More than 2,000 guests, 60 partners and more than 100 authoritative media from around the world from 98 countries and regions participated in the 2022 Global Sports Week Paris summit in France.
Yu Tang Sports Note
From 9 to 13 May 2022, the third Edition of the World Sports Week in France was officially held in Paris, France and Los Angeles, two future summer Olympic and Paralympic venues, creating an annual gathering for the global sports industry.
More than 2,000 guests, 60 partners and more than 100 authoritative media from around the world from 98 countries and regions participated in the 2022 Global Sports Week Paris summit in France.
At this unique transatlantic international summit, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, I PARA Committee President Andrew Parsons, Paris 2024 Organising Committee President Tony Estanguet, Los Angeles 2028 Organising Committee Chief Revenue Officer Kathy Carter, UK Sport President Catherine Carter Dame Katherine Grainger, Jonas Baer-Hoffman, Secretary General of FIFPRO, World Professional Players Association, Julie Uhrman, founder of Angel City Club, François Amichia, President of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations Organizing Committee, Nicolo Laurent, President of Riot Games, Manchester United and English footballer Alessia Russo, Olivier Robert-Murphy, Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group, Ben Morel, CEO of Six Nations, and Jean-François Pathy, Director of Marketing at FIFA, and other leading leaders in different industries and fields attended the meeting as guests.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti attends the Los Angeles breakout of World Sports Week
With the strong support of UNESCO and the President of the French Republic, Mr. Emmanuel Macron, the Third World Sports Week officially kicked off on 9 May with an opening reception at the Paris City Hall. The following week, the summit held two days of discussions at the Accor Arena in Paris, which ended with a live connection at the Los Angeles chapter at the headquarters of the LA84 Foundation.
Since its inception in 2020, World Sports Week has focused on constructive issues where sports, business and society intersect, positioning itself as the most influential annual gathering of the global sports economy. In the just-concluded Third World Sports Week, the summit received more comprehensive support from the French government. This year, the French government launched the "French Sport Touch" program, which promotes France's global influence and great power appeal through sports. World Sports Week has become one of the core platforms for France to export the development of the sports industry. On this golden occasion, various French local institutions representing more than 100 training venues in the preparatory phase of the Paris Olympic Games will present their project plans to the 25 national Olympic and Paralympic committees that came to Paris to attend the summit during the summit.
Michel Cadot, a representative of the French government's inter-ministerial coordination body responsible for the Paris Olympic, Paralympic and other sports competitions, was one of the guest representatives involved in the demonstration of the program.
On 10 May, the Organizing Committee of World Sports Week and the French government jointly organized a unique boat dinner in the Seine River next to the Eiffel Tower, showing the international guests the planned route for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The Organizing Committee of World Sports Week and the French government jointly organized a special boat dinner to introduce the planned route of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris.
With the theme of "Bigger or Better", World Sports Week 2022 focuses on the balance between growth and responsibility. Among them, 32 young Sports Makers team members aged between 18 and 25 from 16 countries and regions came to the center stage of the summit again after a year, representing Generation Z to deliver the voice of a new generation of sports people. While various topics are underway, World Sports Week 2022 has witnessed many collaborative achievements:
● The International Paralympic Committee and Its President, Andrew Parsons, have unveiled a new brand of sports for people with disabilities.
The Paris Organising Committee and Sodexo Live!, the official supplier of the 2024 Olympic Games, jointly released the "Food Vision" of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which represents the concept of sustainable development.
• The National Olympic Committee of France and Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly promote Olympic values, promote the development of the sports industry and the spread of the French language in global sports affairs.
● Europe's largest gathering of sports technology investors, the 5th Le Tremplin Invest Finals, was held at the summit site, and 12 of the world's leading sports startups from the pre-selection event in seven countries were showcased on the core stage.
Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee, spoke at the summit
Lucien Boyer, President and Co-Founder of World Sports Week, said: "With a new context and content, this year's World Sports Week aims to bring together the global sports family that has been in the era of the pandemic for two years.
"In Paris, we can experience first-hand the excitement that accompanies the major sporting events that will take place in France, both in the local community of the city and in the international guest community. We are developing a more mature understanding of how to solve the focal point of social development through these sports competitions and have generated a sense of impatience and joy.
"Through the week's summit agenda, we have a clear sense of how the power of sport can be further transferred to fans and athletes. At the same time, as we make a new generation of young people an important part of the Summit, we can perceive the great opportunities behind it. We sincerely look forward to continuing these productive and forward-looking discussions with the growing family of nations. ”
Lucien Boyer, president of World Sports Week, was at the summit
Noémie Claret, Managing Director of World Sports Week, said: "Through events across continents and offline gatherings, we feel the energy released by people coming together again, which is a sense of joy that has not been seen for a long time.
I'm extra pleased to see that we're able to bring together stakeholders from different backgrounds and industries. Connectivity that breaks down nationality and industry boundaries and spans generations is the core concept that shakes the future of the sports industry. I would like to thank our 60 partners from different fields in the global sports family – who have worked with us to make this event a success. ”
As the official media partner of World Sports Week 2022, Yutang Sports witnessed the results of the summit's discussions on various core issues, and will serve as a bridge for the dissemination of industry leaders' views, and in subsequent practices, promote exchanges and cooperation between China and the international sports industry, and jointly help China's sports business take off in the new era.
About Global Sports Week Paris
World Sports Week is an annual global sports industry event where leaders from the sports, business, culture, media, government and societal sectors come together with the goal of accelerating the development of sport as an innovative, sustainable and positive global social core force.
In 2022, World Sports Week france returns from 9 to 13 May with a central event at the iconic Accor Arena in Paris, complemented by more digital overseas events.
World Sports Week was organized with the strong support of The President of the French Republic, Mr. Emmanuel Macron, and is supported by numerous social enterprises and public partners. The summit was first held in February 2020 at the Louvre in Paris.
About Yutang Sports
Deeply rooted in the sports industry for many years, Yutang Sports is the official media partner of World Sports Week 2022. Yutang Sports was established in 2007, after 15 years of development has become a world-renowned sports marketing service provider. Its content platform is China's leading sports marketing vertical media, focusing on industry, business and marketing, in addition to Chinese content platform, it also has an English website to convey Chinese voices through social media such as Twitter and Facebook, and has become one of the important platforms for sports industry exchanges at home and abroad. Up to now, through Chinese and English websites and social platforms, the overall reading volume of Yutang content has exceeded 1.2 billion; more than 150 domestic and international media, such as the Associated Press, the BBC, and the Wall Street Journal, have cited Yutang Sports' content, and Yutang Sports has published more than 1,200 reports.
At the same time, Yutang Sports also has China's leading sports marketing sponsorship project platform, driven by Internet technology, to provide customers with professional marketing solutions and services through high-quality sports resources (events, players, media), and continue to create value for customers.
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