TTFA + Avec Sport
AVEC SPORT CONFIRMS FIRST-EVER INTERNATIONAL KIT AGREEMENT —- UK-based football kit supplier, Avec Sport has expanded into the international market for the first time in its history, with the announcement of a four-deal with the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association. (TTFA) Avec will be the exclusive technical playing and training kit supplier to all men’s, women’s ...
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CSM North America announced as supporting partner
New York, February 27th, 2020: SIGA, the world’s leading independent coalition in the field of sports governance and integrity, is proud to announce CSM North America as its Supporting Partner for the 2020 SIGA Sport Integrity Forum. The SIGA Sport Integrity Forum will take place on March 24th, 2020, between 09.00 and 18.00 at the ...
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World Athletics: Ratified – Kosgei’s 2:14:04 world marathon record, men’s 4x400m relay world indoor record
— Brigid Kosgei’s 2:14:04 world marathon record and the 3:01.51 world indoor 4x400m relay record set by a University of Houston quartet have been ratified. Kosgei, who celebrated her 26th birthday on 20 February, shattered the previous mark at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on 13 October, slicing a massive 81 seconds from the ...
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AFC bans two Laos players for life for national team matchfix plot
—- The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Disciplinary and Ethics Committee has taken tough action on match manipulation by banning two Laos national team players, Khampheng Sayavutthi and Lembo Saysana, from taking part in any football related activities for life. They were found to have committed offences under Article 66.1 of the AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Code ...
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World Athletics
WORLD ATHLETICS APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR OF COMPETITION AND EVENTS —- Jakob Larsen, the man who led the organising committee behind the innovative and challenging World Athletics Cross Country course in Aarhus, Denmark, last year, has been appointed Director of Competition and Events for World Athletics. Following a worldwide search which began at the end of ...
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Football Foundation
FOOTBALL FOUNDATION CEO PAUL THOROGOOD STANDS DOWN AFTER 14 YEARS —- The Football Foundation has today announced that Paul Thorogood will stand down as CEO after 14 years in the role. Football Foundation Chairman, Martin Glenn, said: “I speak for the whole Board of the Football Foundation, and its Funding Partners, the Premier League, The FA, Government ...
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Football Foundation
Grow the Game scheme returns for its 10th straight year to provide under-represented groups with new opportunities in football —- £1.5m available for clubs to create new female and disability teams —- Last year’s fund supported more than 16,000 people into the game —– Grow the Game is back for the 10th year in a row ...
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Tokyo 2020
Tokyo 2020 Unveils Kinetic Sport Pictograms – a Games First —– Tokyo, 26 February 2020 – The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today unveiled official Olympic and Paralympic kinetic sport pictograms, the first time in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games that these have been created. There ...
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Albanian dope test failure confirmed from London 2012
IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012 —- The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. The IOC is currently conducting additional analyses ...
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British Cycling
BRITISH CYCLING-HSBC UK TO END PARTNERSHIP AT CONCLUSION OF OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC YEAR —- British Cycling and HSBC UK will end our partnership at the close of this Olympic and Paralympic year, concluding a project which has inspired millions ...
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