said his 11th-place finish, which resulted in McLaren failing to score any points in three races for the first time since 2009 and the first for him since 2008, was down to a slow start, an incorrect pit stop strategy and a speed disadvantage preventing the team from scoring a point.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Räikkönen questioned over the radio the decision to change his strategy on the way back to the pit lane after the race due to his belief Alonso was being prioritised over him. He said his choice of wording was to clarify the situation and attempted to make the problem appear less important, "Obviously there was not much between it. We still finished far away from the others. It did not make much difference to the result."


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
Alonso spoke of his insistence that Ferrari sought to finish ahead of Vettel and not win against his teammate, "They said Vettel was on three so if we stopped now, we covered him. And I said 'we do it'. I tried to protect the position from Vettel and it was not possible. The intention was just to keep Vettel behind once we'd changed strategy. We didn't manage it and it was a shame." For the collision between Maldonado and Ericsson, Maldonado incurred one penalty point on his super licence, his fourth of the season.


2014 Spanish Grand Prix, Race, Post-race
The race result left Hamilton with 100 points and the Drivers' Championship lead for the first time in his career since 2012. His teammate Rosberg fell to second and Alonso remained in third. Vettel moved to fourth and his teammate Ricciardo advanced from sixth to fifth. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes increased their lead over the second-placed Red Bull to 114 points. Ferrari passed Force India for third and Williams progressed to fifth with 14 races left in the season.


2014 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2014 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 2014 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuito de Jerez in Jerez de la Frontera on 4 May 2014.


2014 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round four has concluded.


2014 Sparkassen ATP Challenger
The 2014 Sparkassen ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Ortisei, Italy between 3 and 9 November 2014. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour.


2014 Sparkassen ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2014 Sparkassen ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received special exempt into the singles main draw:


2014 Sparkassen ATP Challenger – Doubles
Christopher Kas and Tim Pütz were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together. Kas teamed up with Dustin Brown, but lost in the semi-finals to James Cluskey and Austin Krajicek. Pütz played alongside Dominik Meffert, but lost in the first round to Sergei Bubka and Sergiy Stakhovsky.


2014 Sparkassen ATP Challenger – Singles
Andreas Seppi was the defending champion. Seppi defended his title, defeating Matthias Bachinger in the final, 6–4, 6–3.


2014 Sparkassen Giro
The 2014 Sparkassen Giro was a women's bicycle race in Germany. It was the fifth race of the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Cup season and was held on 3 August 2014. The race covered several laps through the city of Bochum. It was the 14th time the women's race was held and the first time that it was part of the Women's Road World Cup.


2014 Sparkassen Giro, World Cup standings
Standings after 6 of 9 2014 UCI Women's Road World Cup races.


2014 Sparkassen Open
The 2014 Sparkassen Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 21st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Braunschweig, Germany between 30 June and 5 July 2014.


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


2014 Sparkassen Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2014 Sparkassen Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as an alternate into the singles main draw:


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


2014 Sparkassen Open – Doubles
Tomasz Bednarek and Mateusz Kowalczyk were the two-time defending champions, but Bednarek did not participate that year. Kowalczyk played alongside Artem Sitak and they lost in the First Round to Adil Shamasdin and Franko Škugor.


2014 Sparkassen Open – Doubles
Andreas Siljeström and Igor Zelenay won the title, defeating Rameez Junaid and Michal Mertiňák in the final, 7–5, 6–4.


2014 Sparkassen Open – Singles
Florian Mayer was the defending champion, but he did not participate this year.


2014 Sparkassen Open – Singles
Alexander Zverev won the tournament, defeating Paul-Henri Mathieu in the final, 1–6, 6–1, 6–4.


2014 Sparta Prague Open
The 2014 Sparta Prague Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and part of the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $100,000+H in prize money. It took place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 12 to 18 May 2014.


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


2014 Sparta Prague Open – Doubles
Renata Voráčová and Barbora Záhlavová-Strýcová were the defending champions, having won the event in 2013, but both players chose not to participate.


2014 Sparta Prague Open – Doubles
Lucie Hradecká and Michaëlla Krajicek won the tournament, defeating Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Šafářová in the final, 6–3, 6–2.


2014 Sparta Prague Open – Singles
Lucie Šafářová was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova.


2014 Sparta Prague Open – Singles
Heather Watson won the tournament, defeating Anna Karolína Schmiedlová in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–0.


