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While the entire sports-event industry has attempted to navigate the recent weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and plan for some difficult weeks ahead, Running USA has been helping its members work their way through the difficult decisions about whether their events should be canceled or rescheduled. In this episode, Running USA CEO Rich Harshbarger talks […]
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The Los Angeles Marathon will have Turkish Airlines as its official airline sponsor during the 35th annual race on March 8. It is the second year that the marathon will partner with Turkish Airlines. Eight elite runners from Africa, six from Kenya and two from Ethiopia will be flown in by Turkish Airlines as part […]
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SportsTravel announced the winners of the 2019 SportsTravel Awards during the TEAMS ’19 Conference & Expo in Anaheim on November 13. TEAMS: Travel, Events And Management in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers and travel planners from the sports industry. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center, the revamped awards ceremony was emceed […]
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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon Series will add a new event to its schedule for the first time in five years in 2020, bringing a half-marathon and 5-kilometer run to Atlantic City, New Jersey. The weekend of activities for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Atlantic City Half Marathon & 5K will be May 15–16, 2020, with […]
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The international track-and-field federation, IAAF, has announced a rebrand to World Athletics in an effort to create a modern, more creative and positive face for the sport. In a release, the federation said the new brand and logo “makes the sport more accessible to a wider audience while giving the global governing body the opportunity […]
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The IAAF recently held its 2019 Global Running Conference in Lanzhou, China, a gathering of more than 400 road racing event organizers and running industry stakeholders to discuss the state of running and trends to watch. The two-day forum organized by the international track-and-field federation was timed around the Lanzhou International Marathon, an event that […]
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At SportsTravel, we’re always excited to visit destinations and attend events and conferences to discuss the state of sports-related travel and tourism. Some of those trips to share and learn are modest in scale and some allow us to explore more distant markets. Our most recent trip was definitely one of the latter. Indeed, I […]
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SON Events in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Projects has announced the expansion of the 2019 DC Wonder Woman Run Series, which will be held in as many as 10 cities across the United States and Canada. Registrants will don Wonder Woman attire as they participate in 5K and 10K runs as well as a new option for a […]
Continue ReadingTwo explosions were reported near the finish line of the Boston Marathon about three hours after the winners of the race had crossed the finish line. Three deaths and…
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