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                                    WSG 2017
                                     Riga - Latvia       04
                                    WSG 2019
                                  Tortosa - Spain        10

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                  2   CONTENT
                                                            28            I AM AWARE
                                                                          MAMANET SPECIAL-SERIES

                  3   EDITORIAL
                                                            30            SUNNY BULGARIA
                                                                          WHERE SPORT MEETS THE SEA

                  4   WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2017
                      IN RIGA                               32            NOTHING IS FOR SURE
                                                                          EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO

                 10   WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2019
                      TORTOSA IS ON TRACK!                  34            EXERCISE & A HAPPY REUNION
                                                                          SENIORS MEET AT THE CSIT WSG

                 14   “I ALWAYS WIN” – THE CATALAN
                      SCHOOL SPORTS GAMES                   36            WHAT AN AMAZING DAY!
                                                                          RIGA GHETTO GAMES

                 16   CSIT CONGRESS – EILAT 2017
                      UP-TO-DATE MODEL                      37            YOUNG LEADERS IN TUL
                                                                          FUTURE POLICY-MAKERS

                 20   A SOCIAL PROJECT FOR MIGRANTS
                      ­ ETWEEN SPORTS AND CULTURE
                      B                                     38            CROSS RUNNING
                                                                          SCHOOL OF LIFE

                 24   125 YEARS AUSTRIA’S WORKERS
                      SPORT MOVEMENT ASKÖ                   39            CSIT LOSES TWO FRIENDS
                                                                          AND BIG SUPPORTERS

                 26   SATUS SPORTS FESTIVAL
                      TO BE PART MEANS HAVING FUN           40            NEW CSIT PARTNERS
                                                                          POSA, IPPA, FICTS, IFBT, FEDERSWISS

                                                      Editoral Director: Raimund Fabi, F.A.B.I. Medienagentur •
                                                      Contributors: LTSA, Roger Pedret, Josep Ll. Arribas, Wolfgang
                                                      Burghardt, Patrizia Cupo, Michael Maurer, Silvia Wägli, Galit
                                                      Avshalom, Christina Gschweidl, Desislava Yagodin, Ruth Vázquez,
                                                      Poul Sölvstein, Anu Rajajärvi, Jarkko Tenkula, Yves Richard •
                                                      Production Agency: SHW – Stephan Hiegetsberger Werbe­    grafik-

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                                                      Contact Details: CSIT-Office, 1230 Vienna, Steinergasse 12, Austria;
                                                      Phone: +43 676 847464-25; E-Mail: office@csit.tv; Internet:
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                CSIT
      UP-TO-DATE MODEL

D           ear friends and colleagues,

   Today, through sport, people compete and have fun, no matter of their age, religion, political party or origin. Sport represents a
relevant tool to make people experience that we are all citizens of the world. This is the great value of sport.

  CSIT is a great organisation with a huge number of memberships and a huge number of people participating at our sports events. If
we believe all that, we should absolutely think about an up-to-date model of the CSIT, capable to interact with all: young people, adults
and seniors, no matter of their origin, religion, p
                                                  ­ olitics and economic situation, physical and intellective kind of ability.

   Our confederation needs to be flexible, smart and modern so to have an appeal for new generations. It is a need to share a clear, strict
and common vision of CSIT and to share the effective strategies. Without a definitive vision and qualified managers there are no effective
strategies.

   Our goal is to capitalise the expertise of the oldest members and to promote the exchange towards the new CSIT generations. In this
way we guarantee the continuity and the high quality of work. We have the great honour of running a confederation, which is more than
100 years old, so we have also the responsibility to guarantee the life of CSIT for at least the next 100 years. I am looking forward to a
very positive future in CSIT and thank you for your support.

  Together we´ll be strong.

  I wish you all the best for 2018, health, power and success.

  Bruno Molea
  President of CSIT

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          CSIT WORLD
          SPORTS GAMES
                        by host LTSA, Latvia                   IN RIGA

  PERFECT CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH A DIVERSITY OF
  NATIONS AND NEW FRIENDSHIPS

  32 COUNTRIES, 45 UNIONS, MORE THAN 4,000 PARTICIPANTS,
  15 OFFICIAL SPORTS DISCIPLINES – RIGA HAS NEVER WITNESSED
  SUCH A BIG EVENT FOR WORKERS AND AMATEURS. FROM JUNE
  13TH TO JUNE 18TH THE STREETS OF THE LATVIAN CAPITAL WERE
  BUSTLING WITH LIFE AND ATHLETES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD,
  EVEN FROM E.G. ANGOLA, IRAN OR MEXICO. ENJOY A SMALL IN-
  SIGHT INTO THE CSIT WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2017 IN RIGA THAT
  GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO FEEL THE REAL CSIT SPIRIT AND
  REFRESH MEMORIES.

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                         he 5th CSIT World Sports      Center). A Communication Center as            FRIENDSHIP,
                         Games 2017 in Riga            home base for the CSIT family.           COMPETITION AND
                         (WSG) were a result of            The official opening ceremony of      MUTUAL RESPECT
                         the efficient collaboration   the WSG-2017 in the Skonto Stadium
                         between CSIT, host union      of Riga started with the solemn pa-         Most of the CSIT official champi-
             LTSA and their cooperation part-          rade accompanied by the Latvian         onships took place in Riga, the ath-
             ners. The level of the competitions       National Armed Forces orchestra         letics championship in Jelgava and
             was extremely high and the results        from Esplanade to the venue. Despite    shot put was organised in Salaspils.
             comparable to the Latvian national        the weather, everyone was pretty        All in all 15 official competitions in 15
             championships. Both, Technical            excited. The Games were officially      sports disciplines: athletics, basket-
             Commissions and participants have         opened with the speeches of the         ball, beach volleyball, beach wres-
             unanimously highly evaluated the or-      President of the Republic of Latvia     tling, chess, football, mini-football,
             ganisation of all championships and       Raimonds Vejonis, CSIT President        judo, mamanet, tennis, table tennis,
             the quality of the sports venues. The     Bruno Molea and LTSA Chairman of        petanque, volleyball, swimming,
             host union LTSA has worked in close       the Board, Andris Bērziņš. The Vice-    wrestling – such variety is almost
             collaboration with the Latvian sports     Mayor of Riga, Andris Ameriks, the      comparable to Olympic Games.
             federations and has received posi-        Minister of Education and Science       There was even special programme
             tive feedback especially regarding        of the Republic of Latvia, Karlis       for seniors (55+), a Mamanet World
             local referee work. The WSG edition       Šadurskis, and the Secretary-           record attempt as well as some other
             in Riga have put the major event CSIT     general of the Latvian Olympic          championships and demonstrative
             World Sports Games to a next level,       Committee, Žoržs Tikmers, have          sports programmes.
             and we hope that the next WSG host        given a warm welcome to all partici-
             in Tortosa 2019 can set the bar even      pants.                                   AND THE WINNERS
             higher.                                       The opening ceremony contin-                   ARE…
                                                       ued with the fair play oath spoken
                   READY, STEADY,                      by Kaspars Gorkss, captain of the
                     GO WSG 2017!                      Latvian National Football Team and         The CSIT World Sports Games
                                                       Guntis Zālītis, WSG 2017 Sports         2017 in Riga were especially success-
                The Games officially started with      Director (Latvia), followed by the      ful for ASKÖ, Austria, who came first
             the registration of the participants in   performance of the national dance       in the final medal ranking. The sec-
             the Congress Center – a multi-func-       ensemble.                               ond place went to NCS, Netherlands,
             tional area, that was used not only for       As all Latvians know, the weather   and third place to Israel with the larg-
             accreditation but also for meetings       in Riga in June is quite unpredict-     est delegation of 814 participants!
             (including technical meetings), spe-      able. So it was a huge relief that      The Latvian athletes ranked 7th in the
             cial events (e.g. Mamanet party) and      rain suddenly stopped during the of-    final medal table.
             as Information Center (results of the     ficial opening speeches and the sun        During the whole championships
             championships were not only pub-          came out and there was no sign of       all participants have d ­ emonstrated
             lished in the WSG-2017 App but also       rain during the whole championship      and lived the real CSIT spirit of
             available on the spot in the Congress     days. Organisers of the games must      friendship, competition and ­    mutual
                                                       have used some magic against bad        respect. It is very difficult to de-
                                                       weather.                                scribe the emotions the athletes
                                                                                                        experienced during the WSG
                                                                                                        2017, but LTSA captured
                                                                                                        all these special moments
                                                                                                        in a very special movie
                                                                                                        (www.csit.tv), which was

