News briefs – Page 24
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Former Adidas executive petitions U.S. Supreme Court
James Gatto, the former U.S. marketing executive of Adidas accused of making payments to collegiate athletes and their families to win them over for sponsorships, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse his 2018 conviction for wire fraud. Earlier this year, an Appeals Court had upheld the guilty verdict ...
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Peak complains about Brazilian football team not wearing the brand’s uniforms on Olympic podium
After beating Spain in the Olympic final, the players of the Brazilian men’s football team went to the podium in Tokyo with their Peak official sweater tied around their waist. The players appeared in their Nike-produced shirts instead of wearing the sweater made by Peak. This was in violation of ...
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Former Nike executive goes to jail for fraud
Errol Andam, a former Nike executive involved in retail brand marketing, was sentenced to serve 31 months in prison and to pay back $1,669,207.45 to its former employer. He had pleaded guilty to committing fraud, diverting proceeds from Nike pop-up stores for his own use and partnering with a friend ...
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Tennis Australia launches its own venture capital fund
Tennis Australia, the governing body for tennis in Australia, has announced the creation of Wildcard Ventures, a new entity that will identify and invest in early-stage companies focusing on technologies across sports, health and entertainment. Tennis Australia is the latest sports organization to launch its own venture capital fund to ...
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Paris 2024 and Milano Cortina 2026 sign collaboration agreement
The Organizing Committees for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games and the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have announced a collaboration agreement aimed at encouraging joint initiatives and activities toward more sustainable and innovative Games in 2024 and 2026. The agreement was signed by Paris ...
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News briefsFIS releases World Snow Day 2021 report
To better understand World Snow Day 2021, which was severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Ski Federation (FIS), as the organizer, has released its final report detailing all aspects of the event, including details about the 110 events in 33 countries and their participants, the impact of communications, ...
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News briefsCanada Goose sues Goose Country
The Fashion Law has reported that Canada Goose is suing Goose Country, a U.S. outerwear brand. In the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on June 30, Canada Goose claims that “the look and feel of the outerwear garments offered by ...
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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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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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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 ...
