Day jobs of Winter Olympic athletes
Nina Roth, a 30-year-old professional curler, finally met her dreams and made her Olympic debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics with the USA Team. But to achieve that she had to work extra hard at the full-time job she has as a registered nurse. She doesn’t have lucrative sponsorship deals as some Olympic standouts, so she had to make ends meet otherwise. “It’s difficult to balance the two,” she admits. “But I wouldn’t feel fulfilled without both of them.”
Read full blog here.
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January 18, 2019, 10:54:26 AM
December 26, 2018, 11:40:03 PM
December 26, 2018, 08:07:08 AM
Happy 1st birthday SportyCo. 
Hold on through this tough times and try to work on platform as much as possible, so when crypto recovers people will have ability to use SportyCo platform for real use case - then marketing should become priority. Good luck in future!
Thank you! Hold on through this tough times and try to work on platform as much as possible, so when crypto recovers people will have ability to use SportyCo platform for real use case - then marketing should become priority. Good luck in future!
This is our plan.We wish all SportyCo supporters a Merry Christmas and happy, successful year 2019. May all your wishes come true.
November 23, 2018, 08:49:36 AM
Happy 1st birthday SportyCo.
Hold on through this tough times and try to work on platform as much as possible, so when crypto recovers people will have ability to use SportyCo platform for real use case - then marketing should become priority. Good luck in future!
Hold on through this tough times and try to work on platform as much as possible, so when crypto recovers people will have ability to use SportyCo platform for real use case - then marketing should become priority. Good luck in future!
November 21, 2018, 11:18:43 AM
It’s been a year
On November 21, 2017, the SportyCo Token Crowdsale started. And the rest is, as they say, history.
Today, with the cryptocurrency market bleeding and all hodlers in a crunch, revisiting November 2017 seems very distant. The SportyCo project origins began in spring 2017, with the founders putting their ideas and knowledge together and searching for a killer app to revolutionize the sports industry. But November 21 was the date when an idea slowly started to become reality.
In the three weeks of the crowdsale we have achieved a lot: soft cap reached in less than 24 hours, over $5 million contributed, mostly by small investors, and a long list of supporters and endorsers from the sports industry, including legends of their respective sports, like Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, Noriaki Kasai, Sava Milošević, and many others.
We also got a lot of traction among prominent crypto enthusiasts and supporters – especially after the ICO, when the idea became a business and our potential advisors have seen that the model is sound. Charlie Shrem, Phillip Nunn, Robby Schwertner and Kevin Harrington — with Kevin becoming an integral part of the SportyCo family — are just some of the names supporting our project.
Where are we a year later? We’ve had a lot of ups, with the platform, released in March, being one of the first projects in the crypto world presenting a working product. There were also some (but not many) downs, some of our own making, and some related to the general bleeding of value in the crypto world, scaring away potential newcomers and making existing cryptocurrency enthusiasts, well, a bit less enthusiastic, harming the adoption of all crypto-related products and requiring a rewrite of the platform to make it much more user friendly.
They say a typical startup needs 3-5 years from initial concept to a working, viable business. We’re in this for the long haul, and our journey has just begun.
Happy anniversary to the whole SportyCo community and a special thank you to all supporting us from the beginning.
On November 21, 2017, the SportyCo Token Crowdsale started. And the rest is, as they say, history.
Today, with the cryptocurrency market bleeding and all hodlers in a crunch, revisiting November 2017 seems very distant. The SportyCo project origins began in spring 2017, with the founders putting their ideas and knowledge together and searching for a killer app to revolutionize the sports industry. But November 21 was the date when an idea slowly started to become reality.
In the three weeks of the crowdsale we have achieved a lot: soft cap reached in less than 24 hours, over $5 million contributed, mostly by small investors, and a long list of supporters and endorsers from the sports industry, including legends of their respective sports, like Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, Noriaki Kasai, Sava Milošević, and many others.
