Olympic IT Sponsorship Extended
Olympic TOP Sponsor Atos extended its information technology contract with the IOC.
Atos’ new contract will run through the 2024 Olympics. The French IT company has been providing services for the IOC since 1989.
The firm said it won the contract after the IOC completed a "competitive bidding process."
"The IOC wanted a company that can best serve the ideals and interests of the Olympic Movement, both from an economic standpoint and by embracing new technologies to ensure the smooth and efficient organization of the Olympic Games," Atos said in a statement.
Atos’ TOP Sponsorship agreement with the IOC is set to expire after the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Champions Hockey League Reformed
The International Ice Hockey Federation announced the restart of the Champions Hockey League.
Billed as Europe’s "new premier club competition," the leaguewill start in August 2014 and feature 40 premier European ice hockey clubs.
26 clubs from Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden have already announced participation with the competition format and wild-card teams being announced at the European Trophy Final on December 20 in Berlin.
"This is a big day for hockey in Europe," IIHF vice president Kale Kummola said in a statement.
"When we gathered all stakeholders for the Hockey Forum in Barcelona in June 2012, we had hopes that this would be a start for something new, but I think that few of us there really thought that, one and a half years later, we would announce that we have new European league."
Oldest Finnish Medalist Dies
Eero Kolehmainen, the oldest Finn to have won an Olympic medal died Saturday at the age of 95.
Kolehmainen won a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo in the 50km Nordic race. It was his only Olympic Medal.
Written byAaron Bauer.
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