2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
Georgia traveled to Notre Dame for the first game between the two teams since the 1981 Sugar Bowl, which gave the No. 1 Bulldogs the 1980 National Championship. An estimated 70,000 Georgia fans traveled with the Bulldogs for the team's first trip north of the Mason-Dixon line in over 50 years. Notre Dame had just gained over 400 rushing yards in a blowout of Temple the week before, but Georgia's dominant front seven was able to hold Notre Dame's powerful rushing attack to just 55 yards in the victory. Rodrigo Blankenship kicked the game winning field goal late in the fourth quarter, and linebacker Lorenzo Carter recovered a fumble forced by Davin Bellamy on the ensuing drive to seal the game.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Samford
Georgia dominated the Samford Bulldogs in Athens. Jake Fromm was efficient, going 8 of 13 for 165 yards and three touchdowns, and senior RB Nick Chubb gained 131 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State
Fresh off of three dominant victories in a row, including a 37–7 blowout of LSU, Mississippi State came into Athens as one of the hottest teams in the country. Georgia almost immediately took control, however, with a 59-yard touchdown pass from Jake Fromm to Terry Godwin on their first play from scrimmage. Fromm would go 9 of 12 for 201 yards and two touchdowns as Georgia's defense suffocated Mississippi State's offense in the home win.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Tennessee
Georgia traveled to Knoxville in search of payback for a heartbreaking loss the year before. The result was a 41–0 shutout of the Volunteers, their first shutout since 1994 and their worst home loss in over a century. Jake Fromm accounted for three total touchdowns while the Georgia defense held Tennessee to just 142 yards of offense. This was Georgia's largest margin of victory against the rival Volunteers since the 1981 season, when Georgia won 44–0.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
For the second week in a row, Georgia traveled to an opposing SEC stadium to avenge a loss from the year before. This time, Georgia blew out Vanderbilt in Nashville. Georgia's running backs had a field day as Nick Chubb and Sony Michel combined for nearly 300 yards and three touchdowns, and the team gained a total of 423 rushing yards in the blowout win.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Missouri
The game started out surprisingly close thanks to the strong arm of Drew Lock as Missouri was able to match Georgia score-for-score into the second quarter. Georgia began to pull away by halftime, however, as the Bulldogs gained 696 total yards in the victory, the second-most in school history.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Florida
Georgia broke its three-game losing streak to Florida with a dominant performance in Jacksonville, their best win in the series since 1982. Senior RB Sony Michel had one of the best games of his career, rushing for 137 yards and two touchdowns on a mere 6 carries, and the Georgia defense dominated once again. Florida's defeat in this game sealed the fate of the Gators' Head Coach Jim McElwain, who was fired within a few days of the crushing loss.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, South Carolina
Ranked No. 1 in the College Football Playoff Poll for the first time ever, and for the first time in any poll since the beginning of the 2008 season, Georgia defeated South Carolina in Athens behind a balanced offensive attack. Jake Fromm completed 16 of 22 passes for 196 yards and two touchdowns, while the duo of Sony Michel and Nick Chubb combined for 183 yards. The win, combined with a Kentucky loss on the same day, clinched the SEC East for Georgia.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Auburn
The No. 10 Auburn Tigers ended a three-game losing streak against the Bulldogs as they dominated No. 1 Georgia at home. Georgia scored a quick touchdown on their first drive but struggled to touch the scoreboard for the remainder of the game. Auburn took advantage of huge special teams blunders by Georgia and held Nick Chubb and Sony Michel to a combined 48 yards on the ground. Auburn RB Kerryon Johnson shredded the Georgia defense for 233 total yards in the blowout victory.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Kentucky
Georgia bounced back from their crushing loss to Auburn with a dominant home win over Kentucky. Sony Michel and Nick Chubb had a huge day on the ground, combining for 238 rushing yards and five touchdowns, and the Georgia defense held Kentucky's physical offense to 124 yards on the ground.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Georgia Tech
The No. 7 Bulldogs avenged their final loss of the previous season with a blowout win over Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Jake Fromm was a very efficient 12 of 16 for 224 yards and two touchdowns, while Georgia's running backs added 247 yards and three touchdowns in the win. The Georgia defense was strong, holding Georgia Tech to a season-low 226 yards of total offense


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Auburn (SEC Championship Game)
After losing a terribly one-sided game to Auburn in the regular season, No. 6 Georgia had a chance to redeem themselves with a rematch against No. 2 Auburn in the SEC Championship game. Auburn started off strong, going 75 yards on 10 plays for a touchdown on their first drive. However, in a complete reversal of the regular season game, Auburn was unable to score from there on out. Georgia grabbed the momentum after recovering an Auburn fumble at the beginning of the second quarter, and the Bulldogs would go on to score 28 unanswered points in a blowout victory.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Auburn (SEC Championship Game)
This time, the Georgia defense held a banged-up Kerryon Johnson to just 45 total yards, while Sony Michel and Nick Chubb each had over 80 total yards of their own. True freshman QB Jake Fromm played well in the biggest game of his career, going 16 of 22 for 183 yards and two touchdowns. Another true freshman, D'Andre Swift, all but assured Georgia's victory with a 64-yard 4th quarter touchdown run to put the Bulldogs up by three scores. The win gave Georgia its first SEC title since 2005 and secured a spot for Georgia in the 2018 College Football Playoff.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma (Rose Bowl–CFP Semifinal)
On January 1, 2018, Georgia defeated Oklahoma 54–48 in a College Football Playoff semifinal game played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Oklahoma led by 14 points at halftime, but Georgia used a strong running game to storm back in the second half. The game was tied at 45 at the end of regulation time. After the teams traded field goals in the first overtime period, Georgia prevailed on a 27-yard Sony Michel touchdown run in double overtime following an Oklahoma field goal attempt blocked by Lorenzo Carter. The senior duo of Chubb and Michel combined for 367 total yards and 6 touchdowns in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl of all time.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Alabama (CFP National Championship Game)
Georgia charged out to a 13–0 half time lead. Alabama coach Nick Saban made a gutsy call at the half to change QBs, going with freshman Tua Tagovailoa. Alabama chipped away at the Georgia lead in the second half eventually scoring the game tying TD on a 4th and goal from the 6 yard line late in the contest.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Alabama (CFP National Championship Game)
Alabama had a chance to win it in regulation but missed a short field goal and the game was sent to OT. Georgia kicker Rodrigo Blankenship hit a 51-yard field goal, setting a National Championship game record to give the Bulldogs a 3-point lead in OT. On Alabama's OT possession they scored a TD on second down that won the game and gave Alabama their 5th National Championship under Nick Saban.


2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team, 2018 NFL Draft
The 2018 NFL Draft was held on April 26–28 in Arlington, Texas. Six Georgia players were selected as part of the draft, and another five were signed to NFL teams as undrafted free agents.


2017 Georgia Firebirds season
The 2017 Georgia Firebirds season was the second season for the professional indoor football franchise and first in the National Arena League (NAL). The Firebirds were one of eight teams that competed in the NAL for its inaugural 2017 season


2017 Georgia Firebirds season
Led by head coach Antwone Savage, the Firebirds played their home games at the Albany Civic Center. In May 2017, the league apparently took over operations of the Firebirds for the remainder of the season. As a result, the league cancelled the Firebirds' away game at the Corpus Christi Rage (another team the league was operating) as a cost-cutting measure.


2017 Georgia Firebirds season, Schedule, Regular season
The 2017 regular season schedule was released on December 9, 2016


2017 Georgia Firebirds season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 17, 201725 Active, 10 Inactive


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team
The 2017 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team represented the Georgia Southern Eagles in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Eagles played their home games at J. I. Clements Stadium.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team, Schedule and results
Georgia Southern announced its 2017 football schedule on October 20, 2016. The 2017 schedule consisted of 29 home and 27 away games in the regular season. The Eagles hosted Sun Belts foes Appalachian State, Arkansas State, Little Rock, Louisiana–Monroe, and South Alabama and will travel to Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, Louisiana–Lafayette, Texas–Arlington Mavericks, and Troy.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team, Schedule and results
The 2017 Sun Belt Conference Championship was contested May 24–28 in Statesboro, Georgia, and was hosted by the Eagles.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles baseball team, Schedule and results
Georgia Southern finished 3rd in the east division of the conference which qualified the Eagles to compete in the tournament as the 5th seed for the team's 1st Sun Belt Conference tournament title.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
The 2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles played their home games at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia, and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by coach Chad Lunsford following the mid-season firing of second-year head coach Tyson Summers. They finished the season 2–10, 2–6 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for tenth place.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
Following the season, interim head coach Chad Lunsford was promoted to head coach.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Previous season
The Eagles finished the 2016 season 5–7, 4–4 in Sun Belt play to finish in sixth place.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Schedule
Georgia Southern announced its 2017 football schedule on March 1, 2017. The 2016 schedule consisted of five home and seven away games in the regular season. The Eagles hosted Sun Belt opponents Arkansas State, New Mexico State, Georgia State, and South Alabama, and traveled to Troy, Appalachian State, Louisiana-Lafayette, and Coastal Carolina.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Schedule
The team played four non–conference games, one home game against New Hampshire from the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), and traveled to three road games against Auburn from the Southeastern Conference (SEC), Indiana from the Big Ten Conference (B1G) and UMass (Independent). Due to the then-impending impact of Hurricane Irma on southern Georgia, the home game against New Hampshire was relocated to Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama.


