The SportAccord Convention is doing well. Its president, the Italian Francesco Ricci Bitti, assured this Thursday, April 6, on the penultimate day of the 2017 edition, specifying that this year it had attracted 1500 delegates representing 71 nationalities, plus 135 cities, to Aarhus. or regions. “An edition full of success, the start of a new cycle,” he suggested during a press conference. According to Francesco Ricci Bitti, no fewer than 15 cities have expressed an interest in hosting the SportAccord Convention over the coming years, in Europe, Asia and the United States. There were only three, including Bangkok, to have applied to organize the 2018 edition, allocated to the capital of Thailand. The Italian also confided that he was personally not very favorable to the Convention once again serving as the setting for a meeting of the IOC Executive Board.
— Published on April 6, 2017
