ARSIF - Passion For Sport

United by a passion for sport

A passion for sport unites the 32 ARISF Member International Sports Federations (IFs) in the pursuit of common goals.

Between all of them, they convey several relevant messages to the world at large:

• Recognised sports contribute to the diversity, to the universality and to the timelessness of the sporting landscape.
• Recognised sports belong to the community of world sport.
• Recognised sports are an integral part of the Olympic Movement.
• Millions of athletes across the planet practise recognised sports.

As a diverse but homogeneous group, the IOC Recognised IFs embody the very nature of sport and thus assume an important role in today's society. By upholding the values set forth in the Olympic Charter, and by promoting Olympic ideals to their constituencies, the Recognised IFs join their peers, the Olympic IFs, in the quest to build a better world trhrough sports.