The Coronavirus pandemic is affecting all of our lives in different ways - but have you considered its impact on sportspeople and athletes?
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Dr Jim Lusted explores the future of the Commonwealth Games. Is this sport mega-event in decline?
Category: Sport & Fitness
The ongoing impact of climate change on one of the biggest sports events in the world...
Category: Sport & Fitness
Team GB will be looking be build upon recent successes at Winter Olympics, as the 2026 Games in Italy starts this month. You can dig deep into the Winter Olympics with our range of free resources.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The Games of the Tokyo Olympics were played in empty stadiums and venues, without fans and family members. Jessica Pinchbeck looks at the importance of Adam Peaty's family to his success.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The Olympic and Paralympic games show us that there is a sport for everyone. Dr Jane Dorrian looks at the ways you can inspire your child to be a future star.
Category: Sport & Fitness
In this article, Dr Nichola Kentzer considers resilience as a key factor in supporting athletes' disrupted journeys towards Olympic success.
Category: Sport & Fitness
You don’t have to have attended private school to be a member of the British Olympic team for Tokyo 2020 – but it may have helped, particularly for some Olympic events. Dr Jim Lusted, Lecturer in Sport & Fitness, explores the role that educational background can have in athletes reaching the highest levels of Olympic sports like rowing, hockey and archery.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Whilst this year’s Olympic Games will almost certainly suffer from COVID-19 constraints, the event remains the largest sporting spectacle in the world. Over time the Games have evolved from their modest beginnings into something incomparably grand. In this article, Steph Doehler discusses how a rural English town has closer links than most to the modern Olympics.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Simon Rea previews the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, looking at the new sports featuring, plus who are Team GB's best chances of winning medals.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The life of an Olympic or Paralympic athlete is characterised by highly planned and structured 4-year cycles designed to lead to peak performance in Olympic/Paralympic year, but what happens when that cycle unexpectedly stretches to 5 years and is threaded with uncertainty?
Category: Sport & Fitness
The Tokyo Olympics were a huge success for Team GB, who finished in fourth place - matching their medal haul from the London 2012 Olympics. You can dig deep into the Olympics and Paralympics with our range of free resources.
Category: Sport & Fitness
This year's Olympics includes a team of Refugees for the first time. Hear some of the athlete's stories - and find out why their participation is central to the Olympic ideal.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Would an average person be able to train hard enough to become the next Batman, Superman or Wonder Woman?
Category: Sport & Fitness
Eating your way to the top in sport is not just possible – it's vital. But you need to get your intake balanced and correct. Our Olympic hopefuls and OU experts explain how.
Category: Sport & Fitness
The pursuit of excellence makes often enormous demands. What leads people to take up sports – and why do they keep going through the rough patches?
Category: Sport & Fitness
You might be on your own as you run for gold, or face an opponent across a net – but success in sport owes a lot to the role of friends and family – especially, as you'll hear, when starting out. This video is from the BBC/OU Olympic Dreams series
Category: Sport & Fitness
Being good at a sport is only the start. To be the best, you have to put in the hours of training to achieve the peak of fitness.
Category: Sport & Fitness
Athletes explain how they use their mind to give themselves the edge, as they pursue their Olympic Dreams
Category: Sport & Fitness
Oscar Pretorius is nicknamed "the blade runner". But where does assistance for disability end and cheating begin?
Category: Sport & Fitness