4 Athletes to Watch at the 2022 Winter Olympics
With under a year to go until the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, bookies have already identified the favourites in most of the events. The Beijing Olympics will certainly be a blast. After a year of uncertainty because of the pandemic, the Olympics are back on schedule and will hopefully arrive with no restrictions for fans. […]
17th May 2021 read full articleBiggest Ski Resorts in Europe
The bigger, the better, right? Well, it depends on what you’re thinking about. However, when it comes to ski resorts, that statement can’t be more accurate. A great area means more ski runs, and that comes with more fun. Of course, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your time spent at smaller ski areas, especially […]
10th December 2020 read full articleThe different Winter Olympic sports explained
Every four years, the Winter Olympics rolls around and since beginning in 1924 the games have produced some fantastic scenes. Winter sports are exhilarating to watch and one of the reasons for this is speed! Most winter sports involve a sled, skis, board or blade, and add these to ice and you get people moving […]
27th May 2020 read full articleAll-time Winter Olympics Medal Count
Beijing 2022 is done an dusted! And as always at the Winter Olympics the best in the world competed for gold, silver and bronze in some of the most watchable and exhilarating sports . It’s athlete versus athlete and country versus country and we’re looking back through the history of the games to see who […]
20th February 2018 read full article10 Greatest Winter Olympians Ever
We’ve helped people in every winter sports from Curling to Biathlon raise money and sponsorship to train up to future Olympic qualification and with the 2018 Winter Olympic Games fast approaching, we at thought we’d take a look at the 10 greatest winter Olympians ever. Raise money for sport on PledgeSports Apolo Anton Ohno – […]
13th December 2017 read full article10 Greatest Skiers of All Time
We’ve help all sorts of skiers from freestyle to alpine to cross country raise money on PledgeSports. All the below are retired so unfortunately we won’t see any of the these legends ski at Beijing 2022, but maybe after this years Winter Olympics, we will see some new names on this list. Here’s our pick […]
12th December 2017 read full articleFundraising for sport
4 years in and every month is different in PledgeSports. In 2016 we had the run up to the Olympics and Paralympics which was hugely exciting to be involved in – seeing athletes all over the world preparing to qualify, then travelling to Rio to compete. Between team and individuals we had 100’s of athletes […]
29th November 2017 read full articlePyeongchang 2018 medal predictions
They’re just around the corner and things are heating up for snow sports! We are of course talking about the winter Olympics. The growth of popularity in winter sports on a global scale means that now, more so than ever before, there is a greater opportunity to qualify for the games and fly the […]
17th November 2017 read full articleThe fastest non motorised sport
To determine the fastest sports we looked at a few things, an item that travels at high speed that has to be caught or returned by another person requiring split second reaction times. This was covered in Part 1 – The Fastest Sports in the world and part 3 – The fastest motorised sports/ […]
9th November 2017 read full articleSports Crowdfunding Campaign Of The Week: Molly Summerhayes
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Sports Crowdfunding Campaign of the Week”. This week’s winner is 19-year-old British freestyle skier, Molly Summerhayes. Molly has launched a sports crowdfunding campaign to raise money which will support her bid to qualify for […]
14th July 2017 read full article