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Dan Palmer: Beijing sliding boost worth trumpeting about after past white elephants

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With all of the talk of Kamila Valieva, human rights abuses and closed looped systems, you can be forgiven if you watched Beijing 2022 and missed the important legacy news surrounding the Yanqing National Sliding Centre.

well as increasing calls for green initiatives to take centre stage amid a world more acutely aware of climate




Accor named as sponsor for 2022 Men's World Floorball Championship

  • Non-Olympic Sports

French-based hotel operator Accor has sponsored this year's Men's World Floorball Championship, scheduled to be held in Zürich and Winterthur in November.

With our Green Goal, we are committing to reducing the CO2 emissions and to carrying out a climate neutral

As part of its Green Goal, the IFF is aiming for this year's competition to become its first climate-neutral


Lionel Kambeitz: Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics paves the way for a carbon neutral future

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There was something special about the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing beyond the dazzling grit and skill of three thousand athletes from all over the world, something with the potential to change the world we know today - it was the first Winter Olympics to be carbon neutral.

pioneers of the clean energy market, which we entered 18 years ago, we started exploring solutions to climate


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Longjing tea, which is regarded as one of the best in China ©Getty ImagesFertile soil, pure water and the climate


Swedish Olympic Committee to stage sport and sustainability webinars

  • EOC

The Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) is set to host a series of seven webinars on the theme of sport and sustainability on the Sweden Arena website from February 15 to 18.

players to develop the sport.The remaining seminars will explore sport's impact on the environment, climate


Philip Barker: A visitor from 2008 returns to Beijing

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From the window of our hotel, it is just possible to see the Olympic Cauldron which was so memorably lit by the celebrated Chinese gymnast Li Ning at the Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony.

Games.That the temperature was about thirty degrees colder was perhaps also a reflection of the political climate


Barcelona hosting 2030 Winter Olympics could net region €1 billion, claims Catalan official

  • 2030 Olympics

Catalan Government official Ricardo Font has claimed that a 2030 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games staged in Barcelona and the Pyrenees could generate a profit of more than €1 billion (£843 million/$1.1 billion) for the region.

 "It makes no sense to host a Winter Olympics in a place where, as climate change goes on, the snow

 "In the middle of climate and energy crises and drought, it makes no sense to make artificial snow



City of Paris launches bienVenue 2024 to showcase venues before Olympics

  • Paris 2024

The City of Paris has launched the "bienVenue 2024" platform to showcase sites including theatres, museums, parks, hotels and restaurants in the French capital in the build-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in two years' time.

capital", including a clean public transport system and a zero-plastic strategy.Paris 2024 aims to run a "climate


World Sailing appoints Paralympic medallist Rickham as head of sustainability

  • Sailing

World Sailing has announced they have appointed Britain's Paralympic bronze medallist and sustainability expert Alexandra Rickham as head of sustainability.

Briton, a bronze medallist in the mixed two person SKUD18 at London 2012, speaks out on accelerating climate

action through regular appearances on The Sport Ecology Group’s Climate Champions and GreenSports podcasts

participation, gender equality, water quality, navigating wildlife and biodiversity, and taking action against climate

appointment of Rickham is another move by World Sailing to increase their commitment towards fighting the climate

As a founder of the UN’s sports for Climate Action Framework, World Sailing recently joined the International



Brewing company Fat Tire calls for IOC sponsors to have climate change plan

  • Beijing 2022

Colorado, has called for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to require its sponsors to have a climate

In its partnership with climate change non-governmental organisation Protect Our Winters, it promoted

The IOC has shown leadership in adopting its own climate action plan, and now it's time to use their

influence to push big companies to do the same by requiring climate leadership from all future sponsors

do, it might just inspire other organisations who have sway with big businesses to adopt their own climate


California sending more Olympians to Beijing 2022 than any other US state

  • Los Angeles 2028

California, due to host the 2028 Olympic Games in biggest city Los Angeles, is sending more athletes to Beijing 2022 than any other state in the United States.

people live in California and it is the most populous state in the US.Although much of California has a climate