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Saturday, January 21st, 2012Sports science story of the year: Looking into the brain Looking back on 2011, but through an academic lens, leaves the impossible task of trying to pick a research highlight. I guess in much the same way as your choice of a Sports Star of the Year would be influenced by your choice of sport [...]
Science of Sport awards: Teams of the year – Kenya & Barcelona
Friday, January 13th, 2012Team of the year – Kenyan athletics and Barcelona Welcome to 2012! It’s an Olympic year, the undoubted highlight of the year for us, but there are Tours, Marathons, meets and matches to cover and we are looking forward to the analysis, debate and discussion. We hit our three millionth visitor on New Year’s Eve, [...]
Rugby World Cup: The ref debate
Saturday, October 29th, 2011It’s been a long time between posts – busy work periods, lack of inspiration, lack of news stories (well, that’s not entirely true!), but pick the excuse. Apologies for the long break. I’m back with a viewpoint on rugby – probably not the topic of interest for most of you reading this in the USA, [...]
Berlin 2011: Inside Makau’s 2:03:38 World Record
Saturday, October 1st, 2011Inside Makau’s world record Patrick Makau has broken Haile Gebrselassie’s 3-year old world record with a sensational run in Berlin, clocking 2:03:38. You can read my real-time comments and thoughts at the live post I did during the race, but below is a more detailed look at Makau compared to that 2008 record of Geb’s [...]
IAAF World Champs: USA’s hat-trick on a day of surprises
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011IAAF World Champs report Day 6: The USA claim three on a day of surprises Six finals, and four nations won medals today, as the USA delivered a hat-trick of titles in what was a day of mild (and big) surprises. The USA’s medals came in the form of Jesse Williams in the high jump [...]
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