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With BeIN Sport, Qatar shoots for the top corner
Thursday 24 May, the throng gathered in an overheated salon of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Paris, a mere kick of the ball from Place Vendôme. In the crowd more journalists than there are chairs in the room. They have come from all over, even outside the Paris region. On the stage, two men, one [...]
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The 2020 Olympic Games: one Spot for eight contenders
The financial crisis has had little effect on them, and neither has rising public debt. Olympic sports are thriving. In fact, they have never attracted so much envy. After golf and rugby, which have both been added to the program of the Rio Olympics in 2016, no fewer than eight sports or disciplines are now [...]
Read More !The ideal Minister of Sports exists… we have created her/him !
Goodbye David Douillet; welcome Valérie Fourneyron. According to growing rumours, the Deputy Minister of Sports – and current Mayor of the city of Rouen – will soon take up the top Governmental position in French sports. An accomplished athlete, with a background as a physician, Fourneyron has advised François Hollande on sports matters since the [...]
Read More !The RIght Track’s Sport Industry Creativity Trend Watch (Volume 2)
Stadiums are Stars of the second edition of the TRT’s Sports Industry Creativity Trend Watch. But it is also about Football and Beers. Aviva Stadium: Full Stadium gets digital Every year, more and more European Rugby fans respond to the call: the VI Nations’ rugby tournament is a never-denied success. Tickets are sold out in [...]
Read More !You have to be in it to win it
Is Turkey setting a precedent in the international sporting movement? The former heart of the Ottoman Empire is going all out to host the two most coveted events – the Summer Olympic Games and the football Euro, which are both taking place in 2020. It is unheard of. At the last UEFA conference in Istanbul, [...]
Read More !Continental drift
The news has made waves around the world. It is even a sadly historic occasion. For the first time in the rich history of Olympic bids, a European capital has pulled out of the race. In mid-February, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti announced that Rome was withdrawing its bid for the 2020 Summer Games. In [...]
Read More !France can no longer ignore the Laureus phenomenon
In London, on Monday 6 February, a few of the biggest names in world sport were like children taking their first communion, before wrapping their words in touching emotion when they were awarded their Laureus Awards statuette. “Being chosen as the sports personality of the year is an incredible honour, especially when I look at [...]
Read More !Is France finally making the right move to reach its international ambitions?
Due to bad timing, the news almost went unnoticed. But French sport has taken great strides towards tackling the heavy task of furthering its international influence and ambition. On 20 December 2011, the French Minister for Sport, David Douillet, seized the opportunity at an extraordinary Executive Board meeting of the CNDS (Centre National pour le [...]
Read More !If PSG wants to keep growing, it will have to com-mun-ic-ate
How can you recognise a great football club? Common sense would say its results, and of course that’s true. But while results are always essential, they’re not always enough to define a great club. If a club wants to exist in the world of football, it now has to win fans the world over, get [...]
Read More !Thiais-Orly Rugby, our sort of project
French Rugby has an illustrious past, a national team just returned from New Zealand with heavy hearts but heads held high, a new selector, and, above all, a passionate desire to continue growing. To all that, it will soon add a stadium. Its own stadium. This is our sort of project: full of ambition, but [...]
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