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Another Award Where Popularity Is The Key

It is hard to believe that once upon a time there were very few trophies awarded for winning in sport. In the ancient Olympic Games, an olive wreath was the prize. When the modern Olympics commenced in Athens in 1896

What Is A National Sport?

The term ‘our national sport’ has been bandied around a fair bit in the Australian media and also the international media in the past fortnight, but what is a national sport? Does giving a sport a name that includes the

Declined – Insufficient Funds

How many sports in Australia are self supporting? That is a question every sports fan or participant should be asking, and whether their sport is self supporting. The terrifying answer is that very few are , in other words they

Stop the Farce

How many clubs would give a trial to 32 year old who had never played that sport as a professional even semi-professional level? Everything surrounding Usain Bolt’s trial with the Central Coast Mariners is wrong for sport and wrong for

Bigger Isn’t Always Better

The Olympic motto has always been Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for ” Faster, Higher, Stronger,” but is the latin word Maior about to be added? Maior which means “Bigger.” The FIFA World Cup and the Summer Olympic Games