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FIBA launches "Nothing Beats Like It" campaign for 2022 Women's World Cup in Sydney

  • Basketball

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has launched a promotional campaign under the "Nothing Beats Like It" banner for its Women's World Cup in Sydney later this year.

Women's World Cup are set to be staged at the Sydney Super Dome and the State Sports Centre at the Sydney Olympic

Park.Hosts Australia and Olympic champions the United States have qualified for the competition.They

over the next decade, including the FIFA Women's World Cup jointly with New Zealand in 2023 and the Olympic

Games in Brisbane in 2032.


Egyptian Sports Minister reveals plan to bid for 2036 Olympic Games

  • Olympic Games 2036

country plans to bid for the 2036 Olympics and will seek to become the first African nation to stage the Games

Games ©Getty ImagesThe project is expected to feature a 90,000-seat stadium, an Olympic-sized swimming

At the beginning of my term [in 2013], I had a dream that the Olympic games would be hosted in Africa

Games."

Egypt has participated in 23 Summer Olympic Games since making its debut at Stockholm 1912, winning eight

the Future Host Commission engages in targeted dialogue with selected countries.For the 2032 Games, it


Philip Barker: Recalling Birmingham's short-lived bid for the 1982 Commonwealth Games

  • Inside the Blogs

The new year arrives across the Commonwealth today.

Tommy Godwin, a 1948 Olympic medallist, had been among those supporting a campaign to build a velodrome

Instead the competition will be at the Olympic Park in London.The final vote on the destiny of the 1982

city fathers of 1976 celebrated in quite the same fashion as their latter-day counterparts when the 2032

Olympic decision was announced in Tokyo is not recorded.As the 1982 Games began in Brisbane, there were

dream will also finally come to pass in 2032.


ROC chief claims Moscow can "expect" to host future Olympics

  • Russian Sport

Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) President Stanislav Pozdnyakov has claimed Moscow can "expect" to host

a future edition of the Olympic Games.

expressed an interest in bidding for the 2036 Olympics.Russia was banned from entering the race for the 2032

Games under the terms of the sanctions imposed on the country following the fallout to the state-sponsored

 Moscow last hosted the Olympic Games in 1980 ©Getty Images"To date, the approach of the International

Olympic Committee (IOC) to the formation of certain applications has altered.

 "The colleagues are moving forward with reducing the associated costs of the Games.


Ten Olympians added to group deciding modern pentathlon's new discipline with Schormann confirmed as chair

  • Modern Pentathlon

Ten Olympians have been added to the International Modern Pentathlon Union's (UIPM) 5th Discipline Working Group, while it has been announced that UIPM President Klaus Schormann will act as chair.

country's head coach, will represent the Coaches' Committee.Two Olympians will also represent the future Olympic

Games of Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032.These are American Rob Stull for Los Angeles and Australian

Innovation Commission.France's Joël Bouzou, meanwhile, will serve as working group coordinator.Bouzou is an Olympic

month, modern pentathlon was left off the initial sports programme for Los Angeles 2028.International Olympic

scandal which saw Germany's coach Kim Raisner sent home after punching a horse.Several horses at the Games


Michael Pavitt: Revisiting seven areas of interest for 2021

  • Inside the Blogs

the year: Thomas Bach, Protests and activism, Athlete representation, athlete welfare, the European Olympic

Committees, the Commonwealth Games and increased female representation.

highlights across these areas.Thomas BachIt has been another challenging year for the International Olympic

He later admitted that he had doubts "every day" that the Games would take place.The fact the Games took

, having added Brisbane 2032 to Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 for the Summer Olympics, while the organisation

CommitteesHellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos succeeded in his European Olympic Committee

She is just the third current female President of a Summer Olympic International Federation, alongside


Australia to receive full Olympic cycle state funding for first time for Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

funding of AUD257 million (£138 million/$184 million/€163 million) in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic

and Paralympic Games, marking the first time the organisation has allocated money for a full cycle.

will only be three years instead of the usual four due to the one-year postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games inspired us all and we have worked with Government

to create conditions for sustainable success not only for Paris, but Los Angeles 2028 and our home Games

in Brisbane in 2032."

31 2024.This fund is only related to the Summer Olympics, with the Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games


Paralympics Australia joins Sports Environment Alliance

  • Paralympics

Paralympics Australia (PA) has joined the Sports Environment Alliance (SEA), an Oceania-based charity which seeks to promote sustainability.