                                                                                                      LTSA organised perfect World
                                                                                                      Sports Games for more than
                                                                                                      4.000 athletes from 32 countries

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presented to a broader audience           Mamanet was included for the first
during CSIT Congress in Eilat.            time in the Official Championship
                                          programme of the CSIT. The major-
       ACTIVITIES FOR                     ity of participating teams were from
           ANY TASTE                      Israel, others came from Latvia,
                                          Mexico, Austria and Italy.
   The special activities for seniors
during the Games were various:              GREEN CARD FOR
walking soccer, krolf, percugym,                  FAIR PLAY
bodyArt and more. The weather was
beautiful and the participants enjoyed        The implementation of the Green
lots of exercising in Uzvaras Park and    Card into the Games in close coop-
Arkadija Garden.                          eration with EFPM (European Fair          (FICS) for their excellent work! 18
   First World Nordic Walking World       Play Movement) is a very important        FICS specialists were providing their
Cup took place in Mežaparks, Street       step and a perfect opportunity to         services to the participants during
Workout World Cup 2017 had success        emphasise the values of Fair Play         the 5th CSIT World Sports Games
in Jurmala with lots of spectators,       competitions, respect, friendship,        in Riga. It was the second time that
Bowling and Darts Championships           team spirit, equality and respect for     FICS teams were working in the
were organised in Riga. Tug of            written and unwritten rules such as       CSIT World Sports Games. FICS
War Championship, Latvian Open            integrity, solidarity, tolerance, care,   specialists are, no doubt, high-class
Crossminton and YOU.FO tourna-            excellence and joy.                       professionals and they were able to
ments were all events of the big              In Riga several athletes were         provide necessary assistance and
championship sports programme             awarded for Fair Play: Varda Mirkin       find individual treatment option for
of the WSG 2017. Morning exercise         from the Israelian Mamanet team,          every athlete.
(Wake up Riga) was especially popu-       the Austrian judoka Andreas Mruk
lar among WSG 2017 participants           and the Brazilian table tennis team.                   SEE YOU IN
and locals. It was also possible to       Although the use of the green card                   TORTOSA 2019
enjoy such demonstrative sports as        as Fair Play recognition sign is not
spikeball, darni, slackline, disc golf    yet so common, CSIT is doing a lot in        Everyone is already excited about
or table football.                        promoting this special practice with      the new 6th edition of the World Sports
                                          implementing the use of the green         Games 2019 in Tortosa, Catalonia,
  100 TEAMS ON 50                         card to the championships. WSG            in Spain. The host contract between
COURTS – A WORLD                          2017 is a perfect example of success      CSIT and the Catalan host organisa-
 RECORD ATTEMPT                           in this effort.                           tion UCEC was signed during the
                                                                                    World Sports Games in Riga.
   These CSIT World Sports Games                    FICS TEAM AT
in Riga were the first in history dur-                   WSG-2017                     So see you soon in Tortosa!
ing which a Mamanet World Record
attempt took place with 100 teams            Both the host union LTSA and
playing simultaneously on 50 courts       the participants would like to say
in Lucavsala, the popular recrea-         special thanks to the International
tion area on the left bank of the river   Federation of Sports Chiropractic
Daugava with a postcard view of
Riga. The record was devoted to
centenary of Latvia.

    “Every mother can!” is the
motto of Mamanet. The main
goal is to involve thousands of
mothers around the world in the
Mamanet movement, to give them
the opportunity to become role
models for sports and healthy
lifestyle for their families. In Riga

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            IMPRESSIONS FROM RIGA
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CSIT President Bruno Molea (left) and
the Latvian President Raimonds Vējonis
at the opening ceremony

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  WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2019
                          on TRACK!
                                              by Roger Pedret

             TORTOSA WELCOMES THE WORLD OF CSIT AND IS LOOKING
             FORWARD TO HOST THE CSIT WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2019.
             WELCOME TO A DESTINATION, WHERE THE WHOLE FAMILY
             CAN ENJOY A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT CULTURES, A BEAUTIFUL
             NATURE AND A VERY SPECIAL AND RELAXING ART OF LIVING.

