International Olympic Committee News

[Agger 1,663]

Patrick Baumann, Secretary General of FIBA, president of GAISF and IOC member died from a heart attack.

[AlFHg 330]

Il 10/10/2018 Alle 18:02, Federer91 ha scritto:

We (Sofia) are planning a candidature for the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. Our sports minister said things were very positive after a long talk with the IOC last week. 

weren't this games planned to be held in 2025? I read somewhere that IOC was planning to have an Olympics (senior or youth) every year, so the youth should be moved both to odd years

[uk12points 434]

1 hour ago, AlFHg said:

weren't this games planned to be held in 2025? I read somewhere that IOC was planning to have an Olympics (senior or youth) every year, so the youth should be moved both to odd years

They were but the IOC scrapped the planned year change last year, hence why the next Summer Youth Olympics will be held in 2022, not 2023 as originally planned.

[heywoodu 15,144]

1 hour ago, Agger said:

Patrick Baumann, Secretary General of FIBA, president of GAISF and IOC member died from a heart attack.

Wow, that's a shocker in terms of world sports administration..

[Olympian1010 7,976]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Wow, that's a shocker in terms of world sports administration..

A lot of high ranking spots are open now 

[intoronto 5,642]

"McConnell said that the IOC will also look into different mixed team and mixed gender events that featured in Buenos Aires for future editions"

http://aroundtherings.com/site/A__74846/Title__McConnell-Boxing-on-Par-with-Other-Sports-at-YOG/utm_source__hootsuite/utm_medium__/utm_term__/utm_content__/utm_campaign__/292/Articles

[Wumo 3,002]

Quite interesting article.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1072030/bach-calls-on-nocs-to-work-with-governments-to-defend-european-sports-model-from-serious-threat-of-commercial-enterprises

 

The so-called "European sports model" has been under pressure in decades. International sport and sport athletes are commercial products. We are far from Coubertin's vision/idea about sport being a competition between pure amateurs. IOC and NOC's have already adapted many free-market mechanisms in their organisations, and professional sport will probably become more and more commercially over the next decades. 

Edited November 9, 2018 by wumo26

[heywoodu 15,144]

1 minute ago, wumo26 said:

Quite interesting article.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1072030/bach-calls-on-nocs-to-work-with-governments-to-defend-european-sports-model-from-serious-threat-of-commercial-enterprises

 

The so-called "European sports model" has been under pressure in decades. International sport and sport athletes are commercial products. We are far from Coubertin's vision/idea about sport being a competition between pure amateurs. IOC and NOC's have already adapted many free-market mechanisms in their organisations, and professional sport will probably become more and more commercially over the next decades. 

Rather funny coming from the head of an organisation that makes it impossible to buy tickets for their events if you don't have the right brand of credit card, or that won't allow people drinking the wrong brand of soda.

[JoshMartini007 2,538]

Sport federations need to adapt. The International Swimming League would not exist if FINA created a league with a proper prize pool.

[heywoodu 15,144]

11 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Sport federations need to adapt. The International Swimming League would not exist if FINA created a league with a proper prize pool.

The what?