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SportsIcon launches the Future Icons initiative to launch the careers of athletes around the world

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London, UK, October 26, 2022 – (SEAPRWire) -SportsIcon, the NFT platform for athletes, has announced its Future Icons program. Fans can invest in the next generation of athletes who could change the world. By investing they can participate in their financial success. Currently, young athletes with a passion to compete at a national or international level, are struggling to get the significant financial backing to get to that stage. This often leads to athletes having to become entrepreneurs, business people and financial wizards when all they want to do is train and focus on the sport. Without this initial financial stability, a lot of brilliant stars never make it to professional athletes. SportsIcon’s Future Icons program will allow fans to invest in upcoming athletes, share in their success and connect with them. Fans are now able to invest in athletes they believe in and participate in their financial upside, supporting them with a framework that otherwise doesn’t exist. If an athlete’s career takes off then the fans that helped make that dream come true will increase the value of the NFTs that they own, and that helped make it happen. SportsIcon CEO and Co-Founder Chris Worsey...

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Team Singapore honoured in Parliament; work being done to increase cash rewards for para-athletes

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SINGAPORE - Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong on Tuesday (Oct 5) moved a motion in Parliament to honour Team Singapore athletes who competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. In his address, he also reaffirmed the Government's commitment to supporting and enhancing sports in Singapore at all levels, including disability sports. The issue of monetary rewards for Paralympians was in the spotlight recently after swimmer Yip Pin Xiu won two gold medals at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Each win will earn her a $200,000 reward, which is a fifth of the payout for an Olympic gold. Mr Tong touched on how some MPs had inquired about this disparity in Parliament. He said the private award schemes are managed by the relevant sports bodies. The Major Games Award Programme (MAP) for able-bodied athletes is managed by the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC), while the Athletes' Achievement Awards (AAA) for para-athletes is managed by the Singapore National Paralympic Council (SNPC). The Tote Board is the primary sponsor for both programmes, which also feature contributions from the private sector. The award amounts offered under both schemes are raised and ...

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Resumption of Services of the Toyota e-Palette Vehicle and Additional Safety Measures at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Athletes’ Village

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Toyota City, Japan, Aug 31, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Having taken steps to ensure greater safety and security, Toyota today announces that The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has decided to resume operations of the e-Palette mobility vehicle within the Athletes' Village.Operations of mobility services were suspended in response to an incident that occurred at the Athletes' Village on Thursday, August 26, 2021, when the e-Palette collided with a visually impaired pedestrian.To ensure safe and secure traffic flow at the Athletes' Village, there are three crucial elements: pedestrians, vehicles, and infrastructure including guides. By analyzing this incident from the perspective of these three elements, together with the Organising Committee, Toyota has determined additional safety measuresIncident AnalysisThe PedestrianThe pedestrian was a visually impaired person who was walking alone. When the pedestrian tried to cross the intersection, the individual came into contact with a vehicle passing through the intersection.The VehicleWhen the vehicle was turning right, upon entering the intersection, it detected a person in the intersection ...

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Smaller activewear brands a hit among female athletes

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(NYTIMES) - Athleta, the activewear brand for women and girls owned by Gap, had never sponsored an athlete when it approached six-time Olympic champion sprinter Allyson Felix in 2019. The smaller company was interested in supporting Felix's career, and said it would not penalise her for losing races or choosing to have more children. She said she liked that Athleta was led by women and that it appreciated that she was a mother as well as an athlete. "It's a very pressured situation to be sponsored traditionally in track and field - it's about numbers if you don't perform, reductions and all of these things," Felix said. With Athleta, she added: "I felt like I had more value as a person and that was something I hadn't experienced before." A growing number of top women athletes, including Simone Biles and former Olympians, have been choosing to strike new types of deals with smaller activewear brands instead of traditional sponsors like Nike. Several young female runners say smaller brands are willing to work with them in different ways, like bringing them on as employees, giving them equity or involving them in new products, and that they are paying more attention to their personal ...