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                     e consider the World   an excellent attention to each delega-      Tortosa and Terres de l’Ebre have
                     Sports Games as        tion. But also we want to profession-    a consolidated hotel infrastructure,
                     the great opportu-     alize the organization of the Games,     being an outstanding destination for
                     nity to consolidate    so we have already signed collabora-     gourmets and one of the benchmarks
                     non-professional       tion with one of the country’s leading   of Catalan cuisine as an exponent of
sport in the country’s public sports        companies in the organization and        the Mediterranean cuisine that has
policy. In this respect, we want par-       management of sportive events. To        achieved such merit worldwide.
ticipants in the Games not only to          achieve this grade of professionalism       With a deep historical architec-
find a well-planned sporting event,         we are creating a mobility master        ture, Tortosa is also known as the city
but also to get known the territory, to     plan with a local company to handle      of three cultures: Jewish, Christian
mix with the general public, who we         the transport between hotels and         and Muslim. Some of the historic
strongly believe must see the Games         sports infrastructures.                  buildings of Tortosa are: Suda Castle
as an important moment in the histo-                                                 (X century), Tortosa Cathedral (year
ry of the city, to discover our culture,            VISIT TORTOSA                    1347), The Jewish Quarter (year 1149)
to have a wide choice of leisure and                                                 and the Arabian towers (year 714).
recreational activities, and, espe-             Located between the Ports and           Get to know a city where history
cially, to achieve a true sense of shar-    Delta de l’Ebre natural parks, in a      has left its mark over the centuries
ing among the delegations under the         Biosphere Reserve, stands Tortosa, a     and is combined with a natural con-
single flag of sport. The period of the     Mediterranean city with a history go-    trasting environment. On one hand,
event will be prospectively from June       ing back thousands of years. Tortosa     the mountains of “Els Ports”, which
19 to 25, 2019, whereas the games           is the capital of the region of Terres   are imposing as a wall of more than
invitation will be sent out officially in   de l’Ebre, a region that stands out      one thousand meters, and the other,
the second quarter of 2018.                 for its combination of an outstanding    the Delta de l’Ebre, a landscape of
    We are going to create a great          natural and an excellent tourism and     rice fields and beautiful beaches.
voluntary network, which will provide       sports infrastructure.
                                                                                        Tortosa is a destination to enjoy
                                                                                     culture, nature and the art of living
                                                                                     with the whole family.

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The bosses of the WSG 2019:
                  Ferran Bel, Jaume Domingo,
                  Bruno Molea and Xavier Pallares
                  (from the left)

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Ferran Bel i Accensi                                       Jaume Domingo i Planas
Mayor of Tortosa                                           UCEC president

   Dear CSIT Members,                                         Dear friends,
   As mayor of Tortosa it is a privilege to organize          It’s a pleasure for me to address you a few
the CSIT World Sports Games 2019, an international         words from this magazine. As you well know, we
sports event for which our city has the infrastruc-        are p­ erhaps one of the newest CSIT partners. It is
ture, skills and capacity to be able to receive with       an honour for us to be part of this great family, and
guarantee of success.                                      without a doubt, it is a great challenge to organize
   Tortosa is the capital of Terres de l’Ebre, a region    for you the flagship event of your organization.
where the weight of history, the natural environment          In this sense, I want to announce you the en-
and the Mediterranean character, make a unique and         thusiasm, commitment and determination with
attractive territory. Tortosa is a welcoming city with     which we set out the organization of the CSIT World
more than 2.000 years of history, which has seen           Sports Games in June 2019. You should know that
different cultures and civilizations. The result of this   the Union of Sports Councils of Catalonia (UCEC)
legacy is a dynamic city with around 35.000 inhabit-       has a consolidated trajectory in the organization of
ants, which occupies the institutional, commercial,        multitudinous sports events. We are a private non-
cultural, touristic and sports center of Terres de         profit entity of public and social interest. We have
l’Ebre region.                                             500,000 members in a country of 7,000,000 people.
   From the city council of Tortosa we understand          We have always worked side by side with the coun-
sport as a tool for the transformation of the city and     try’s government, developing sports policy from the
as driver of ethical and social values, especially to      perspective of health, inclusion and values.
young generations. We have been boosting different            We have recently assumed the government’s
investments during last years to modernize and ex-         commitment to develop deeply popular sport; sport
pand the sports facilities on the municipality. Thanks     for everyone if you want to say it this way. That kind
to the improvement of the quality of these facilities,     of sport that does not exclude either by phys-ical
we’ve been able to organize international high-level       condition or by age, which brings us wellness and
competitions in different sports. The key to under-        happiness, and for its transversal character, it be-
stand the vitality and dynamism of sport in our city       comes one of the most powerful tools in the country
and our region is that we have sport clubs with hun-       to integrate. A dual model of sports poli-cy, that
dreds of young athletes whose main objective is not        brings on excellence through federative sport and
only to win and compete but also to share the same         participation through popular sport.
values that show up on the foundational spirit of the         It is in that aspect that our relationship with the
CSIT.                                                      CSIT and all its members makes sense for us. You
   For Tortosa and the entire region of Terres de          can be sure that we will have all the material and
l’Ebre it is a pleasure to welcome the world of CSIT       human resources in favour of the Games. But we
during the World Sports Games 2019.                        really have great hopes of doing so with your col-
                                                           laboration. We are organizing these Games for you,
   I look forward to see you all in Tortosa.              for your athletes. But we also really want to organize
                                                           them with you. Our aim is taking ad-vantage from
                                                           the duty of organizing the WSG 2019 to consolidate
                                                           popular sports as a country’s public policy through
                                                           your knowledge and experience.

                                                             Friends, we wait for all your opinions and sug-
                                                           gestions to build together the best World Sports
                                                           Games in history of CSIT!

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            THE CANDIDACY OF TORTOSA AS HOST FOR THE CSIT WORLD SPORTS
            GAMES 2019 WAS PROMOTED BY CSIT MEMBER-UNION UCEC, THE UNION
            OF SPORTS COUNCILS OF CATALONIA, IN SPAIN. TORTOSA WAS CHOSEN
            OVER COUNTRIES SUCH AS MEXICO, FINLAND AND ISRAEL DUE TO THE
            ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL IMPORTANCE OF TORTOSA
            AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. BEFORE THE CSIT WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2019
            UCEC HAD ANOTHER BIG PROJECT AND CAMPAIGN WITH THE CATALAN
            SCHOOL SPORTS GAMES: “I ALWAYS WIN”.

                     “I ALWAYS WIN”
                                                           by Josep Ll. Arribas

