GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) welcomed champion swimmer Missy Franklin to its elite roster of athletes. Franklin is the first swimmer to join the GoPro team and will be featured in a GoPro original series called "Finding Missy," offering a ...
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24 Hour Fitness, which sponsors the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and is the Official Fitness Center Sponsor of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams, announced its partnership with five athletes expected to represent Team USA at ...
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Asics America Group, which includes the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, reported that net sales increased by 3 percent in the third quarter of 2015 and grew 8.5 percent on a currency-neutral basis. Asics America Corporation, which ...
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Winterstick Snowboards welcomed pro snowboarder and entrepreneur Seth Wescott to its ownership group and unveiled plans to develop a custom snowboard workshop at Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, ME. The “Original ...
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Winter Olympics double gold medallist, Rosi Mittermaier, demonstrated her knitting skills on the Coats stand at h+h. Coats plc, the world’s leading industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business, has a large presence at the ...
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Dick's Sporting Goods and The Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation announced a $25 million multi-year commitment to support youth athletic programs including donations to local sports teams and the launch of the Dick's Foundation's "Sports ...
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Anta Sports Products Ltd. reported revenues declined 4.5 percent in its year ended Dec. 31, to 7.281 billion yuan ($1.18 billion) compared with 7.622 billion yuan in 2012. Net profit slid 3.2 percent in the same period to 1.314 billion ...
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In an effort to increase awareness of the multi-faceted benefits of honey, the National Honey Board (NHB) announced a new partnership today with 3-time Gold Medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings, of beach volleyball fame. Balancing life as an ...
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Jumbo Games MD Gray Richmond raised £2,000 at the London Marathon. He undertook the challenge on Sunday, April 21st to raise money and awareness for the MS Trust. Richmond said: "It was definitely gruelling, but the incredible ...
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2XU has signed an exclusive Compression sponsorship with Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion Alpine ski racer Ted Ligety. This alliance will run through to 2015, marking 2XU's opening season as Official Compression Partner to the ...
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (BRAIN) — Shimano Latin America announced a new UCI Continental team on Wednesday to be based on Buenos Aires and led by Walter Perez, gold medalist in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a prolific Argentine ...
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Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
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,L.P.,the world's leading supplier of gymnastics apparel,is pleased to announce the Gabrielle Douglas Signature Collection of gymnastics leotards.The first six leotards of the Signature Collection by Gabby Douglas,designed by the 2012 ...
GK Elite Sportswear,L.P.,the world's leading supplier of gymnastics apparel,is pleased to announce the launch of the Alexandra Raisman Signature Collection of gymnastics leotards.The first three leotards of the Signature Collection by Aly ...
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China's leading sportswear company, Li-Ning Company, and NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade, announced the creation of a new athletic footwear and apparel brand called WADE, which will serve as the centerpiece of the corporation's growing ...
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