IOC – GAISF Safeguarding Workshop
The objective of this workshop will be to introduce the concept of environmental risk as a key component to the manifestation of abuse in the sports community and to stimulate IFs to consider the opportunity to take meaningful actions towards creating safe sporting environments through organisation risk assessments, mitigation strategies, […]
IFA APPROVED UPDATED STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2019-2023
IFA APPROVED UPDATED STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2019-2023 The International Fistball Association (IFA) has approved an updated version of its Strategic Plan for the period 2019-2023. This will be IFA´s roadmap for the upcoming two years and reflects the COVID-19 crises as recently approved IOC Agenda 2020+5. The IFA 2019-2023 Strategic Plan can be found here: https://www.ifa-fistball.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11_IFA-Strategic-Plan-2019-2023-update_final.pdf […]
ALI NOGHANDOOST: “USE YOUR TALENT TO HELP OTHERS”
On the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), Iranian taekwondo athlete Ali Noghandoost, an Olympic Solidarity Refugee Athlete Scholarship-Holder hoping to qualify for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 with the Refugee Olympic Team, reflects on his journey from Iran to Europe and how sport has helped him to rebuild his life. Ali […]
IOC PRESIDENT THOMAS BACH: “SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ARE THE LOW-COST, HIGH-IMPACT TOOL FOR HEALTHY BODIES, HEALTHY MINDS AND RESILIENT COMMUNITIES”
On World Health Day, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, reiterated his call for governments to include sport and physical activity in their COVID-19 recovery programmes during an online webinar hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO). Speaking at the event, which addressed the challenges and opportunities presented to sport and […]
UNITED THROUGH SPORTS AND IPF SIGN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
United Through Sports and IPF sign Memorandum of Understanding Luxembourg/Bangkok, 9 April 2021 Recently the IPF and United Through Sports (UTS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen the cooperation in developing sport for underprivileged young sports kids as well as for people with a handicap. During the signing of the MOU, AIMS and […]
AIMS Stands for Fair Play
AIMS Stands for Fair Play AIMS is a value-based organisation and it is all our AIMS to make sure that all our athletes can trust in these values. AIMS as an IOC recognised umbrella body is committed in protecting the integrity of sport. We all believe in the value of respect between athletes and officials. […]
The Launch of The “Ju-Jitsu for Good” Program
AIMS and UTS President, Stephan Fox congratulated JJIF for this outstanding initiative, congratulating JJIF President, Panagiotis Theodoropoulos which is also the AIMS vice president. JJIF, as an organisation and individually has done outstanding work. Meggie Ochoa, Jujitsu champion and founder of ‘Fight To Protect’ has been one of the key note speakers at the last […]
IFA to Conduct its 2nd Athletes Forum and Present its First Ever Gender Equity Toolkit
On Saturday 10 April at 2:00 (CET) the 2nd IFA Athletes Forum on the main topic “Women in Fistball” will take place in virtual form. The forum will be live streamed on the IFA Facebook page and as a MS Teams meeting (http://tiny.cc/AthletesForum). The forum will be very interactive, and viewers will have the opportunity […]
New dates confirmed for SportAccord 2021 as 19th edition now set for November in Ekaterinburg
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 April 2021 New dates confirmed for SportAccord 2021 as 19th edition now set for November in Ekaterinburg LAUSANNE, Switzerland – SportAccord has confirmed new dates for the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2021, with sport’s most influential global gathering now set to take place from 7-12 November 2021 in Ekaterinburg, […]
SDG GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF ACTION
HOW CAN WE ALL #TURNITAROUND? Last weekend the 5th SDG Global Festival of Action, supported by the UN SDG Action Campaign, took place. This time it was held virtually due to the pandemic. The festival tried to find new ways to exchange knowledge, increase mutual understanding, develop solutions, and connect key partners and organizations to take […]