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No Winners in Junior World Cup Team Change

Can there be anything worse than qualifying for a World Cup or an Olympic Games and then not being allowed to participate? We saw this in Hockey with South Africa’s men’s and women’s teams who qualified for Rio by the

Do You Know We Are Here?

“All of a sudden it’s a World Cup, a Commonwealth Games, or an Olympic Games, and all of a sudden everyone wants to be on board the Kookaburras train” was a comment made by the Kookaburras Rio goalkeeper, Andrew Charter

Boiling Over Sweets

Is Faf du Plessis a cheat? Or is the boiled sweet a smokescreen to try and take the heat off the Australian batsman. Does sucking a boiled sweet and the saliva it generates really help obtain a shine on a

Losing to Win

“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” is one of many quotes that are bandied about in sport. In fact motivational quotes about winning have become big business, either as posters, or in books complimented with great sporting photographs. It

Patience, and Faith in Youth Can Deliver a Dream

Patience is a real virtue in modern-day sport, but sadly very few club owners, administrators or even national associations seem to possess this virtue. In 2005 the Junior Hockey World Cup was played in Rotterdam. In the final Argentina defeated