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02 December 2011
In response to recent tragic incidents involving football and handball referees in Europe, Christer Ahl, former President of the International Handball Federation’s Playing Rules and Referees Commission, calls for new reforms...[more]
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03 October 2009
Representatives of 26 European players associations have issued a statement on curruption in sport at a conference organised by UNI europa and the European Elite Athletes Association.[more]
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19 March 2009
The Danish referees Mads Hansen and Martin Gjeding report that they were offered bribes before a match in Romania during the World Handball Championship in June 2008.
”We were offered a cash payment of 30.000 Euro. We were...[more]
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09 August 2007
Year in, year out, governments at all levels and corporate bodies spend billions of naira on Sports Development. But there is little, or nothing to show for their huge investment. Olukayode Thomas reports that, unless President...[more]
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29 December 2006
Sport and exercise professionals generally have a deep, even romantic attachment to sport. While the field of sport, exercise and physical education has much to commend it, it is important that professionals in this division of...[more]
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22 June 2006
If you have sweet dreams about Olympic medals the best advice is to be very selective choosing your parents! Research suggests that genes account for up to 50 per cent of the variance in athletic performance.[more]
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30 November 2005
Doping is widespread not only in elite sports but also in fitness centers across the world and it is a highly underestimated problem. In this paper, Alice Riis Bach presents striking research that points out that doping use is...[more]
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12 November 2002
Research findings of the routine, day-to-day amount of coverage of women in sport, remain that female athletes are still, in many cases, symbolically annihilated. Changes are happening, but media researcher Alina Bernstein asks...[more]
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Australian scientist Robin Parisotto developed a groundbreaking EPO test in the run-up to the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Now he has begun work on a test that can discover if athletes have used genetic doping to augment their...[more]
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