       UCEC BROUGHT 180,000 SCHOOL-AGE KIDS TO
          THE CATALAN SCHOOL SPORTS GAMES

                                                                           by INDET

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national agreements on school-age
            OVER 180,000                   sports and for sports in the commu-
            SCHOOL-AGE                     nity, modifications in the Decree of
              ­ATHLETES                    Sports Councils and in the Catalonian
          ­ ARTICIPATED
          P                                Sports Law, activities to promote
                                           sports on the community level, such
   During the school year 2017/18          as the organisation of the CSIT World
over 180,000 children have partici-        Sports Games or setting up a national
pated in the School Sports Games of        campaign to promote the new sports
Catalonia organised by UCEC. Of            model of the Sports Councils.
these, 25,000 played in the regional
finals, one for each of the 45 counties           “I ALWAYS WIN”,
of Catalonia with over 100 national                THE COUNCILS
finals with 8,000 children each.                       CAMPAIGN
   The School Sports Games fully
integrated two important elements:            The Sports Councils of Catalonia
on one hand, to incorporate sporting       have explained their commitment
values and Fair Play into the results      of training people with an intensive
of the competitions, and on the other      campaign. Videos on social networks,
hand, to consolidated the figure of        radio adverts or press releases, all
game mentors, previously known             formed a part of the campaign car-
as referees. The system values and         ried out over the course of 2017 in
takes the behaviour of coaches, ath-       Catalonia with the slogan “I always
letes, and the audience into account       win”.
as part of the score of the competi-          The main features of the model: It
tion.                                      takes not only the final result. It takes
                                           both, scores and positive attitudes.
 PRESENTATION TO                           Priority is also given to education, not
THE CATALAN GOV-                           just to the aspect of competition. The
        ERNMENT                            different councils can then choose
                                           between an integrated system, with
   Jaume Domingo, UCEC President           a single score, or a parallel system
and President of the Sports Councils       with one classification with scores
of Catalonia presented the huge            and another that takes the applica-
and very important project to Neus         tion of sports values into account. All
Munté, councillor of Catalonia’s gov-      45 Sports Councils of Catalonia have
ernment, and to Gerard Figueras,           incorporated values into the results
General Secretary of Sports. The           of the sports competitions.
meeting took place at the Palau de            The campaign was intended to
la Generalitat, opening the presenta-      show these changes in the sports
tion of the new model of governance        games, but also to spread the educa-
of Catalan sports.                         tion in values that they promote. “I
   During the meeting, Jaume               always win” underlined that besides
Domingo placed a special emphasis          the result of a competition. We al-
on the social role of sports, one of the   ways win if we apply values such as
main lines that the Sports Councils        solidarity, inclusion or a common ef-
are working on: Activities such as the     fort into our everyday life.
change in the model applied in the
School Sports Games of Catalonia to
favour education in values over com-
petition, or the organisation of the                        School and Sports
2019 World Sports Games.                           ­inextricably linked. Sports
   The councillors set out different                  is more than just medals!
proposals like the establishment of

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                    CSIT Congress
                                                           EILAT 2017
           NEXT STEPS INTO THE FUTURE
                                                                                         by Wolfgang Burghardt, Secretary General CSIT

       IT WAS THE FIRST CSIT CONGRESS WITH THE ITALIAN BRUNO MOLEA (AICS)
       AS PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATION AFTER HE TOOK OVER FROM THE
       AUSTRIAN HARALD BAUER (ASKÖ) IN 2016.

            T
                      he Congress in Eilat at the   Yoram Arnstein, Avi Sagi and their        a key-driver for economic develop-
                      Red Sea was organized by      Team did an excellent job and made        ment of cities.
                      CSIT member organisation      the stay in Eilat for the whole del-
                      HAPOEL Israel and opened      egation very enjoyable”, summa-                       VISION,
                      with   welcome      words     rized General Secretary Wolfgang              STRATEGY AND
             of Hapoel Chairman Prosper Ben         Burghardt. Before the Congress             PROFESSIONALISM
             Hamo. “General Manager                         CSIT President Bruno Molea              – THIS IS THE
                                                            and the ExCom were invited                 FORMULA
                                                            to the Eilat Town Hall for a
                                                            meeting with Deputy Mayor            For President Molea – member
                                                            Mr Eli Lankri and had a fruit-    of the Italian parliament – it was of
                                                             ful discussion about future      highest importance to make a state-
                                                             co-operations and new op-        ment after one year of his presidency
                                                             portunities through sport as     about his vision and future ways of

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CSIT under his leadership. In his           strategies. Our goal is to capitalize the   looking forward to a good and close
opening speech he emphasized that           expertise of the oldest members and         future co-operation with the young
the CSIT as global organisation must        to promote the exchange towards the         and very competent Catalan col-
aim to be an up-to-date model, capa-        new CSIT generations. In this way we        leagues from the region in Terres
ble to interact with all: young people,     guarantee the continuity and the high       de L’Ebre / Spain. The colleagues of
adults and seniors, no matter of their      quality of work.”                           the Tortosa Organizing Committee
origin, religion, politics and econom-                                                  (TORTOC) introduced their concept
ic situation, physical and intellective        AFTER THE CSIT                           of the next WSG edition in June
kind of ability.                                WORLD SPORTS                            2019. The CSIT ExCom as well as all
   Bruno Molea stated that he had             GAMES IS BEFORE                           Congress participants were pleased
many fruitful discussions with the           THE NEXT EDITION                           about the ideas and the clear con-
Executive Committee, the General                                                        cept; already with the implemented
Secretary and the Sports Director.             Main topics of the Congress were         recommendations of the participants
Together they share the opinion that        on the one side of course a replica         based on the standard analysis of the
the CSIT has the need to bring in           and resume to and of the CSIT World         last WSG. A first official WSG 2019
new sports, and mainly sports with          Sports Games 2017 in Riga (Latvia),         invitation with the main milestones
a popular value: “Our confedera-            and on the other side a preview to          will be published in the 2nd quarter of
tion needs to be flexible, smart and        the upcoming World Sports Games             2018.
modern so to have an appeal for new         (WSG) in June 2019 in Tortosa
generations. It is a need to share a        (Catalonia / Spain). The colleagues                CANDIDATURES
clear, strict and common vision of          from the Riga Organizing Committee                    CSIT WORLD
CSIT and to share the effective strat-      under the leadership of President                  SPORTS GAMES
egies. For that reason the Working          Andris Berzins made a detailed final               2021 & 2023 ARE
Group Strategy has been upgraded            report about the WSG last summer.                       WELCOME!
and together with the ExCom and             After the presentation of a book and
the member unions’ involvement an           a movie about the Riga WSG, the                The CSIT management is already
updated CSIT strategy plan should be        curtain of this important chapter of        working further and can proudly an-
created for the next years.”                CSIT fell under applause of the whole       nounce that there are 4 highly inter-
   “Without a definitive vision and         Congress.                                   ested candidate cities from Europe,
qualified managers”, Molea under-              Simultaneously the CSIT and their        Asia and America as host for the
lined further on, “there are no effective   Technical Sports Commissions are            CSIT World Sports Games 2021 and

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2023. WSG 2021 Application Deadline         CSIT during the Congress in Eilat.                   SPORTS
             is October 1st, 2018. For further infor-    A cautious convergence of both                INVENTORY AND
             mation please contact CSIT General          worlds is aimed and shows that the                NEW IDEAS
             Secretary Wolfgang Burghardt.               CSIT movement is a lot more than a
                                                         sports organisation. This is one vi-         New sports categories and disci-
                   NEW DIRECTION                         sion of CSIT President Bruno Molea,      plines are always welcome. Sports
                          OF CSIT                        who appreciated the big support and      Director Henk Bouchoms is looking
                                                         trust in advance of all delegates in     forward to receiving proposals from
                2019 could also be the first games,      his work.                                the member unions. One could be
             where CSIT offers programs for                                                       Karate and several martial arts ac-
             disabled people. One huge step into                MEASURES FOR                      tivities.
             the future was the implementation                ­STRENGTHENING
             of the Swiss Paralympic Federation                   TOLERANCE,                          YOUNG LEADERS
             (FederSwiss) as new member of                       RESPECT AND                            – CSIT FUTURE
                                                                    FAIRPLAY
                                                                                                     Vice President Anu Rajajärvi from
                                                            In particular the sports regula-      Finland held a conference for Young
                                                         tions of CSIT have been tightened        Leaders during the Congress week.
                                                         in case of non-respecting elemen-        Partners for future EU Projects are
                                                         tary values like tolerance, respect      wanted.
                                                         or Fairplay. The Congress approved
                                                         unanimously to execute uncom-            NEW COOPERATION
                                                         promisingly CSIT’s Zero-Tolerance               PARTNERS
                                                         Policy in case of refusing to compete
                                                         against another athletes or teams           The CSIT management proudly
                                                         due to political, religious or further   announces new cooperations with
                                                         discriminatory reasons.                  the International Pitch and Putt
                                                                                                  Association, the Pole Sports and Arts
                                                                                                  World Federation and the Federation
                                                                                                  International Cinema Television
                                                                                                  Sportifs. President Molea is pleased
                                                                                                  about the growing interest in the
                                                        Red Card to discrimination!               global sports movement to cooper-
                                                                                                  ate with the CSIT.

