The Minister for Sport needs to stand up and take that opportunity and he must bring athletes, sports, coaches and experts – both cheerleaders and critics – into that process. In the wake of the Sharks ‘deal’ we are hearing from swimmers and others who believe that they are being unfairly treated in comparison […]
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Current and former Cronulla Sutherland players have reluctantly decided to a put an end to their involvement in the ASADA case. They have done so after being placed in an untenable and unfair position by ASADA this week. Firstly, all the players maintain that they have done nothing wrong and have not broken any anti-doping […]
*Submitted to the British Journal of Sports Medicine June 2014 The recent article by Harcourt, Marclay and Clothier[1] is to put it in one word, problematic. Firstly, let’s take the article’s opening attempt to position itself within the paradigm of the 2015 World Anti Doping Code (WADC). Not unlike the Australian Sports Anti Doping Agency […]
We are surprisingly poor judges how a particular event will make us feel into the future. In other words, we rely on how we feel right now to predict how we might feel about something later. Psychologists call it affective forecasting. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table […]