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Turin bids to host the 2025 Winter Special Olympics
Turin is bidding to host the 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games in 2025, one year before the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are due to host the regular 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Turin’s candidacy has been officially presented by the Italian government, the Piedmont region, ...
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EFTTEX 2021 has been cancelled
The 2021 edition of the European Fishing Tackle Trade Exhibition (EFTTEX), which was due to take place in Prague in June, has been cancelled due to the uncertainties related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The decision was unanimously agreed by the European Fishing Tackle Trade Association’s (EFTTA) board. EFTTA considered ...
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Brisbane is the frontrunner to host the 2032 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced that it will start more detailed and exclusive discussions with the Brisbane 2032 Committee and the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) about their potential to host the Olympic Games in 2032. Australia previously held the Summer Olympics in Melbourne in 1956, and Sydney in ...
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News briefsPerformance Days and Reed launch global digital sourcing platform
Design & Development Textile Consult, the organizer of Performance Days in Munich, and its U.S. counterpart since 2018, Reed Exhibitions’ Functional Fabric Fair powered by Performance Days, have announced the launch of the Performance Days Loop. The new digital platform provides access to a comprehensive, 365-day marketplace for functional fabric ...
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FIBO 2021 postponed to November
FIBO, the international fitness trade show originally scheduled for June 24-27, has been postponed to Nov. 4-7, taking place as usual in Cologne, Germany. The show will be covering member and customer acquisition and re-acquisition, digitalization, technology and e-commerce, market developments, trends and social changes. Like the previous one, this ...
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News briefsOutdoor Retailer Summer Market moves from June to August
Emerald Expositions has announced that Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2021 has been moved from its original date of June 15-17 to Aug. 10-12 as a physical trade show at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, with a digital extension for exhibitors and attendees unable to attend in person. The date ...
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Ski Force Pro will go ahead in a showroom format
The January 2021 sessions of Ski Force Pro, a French B2B event offering testing days for brands and retailers, were canceled due to the shutting down of ski resorts in France, in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. A group of 19 ski equipment brands have therefore decided to open their ...
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ÖSFA fair in Salzburg is cancelled again
The 108th winter sports edition of ÖSFA, the Austrian trade fair, which was planned as a physical fair in Salzburg’s Brandboxx from Feb. 23 to 25, has been cancelled by order of the local health authorities due to coronavirus restrictions. “We have fought like lions for the realization of these ...
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Good numbers from the virtual PGA Merchandise Show
The year’s PGA Merchandise Show – the 68th edition, held on Jan. 26-29 – ran as a virtual event but drew more than 11,000 people from 78 countries, among them 6,500 PGA professionals, and nearly 400 golf brands, among them Callaway Golf, FootJoy, Titleist, Cobra Puma Golf, Bridgestone Golf, Cleveland/Srixon/XXIO ...
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News briefsKilian Jornet receives the ISPO Cup 2021
For the first time in the 50-year history of the ISPO Cup trophy, which is awarded annually by ISPO to an exceptional sports personality, including legendary stars such as Pelé, Reinhold Messner, Ole Einar Björndalen, Ingemar Stenmark, or most recently Tegla Loroupe, the award ceremony did not take place as ...
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Budapest considers hosting the 2032 Olympics
The Hungarian Olympic Committee has established a committee to assess the feasibility of staging the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the country’s capital city. Budapest previously bid in 1916, 1920, 1936, 1944 and 1960, but ultimately never hosted the Games. Budapest also ran for the 2024 Olympics but pulled ...
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Sport-Achat Winter 2021 has been cancelled
Sport-Achat Winter, the French sporting goods trade show that was scheduled to take place on March 8-10 in Lyon, has been cancelled for the second consecutive year due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The French trade show, which is organized by Sportair & Like That, brings together sports brands and ...
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Showroom format allows in-person trade shows for Austria and the Netherlands
ÖSFA, the traditional sporting goods show for the Austrian sports market, is going to be split into two physical events to allow social distancing and to provide more flexibility in terms of orders. An ÖSFA Start fair will be held on Feb. 2 and 3, followed by the regular 108th ...
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Performance Days to debut in China
Performance Days is expanding to Shanghai. Functional Textiles Shanghai by Performance Days is scheduled for Sept. 28-29 at the city’s Shanghaimart Exhibition Center. The Munich show’s founder, Design & Development GmbH Textile Consult, will be organizing the event along with Tengda Exhibition, which handles trade fairs and sourcing events in ...
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Switzerland’s Expo des Neiges 2021 is cancelled
Due to the Swiss Federal Council’s directives and the ban on events, Expo des Neiges 2021, scheduled to take place in Aigle from March 30 to April 1, has been cancelled. The first edition of the new ski show has thus been postponed until March 2022. An exact date has ...
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IOC: No "Plan B" for the Tokyo Olympics
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, told Kyodo News on Jan. 21 that there is “no plan B” for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, in spite of a spike in Covid-19 cases in Japan. He said he had no reason to believe that they will not open on ...
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The UN should rule on the Tokyo Games, former IOC exec suggests
Kevan Gosper, a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president, has suggested that the United Nations (UN) might be involved in deciding whether or not the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games should ultimately take place. The ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its recent resurgence in many countries, Japan included, is ...
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Swedish ski demo is cancelled
The Pro Ski Intro days, which were supposed to be held in Vemdalen from Jan. 25-28, have been cancelled, but suppliers and buyers may have another chance to meet during the Purchasing Days at the end of March in the ski resort of Åre. Organized by the Swedish sports trade ...
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Surf Expo was held physically in Florida
Not all the industry’s trade shows are being held virtually these days. Without giving any attendance figures yet, Emerald Holding has reported on a successful in-person edition of its Surf Expo show, held from Jan. 6-8 as planned in Orlando, Florida. A total of 321 exhibitors registered for the event. ...
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Prioritizing Covid-19 vaccine for athletes may ensure Tokyo Games take place
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed to July-August 2021, but the recent resurgence of Covid-19 cases, in Japan as elsewhere, is leaving uncertainty over the actual chances that the event will take place. According to Dick Pound, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), prioritizing ...
