SportsTravel Magazine

With the Olympic movement at an inflection point in the minds of many experts, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris has been a vital one for the International Olympic Committee to prove to the world that it is still relevant and has an event that is attractive for major worldwide cities to have an interest in hosting. From the atmosphere to the food and transportation, here is a mid-Games assessment of how organizers fared and what the experience has been like on the ground.

The ballot is set for our SportsTravel Awards, and now it's time to vote! The full ballot can be found at: https://lnkd.in/eq8-3qQ. Voting is open through August 19. The nominees for Best Professional Sports Event are: • 2023 Major League Soccer/Liga MX Leagues Cup (Various Sites) • 2024 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Games (San Juan, Discover Puerto Rico) • 2024 Major League Fishing General Tire Heavy Hitters (Experience Kissimmee, Florida) • 2024 National Football League (NFL) Draft (Visit Detroit, Michigan) • 2024 Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation's Serie del Caribe (Miami, Florida) • 2024 Summer X Games (Visit Ventura, California) Winners will be announced at the Teams Conference & Expo in Anaheim September 23–26. Plan to be with us to celebrate excellence in sports events! More information can be found at www.teamsconference.com.

The Lansing Sports Commission has named Kendall Nicole Boelman its new sports coordinator. Boelman joined the LSC team in February 2024 as a sports intern and is currently a senior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in marketing with a minor in sports business management at Michigan State University.

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Max Siegel cut a relaxed figure on the concourse at the Stade de France in the early evening on Sunday when talking with reporters. One can only wonder what it was like to watch one of USA Track & Field’s biggest superstars, Noah Lyles, win a dramatic men’s 100-meter dash by 0.005 seconds, becoming the first U.S. man to win the event in 20 years.

Throughout a big win over France in women’s water polo action on Friday at the Aquatic Centre in the 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the United States was cheered on by a display of star power. Times are good for USA Water Polo, which has both the men's and women's teams in medal round play in Paris and at the same time it was running one of its biggest events of the year back home in the USA Water Polo National Junior Olympics.

There are things the IOC would like you to believe about the Olympic Games that are not true — they are not harbingers of a better world with peace and not war. They are not a place where politics does not matter. They are not a place where there is an equal playing field among athletes. But there is one thing the IOC would like to promote about the Games that resonates after the first half of the Games; it is, more than likely, the greatest single gathering of athletes in the world.

Explore Asheville and the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority have announced Jay Curwen as director of sports, film and entertainment effective August 12. Curwen, an Asheville native and sales executive, has experience in outdoor recreation, event management and film production.

The ballot is set for our SportsTravel Awards, and now it's time to vote! The full ballot can be found at: https://lnkd.in/eq8-3qQ. Voting is open through August 19. The nominees for Best Collegiate Sports Event are: • 2023 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, City of Salem, Virginia • 2023 Volleyball Day in Nebraska, Visit Lincoln, Nebraska • 2024 National Collegiate Roller Hockey Championships, City of Auburn, Maine (Official) • 2024 NCAA Division II National Championships Festival, Visit Orlando, Florida • 2024 NCAA Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Championships, Visit Fort Worth, Texas • 2024 NJCAA Track & Field Division I National Championships, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana Winners will be announced at the TEAMS Conference & Expo in Anaheim September 23–26. Plan to be with us to celebrate excellence in sports events! More information can be found at www.teamsconference.com.

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