2017 Georgia Southern Eagles football team, Game summaries, at UMass
Tyson Summers was fired as head coach the day after the game. Assistant Head Coach Chad Lunsford was named Interim Coach for the remainder of the season.


2017 Georgia State Panthers baseball team
The 2017 Georgia State Panthers baseball team represented Georgia State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Baseball Complex.


2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball team
The 2017 Georgia State Panthers beach volleyball represented Georgia State University during the college beach volleyball season of 2017. The team's head coach was Beth Van Fleet in her fourth season at GSU. The Panthers played their home games at the GSU Beach Volleyball Complex and competed in the  Division I Coastal Collegiate Sports Association. The 2016 season was the second as an official NCAA sport, and the first that the Panthers played in the CCSA, finishing in second place. The Panthers were ranked in the official top 10 during the entire season, earning a spot as the 7th seed in the NCAA Tournament.


2017 Georgia State Panthers football team
The 2017 Georgia State Panthers football team represented Georgia State University (GSU) in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Panthers were led by first-year head coach Shawn Elliott. The season marked the first in which they played in the newly acquired Georgia State Stadium, a renovated Turner Field with artificial turf and a 22,000 person capacity. The season was the Panthers' fifth in the Sun Belt Conference and eighth since starting football. The Panthers finished the season 7–5, 5–3 in Sun Belt play to finish in fourth place. They received an invite to the Cure Bowl, where Georgia State defeated Western Kentucky for the Panthers' first bowl win in program history.


2017 Georgia State Panthers football team, Previous season
In 2016, the Panthers regressed from their previous season, managing a 3–9 season. By their penultimate game, the university fired previous head coach Trent Miles. At the same time, the Panthers ended their tenure at the Georgia Dome, with a new on-campus stadium, Georgia State Stadium, being built out of the former Turner Field.


2017 Georgia State Panthers football team, Offseason, Recruits
As of December 21, 2016, the Panthers have a total of 20 recruits committed. Eight are three-star recruits.


2017 Georgia State Panthers football team, Schedule
Georgia State announced its 2017 football schedule on March 1, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Panthers hosted Sun Belt foes Troy, South Alabama, Appalachian State, and Idaho, and traveled to Coastal Carolina, ULM, Georgia Southern, and Texas State. Georgia State did not play two Sun Belt teams this season, Louisiana and New Mexico State. The team played three non–conference games, one home game against Tennessee State from the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), and two road games against Penn State from the Big Ten and Charlotte from Conference USA.


2017 Georgia State Panthers football team, Schedule
The scheduled home game against Memphis was canceled when the AAC bought out the contract between the schools for $1.1 million to reschedule a conference game between Memphis and UCF that was canceled during the second week of the season due to Hurricane Irma.


2017 Georgia State Panthers softball team
The 2017 Georgia State Panthers softball team represented Georgia State University in the 2017 NCAA Division I softball season. The Panthers competed in the Sun Belt Conference and were led by seven-year head coach Roger Kincaid. Georgia State played its home games at the Robert E. Heck Softball Complex in Panthersville, Georgia.


2017 Georgia Swarm season
The 2017 Georgia Swarm season is the 2nd season of the Georgia Swarm, a lacrosse team based in Duluth, Georgia playing in the National Lacrosse League. The team was formerly based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was known as the Minnesota Swarm.


2017 Georgia Swarm season, Regular season, Final standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2017 Georgia Swarm season, Roster, Entry Draft
The 2016 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 26, 2016. The Swarm made the following selections:


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by tenth-year head coach Paul Johnson and played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium. They competed as a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 5–6, 4–4 in ACC play to finish in third place in the Coastal Division.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Previous season
Georgia Tech ended the 2016 season with a 9-4 overall record, 4–4 in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets ended the season winning six of their last seven games, defeating arch-rival Georgia in Athens by a score of 28–27, and finishing the season with a 33–18 win in the TaxSlayer Bowl over Kentucky.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, vs Tennessee
Georgia Tech controlled the clock and dominated most of the game yardage wise, but gave up a key score in the final minutes of the 4th quarter. Georgia Tech had 2 missed field goal attempts that sent the game to overtime. During the second overtime, Coach Paul Johnson opted to try for a 2-point conversion to win the game there instead of kicking a point after try to tie the game and continue overtime play. Tennessee's defense came up with the stop and the Volunteers held on to the 1 point victory.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Jacksonville State
Georgia Tech had a poor offensive performance during the first half. Their only score was a touchdown after an interception gave the offense a short field. After some half time adjustments, Tech came storming out and put up 27 unanswered points to win the game.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at UCF
The game was canceled due to the cleanup for Hurricane Irma.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Pittsburgh
Coach Pat Narduzzi of Pittsburgh a few days prior to the game criticized Georgia Tech's use of cut blocks during their offensive possessions calling them "dangerous." After Georgia Tech's win, Coach Paul Johnson criticized the Yellow Jacket offense for causing 4 turnovers and said they would not have won had they played a good team as what was described as a "snide" response to Narduzzi.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, North Carolina
Georgia Tech received the opening kickoff and traded a few short drives with the Tar Heels before scoring on an 18-play drive. From then on, the Jackets dominated on both sides of the ball against a severely injured UNC team by using time of possession to their advantage and smothering the UNC offense. The Tar Heels scored late in the 4th quarter, against Tech's backup defenders, to end a 5-quarter shutout streak. Both TaQuon Marshall and Kirvonte Benson tallied over 130 yards rushing each on the day. This was Tech's first win against UNC in 4 years.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, at Miami (FL)
Tech led most of the game until the 4th quarter when Miami kept its chances alive with a long pass and miraculous catch. Miami would eventually kick the game winning field goal giving the Jackets their 2nd loss of the season.


2017 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia
Despite coming within a touchdown near the end of the first half, Georgia Tech would go on to lose as Georgia would score 24 unanswered points in their way to a victory. Tech was officially disqualified from bowl eligibility with the loss causing their final record to be one win shy of qualifying.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election
A special election to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 6th congressional district was held on April 18, 2017, with a runoff held two months later on June 20. Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the runoff vote, 51.8% to 48.2%. Handel succeeded Tom Price, who resigned from the seat following his confirmation as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump Administration. The runoff election was necessary when no individual candidate earned the majority of votes in the election on April 18. Ossoff received 48.1% of the vote in the first round, followed by Handel with 19.8%.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election
Georgia's state law requires the Governor of Georgia to call for a special election to be held at least 30 days after a vacancy. Following Price's resignation, Governor Nathan Deal called for the special election to be held on April 18, with a filing window for prospective candidates from February 13 to 15, 2017. All candidates ran on one ballot, with a runoff election scheduled for the first- and second-place finishers, if no candidate received 50% of the vote.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election
Neither Ossoff nor Handel received a majority, and despite the Democratic Ossoff's finishing nearly 30 points ahead in the first round, Republican Handel nonetheless prevailed in the runoff election, though she would ultimately lose reelection in 2018 to Democrat Lucy McBath. Ossoff would later go on to be elected a United States Senator, defeating incumbent David Perdue in the 2021 runoff election, becoming the first Jewish senator from Georgia, the first millennial elected to the Senate, and the youngest Democratic Senator elected since Joe Biden in 1972.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election
The election attracted exceptional national interest, with both major parties perceiving it as an opportunity to shape the political narrative prior to the 2018 midterm elections. The district has a history of favoring GOP House candidates by large margins, but Trump won it by just 1% in 2016, making Democrats hopeful to win a normally strong GOP district. A total of $50 million was spent as of the close of early-voting period on June 17, making it the most expensive House election in history. Of that, more than $40 million was spent on television and radio advertising alone, smashing past House election records. A very high number of voters—140,000—cast ballots during the runoff-election early-voting period.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election
As of 2021, this is the last time Republicans won Georgia's 6th Congressional District.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, Runoff
On April 18, 2017, no candidate received 50% of the vote in the blanket primary ("jungle primary"). Ossoff led with about 48.1% of the vote, Republican candidate Karen Handel received 19.8%, and the remainder of votes were scattered for 16 other candidates. Because no candidate secured an absolute majority, the top two-vote-getters, Ossoff and Handel, competed in a runoff election on June 20, 2017. Ossoff won all but 1% of the Democratic vote, while the Republican vote was more heavily split. Republicans collectively won 51.2% of the overall vote.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, Runoff
Ossoff broke national fundraising records for a U.S. House candidate. In total, Ossoff's campaign raised more than $23 million, two-thirds of which was contributed by small-dollar donors nationwide. Ossoff's opponent, Karen Handel, and national Republican groups attacked Ossoff for raising significant small-dollar contributions from outside of Georgia, although Handel's campaign received the bulk of its support from super PACs and other outside groups, including those funded anonymously by so-called "dark money". Combined spending by the campaigns and outside groups on their behalf added up to over $55 million, which was the most expensive House Congressional election in U.S. history. During the campaign, Republican strategy focused on connecting Ossoff to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, a polarizing and unpopular figure; Ossoff declined to say whether he would, if elected, support Pelosi for Speaker of the House.


