The World Federation of the Sporting Goods Industry had hired Florian Dammer to be its new bicycle manager and Simone Ramsauer to manage public relations. Dammer was a road racer as a youth, in the German Bundesliga, and competed in World Cups. He has worked in marketing for KTM Fahrrad and Lowa Shoes in Austria, and in 2010 he developed sales and marketing functions for sportcampus.com, a platform to provide online training for retailers. Ramsauer was formerly the project manager at the agency that market the National Beach Volleyball Tour in Switzerland, and also worked as project manager of Olympic Team Management for Swiss Olympic. Stefanie Burkert, WFSGI's public relations manager and assistant secretary general, is on sabbatical leave through April 2012.

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