Sustainability is also an important focus of the Brisbane 2032 Games and PA looks forward to contributing

The SEA boasts more than 50 members, including the Australian Olympic Committee, Football Federation


Nicol named New Zealand Olympic Committee chief executive and secretary general

  • ONOC

Nicki Nicol has replaced incumbent Kereyn Smith as New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) chief executive

represents New Zealand.Proud to announce Nicki Nicol as our new CEO and Secretary General as we work towards Olympic

and Commonwealth Games in Europe and the USA, before returning to the Southern Hemisphere for Brisbane

2032!

 "She has a deep passion for sport and respect for the Olympic movement and Commonwealth Games,


Athletics Australia appoints Bromley permanent chief executive

  • Athletics

Athletics Australia has appointed Peter Bromley chief executive on a permanent basis, having held the position in an interim capacity since April.

We are at an exciting time in the history of our sport, having finished an incredible Olympic and Paralympic

We have a number of opportunities to grow our sport on our journey to Brisbane 2032, including ahead

know will have a knock-on effect in inspiring more Australians to run, and of course, the Paris 2024 Olympic

and Paralympic Games are around the corner, too."

a big year ahead highlighted by the World Athletics Championships, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games


Caulkins among four Federal Government nominees for Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee Board

  • Brisbane 2032

The Australian Government has nominated four representatives who will join the Board of the Brisbane 2032

to 14.Caulkins triumphed in the women's 200 metres medley, 400m medley and 4x100m medley at a home Games

The Brisbane Olympics Games in 2032 will showcase the best of Queensland, providing our athletes with

Olympic and Paralympic Games Ted O’Brien.AOC President and International Olympic Committee vice-president

by Robyn Smith, the Australian member of the International Paralympic Committee's Governing Board, Olympic

due to be completed early next year.Earlier this month, Queensland's Parliament passed the Brisbane Olympic


USOPC leans towards 2030 in Salt Lake City Winter Olympic bid

  • 2030 Olympics

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) looks to have prioritised 2030 for Salt Lake

City's bid to host the Winter Olympics and will seek to "advance dialogue" with the International Olympic

that read, 'The Board resolves to formally recognise the tremendous progress made toward hosting the Olympic

key venues in the Salt Lake City proposal ©Getty ImagesWhile Brisbane has already been awarded the 2032

Summer Olympic Games, the 2030 Winter Games do not yet have a host.There is interest from Sapporo in

process whereby the Future Host Commission engages in targeted dialogue with selected countries.For the 2032

on what could be an extraordinary period for Olympic and Paralympic sport in America."


Rhine-Ruhr 2032 bid leader eyes future Olympics under "new era" of DOSB leadership

  • Olympic Games 2036

Rhine-Ruhr 2032 bid leader Michael Mronz remains determined to bring the Olympics to the region, despite

being outflanked by Brisbane when it came to the 2032 Games.

Mronz was behind a private bid for the German region to stage the 2032 Olympics.It was ultimately unsuccessful

Games and has discussed the 2030 Winter Games and the subsequent Games."

hosts are selected changed for the 2032 edition, and now an IOC Future Host Commission engages interested

recommending a preferred host to the Executive Board.When the IOC Session in Tokyo awarded Brisbane the 2032

Games staged in Berlin.The 1936 Games are often dubbed the "Nazi Olympics" and were opened by Adolf


Double Olympic gold medallist Perkins appointed Australian Sports Commission chief executive

  • News

Four-time Olympic medallist and legendary swimmer Kieren Perkins has been appointed as chief executive

will be responsible for high performance and participation sport as Australia prepares to host the Olympic

Games in Brisbane in 2032.He brings recent experience as President of Swimming Australia, and had previously

Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games," he said."

Games in Brisbane in 2032 ©Getty Images"As an athlete and administrator, I have lived the importance

The Australian Olympic team in Tokyo contained our highest level of female participation - nearly 54


Chesterman and Stockwell enter race to succeed Coates as AOC President

  • ONOC

Ian Chesterman and Mark Stockwell have both entered the race to replace John Coates as Australian Olympic

election due at the AOC's Annual General Meeting (AGM) on April 30.Seventy-one-year-old Coates, one of the Olympic

1990.Chesterman, a vice-president of the AOC, was Australia's Chef de Mission at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic

Charter, while Coates will also have a place on the Organising Committee for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic

Games alongside the new President.Brisbane was the first city to be awarded a Summer Olympic Games under

2019, the IOC established Future Host Commissions, which will identify and recommend venues for the Games