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2024 OCR World Championships

World Obstacle, UIPM Co-Host Successful OCR Event

More than 600 athletes from 35 nations recently gathered in San Jose, Costa Rica, for the four-day World Obstacle UIPM 2024 OCR World Championships, the third time the organizations have co-hosted an event after Ninja World Cup USA 2023 and the World Obstacle UIPM 2023 OCR World Championships. Costa Rica’s National Stadium hosted the 100m, […]

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CHTA

Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association Calls for Sports Development

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association has called on the region to embrace sports development and sports tourism following the performance of Caribbean athletes at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. The CHTA, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, noted historic achievements by St. Lucia’s Julien Alfred and Dominica’s Thea LaFond, who captured their countries’ […]

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Major US Events

U.S. Senators Call for Formation of White House Task Force on Global Sporting Events

United States Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), co-chairs of the Senate Travel and Tourism Caucus, have led a bipartisan group of 19 senators in calling for President Joseph R. Biden to establish a White House Task Force on Global Sporting Events. The letter states that in preparation for the massive sporting events […]

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2024 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
The end of the dramatic presentation of the Olympic rings during the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

Paris Tourism Office Releases Preliminary Olympic Report

Paris je t’aime, the city’s tourism bureau, released its preliminary report on Olympic Summer Games impact saying the United States was the leading international market during the competition. The report says the United States had 230,000 tourists visit Paris during the Games, nearly double the second-leading country in Germany (130,000). The United Kingdom was third […]

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Los Angeles 2024
Competitiors in the men's 5,000 meter event at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles circle past the Olympic torch during the race on August 11, 1984. Los Angeles in 2028 will join London and Paris as the only three-time hosts of the Olympic Summer Games. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. Olympic Movement Focuses Its Eyes Toward LA28

Yes, the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games are in Paris and yes, competition begins in less than a week and yes, there will be plenty of focus on the present. Yet within the U.S. Olympic movement, there is also a sense that this is just the preamble. Paris is a chance to re-light the […]

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Fencing Palais
Fencing at the Grand Palais was one of the most popular fan experiences in the first week of the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

2024 Olympics: Grades for the Games

With the Olympic movement at an inflection point in the minds of many experts, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris were vital for the International Olympic Committee to prove to the world that it is still relevant and attractive for major worldwide cities to have an interest in hosting. Based on SportsTravel’s experience in Paris […]

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Eiffel Tower stadium
Ambitious plans for Paris 2024 included the stunning temporary stadium at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

Paris 2024 Credits Early Engagement for Success of Olympics

PARIS — From the outset, Paris 2024’s plans for the Olympic Summer Games was ambitious. It began with a deconstructed Opening Ceremony along the Seine and it is ending with other firsts, including a public marathon on the official Olympic course near the end. In between, organizing committee leaders have been pleased with how things […]

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Tim Hinchey in Paris

Q&A: USA Swimming CEO Tim Hinchey on the Paris Olympics

PARIS — The last time I had the chance to interview USA Swimming President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Hinchey in person, it was during eight hours of quarantine together at Narita Airport in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games. Three years after those pandemic-era Games, I had the opportunity to catch up with […]

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Rio Olympics Athletics
Allyson Felix is one of the most decorated Olympians of all time, with seven gold medals and 11 total medals. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Allyson Felix Elected to International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission

Five-time U.S. Olympian Allyson Felix, who made Olympic history by winning 11 medals, has been elected to the IOC Athletes’ Commission. Felix will serve an eight-year term and be confirmed as member of the International Olympic Committee at the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Games in Paris on August 11. Felix stepped away from athletics […]

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artistic swimming celebrate
U.S. athletes and coaches react when the team secured a silver medal at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris, the team's first Olympic medal in 20 years. Photo buy Jason Gewirtz

For USA Artistic Swimming, a Win Beyond the Pool

PARIS — In the pantheon of Olympic sports whose athletes get overlooked, artistic swimming may be near the top. Athletes may look flashy in their over-the-top costumes and poses in the water, but make no mistake about what is happening underneath the water to make some of the most dramatic moments of a routine shine. […]

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