A deal has been agreed giving a private equity group called Sixth Street majority control of the sponsorship sales agency for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Intel has appointed a new chief executive.
In business, as in sport, sometimes it never rains but it pours, and in logging on to the Financial Times, website earlier this week, eyes were drawn to a headline proclaiming, "Chinese courier sets fire to himself in protest over unpaid Alibaba wages".
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is among a long list of personalities from sport and beyond who have paid tribute to Richard Pound, who has stepped down from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Foundation Board.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has received a vital approximately CHF4 million (£3.3 million/$4.4 million/€3.6 million) payment relating to next year’s planned Global Boxing Cup, insidethegames understands.
The now suspended New Delhi laboratory recorded by far the highest proportion of positive tests among the 30 laboratories for which statistics are given in the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s newly-published anti-doping testing figures report for 2019.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has decided to strip so-called "aggregated data" out of its annual testing figures report, reducing the number of samples included by more than 20 per cent, based on 2018 figures.
Nike has started growing again after its COVID-19-linked blip.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) will be out of debt in six months and will fulfil "all of its financial obligations", according to Umar Kremlev, its new President.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) faces a critical few weeks, with an auditor warning it will be unable to repay its debts when they fall due if payments related to next year's competitions are not received before January.
Athletes from Russia have taken over from Italians as those responsible for the most confirmed anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs), according to new statistics made public by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Timing is everything in sport and financial markets – and, boy, does International Olympic Committee (IOC) global sponsor Airbnb appear to have got its timing right on when to float on the stock market.
Solideo, the state-owned company in charge of the construction sites for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, has settled its budget for 2021, when building work is set to get underway in earnest.
After two weeks of mainly good news, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other bodies planning events for mid-2021 have received a COVID reality-check in the shape of the announcement that the 2021 Paris Air Show has been cancelled.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has provided an insight into the financial strains to which COVID-19 has exposed National Olympic Committees (NOCs), warning that any late decision to cancel the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games altogether might cast doubt over its ability to “continue as a going concern."
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
International Paralympic Committee - Paralympic Games Brand Manager - Bonn, Germany
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) offers the position of a full-time Paralympic Games Brand Manager (f/m/x) in an international and multicultural team at the IPC Headquarters in Bonn, Germany, starting in early 2021. The IPC is the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement. We supervise the organisation of the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games and serve as International Federation for 10 Para sports. The Paralympic Games Brand Manager is accountable to the Head of Brand and Engagement and will be responsible for ensuring the Paralympic brand is represented in a consistent and impactful way at the Paralympic Games.
Last month saw confirmation that breaking would feature at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Opinion is divided on whether breaking merits an Olympic place but World DanceSport Federation President Shawn Tay has been telling Mike Rowbottom how he believes the doubters will be silenced.
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