HealthAccord Spotlights Mental Health and Female Athlete Well-being
Supporting elite athlete mental health and maximising female athlete well-being to improve performance will be the focus at HealthAccord, one of the four specialist streams at this year’s SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit. Sport’s most influential industry gathering will take place from 7 to 11 April in Birmingham -West Midlands and bring together around 1,500 leaders and […]
Dragon Boat Leadership on Chinese TV
International Dragon Boat Federation President, Claudio Schermi, and Honorary President, Mike Haslam, had the honor to be invited to China, the motherland of Dragon Boat, to a special TV Program “The Beauty of Shared Arts” dedicated to the sport and art of Dragon Boating which incorporates sporting competitions, cultural education and exchange, from the motherland […]
Gangwon 2024 comes to an end as an example of legacy and solidarity
The Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024 have been a “great demonstration of Olympic legacy and solidarity”, as highlighted by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach. The IOC President, joined by Gangwon 2024 Coordination Commission Chair and IOC Member Hong Zhang, congratulated the Gangwon State authorities, the Gangwon 2024 Organising Committee, the PyeongChang 2018 Legacy Foundation […]
Over 1,650 Athletes Qualify to Compete for2023 Riyadh World Combat Games
The organizing committee of the 2023 Riyadh World Combat Games is thrilled to declare that 1,657 athletes from over 80 countries have successfully qualified for the tournament. This remarkable sporting spectacle, hosted for the first time in the Middle East, will take place from October 20 – 30, 2023, at the King Saud University Arena […]
FITEQ_Teqball Tour Rio de Janeiro_ Brazilians upset the favourites in Rio
The famous Copacabana beach hosted the best teqers in the world at FITEQ’s first event in South America this season. 118 players from 18 countries faced each other in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in three categories: women’s, men’s, and mixed doubles as the first event in 2023 in South America by FITEQ. Mixed doubles: Hungarians […]
World Health Day: How sport and the Olympic Games promote healthier lifestyles
To mark World Health Day 2023, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is highlighting the role that sport and the Olympic Games can play in fostering healthy and active lives. “Sports participation is an extremely low-cost, high-impact tool to foster active and healthy lives 365 days a year,” said IOC President Thomas Bach. “The Olympic Movement […]
Statement by The Alliance of Independent recognised Members of Sport (AIMS)
The 11th Olympic Summit that met on 9 December 2022, consisting of the leaders of all stakeholder groups of the Olympic Movement, had requested the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to explore a pathway for athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport to return to international competitions as Individual Neutral Athletes. Following a four-month consultation period, the IOC […]
IOC Young Leaders Programme Welcomes 25 New Recruits
Congratulations to the IOC Young leaders 2023 -2026 The AIMS family would like to congratulate the 25 new IOC young leaders who have been selected to join the International Olympic Committee (IOC) four-year programme. Once again, these incredible young leaders are well balances in terms of gender and diversity from 5 continent and 25 countries. […]
ITA Monthly Webinar 2023 – February
ITA’s February monthly webinar is dedicated to “Consequences of doping part 1: impact on emotions”. A driver of intentional doping is for an athlete to improve their performance to achieve greater success in sport, but this only considers success in relation to a result, not the emotions that go along with it. In part 1 […]
Statement by The Alliance of Independent Recognised Members of Sport (AIMS)
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee has considered the unanimous conclusion of the Olympic summit which compromises the leaders of all the stakeholder groups of the Olympic movement and the International Paralympic Committee. Following this summit consultation calls were held with all stakeholders. The AIMS council took the position to fully support the […]