2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, Runoff, Results
On June 20, 2017, Ossoff was defeated by Handel, 51.87% to 48.13%. Following reports of the election results, The New York Times characterized the race as "demoralizing for Democrats". This was as close as a Democrat had come to winning this district since it assumed its current configuration as a northern suburban district in 1992; previously, Democratic challengers had only won more than 40 percent of the vote twice. Handel later lost re-election to a full term on November 6, 2018, to Democratic challenger Lucy McBath, making her the first Democrat to represent the district in its present form. Ossoff would later run for Senate in 2020–21 where he would successfully unseat then-incumbent Republican David Perdue.


2017 Georgian Cup
The 2017 Georgian Cup began on 1 March 2017 and ended on 2 December 2017. The winners of this season's cup (Chikhura Sachkhere) earned a place in the 2018–19 Europa League and will enter in the first qualifying round.


2017 Georgian Cup, Format
For the 2017 season, the Georgian Cup was a single elimination tournament between 80 clubs. Level matches after regulation went to extra time and then to penalties, when needed, to decide the winning club.


2017 Georgian Cup, First round
Twelve first round matches were played on 1 March 2017.


2017 Georgian Cup, Second round
Twenty-four second round matches were played on 5 March 2017.


2017 Georgian Cup, Third round
Twelve third round matches were played on 9–10 March 2017.


2017 Georgian Cup, Fourth round
Sixteen fourth round matches were played on 15 March 2017.


2017 Georgian Cup, Fifth round
Eight fifth round matches were played on 25–26 April 2017.


2017 Georgian Super Cup
2017 Georgian Super Cup was a Georgian football match that was played on 26 February 2017 between the champions of 2016 Umaglesi Liga, Samtredia, and the winner of the 2016 Georgian Cup, Torpedo Kutaisi.


2017 Georgian local elections
The Georgian local self-government election, 2017 (Georgian: საქართველოს ადგილობრივი თვითმმართველობის ორგანოების არჩევნები) was held on 21 October 2017 to elect the bodies of local government of Georgia: 2,058 members of representative councils (sakrebulo) and 64 mayors of municipalities. The ruling Georgian Dream party won in all constituencies under the proportional contest and secured 63 out of 64 mayoral positions. The votes went into second-round runoffs in six municipalities, scheduled for 12 November 2017.


2017 Georgian local elections, Background
There are two types of municipalities in Georgia: self-governing cities and self-governing communities. The representative councils (sakrebulo) and executive heads of municipalities – mayors are directly elected by the citizens of Georgia to a four-year term. The election date was appointed by the President of Georgia 60 days prior to the polls and countersigned by the Prime Minister.


2017 Georgian local elections, Background
The previous elections were held in two rounds in 2014. Most of the sakrebulo (council) and gamgebeli (mayoral) seats were won by the ruling Georgian Dream coalition.


2017 Georgian local elections, Election campaign
The local non-governmental organizations monitoring the elections—the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) and the Transparency International Georgia—jointly assessed the pre-election environment as mostly peaceful and noted that, while political parties were noticeably active, "the ruling party's dominance was evident". The most serious incident in the pre-election campaign occurred in the village of Kizilajlo of Marneuli Municipality in which the Georgian Dream's candidate and other persons were assaulted with a firearm at the party office on October 19.


2017 Georgian local elections, Election campaign
In the 2017 Elections, the first ever openly-gay candidate ran for public office in Georgia. Nino Bolkvadze from the Republic Party, was aimed to take her place in the capital of Georgia. "Bolkvadze, who is running for the Republican Party, a small opposition force, said she hoped her campaign would put the spotlight on gay rights and change outdated public perceptions of LGBT people."


2017 Georgian local elections, Tbilisi mayoral election, 2017
The Tbilisi mayoral election, 2017, (Georgian: თბილისის მერის არჩევნები) was held on 21 October 2017 to elect the Mayor of Tbilisi. Also Tbilisi City Concuil elections were held.


2017 Georgian local elections, Tbilisi mayoral election, 2017
The main candidates for the mayoral election were Kakha Kaladze, former footballer and minister of energy from ruling Georgian Dream coalition, journalist Zaal Udumashvili from UNM, Tbilisi City Council member and journalist, Aleko Elisashvili, independent candidate, member of parliament Elene Khoshtaria from European Georgia and journalist, member of parliament Irma Inashvili, leader of Alliance of Patriots of Georgia


2017 German Athletics Championships
The 2017 German Athletics Championships was the 117th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 8 and 9 July at the Steigerwaldstadion in Erfurt. It served as the selection meeting for Germany at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.


2017 German Athletics Championships
Three championship records were beaten during the competition: Johannes Vetter set the standard in the men's javelin with 89.35 m (293 ft 1 1⁄2 in), Konstanze Klosterhalfen set a women's 1500 metres best of 3:59.58 minutes, while Gesa Felicitas Krause won a distance double in the 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase (championship record of 9:25.81 minutes). Julian Reus claimed a sprint double in the men's 100 metres and 200 metres.


2017 German Athletics Championships, Championships
The annual national championships in Germany comprised the following competitions:


2017 German Darts Championship
The 2017 German Darts Championship was the first of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Halle 39, Hildesheim, Germany, between 24–26 March 2017. It will feature a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2017 German Darts Championship
Alan Norris was the defending champion, having beaten Jelle Klaasen 6–5 in the final of the previous edition, but he was defeated 6–4 in the third round by Kim Huybrechts.


2017 German Darts Championship
Peter Wright won the final, defeating Michael van Gerwen 6–3, winning his second PDC European Tour title.


2017 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
The top 16 players from the  on 6 March automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.


2017 German Darts Championship, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events - 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 10 March), eight from the West/South European Qualifier, four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held on 23 March), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 17 February) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 25 February).


2017 German Darts Grand Prix
The 2017 German Darts Grand Prix was the tenth of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Maimarkthalle, Mannheim, Germany, between 8–10 September 2017. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2017 German Darts Grand Prix
Michael van Gerwen won the tournament, defeating Rob Cross 6–3 in the final.


2017 German Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format
The top 16 entrants from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 30 June automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.


2017 German Darts Grand Prix, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events – 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 4 August), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 31 August), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 31 August), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 11 August) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 26 August).


2017 German Darts Masters (European Tour)
The 2017 German Darts Masters was the second of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Sparkassen-Arena, Jena, Germany, between 15–17 April 2017. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2017 German Darts Masters (European Tour)
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion, having beaten Peter Wright 6–4 in the final of the previous edition, and he defended his title by defeating Jelle Klaasen 6–2 in the final.


2017 German Darts Masters (European Tour), Qualification and format
The top 16 players from the  on 23 March automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.


2017 German Darts Masters (European Tour), Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events - 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Milton Keynes on 31 March), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 23 March), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 14 April), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 17 February) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 25 February).


2017 German Darts Masters (World Series of Darts)
The 2017 German Darts Masters was the inaugural staging of the tournament by the Professional Darts Corporation, as the seventh and last entry in the 2017 World Series of Darts. The tournament featured 16 players (eight PDC players facing eight regional qualifiers) and was held at the Castello Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany between 20–21 October 2017.


2017 German Darts Masters (World Series of Darts)
Peter Wright won his first World Series title after defeating Phil Taylor 11–4 in the final, after surviving one match dart each in his first round and quarter-final game.


2017 German Darts Masters (World Series of Darts), Qualifiers
The eight invited PDC representatives, sorted according to the World Series Order of Merit, are:


2017 German Darts Open
The 2017 German Darts Open was the third of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken, Germany, between 21–23 April 2017. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2017 German Darts Open
Peter Wright won the tournament by defeating Benito van de Pas 6–5 in the final.


2017 German Darts Open, Qualification and format
The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 6 April automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.


2017 German Darts Open, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events - 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Barnsley on 7 April), eight from the West/South European Qualifier, four from the Host Nation Qualifier (both held on 20 April), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 18 February) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 26 February).


2017 German Figure Skating Championships
The 2017 German Figure Skating Championships (German: Deutsche Meisterschaften im Eiskunstlaufen 2017) was held on December 15-17, 2016 at the Erika-Heß-Eisstadion in Berlin. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the senior, junior, and novice levels. The results of the national championships were among the criteria used to choose the German teams to the 2017 World Championships and 2017 European Championships.


2017 German Football League
The 2017 German Football League season was the 39th edition of the top-level American football competition in Germany and 18th since the renaming of the American Football Bundesliga to German Football league.


2017 German Football League
The regular season started on 22 April and finished on 3 September 2017, followed by the play-offs. The season culminated in the German Bowl XXXIX, held on 7 October 2017 in Berlin.


