Karate

                          STAGIUL NATIONAL DE KARATE SHITO-RYU SI KOBUDO

                          

       WKF President Mr. Antonio Espinós and JKF President Mr. Takashi Sasagawa met JOC President and Tokyo 2020 Vice-president Mr. Tsunekazu Takeda on September 1, 2014 in Tokyo.  Mr. Shigeo Kurihara (JKF Vice-president) and Mr. Toshihisa Nagura (WKF EC member) also attended the meeting.

    It was an extremely active and meaningful meeting, exchanging opinions in a friendly atmosphere, looking towards the Tokyo Olympics 2020.  It was a historic meeting for WKF.

    During the meeting, WKF President Mr. Espinos and JKF President Mr. Sasagawa explained that Karate is ready to be in the Olympics and that they guarantee a high level of competition at the Olympics. Considering there is no need for new facilities, the ease of adjusting to the number of participating competitors, and the know-how of WKF and JKF in organising a world-level championship, they stressed the symbolic meaning of karate competition, a global sport originated in Japan, during the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

SportAccord set to launch the biggest ever World Mind Games Online Tournament

    The wait is almost over for online gaming enthusiasts! SportAccord begins the countdown to the launch of the 4^th edition of the World Mind Games Online Tournament on the 15^th of September. The tournament, featuring bridge, chess and go, is being organized by SportAccord in partnership with RSportz, the community-based global sports network and online platforms BridgeBase Online, Chess.com and Pandanet.

    The online tournament also marks the countdown to the 4th SportAccord World Mind Games to be held in Beijing from December 11-17 this year. Last year’s online tournament attracted over 700,000 players from all across the globe and SportAccord expects to comfortably attract a higher number of participants through the tournament online portal, www.onlinewmg.com. The portal will be the gateway for participants and enthusiasts for game rules, registration and all further information surrounding the SportAccord 2014 World Mind Games Online Tournament.

SportAccord President Clarifies plans of United World Championships 

  SportAccord president, Marius Vizer has taken note of an article in Around the Rings that has mis-quoted him regarding SportAccord’s plans to organize a United World Championships.

 During a press conference at the World Judo Championships in Chelyabinsk in Russia, responding to a question from an Around the Rings representative, on what the plans for a United World Championship may be, Mr. Vizer had stated, “If one day the member federations of SportAccord would like to see the creation of a United World Championship as a requirement and an opportunity, while at the same time all international federations would support such an idea unanimously, we can discuss the concept and sculpt it into an event that would be neither a competitor to nor against the Olympic Games.”

Additionally, Mr. Vizer expressed during the Olympic Summit that the target of SportAccord is to develope the multi-sport events organised under its umbrella (the World Combat Games, the World Mind Games, the World Urban Games and the World Beach Games).