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         MAMANET                            Executive Committee concerning
      THE PERFECT                           the restructuring of the membership
   TRANSMITTER OF                           fee systems. One important point is
    SOCIAL THEMES                           that member unions will be excluded
                                            automatically after three times non-
   Founder Ofra Abramovich in-              payment of membership fees.
formed the Congress about the de-
velopment of Mamanet International             CONGRESS 2018 IN
in countries like Italy, Austria, Latvia,        TORTOSA – THE
Cyprus and others. She also updated              CATALAN HOST
about projects with refugees, con-             CITY OF THE CSIT
cerning the battle with breast can-              WORLD SPORTS
cer, but also about Golden Mamanet                   GAMES 2019
together with Vice President Palle
Thomsen and Sports for Elderly                 The next CSIT Congress will be
People in the CSIT movement.                held in Tortosa / Spain (October 23rd
                                            – 28th, 2018), the central city of the
                CHANGE OF                   beautiful Catalan region Terres de
                 ARTICLES                   l’Ebre. CSIT member union and host
                                            UCEC is looking forward to welcom-
   The Congress accepted with a             ing the whole CSIT movement in the
clear majority the proposal of the          city of the next highlight 2019.

                                                                        Sports Director Henk Bouchoms presenting
                                                                        the findings of the Riga Games evaluation
                                                                        and conclusions

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            A SOCIAL PROJECT
                    for migrants between
            sports and culture
                   AN ITALIAN MODEL AS A EUROPEAN EXCELLENCE
                                                                     by Patrizia Cupo, AICS

       SINCE 2015 THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CULTURE AND SPORT AICS IS
       RUNNING A PROJECT FOR APPLICANTS FOR ASYLUM AND REFUGEES. THE
       HIGHLY REGARDED MODEL IN ITALY IS ALREADY MEANT AS AN EUROPEAN
       EXCELLENCE: MORE THAN 200 MIGRANTS RECEIVE CO-ORDINATED TRAIN-
       ING COURSES, TERRITORIAL ORIENTEERING AND VOLUNTARY ACTIVI-
       TIES AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR MANY SPORTS ACTIVITIES, IN ORDER TO
       ­PROMOTE SOCIAL COHESION BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY AND MIGRANTS
       TO SUPPORT MIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING SKILLS AND LEARN NEW JOBS

                               I
                                      n February 2017 a bipartisan              Both in Florence (Tuscany) and
                                      delegation of the “German              Naples (Campania), where refugees
                                      Bundestag” visited the inter-          (respectively 100 and 120) from
                                      national Youth Hostel Villa            Africa and Asia are housed in Youth
                                      Camerata located in Florence,          Hostels, AICS established sports or-
                                where AICS takes care of more                ganisations where migrants practice
                                than 100 migrants in cooperation             sports together with young athletes
                                with AIG (the Italian Association            of the regions. In Florence the club
                                of Youth Hostels). The visit of the          AICS Accoglienza Solidale launched
                                Parliamentary delegation, headed             the first Italian athletic team of mi-
                                by the Deputy Mr. Gero Storjohann            grants, officially introduced also to
                                  (member of CDU-CSU, represent-             the Chamber of Deputies. The Team
                                  ing all the German Parliament) was         is composed of migrants supervised
                                  in order to get intensive knowledge        by AICS and trained by the world
                                 about the project and develop pos-          champion of march, Milena Megli.
                                 sibilities how to export this social        In Naples, instead, sport club AICS
                                 model abroad. The staff of the mi-          Napoli composed a football team of
                                 gration centre and the representa-          migrants, living in the Youth Hostel of
                                 tives of the local institutions and civil   Mergellina, coordinated by Manuela
                                 society illustrated the delegation all      Papaccio.
                                 projects addressed to applicants for           The Manager of Prefecture,
                                 asylum and refugees, aiming the             Alessandra Terrosi, the Regional
                                 construction of active citizenship,         counsellor of immigration, Vittorio
                                 above all sport practices.                  Bugli, the town Hall counsellor of

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welcoming, Sara Funaro, and the gen-   members and citizens to recognise
eral coordinator of AICS Accoglienza   them as relevant part of their own
solidale, Valeria Gherardini, met      community. At the moment we are
the Parliamentary delegation from      trying to enlarge our capacity to re-
Germany and had a fruitful discus-     ceive migrants in Italy, to cooperate
sion.                                  with new cities and to export this ef-
   AICS President and CSIT President   fective model abroad. For this reason
Bruno Molea stated: “Receiving         the visit of the German Parliamentary
migrants in a location as a youth      delegation is an excellent chance to
hostel means to create the perfect     show our expertise as a European
combination of interactions between    best practice.”
travellers, all meant as human
beings; moreover, through the
voluntary activities and the
sport practices we create the
best conditions to let the new-
comers become community

                                             Sports is the perfect transmitter
                                               for integration! Sports as the
                                                common language globally!

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            125 years
              Austria’s Workers
              Sport Movement                              ASKÖ                             by Michael Maurer, Secretary General ASKÖ

    ASKÖ WORKERS SPORT MOVEMENT AUSTRIA AND ITS PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
    NATURFREUNDE (FRIENDS OF NATURE), FLUGSPORT (AVIATION) AND ARBEITER-
    FISCHER (FISHING) CELEBRATED THEIR 125TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A GLAMOROUS
    EVENT HELD AT THE VIENNESE TOWN HALL ON 5TH OF OCTOBER, 2017. MORE THAN
    400 INVITED GUESTS JOINED THE EVENT AND ENJOYED AN OUTSTANDING AND
    GLAMOROUS EVENING.

