Virtus confirms appointment of academy manager Saturday, 30 January 2021
Virtus has announced the appointment of Debbie van Biesen as the organisation’s academy manager, a new initiative to develop a global hub of research, training and education.
The organisation said Van Biesen will join after seven years of full-time postdoctoral research at KU Leuven in Belgium.
She will divide her time across both organisations, leveraging on international and evidenced-based knowledge of elite athletes with intellectual disability and autism.
Van Biesen has published more than 25 peer-reviewed scientific articles in recognised journals in her field. I am excited to join Virtus and to apply my life’s work to generate advancements in the pursuit of greater access and development of sports pathways for athletes with an intellectual impairment, Van Biesen said.
IFSC secures .sport domains 12/14/20
The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) and the Global Association of International Sports Federation (GAISF) are pleased to announce that the IFSC has secured a series of web domains using the .sport internet extension.
The domain is operated by GAISF and already has over 1 000 organisations registered to use the dedicated .sport domain. GAISF’s ownership protects the integrity of the extension, ensuring that only fully qualified organisations governing bodies, organisations, clubs and businesses can use it. Furthermore, to ensure that domain names ending in .sport are allocated to parties whose role matches the expectations for the respective domain name, every registration has to go through a validation process.