News briefs – Page 23
-
News briefs
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, ...
-
News briefs
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. ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
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 ...
-
News briefs
IOC unveils details of its Olympic Forest project
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the details of its project to plant an “Olympic Forest” in the African states of Mali and Senegal, part of the IOC’s climate-positive strategy. The project will involve planting about 355,000 native trees across around 90 villages in Mali and Senegal, covering a ...
-
News briefs
EU opens anti-trust probe into Google’s online advertising tech
The European Commission said it has opened a formal anti-trust investigation to assess whether Google has violated EU competition rules by favoring its own online display advertising technology services in the so called “ad tech” supply chain to the detriment of competing providers of advertising technology services, advertisers and online ...
-
News briefs
Britain’s snowsport bodies launch Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group
Britain’s governing bodies for snowsports have announced the formation of a new Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. It will comprise representatives from GB Snowsport, Snowsport England, Snowsport Scotland and Snowsport Wales. The advisory group will initially focus on the three key areas of Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Inclusion, LGBTQ+ ...
-
News briefs
A woman from the candy industry will lead IHRSA
Elizabeth Clark is the first woman to have been appointed as president and CEO of IHRSA, the leading fitness industry association born 40 years ago whose full name is International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association. On Aug. 16, she will take the place of an interim president and CEO, Brent ...
-
News briefs
Sport England introduces new tools to enhance the sector’s digital marketing skills
Sport England has worked together with the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) to produce a Digital Marketing Hub, a free training program in digital marketing made available to the sport and physical activity sector. The new hub is meant to “fill a gap in ...
-
News briefs
Euratex calls for new measures as apparel demand sinks by 18%
Figures from the Spring 2021 Report by Euratex (European Apparel and Textile Confederation) show a dramatic contraction in the demand and production of textiles and clothing. The EU’s turnover in textile fibers and fabrics declined by 9.3 percent in 2020 as compared to 2019. For clothing, the decline was even ...
-
News briefs
Supply Chain Act adopted by German parliament, EU to follow up with stricter rules
As expected, the German parliament passed the Supply Chain Act last week. The law, which aims to force companies to take responsibility for human rights abuses such as forced and child labor, forced evictions, oil pollution and land theft within their supply chains, will come into effect on January 1, ...
-
News briefs
Amazon files suit with HanesBrands against counterfeiters
Amazon and HanesBrands have jointly filed 13 lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. They allege that 17 defendants sold through Amazon’s marketplace silicone protective earbud case covers under the Champion name, a trademark registered by HanesBrands. Amazon has closed the defendants’ accounts. Amazon says ...
