Athletics

NTFS#128 – Mental Health in Sport is Under Discussion, As Is World Athletics Paying Medallists in Paris

Not the Footy Show Podcast

Mental health has become a big issue in sport in recent years. Yet are many of the issues being branded as a mental health problem are to many not really deserving of being labelled as such. We have been trying

“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

Few would disagree that the world has gone mad. Sport should be as it always was a refuge, a place where you could escape the politics and the stresses of everyday life. It was a release. Sadly now with the

Time to Streamline Presentations?

The recent coverage of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest has to have been some of the best television coverage of a major sporting event in recent times, and helped Athletics immeasurably. It was slick, it was professional, and the

Sport’s Feudal System?

The Feudal system was something that many of a certain age learned about at school in history lessons. It was a social and political system in the middle ages in which landholders provided land to tenants in exchange for their

The Chosen Ones’ Choices

What a world we have created! Millions of us around the world tune into various sporting events and marvel at the athletes performing at the highest level, often representing our nations. Most have made immense sacrifices along the way. They