Squash will promote its bid for inclusion in the 2016 Olympics with its World Squash Day on Saturday. (Getty Images)Squash will promote its bid for inclusion in the 2016 Summer Olympics with a worldwide festival of Olympic-themed events on Saturday.
Chicago, Madrid, Rio De Janiero and Tokyo, the four candidate cities bidding for the 2016 Olympics, will be among the event sites for Squash 2016 Day.
A couple of 24-hour squad marathons will be held in Punta Arenas, Chile and County Tipperary, Ireland, while a 100-a-side Battle of the Border match, featuring squash stars Jonathan Power, John White and Natalie Granger, will be held in Connecticut.
A number of other U.S. cities will host events, including New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, St. Louis, Dallas and Boston.
London is also hosting events, while New Zealand, South Africa, India and Malaysia are the other participating nations.
For more information, visit www.worldsquashday.com.
IBAF Hosting Event at Baseball Game
The International Baseball Federation continues its effort to grow the game worldwide and help promote its bid for reinstatement in the Olympics at the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight.
The IBAF is hosting embassy officials IBAF President Harvey Schiller will be in attendance at a special event to promote the global growth of baseball at the Washington Nationals MLB game on Wednesday. (Getty Images) from over 100 countries at the game as part of its effort to continue the growth of the game around the world.
IBAF President Harvey Schiller tells Around the Rings the event is more about promoting baseball worldwide than it is about specifically promoting the sport’s Olympic bid.
“What we’re doing is promoting the growth of baseball around the world, using representatives from different countries,” Schiller said. “These are not IOC members; these are all embassy representatives of their countries. We’re here to grow the game of baseball globally.
“We’re going to talk to them about baseball as a global sport and how we can grow the sport in their countries – how the game can be developed through children three and four years old and up. It’s a matter of selling the game to them.”
Schiller will be joined by Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Don Fehr and former players Stan Javier, Bobby Bonilla, B.J. Surhoff and Steve Rogers.
Olympic Gymnast Johnson Wins Dancing With the Stars
Olympic gymnast Shawn Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson and partner Mark Ballas were declared the winners of "Dancing With the Stars." (Getty Images)Johnson was declared the winner of "Dancing With the Stars" during the season finale of the popular ABC show on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old Johnson, along with partner Mark Ballas, edged out Gilles Marini for the title to earn the mirrorball trophy.
“This has been the best experience ever,” Johnson is quoted as saying. “I’ve grown so much.”
Johnson was among a number of celebrities participating in this season’s show. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, rodeo champion Ty Murray, comedian Steve-O, singer Belinda Carlisle, rapper Lil Kim and former football star Lawrence Taylor were among the competitors. Others included country singer Chuck Wicks, reality TV star Holly Madison and actors David Alan Grier and Denise Richards.
Qatar Withdraws from Hosting FIVB Event
Qatar has withdrawn from hosting the 2009 FIVB world men’s club volleyball championship Nov. 1-9, resulting in the cancellation of the event for this year.
Qatar Volleyball Association technical director Hussein Imam Ali told the Gulf Times that the Middle Eastern country has abandoned its rights to host the event due to the effects of the global economic downturn.
“We conveyed to [the FIVB] the difficulties in raising funds to meet the budget for the event, due to the current global financial turbulence,” Ali said.
“We also made clear that the income that we would be generating from selling FIVB television and marketing rights for the event was much lower than the cost of production and hence the request for cancellation.”
The withdrawal of Qatar is a setback for the FIVB in its attempts to revive the event, which was discontinued in 2002 due to organizational and financial difficulties.
However, the federation will proceed with plans to accept bids for the 2010 tournament at the end of the year.
Briefs…
...WinSport Canada will hold a sponsorship summit in Calgary to discuss how athletes can secure funds and maintain relations with corporate sponsors before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The summit will cover how to solve funding issues and get sponsors to fund Canadian athletes.
…Melbourne, Australia will serve as the host to the first event of the annual ISAF Sailing World Cup series through 2011. Melbourne will open the 2009-10 World Cup season at Sandringham Yacht Club Dec. 14-19.
Written by Greg Oshust
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