(ATR) A first for Indonesian sport gives organizers confidence the Asian Games will be accessible for the public.
INASGOC, the organizing committee for the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia this August, partnered with KiosTix to sell over 1 million tickets for the event.
Typically, event organizers are responsible for sales at Indonesian sporting events, often leaving no option for fans to purchase tickets in advance. KiosTix primarily handles sales for concerts and exhibitions.
"This is the first time that the organizers of an international sports event in Indonesia have partnered with an Indonesian ticket company," said Erick Thohir, INASGOC president, at a press conference in Jakarta on Monday.
The Asian Games will take place August 18-September 2 in Palembang and Jakarta. Tickets will begin at 30,000 Rupiah (2 USD) and the average price will be around 100,000 Rupiah (7 USD). An online sales service for international customers will also be made available.
Tickets go on sale at the end of June.
Free Television Coverage for Team Handball in Scandinavia
The European Handball Federation signed a long-term agreement with Nordic Entertainment Group to broadcast all team competitions featuring Denmark, Norway, Sweden, or Finland.
Infront and Perform Group, who signed a 10-year deal with EHF starting in 2020, brokered the deal.
The agreement includes three men’s and women’s EHF EURO events and men’s and women’s Beach Handball EURO events, including qualification matches. Club competitions are also part of the deal.
EHF EURO matches and main club competitions involving these countries will be broadcast live for free, including away qualifying matches.
Nordic Entertainment Group will air other matches not involving national teams or clubs from these countries.
"Handball is immensely popular across Scandinavia and we are delighted to have secured a deal with NENT Group that guarantees handball fans in the region not only free-to-air coverage but also a comprehensive package of both club and national team competitions,"Martin Hausleitner, EHF secretary general, said in a statement.
IFSC Issue Japan Rights Renewal
Starting next year, the International Federation of Sport Climbing plans on packaging sponsorship and mediatogether to increase total value in the Japanese market.
Their current deal with Synca Creations is in its final year. Hakuhodo DY is the current marketing sponsor for IFSC’s Japanese member association.
The Japanese market for sports climbing has grown dramatically in recent years.
"The growing awareness of sport climbing is visible in a booming use of values, codes, athletes and images of our amazing sport by more and more international brands, all around the world, " Marco Scolaris, president of IFSC, said in a statement. "The market and key commercial actors are recognizing the assets of sport climbing and this interest has catapulted the sport into the arena of main stream sports, and a world full of possibilities."
Written by Jeffrey Farek
For general comments or questions,click here.
25 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics is AroundTheRings.com, for subscribers only.
Recent Articles
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
