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Developing Players – A Money Making Exercise or a Genuine Mission?

Why were youth international sporting tournaments created? This is a question that you would assume would have a very simple answer, but depending who you ask you will receive differing answers. One answer is that these were a chance to

Time To Recognise Hockey’s Victims of Politics

Not the Footy Show Podcast

The Australian Olympic Team that competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, despite a US-led boycott, was recently formally recognized by the Australian Parliament for their participation 45 years after the event. To some this seemed a strange occurence as these

Play Now, Pay Later

For many sports Olympic inclusion is a crucial part of its global and national survival. For once a sport is admitted into the Olympic family there are benefits that flow that sport’s way. For example each sport receives a financial

Inspirational Athletes – 9

To start with how many people can find Armenia on a map? Secondly how many people know what finswimming is? Finally, how many people have heard of Shavarsh Karapetyan? Shavarsh Karapetyan was born in May 1953 in Armenia’s third largest

Inspirational Athletes – 8

Many players have had a dream of playing professional sport, and many have found themselves in the position of having to sign to play for the team they support’s arch rivals. When it has come to international representation, some players