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To The Victor Go The Spoils, Not To All

When did we start giving trophies to children for simply being part of a team? It used to be when you played sport at school it was one thing to make the team, and then only the very best were

Bigger Definitely Not Always Better

Sport should always be about quality rather than quantity. A glut of games does not guarantee the quality of the games. Sometimes the expansion of a competition can compromise the quality of the competition, and many of the games become

Is Sport Beginning to Defy Belief?

This week the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the sport’s governing body – despite there being very few amateurs these days – came under fire, accused of failing ‘to act on suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes between 2001 and