                                                   I
                                                          t was the honour of ASKÖ           clear defined. We want to bring as
                                                          President Hermann Krist to         many people to sports as possible
                                                          hold the opening speech and        and extend our network with a gibber
                                                          welcome all special guests         offer of different kinds of sports. I
                                                          from sports, politics, partners    want to express my special thanks to
                                                    and friends. “I am very proud to be      the thousands of officials in our more
                                                    the President of this organisation.      than 4,300 registered clubs. ASKÖ
                                                    The Workers sport movement is the        would not work without them.”
                                                    oldest in Austria and has chanced in        Words of welcome were also ex-
                                                    recent years to an open servant for      pressed by the Federal Chancellor of
                                                    all kinds of sports for everybody. We    Austria, Christian Kern via video mes-
                                                    have a long and strong history and       sage, the President of the National
                                                    are looking forward to an exciting       Council, Doris Bures, the Austrian
                                                    and interesting future. Our goals are    Minister of Sports, Hans Peter

ASKÖ President Hermann Krist (far left): “I am very proud to be the President of
this organisation. I want to express my special thanks to the thousands of officials
                               in our family. ASKÖ would not work without them.”

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Doskozil, the Minister of Social Affairs,
Alois Stöger and the president of the
BSO (Bundes-Sportorganisation =
Austria’s Federal Sport Organisation),
Rudolf Hundstorfer.
    A screening of short video clips
from the first 125 years ASKÖ was
followed by the presentations of
some great Austrian athletes as Ria
Rechetsky (1960 vice world champion         The Fair Play diploma for ASKÖ
in field handball), Roland Königshofer      was handed over by Jenö Kamuti,
(track cycling champion), Corinna           the President of the International
Kuhnle (rafting champion) and               Committee for Fair Play
Conny Wilczynski (Handball man-
ager and national team player).
Especially young athletes filled
the audience with enthusiasm. The             Historical ­outline
Danube Dragon’s Cheerleading
Team with a brilliant performance                The Austrian workers’ sport move-
on stage and Trampoline Athlete                ment emerged in the year 1892, with
Benny Wizany with a motivating                 the formation of the first workers’
statement.                                     sport clubs: the friends of nature, the
    One big highlight was the pres-            cyclists and the gymnasts. From the
entation of the Fair Play diploma              beginning, the aim was not to only
to ASKÖ for more than 20-years               work on people’s coordinative skills and
of Fair Play engagement in Sports            tone their muscles but also to train their
in Austria. In the center of atten-         minds. In contrast to clubs lead by peo-
tion was the presentation of the 125        ple from more privileged backgrounds,
years anniversary book “Sport für           the workers rejected the idea of a sole
uns alle” (Sports for all), available       focus on competition and instead applied
online, in bookstores and in the ASKÖ       a more holistic approach, which aimed at
office (www.askoe.at, € 29,90). The         training the whole body. In 1931, they or-
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation           ganised the first workers’ Olympiad and
supported the efforts of the ASKÖ as        invested more in sports facilities, such
an organiser through the production         as the Viennese stadium. In the 1970s,
of an anniversary film “125 years of        ASKÖ then established a two-pronged
workers´ movement”.                        approach. On the one hand, there was a
                                            continuation of its focus on fitness and
                                            health. On the other hand, however, it now
                                            also included a ‘competitive’ branch, in-
                                            cluding the competitive aspects of sport.
                                               The workers’ sport movement has
                                            changed the way sport is perceived and
                                            has contributed to a rapid growth in the
                                            number of memberships in different
                                            sport clubs. Nowadays, the A in ASKÖ
                                            no longer stands for ‘Arbeiter (work-
                                            ers) sport’ but for ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft
                                            (working community)’. ASKÖ takes its
                                            role as a service provider for our society
                                            very seriously and the organisation hopes
                                            it can continue to flourish and wants to
                                            prolong its existence for at least another
                                            125 years.

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            SATUS Sports Festival
                   to be part means having fun
                                                                 by Silvia Wägli, Secretary General SATUS

                           1,000 PARTICIPANTS                              With the implementation of the
                           COMPETED IN SIN-                             competition “Fastest kids of Köniz”
                                                                        for schoolgirls and schoolboys of the
                           GLE COMPETITIONS                             community and the organisation of a
                           AND TEAM COMPETI-                            play-day for all families with children
                           TIONS AT THE SATUS                           between three and twelve years,
                           SPORTS FESTIVAL 2017.                        SATUS made it possible to entire the
                           ABOUT 400 VOLUN-                             whole population of Köniz, which was
                           TEERS WERE ON DUTY                           deeply involved in the sports festival.
                                                                        Many families used the special offer.
                           FOR THREE DAYS AND                           Laughing children’s faces and happy
                           FOR THE FIRST TIME                           parents were the reward for the or-
                           THE POPULATION OF                            ganizers and volunteers.
                           THE HOST CITY OF THE                            The final event of the festival was
                           FESTIVAL WAS INCOR-                          the closing ceremony with the final of
                           PORATED.                                     the running competition and a contest
                                                                        with an unforgettable demonstra-

                           A
                                                                        tion of sports clubs. Christian Vifian,
                                            ccording to their “vision   President of SATUS Switzerland and
                                            2020” for sports-cultur-    President of the organizing commit-
                                            al experiences, SATUS       tee, and his crew succeeded and did
                                            organised their festival    an excellent job.
                                            2017 in Köniz this time
                           “a little bit different”. Mail goals were
                           not only sports activities. All was
                           about joy of life and cooperation. The
                           big goal was to arrange the festival
                           on one hand in terms of content and
                           on the other hand making a big step
                           forward in organizing.
                              SATUS offered therefore a di-
                           versity of side events alongside the
                           traditional sports and prepared the
                           party differently. As it was scarcely
                           possible to find clubs that are capa-
                           ble of organizing such a big occasion
                           they established an organization with
                           SATUS Switzerland, SATUS Köniz and
                           SATUS Bümpliz, that at the end has
                           proved itself very well.

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Swiss President Christian Vifian heading
the parade at the SATUS Festival

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    I Am Aware
                    I Am Aware
                         A VERY SPECIAL TOURNAMENT SERIES
                  ANOTHER GOOD REASON THAT EVERY MOTHER CAN AND
                  NEEDS TO BE IN MAMANET
                                                                                                by Galit Avshalom

   16,000 MAMANET LEAGUE PLAYERS IN ISRAEL AND THOUSANDS MORE MOTHERS
   AROUND THE WORLD MARKED 2017 THE BIG FLAGSHIP EVENT OF THE MAMANET
    LEAGUE „I AM AWARE“, TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT THE
   ­IMPORTANCE OF EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER.

