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Major international sports leagues successfully started to return to stadiums in much of the world last summer as cross-industry partnerships, innovation and new safety measures made it possible to address the pandemic's challenging health and safety risks and bring sports back to the playing field. At the same time, sports organisations and ...
Over time, world leaders have continued to leverage sports as a means to reopen diplomatic dialogue and make conciliatory international gestures. Perhaps the most well-known example of this is China’s “ping-pong diplomacy”, whereby the Chinese government invited US players to exhibition matches in their country in April 1971. This marked ...
These sporting events have all been affected by coronavirus. Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 over coronavirus concerns. The global value of the sports industry was estimated to be $471bn in 2018 – an increase of 45% since 2011 – and before coronavirus stopped play, the only trajectory seemed to be upwards. Now, every part of the sporting ...
Cristiano Ronaldo is the world’s highest paid athlete with earnings reported to be more than $88 million, including lucrative sponsorship deals and endorsements. By comparison, the highest paid female football player, Alex Morgan, earns around $2.8 million. This is just one example of the huge gender pay gap in sports that persists in sport.
Horse jumping as a sustainable sports Image: Helsinki International Horse Show Over 135 tonnes of manure collected from competing horses was used to generate 150 megawatt hours of electricity. Fortum HorsePower , the company behind the scheme, collects manure from 4,300 horses across Finland to generate sustainable energy for local grids.
Here are four sports people leading change – and inspiring others – right now: 1. Carson Pickett – the first player with a limb difference to play for the US Women’s soccer team. Pickett was born without part of her left arm and says she wants to use her success to be an advocate for limb difference. Being selected for an international ...
The IOC and the Global Association of International Sports Federations are jointly hosting an eSports Forum at the Olympic Museum in France. “The aim of the Forum is to explore synergies, build joint understanding and set a platform for future engagement between the eSports and gaming industries and the Olympic Movement,” they say.
Future looks bright. In the true spirit of sport, the Tokyo Olympics are expected to lift our spirits amid the looming pandemic and bring the world together for a common purpose. Undeterred athletes and teams will leverage the platform to demonstrate solidarity against racism and inequality. For example, the women’s English football team will ...
There is much survey evidence that the public feels drug use is a threat to sports and that it damages a sport’s reputation (Solberg et al. 2010, Engelberg et al. 2012) and some evidence on TV audience responses (Van Reeth 2013). The view that doping harms a sport is also shared by many sports professionals, lawmakers, and the media.
American soccer's governing body agreed to pay $24 million, and made a commitment to equalize pay and bonuses to match the men's team. The Association congratulated not only the lawyers but also the athletes themselves “on their historic success in fighting decades of discrimination”. This is a major step forward in achieving equal pay for ...