Sports marketing company Sportsman Media Group has appointed GIUSEPPE SAMPINO "as its new media sales director." Sampino "previously worked for Dorna Sports in Spain." There he "was in chage of MotoGP and SBK World Championship TV and digital rights as senior media sales exec." The 29-year-old "will be based at Sportman's Munich office" (SPONSORs, 7/15). ... Athlete representation and marketing firm James Grant Sports named Altus Marketing & Management Senior Marketing Manager BRENDAN FITZGERALD Dir of Marketing, where he will assume all marketing responsibilities for the firm and its clients in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Fitzgerald also previously spent time with MLS and Soccer United Marketing (THE DAILY). ... China Deputy Sports Minister XIAO TIAN, who sat on China's Olympics committee, has been sacked, the government said following a "corruption investigation by the ruling Communist Party." The news comes as Beijing enters the final leg of its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, though the bid panel said that the scandal over the official "will not affect its bid." China's Ministry of Human Resources said that Xiao "had been stripped of his position as a deputy head of the General Administration of Sport, the equivalent of a vice minister." It "did not elaborate" (REUTERS, 7/16).
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