2017 German Football League, Modus
During the regular season each club plays all other clubs in its division twice, home and away, resulting in each team playing 14 regular season games. There are no games between clubs from opposite divisions, interconference games having been abolished after the 2011 season when the GFL was expanded from 14 to 16 teams.


2017 German Football League, Modus
The best four teams in each division qualify for the play-offs where, in the quarter finals, teams from opposite divisions play each other, whereby the better placed teams have home field advantage. The first placed team plays the fourth placed from the other division and the second placed the third placed team. From the semi-finals onwards teams from the same division can meet again.


2017 German Football League, Modus
The eighth placed team in each division entered a two-leg play-off with the winner of the respective division of the German Football League 2, the second tier of the league system in Germany. The winners of this contest qualified for the GFL for the following season. In case of a GFL division consisting of less than eight clubs no play-off is necessary.


2017 German Indoor Athletics Championships
The 2017 German Indoor Athletics Championships (German: Deutsche Leichtathletik-Hallenmeisterschaften 2017) was the 64th edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for Germany. It was held on 18–19 February at the Arena Leipzig in Leipzig – the seventh time the venue had hosted the championships. Ticketing for the event was sold out. A total of 25 events, 13 for men and 12 for women, were contested plus six further events were held separately. It was to serve as preparation for the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships.


2017 German Indoor Athletics Championships
Several national championship events were staged elsewhere: 3 × 800 m and 3 × 1000 m relays were held on 26 February at the Glaspalast Sindelfingen in Sindelfingen, while racewalking events were hosted at the Leichtathletikhalle Erfurt in Erfurt on 5 March. Indoor combined events were held at the Leichtathletik-Halle in Hamburg on 28 and 29 January.


2017 German Masters
The 2017 F66.com German Masters professional ranking snooker tournament  took place between 1–5 February 2017 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, Germany. It was the twelfth ranking event of the 2016/2017 season.


2017 German Masters
Martin Gould was the defending champion but he lost 2–6 against Ali Carter in the semi-finals.


2017 German Masters
Tom Ford made the 128th official maximum break and the third of his career in the second frame of his 5–2 win over Peter Ebdon in the first round. Maximum breaks had already been made in the qualifying rounds by both Ali Carter and Ross Muir.


2017 German Masters
Anthony Hamilton defeated Carter 9–6 to capture his first ranking title in his 26-year career, having trailed 2–5. At the age of 45, he also became the oldest ranking event winner since Doug Mountjoy was 46 winning the Classic in 1989. He is the third oldest winner of a ranking event after Mountjoy (46) and Ray Reardon (50 and 45).


2017 German Masters, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2017 German Masters, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000 (€13,300).


2017 German Masters, Qualifying
These matches were played between 6 and 9 December 2016 at the Barnsley Metrodome in Barnsley, England. All matches were best of 9 frames.


2017 German Masters, Qualifying
Ali Carter made the 125th official maximum break in the fourth frame of his round 1 qualifying match against Wang Yuchen. It was Carter's second professional maximum break. On the same day, Ross Muir made the 126th official maximum break in the third frame of his round 1 qualifying match against Itaro Santos. It was Muir's first professional maximum break.


2017 German Open
The 2017 German Open (also known as the 2017 German Tennis Championships) was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 111th edition of the German Open Tennis Championships and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2017 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, Germany, from July 24 through 30, 2017.


2017 German Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 German Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2017 German Open Grand Prix Gold
The 2017 German Open Grand Prix Gold was the fourth Grand Prix's badminton tournament of the 2017 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held at the Innogy Sporthalle in Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany on 28 February–5 March 2017 and had a total purse of $120,000.


2017 German Open – Doubles
Henri Kontinen and John Peers were the defending champions, but chose not to participate this year.


2017 German Open – Doubles
Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavić won the title, defeating Pablo Cuevas and Marc López in the final, 6–3, 6–4.


2017 German Open – Singles
Martin Kližan was the defending champion, but withdrew before the tournament began.


2017 German Open – Singles
Leonardo Mayer won the title, defeating Florian Mayer in the final, 6–4, 4–6, 6–3.


2017 German federal election
Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter.


2017 German federal election
The Christian Democratic Union of Germany and the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU), led by incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel, won the highest percentage of the vote with 33%, though it suffered a large swing against it of more than 8%. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) achieved its worst result since post-war Germany at 21%.


2017 German federal election
Alternative for Germany (AfD), which was previously unrepresented in the Bundestag, became the third party in the Bundestag with 12.6% of the vote, whilst the Free Democratic Party (FDP) won 10.7% of the vote and returned to the Bundestag after losing all their seats in 2013. It was the first time since 1957 that a party to the political right of the CDU/CSU gained seats in the Bundestag. The other parties to achieve representation in the Bundestag were the Left and Alliance 90/The Greens, each close to 9% of the vote. In the 709 member Bundestag, a majority is 355 and the CDU/CSU won 246 seats (200 CDU and 46 CSU), the SPD 153, the AfD 94, the FDP 80, The Left 69, and the Greens 67.


2017 German federal election
For the second consecutive occasion, the CDU/CSU reached a coalition agreement with the SPD to form a grand coalition, the fourth in post-war German history, and the new government took office on 14 March 2018. The agreement came after a failed attempt by the CDU/CSU to enter into a Jamaica coalition with the Greens and the FDP, which the latter pulled out of citing irreconcilable differences between the parties on migration and energy policy. This had been by far the longest government formation in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, as it was the first time a proposed coalition formation negotiation had collapsed and had been replaced by another coalition.


2017 German federal election, Background
At the 2013 German federal election, the incumbent government composed of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU), and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) had failed to maintain a majority of seats. The FDP failed to get over 5% of the vote in 2013, denying the party seats in the Bundestag for the first time in its history. In contrast, the CDU/CSU obtained their best result since 1990, with nearly 42% of the vote and just short of 50% of the seats. The CDU/CSU then successfully negotiated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) to form a grand coalition for the third time.


2017 German federal election, Background
In January 2017, party leader Sigmar Gabriel recommended Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, as their leader and chancellor candidate. The party substantially increased its support as a result; however, the CDU afterward regained its lead, with polls generally showing a 13–16% lead over the SPD.


2017 German federal election, Date
German law requires that a new Bundestag shall be elected on a Sunday or on a nationwide holiday between 46–48 months after the last Bundestag's first sitting (Basic Law Article 39 Section 1). In January 2017, then-President Joachim Gauck scheduled the election for 24 September 2017.


2017 German federal election, Date
After the election, the 19th Bundestag had to hold its first sitting within 30 days. Until that first sitting, the members of the 18th Bundestag remained in office (Basic Law Article 39 Section 1 and 2).


2017 German federal election, Electoral system
Germany uses the mixed-member proportional representation system, a system of proportional representation combined with elements of first-past-the-post voting. The Bundestag has 598 nominal members, elected for a four-year term; these seats are distributed between the sixteen German states in proportion to the states' population eligible to vote.


2017 German federal election, Electoral system
Every elector has two votes: a constituency and a list vote. 299 members are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post, based just on the first votes. The second votes are used to produce an overall proportional result in the states and then in the Bundestag. Seats are allocated using the Sainte-Laguë method. If a party wins fewer constituency seats in a state than its second votes would entitle it to, it receives additional seats from the relevant state list. Parties can file lists in each single state under certain conditions, such as a fixed number of supporting signatures. Parties can receive second votes only in those states in which they have successfully filed a state list.


2017 German federal election, Electoral system
If a party by winning single-member constituencies in one state receives more seats than it would be entitled to according to its second vote share in that state (overhang seats), the other parties receive compensation seats. Owing to this provision, the Bundestag usually has more than 598 members. The 18th Bundestag, for example, started with 631 seats: 598 regular and 33 overhang and compensation seats. Overhang seats are calculated at the state level, so many more seats are added to balance this out among the different states, adding more seats than would be needed to compensate for overhang at the national level in order to avoid negative vote weight.


2017 German federal election, Electoral system
In order to qualify for seats based on the party-list vote share, a party must either win three single-member constituencies or exceed a threshold of 5% of the second votes nationwide. If a party only wins one or two single-member constituencies and fails to get at least 5% of the second votes, it keeps the single-member seat(s), but other parties that accomplish at least one of the two threshold conditions receive compensation seats. During the 2002 German federal election, the PDS won only 4.0% of the party-list votes nationwide but won two constituencies in the state of Berlin. The same applies if an independent candidate wins a single-member constituency, which has not happened since 1949. In the 2013 German federal election, the FDP only won 4.8% of party-list votes; this cost it all of its seats in the Bundestag.


2017 German federal election, Electoral system
If a voter has cast a first vote for a successful independent candidate or a successful candidate whose party failed to qualify for proportional representation, their second vote does not count to determine proportional representation; however, it does count to determine whether the elected party has exceeded the 5% threshold.


2017 German federal election, Electoral system
Parties representing recognized national minorities, such as Danes, Frisians, Sorbs, and Romani people, are exempt from the 5% threshold but normally only run in state elections.


