Baku News and Events June 2013 Baku Charity Triathlon The 9th annual Baku Charity Triathlon will take place on Saturday, June 8, 2013. The race is a sprint-distance triathlon: 500m swim, 20km bike, 5 km run. The swim will take place at the Hyatt Oasis Club indoor pool during the morning, while the afternoon bike and run will take place at Stonepay Royal Park. The categories are an Open Race (men and women), an over 40’s race (men and women), an over 50s race (men and women) and two team races – teams of two or teams of three (no gender difference here). For more information, to volunteer, or to sign up, contact: John Patterson at
[email protected] http://www.britishbusinessgroupazerbaijan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/9th-Annual-Baku-ERNST-YOUNG- Triathlon.pdf Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ernst-and-Young-Baku-Sprint- Triathlon/126632020752381?fref=ts Maria Pia Forte Prize for Expats An online resource for expatriate women, ExpatClic (http://www.expatclic.com), is sponsoring the Maria Pia Forte Prize and I thought CLO clients might be interested in this competition. Full contest rules are available on the site, but it’s open to women (18+) who have lived outside their own countries for more than two years. The contest is in honor of Ms. Forte, a dynamic and inspirational expatriate woman who died in 2011 and would have turned 70 this year. They are accepting stories (both fiction and non-fiction), poems and photographs around the themes of life as an expatriate woman, travel reflections, cross- cultural encounters, and the value of writing.