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VISTA 2021 Goes Virtual - Conferences & Conventions 05/27/21 (ATR) The 10th edition of the VISTA Conference will be held virtually over six days between November 18 and December 16, 2021. The last VISTA conference was in Amsterdam in 2019. (IPC) The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said the conference, designed to provide a platform for sport scientists and researchers to hear from and have dialogue with experts in the field of sport for athletes with impairments, will be a partnership with six leading universities. VISTA 2021 will be led by KU Leuven, Belgium; University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; School of Kinesiology; Western University, Canada; University of Pittsburgh, USA; and Yonsei University, South Korea. ....
IFs Praised for Leading the Way in Response to Pandemic as IF Forum 2021 Hears Calls for Solidarity in Sport 05/25/21 LAUSANNE, Switzerland – International Sports Federations were praised this morning for setting an inspirational example over the past year, as leaders at the International Federation (IF) Forum 2021 underlined the importance of solidarity across the global sports movement. In the Opening Address at the fully virtual event today (25 May) International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach reserved special praise for IFs in a timely update on preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. He thanked sport’s global governing bodies for “leading the way” in having “demonstrated that sports competitions can be organised safely”, even before the international roll-out of vaccination programmes. ....
Attention turns to SportAccord in Ekaterinburg as Virtual Launch Celebration wraps up IF Forum 2021 05/25/21 LAUSANNE, Switzerland – A Virtual Launch Celebration provided an exciting glimpse of what to expect at the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2021 in Ekaterinburg at the end of today’s International Federation (IF) Forum 2021. With less than six months to go until SportAccord 2021 takes place from 7-12 November, those who had already signed up as delegates, exhibitors or partners for sport’s most important global gathering were able to join International Sport Federations worldwide by tuning in to the event, which wrapped up an engaging IF Forum 2021 that was held virtually via the City of Lausanne in the Canton of Vaud. ....
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