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Nike Vaporflys are one type of tech that’s garnered controversy. Hiroto Sekiguchi/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images

July 18, 2024

Are running shoes getting too good? Why ‘technological doping’ is a growing concern for professional sports

Shayne Vial, Edith Cowan University

When tech makes an athlete perform beyond their natural ability, you might call that “technological doping”. How can we make it fair for everyone?

(L–R) Mike Faist as Art, Zendaya as Tashi and Josh O'Connor as Patrick in Challengers. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures

April 25, 2024

Challengers: new Zendaya tennis film reviewed by an expert in the psychology of competition

Sean Irving, University of Essex

The Challengers fuses sex and sport to explore our competitive instincts.

Efforts are underway to clean up sport in Canada, but if sporting bodies and athletes want to prevent abuse from occurring, we must re-engineer the structures, policies and practices that lead to abuse in the first place. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

April 16, 2023

To change for the better, Canadian sport needs leadership from the bottom up

Jennifer Walinga, Royal Roads University

Athletes often recount how, at the very least, sport built their character and at the very most, saved their lives. But currently, Canadian sport itself needs rebuilding.

Two members of Canada’s Olympic synchronized swim team perform during the 2016 Summer Olympics. The sport is coming under scrutiny for its culture of abuse and body-shaming. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

November 1, 2020

New allegations of abuse have grounded Canada’s artistic swimming team

Gretchen Kerr, University of Toronto and Erin Willson, University of Toronto

Allegations of abuse and harassment are not uncommon in Canadian sport. The closure of the Montréal site for Canada’s artistic swimming team is in part due to a lack of oversight for young athletes.

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