2017 German federal election, Parties and leaders
Altogether 38 parties have managed to get on the ballot in at least one state and can therefore (theoretically) earn proportional representation in the Bundestag. Furthermore, there are several independent candidates, running for a single-member constituency. Below are the major parties that are likely to either exceed the threshold of 5% second votes or to win single-member constituencies (first votes).


2017 German federal election, Parties and leaders
Traditionally, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), which refer to each other as sister parties, do not compete against each other. The CSU only contests elections in Bavaria, while the CDU contests elections in the other fifteen states.


2017 German federal election, Parties and leaders
Although these parties have some differences, such as the CSU's opposition to the previous government's immigration policies, the CDU and CSU share the same basic political aims and are allowed by the Regulations of the Bundestag to join into one parliamentary Fraktion (a parliamentary group composed of at least 5% of the members of the Bundestag, entitled to specific rights in parliament) after the elections, as they do in the form of the CDU/CSU group.


2017 German federal election, Parties and leaders
As the CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) were likely to win the most seats in the election, their leading candidates are referred to as chancellor candidates; however, this does not mean that the new Bundestag is legally bound to elect one of them as chancellor.


2017 German federal election, Results
The CDU/CSU and the SPD remained the two largest parties in the Bundestag, but both received a significantly lower proportion of the vote than they did in the 2013 German federal election.


2017 German federal election, Results
The AfD received enough votes to enter the Bundestag for the first time, taking 12.6 percent of the vote—more than double the five percent threshold required to qualify for full parliamentary status. It also won three constituency seats, which would have qualified it for proportionally-elected seats in any event.


2017 German federal election, Results
The FDP returned to the Bundestag with 10.7 percent of the vote. Despite improving their results slightly and thus gaining a few more seats, the Left and the Greens remained the two smallest parties in parliament.


2017 German federal election, Results, Results by state
Second Vote ("Zweitstimme", or votes for party list) by state


2017 German federal election, Results, Additional member seats by state
Second Vote ("Zweitstimme", or votes for party list) seats allocated by each of the 16 states by party.


2017 German federal election, Constitution of the 19th Bundestag
On 24 October 2017 the 19th Bundestag held its opening session, during which the Bundestag-members elected the Presidium of the Bundestag, i.e. the President and the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag. By tradition the biggest parliamentary group (in this case  the CDU/CSU-group) has the right to propose a candidate for President of the Bundestag and following the rules of order every group has the right to be represented by at least one Vice President in the presidium. However, the Bundestag may decide to elect additional Vice Presidents.


2017 German federal election, Constitution of the 19th Bundestag
Every member of the presidium had to be elected by an absolute majority of the members of the Bundestag (in this case 355 votes). Until the election of the President of the Bundestag, the father of the house, the member of parliament with the longest membership, presided over the opening session.


2017 German federal election, Constitution of the 19th Bundestag
The AfD's seat in the Presidium has remained vacant since the first session. On 7 November 2018, the AfD-group nominated Mariana Harder-Kühnel to the post. Harder-Kühnel failed to secure a majority on the first ballot on 29 November 2018 (223 yes votes, 387 no votes, 44 abstentions), on the second ballot on 12 December 2018 (241 yes votes, 377 no votes, 41 abstentions), or on the third ballot on 4 April 2019 (199 yes votes, 423 no votes, 43 abstentions)


2017 German federal election, Constitution of the 19th Bundestag
On 9 April 2019, the AfD nominated Gerold Otten to the post; however, he has failed to secure a majority on the first ballot on 11 April 2019 (210 yes votes, 393 no votes, 31 abstentions), on the second ballot on 16 May 2019 (205 yes votes, 399 no votes, 26 abstentions), or on the third ballot on 6 June 2019 (211 yes votes, 426 no votes, 30 abstentions).


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Jamaica coalition
The SPD's leader and Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz and other party leaders stated that the SPD would not continue the incumbent grand coalition government after unsatisfactory election results. Following the SPD's announcement that it would return to the opposition, the media speculated that incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel might need to form a Jamaica coalition (black-yellow-green) with the FDP and the Greens as that was the only viable coalition without the AfD or The Left, both of which had been ruled out by Merkel as coalition partners before the election. On 9 October 2017, Merkel officially announced that she would invite the Free Democrats and the Greens for talks about building a coalition government starting on 18 October 2017.


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Jamaica coalition
In the final days of the preliminary talks, the four parties had still failed to come to agreement on migration and climate issues. Preliminary talks between the parties collapsed on 20 November after the FDP withdrew, arguing that the talks had failed to produce a common vision or trust.


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Grand coalition
After the collapse of these coalition talks, the German President appealed to the SPD to change their hard stance and to consider a grand coalition with the CDU/CSU. On 24 November, Schulz said he wants party members to be polled on whether to form another grand coalition with CDU/CSU after a meeting with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier the day before. According to CDU deputy leader Julia Klöckner, talks were unlikely to begin until early 2018.


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Grand coalition
On 6 December the SPD held a party congress in which a majority of the 600 party delegates voted to start preliminary coalition talks with the CDU/CSU. This decision was met with reluctance by the party's youth wing, which organised protests outside the convention hall. Martin Schulz's backing of the coalition talks was interpreted by media organisations as a U-turn, as he had previously ruled out considering a grand coalition.


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Grand coalition
On 12 January, the CDU/CSU and the SPD announced that they had reached a breakthrough in the preliminary talks and agreed upon an outline document to begin formal negotiations for the grand coalition. On 21 January, the SPD held an extraordinary party conference of 642 delegates in Bonn. The conference voted in favour of accepting the conclusion of preliminary talks and launching formal coalition negotiations with the CDU/CSU. The formal coalition talks finally began on 26 January.


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Grand coalition
On 7 February, the CDU/CSU and SPD announced that the final coalition agreement had been reached between the parties to form the next government. According to terms of the agreement, the SPD received six ministries in the new government including the finance, foreign affairs and labour portfolios while the CDU received five and the CSU three ministries. The agreement stipulated there would be rises in public spending, an increase in German financing of the EU and a slightly stricter stance taken towards immigration.


2017 German federal election, Government formation, Grand coalition
SPD chairperson and Europe expert Martin Schulz was to step down as party leader and join the cabinet as foreign minister, despite having previously stated that he would not serve under a Merkel-led government. However, only days after these reports were published, Schulz renounced his plan to be foreign minister reacting on massive criticism by the party base. The complete text of the coalition agreement was published on 7 February. The coalition deal was subject to approval of the approximately 460,000 members of the SPD in a postal vote. The results of the vote were announced on 4 March. In summary, 66% of respondents voted in favour of the deal and 34% voted against it. Approximately 78% of the SPD membership responded to the postal vote. The result allowed the new government to take office immediately following Bundestag approval of Merkel's fourth term on 14 March 2018.


2017 German motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2017 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the ninth round of the 2017 MotoGP season. It was held at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal on 2 July 2017.


2017 German motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race, MotoGP
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round nine has concluded.


2017 German presidential election
The 2017 German presidential election (officially the 16th Federal Convention) was held on 12 February 2017 to elect the 12th President of Germany. Incumbent President Joachim Gauck announced on 6 June 2016 that he would not stand for re-election, citing his advancing age.


2017 German presidential election
The President is elected by the Federal Convention, an electoral body that consists of all members of the current Bundestag and an equal number of electors, who are elected by the sixteen state parliaments. Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the Social Democratic Party was chosen as the single candidate of the ruling coalition in November 2016 and, with the Christian Democratic Union choosing not to field a candidate against him, his election was seen as guaranteed. Steinmeier was elected on the first ballot, and took office on 19 March 2017.


2017 German presidential election, Composition of the Federal Convention
In the Federal Convention, a candidate needs a majority (at least 631 votes) to become President. If no candidate gets a majority of votes in the first two ballots, a plurality is sufficient on the third ballot.


2017 German presidential election, Candidates
Every member of the Federal Convention (members of the Bundestag and state electors, once they are elected by their respective state parliament) can propose candidates for the presidency. It is required that the President is a German citizen and at least 40 years old. Every candidate has to declare their consent to running. Candidates can be proposed before the Federal Convention and (theoretically) during the Convention before every ballot. If the President-elect is a member of a legislature or a government on federal or state level, he has to resign from that office before the start of their term. A sitting President is not allowed to run for a third consecutive term.


2017 German presidential election, Candidates
Chancellor Angela Merkel originally wanted to nominate Green politician Marianne Birthler, who succeeded Gauck as the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records from 2001 to 2011, and as the CDU/CSU and the Greens control a majority in the Federal Convention, Birthler's election would have been secured. However, Birthler after some time decided not to run.


2017 German presidential election, Candidates
On 14 November 2016 the governing parties CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party named the Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Vice Chancellor of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier as their consensus candidate. Alliance 90/The Greens and the Free Democratic Party endorsed Steinmeier. The other parties were considered likely to either endorse Steinmeier or name candidates of their own to express discontent with the consensus candidate. In any case Steinmeier was the clear favorite to win the election, because the parties endorsing his candidacy held more than 1000 votes in the Federal Convention.


