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Fort Wayne to Host National Fencing Competition

Visit Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Turnstone Center will host the United States Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs for its 2023 National Tournament on April 1–2. More than 40 men’s and women’s teams are expected to participate in the event at the Plassman Athletic Center, with 1,100 attendees for the two-day event. “The United States Association […]

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Major League Table Tennis

Major League Table Tennis Announces Details for Inaugural Season

Major League Table Tennis has announced its inaugural season will feature eight teams across the country competing in a team-based format. The player draft is expected in summer 2023 and league play will begin later this year. “Our goal is to elevate the fastest and most intense sport in America,” said Flint Lane, MLTT chief […]

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Wyndham MiLB

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Partners with Minor League Baseball

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, with approximately 9,100 hotels spanning more than 95 countries, has announced a new multi-season partnership that makes it the Official Hotel Partner of Minor League Baseball. Through the relationship with Minor League Baseball, Wyndham Rewards members will this summer be able to redeem points for tickets to Minor League games, throwing […]

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Lausanne | SwitzerlandIOC President Thomas Bach holds the EB meeting in Lausanne on the 28th March 2023 with a day packed with various topics.Photograph: IOC/Greg Martin
IOC President Thomas Bach holds the EB meeting in Lausanne. Photograph: IOC/Greg Martin

Race to Host 2030 Winter Olympics Expanding, IOC Claims

The International Olympic Committee continues to draw interest from around the world to host the 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, claimed Executive Director Christophe Dubi, while refusing to say from which regions the interest is being registered. Dubi said after Wednesday’s IOC Executive Board meeting that he anticipated a report to the executive board […]

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Swimming World Cup

World Aquatics Announces 2023 World Cup Schedule

The World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2023 will include stops in Berlin, Athens and Budapest this October. The three-event series kicks off in Berlin from October 6–8, before heading to Athens from October 13–15 and finishing in Budapest October 20–22. With this year’s Swimming World Cup leading into both the Doha 2024 Worlds as well […]

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RCX NIRSA
Izell Reese, CEO of RCX Sports and executive director of NFL Flag, and Pam Watts, NIRSA executive director, announced the partnership between the two organizations. Photo by Steven Miller

RCX Sports Partners with NIRSA to Increase Flag Football Participation

RCX Sports, the official operating partner of NFL Flag, has announced a new partnership with the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association. The collaboration, aimed at increasing flag football participation, programming and training across college campuses in the intramural and club sports arenas, will help NIRSA enhance its flag football tournaments as well as train […]

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IOC EB Bach
IOC President Thomas Bach holds the EB meeting in Lausanne on March 28. Photograph: IOC/Greg Martin

IOC Begins Push on Olympic Inclusion of Russian Athletes

The International Olympic Committee continues to stay in a waiting pattern over what was believed to be growing momentum to allow Russian and Belarusian individual athletes to compete in the Olympics, refusing to guarantee their participation — for now — and increasing existing sanctions to include teams of athletes from either country in the wake […]

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Jack Gierhart

Jack Gierhart Named US Biathlon CEO

Jack Gierhart has been named as chief executive officer of the United States Biathlon Association. Gierhart, who has been serving as the interim chief executive officer since September 2022, succeeds longtime chief executive officer Max Cobb, who is now the secretary general of the International Biathlon Union. “Jack’s hiring represents a new era for US […]

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Manchester United Wrexham San Diego

San Diego to Host Manchester United, Wrexham on July 25

One of the biggest names in world soccer, Manchester United, will play at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego on July 25 in an exhibition match against one of the trendiest names in world soccer, Wrexham AFC, the club co-owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. “We could not be more excited to welcome Manchester United […]

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World Cup Luge
Fans take a photograph while watching Ekaterina Baturina of Russia compete in the luge sprint World Cup event on in December 2018, in Lake Placid, New York (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Lake Placid to Host Luge World Cup 2023-2024 Season Opener

Lake Placid, New York, will host the opening race weekend for the 2023-2024 International Luge Federation World Cup schedule, which was released over the weekend. In the three months from the beginning of December 2023 to the beginning of March 2024, nine world cups are schedule. Lake Placid will host from December 7-9, 2023, before […]

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