Since then men who owe their or their family's fortunes to oil, sport, publishing, trial law, ketchup, beer and bestselling autobiographies have followed.But Mr Romney, who earned his $200m or so as a private-equity executive buying and selling companies, is the first candidate from the world of high-octane finance.
After the England game, La Gazzetta dello Sport published a bizarre cartoon depicting Mario as King Kong.
Ten years ago this month Observer Sport published a special report on the lack of black managers in English football.
The changes come as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport published the results of a consultation into the potential changes needed for civil partnerships.
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport published the five-year strategy under the title of Libraries Deliver on Thursday, aiming to help the services thrive after years of decline.
The European Commission's strategy paper on sport, published on July 11th, ignored those calls; but the pressure will not go away.Professional sport differs from other businesses in one important respect.
The results of the most comprehensive international survey into homophobia in sport, published on Sunday in the Observer, show that the challenges for gay men and women in both professional and grassroots sport remain forbidding.
But when UK Sport publish their annual anti-doping review tomorrow, they will be unable to include any figures on the number of tests conducted on British triathletes when competing abroad, simply because the ITU have failed to keep any such records.
In 2013, Italy's Ministry for Regional Affairs, Tourism and Sport published a strategic plan for tourism in Italy – the first one ever compiled.
The panel, which also includes Michael Phelps' coach Bob Bowman, is currently speaking to the swimmers and is expected to announce its findings on 6 December - a week before UK Sport publishes its funding decisions.
In June 2008, UK Sport, which distributes National Lottery funding to elite sport, published its expectations for the Games.
