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Could 600,000 unsold tickets derail the Paris 2024 Olympics? With such a significant number of tickets still up for grabs, there are growing concerns about the economic impact on the Games. What strategies could be employed to boost ticket sales and ensure the success of this global event? Dive deeper into this pressing issue with the full article on Euronews: https://lnkd.in/gKEUyKRu #Paris2024 #Olympics #TicketSales #EconomicImpact

My contribution to research on Promoting and Safeguarding Traditional Sports and Games in ASEAN: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies Https://https://lnkd.in/g7U8gkZ3

Make sure you read Dr Ashenden’s full paper here: https://lnkd.in/eEg386bv 

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When the first Enhanced Games takes place in December 2024, athletes will be allowed to ingest whatever substance they wish, to help improve their performance. How many of you remember Ben Johnson winning the 100m gold at the Olympics? The race was epic, but he was stripped off the medal as he had used performance enhancing drugs. But you will agree that the run was unforgettable and the look in his eyes has been etched in everyone’s memory. So what would sport be like if performance-enhancing drugs were allowed? How fast could the fastest athletes run? How high could they jump? How heavy could they lift? The Enhanced Games seeks to answer these questions by removing all restrictions on doping.There will be no tests, no bans, no limits. For some, the Enhanced Games is the next step in sport’s evolution, but for others, it is a moral stain on the sporting landscape. So what do you think? Should athletes be allowed to take performance enhancement drugs to allow them peak performance or would this be totally unethical and immoral. And if this were allowed in sport, what are the implications if this was extended to other areas like examinations and interviews for example? Curious to know where you stand on this. Please share your views   Source The Conversation https://lnkd.in/gPKVFFwP

#SPORTS: THE PNG Games, our biggest sporting spectacle known affectionately as the Grassroots Games which was supposed to take place every two years, has all but disappeared from the sporting calendar since the last one took place in Kimbe way back in 2017. More of this article here: ( https://lnkd.in/gfwqZ2kp )

🤝 To address manipulation and criminal activities within the realms of sports and esports, the CSCF - Sport Integrity Group and the Ministry of Youth and Sports Bulgaria organized a landmark conference in Sofia. The event served as a pivotal platform for tackling the multifaceted challenges threatening the integrity of sports across Bulgaria. Notably, the conference witnessed unprecedented participation, drawing over 110 attendees, including representatives from the National Police, sports federations, and relevant ministries. High-level discussions centered on strategies for maintaining integrity and combating manipulation in both traditional sports and esports.   After the conference, as part of the Integrisport 3.0 awareness-raising session, the Bulgarian National Platform met and made significant decisions regarding the future reactivation of their activities. This side meeting underscored the commitment of stakeholders to continue the momentum generated by the conference, ensuring sustained efforts in combating manipulation and criminal activities within the sports sector. The event also featured insights from esteemed speakers, including government officials and sports integrity experts.  ✅ For further details about this remarkable event, please refer to the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/es8RQjDC #erasmusplus #sportmanipulation #matchfixing #integrisport3 Bulgarian Football Union, Bulgarian Tennis Federation, Malta Police Force, United Lotteries for Integrity in Sports (ULIS), FIFPRO, Europol, Severin Moritzer, Norbert Rubicsek J.D.

Did you know that an official poster for the Olympic Games was presented by the organisers for the first time on the occasion of the 1912 edition in Stockholm ? Our Reference Document “Olympic Summer Games Posters from Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020” presents the official poster of each edition of the Olympic Summer Games. The poster is accompanied by a brief description of the work and, when available, information related to the artist, the printer, the design process, as well as the creation and dissemination context. It also includes examples, not necessarily exhaustive, of other promotional posters published in connection with an edition of the Games. All the posters which appear in this document are preserved in the Olympic Museum collections. Discovering the Olympic posters is therefore an invitation to retrace the history of the Games in a pictorial journey through the ages and the continents! This document is available on the Olympic World Library here https://lnkd.in/e-q_QxXM, the winter version is available here https://lnkd.in/eC6yhnCf, and you can access the entire collection here https://lnkd.in/eHXBtt2x. The content of these documents can be used for non-commercial, educational, research, analysis, review or reporting purposes.

Day 44 of 100 Days of Games of Chance in Kenya. Where Kenya's Football Fixed Odds and Jackpots Sports Betting started. Today’s article is from March 14th 1961 on football pools. A football pool was a prediction for 13 football association games (FA is the precursor to the current English Premier League). One would predict a win(1), draw ( N,X or 0 ) or loss (2) for the home team in each schedule indicated on the sheet. There was a small entry fee into the pool (stake) and the person who got all the correct predictions won the jackpot. If many people predicted correctly , then the jackpot was shared equally amongst the winners. Pools were also known to pay 9 accurate predictions and above, what is called jackpot bonus in online sports betting in Kenya today. In Italy, the state run a football pools that funded the Italian National Olympic Committee.In Kenya, current online sports betting jackpots borrow completely from this 60 year plus innovation and looking at what Italy did, Kenya still has room for improvement on the impact of games of chance on sports. https://lnkd.in/gdsGxSyr

As the Summer Olympics wind down, Abbie S. Fink is revisiting some of HMA's past Olympic-themed blog posts. Discover key business lessons, fun facts and more inspired by the games!