2014 Special Honours
As part of the British honours system, the Special Honours are issued at the Queen's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards of the Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order and the Order of St John. Life Peerages are at times also awarded as special honours.


2014 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 2014 Special Honours in New Zealand was a Special Honours List dated 25 March 2014, recognising the service of the outgoing Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council.


2014 Special Honours (New Zealand)
In addition, two other Special Honours Lists, published on 2 April and 8 December, promulgated the 2014 New Zealand bravery awards and the 2014 New Zealand gallantry awards.


2014 Specialized–lululemon season
The 2014 women's road cycling season was the twelfth for the Specialized–lululemon cycling team, which began as the T-Mobile team in 2003. After being part of the team since 2005, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg left the team for her retirement. Also Ellen van Dijk, the top ranked UCI and best rider of the 2013 season left the team, together with Gillian Carleton and Katie Colclough. Chantal Blaak, Karol-Ann Canuel, Élise Delzenne and Tiffany Cromwell joined the team with the last becoming the leader of the team.


2014 Specialized–lululemon season, Roster
Four riders joined and four riders left the team. After being part of the team since 2005, sprinter Ina-Yoko Teutenberg left the team for retirement after a crash in March 2013. The second important rider who left is Ellen van Dijk who was top ranked in the 2013 UCI World Ranking and 2013 UCI World Cup and was important for the many team time trial victories. Van Dijk signed a contract for three years with the Dutch Boels Dolmans Cycling Team. Katie Colclough announced her retirement at the age of only 23 and Gillian Carleton left the team after to recover from a depression.


2014 Specialized–lululemon season, Roster
The new riders were the French Élise Delzenne, the Dutch Chantal Blaak, the Canadian Karol-Ann Canuel and the Australian Tiffany Cromwell. Cromwell won the Omloop het Nieuwsblad in 2013 and became the leader of the team.


2014 Specialized–lululemon season, Roster
As of 1 January 2014. Ages as of 1 January 2014.


2014 Speedway European Championship
The 2014 Speedway European Championship season was the second season of the Speedway European Championship (SEC) era, and decided the 14th UEM Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the second series under the promotion of One Sport Lts. of Poland.


2014 Speedway European Championship
The championship was won by Russia's Emil Sayfutdinov, six points ahead of Danish rider Peter Kildemand. Third place went to another Danish rider, Nicki Pedersen, who was another four points behind Kildemand. Pedersen had won the opening two races of the season, before Sayfutdinov moved ahead in the standings after a win at Holsted in Denmark. A fourth-place finish in Częstochowa – an event won by Russian Grigory Laguta – was enough to give Sayfutdinov the title.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification
For the 2014 season, 15 permanent riders were joined at each SEC Final by one wild card and two track reserves.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification
Defending champion, Martin Vaculík from Slovakia was automatically invited to participate in all final events. Nicki Pedersen and Grigorij Laguta secured their participation in all final events thanks to being in the top 3 of the general classification in the 2013 season.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification
Emil Sayfutdinov, Andreas Jonsson and Tomasz Gollob received and accepted a wild card to compete in the 2014 Speedway European Championships.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
The European Union Motorcycle (FIM-Europe) introduced a formal ban that prevented riders in the Speedway Grand Prix taking part in the Speedway European Championship. The decision had been rumoured for weeks before being officially confirmed on 3 November 2013. That meant that all riders taking part in the World Championship could not be regular participants of the SEC. Amongst the riders who received permanent wild cards from the SEC were Emil Sayfutdinov, Andreas Jonsson and Tomasz Gollob.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
Shortly after this, riders started to show the support to the SEC and their displeasure about the situation. As a result of this, already invited rider Tomasz Gollob, Andreas Jonsson, Nicki Pedersen and Emil Sayfutdinov sent an open letter to the FIM-Europe requesting the solution of the situation.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
A statement from series organisers One Sport Lts. on 17 November 2013 pointed out that the ban was inconsistent with European law and announced an intention to take required legal action. They used the European Union Microsoft competition case as an example.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
On 29 November, Emil Sayfutdinov announced that he was prepared to drop out of the 2014 SGP series in order to ride in the Speedway European Championship. As a reason, he explained that his Russian sponsors insisted their logos were seen in their country and SEC tournaments were transmitted by a Eurosport channel available in Russia, whereas Grand Prix competitions were not shown by any TV channel in Russia. Moreover, one of SEC tournaments was due to be held in Russia in 2014. On the same day, Tomasz Gollob also announced that he would participate in the Speedway European Championship.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
On 6 December, Janek Konikiewicz, a representative for One Sport Lts., tweeted that "It seems that there will be no ban for SGP riders in SEC 2014. Another strong signal, that we have won – but still nothing official". On 20 December, he also tweeted another message: "OFFICIAL: One Sport received an official letter from FIM-Europe with information that they advised FIM to not ban any riders from SEC", which basically ended the story.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
On 7 February 2014, the FIM board of directors officially took the decision to ban World Championship participants from participating in any kind of European Championships tournament. One Sport LLC declared their disapproval with the FIM's decision. Shortly after, Tomasz Gollob announced that he would refuse his wild card invitation for the SGP Bydgoszcz tournament, whereas Andreas Jonsson decided to refuse his SEC invitation in favour of participating in SGP. Emil Sayfutdinov asked to drop his application for SGP.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Qualification, Controversy
On 28 February 2014, the FIM board of directions officially announced that the previous ban for SGP riders to participate in SEC was delayed until 1 January 2015.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Changes
In the 2014 season, the participating riders had the possibility to choose the number which would be on their race jacket. In the past, the riders in all tournaments had an obligatory number which was given to them by the organizers. During the first tournament, the defending champion wore a yellow race jacket and for all following tournaments, the current general classification leader wore the jacket.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Calendar, Qualification
The calendar for qualification consisted of 3 Semifinal events and one SEC Challenge event. At the end of March, the first semifinal round was moved from the Ukraine to Latvia.


