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Paris je t’aime, the city’s tourism bureau, released its preliminary report on Olympic Summer Games impact saying the United States was the leading international market during the competition. The report says the United States had 230,000 tourists visit Paris during the Games, nearly double the second-leading country in Germany (130,000). The United Kingdom was third […]
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SportsTravel was on location from the Olympic Summer Games focusing not only on the competition but giving readers a chance to learn more about what’s going on behind the scenes. Here is a comprehensive guide with facts about the world’s most prestigious sporting event with information, schedules and links to our content. You can always […]
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Yes, the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games are in Paris and yes, competition begins in less than a week and yes, there will be plenty of focus on the present. Yet within the U.S. Olympic movement, there is also a sense that this is just the preamble. Paris is a chance to re-light the […]
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With the Olympic movement at an inflection point in the minds of many experts, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris were vital for the International Olympic Committee to prove to the world that it is still relevant and attractive for major worldwide cities to have an interest in hosting. Based on SportsTravel’s experience in Paris […]
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Throughout SportsTravel‘s time in Paris for the Olympic Summer Games, we have reported on behind-the-scenes observations about how the event is organized. For previous takes: Eiffel Tower Shines Above All Olympic Venues Being the Scenes at the Summer Games Here is our final installment of what we saw, heard and felt during a memorable Olympic […]
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PARIS — The last time I had the chance to interview USA Swimming President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Hinchey in person, it was during eight hours of quarantine together at Narita Airport in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games. Three years after those pandemic-era Games, I had the opportunity to catch up with […]
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The venues that host events throughout the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris have gotten so much attention — one perhaps that may not be getting as much attention is how the millions of people who bought tickets have been getting there. The Paris Metro has over 300 lines and is second busiest metro system […]
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Five-time U.S. Olympian Allyson Felix, who made Olympic history by winning 11 medals, has been elected to the IOC Athletes’ Commission. Felix will serve an eight-year term and be confirmed as member of the International Olympic Committee at the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Games in Paris on August 11. Felix stepped away from athletics […]
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Future Olympic hosts for both Summer and Winter Games are being taken along the inner workings of the Paris 2024 committee as part of the IOC’s Information, Knowledge and Games Learning program. More than 400 officials from the Organizing Committees for Milano Cortina 2026, Dakar 2026 Youth Games, LA28 and Brisbane 2032, plus representatives of […]
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PARIS — Max Siegel cut a relaxed figure on the concourse at the Stade de France in the early evening on Sunday, less than 90 minutes before that night’s session of athletics at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. This is the time every four years that USA Track & Field gets more exposure than ever. […]
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Kentucky Sports Alliance has announced it has completed a major rebrand. The consortium of 15 Kentucky tourism-based organizations has joined under one umbrella to bring sporting events to the Bluegrass State.
Jamie Corr has been named the managing director at Burson Sports, a specialist sports practice based in Lausanne, succeeding Lars Haue-Pedersen, who is stepping down after more than 20 years of leading the agency.
The Sports Facilities Companies has acquired Firland Management as part of launching a new ice division, which includes a partnership with Central Park Conservancy which assumes the management of the Harlem Meer Center in New York City.
As the @NCAA enters the final month of its deliberation on which cities will be future hosts for hundreds of events across all three divisions, destinations around the country anxiously await news of the status of their bids.
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