2017 German presidential election, Candidates
Alternative for Germany proposed the former treasurer of Frankfurt Albrecht Glaser, and the Free Voters named the judge and TV celebrity Alexander Hold. Both were widely considered to have no real chance of winning the presidency, because their respective parties had few electors in the Federal Convention and it was unlikely that they would receive endorsements from other parties. On 20 November 2016 The Left nominated the political scientist Christoph Butterwegge. Martin Sonneborn, member of the satirical party Die PARTEI and state elector (North Rhine-Westphalia) for the Pirate Party proposed his father, the retired career consultant Engelbert Sonneborn.


2017 German presidential election, Candidates
Except for Sonneborn, all candidates were electors in the Federal Convention themselves. Steinmeier was a member of the current Bundestag, Butterwegge and Glaser were elected as state electors for Saxony and Hold as state elector for Bavaria.


2017 German presidential election, Results
The 16th Federal Convention elected Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the first ballot. He entered office on 19 March 2017.


2017 Gerry Weber Open
The 2017 Gerry Weber Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 25th edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 series of the 2017 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Gerry Weber Stadion in Halle, Germany, between 19 and 25 June 2017.


2017 Gerry Weber Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Gerry Weber Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2017 Gerry Weber Open – Doubles
Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram were the two-time defending champions, but lost to Alexander Zverev and Mischa Zverev in the semifinals.


2017 Gerry Weber Open – Doubles
Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo won the title, defeating the Zverev brothers in the final, 5–7, 6–3, [10–8].


2017 Gerry Weber Open – Singles
Florian Mayer was the defending champion, but lost to Roger Federer in the quarterfinals.


2017 Gerry Weber Open – Singles
Federer went on to win his 9th Halle Open title, defeating Alexander Zverev in the final, 6–1, 6–3.


2017 Geylang International FC season
The 2017 season is Geylang International's 22nd consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League. Along with the S.League, the club will also compete in the Prime League, the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup.


2017 Geylang International FC season, Friendlies, In-season friendlies
Match cancelled after 1st half due to lightning warning signal


2017 Ghanaian Premier League
The 2017 Ghanaian Premier League is the 61st season of top professional association football in Ghana. The season began on 12 February. Wa All Stars are the defending champions coming off their first league title. The eventual winners Aduana Stars were crowned champions during a special coronation match with Berekum Chelsea. They have automatically qualified for the CAF Champions League next year.


2017 Ghanaian Premier League, Teams
The Ghanaian Premier League comprises 16 sides, of which the bottom three will be relegated to the Division One.


2017 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament
The 2017 Ghazi Amanullah Khan Regional One Day Tournament was a List A cricket competition that took place in Afghanistan from 10 to 19 August 2017. It was the first edition of the competition to be played with List A status, following the announcements by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in February and May 2017. Five teams competed; Amo Region, Band-e-Amir Region, Boost Region, Mis Ainak Region and Speen Ghar Region. Speen Ghar Region won the tournament, beating Boost Region by five wickets in the final.


2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
The 2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy was the fifth of twelve PDC European Tour events on the 2017 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar from 12–14 May 2017. It featured a field of 48 players and £135,000 in prize money, with £25,000 going to the winner.


2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Michael van Gerwen was the defending champion after defeating Dave Chisnall 6–2 in the 2016 tournament, but he decided not to enter this tournament.


2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy
Michael Smith won his fourth PDC European Tour title by defeating Mensur Suljović 6–4 in the final.


2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format
The top 16 players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit on 27 April automatically qualified for the event and were seeded in the second round.


2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format
The remaining 32 places went to players from five qualifying events - 18 from the UK Qualifier (held in Wigan on 28 April), eight from the West/South European Qualifier (held on 4 May), four from the Host Nation Qualifier (held on 11 May), one from the Nordic & Baltic Qualifier (held on 17 March) and one from the East European Qualifier (held on 29 April).


2017 Gibraltar Darts Trophy, Qualification and format
Following the withdrawal of Adrian Lewis the day before the event started for family reasons, the number of Host Nation Qualifiers was increased from four to five.


2017 Gibraltar Open
The 2017 jojobet.com Gibraltar Open professional ranking snooker tournament took place at the Tercentenary Sports Hall in Gibraltar from 1 to 5 March 2017. It was the 16th ranking event of the 2016/2017 season. The main event ran from 3 to 5 March and was preceded by amateur pre-qualifying rounds on 1 and 2 March.


2017 Gibraltar Open
Marco Fu was the defending champion, but he chose not to participate in this edition of the tournament.


2017 Gibraltar Open
Shaun Murphy won the tournament, beating Judd Trump 4–2 in the final.


2017 Gibraltar Open, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below.


2017 Gibraltar Open, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £20,000 = €26,600.


2017 Gibraltar Open, Preliminary rounds
These matches were played in Gibraltar on 1–2 March 2017. All matches were the best of 7 frames.


2017 Gibraltar Social Democrats leadership election
An election for the leadership of the Gibraltar Social Democrats was held after the previous leader, Daniel Feetham, resigned.


2017 Gibraltar Social Democrats leadership election, Potential candidates, Members of Parliament
After two MPs resigned the party whip to become independents, the party has five members of parliament. Excluding Daniel Feetham, they are as follows:


2017 Gibraltar Social Democrats leadership election, Potential candidates, The Candidates
The candidates who decided to contest were the party's interim leader, Roy Clinton and Keith Azopardi, former minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Gibraltar, who had rejoined the party in 2017 after leaving them in 2003 and politics completely since 2012


2017 Gibraltar Social Democrats leadership election, Potential candidates, Non MPs
Two former ministers, Keith Azopardi and Damon Bossino, are said to be considering applying for the post. A third, Peter Montegriffo, has declined to stand. Damon Bossino also announced to decline to take stand later on. Keith Azzopardi announced to stand for leadership and is now challenging Interim leader, MP and candidate, Roy Clinton.


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger
The 2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Gimcheon, Korea between 1 and 7 May 2017.


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Doubles
Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Doubles
Marco Chiudinelli and Teymuraz Gabashvili won the title after defeating Ruan Roelofse and Yi Chu-huan 6–1, 6–3 in the final.


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Singles
Max Purcell was the defending champion but lost to Bradley Mousley in the second qualifying round.


2017 Gimcheon Open ATP Challenger – Singles
Thomas Fabbiano won the title after defeating Teymuraz Gabashvili 7–5, 6–1 in the final.


2017 Ginetta GT4 Supercup
The 2017 Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup is a multi-event, one make GT motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, competing in Ginetta G55s that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It forms part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the BTCC centrepiece. It is the seventh Ginetta GT4 Supercup, having rebranded from the Ginetta G50 Cup, which ran between 2008 and 2010. The season commenced on 2 April at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concludes on 2 October at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after twenty-two races held at eight meetings, all in support of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship season.


2017 Ginetta Junior Championship
The 2017 Simpson Race Products Ginetta Junior Championship was a multi-event, one-make motor racing championship held across England and Scotland. The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded drivers, aged between 14 and 17, competing in Ginetta G40s that conformed to the technical regulations for the championship. It formed part of the extensive program of support categories built up around the British Touring Car Championship centrepiece.


2017 Ginetta Junior Championship
It was the eleventh Ginetta Junior Championship and commenced on 1 April 2017 at Brands Hatch – on the circuit's Indy configuration – and concluded on 1 October 2017 at the same venue, utilising the Grand Prix circuit, after 25 races held at ten meetings, all in support of the 2017 British Touring Car Championship season.


2017 Girabola
The 2017 Girabola is the 39th season of top-tier football in Angola. The season ran from 10 February to 5 November 2017.


2017 Girabola
The league comprised 16 teams, the bottom three of which will be relegated to the 2018 Provincial stages.


2017 Girabola, Teams
A total of 16 teams will contest the league, including 13 sides from the 2016 season and three promoted from the 2016 Segundona - Bravos do Maquis, J.G.M. and Santa Rita de Cássia.


2017 Girabola, Teams
On the other hand, 4 de Abril do K.K., Porcelana F.C. and Primeiro de Maio were the last three teams of the 2016 season and will play in the Segundona for the 2018 season. Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto are the defending champions from the 2016 season.


2017 Girabola, Teams
On January 23, 2017, Benfica de Luanda issued a press release stating that it would no longer participate in the Girabola, with effect from 2017 and until further notice, citing financial reasons, and that the club would focus on its youth academy and in turning the club into a sports company. With such decision, the club is liable to a heavy penalty by the Angolan Federation that might include a ban to participate in the girabola for an established period


2017 Girabola, Teams
For the repechage to fill the spot of Benfica de Luanda, a round-robin qualifier tournament was announced to be contested by the three relegated teams in the 2016 Girabola plus the two top-ranked teams in the 2016 Segundona. As four of the five invited teams declined to participate on financial grounds, Primeiro de Maio was selected to replace Benfica de Luanda.


