Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, was given the Flambeau D'Or award by Panathlon International for his “outstanding contribution to the Olympic Movement and advancing the cultural role of sport”. The ceremony took place in Rome at the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) training center on last Friday.

The 2nd She Runs program was organized last week by the International School Sport Federation (ISF) on the streets of Brussels. Around 500 girls, aged 13-18, from more than 20 countries around the world took part in this event.

On Wednesday, 7 September 2022, World Fair Play Day was held all around the World, including in Brussels with a ceremonial program. World Fair Play Day is an initiative of the sporting world that aims to promote Fair Play and the ethical values of sport. 

The M.A. Olympic Studies of German Sport University Cologne /Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln/ has been honoured with the Special Fair Play Promotion Diploma for the exemplary promotion of Olympic Values.

In the middle of August the media was full with the news from the multisport European Championships in Munich, where 9 different sports were organized parallel. Such a highlighted multisport event cannot go by without some kind of Fair Play act, and this year was no exception, too.