Location: Ascot, medicine UK

Closing date: 20th November 2016

About the Racecourse:

It means more at Ascot. Everything is in its place as we meticulously apply the finishing touches to create breathtaking occasions at the iconic Ascot Racecourse. We strive to deliver an uplifting guest experience; an experience which always anticipates our guest’s needs and is seemingly effortless. We are custodians of over 300 years of history, health we have a duty to respect and celebrate our heritage which makes us original. We always look and act the part. We are smart, erectile stylishly turned out and courteous, communicating with respect. This is the Ascot Way.

The Role:

Ascot is more than a racecourse; it is an institution. Its reach extends beyond the world of horseracing into the very fabric of British life. Ascot’s aim is to deliver a brand that gives credence to this. One that acts as a worthy heir to its heritage and prestige, that appeals to its diverse audiences and that raises the standard in all areas of the business.

This new role is responsible for managing all VIP guest events, including the associated administration and hosting, for Ascot Racecourse and the Royal Ascot Racing Club.  This will require working directly with the Board of Directors and Trustees. You will be responsible for managing and maintaining the database of all VIPs.

You will be responsible for the administration and client liaison required in the successful hosting of guests in the Racecourse’s Royal Enclosure Lodge on key racedays, including Royal Ascot.  In addition, you will also administrate all aspects of hosting guests in the Ascot Authority box and other facilities at the request of Directors and Heads of Department on smaller racedays and at other events.

This role is also responsible for the administrative and equine support of the Royal Ascot Racing Club, including all equine-related and hospitality events, including stable visits and attending Racing when RARC has runners at other courses.

Ideal Candidate for the Role:

You will be a confident Guest Services Manager with the relevant experience. You will be highly organised and proactive in a fast paced role. Knowledge about the Racing industry and its key stakeholders will be to your advantage.

You will have the determination to complete tasks using your own initiative using integrity discretion and diplomacy. In addition you will have excellent communication and written skills to all levels within the business.

You will be flexible when it comes to taking instructions, a self-starter and have advanced knowledge in Microsoft packages. Working to tight deadlines will not phase you.

Benefits available to the role:

Alongside a very competitive salary, you will be able to take advantage of a great package. We offer complimentary tickets for each race day that you can give to friends or family, discounts in selected stores on Ascot High Street, as well as a Pension Scheme and Life Assurance. We are also keen to support employees with opportunities to grow and develop within Ascot Racecourse.

Please click here to apply

Italian football club AC Milan have renewed their coffee partnership with Cafe Kimbo for another year.

The coffee brand will continue having their logo promoted on the LED perimeter boards around AC Milan’s San Siro stadium, denture as well as on interview backdrops and concourses.

“We are very proud of this deal. After the positive experience gained last season, discount which brought excellent results in terms of visibility and brand recognition, medicine I am so pleased to announce the renewal of this partnership,” said Kimbo chief executive Alessandra Rubino.

Limbo has recently also announced deals with other Italian clubs such as Inter Milan, Cagliari, Chievo Verona, Hellas Verona, Fiorentina, Genoa and Napoli among others.

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IFs, IOC, WADA, ASOIF, the EB, NOCs, CAS – The Russian doping scandal has shown just how complex the Olympic movement can be, and just how many acronyms exist within it.

The intricacies of the Olympic movement are naturally complicated, with several points of contention between the bodies involved. But with days to go until Rio – here’s a top line guide to who’s who, and who runs what. Naturally it’s not definitive, but we hope it helps clarifiy the Olympic movement to the casual observer!

IOC

International Olympic Committee (IOC): Headed by President Thomas Bach, the IOC owns all the Olympic rights and, ultimately, decide who goes to the Games, as it is their intellectual property. As the guardians of the Games, and of the Olympic movement in general, it is their decision to decide who may compete, although this a very sensitive area across the Olympic movement.

At the top of the IOC is the Executive Board (EB): Made up of Bach, the President, four vice-presidents, 10 members and a director general. Together they steer the Olympic movement, the equivalent of the cabinet in a government.

