Sports
As part of the Audi e-tron tour, I stopped off in East Sussex to try a little hang gliding. Hang gliders are unpowered wings that can be launched from hills or winches, or launched by being towed aloft behind a microlight aircraft. They can even be powered by adding a hang glider harness fitted with a lightweight 2-stroke engine.
Mr. Valentin Popescu is the Director of Sports Marketing for the Alexandrion Group. Alexandrion is a global producer of Spirits & Wines, with divisions and investments in the renewable energy, agricultural, tourism and real estate sectors. Under the stewardship of the Founder & President Mr Nawaf Salameh and his philanthropic pursuits, the company inaugurated the Alexandrion Foundation in 2003 which supports the Cultural, Creative and Sporting endeavours of Romanian nationals.
Phil Hanson is a young driver to watch in the field of endurance sportscar racing and last year he had his most successful season to date.
He was crowned World Endurance Champion, the youngest driver to achieve this, won the European Le Mans Series and was the youngest ever Brit to win the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans.
He’s was also the first driver ever to win Le Mans and hold both the WEC and ELMS titles in the same year.
Always sporty as a child Phil enjoyed playing football, rugby and cricket and found he had that natural competitive edge.
Lewis Hamilton is one of the most successful Formula One racing drivers of all time. He has won a joint-record seven World Drivers' Championship titles, tied with Michael Schumacher, holds the records for the most wins at 95, 98 pole positions and 165 podium finishes and currently races for Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team in Brackley.
Lausanne, Switzerland is home to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) who last year inaugurated a new HQ in their home city, seen as a glistening model of ‘Sustainability and transparency’, as affirmed by IOC president Thomas Bach in his opening speech. This coincided with the committee’s 125th anniversary. The IOC also supports its own museum – TOM – the acronym for ‘The Olympic Museum’ and like the FIFA World Football Museum is one of the best sports museums anywhere in the world.
FIFA supports its own museum, which provides Zurich with one of the most incredible sports museums anywhere in the world. Their exhibitions (permanent and temporary) provide a lasting sporting narrative and legacy for all citizens and creeds. It is also creates a unique events venue that has mass appeal. Ramy Salameh shares his experience of visiting the ‘FIFA World Football Museum’ and his top picks from what he saw:
The Polo season is coming! Picnics with cucumber sandwiches, Pimms and cold champagne, dressing up in red corduroy trousers and tight yellow jumpers and damn the latest fashion trends. At last Polo is upon us and there are many terrific matches to attend with athletic men and women leaping on horseback to compete for our entertainment. The sun will shine and we will all get pink faces and drink and eat too much. Glorious! I may even take a few more lessons this year just to appreciate how easy the Polo pros make it look, now where’s my mallet?
Cowdray Polo
Final of the King Power Gold Cup for the British Open Championships
21st July 2019.
The Gold Cup is played to decide the British Open Polo Championship and is the premier Polo tournament in the world at 22 goal (High Goal) level. With all the international stars of the game in action in the incomparable setting of Cowdray Park’s famous ‘Lawns’, the event draws in Polo aficionados from all over the globe.
https://cowdraypolo.co.uk/
Guards Polo
Cartier Queen's Cup Tournament 2019
