Many swimming facilities in Italy are being renovated with the addition of spray parks and water features next to the competition pools: in Tsport Special Issue 338 we take a look at aquatics beyond sport.

Ice Special Report: 9 – China is preparing to replicate the success of the 2008 Summer Olympics with the next winter event less than two years away.

Sports disciplines, universal design, athletic training centers in Tsport 333.

We have tackled the theme of sport that takes place in the open air, mainly in unstructured environments, from paths to playgrounds, all through the thread of the pedestrian and cycle path that runs through the Valtellina from Colico to Bormio, but not only.

The playground is a recent invention, and is constantly developing as the needs of users, small and large, become more specific and attentive.

Since 1998, the European standards EN1176 (equipment for playgrounds) and EN1177 (coating of playground surfaces) regulate the technical characteristics of the equipment and the UNI 11123:2004 standard regulates the design of parks and outdoor playgrounds.

The one built in Piateda, along the Sentiero Valtellina, is an example of how the playground is transformed into a fitness area, with a destination no longer reserved for children.

The pump track is a track without a predefined shape, but composed of parabolic curves and appropriately shaped humps, to be covered with mountainbikes, bmx, scooters, inline skates and bikes without pedals, acting on the thrust of the body rather than on the pedaling.

The skatepark takes on the typical elements of the urban spaces where the game was originally born, rationalizing and standardizing them to obtain the greatest effectiveness and reasonable safety for those who practice the sport.

Structured sports, those that are played on regular courts, can be played more freely in multi-purpose spaces more or less equipped for one game or another. Typically, the basketball court, with its scoreboards, is the one that requires less maintenance.

The South Korean city of Gangneung hosts, in this month of February, some of the disciplines of the XXIII Winter Olympic Games: in particular ice sports, which are played in large indoor installations, while the skiing disciplines take place outdoors in the mountain sites.