PASO Meetings
Around the Rings will be on the scene in Miami for this week’s business of the Pan American Sports Organization.
A meeting of the PASO Executive Committee runs Tuesday and Wednesday with a Best Practices Conference to follow Thursday.
IOC Conference on Sport, Culture and Education
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will work with the IOC on this week’s 8th World Conference on Sport, Culture and Education in Amsterdam.
Topics to be discussed include: "innovating approaches for sustainable education" and "the impact of the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad" as well as drawing from young people who are at the heart of the Olympic Movement.
The conference runs Sunday to Tuesday at the Amsterdam Maritime Museum.
Soccerex
Annual football business showcase Soccerex runs Sunday to Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.
Click here for the full program.
ASOIF Council
The ruling Council of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations meets Friday in Lausanne.
Written by Matthew Grayson
20 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics is AroundTheRings.com, for subscribers only.
Últimas Noticias
Brigitte Henriques: “The important thing is that the women who are elected should be chosen for their ability, not because we are looking for modernization in terms of gender”
“When I was a girl I couldn’t find a club to play soccer in because most of them didn’t work with women,” Henriques tells Around the Rings during an in-depth interview in Crete, Greece.
The Hula Report: Winds of Change for ANOC in Crete
New leaders coming for peak Olympic group. Whether other candidates emerge in the months ahead, a contested election for the ANOC presidency will be a first for the organization.
Gilles Gilbert Gresenguet, presidential candidate for AFCNO: “We must take advantage of Paris 2024 to bring the Olympic Games back to French”
The elections take place November 18, and Abakar Djermah Aumi, president of the Chad Olympic Committee, is also aiming to win them.
USOPC announces 613-member 2020 U.S. Olympic Team
Roger Federer pulls out of Tokyo Olympics: "I am greatly disappointed"
(ATR) Federer cites "a setback with my knee" for the decision.