We also got a lot of traction among prominent crypto enthusiasts and supporters – especially after the ICO, when the idea became a business and our potential advisors have seen that the model is sound. Charlie Shrem, Phillip Nunn, Robby Schwertner and Kevin Harrington — with Kevin becoming an integral part of the SportyCo family — are just some of the names supporting our project.
Where are we a year later? We’ve had a lot of ups, with the platform, released in March, being one of the first projects in the crypto world presenting a working product. There were also some (but not many) downs, some of our own making, and some related to the general bleeding of value in the crypto world, scaring away potential newcomers and making existing cryptocurrency enthusiasts, well, a bit less enthusiastic, harming the adoption of all crypto-related products and requiring a rewrite of the platform to make it much more user friendly.
They say a typical startup needs 3-5 years from initial concept to a working, viable business. We’re in this for the long haul, and our journey has just begun.
Happy anniversary to the whole SportyCo community and a special thank you to all supporting us from the beginning.
November 20, 2018, 10:52:30 AM
Can’t pay? Can’t play!
Kathleen Castles, now a 46-years-old doctor of psychology and running coach at two Veterans Affairs hospitals in New Jersey, loved sports as a child and was a very talented athlete. She managed to beat all the other elementary-school girls in the town’s annual mile race from third to sixth grade, competed at the regional cross-country meet in Connecticut, and every year qualified for the Junior Olympic Nationals. When she was 10, she ran the mile in 5min and 35sec.
Read full blog post here.
Kathleen Castles, now a 46-years-old doctor of psychology and running coach at two Veterans Affairs hospitals in New Jersey, loved sports as a child and was a very talented athlete. She managed to beat all the other elementary-school girls in the town’s annual mile race from third to sixth grade, competed at the regional cross-country meet in Connecticut, and every year qualified for the Junior Olympic Nationals. When she was 10, she ran the mile in 5min and 35sec.
Read full blog post here.
November 09, 2018, 11:46:15 AM
November 08, 2018, 07:26:29 AM
Historic recurrence and Cryptocurrency
As we approach the final month of the year, cryptocurrency investors hold their breath in anticipation. As history generally has a way of repeating itself, all fingers are crossed and eyes are pointed at the market, holding on to the emotions that were experienced 365 days ago. With optimism wired in our brains, the expectations are as high as ever, despite the downward spiral experienced at the beginning of this year.
Read full blog post here.
As we approach the final month of the year, cryptocurrency investors hold their breath in anticipation. As history generally has a way of repeating itself, all fingers are crossed and eyes are pointed at the market, holding on to the emotions that were experienced 365 days ago. With optimism wired in our brains, the expectations are as high as ever, despite the downward spiral experienced at the beginning of this year.
Read full blog post here.
November 06, 2018, 09:45:45 AM
Avaí FC Token Crowdsale has ended
Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. The AVAI Token Crowdsale has ended after a strong showing, as it failed to reach the soft-cap.
Setting up an ICO under current circumstances in the cryptocurrency world is almost a mission impossible – investor confidence is low, the crypto market cap is lower than any time in 2018 and everyone is hodling and waiting for the storm to pass.
We knew we were facing an uphill battle when we started this project, and in the end we have to wrap it up a bit short of our goal — with over $5 million contributed, with a large number of small investors participating, and with putting both Avaí FC and SportyCo on the radar of several hundred news outlets all over the world — so a lot of good came from this project, even if the end result is not perfect.
What’s next?
For crowdsale contributors: As the soft cap wasn’t reached, all funds contributed will be returned to the contributors. Information on the return process will be sent out to everyone in the next days.
For Avaí FC: Four more games before the end of the season Avaí FC is in a good position to fulfill their season goal – return to the top flight of Brazilian football! Fingers crossed!
