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Election Learnings

A week ago the International Hockey Federation held its Congress where it elected a new President and new Executive Board members. The election for President of the world body was expected to be a close run thing, after Europe’s Marc

The Joy of Sport

When England’s world cup winning rugby captain Martin Johnson retired from the international arena, he famously made public his intention to keep playing rugby. The reason he gave was that he just loved the game too much to walk away

One Last Chance?

Looking back 2019 was not the best time to launch a new competition, for as we all know by March 2020 the World Health Organisation declared the Covid outbreak a Pandemic. Internationally in the sport of Hockey the FIH Pro

The Power Of Standing Together

One of the unpleasant sights in modern team sports today that has crept in at all levels is players seeking to have an opponent, booked or sent off. It is not good to watch no matter whether the offending player

Beyond Comparison

The Australian Men’s hockey team won their seventh consecutive Commonwealth Games gold medal just over a week ago. Whereas many in the media predict every Olympic Games that the team will ‘definitely medal,’ and even sometimes are ‘a guaranteed the