The third SportAccord International Federation Forum came to an end in Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday 18th November. The central themes for this year’s three day IF Forum were Revenue Generation and Youth in Sport.

SportAccord brings together International Federations annually to encourage communication and knowledge-sharing between individuals as well as organisations. Because so many IF’s are spread all over the world this is an attempt to promote a feeling of community and help foster commitment and spirit.

Marisol Casado (ITU President), Libby Burrell (Director ITU Sport Development) and Rolf Ebeling, GER attended this year’s IF Forum on behalf of the ITU.

Mr. Rene Fasel (President, AWOIF and IOC member) delivered the closing remarks at the final session encouraging IF’s to make sure they know their product, their mission and their strategy and be sure to put the right people in the right place at the right time to tough people’s hearts. He also encouraged IF’s to be innovative and creative in their challenge to package their sport for the younger generation. His final message was that if you as an IF cannot find a way, then you must go out and MAKE a way.