history

SANDTON. Every morning at ten Lennart Johansson shuffles for breakfast at the Michelangelo Towers Hotel. He walks with a cane, accompanied by his longtime assistant. His age demands respect. Johansson, whose powerful stature...

Review by Steve Menary of Hans Bonde's latest book, ‘Football With The Foe – Danish sport under the swastika’, which examines wartime sport during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.

Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball player with the San Francisco Giants, recently broke Hank Aarons 33 year old home run record. Rather than uniting the American people in a coast-to-coast celebration of the sport, the new record...

Young people from indigenous cultures - societies which did not until recently have a history and culture of suicide - set alarming records of suicide. These young people could be helped through sport. Colin Tatz provides us with...

Professor of sports history, Hans Bonde, gives a brief introduction to the fascinating history of the Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh. He revolutionized male aesthetics, became a symbol of Danishness and was dangerously...

The Workshop of Sports History is a Danish experimental centre. The task is to collect, study, reintroduce, and revitalise traditional games from the European area.

In sanskrit the word 'maya' at one and the same time means 'play', 'magic' and 'to discover (or create) the world'.

In this article, Laura Robinson explains how and why she wrote the play FrontRunners about ten indigenous runners in Canada. These men had been good runners and students in 1967 when Winnipeg hosted the Pan-Am Games and had...

Tarahumaras in Mexico and Kalenjins in Kenya are superb runners. Thanks to British colonialisation, the Kenyans have become integrated in world sport which has resulted - amongst other things - in exploitation of young athletes....

The coexistence of sport and politics dates from the 9th century BC, when the "Olympic Truce" was established.