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New dates confirmed for SportAccord 2021 as 19th edition now set for November in Ekaterinburg 04/07/21
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – SportAccord has confirmed new dates for the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2021, with sport’s most influential global gathering now set to take place from 7-12 November 2021 in Ekaterinburg, Russia at the IEC Ekaterinburg-Expo.
The decision to push back the dates for the World Sport & Business Summit to November was taken by the SportAccord Executive Committee. SportAccord is in close dialogue with its partners in Ekaterinburg, the Sverdlovsk Oblast region, and the Russian Federation. This move will provide greater safety and certainty to attendees in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic but certainly to allow the greatest impact for our hosts.
Thursday, 4 March 2021
The International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) claim that it has moved speedily in attempting to change the way the sport is governed has been rejected by its former Interim President Ursula Papandrea.
The American has put forward a timeline that would bring forward the elections to July after the IWF Board controversially voted to hold them after the rearranged Olympic Games, possibly in October .
Another critic, the Tokyo 2020 sport manager for weightlifting Reiko Chinen, complained of gangsters on the IWF Executive Board.
Chinen, from Japan, who said yesterday that the Board’s actions threatened weightlifting’s Olympic status, called for more member federations to air their views.
Saturday, 27 February 2021
The President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) Francesco Ricci Bitti has used a speech during today’s International Boxing Association (AIBA) European continental forum, to urge AIBA to engage constructively with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Ricci Bitti was speaking during the third of AIBA’s virtual continental forums of 2021, with this latest edition designed for European National Federations.
More than 40 European federations participated in the event, with Ricci Bitti, who is currently serving a third four-year term as ASOIF President, using the speech to encourage AIBA to continue working positively alongside the IOC.
Friday, 26 February 2021
Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) President Francesco Ricci Bitti is to present on governance in sport organisations during the virtual International Boxing Association (AIBA) forum for Europe tomorrow.
Ricci Bitti is set to take part in the third virtual forum scheduled by AIBA this year, with meetings already held for Africa and the Americas.
The 78-year-old, honorary life President of the International Tennis Federation, was re-elected for a third and final four-year term as ASOIF President in November.
AIBA President Umar Kremlev has previously claimed the forums are to hear and solve tough questions, as well as to maintain a constant dialogue with National Federations.