Athletics
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ArticleWorld Athletics discussing transgenderism
The governing body has opened a consultation with stakeholder, due to end in early March.
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ArticleGet to know the new SGI Europe taxonomy
We reorganized our topics to provide you, our valued readers, with a clearer and more comprehensive overview. Get the details.
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ArticleAsics announces Festival of running weekend
Source: Asics Asics is gearing up to host a one-of-a-kind Festival of Running weekend in Paris from April 5 to 7, 2024, dedicated to showcasing the transformative power of running on the mind and body. The festivities kick off on April 5 with an elite race sanctioned ...
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ArticleDecathlon’s Kenyan running project, and some others
Decathlon has opened a training center for distance runners. Located in Iten, Kenya, with a rooftop view of the Rift Valley, the center consists of a 500-square-meter main building, with 11 bedrooms of 25 square meters each, a gym and a refectory. It is built to lodge 22 runners at ...
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ArticleCampion to leave Nike after 17 years, joins UCLA
Nike’s current Managing Director of Strategic Business Ventures, Andrew Campion, is planning to leave the company on April 5, according to a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Campion, who has worked at Nike for 17 years, stepped into this very role in May last year. ...
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ArticlePuma ambassadors celebrate 75 years of sports history
Puma and some of its world-class ambassadors gathered at the company’s headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, to share some of their most memorable moments in sports history over the past 75 years and celebrate the company’s anniversary. “I think along all these 75 years, one thing which has not changed at ...
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ArticleIOC announces shortlist for first Climate Action Awards
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the athletes, International Federations (IFs) and National Olympic Committees (NOCs) shortlisted for the inaugural IOC Climate Action Awards. The purpose is to honor those in the Olympic Movement who are taking concrete steps to address the climate crisis. More than 70 applications were ...
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ArticleSpanish market could break €9bn next year, says Afydad
Retail revenues (sell-out) for the Spanish sporting goods industry continued its march toward the €9 billion mark in 2022, reaching €8.993 billion through year-on-year growth of 4.6 percent. Things have, however, slowed down since the boom year of 2021, which offered more than twice the growth (11.1%). Last year’s wholesale ...
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ArticleIOC continues to support Ukrainian athletes in run-up to next Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues its strong efforts to support Ukrainian athletes. The $7.5 million Solidarity Fund will help them prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympics and the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. So far, some 3,000 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have benefited from this support and direct assistance ...
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ArticleInt'l Cricket Council tops social media ranking among sports federations
BCW Sports has released its “2022 International Sports Federations Social Media Ranking,” published annually since 2016.
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ArticleThe biggest dates in the sports and outdoor industry this year
Our calendar has the biggest industry dates this year and all the dates you need to plan your sports and outdoor gear social media campaign.
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ArticleAnalysis: Sporting Goods Scorecard Q3 2022 – The top performers by sales and profit
Our Q3 Scorecard includes the revenue and profit development of 42 major sporting goods companies.
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ArticleWorld Athletics publishes study of online abuse
World Athletics, the worldwide governing body for track and field, has published a second Online Abuse Study. The first was conducted during the Tokyo Olympics (in 2020), focused on Twitter, and inspired World Athletics to adopt what it calls a safeguarding policy in November 2021. The body revised the policy ...
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ArticleDeckers: Hoka is more than a running brand
Deckers Brands believes its Hoka brand, already wildly successful, has plenty of upsides ahead as a head-to-toe brand serving running, trail and hiking consumers worldwide like rivals Salomon and VF Corp.’s North Face, and less like running-centric Brooks. “We are re-looking at our category approach,” proclaimed Dave Powers, president ...
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ArticlePandemic curbed organized sports in Italy, but physical activity is on the rise
The number of registered sports participants in Italy dropped by 1,760,000 units in the 2019/20 period. The number of sports associations declined as well, with 5,166 of them shutting down during the two-year period. These are the key elements that emerge from I Numeri dello Sport 2019-2020 (Tr.: The Figures ...
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ArticleSaysh secures $8m in funding from Gap's Athleta and others
Consumer-focused fund IRIS and Gap Inc.’s performance lifestyle brand Athleta have led an $8 million Series A funding round for startup sneaker and lifestyle company Saysh. Other investors in the funding round include the 50-percent female early-stage team at Redpoint Ventures, a venture capitalist that has successfully invested in companies ...
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ArticleAsics profit dips 17 percent in Q1 (updated)
Asics Corp. recorded declines in operating income and net income for the first quarter ended March 31 as total revenues dipped 1.1 percent to 105,329 million yen (€811.0m) from ¥106,549 million. Strong sales growth of 12.2 percent in North America could not offset significant supply shortages and logistical disruptions caused ...
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ArticleIOC and stakeholders support Ukrainian Olympic Community and athletes
Source: World Athletics/IOC World Athletics’ fund support professional athletes affected by the war in their home country. As normal civil life is made impossible in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion, so is regular training for most athletes in the country. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has ...
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ArticleThe sports world reacts to the invasion of Ukraine
We’ve already reported on consequences taken by Nike, Adidas, Keen, Haglöfs and Mammut following Russia’s aggression against Ukraine last week, but there’s much more going on in the sports world. Here is an excerpt of the latest happenings: The International Biathlon Union IBU excludes biathlon teams from Russia and ...
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ArticleWFSGI looks back on a positive year
At its annual general assembly, which is usually held at this time of the year before the ISPO Munich show, the World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) reported on a successful closing of the year 2021, with positive financial results and the addition of new staff, eight new ...