For SportyCo: We’re really happy to have been a part of this historic project – the first proper cryptocurrency project by an established sports club. And next we will focus on the imminent launch of our upgraded platform, and we have, as always, some ideas for new exciting activities connecting sports and crypto.
Link to blog post here.
Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. The AVAI Token Crowdsale has ended after a strong showing, as it failed to reach the soft-cap.
Setting up an ICO under current circumstances in the cryptocurrency world is almost a mission impossible – investor confidence is low, the crypto market cap is lower than any time in 2018 and everyone is hodling and waiting for the storm to pass.
We knew we were facing an uphill battle when we started this project, and in the end we have to wrap it up a bit short of our goal — with over $5 million contributed, with a large number of small investors participating, and with putting both Avaí FC and SportyCo on the radar of several hundred news outlets all over the world — so a lot of good came from this project, even if the end result is not perfect.
What’s next?
For crowdsale contributors: As the soft cap wasn’t reached, all funds contributed will be returned to the contributors. Information on the return process will be sent out to everyone in the next days.
For Avaí FC: Four more games before the end of the season Avaí FC is in a good position to fulfill their season goal – return to the top flight of Brazilian football! Fingers crossed!
For SportyCo: We’re really happy to have been a part of this historic project – the first proper cryptocurrency project by an established sports club. And next we will focus on the imminent launch of our upgraded platform, and we have, as always, some ideas for new exciting activities connecting sports and crypto.
Link to blog post here.
November 05, 2018, 11:16:17 AM
Top 10 highest-paid female athletes of 2018
According to a BBC Sport’s research, there is an equal prize money reward for men and women in 35 out of 44 sports that provided the information, but counting in also the off-court earning opportunities, only female tennis seams to be at least in the same universe as men’s.
The first tournament to offer equal prize money to both men and women was the U.S. Open in 1973, and tennis remains the highest-paid female sport till today, with eight out of 10 top-paid athletes in 2018. Together all ten managed to collect $105 million on and off-court in the 12-month period, until June 2018, which is less than a salary of each of the first three highest-paid athletes of 2018. This was also the first time no women made it to the top 100 since Forbes expanded their list to 50 names in 2010. Still, looking at the numbers, one can not really complain.
Check which 2 female athletes in top 10 doesn't play tennis, you may be surprised.
According to a BBC Sport’s research, there is an equal prize money reward for men and women in 35 out of 44 sports that provided the information, but counting in also the off-court earning opportunities, only female tennis seams to be at least in the same universe as men’s.
The first tournament to offer equal prize money to both men and women was the U.S. Open in 1973, and tennis remains the highest-paid female sport till today, with eight out of 10 top-paid athletes in 2018. Together all ten managed to collect $105 million on and off-court in the 12-month period, until June 2018, which is less than a salary of each of the first three highest-paid athletes of 2018. This was also the first time no women made it to the top 100 since Forbes expanded their list to 50 names in 2010. Still, looking at the numbers, one can not really complain.
Check which 2 female athletes in top 10 doesn't play tennis, you may be surprised.
October 25, 2018, 02:17:52 PM
Our platform is coming along nicely – October 2018 update
The SportyCo platform is coming up for a major update – so what’s the status today?
Even though we have shared some exciting news with our community these last few weeks, we are also working hard on upgrading the SportyCo platform. We’ve shared our roadmap with you a couple of months ago and although we’re a bit behind schedule, a lot of work is done.
Most of the upgrades are focusing on the backend of the platform, where we have to make sure that the upgrades making investment easier still process correctly — making it easier for the user means the backend is much more complex.
Read full blog here.
And with new platform we will need new athletes to start their campaign on Sportyco.net platform.
Some guidelines on how to prepare a successful campaign if you are an athlete.
The SportyCo platform is coming up for a major update – so what’s the status today?
Even though we have shared some exciting news with our community these last few weeks, we are also working hard on upgrading the SportyCo platform. We’ve shared our roadmap with you a couple of months ago and although we’re a bit behind schedule, a lot of work is done.
