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The IOC needs to look beyond gender parity and work with international federations to address athletes’ conditions of participation in sports to achieve true gender equality.
A new IOC framework aims to ensure everyone can practice sport safely and free from harassment, irrespective of their gender or sex-linked traits.
Many Canadians point to the 1976 Montréal Games as the reason why the country should never host another Olympics. But an Olympian argues the Montréal Games had many lasting benefits.
Anti-doping laboratories have historically worked well, but the anti-doping organisations themselves lack oversight.
We should consider the messages that violence and aggression in sports of all kinds give children and young people – and devise strategies to lessen the impact.
One way to get beyond gender barriers in sport would be to scrap sex segregation and replace it with a system similar to that of Paralympic disciplines.
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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