Triathlon Business International (TBI), the industry organization dedicated to promoting the sport and the business of triathlon, has welcomed Alan Abrahamson – an award-winning sportswriter, best-selling author and in-demand television analyst – to its roster of keynote speakers at the 26-28 January TBI Conference in Marina del Rey, California..
In 2010 Abrahamson launched his own website, 3 Wire Sports, described in James Patterson and Mark Sullivan’s 2012 best-selling novel Private Games as “the world’s best source of information about the [Olympic] Games and the culture that surrounds them.” Three times in its first two years, 3 Wire Sports made the wordpress.com worldwide ‘Blogs of the Day’ list (8 June 2011; 14 June 2012; 24 August 2012).
Abrahamson has covered seven Summer and Winter Olympic Games and is a member of the International Olympic Committee’s press commission. He spent four years as a columnist at NBC’s online destinations: NBCOlympics.com, NBCSports.com and UniversalSports.com.
With Alan as lead columnist, NBCOlympics.com won a Sports Emmy for innovation at the 2008 Olympics. After the 2008 Games, Alan co-wrote Michael Phelps’ No Limits: The Will to Succeed, and after the 2010 Olympics, he co-wrote Apolo Ohno’s Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday. Both books are New York Times best-sellers.
For the 17 years before that, he was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times; he spent his first nine years at the newspaper covering news and sports, mostly on the Olympic movement.
Among other honours, Alan is a winner of the 2000 Associated Press Sports Editors’ first-place award for enterprise reporting. He is the 2002 National Headliner Award winner for sports writing and the Los Angeles Press Club’s 2004 sports journalist of the year. Sports Illustrated included Alan on the list of ‘Fifty Twitter feeds you need to follow during the London Olympics.’
Alan is a lecturer in sports writing at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism; journalismdegree.org named him one of the nationwide ‘Top 50 Journalism Professors in 2012.’
He was Program Director at the 2011 FISU-AIPS young journalists’ initiative at the Summer University Games in Shenzhen, China, and was one of six instructors – the only American – at the inaugural IOC ‘Young Reporters’ program at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010. He taught journalism and new media at the 2011 launch of the Russian International Olympic University; and he served as master of ceremonies at the Global Sports Forum in Barcelona in both 2012 and 2011.
The 2014 TBI conference is packed full of information and opportunities for everyone involved in the business and sport of triathlon, with a special track of panels specifically for event directors. Some of the other activities for this year’s TBI Conference include:
- Keynote speakers Alan Abrahamson, Jack Caress, Travis Tygart, Gary Roethenbaugh, Thom Richmond
- Three event directors-track panels
- Eight general session panels
- Speed networking – one of the most popular sessions of the previous conferences
- Technology demonstrations
- F.I.S.T. bike fit demonstration by Dan Empfield
- ACTIVE X Workouts; running, cycling trails; swimming at Mother’s Beach outside the door of the hotel
- Hospitality events, including the Competitor Group Welcome Reception
- The ACTIVE Network Awards Celebration including announcement of top retailers, top manufacturers, top triathlon events, best triathlon article, best triathlon photograph and the male and female Ron Smith Award winners
Conference dates, location and costs:
- Date: 26-28 January 2014
- Location: Marina Del Rey Marriott – Marina del Rey, California
- Cost: Triathlon Business International members – US$675
- Non-members – US$895
Registration includes all conference events, meals and one ticket to the Awards Celebration. Non-member registration includes a 1-year TBI membership.
Conference details and online registration are available online.
Triathlon Business International (TBI) is an industry organization dedicated to promoting the sport and the business of triathlon. Founded by a coalition of industry leaders, TBI advocates for the interests of triathlon businesses, provides educational and informative programs, and encourages increased participation in the sport.