2017 Girabola, Estádio 4 de Janeiro disaster
On February 10, 2017, during the inaugural match between home team Santa Rita de Cássia and Recreativo do Libolo, one of the access gates of Estádio 4 de Janeiro collapsed as supporters tried to force their way into the stadium. As a result, 17 people were trampled to death and 76 injured, 5 of whom with life-threatening injuries. The incident began just about 6 minutes from the beginning of the match with the match pursuing its normal course until the end and no one inside the stadium realizing what was going on. The Police has reportedly used tear gas to disperse angry supporters.


2017 Girabola, Changes from 2016 season
Relegated: 4 de Abril do Cuando, Porcelana, 1º de Maio Promoted: Bravos do Maquis, Desportivo JGM, Santa Rita de CássiaWithdrew: Benfica de LuandaNominated: 1º de Maio


2017 Girabola, Progresso da Lunda Sul relegation
Progresso da Lunda Sul was relegated for fielding an ineligible player on its 29th round match against Académica do Lobito. As the club was struggling with financial trouble, they had initially been awarded a 3-0 defeat in their round 20 home match against Progresso do Sambizanga.


2017 Giravanz Kitakyushu season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2017 Girls' U16 European Volleyball Championship
The 2017 Girls' U16 European Volleyball Championship was the inaugural edition of the Girls' U16 European Volleyball Championship, a biennial international volleyball tournament organised by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) the girls' under-16 national teams of Europe. The tournament was held in Bulgaria from 21 to 29 July 2017.


2017 Girls' U16 European Volleyball Championship, Awards
At the conclusion of the tournament, the following players were selected as the tournament dream team.


2017 Girls' U18 Volleyball European Championship
The 2017 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship was the 12th edition of the tournament which was held in Arnhem, Netherlands from 1 to 9 April 2017. The top six teams qualified for the 2017 Youth World Championship.


2017 Girls' U18 Volleyball European Championship, Awards
At the conclusion of the tournament, the following players were selected as the tournament dream team.


2017 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship Qualification
This is an article about qualification for the 2017 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship.


2017 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship Qualification, Qualification summary, Participating teams
The following 35 teams took part at the qualification tournament.


2017 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship Qualification, Qualification summary, Qualified teams
At the end of qualification, the following 12 teams progressed to the tournament final round.


2017 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship Qualification, Pool standing procedure
Match won 3–0 or 3–1: 3 match points for the winner, 0 match points for the loserMatch won 3–2: 2 match points for the winner, 1 match point for the loser


2017 Girls' Youth Pan-American Volleyball Cup
The 2017 Girls' Youth Pan-American Volleyball Cup was played from March 28, 2017 to April 2, 2017 in Habana, Cuba. Ten teams competed in this season.


2017 Giro d'Italia
The 2017 Giro d'Italia was the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started on 5 May in Alghero on the island of Sardinia, and ended on 28 May in Milan. The race was won by Tom Dumoulin, who became the first Dutch male winner of the Giro.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Teams
All 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race. Four wildcard UCI Professional Continental teams were also selected. Each team is expected to start with nine riders apart from Astana, with eight riders, due to the death of 2011 winner Michele Scarponi, who died while training days before the start of the race.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
The main pre-race favorites were Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team) and Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain–Merida). Other general classification contenders were Geraint Thomas and Mikel Landa (Team Sky), Steven Kruijswijk (LottoNL–Jumbo), Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb), Adam Yates (Orica–Scott), Bauke Mollema (Trek–Segafredo), Ilnur Zakarin (Team Katusha–Alpecin), Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing Team), Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors) and Domenico Pozzovivo (AG2R La Mondiale).


2017 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
Sprinters at the Giro include Fernando Gaviria, Caleb Ewan, Andre Greipel, Jasper Stuyven, Sacha Modolo, Giacomo Nizzolo, Sam Bennett and Ryan Gibbons.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
Details about the first three stages of the race were unveiled at a press conference on 14 September 2016. The remainder of the route was unveiled by race director Mauro Vegni on 25 October 2016. However, organizers RCS Sport leaked the route on their website the day before the official presentation.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
There were 21 stages in the race, covering a total distance of 3,609.1 km (2,243 mi), 142 km (88.2 mi) longer than the 2016 Giro. The longest race stage was stage 12 at 229 km (142 mi), and stage 14 the shortest at 131 km (81 mi). The race featured a total of 69.1 km (43 mi) in individual time trials, and five summit finishes: stage 4, to Mount Etna; stage 9, to Blockhaus; stage 14, to Oropa; stage 18, to Ortisei/St. Ulrich; and stage 19, to Piancavallo. The Cima Coppi (the race's highest elevation) was the Stelvio Pass, summited during stage 16. The stages were categorised in four ways by race organisers; time trials, low, medium and high difficulty.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Lukas Pöstlberger won the first stage, André Greipel claimed the second and Fernando Gaviria the third. From there Bob Jungels would wear the Pink jersey as Gaviria went on to win three more stages and lock up the points classification. As the race entered the mountains the leader's jersey swapped between Nairo Quintana and Tom Dumoulin going into the penultimate time trial where Quintana was in 1st and Dumoulin in 4th. Domenico Pozzovivo, Ilnur Zakarin, Vincenzo Nibali and Thibault Pinot, who had just won the final mountain stage, were all within 90 seconds of Quintana.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
During the final time trial Dumoulin finished 2nd to fellow Dutchman Jos van Emden, but beat all of the GC contenders handily claiming the Giro victory thirty seconds ahead of Quintana as Nibali finalized the podium. This was the first grand tour victory by a Dutch rider in nearly four decades.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Doping
On the eve of the Giro d'Italia, the UCI announced that two Bardiani–CSF riders, Stefano Pirazzi and Nicola Ruffoni, had tested positive for GH-Releasing Peptides (GHRPs) – defined as peptide hormones, growth factors, or mimetics – in samples collected during out-of-competition doping tests conducted on 25 and 26 April 2017. With the team incurring first and second AAFs within a twelve-month period, the UCI aimed to enforce article 7.12.1 of the UCI Anti- Doping Rules, allowing for suspension of the team from 15 to 45 days - casting doubt on their Giro appearance.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile
The 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, or 2017 Giro Rosa, was the 28th running of the Giro d'Italia Femminile, the only remaining women's Grand Tour. It was held between 30 June and 9 July 2017 as the most prestigious stage race of both the 2017 UCI Women's World Tour and the women's calendar.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile
The race was won for the second time in three years by Olympic and European champion Anna van der Breggen (Boels–Dolmans) from the Netherlands, who took the leader's pink jersey after the second stage and maintained the lead for the remainder of the race, taking the overall lead of the UCI Women's World Tour standings in the process. Van der Breggen triumphed in the race overall by 63 seconds from the highest-placed Italian rider Elisa Longo Borghini, of the Wiggle High5 team.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile
The podium was completed by Orica–Scott's Annemiek van Vleuten, who was a further 36 seconds behind Longo Borghini; van Vleuten, also from the Netherlands, had the best all-around performance among the overall contenders, winning two stages and two jerseys – the points classification and also the mountains classification.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile
Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling) extended her lead in the youth classification of the overall Women's World Tour standings by winning the race's young rider classification, while van der Breggen's Boels–Dolmans team were the winners of the team classification, after also placing defending race winner Megan Guarnier and Karol-Ann Canuel – the only other rider to wear the pink jersey, having done so after the opening stage team time trial – inside the top ten overall.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Teams
24 teams participated in the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile. The top 15 UCI Women's World Tour teams were automatically invited, and obliged to attend the race.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Route
The route for the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile was announced on 12 April 2017.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership table
In the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, five different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership table
Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third. The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a pink jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership table
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey. In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages – with the exception of the team time trial, which awarded no points towards the classification – were awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15 points, with 12 for second, 10 for third, 8 for fourth, 6 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership table
There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; however on both categories, the top five riders were awarded points. The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.


2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Classification leadership table
The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Italian riders, marked by a blue jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Italy were eligible to be ranked in the classification. There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time. The daily team leaders wore red dossards in the following stage.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 2017 Giro d'Italia began on 5 May, and stage 11 occurred on 17 May. The race began in Alghero on the island of Sardinia.


2017 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 2017 Giro d'Italia began on 5 May, and stage 21 will occur on 28 May.


2017 Giro dell'Emilia
The 2017 Giro dell'Emilia was the 100th edition of the Giro dell'Emilia road cycling one day race. It was held on 30 September 2017 as part of the 2017 UCI Europe Tour in category 1.HC, over a distance of 223.3 km, starting in Bologna and ending in Madonna di San Luca, Bologna.


2017 Giro dell'Emilia, Teams
Twenty-four teams were invited to take part in the race. These included eleven UCI WorldTeams, nine UCI Professional Continental teams and four UCI Continental teams.


2017 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
The 2017 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini will be the 23rd edition of the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, a women's cycling stage race in Italy. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.2 race.


