Frankfurt am Main (ots) – Zur Diskussion über Verdienstmöglichkeiten deutscher Spitzensportler weist die Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe auf die von ihr vor zwei Jahren erhobenen, cialis unverändert aktuellen Daten zur Lebenswirklichkeit von Top-Athleten hin. Deutschlands Spitzenathleten verdienen weniger als der Schnitt der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung, erbringen einen deutlich umfangreicheren Arbeitsaufwand und sind weder sozial noch für die Zeit nach der sportlichen Karriere hinreichend abgesichert.

“Wir haben vor zwei Jahren in einer repräsentativen wissenschaftlichen Umfrage der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln unter 4.000 von der Deutschen Sporthilfe geförderten Athleten ein Brutto-Monatseinkommen von 1.919 Euro und einen Nettoverbleib von 626 Euro im Monat ermittelt”, sagt Dr. Michael Ilgner, Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe. “Unsere Athleten haben im Schnitt eine 60-Stunden-Woche und sind darauf angewiesen, neben dem Sport für ihr schulisches und berufliches Fortkommen selber zu sorgen – und das bei einem durchschnittlichen Jahres-Brutto-Verdienst von gerade einmal knapp 24.000 Euro.” Daher denken 51,9 Prozent der Athleten während ihrer sportlichen Karriere gar ans Aufhören.

Um Athleten besser fördern zu können, ruft die Deutsche Sporthilfe in ihrer Spendenkampagne “Dein Name für Deutschland” die sportbegeisterte deutsche Bevölkerung dazu auf, deutsche Spitzensportler mit 3 Euro im Monat zu unterstützen. “Ohne Förderung kein Spitzensport und keine Erfolge”, lautet die Kurz-Formel von Michael Ilgner. Gleichzeitig sehen mehr als 90 Prozent deutsche Spitzensportler als Vorbilder für Leistung und zwei Drittel der Deutschen sind stolz auf die Erfolge deutscher Spitzensportler, wie eine weitere repräsentative wissenschaftliche Umfrage der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln aus dem vergangenen Jahr ergeben hat.

“Die olympischen Erfolgsprämien der Sporthilfe für Medaillengewinner und Platzierte bis Rang acht sind nur ein kleiner Baustein der Sporthilfe-Leistungen für Athleten. Vor allem die Elite-Programme, im Übrigen auch schon für Nachwuchsathleten, und dabei besonders ElitePlus, ermöglicht von unserem Partner PwC, stellen wichtige Grundlagen für unsere Spitzensportler dar,” sagt Ilgner. “Stolz sind wir auch auf unsere Module zur Unterstützung einer dualen Karriere.” Vom Deutsche Bank Sport-Stipendium profitieren alle Studenten unter den 3.800 geförderten Athleten, derzeit sind das rund 300.

Details aus der Athleten-Studie:

Der kalkulatorische Stundenlohn eines deutschen Athleten beträgt 7,38 Euro Brutto (zum Vergleich Brutto-Stundenlöhne im Baugewerbe: 15,49 Euro; Erziehung/Unterricht: 18,57 Euro; Bergbau: 18,72 Euro; Energie-/Wasser: 23,74 Euro; Kredit-/Versicherung: 23,75 Euro). Athleten kommen in Deutschland im Schnitt auf ein monatlich verfügbares Einkommen von 626 Euro. 52,6 Prozent der Athleten müssen davon noch Miete zahlen. Beträgt die Miete mehr als 267 Euro, liegen Athleten sogar auf Hartz IV-Niveau. 243 Euro im Monat werden allein für sportbezogene Ausgaben verbraucht. Spitzensportler tragen zudem höhere soziale Risiken: nur 28,7 Prozent zahlen freiwillig Renten- und Arbeitslosenbeiträge. Athleten sind im Schnitt 60 Stunden pro Woche tätig. 36,1 Prozent der Spitzensportler arbeiten neben dem Sport. Und sie sind 124 Tage pro Jahr in ihrer Sportart unterwegs, also nicht zu Hause.

Download der Studie “Sportökonomische Analyse der Lebenssituation von Spitzensportlern in Deutschland” unter http://ots.de/r50lz

Design company Aerolab and Formula One team Force India have settled their dispute at the High Court in London.

