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News briefsU.S. Women’s Soccer reaches agreement on equal pay and working conditions
The players on the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) who filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation have reached a settlement, ending a dispute over equal pay and working conditions that has been ongoing since 2016. In 2016, five USWNT players had initially filed a wage discrimination ...
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News briefsIOC elects Samaranch as new vice president and five new IOC members
The Feb. 18 proceedings of the 139th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Beijing saw the election of a new vice-president and five new IOC members. Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs from Spain was elected as an IOC vice-president. His term will start on May 20, after the conclusion ...
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Victoria is in exclusive negotiations to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games
The Australian state of Victoria has signed an agreement with the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Insidethegames has revealed. The Games would be held in venues across the state. The Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, has confirmed that the state government is in exclusive negotiations ...
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England Golf sends teams to European events for golfers with a disability
England Golf will be sending teams to this summer’s European Team Championship for Golfers with a Disability and Nations Cup in Belgium. The decision marks the first time England Golf will manage and field teams of amateur golfers with a disability in international competition. The two events will take place ...
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UNESCO held a ministerial conference on sport and sustainable development
UNESCO, the United Nations specialized agency that focuses on promoting world peace and security through education and culture, hosted a ministerial conference on “Sports and Sustainable Development Goals in Childhood: Societal issues regarding appropriate physical activities” on Feb. 7-8. The conference, held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, was organized by ...
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France’s presidential candidates will present their sports policies in dedicated event
The next French presidential election is scheduled for April 10 and 24, 2022. The Maison du Sport Français in Paris will host a special event on March 17, inviting the presidential candidates to explain their respective sports policies. The event is co-organized by the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF) with the ...
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News briefsPortugal issues stricter regulations for the labeling of leather substitutes
The Portuguese government adopted new regulations (Decreto-Lei n.o 3/2022) at the end of January 2022 to label all textile products that are man-made to replace genuine leather and also established fines for companies that do not comply. The new law defines the term leather and specifies its use. Accordingly, the ...
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Paris 2024 announces departure of its chief commercial officer
Marlène Masure will be leaving her position as director of partnership and business development (chief commercial officer) on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (COJO) in March “to pursue a new professional opportunity.” Her role, which she had taken over in April 2019, has now been split ...
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Italy focuses on bid to stage UEFA Euro 2032
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has announced plans to host the UEFA Euro 2032. Italy, the winner of the 2021 tournament, had considered a bid for Euro 2028, but FIGC’s president Gabriele Gravina said a proposal to host the tournament in 2032 would allow more time to modernize stadiums across ...
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Puma North America falls victim to ransomware attack
Bleepingcomputer.com reports that after a ransomware attack on one of Puma’s North American workforce management service providers, Kronos, in December 2021, cybercriminals also stole Puma North America employees’ data from the Kronos private cloud. Ransomware attacks involve malware that is installed undetected in the victim’s system. The malware then encrypts ...
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Nike suspends football player on allegations of sexual assault
Nike has suspended the four-year sponsorship contract it had signed a year ago with Mason Greenwood, the 20-year-old Manchester United striker who was arrested last Sunday on suspicion of raping a woman, based on videos posted on social media. The local police is also suspecting that he was threatening to ...
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Peloton gets sued about overtime pay
Adding to many other pending product liability and class action suits affecting the American connected fitness company, it’s now the turn for a former inside sales representative to sue Peloton Interactive, this time for alleged violation of federal and state labor legislation. The suit, filed in the New York Court ...
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FESI launches a sustainability network for winter sports companies
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has launched a joint initiative, called the FESI Winter Sport Sustainability Network (FESI-WSN), to “increase the knowledge and cooperation on sustainability and circularity within the winter sports Industry.” The network will be holding four annual meetings, with roundtable discussions involving industry ...
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New Balance extends its trademarks into the metaverse
Joining Nike, Adidas, Puma and Under Armour in their journeys into the metaverse, New Balance has filed trademark applications in the U.S. to extend its brand into virtual merchandise and services, including virtual footwear, apparel, sports bags, equipment and accessories. The three applications cover the New Balance trade name as ...
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Sporting goods retailers hit by the unrest in Kazakhstan
Sportmaster and other retailers in Kazakhstan suffered losses of around 25 billion tenges (€50.5m -$57m) from marauders as part of the recent civil unrest in the country, the Union of Trade Networks of Kazakhstan said in a statement on its website, adding that this data is preliminary. The National Chamber ...
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U.S. Congress seeks reassurances from the IOC over Xinjiang
On Jan. 12, the U.S. Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) sent a letter to the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, inquiring about contracts for the acquisition of Olympic uniforms, as the suppliers, Anta and Hengyanxiang (HYX), have publicly acknowledged that they use cotton from the ...
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Nike, Columbia to begin firing unvaxxed employees
According to Oregonlive, which covers the sportswear giant’s home state of Oregon, Nike was set on Jan. 15 to begin firing employees who were not, by the current definition, vaccinated against Covid-19 and had not received a religious or medical exemption. According to the same source, Columbia Sportswear, also headquartered ...
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Moncler says some data were stolen in cyber attack
Moncler said that key data on the credit cards of its customers and other means of payment were not included among the data stolen in a cyber attack suffered a few weeks ago, as the company did not store such data on its systems. It admitted that other data on ...
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SMS comments on UK Active’s report on “social prescribing”
A new report by UK Active has called for an expansion of sports participation to reduce pressure on the National Health System (NHS) of the U.K. The report, sponsored by Matrix, discusses the role of “social prescribing” in the fitness and leisure sector. In the U.K., social prescribing is a ...
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ABG and Shaq file for digital trademarks
Like Nike, Adidas and many others, the Authentic Brands Group (ABG) is staking out a claim in the metaverse. As Footwear News reports, ABG and the retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal filed three trademark applications in December for the word “SHAQ” as applied to non-downloadable virtual footwear, clothing, headwear and ...
