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The European Union has introduced new legislation to promote free competition in the sports sector, aiming to create more opportunities and transparency for citizens, athletes, and clubs. Sports federations are urged to revise their statutes and regulations to eliminate unjustified restrictions that limit market access or participation in competitions. In Italy, the Competition Law (No. 287/1990) and EU provisions (Articles 101 and 102 TFEU) also apply to sports when economic activities are involved. This means that federations, clubs, and organizers cannot abuse dominant positions or prevent competitors from entering the market. Key Issues and Implications National federations often hold exclusive control [...]

Official inauguration of the team’s new headquarters and announcement of the partnership with Visit Paganella Tourism Board Fai della Paganella (TN), October 24, 2025 – The new operational headquarters of Park World Tour Italy (PWT Italy) was officially inaugurated today in the municipality of Fai della Paganella.The event also marked the announcement of the new partnership with Visit Paganella Tourism Board, crowning a long-standing relationship of collaboration and friendship that began years ago through international orienteering events hosted in the area. The press conference took place at the new PWT Italy headquarters in Fai della Paganella, attended by local authorities, representatives [...]

This is the question that the family of Mattia Debertolis has been asking for two months — and still, there has been no answer. Following their wish, we have agreed to publish this special newsletter, which you can also find on our website. Mattia was also a top athlete of the PWT Italy team. Two months after the tragic loss of our athlete, the family has not yet received an official report explaining what happened on August 8, 2025, the day Mattia took part in the first race of the World Games in China. Despite several requests sent to the International [...]

During the weekend in Chioggia and Mirano, the 33-year-old Swedish athlete, a champion in five different disciplines, will compete for the team led by Gabriele Viale. She is the world's strongest orienteer, with a stellar palmares that includes 19 World Championship gold medals and 9 World Cup titles in Orienteering, as well as 10 gold medals in SkiO. But Tove Alexandersson has also achieved incredible feats in skysnow, skyrunning, trail running, which brought her the 37th world medal at the recent Short Trail Championships in Spain, and ski mountaineering, which she has dedicated herself to since 2019, where she is running [...]

In Alghero, the final stage of the international orienteering event Five+Five Sardinia 2025 - part of the Orienteering 4 Research Sardinia project - concluded with the overall awards in memory of the young orienteering champion from Trentino, remembered fondly. His final cartographic work, before the tragic, premature passing last summer during the World Games in China while representing the Italian National Team, had taken him to Alghero in July, working on the Maria Pia beach map. Orienteering was a true passion for Mattia Debertolis - from his beginnings as a talented PWT Italia athlete to his promising career as a course [...]

On Tuesday, October 7th, 2025, at Maria Pia Beach, close to Alghero, we commemorated Mattia Debertolis, an athlete who lost his life during the World Games last August in China, remembering his passion, his dedication, and the courage with which he faced every challenge. His family was also present at the ceremony, alongside the participants of the itinerant event “5+5 Days Orienteering Sardinia 2025”, who honored him with a symbolic orienteering course set in the pine forest where I had once mapped his final course. Now, every trail, every contour, every tree still seems to carry traces of his presence. It [...]

After the first week came to a close, the PWT Italia team has moved to the north of Sardinia: it is in the area around Alghero that the second week of competitions for Five+Five Sardinia 2025 will take place. The week began with a strong focus on science: this morning, at the Porto Conte Ricerche center in Alghero, a scientific conference was held in collaboration with Sardegna Ricerche, exploring the theme of orienteering as a tool to promote physical and cognitive health, particularly in the contexts of active aging and sports tourism. Among the speakers were several former world orienteering champions, [...]

Scientific Conference: Orienteering for Research October 6, 2025, Porto Conte Ricerche, Alghero On October 6, 2025, as part of Five+Five Days Sardinia 2025, a scientific conference will take place in collaboration with Sardegna Ricerche at the Porto Conte Ricerche center in Alghero. The event, together with the one held last week in Pula, is part of the ORIENTEERING 4 RESEARCH SARDINIA project, promoted by Sardegna Ricerche, the regional agency supporting research, innovation, and technology transfer. Program: 10:15–11:30 Speakers “Study of the effects of orienteering on age-related physical and cognitive functions” Prof. Cantor Tarperi, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement, University of [...]

The second stage of the 5+5 Sardinia 2025, week 40 has just come to an end, with more than 200 participants competing in the beautiful setting of Piscinamanna (Pixina Manna), in the heart of the Sulcis mountains near Pula. After the opening stage at Batteria Boggio, Spiaggia Su Guventuddu, today’s competition took place in a unique context: among forests and natural landscapes surrounding the Sardinia Science and Technology Park, managed by Sardegna Ricerche. Here, research and innovation merge with the beauty of the environment, hosting laboratories, start-ups, and companies active in ICT, biotechnology, and energy. Alongside the race, thanks to the [...]