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Reports of misconduct in Dutch sports rise 20 percent in 2023
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Reports of misconduct in Dutch sports rise 20 percent in 2023

NL Times  

Reports of misconduct in sports in the Netherlands have risen for the fourth consecutive year, with a total of 1,264 cases filed in 2023, according to the latest annual report from the Centrum Veilige Sport Nederland. Unlike sexual misconduct cases, which must be referred to the ISR or similar bodies, other issues such as bullying, aggression, or abuse of power …

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Olympic sex testing: Unscientific policies about women athletes have ended many careers before they could begin.
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Olympic sex testing: Unscientific policies about women athletes have ended many careers before they could begin.

Slate  

In 1948 Foekje Dillema seemed to be well on her way to international fame. Stories like Dillema’s are likely much more widespread than we realize—cases of athletes on the rise who are quietly sidelined out of sports for failing or refusing a sex test. “I think it goes pretty deep,” Lindsay Parks Pieper, a professor of sports management at the …

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NPR’s Embedded and CBC tackle sex testing in elite sports with ‘Tested’ podcast
5 months, 4 weeks ago

NPR’s Embedded and CBC tackle sex testing in elite sports with ‘Tested’ podcast

NPR  

NPR’s Embedded and CBC tackle sex testing in elite sports with ‘Tested’ podcast toggle caption NPR July 12, 2024; WASHINGTON – Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle to define who, exactly, gets to compete in the women’s category. Tested, a new limited series from NPR's original documentary podcast Embedded and CBC, Canada’s national public broadcaster, …

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Devout athletes find strength in their faith. But practicing it and elite sports can pose hurdles
6 months, 1 week ago

Devout athletes find strength in their faith. But practicing it and elite sports can pose hurdles

Associated Press  

It’s been 100 years since a Scottish runner famously refused to race on a Sunday at the Paris Olympics because of his Christian beliefs. “I’d love governing bodies of sports to do more to accommodate religion,” said the 34-year-old American Israeli mother of five. American Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who broke her own world record at Olympic trials Sunday in …

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Devout athletes find strength in their faith. But practicing it and elite sports can pose hurdles
6 months, 1 week ago

Devout athletes find strength in their faith. But practicing it and elite sports can pose hurdles

The Independent  

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The Art and Science of Fitness | Elite sport helps in getting the general population to be more active, or does it?
1 year, 7 months ago

The Art and Science of Fitness | Elite sport helps in getting the general population to be more active, or does it?

Hindustan Times  

“Excuse me, sir.” As I turned around, I saw a young girl running up to me, huffing and puffing. For the same reason, a recent research article titled ‘Effect of Elite Sport on Physical Activity Practice in the General Population’ published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health intrigued me. Dr Alexis Lion and his colleagues looked at whether …

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UK Watchdog Finds JD Sports, Elite Sports Broke Law Over Rangers FC Merchandise Pricing
2 years, 7 months ago

UK Watchdog Finds JD Sports, Elite Sports Broke Law Over Rangers FC Merchandise Pricing

News 18  

Britain’s biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports and rival Elite Sports broke competition law by fixing the retail prices of certain branded clothing products of Rangers Football Club, UK’s competition watchdog provisionally found on Tuesday. The Competition and Markets Authority, in its provisional findings, said that all the three parties allegedly colluded to stop JD Sports from undercutting the retail price …

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Navratilova Seeks Provision for Elite Sports After Joe Biden Moves for Transgender Participation in School Sports
3 years, 11 months ago

Navratilova Seeks Provision for Elite Sports After Joe Biden Moves for Transgender Participation in School Sports

News 18  

Tennis champion Martina Navratilova called on Wednesday for a special provision to be made for elite sport after U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order designed to allow equal transgender participation in school sports. In an interview with BBC Radio 4, Navratilova proposed a “carve-out” – or separate provision – from the executive order signed on Jan. 20 to …

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