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Exclusive: Budapest lines up to become inaugural host of Baumann's World Urban Games

  • ANOC News

Budapest has revealed its determination to host the inaugural World Urban Games, a project of Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) President Patrick Baumann who died suddenly in Buenos Aires this month.

 BMX freestyle cycling, break dancing, boulder sport climbing, freestyle flying disc, parkour, roller




Kiteboarding body call on IOC to interfere in World Sailing governance row

  • Sailing

International Federation of Kitesports Organisations (IFKO) President Diogo Paes Fernandes has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to assist them in preventing World Sailing performing what they claim is a "takeover" of their sport. 

which an established Olympic body has sought to incorporate a new discipline following other rows over parkour


FIG President claims Parkour Commission has benefited from "great autonomy" following Lausanne meeting

  • Gymnastics

International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) President Morinari Watanabe has claimed the organisation's Parkour

The Parkour Commission gathered to discuss the first Parkour World Cups staged since the FIG made the

events in Hiroshima and Montpellier, held as part of the FISE World Series, were a "big hit".The Parkour

2019 owing to "busy schedules".The group are now set to meet each month to continue discussions on parkour

has been continually criticised by rival groups in the sport ©Getty Images"The Parkour Commission has

the discipline.The same month, the FIG signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Parkour




GAISF launch inaugural World Urban Games but Combat Games postponed

  • News

The Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) today launched the process to appoint a host city for the inaugural edition of the World Urban Games, aimed at being held in 2019.

3x3 basketball, BMX freestyle cycling, break dancing, boulder sports climbing, freestyle flying disc, parkour


Patrick Baumann, the sports administrator who gets things done

  • The Big Read

Patrick Baumann was politeness personified when we met in the lobby of the Intercontinental Hotel during a particularly freezing day at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang recently.

forces rather than argue over who has the right to the discipline of stand-up paddle.The amalgamation of parkour


Roberts stays on gold standard in UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup at FISE World Series in Hiroshima

  • Cycling

Prodigious young United States rider Hannah Roberts won the women's International Cycling Union (UCI) BMX Freestyle Park World Cup today as the first Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series event to be held in Japan came to a close in Hiroshima.

legs - an umbrella event involving sports such as BMX, skateboarding, roller freestyle, bouldering and parkour

the men's freestyle title in what was the first running of the International Gymnastics Federation's Parkour



Rain affects qualifying events on opening day of FISE World Series in Hiroshima

  • Gymnastics

Heavy rain in Hiroshima caused a number of qualifying events at the International Festival of Extreme Sports (FISE) World Series to be postponed until tomorrow morning.

an umbrella event involving sports such as BMX, skateboarding, roller freestyle, bouldering and now parkour

with several International Federations which means official World Cups can be incorporated.The first Parkour


Debut FIG Parkour World Cup to take place as FISE World Series reaches Hiroshima

  • Gymnastics

The first Parkour World Cup to be held by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is due to place

an umbrella event involving sports such as BMX, skateboarding, roller freestyle, bouldering and now parkour

championed by FIG, which earlier this year signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Parkour

Federation.The FIG proclaimed that 2018 would be "a year of achievements for parkour" as the sport aims

towards possible inclusion at the Paris 2024 Olympics.But their recent signing up has been criticised by Parkour

features the usual range of extreme sports such as BMX, skateboard and rolling - and a first ever FIG Parkour



International Gymnastics Federation claims 2018 will be "year of achievements" for parkour as dispute

  • Gymnastics

International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has said that 2018 will be "a year of achievements for parkour

It comes after FIG signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Parkour Federation

were accused of "encroachment and misappropriation" of the sport after they attempted to integrate parkour

 They have already created a legal framework for parkour and will hold World Cups in Hiroshima,

of parkour ©FIG"Twenty-eighteen is the year in which we must cement the work that has been done since

our rapprochement with the FIG," said Charles Perrière, vice president of the FIG Parkour Commission