Why Brazil's post-Olympics hangover will hit so hard
Aug 01, 2016 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
On the eve of the Rio Olympic Games, host Brazil is struggling through one of the deepest crises in its history. It wasnt supposed to be this way. In 2009, when the 2016 Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
Is netball a feminist triumph? Let's discuss
Jul 28, 2016 02:27 am UTC| Sports
The Grand Final of the ANZ championship this Saturday marks the end of a chapter in the history of netball in Australia, as the trans-Tasman league is wound down. A five-year broadcast deal for a new national league...
Does practice make an Olympian? Not by itself
Jul 28, 2016 02:16 am UTC| Sports
Weve all heard that practice makes perfect, or at least that perfect practice makes perfect. Is this true? Some would unequivocally say yes. In 1993, psychologist K. Anders Ericsson and colleagues proposed the...
Dopey policy: is the IOC fit for purpose?
Jul 27, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The scandal of systematic doping orchestrated by Russian government agencies and the Russian anti-doping body (RUSADA), involving the disposal of thousands of biological samples or their replacement with clean urine, has...
Media-led investigations aren't the way to beat doping in sport
Jul 19, 2016 08:09 am UTC| Sports Law
New allegations of doping in Kenya have surfaced just ahead of the Rio Olympics. They include athletes and coaches from other countries, making Kenya seem like a dopers paradise with little testing or concern about drug...
Exercise in childhood benefits those with cerebral palsy in later life
Jul 10, 2016 19:38 pm UTC| Health Sports
There were two groups of athletes. First they cycled for 30 seconds as fast as they could on a stationary bicycle. Then they ran as fast as they could for 40m. And then they were asked to jump as high as possible off each...
What other industries can learn from the failures of greyhound racing
Jul 08, 2016 23:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports Law
Those in the greyhound racing industry were surprised by the Premier of NSWs has announcement on the banning of the industry in NSW from 1 July 2017, closely followed in the ACT. But the writing has been on the wall...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects