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No 'Preaching to the Converted' at Play the Game 2017
Play the Game Founder Jens Sejer Andersen tells Around the Rings the diversity of viewpoints of the biennial conference is its greatest strength.
"I think one of our main assets has always been we are multi-professional, multi-sectoral conference where no one can preach to the converted or speak to colleagues in the bubble of the everyday professional focus," Andersen says on the final day of the four-day program.
"You have to listen to people from other walks of life with other kinds of experiences."
Play the Game 2017 in Eindhoven, Netherlands tackled a bevy of the biggest challenges facing the international sports movement, including good governance, the fight against corruption, anti-doping reforms and sexual abuse, among others.
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IPC Presence at the World Adaptive Surfing Championship
The 2017 Stance ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championship opened on Thursday with a crowd that included International Paralympic Committee Vice President Duane Kale.
The third annual edition of the event is the first to take place since the International Surfing Association received recognition from the IPC in July. Earlier this month, the ISA officially submitted its "declaration of intent" to the IPC as it works to get adaptive surfing, also called para surfing, into the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
"It was a great opportunity having been in the area to come and actually see the meet," Kale told Around the Rings.
The 50-year-old from New Zealand was already in southern California, having joined IPC President Andrew Parsons earlier this week to tour the venues that will be used in the 2028 Paralympic Games.
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Karate Heads to Changes in Tokyo
World Karate Federation President AntonioEspinós says the 2018 World Championships in Madrid will mark "a before and an after" for the sport.
"The Madrid World Championships will be undoubtedly one of the events most important for karate before our debut in the Olympic Games in Tokyo,"Espinós tells Around the Rings.
"The World Championships are tournaments conferring more points when setting up the ranking. Taking into account that the ranking will be the most decisive factor in the classification for the Olympics, competitors who want to be in Tokyo 2020 will be in Madrid 2018 because it is an essential appointment to be able to fulfill their Olympic dream".
Espinós, who has been WKF president since 1998 and was re-elected to a six-year term in October 2016, added that the qualification process is still being finalized and is expected to be revealed "at the beginning of the next year".
He believes the Madrid event, which will be held from Nov. 6 to 11, is a turning point in the sport.
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