2017 Glasgow City Council election
The Glasgow City Council election of 2017 was held on 4 May 2017, the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. The election was the first to use 23 new wards, created as a result of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland's 5th Review. Each ward elected three or four councillors using the single transferable vote system, a form of proportional representation used since the 2007 election and according to the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004.


2017 Glasgow City Council election
As predicted in the weeks leading up to the election, the Scottish Labour Party were replaced by the Scottish National Party as the largest party in the council, a first for the SNP and ending Labour's 37-year tenure of control, although the SNP were four seats short of an overall majority. The Scottish Conservatives gained seven seats, their best result since the 1984 election. This included some unexpected victories in wards such as Shettleston and Calton, some of Glasgow's most deprived areas in the east.


2017 Glasgow City Council election
The Scottish Green Party also made gains to give them their best ever result in Glasgow's local elections, taking seven seats, two more than in 2012, and topping the first-preference vote in Hillhead to the west. The Scottish Liberal Democrats lost their only remaining seat, making this council the first without any Liberal representation since 1974.


2017 Glasgow City Council election
On 18 May, the SNP formally took control of the council as a minority administration with SNP members filling the positions of council leader, depute council leader, and Lord Provost.


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2012. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 2: Newlands/Auldburn
2012: 2 x Lab; 1 x SNP2017: 1 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Con2012-2017 Change: Con gain one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 3: Greater Pollok
2012: 2 x Lab; 2 x SNP2017: 2 x SNP; 2 x Lab2012-2017 Change: No change


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 5: Govan
2012: 2 x Lab; 1 x SNP; 1 x GlasgowFirst2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Green2012-2017 Change: SNP and Green gain each one seat from Lab and GlasgowFirst


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 6: Pollokshields
2012: 1 x Lab; 1 x SNP; 1 x Con 2017: 1 x SNP; 1 x Con; 1 x Lab; 1 x Green 2007-2012 Change: 1 additional seat compared to 2012, won by Green


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 7: Langside
2012: 1 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Green2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Green2012-2017 Change: 1 additional seat compared to 2012, won by SNP


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 8: Southside Central
2012: 2 x Lab; 2 x SNP2017: 2 x SNP; 2 x Lab 2012-2017 Change: No change


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 9: Calton
2012: 2 x Lab; 1 x SNP2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Con2007-2012 Change: 1 additional seat compared to 2012, won by Con


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 10: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
2012: 2 x Lab; 1 x SNP; 1 x Green 2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Green 2012-2017 Change: SNP gain one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 11: Hillhead
2012: 1 x SNP; 1 x Green; 2 x Lab2017: 1 x Green; 1 x Lab; 1 x SNP2012-2017 change: 1 less seat compared to 2012, lost by Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 12: Victoria Park
2017: 1 x SNP; 1 x Con; 1 x Lab 2012-2017 change: New ward


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 13: Garscadden/Scotstounhill
2012: 3 x Lab; 1 x SNP 2017: 2 x Lab; 2 x SNP 2012-2017 change: SNP gains one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 14: Drumchapel/Anniesland
2007: 3 x Lab; 1 x SNP2012: 2 x SNP; 2 x Lab2007-2012 change: SNP gain one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 15: Maryhill
2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab 2012-2017 change: New ward


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 16: Canal
2012: 2 x Lab; 1 x SNP; 1 x Green2017: 2 x SNP; 2 x Lab 2012-2017 change: SNP gain one seat from Green


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 17: Springburn/Robroyston
2017: 2 x Lab; 2 x SNP 2012-2017 Change: New ward


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 18: East Centre
2012: 3 x Lab; 1 x SNP2017: 2 x Lab; 2 x SNP 2012-2017 changes: SNP gain one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 19: Shettleston
2007: 3 x Lab; 1 x SNP 2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Con 2012-2017 Change: Con and SNP gain each one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 20: Baillieston
2012: 2 x Lab; 2 x SNP2017: 1 x SNP; 1 x Lab; 1 x Con 2012-2017 changes: 1 fewer seat than in 2012


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 21: North East
2012: 3 x Lab; 1 x SNP 2017: 2 x SNP; 1 x Lab 2012-2017 changes: SNP gain one seat from Lab


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 22: Dennistoun
2017: 1 x Lab; 1 x SNP; 1 x Green 2012-2017 changes: New ward


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 22: Dennistoun
* = Sitting Councillor for East Centre ward. + = Sitting Councillor for Springburn ward.


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 23: Partick East/Kelvindale
2017: 1 x SNP; 1 x Con; 1 Lab; 1 x Green2012-2017 change: New ward


2017 Glasgow City Council election, Ward results, Ward 23: Partick East/Kelvindale
* = Sitting Councillors for Partick West ward. + = Sitting Councillor for Maryhill/Kelvin ward.


2017 Global Cebu F.C. season
The 2018 season is Global Cebu's 2nd season in the top flight of Philippines football.


2017 Global Cebu F.C. season, Competitions, Philippines Football League, Final Series
The game is considered as a Home Game for Global Cebu. Game will be played in RMS due to unavailability of Global's home stadium, the Cebu City Sports Complex.


2017 Global MX-5 Cup
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2017 Global MX-5 Cup
The 2017 Global MX-5 Cup was the twelfth season of the Mazda MX-5 Cup since the series inception in 2006. It was the second season since the series re-branding as the Global MX-5 Cup, as well as the first under INDYCAR sanctioning.


2017 Global RallyCross Championship
The 2017 Red Bull Global RallyCross Championship was the seventh and final season of the Global RallyCross Championship. Scott Speed was the reigning Supercars champion for a second season and Cabot Bigham was the reigning GRC Lites champion. The schedule consisted of twelve rounds at eight different venues.


2017 Global RallyCross Championship, Entry list, GRC Lites
Every driver competes in an Olsbergs MSE-built GRC Lites car.


2017 Global RallyCross Championship, Results and standings, Drivers' championships
Points were awarded based on finishing positions as shown in the chart below:


2017 Global RallyCross Championship, Results and standings, Drivers' championships
In addition, points were awarded in all rounds of heats and semifinals. Heat winners earned seven points and semi winners earned ten points.


2017 Global RallyCross Championship, Results and standings, Drivers' championships, Supercars
Bold – Fastest time in qualifying1 2 – Number of heat winsA B – Winner of Semifinal A or BLCQ – Winner of the Last Chance Qualifier


2017 Gloucestershire County Council election
The 2017 Gloucestershire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. All 53 councillors were elected from electoral divisions which returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. Control of the council went from a Conservative Party minority to a majority administration.


2017 Gloucestershire County Council election
All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 4 May 2017 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections.


2017 Gloucestershire County Council election
It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.


2017 Gloucestershire County Council election, Summary
The Conservative Party gained nine seats and lost one, leading to a net gain of eight seats. The Liberal Democrats held all their existing seats, remaining the second largest party by total seats and percentage vote, whilst the Labour Party lost four seats. UKIP lost all its seats on the council, whilst the Greens gained a second councillor.


2017 Gloucestershire County Council election, Summary
The sole remaining independent lost re-election, although the People Against Bureaucracy Group held on to their seat.


2017 Gloucestershire County Council election, By-elections between 2017 and 2021, Churchdown
A by-election was held on Thursday 3 May 2019 for the Churchdown Division due to the death of County Councillor Jack Williams.


2017 Go Bowling 400
The 2017 Go Bowling 400 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race held on May 13, 2017, at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. Contested over 267 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 11th race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.


2017 Go Bowling 400, Report, Background
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The Verizon IndyCar Series also raced at here until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.


2017 Go Bowling 400, Practice, First practice
Martin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 29.179 seconds and a speed of 185.065 mph (297.833 km/h).


2017 Go Bowling 400, Practice, Final practice
Kyle Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.729 seconds and a speed of 187.963 mph (302.497 km/h).


2017 Go Bowling 400, Qualifying
Ryan Blaney scored the pole for the race with a time of 28.481 and a speed of 189.600 mph (305.132 km/h). He said afterwards that 2017 "has been a big step up in qualifying. Your car and track changes and you have to be on top of that. Everyone has done a great job of staying on top of that. We have been really close a couple times this year but it feels good to get it done. I know it is only qualifying but it feels really cool to get this first pole. It says a lot about this entire team.”


2017 Go Bowling 400, Race, First stage
Ryan Blaney led the field to the green flag at 7:53 p.m. Martin Truex Jr. shot past his outside exiting Turn 2 to take the lead on lap 11. The first caution of the race flew on lap 29 when Landon Cassill's right-front tire went flat and he slammed the wall in Turn 1.


2017 Go Bowling 400, Race, First stage
The race restarted on lap 35. Cassill brought out the second caution on lap 50 when he slammed the wall a second time. Kevin Harvick opted not to pit and assumed the lead. During the caution period, Chase Elliott was exiting his pit box just as Michael McDowell was entering his when McDowell came across the nose of Elliott, causing damage to Elliott's car.


2017 Go Bowling 400, Race, First stage
The race restarted on lap 55. The third caution flew on lap 58 when Ty Dillon spun out in Turn 2.