True Olympic Spirit
Every Olympic Games there are moments that make you realise that sport is not always about winning. Moments that would make Baron Pierre de Coubertin proud, as he envisaged the games as being far more than a stage for the
Cold War Revisited?
In these days of neutral officials at sporting events one has to sympathise with the Russians at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. In the host nation’s Ice Hockey match with the USA, the referee, Brad Meier, an American, disallowed a
Ladies First – At Last.
One of the reasons it took women so long to be accepted as competitors in the Olympic Games was the view that they should only engage ‘in restrained and non-violent’ exercises to protect their ‘peculiar function of multiplying the species.’
FIFA Turns Up the Heat
FIFA have announced that they will conduct surprise doping tests of all World Cup Players starting in March allowing them to set up a biological passport to determine and irregularities in blood or urine samples. They have also stated that
Seven Year Itch. Is it Time to Scratch?
Perth Glory’s hard core fans must be the most loyal in the country. It would however appear that some are beginning to tire of the club’s rhetoric and want to actually see these words put into action at the club.