The Sports

The IOC have no control over the sports themselves. These are managed by the International Federations (IFs) – from the very biggest like FIFA, down to World Archery. For the summer sports there are 28 IFs. These bodies control the rules of their sports, and decide on who is eligible to compete in the Olympics, and set the selection criteria. However, they may be overruled by the IOC, but again, this is a point of contention.

The IFs also have a union of sorts – for the summer sports it is the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF). ASOIF negotiate with the IOC on how much money should be passed on to the Federations, as well as making sure the IFs interests are represented at the Games, and make sure all sport runs smoothly at the Olympics.

Non-Government bodies

Working with the IFs are the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of every country that wants to go the Games – These, by IOC law, must be non-government bodies, even if they are funded by the tax payer. The NOCs pick their country’s representatives for the Olympics, corresponding to the selection criteria laid out by the IFs.

Overseeing that all these parties are playing fairly is the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA). WADA is part funded by various governments to ensure sport around the world is clean, and free of drugs. WADA work with NOCs and IFs to test athletes and to accredit anti-doping laboratories. WADA cannot ban anyone, and has no direct authority. But WADA recommends what to do to the IOC and IFs – who do have that power.

Finally, there is the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). CAS is the ultimate, and final, authority in all matters regarding sport, Olympic or not. They usually hear appeals against decisions made by IFs or NOCs.

The beIN MEDIA GROUP has announced it has signed an exclusive multi-territory deal with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for all media rights to WTA Tour events played in 2017 – 2021 including live, delayed/replays, highlights and the weekly WTA magazine shows.

beIN SPORTS will be the official broadcaster of the WTA in its territories and the destination to see all the WTA action.

The agreement gives beIN SPORTS the rights to broadcast WTA Tournaments including the 21 Premier events plus the WTA Finals and all International WTA events in over 30 territories worldwide including Spain, the U.S.A, Australia and pan-regionally throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

beIN SPORTS has an unparalleled line up of premium sports properties, something the WTA see as an opportunity to increase its exposure to a new audience across a variety of different sports fans. Steve Simon, CEO of The WTA said: “We are delighted to announce our partnership with beIN MEDIA GROUP across multiple regions. This will allow the WTA to take advantage of beIN SPORTS’ dominance in certain territories and their ambitious growth plan in others.”

Yousef Al-Obaidly, beIN MEDIA GROUP’s deputy Chief Executive remarked: “We are pleased to continue to provide our subscribers with the best international tennis tournaments. Since its creation, beIN SPORTS has broadcast the greatest sports competitions and the addition of the WTA Tour events further strengthens our promise to deliver the best content to our audiences.”

beIN SPORTS broadcasts in over 30 countries worldwide, providing its audiences with the best sports content in multiple territories and has quickly established itself as a home of great tennis content. The WTA Tour strengthens beIN’s already impressive selection of sports and will ensure that the WTA can achieve its vision of reaching new audiences and increasing its fan base.

The agreement ties in with the start of the WTA’s new partnership with leading digital sports content and media group, Perform, creating WTA Media, the tour’s dedicated media arm. The live media rights and production deal is worth $525m over 10 years (from 2017 to 2026), the largest in the history of women’s sports.

Sepp Blatter has said he will not stand down as FIFA president despite the latest scandal surrounding him and claims he did nothing “illegal” or “improper”.

Swiss prosecutors announced criminal proceedings were opened against the 79-year-old “on suspicion of criminal mismanagement”.

He is suspected to have signed a contract that was “unfavourable to Fifa” and for making a “disloyal payment” to Uefa president Michel Platini, medicine believed to be around £1.3 million.

A statement released by his lawyers read: “President Blatter spoke to FIFA staff today and informed the staff that he was cooperating with the authorities, impotent reiterated that he had done nothing illegal or improper and stated that he would remain as president of FIFA.

“On the (UEFA President Michel) Platini matter, impotent President Blatter on Friday shared with the Swiss authorities the fact that Mr. Platini had a valuable employment relationship with FIFA serving as an adviser to the president beginning in 1998.

