Construction Workers in a Velodrome: Cricket’s Last Olympic Outing
In 2028 – 128 years, two world wars and one Stuart Broad after its previous iteration, Cricket will once again be an Olympic sport. The Los Angeles Games will play…
Emma Wilson Talks Going for Gold
To the untrained eye, windsurfing is a rather peculiar watch. Athletes wrestle with their eight-metre sail, harnessing the wind to reach speeds upwards of 40 miles per hour. Races are…
Coronavirus in Sports
By Georgia Keetch Dozens of international sport events have been cancelled or postponed around the world amid an outbreak of a new type of coronavirus. The pathogen’s effect has been…
Homelessness in Brighton: An Olympic Disaster
In a 2011 article the BBC reported that homelessness had nearly doubled in the last year. But what sparked this dramatic increase in figures? It has long been rumored that…
Sporting Champion Visits Volleyball
Martina Aegerter Last Monday, the Volleyball Sportative beginners’ session was, for the second time this term, coached by “Sporting Giant” Chris Gregory. He is a giant (6’10’’ tall) in more…
My games maker experience
Ashni Lakhani The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was a sporting event that people all around the world stopped to watch. World records were broken and feelings of national…
‘Fat tax’ proposed to target obesity epidemic
A ‘fat tax’ has been proposed by Mike Rayner, director of the health promotion research group at the University of Oxford, in response to the obesity epidemic affecting the country.…