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Sony sues Gymshark for misuse of songs
Sony Music has filed suit against Gymshark in the U.S. federal court for Central California for copyright infringement in its social media campaigns. Its complaint states that the British DTC brand of fitness apparel, which recently set up an office for the U.S., “misappropriated hundreds of the most popular and ...
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FIS sets up new working groups and an office in Beijing
The International Ski Federation (FIS) has opened a 400-square-meter liason office in Beijing, following the formation of a China Working Group at a recent meeting of the FIS Council, led by one of the council’s members, Moses Liang-Cheng Zheng. The announcement was made at a Chinese National Snow Sports press ...
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Burton is sued over a helmet patent
Smith Sports Optics and Koroyd are suing Burton Snowboards in a federal court in Utah, claiming that the WaveCel shock-absorbing material it uses in some of its helmets infringes on a jointly owned U.S. patent. The patented technology, called Koroyd, uses an array of structures that provide crumple zones to ...
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ArticleNike loses a legal round in Dutch tax probe
The General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg has dismissed an appeal by the Nike group against the investigation launched by the European Commission in January 2019 into the favorable tax treatment granted to the group by Dutch tax authorities to the European entities of Nike and Converse, and ...
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ArticleHow can home fitness and commercial fitness coexist?
Severely impacted by the Covid pandemic, which has led to their closure and to a boom in home fitness all over the world, fitness studios and other types of membership-based gyms are being led to establish new connections with the home fitness industry while looking for new sources of revenues. ...
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FESI renews its partnership with the European School Sport Day
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has renewed its partnership with the European School Sport Day initiative, which aims to encourage schools to get children on the move. The event is held every year in September, during the European Week of Sport. The European School Sport Day ...
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EU asks for comments on agreements along the supply chain
The European Commission has launched a final public consultation on the anti-trust implications of so-called “vertical agreements” between companies operating at different levels of the supply chain in order to update and improve its Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) and the related Vertical Guidelines. The EU is asking stakeholders to ...
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Afydad extends its member base to marketing and tourism
The very dynamic Spanish Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Distributors (Afydad) is expanding its member base to sports marketing and tourism agencies, in addition to the retail sector. The trade body is also creating ten working groups that will focus on: digital transformation, fitness, equipment and e-sports, outdoor, padel, ...
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Sport Ireland devotes €4 million to Women in Sport program
Sport Ireland has announced an investment of €4 million in its Women in Sport program. The funding will support national governing bodies over the two years of 2021 and 2022 to enhance all aspects of women’s involvement across the Women in Sport policy target areas. These include Coaching and Officiating, ...
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Rugby Europe launches a Super Cup
Rugby Europe, the governing body for rugby union in Europe, is joining forces with World Rugby to launch a new annual club competition reserved for emerging European nations. The inaugural Rugby Europe Super Cup will start in September this year. The final is scheduled to take place in May 2022. ...
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Adidas sues Thom Browne
Adidas has filed a formal lawsuit in a New York federal court for copyright infringement against Thom Browne, according to The Fashion Law, charging that the New York-based menswear designer is “selling athletic-style apparel and footwear featuring two, three or four parallel stripes in a manner that is confusingly similar ...
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News briefsTNF to retire its Futurelight logo
The North Face plans to “phase out and discontinue” the logo it introduced in 2019 for its Futurelight line of apparel and accessories. In January, a graffiti artist in New York working under the name Futura filed a lawsuit in California Central District Court alleging that the VF-owned brand had ...
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IPC announces the six members of the Refugee Paralympic Team in Tokyo
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has confirmed the six athletes who will represent the Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The athletes - one woman and five men - will compete in Para athletics, Para swimming, Para canoe and Para taekwondo. Asics, official supplier of the ...
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Afydad partners with the GSIC, powered by Microsoft
The Global Sports Innovation Center (GSIC) powered by Microsoft and the Spanish Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Distributors (Afydad) will be forming a joint commission to expand the use of technology in the sporting goods sector, notably in terms of digitalization, and take part in Spain’s Development Plan for ...
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The Beijing 2022 Olympics want to engage 300 million Chinese in winter sports
The Beijing Organising Committee of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has integrated the goal of positioning China as a new winter sports destination for local and overseas visitors throughout the planning process for the Games. It has just released a 108-page “Legacy Report of Olympic and Paralympic Winter ...
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Afydad launches virtual B2B storefront
Afydad, the Spanish sporting goods industry association, is taking another step forward in implementing its “Spain is Sport” strategy. Following the launch of its new www.spainissport.com online marketplace in April, Afydad has now launched the Spain is Sport B2B showroom. In the new digital showroom, brands can present their products ...
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Spain alone providing post-pandemic relief to the sport sector?
Spain is the only country in the EU that has so far included the sport sector in its subsidies for the recovery from Covid-19, according to the chairman of the country’s Upper Council on Sport (CSD), José Manuel Franco. The claim could not be verified at the time of going ...
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A new secretary general for FIS
Michel Vion, a former French ski champion, was appointed on June 22 by the newly elected Council of the International Ski Federation (FIS) as its new secretary general. He has served since June 2010 as the president of the French Ski Federation, a post that he is now leaving along ...
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Ski mountaineering recommended for inclusion at Milano Cortina 2026
The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended ski mountaineering for inclusion in the sport program of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. The proposal will be discussed and finalized at the IOC Session in Tokyo on July 20-21, 2021. The determination of the full event ...
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France’s Union Sport & Cycle has a new president
Union Sport & Cycle, the French sporting goods and cycling industry association, has appointed Pascale Gozzi as the new president of the organization for the next three years. She takes over the top role from Jérôme Valentin after serving as vice-president during the latter’s three-year mandate. Gozzi, 50, is a ...