Aerolab had worked with Force India until 2009, when its ended the relationship over unpaid bills – with the company then starting work with the new Caterham team (then running under the Lotus name) just days later.

Force India claimed that the Lotus T127 had featured a large number of parts copied from Force India’s design and although the court stated that the intellectual property rights had been used as a ‘shortcut’ it threw out claims that there has been ‘systematic copying’ of the design and said Force India hadn’t come close to proving that to be the case.

Force India was ordered to pay outstanding fees of more than £700,000 to Aerolab, although Force India was handed just under £21,000 in compensation for use of its intellectual property.

Despite the High Court ruling, the Silverstone-based team now plans to refer the matter to the FIA for further consideration given that using the intellectual property of other teams is banned under F1 rules.

“The UK High Court judgement, in respect of the illegal copying, will now be referred for the consideration of Formula One’s governing body, the FIA,” the team said, “whilst the Italian criminal case against Mike Gascoyne, Tony Fernandes and Jean Claude Migeot remains ongoing.”

by Ismail Uddin

In einer Stellungnahme verkündete die Unternehmensgruppe Dr. Wolff, buy zu der die Marke Alpecina gehört, dass „das Unternehmen wie geplant den Alpecin Cycling Day in Bielefeld veranstalten wird.“ Weiterhin hieß es: „Das ist ganz im Sinne unserer Radsporttradition. Auch an der Zusammenarbeit mit Jan Ullrich wird sich nichts ändern. Wenn er nicht fahren darf, wird er nicht fahren. In soweit respektieren wir die Regeln des „Bund Deutscher Radfahrer”.

Auf jeden Fall wird Jan Ullrich am Alpecin Cycling Day als unser Gast dabei sein.

Der Internationale Sportsgerichtshof Cas hatte den Tour de France Sieger wegen Dopings schuldig gesprochen. Sein dritter Platz bei der Tour de France 2005 wurde ihm darüber hinaus aberkannt. Wie die Richter am Donnerstag in Lausanne mitteilten, sei eine Verstrickung Ullrichs in die Doping-Affäre um den spanischen Mediziner Eufemiano Fuentes bewiesen. Einen Antrag des Rad-Weltverbands UCI, Ullrich lebenslang für alle Aktivitäten im Radsport zu sperren, wies der Cas allerdings ab.

In einer Stellungnahme verkündete die Unternehmensgruppe Dr. Wolff, zu der die Marke Alpecina gehört, dass „das Unternehmen wie geplant den Alpecin Cycling Day in Bielefeld veranstalten wird.“ Weiterhin hieß es: „Das ist ganz im Sinne unserer Radsporttradition. Auch an der Zusammenarbeit mit Jan Ullrich wird sich nichts ändern. Wenn er nicht fahren darf, wird er nicht fahren. In soweit respektieren wir die Regeln des „Bund Deutscher Radfahrer”. 

Auf jeden Fall wird Jan Ullrich am Alpecin Cycling Day als unser Gast dabei sein.

Der Internationale Sportsgerichtshof Cas hatte den Tour de France Sieger wegen Dopings schuldig gesprochen. Sein dritter Platz bei der Tour de France 2005 wurde ihm darüber hinaus aberkannt. Wie die Richter am Donnerstag in Lausanne mitteilten, sei eine Verstrickung Ullrichs in die Doping-Affäre um den spanischen Mediziner Eufemiano Fuentes bewiesen. Einen Antrag des Rad-Weltverbands UCI, Ullrich lebenslang für alle Aktivitäten im Radsport zu sperren, wies der Cas allerdings ab.

London Olympics organizers have announced plans to re-open a ticket resale website on Tuesday for the Summer Games which has been out of commission for over a week but only for people who want to resell their tickets.

The ticket resale will allow people to return tickets, pilule resuming a resale effort that stalled earlier this month when the computer site crashed. London has suffered several computer glitches because demand for the July 27-Aug. 12 event has outstripped supply.

Ticket holders can offer their tickets for resale at face value until Feb. 3. Those who want to buy those Olympic tickets will have to wait until April.

Chris Townsend, the commercial director for the London 2012 organizers, said: “We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by the suspension of our ticketing resale platform. We made a commitment to our customers to give them a safe, secure and legal way of selling Olympic and Paralympic tickets which they are no longer able to use. We are delivering on that commitment.”

