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The 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris are a big step forward for many sports and among those looking forward to the spotlight is men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball after its Olympic debut in 2021 in Tokyo was with no fans in attendance. The 3×3 competition in Paris will take place in a festival-type atmosphere […]
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FIBA has announced that Hangzhou, China, will host the fifth edition of the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Final on September 7–8. This will be the first time China has hosted the women’s final. The country will also be the site for three other women’s events this summer in Chengdu from June 21–22, Wuhan from June […]
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The FIBA 3×3 season will be collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld with 3×3 players from different teams and countries. “We are delighted to partner with Karl Lagerfeld for this exclusive collaboration, which will engage new audiences in 3×3 basketball,” said Alex Sanchez, FIBX 3×3 managing director. “Together, we share a commitment to innovation and to embrace […]
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The FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series has announced a 20-event season for 2024, which will tip-off in Springfield, Massachusetts — home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame — on April 23–24, marking the first Women’s Series in the United States since the launch of the competition in 2019. There is more than $1.4 million […]
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The FIBA 3×3 World Tour has revealed its 2024 schedule with 15 events around the globe including Edmonton, its lone North American stop, as the final pre-Olympic event. The FIBA 3×3 World Tour will visit four continents starting with the opener from April 27-28 in Utsunomiya, Japan, the third consecutive year the destination has hosted […]
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The Peace and Friendship Stadium in Piraeus has been named as the FIBA Women’s EuroBasket 2025 venue in Greece and will host the championship game on June 28, 2025 at the culmination of the tournament that will be co-hosted by four nations. The 11,847-seat Peace and Friendship Stadium will host one of the four groups […]
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, will be one of the four sites for Olympic Qualifying Tournaments organized by FIBA, the international federation’s executive committee confirmed this week. The other tournaments will be played from July 2–7, 2024, in the cities of Piraeus, Greece; Riga, Latvia, and Valencia, Spain. Puerto Rico will host Mexico, Cote D’Ivoire, Lithuania, […]
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Following the recent 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup, FIBA has announced its commissions and working groups for the 2023–2027 term following the first meeting of the new Central Board. For the first time, three out of seven FIBA Commissions are chaired by a woman and in two of the other four Commissions, the deputy chair […]
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The second season of eFIBA, the official NBA 2K24 tournament organized by the international federation for basketball, will have 61 nations participating in a series of events. Beginning October 3, national federations across seven regional areas will battle in the Pro-Am game mode to secure a spot in the inaugural in-person eFIBA World Finals at […]
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Sheikh Saud Ali Al Thani has been elected FIBA president along with new members of the central board for the upcoming 2023-2027 cycle during the FIBA Congress in Manila ahead of the 2023 World Cup. Al Thani has been FIBA Vice President for the previous cycle, which began in 2019, and president of FIBA Asia […]
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.@DelawareTourism has announced it will reopen the Sports Tourism Capital Investment Fund for applications on August 1, 2024, with a deadline of September 13. The fund provides financial support to sports facilities that hold events throughout the year.
The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors in Virginia have announced the creation of the Pulaski County Sports Tourism & Entertainment Authority. The new division will manage the county’s sports tourism and entertainment facilities and assets.
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Doping, historically linked to the Olympic Summer Games for decades, is not going away as a topic of discussion at #Paris2024 as the dispute between U.S. and world doping officials has exploded into public view this week.
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