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No Luck For The Irish As They Say Sayonara to Tokyo

Anyone who is a fan of sport knows the highs and the lows you can experience following a team. As a player those highs and lows are more personal and can have a lasting affect. Last weekend the FIH held

Neutrality Can Also Help Development.

The Olympic qualifiers for the Tokyo 2020 Hockey competition are due to get under way this weekend. Understandably there is much excitement and anticipation. Which nations will make the cut? In amongst the excitement and anticipation there are some with

The Qualification Conundrum

Sometimes sport can make you sad. It makes you wonder how something that was intended to be so simple, so pure and so free from politics, greed and corruption has lost its way. The Olympic Games is still the pinnacle

Parity Not Charity

It is regrettable that so many aspects of life today are all about ticking boxes, and there is a pretence to satisfying perceived needs. Much of this stems from flawed funding models, which determine that organisations must comply with certain

Time To Cut Your Cloth

The African Hockey Championships are under way in Cape Town. On the line is a place at the Tokyo Olympics for what should have been the eight men’s and seven women’s teams. Of the teams supposed to be competing only