It’s here to stay, people, so enjoy it. We have embedded this from Universal Sports, whose coverage of rugby is actually very good—so readers in the USA take note, they will be covering the Rugby World Cup later this year, too. This is the best advertisement ever for the sport of Sevens. These are those […]
Other sports
Pressure points and performance: Choking and panic
Cricket is not a sport that we’ve done a great deal of analysis of here on The Science of Sport. The irony is that the very first post we ever did, way back in April 2007, was the day of Cricket World Cup Final, which is currently on again in India. That post, and maybe […]
Two doping cases: Exonerated vs punished. Fair or foul?
Yesterday, a reader sent me a link for an article from the Telegraph newspaper, titled “Rugby Union players are exonerated while cyclists take the blame. How is that fair?” Ordinarily, articles from the Telegraph are thought-provoking, accurate and praise-worthy. This was not one of them. The article concerns the recent one-year suspension handed to Alberto Contador, and the exoneration […]
Year in review: Sports website of the year
If you are a regular reader of this site, then you probably appreciate analysis and insight more than most. At least, that’s what we try to provide. You may be one of those people who watches sport with a more dispassionate eye, rather trying to understand why teams score, why space was created, why goals/tried […]
Kayaking wrap from Poznan
The 2010 ICF Sprint World championships in Poznan are now over, and the focus now shifts to Olympic qualification next year, and then hopefully onto London 2012. Apart from pacing strategy insights (which offended a lot of fans, it would seem), the week in Poland was very informative and helpful for our ambitions moving forward. […]