An Olympic Year?
The Olympic Games have always been for the elite. The elite being a select group superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society. Even in the ancient Olympic Games only those of Greek
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
A Level Paying Field
Whenever people refer to sporting contests the phrase ‘it must be an even playing field’ invariably pops up. Over the years the interpretation of the phrase has changed. It used to mean that the conditions for all contests and or
The Selection Policy
Sport is loved by many the world over. Yet how many people really know the sport they love? They may know individual teams, players or statistics and results from years gone by, but how many know how the sport is
It Takes Two to Quango
Recently in conversation with an elite athlete they asked a question that could not be answered. ‘We as athletes get judged on our performance, if we fail individually we get dropped from the squad or the elite program. If the