The decision to delay the resumption of purchases reflects a tacit acknowledgment by Olympics organizers that demand for tickets has exceeded the capability of their computers systems to address them.

London’s organizers have struggled with ticket sales — and the public anger that has emerged after several faltering efforts to make the sales fair and equitable. Frustration began from the start, with a complicated lottery system in which people blindly registered for tickets and handed over their credit card details before learning what tickets they were getting.

Two-thirds of ticket seekers failed to earn any in a first round that ended in April, with 22 million requests for 6.6 million available tickets. While some of those tickets will come back in resale, because the plans of the buyers have changed, organizers acknowledge that those numbers will be limited.

Another round was blighted by computer problems, even before the troubles with the resales earlier this month.

Global sports media and management company IMG Worldwide has struck a deal with advertising and marketing giant WPP to offer consumer products licensing and merchandising services.

In what the two companies have called a “multi-year agreement”, remedy WPP and IMG will establish a joint team, doctor sharing resources to provide licensing services to clients from WPP’s portfolio of agencies.

WPP chief executive officer Martin Sorrell stated: “More than ever, licensing is emerging as one of the new creative ways of developing brands and sales. It is a capability we see as increasingly important to our clients.

“We wanted to offer this important discipline in a global execution and with the market leader – that is IMG. In our view, there could be no better partner to help us achieve our goals in this area.”

George Pyne, president of IMG’s Sports and Entertainment Group, added: “WPP’s agencies have an impressive roster of clients coupled with the brand knowledge and consumer insights that come from years of experience working with them.

“We believe that our global execution capability and specialised expertise in the licensing business coupled with their deep-rooted knowledge and relationships with certain client companies can yield some very beneficial and successful partnerships. This is a really natural collaboration that was waiting to happen.”

Jeff Moorad, doctor chief executive of Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise San Diego Padres, has sold his US$21m stake in the team’s National League West rivals the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Moorad has transferred his minority share, believed to be around 8 per cent of the franchise, back into the hands of the team’s current partnership headed by managing general partner, Ken Kendrick.

Moorad has since confirmed to MLB.com that the deal is complete however, it wouldn’t necessarily accelerate his group’s takeover of the Padres. The Jeff Moorad Group currently own 49 per cent of the Petco Park-based franchise and have until March 2014 to complete the purchase from majority owner John Moores. Any deal will not be completed before the beginning of the 2011 season according to Moorad, though he added that he was considering buying Moores out early.

Regarding his potential takeover of the Padres, Moorad said: “We may very well accelerate it, but we’ve made no decision on when that will be.”

Moorad resigned as Diamondbacks chief executive in January 2009, enabling his group to pay US$100 million dollars for an initial 35 per cent stake in the Padres in March of that year. As per the contract signed, this investment increased to 49 per cent prior to the start of the 2010 MLB season. At the time of the initial transaction, the Padres were valued at US$530 million including debt.

For 34 seasons, Dave Niehaus narrated baseball in the Pacific Northwest.

The golden Midwestern tones and trademark “My Oh My” and “It will fly away” tags of Seattle’s first baseball icon were silenced Wednesday.

Niehaus, who called the first pitch in Seattle Mariners history and described more than three decades of occasionally good and mostly bad baseball, died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack at his suburban Bellevue home, according to his family. He was 75.

“He was one of the great broadcast voices of our generation, a true gentleman, and a credit to baseball,” commissioner Bud Selig said. “He was a good friend and I will miss him. But he will be sorely missed, not only in the Pacific Northwest, where he had called Mariners games since the club’s inception in 1977, but wherever the game is played.”

From Diego Segui’s first pitch on April 6, 1977, through the end of the 2010 season, Niehaus called 5,284 of the Mariners’ 5,385 games. He was the instructor for a region void of the major league game sans the Seattle Pilots’ one-year experiment in 1969. Adults and kids regularly tuned in on summer evenings to hear Niehaus try and put his best spin on what were among the worst teams in baseball during much of the club’s history.

The Munich 2018 Winter Olympic Games has announced that it is switching venues for the biathlon and cross-country skiing events, treat with Schwaiganger Ranch being named as the new site.

