SportsYA! Accredited By The International Olympic Committee.

The SportsYA! Media Group announced that it received Olympic accreditation for its Spanish and Portuguese language Internet sports portal, Sportsya.com, for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. The International Olympic Committee issued accreditations to just over a dozen web sites throughout the world. Sportsya.com, the Internet’s leading Spanish and Portuguese language sports portal is the only Latin American internet site to receive accreditation.

The issuance of accreditations to Internet sites is a major policy shift on access for the IOC as it had previously withheld accreditations to web based companies. Tony Nieves, VP Marketing of SportsYA! said, “We are glad to see the IOC officially recognize the importance of sports websites as news sources for the worlds’ sports fans. The fact that we are the only Latin American Internet player to receive accreditation validates our leadership position. SportsYA! will have the only accredited Internet team actually on the ground in Salt Lake City providing real-time sports coverage in Spanish and Portuguese”.

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