Most of the upgrades are focusing on the backend of the platform, where we have to make sure that the upgrades making investment easier still process correctly — making it easier for the user means the backend is much more complex.
Read full blog here.
And with new platform we will need new athletes to start their campaign on Sportyco.net platform.
Some guidelines on how to prepare a successful campaign if you are an athlete.
Nice, I think that even a SPF wallet on platform will be a huge improvement, if investing with credit card will also work then anyone who will want to invest will be able to do it without too much effort. So let's hope interest will be high.
October 22, 2018, 07:32:34 AM
Athletes on their quest for excellence
There are no guaranteed blueprints or formulae for an athlete to excel and obtain operational excellence in a high-performance culture. However, there are many speculations on a comprehensive approach that allows high performance to be inevitable and sustainable, according to a case study executed by Lorenz, Reiman, Lehecka and Naylor.
Read full blog here.
There are no guaranteed blueprints or formulae for an athlete to excel and obtain operational excellence in a high-performance culture. However, there are many speculations on a comprehensive approach that allows high performance to be inevitable and sustainable, according to a case study executed by Lorenz, Reiman, Lehecka and Naylor.
Read full blog here.
October 22, 2018, 06:05:40 AM
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Hello, Dylan Kay.
Thanks for your proposition we will check it out.
Testing and more testing before implementing the work done on backend on frontend to make sure of everything being functional on its place. I have seen screenshots of that wallet on what SportyCo team is working under upgrading part of development. The easier the investment process will be the more it will be attractive and provocative for people will be. Simple but effective tools are key in every platform's success.
Yes, we are aware of that. That's our goal with new version of platform - to make investing easier. Even for those who are not familiar with crypto/blockchain. Tests are just on going to ensure everything will work smoothly after release. 
October 20, 2018, 03:15:11 AM
Testing and more testing before implementing the work done on backend on frontend to make sure of everything being functional on its place. I have seen screenshots of that wallet on what SportyCo team is working under upgrading part of development. The easier the investment process will be the more it will be attractive and provocative for people will be. Simple but effective tools are key in every platform's success.
October 12, 2018, 09:33:03 AM
Our platform is coming along nicely – October 2018 update
The SportyCo platform is coming up for a major update – so what’s the status today?
Even though we have shared some exciting news with our community these last few weeks, we are also working hard on upgrading the SportyCo platform. We’ve shared our roadmap with you a couple of months ago and although we’re a bit behind schedule, a lot of work is done.
Most of the upgrades are focusing on the backend of the platform, where we have to make sure that the upgrades making investment easier still process correctly — making it easier for the user means the backend is much more complex.
Read full blog here.
And with new platform we will need new athletes to start their campaign on Sportyco.net platform.
Some guidelines on how to prepare a successful campaign if you are an athlete.
The SportyCo platform is coming up for a major update – so what’s the status today?
Even though we have shared some exciting news with our community these last few weeks, we are also working hard on upgrading the SportyCo platform. We’ve shared our roadmap with you a couple of months ago and although we’re a bit behind schedule, a lot of work is done.
Most of the upgrades are focusing on the backend of the platform, where we have to make sure that the upgrades making investment easier still process correctly — making it easier for the user means the backend is much more complex.
Read full blog here.
And with new platform we will need new athletes to start their campaign on Sportyco.net platform.
Some guidelines on how to prepare a successful campaign if you are an athlete.
October 09, 2018, 08:49:19 AM
SportyCo backed by UK/US investor consortium and Hull City Supporters Trust preparing £45 million bid for Hull City AFC
SportyCo backed by UK/US investor consortium and Hull City Supporters Trust is preparing a £45 million bid for Hull City AFC. The deal structure will see a consortium of UK/US investors and Hull City AFC fans working together to ensure the club’s future success, by including fans into ownership structure of the club.