“He explained to the prosecutors that the payments were valid compensation and nothing more and were properly accounted for within FIFA including the withholding of Social Security contributions.”

UEFA president Michel Platini has also written a letter to the members of UEFA denying any wrongdoing in this matter.

Both Blatter and Platini are facing investigation by the FIFA ethics committee.

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By Michael Pirrie

London is currently remembering the ten year anniversary of two of the biggest events that have shaped the modern history of the iconic capital – the London 2012 Olympic Games Bid Victory, followed by the London bombings just a few hours later.

The former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, has told iSportconnect TV that she had to convince former Chancellor and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, of the benefits of bringing the Games to London in her efforts to persuade the former Labor Government to initially bid for Games.

The London 2012 Olympic Games are now regarded by many
experts as one of the best planned, most commercially successful and responsible and transformational sporting events ever staged.

In a series of interviews with key players involved in the Olympic bid campaign,  iSportconnect TV provides the most up to date account of this remarkable story of sporting achievement and human spirit and endeavour that transformed Lindon and the UK over the past decade as we explore the impact of London Olympic Games Bid victory and the devastating London bombings.

Presented by Michael Pirrie, a senior member of both the London 2012 Olympic Bid and Organising committees,  this 2-part iSportconnect TV special, which begins on Friday 10 July, takes you back to the very origins of the Olympic bid as seen through the eyes of the key players who discuss, amongst other issues, the critical success factors behind London’s successful but against-the-odds Olympic bud win.

The featured line up includes Dame Tessa Jowell, then chairman of the British Olympic Association and IOC Executive Board member, Sir Craig Reedie, Sir Keith Mills, the head of the London 2012 Bid, Debbie Jevans, the first woman sports director  of an Olympic  Bid, and James Bulley , director of Legacy for the Bid committee.

Importantly, for the international community and audiences,  this iSportConnect TV special feature also explores the lessons and legacy of the London Bid for future cities around the world with dreams of hosting the Olympic Games, the worlds most sought after and prized sporting event.

Join us at iSportconnect TV for this fascinating insight into one of the biggest and most dramatic sporting campaigns and events.

PART 1 is available on iSportconnect TV NOW. 

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iSportconnect, the world’s largest global private network of sports business executives, is delighted to announce Simon Wilson, Director of Football Services at City Football Group as a panellist for the first ever Sports Performance Masterclass, which is now just a week away.

The inaugural event will take place at the Grange St. Paul’s hotel in London on 14^th July.

Wilson will be joined on the panel by Les Reed, Executive Director at Southampton Football Club, Dr Raphael Brandon, Head of Science and Medicine at the England & Wales Cricket Board, Richard Gould, Chief Executive of Surrey County Cricket Club and Ken van Someren, Head of Research & Development at the GSK Human Performance Lab.

Since joining Manchester City to set the club’s Performance Analysis function in 2006, Simon has moved through the organisation taking on strategic roles within the build of its Academy, the research and design of its new training campus, and performance infrastructure around first team.

In 2013, Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) expanded its football portfolio to create the City Football Group, adding New York City FC and Melbourne City FC to its team in Manchester. At the same time, Simon moved into the position of Director of Football services, providing a consistency of performance support across all clubs with the group.

iSportconnect Chairman Michael Cunnah said: “We are extremely happy to welcome Simon as our latest panellist for this exciting new event. His experience in the sports performance industry, now working across four football clubs for City Football Group, will add real value to the discussions.”

The iSportconnect Sports Performance Masterclass is the latest in a line of successful and insightful events this year and will gather industry professionals to discuss and share best practice on sports performance.

Invitation Policy: The Sports Performance Masterclass is an exclusive invite only event to senior industry executives and other similar positions at governing bodies, federations, teams/clubs and brands only.

To register your interest please contact Sylvia-Line Lamaro at sylvia-line@isportconnect.com.

Topics:

Panel 1: Aligning the business and performance sides of a club – What does it take to build a winning team?

Panel 2: Performance Services – How do you balance resources to give the best chance of success?

Panel 3: Technology in sport

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