Does team bonding help athletes endure more pain?
Aug 06, 2016 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Few sports do relentless, tortuous agony quite like rowing and few rank higher on loyal, bonded camaraderie. Why do painful sports and team bonding go so well together? In competitive sports, happy euphoric moments can...
Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
Aug 05, 2016 00:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Sports
Unless they start giving Olympic gongs for curmudgeonly whinging, I dont think Im in the running to medal, as we apparently say these days. I realise I should be feeling a surge of patriotic pride and enthusiasm ...
Aug 04, 2016 10:00 am UTC| Sports
It has been said that its Mo Farahs distinctive running technique that has allowed him to become Britains greatest ever runner. And given his success in the London 2012 Olympics, there are high hopes for Rio when he will...
As the Olympics approach, stains on Rio's architecture, infrastructure
Aug 02, 2016 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
It was raining on May 12, the last time I was in Rio. The cidade maravilhosa the Marvelous City was cold and dark, the furthest thing from the vibrant, jovial landscapes youll see on a Google image search. The rain...
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...
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