                                          T
Austrian EFPM President Christian
Hinterberger handed out one of the EFPM               housands of mothers are        2017 for the first time, the “I Am
Fair Play Awards to Ofra Abramovic,                   playing Mamanet in many     Aware” event also took place in
head and founder of Mamanet, a partner                countries     worldwide.    Mamanet leagues overseas. The ex-
organization of CSIT                                  Some CSIT member            posure of the Mamanet league activi-
                                                      unions already imple-       ties in the CSIT World Sports Games
                                          mented Mamanet and some started         in 2015 formed a big international
                                          to run their own national leagues. At   platform and the creation of the infra-
                                          the CSIT World Sports Games 2017        structure for growth of the Mamanet
                                          Mamanet was for the first time in the   league in additional countries as well
                                          official program. But Mamanet is        as for events like “I Am Aware”.
                                          the meanwhile no more only a social        Ofra Abramovich, Mamanet chair-
                                          movement. With tournaments like “I      woman and founder: “The idea of a
                                          Am Aware” Mamanet is getting also       player that wanted to promote an
                                           a health-social community. “I Am       important idea, which directly or
                                           Aware” was initiated years ago to      indirectly impacts every woman,
                                           increase public awareness for early    has become an established event
                                           breast cancer detection and is now     with a strong and important mes-
                                           spreading out worldwide.               sage, and one of the important topics

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of Mamanet as a platform. This is              Even more and more politicians
another expression of the health-          worldwide get notice of the big move-
social-community responsibility of         ment and state the importance of
Mamanet. An event of this sort is at       “I Am Aware”, like Thessalian S.
the same level with the morals and         Shambos, Ambassador of Cyprus in
values of the Mamanet league, which        Israel, who joined the flagship event
are burned into its DNA, and also is       2017: “I was amazed to observe and
aligned with the Olympian values: ex-      be part of the event in this most suc-
cellence, friendship, respect”.            cessful tournament that received
    “Mamanet embraced me, Mama­net         wide media attention. The tourna-
accompanied me, I didn’t have time to      ment was a brilliant celebration of
do sports while with the illness”, says    life and womanhood, that attracted
Noah Gros, the chairwoman and play-        more than 1,000 female players from
er in the Mamanet Tel Aviv league, who     Israel and abroad. I firmly believe that
went two years ago to get checked af-      Mamanet’s worthwhile social con-
ter the “I am aware” event, and discov-    tribution through the ”I Am Aware”
ered that she had breast cancer. “The      tournament disseminates the vital
women played with me when I could          message of early prevention, public
between the chemotherapy and radia-        awareness and support on breast
tion, hugged me and gave me time, at       cancer detection, while at the same
a time when I couldn’t do anything.        time constituting Mamanet as an ex-
They looked after me. This is network-     cellent channel of active women em-
ing that is not virtual. It is important   powerment at the grassroots level.
to say: ‘I Am Aware’, I also stop for a    
moment in life to go and get checked.”

   MAMANET AUSTRIA – a story full of success
           by Christina Gschweidl

     21 WEEKLY COURSES AT THE MOMENT, AN AUSTRIAN NATIONAL TEAM AT THE CSIT WORLD SPORTS GAMES IN
   RIGA 2017, THE 2ND PLACE FOR THE BSO WOMEN POWER AWARD 2017, AN AWARD FOR A SOCIAL PROJECT, MANY
   SEMINARS, COACH THE COACH TRAININGS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BEST PRACTICE MODEL, NEW JOBS AND
   PERSPECTIVES, HAPPY WOMEN, AND MUCH MORE – THIS IS MAMANET AUSTRIA. RAPIDLY GROWING.

       The launch of Mamanet in Austria was the first international Mamanet conference at the end of October 2015 in Eilat,
   Israel. But it was not easy at the beginning: The project had to be made known in Austria by several presentations in bodies
   of ­associations and above events and introductory trainings in clubs. Very helpful on that difficult way was on the hand the
   network of the Austrian CSIT member union ASKÖ and on the other hand the international character of Mamanet and the
   ­possibility to participate in international tournaments like the CSIT World Sports Games 2017. An Austrian Mamanet National
    Team was sent to Riga and ranked 14th out of 30.
       Meanwhile there are 21 weekly courses in Austria. The first competitions in the official regional Mamanet Austria league
   took place in November 2017 and at the end of the season the first national championship will be held in Vienna in June 2018.
   Mamanet reaches women in Austria across all age levels and regardless of their origin. Throughout Mamanet arise perspec-
   tives and new tasks in Austria. Thus, some women were already given new jobs at Mamanet Austria. In recognition of all the
   work, Mamanet Austria was awarded with the 2nd place of the Women power award 2017.

     Mamanet in Austria has already been evaluated by the Center for Sports Science at the University of Vienna. The more than
   100-page baccalaureate work also confirms the goal achievement by means of partly very positive emotional interviews.

      Mamanet makes the world a bit more friendly, nicer and brighter! 

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                                                                                                              BULGARIAN WORKER'S FEDERATION
                                                                                                              “SPORT & HEALTH”

            Sunny             BULGARIA
                             WHERE SPORT MEETS THE SEA
                                                                                                                 by Desislava Yagodin

            15TH BULGARIAN WORKERS’ SPORTS FESTIVAL
            WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION OF CSIT.
            THE BEAUTIFUL BULGARIAN SEA RESORT ­ALBENA
            WILL HOST THE 2018 CSIT BEACH VOLLEYBALL
             CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN AND WOMEN) FROM JUNE 5TH
            TO JUNE 10TH. ORGANIZER OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
            IS THE BULGARIAN WORKERS’ F ­ EDERATION
            “SPORT AND HEALTH” – AN ORGANIZATION THAT
            HAS ALREADY ORGANIZED SUCCESSFULLY V   ­ ARIOUS
             CSIT CHAMPIONSHIPS, AS WELL AS THE CSIT
            WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2013.

             “We are convinced that the gorgeous        are usually featured in the festival of   gathering of thousands of
             Albena beach, the new friendships          BWF “Sport and Health”, the 2018 edi-     persons who are united by
             and the competitions at the highest        tion will have competitions in beach      their love for sports.
             level will be remembered fondly by         football, beach tennis and Mamanet           Find all relevant infor-
             all participants and that they will de-    – an exciting new sport practiced only    mation on the website of
             part home with fantastic memories          by women! Of course, mini football,       BWF “Sport and Health”:
             that they will never forget!”, stated      volleyball, table tennis, streetball,     www.bwsf-bg.org
             Desislava Yagodin, BWF-President           swimming, pétanque and many other
             and CSIT-Vice President. “So, mark         kinds of sports will once again be          Albena is waiting for
             the date February 5th, 2018, in your       part of this huge and entertaining        you in summer 2018.
             calendar – send your preliminary ap-
             plication form in time and thus make
             sure that you will be part of this great
             championship!”
                Fancy practicing and competing in
             another kind of sport? You will surely
             find your favorite sport included in
             the program of the 15th Workers’
             Sports Festival with International
             Participation, in the frame of which
             the 2018 CSIT Beach Volleyball
             Championships will be held. The
             Festival offers no less than 19 differ-
             ent kinds of sports! Apart from the
             most popular sports disciplines that

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The wonderful Bulgarian coast with the Golden Beach,
a place full of workers sports tradition

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                      NOTHING IS FOR SURE
       EARTHQUAKE IN MEXICO ALMOST
           CAUSED THE CANCELLATION
        OF THE LABOR GAMES
                                                                                                by Ruth Vázquez, INDET México

                                                      INDET MÉXICO WAS COMPLETELY PREPARED
                                                      TO CELEBRATE THE 45TH NATIONAL SPORT
                                                      AND RECREATIONAL LABOR GAMES WITH
                                                      1,800 PARTICIPANTS REGISTERED FROM
                                                      28 MEXICAN STATES TO COMPETE IN CHESS,
                                                      ATHLETICS, BADMINTON, REGIONAL DANCE,
                                                      BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, SOCCER, SWIMMING,
                                                      TABLE TENNIS AND VOLLEYBALL.
                                                      IT WAS ONLY 6 DAYS TO GO... HOWEVER,
                                                      NOTHING IS FOR SURE.

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                          uesday,         September   Games. The Ceremony was to be held           as well as the sport facilities.
                          19th 2017, 13:14 just two   in Mexico City “Campo Marte” with               INDET Mexico faced an excep-
                          hours after all people in   the assistance of top Federal Mexican        tional momentum. The 45th edition
                          Mexico made the National    Government officials. Once that deci-        of Labor Games will be remembered
                          Simulation to commemo-      sion was made effective, INDET faced         as the games that were almost can-
             rate the earthquake from 32 years        more days to come with the possibil-         celled due to a natural catastrophe.
             ago, a new and strong earthquake sur-    ity to cancel the complete event of the      But power and determination that
             prised all Mexico’s Central Zone. This   National Games, because the venue            all Mexican people are showing have
             time, because of the new technologies    in Morelos State that hosts the INDET        made the Games possible. For the
             just minutes later, Mexico started to    games every year had heavy dam-              first time, Mexican Labor Games
             find out the size of the tragedy.        ages in hotels and sport facilities.         were done in two groups in order to
                That day the scenario was a lit-          Finally,   the    Mexican     Work       receive all participants on the new
             tle bit different than 1985. This time   Congress and INDET directives came           dates. Mexican National Labor Sport
             Mexico had much less fatal victims,      to the decision to continue with the         and Recreational Games were held in
             but certainly much more buildings        Games. Circumstances have been               the last week of October and on the
             damaged, like traditional markets,       not easy but the decision was made:          third week of November.
             schools, apartments and many             the 45th edition of the Labor National
             churches of the past legacy.             Games will be done with some                   And certainly, that’s the spirit:
                INDET faced a first challenge         changes. INDET faced great effort            “Mexican workers are stronger and
             after the earthquake: to cancel the      and negotiations, but finally beds and       more united through sports!” 
             Opening Ceremony for the National        rooms were reserved for everybody

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INDET, the Mexican member union
      of CSIT, shows solidarity with
 the victims of that national disaster

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       EXERCISE & a happy REUNION
           SENIORS WITH FRIENDS
       AT THE CSIT WORLD SPORT GAMES
                            IN RIGA

                                   THE SENIOR ACTIVITY IS DIFFERENT FROM MANY OF THE OTHER
                                   SPORTS ACTIVITIES THAT TAKE PLACE DURING THE CSIT WORLD
                                   SPORTS GAMES, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOCUSING
                                   ONLY ONE SPORT. THE SENIOR ACTIVITY IS A 5-DAY WORKSHOP
                                   WHERE THE PARTICIPANTS EXPERIENCE A VARIATION OF DIF-
                                   FERENT SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES. 80 SENIORS (AGE +55) FROM
                                   EIGHT DIFFERENT NATIONS MET FOR FIVE GLORIOUS DAYS IN
                                   RIGA DURING THE 5TH WSG.

                                                                                           by Poul Sölvstein, CSIT Working Group 55+

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                       very union member has        (Golden Mamanet)”, “Krolf” and dif-    senior activities a great platform for
                       an obligation to introduce   ferent kinds of gymnastics among       reunion with friends from all over the
                       one or two popular sport     many other activities.                 world and also for intercultural de-
                       activities from the home        The greatest thing about the        velopment of sport for seniors.
                       country and share knowl-     World Sports Games is that many           We are looking very much for-
            edge and experience for a worldwide     seniors are coming back year after     ward to meet our friends again and
            development of senior sports. In        year. Many have known each other       welcoming many new seniors at the
            Riga the senior group tried “Walking    since the first World Sports Games     World Sports Games in Tortosa 2019.
            soccer”, “Mamma-net for seniors         in Rimini in 2008 and this makes the      

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Full action! Oldies but Goldies!
CSIT World Sports Games are a popular meeting
spot for seniors from all over the world

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WHAT AN AMAZING DAY!
            CSIT YOUNG LEADERS AT
              THE RIGA GHETTO GAMES                                                                                   by Anu Rajajärvi,
                                                                                                                   CSIT Young Leaders

      INTERNATIONALITY IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF MANY CSIT MEMBER UNIONS
      WORKING CULTURE. FOR THIS REASON, SEVERAL YOUNG LEADERS GROUPS
    WERE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CSIT WORLD SPORTS GAMES 2017
  IN RIGA AND TOOK PART IN THE THREE-DAY YOUTH SEMINAR. THE SEMINAR WAS
        ATTENDED BY YOUNG PEOPLE FROM FINLAND (TUL), ITALY (AICS), ESTONIA
    (EESTI KALEV), AUSTRIA (ASKÖ) AND THE LOCAL YOUTH COMMUITY. THE TOTAL
                NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS WAS 20 AND THE DAY SPECTACULAR.

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                       he working method of the     about exercise. In particular, the         opportunities like Basketball, skate-
                       seminar was learning         meeting pointed out the mobility of        board, street bike, arm-wrestling,
                       by doing. Certainly the      young people outside of organized          street dancing, rugby, pankration and
                       most memorable event         sports activities. Very many thanks to     a variety of athletics. One important
                       was to get acquainted        the great primus motor of the Games,       part of the Ghetto Games are different
            with Ghetto Games in Riga city. While   Sanda Buna, for this huge experience.      kinds of happenings. The yearly held
            moving and experimenting, as well          The idea of Ghetto Games is sim-        big festival is the most celebrated
            as discussing the youngsters learned    ple. Young people get together and         action sport events in Europe. It gath-
            about the local youth’s thoughts        do some sports freely without any          ers a wide array of well known sport
                                                    organized training or even money.          athletes from all over the world. The
                                                    The idea was invented in Riga. One         spirit during this festival is amazing
                                                    district of the Latvian Capital had        when all participants make tricks,
                                                    huge problems with drugs, alcohol          encourage each other, share videos
                                                    and crimes. 2003 local authorities         and enjoy the atmosphere.
                                                    started to improve the area and found         The dream of the CSIT for the fu-
                                                    Ghetto Games to be the best and most       ture is to bring these Ghetto Games
                                                    efficient tool to succeed. The key idea:   and the Youth to the CSIT World
                                                    Mix urban culture and free sports.         Sports Games, maybe already in
                                                       The Ghetto Games area is very           Tortosa 2019 as demonstrative
                                                    tempting and full of different kinds of    sports.

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