Munich 2018 CEO, Willy Bogner, said: “Our core concern is creating the best possible conditions for athletes. They must be able to experience the unique atmosphere of an Olympic Village, and at the same time have quick, easy access to the venues. The Schwaiganger Ranch complies with all the technical requirements from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Federations; it meets all the stringent environmental standards that we have imposed on ourselves, as well as offering a spectacularly beautiful natural setting with a wide range of slopes.

“With great skiing conditions and excellent transport infrastructure, it is the perfect place for winter sports fans to enjoy top class competition. In the Schwaiganger Ranch, we have found the ideal venue for our Nordic Centre.”

The Schwaiganger Ranch is also close to the Snow Village, which will host all the athletes competing in alpine and Nordic competitions.

Milwaukee in Wisconsin has been announced as the host of the USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships on Aug. 8-9, and 2015.

The event first came to Milwaukee and the city’s Lake Michigan lakeshore in 2013, ed hosting a record field of nearly 4, viagra 000 athletes at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Discovery World. The economic impact of the 2013 event was nearly $5.8 million, and the event was also voted the Best Urban Triathlon in the 2013 Triathlon Business International Triathletes’ Choice Awards. In 2014, the event sold out with a registered field of 5,700 athletes vying for national titles and world championships spots in the Olympic-distance and sprint events on Aug. 9-10.

“The City of Milwaukee and our local organizing committee have been superb hosts over the past two years while helping us welcome record fields for this marquee race,” said Rob Urbach, USA Triathlon CEO. “The participant feedback for the venue and the entire event experience has been overwhelmingly positive, so we are thrilled to announce the USA Triathlon Age Group National Championships — one of the sport’s largest events — will return to Milwaukee in 2015.”

“We are honored that USA Triathlon has decided to return to Milwaukee for an unprecedented third time in 2015,” said Paul Upchurch, President and CEO of VISIT Milwaukee. “Milwaukee’s lakefront has proved to be a spectacular venue for this event, which results in nearly $6 million in economic impact to the community. This amazing event would not be possible without the hard work of the entire community to ensure that the triathlon runs smoothly and the athletes have the best experience possible.”

The Aug. 8 Olympic-distance race features a 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike and 10-kilometer run, while the sprint race on Aug. 9 will showcase a 750m swim, 20k bike and 5k run. The races will serve as qualifiers for Team USA, the select group of amateur triathletes who represent the U.S. at International Triathlon Union World Championship events.

The 2015 Age Group Nationals in Milwaukee will serve as the sole event qualifier for Team USA for the 2016 ITU Age Group World Championships, with location for that event still to be determined.

Automobile manufacturer Hyundai has kicked off their marketing for the 2014 FIFA World Cup with a complete 360˚ integrated marketing platform.

Two all-new in-game 30-second spots featuring the redesigned 2015 Sonata will join digital, social, CRM, and retail executions engaging and inspiring audiences.  

The spots will air on ESPN and Univision as part of Hyundai’s exclusive whistle-to-whistle automotive advertising sponsorship of the World Cup series broadcasts on the networks.  2014 marks Hyundai’s fourth consecutive year since 2002 as the official vehicle sponsor of the World Cup.

This year’s creative theme celebrating fan passion is a nod to what being a true fan really means.  Hyundai’s ranking as No. 1 in customer loyalty for the fifth consecutive year, according to research consultancy, Brand Keys, served as the creative inspiration.  The all-new spots highlight the emotional love of the game and aim to inspire fans with two simple words – “#BecauseFutbol.”  Creative was developed by Hyundai’s agency of record, INNOCEAN USA.

“Boom,” a 30-second spot, celebrates fan passion as a powerful force shedding light on the world-wide phenomenon of baby booms. 

“Avoidance,” a 30-second spot, follows a man on his emotional journey home to watch a game he’s recorded.  He goes to great lengths to avoid spoilers throughout the day, only to be foiled by an unexpected source. 

“Soccer fans are more than just supporters of the game – they are die hard, loyal fanatics for their teams and countries,” said Steve Shannon, vice president, Marketing, Hyundai Motor America.  “As the industry leader in customer loyalty, Hyundai knows a thing or two about passion. This year’s World Cup campaign shows what being a ‘true’ fan really means; and how for 30 days people come together, lives change, emotions rise and unexpected moments happen.”