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Brazil lacks national sports policy

10 May 2013

The country that will host two of the world’s largest sports events has no long term strategy for sport.[more]


“We prefer to play our role well rather than criticise others," says the director of development in SESC São Paulo, Maria Luiza Souza Dias. Photo: Roberto Assim/Play the Game


Sports performances: how talented is my child?

24 September 2010

With kids in sports, parents struggle with two images of reality. Either you see your child – or the children of others – as talented or as hopeless cases. Many parents easily see that a child is talented. What most people mean...[more]


Practice makes perfect. Photo (c) flickr user <a href=" http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharynmorrow/"> massdistraction</a> and licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">Creative Commons 2.0 licence</a>.


Youth Olympic Games expected to cost 25 times more than similar events

10 March 2009

The first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore next year is set to cost at least 25 times more than another sporting event in Finland this summer with a similar amount of competitors.[more]




Sport can prevent suicide amongst the young

08 November 2005

Sport can stem the rising tide of youth suicides in many countries according to Australian National University's Colin Tatz. In a presentation to the Play the Game conference, he explained that sport opens the doors of social...[more]