(ATR) Host City operations for The World Games 2021 have begun in earnest in Birmingham, Alabama with the unveiling of the official website at www.TheWorldGames2021.com.
The website currently contains basic background information and links, with new information and news to be added in the days leading up to the event.
The 11th edition of the World Games is being led by CEO DJ Mackovets, Sports Director Steve Mistrot and Operations Director Jay B. Hall. The trio have a combined 17 years of management-level experience with multi-sport events, including three Olympic Games, two U.S. Olympic Festivals and a World University Games.
The World Games is a quadrennial event that features sports with aspirations to join the Olympic program. The International World Games Association signed a memorandum of understanding with the IOC last year consolidating this position under Olympic Agenda 2020.
Various disciplines such as badminton, beach volleyball, trampoline, rugby sevens, taekwondo, triathlon, weightlifting, karate, skateboarding, rock climbing, surfing and softball – the latter five having already been added to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics – have appeared in the World Games.
IWGA President Jose Perurena will be in Birmingham from Dec. 14-17 and will meet the city's new mayor Randall Woodfin during the visit.
Woodfin, who was elected earlier this month, says that the Games "will have the full support" of his administration.
Birmingham will be the first U.S. host of the World Games since the inaugural edition in 1981. The latest edition of the Games was held in Wroclaw, Poland in July.
Written by Gerard Farek
For general comments or questions,click here.
25 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics is AroundTheRings.com, for subscribers only.
Últimas Noticias
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
