OLYMPICS SET TREND FOR X GAMES CLAIM IOC

President Jacques Rogge has refuted the suggestion that the IOC have belatedly modernised their Games under threat from the “X” Games. “We did not wait for the X Games to start thinking about our event.” he said. “We  organised the very first Youth Olympic festival in Brussels in back ...

The new operational office of European Union of Sports Press, AIPS EUROPE - UEPS in Istanbul, kind offered by the Turkish Sports Journalist Association. The new headquarters are already operational. ...

By Charles Camenzuli, AIPS Europe Secretary General   MALTA , January 2, 2012 – Tennis ace from Serbia NOVAK DJOKOVIC and Italian swimmer FEDERICA PELLEGRINI are the winners in the 2011 edition of the European Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards . It was the 29th annual poll conducted ...

  LONDON, December 5,2011 Journalists  covering the Taekwondo competition at the 2012 Olympic Games are set for a long day’s journey into night. The players themselves are also in for a marathon schedule. France’s World Champion Gwladys Epangue won gold at the test event, fully thirteen ...

  BY Philip Barker Austria won the London Handball Cup with a dramatic penalty in the last  fifteen seconds to give them a 23-22 victory over Poiand at the 2012 Olympic Park. The final of the test event was a pulsating match which offered a superb advertisement for the sport, yet neither of the ...

Journalists are set for an exhausting start to the Olympic Games in London next year. By the time the Queen declares the Games open on 27th July, a Friday night, we won’t be far short of Saturday morning. Most will be unlikely to hit their beds much before 2AM. Before that, London Organisers will ...