2014 Speedway European Championship, Calendar, Championship Series
A four-event calendar was scheduled for the final series, with events in Germany, Russia, Denmark and Poland.


2014 Speedway European Championship finals
The 2014 Speedway European Championship finals take place from 6 July to 19 September 2014.


2014 Speedway European Championship finals, Round 1
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


2014 Speedway European Championship qualification
The first semifinal of the 2014 Speedway European Championship qualification took place in Daugavpils, Latvia, on 17 May 2014, as a replacement for a previously planned event in Rivne, Ukraine.


2014 Speedway European Championship qualification, Semifinal 1
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


2014 Speedway European Championship qualification, Semifinal 2
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


2014 Speedway European Championship qualification, Semifinal 3
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


2014 Speedway European Championship qualification, Semifinal 3
The final order for placings 4–8 was decided by the jury, after heavy rain forced the cancellation of the run-off.


2014 Speedway European Championship qualification, SEC Challenge
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


2014 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2014 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 69th edition of the official World Championship and the 20th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, deciding the FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the fourteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. Tai Woffinden was the defending champion from 2013.


2014 Speedway Grand Prix
1997 and 2011 world champion Greg Hancock won a third world title, after taking top-five placings in all but one race he contested, including a victory at the British round, in Cardiff. Hancock won the title by eight points ahead of Krzysztof Kasprzak, who was the season's most frequent winner, with three victories. Third place in the championship was decided in a run-off at the final round of the season at Torún in Poland. Three-time world champion Nicki Pedersen and defending champion Woffinden – a winner in back-to-back events in Prague and Målilla, Sweden – finished tied on points, but Pedersen clinched the position after beating Woffinden in the run-off.


2014 Speedway Grand Prix
Aside from Hancock, Kasprzak and Woffinden, six other riders won rounds during the season. Martin Smolinski was the winner of the opening race in Auckland, New Zealand; it was his first victory in the series. Like Smolinski, Slovenia's Matej Žagar was a first-time winner in the Finnish round at Tampere, en route to a fifth-place finish in the championship. Niels Kristian Iversen and Jarosław Hampel, who finished third and second behind Woffinden in 2013, each won races; Iversen won in Copenhagen while Hampel triumphed at Stockholm. Other winners were Andreas Jonsson in Vojens, Denmark and Bartosz Zmarzlik, who won on a wildcard appearance, on home soil, at Gorzów Wielkopolski.


2014 Speedway Grand Prix, Qualification
For the 2014 season there were 15 permanent riders, joined at each Grand Prix by one wild card and two track reserves.