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Sport International Sport Federation (ISF) Member Federations Year ISF Founded Date of Recognition Website Air sports [a] World Air Sports Federation (FAI) 84: 1905: FAI.org: American football [b] International Federation of American Football (IFAF) 74: 1998: IFAF.org: Automobile sport: International Automobile Federation(FIA) 240: 1904: p2011 ...
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic , FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and 2021 , with a rapid time control that affected players' online ratings.
This is a list of international sports federations, each of which serves as a non-governmental governing body for a given sport and administers its sport at a world level, most often crafting rules, promoting the sport to prospective spectators and fans, developing prospective players, and organizing world or continental championships.
These sports were removed because of lack of interest or the absence of an appropriate governing body, [4] and are considered unlikely to ever return. Five early Olympic sports that were removed by the IOC have managed to return to the Olympic program: archery in 1972, tennis in 1988, curling in 1998, golf in 2016 and cricket in 2028.
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, [3] [4] commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ / FEE-day, Fédération Internationale des Échecs), [5] is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
The International Olympic Committee who oversee the Olympic Games recognises both chess and bridge as sports. SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports: chess, bridge, draughts, Go and xiangqi. [4] [5] However, they limit the number of mind games which can be admitted as sports. [1]
So the IOC talks tough, makes stern pronouncements about the integrity of sport … and makes Russia wear the equivalent of somebody else’s shirt while the financial pipeline to Moscow remains ...
Chess was an unofficial exhibition sport at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) supervised two matches between Viswanathan Anand of India and Alexei Shirov of Spain, which took place in the Sydney Olympic Village.