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• 23 Jan, 2020
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THE worlds of tennis and climate change have recently collided on and off the courts. Climate activist campaigners are pressuring the former world tennis No.1 to drop his association with ...

• 7 Jan, 2020
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THERE continues to be a major problem in Italian football given the recent campaign touted to wage the war against racism in its ranks. In December 2019, Serie A unveiled ...

• 7 Jan, 2020
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FOR 2019, the year has seemed inundated with examples of unacceptable attitudes and behaviour of abuse against sporting individuals based on race, gender, religion, disability, age and social status. Clearly, ...

• 13 Dec, 2019
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JUST when do the religious beliefs of sports men and women become part of society’s ability to sanction their prior achievements in the sporting arena? More recently, there have been ...

• 30 Nov, 2019
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IT was the turn of the Netherlands to deal with yet another example of racism in football. Players for second division sides Excelsior and Volendam, in a bipartisan show of ...

• 23 Nov, 2019
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IF there was any doubt about the power of sport to shift societal attitudes, then it surely has been removed with the previously polarising subject of mental health. Now, it ...

• 12 Nov, 2019
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IN an extraordinary development, the Matildas and Socceroos, Australia’s women’s and men’s national football teams, have agreed to a resolution of the pay inequity that has existed in the sport. ...

• 12 Nov, 2019
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SOMEHOW, the world of women’s wrestling recently found its way to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Not exactly a place renowned for its gender equality and religious freedom. So, some changes were ...

• 9 Oct, 2019
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THERE was another example where the views of one did not outweigh the views of the many. Daryl Morey, the general manager of NBA team the Houston Rockets, recently tweeted ...

• 2 Oct, 2019
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THE 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar has been dogged by controversy ever since it was awarded by FIFA years ago. From allegations of corruption in the bidding process, to ...