Industry Shorts: Skateboard GB, R&a, Fifa, Iaaf…
Skateboard GB has signed an agreement with the British Roller Sports Federation (BRSF) that will allow the organisation to access UK Sport Aspiration Funding to support British skateboarders attempting to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The new Memorandum of Understanding follows a complicated international dispute over the governance of the sport, which arose after skateboard was added to the programme for the 2020 Games.
The move is in line with a recent directive from World Skate, the international federation for roller sports, which insisted that the skateboarding governing bodies in the UK became members of the British Roller Sports Federation.
Both parties have worked with UK sport to define their relationship in the new agreement, which unlocks the allocated funding for the sport and confirms Skateboard GB’s ongoing status as the recognised skateboarding governing body in the UK.
The R&A has confirmed Royal Liverpool Golf Club as the venue for the Open Championship in 2022.
The 151st edition of the world’s oldest golf tournament will make its 13th visit to the course from 10th-17th July.
Royal Liverpool returned to the Open rota after a 39-year gap in 2006.
FIFA has announced the launch of the eNations Cup, which will take place as an invite-only exhibition event in April, involving 16 national teams drawn from all of the FIFA Confederations.
Participating FIFA member associations will each be invited to host national eFootball championships to select their national team.
As one of eight majors in the EA Sports Fifa 19 Global Series, the event will offer up to 1,500 Global Series points, in addition to prize money.
The IAAF has launched a new official world ranking system following a 10-month consultation with stakeholders throughout the sport.
The new system is designed to provide a more effective way of identifying the top athletes in each discipline by rewarding consistency and competition among the world’s best.
Athletes’ positions will be based upon the points they score, determined by their performance and place, and the importance of the competition in which those results are achieved to the IAAF global calendar.
The IAAF hopes the new rankings will help “bring clarity to the competition structure from national through to global events,” and “[incentivise] the top athletes to support the best competitions.”
