Olympics

Giving Athletes a Voice, and Listening

It would appear that the President of the United States has watched too many Teen movies from the ’80’s. As his latest tweet this week reigniting the athletes and the national anthem row paints athletes as being of limited intelligence.

The Price Athletes Are Paying

What is a sportsman today? If one looks up the the word in a dictionary you will find two main definitions. The first states, “a man who takes part in a sport, especially as a professional.” The second definition is

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

The Competition for Dollars, Who Will be Disqualified

At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games a series of images were used to embody what is known as the Olympic Spirit. One such image was of Tanzanian Marathon runner John Akwhari who in Mexico in 1968 famously came staggering into

Podcast #42 – Fee Free Football, Nationalism and Hockey’s Place on Australia’s Sporting Landscape.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

It has been a while between Podcast and we apologise but Ashley was in Turkmenistan commentating at the 5th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games. The astronomical cost for a young boy or girl to play football has long been