Read full blog and statements from our CEO Marko and Geoff Bielby, Chairman of the Hull City Supporters Trust here.
There were also already some articles about this in different media:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45787039
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hull-city-fans-launch-45m-takeover-bid-to-buy-club-from-assem-allam-qq2jqdq2f
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/hull-city/hull-city-takeover-latest-as-tigers-fans-dig-deep-1-9387030
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-prepares-45-million-193457745.html
SportyCo backed by UK/US investor consortium and Hull City Supporters Trust is preparing a £45 million bid for Hull City AFC. The deal structure will see a consortium of UK/US investors and Hull City AFC fans working together to ensure the club’s future success, by including fans into ownership structure of the club.
Read full blog and statements from our CEO Marko and Geoff Bielby, Chairman of the Hull City Supporters Trust here.
There were also already some articles about this in different media:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45787039
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hull-city-fans-launch-45m-takeover-bid-to-buy-club-from-assem-allam-qq2jqdq2f
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sport/football/hull-city/hull-city-takeover-latest-as-tigers-fans-dig-deep-1-9387030
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-firm-prepares-45-million-193457745.html
That is great approach to combine institutional investors and sports fans through this blockchain based platform. They got wonderful direction which will bring new opportunities for long term investors and it will make involve mainstream people to invest with comfort.
October 09, 2018, 08:45:17 AM
The SportyCo project made a huge impression on me, 
I see such an idea for investment for the first time, the idea is certainly great - you help the sport to develop and you can make money on it, i.e. you invest in young athletes and wait for them to become Champions, personally I have little faith that it will be possible to earn on this. please convince me when you think the investor will start making a profit and is there an insurance system? 
I see such an idea for investment for the first time, the idea is certainly great - you help the sport to develop and you can make money on it, i.e. you invest in young athletes and wait for them to become Champions, personally I have little faith that it will be possible to earn on this. please convince me when you think the investor will start making a profit and is there an insurance system? October 09, 2018, 08:32:16 AM
I have saved the related articles after reading the blog published by SportyCo. This is part of continuous expansion of SportyCo backed funds to keep increasing the access to as many sports clubs and athletes as possible. I am big fan of SportyCO and of course in future will be investing SPF in crowdfunding campaigns manage by SportyCo.
October 09, 2018, 08:01:07 AM
SportyCo backed by UK/US investor consortium and Hull City Supporters Trust preparing £45 million bid for Hull City AFC
SportyCo backed by UK/US investor consortium and Hull City Supporters Trust is preparing a £45 million bid for Hull City AFC. The deal structure will see a consortium of UK/US investors and Hull City AFC fans working together to ensure the club’s future success, by including fans into ownership structure of the club.
Read full blog and statements from our CEO Marko and Geoff Bielby, Chairman of the Hull City Supporters Trust here.
SportyCo backed by UK/US investor consortium and Hull City Supporters Trust is preparing a £45 million bid for Hull City AFC. The deal structure will see a consortium of UK/US investors and Hull City AFC fans working together to ensure the club’s future success, by including fans into ownership structure of the club.
Read full blog and statements from our CEO Marko and Geoff Bielby, Chairman of the Hull City Supporters Trust here.
October 04, 2018, 08:26:35 AM
AVAI Tokenomics
Sports, a somewhat disrupted industry worth more than $500 billion, continues to be one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the world. From this global financial sports market, football (soccer) takes up 43% and its unceasing globalization is witnessed everywhere, from the media and apparel to food and advertising.
Read more about market level intelligence, fan driven revenue streams, competitive intelligence, treasury and redemption of AVAI Token here.
Sports, a somewhat disrupted industry worth more than $500 billion, continues to be one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the world. From this global financial sports market, football (soccer) takes up 43% and its unceasing globalization is witnessed everywhere, from the media and apparel to food and advertising.
Read more about market level intelligence, fan driven revenue streams, competitive intelligence, treasury and redemption of AVAI Token here.
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