Europe

The Infront Sports & Media agency has built on its long-running association with the International Ice Hockey Federation’s IIHF World Championship by forming a joint venture with the Danish Ice Hockey Association to deliver the 2018 edition of the national team tournament.

UK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has today (Tuesday) launched a wide-ranging public consultation on sport in the UK amid growing concerns that the country is falling short on the legacy commitments of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to sell a 48 per cent stake in Italian Serie A football club AC Milan to Thai businessman Bee Taechaubol.

UK marketing services group Chime Communications has revealed it has reached an agreement regarding its sale to US private equity investment firm Providence Equity and advertising and public relations giant WPP.

Beijing bid committee members today (Friday) reflected on creating Olympic history after being awarded hosting rights to the 2022 winter Games, as defeated Almaty pledged to maintain its efforts to turn the city into a major winter sports hub.

Lausanne, the Swiss city where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is based, today (Friday) landed a convincing victory in being awarded the hosting rights to the 2020 winter Youth Olympic Games.

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko is set to become president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) once again after his only rival opted to withdraw his candidacy ahead of September’s election.

German Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund and Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) team Alba Berlin have launched a collaboration agreement.

The bid teams from Almaty and Beijing have made their final cases for selection as the destination for the 2022 winter Olympic Games, as the rocky road towards the assignment of the host city rights comes to an end tomorrow (Friday).

Whether it is hosting cycling’s Grand Depart in the streets of Utrecht or the world’s best beach volleyball players on a floating court in The Hague, The Netherlands is marketing itself as one of the most nimble and creative sports industries on the European continent. Rachael Church, major events consultant at SportBusiness Intelligence, takes a closer look at the major events industry in the compact nation and finds out more about Brand Holland.

With four other strong bids already on the table, Elisha Chauhan asks whether Budapest’s campaign is strong enough to host the 2024 Olympics.

Some sports properties will travel miles away from home in order to benefit from non-sports revenues, as recently seen with Wasps, the Aviva Premiership Rugby Union club, which last year made the move to the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England, 90 miles from its previous base.

Many stadiums can lay claim to have a special place in the heart of a community, but few are as inextricably linked with the history, culture and identity of an entire nation as Dublin’s Croke Park.

Few sports have such a pressing need to maximise the non-event day use of assets as British racing, and few have been as active.

Whether it be weddings on the hallowed turf of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, or afternoon tea in Lord’s Long Room, venue operators are looking for ever more creative ways to turn their sporting structures into fully operational commercial venues, open for business 365 days a year. Kevin Roberts provides a definitive guide to turning your white elephant into a home-for-all-occasions, as he finds out the most effective methods and common pitfalls of making your sports stadia about more than just sport.

Owen Evans looked at what recently re-elected president Jordi Bartomeu needs to do to improve Brand Barca in the next six years.