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Panathenaic amphora, Kleophrades painter, circa 500 BC, Louvre museum. A runner gives a friendly tap on the shoulder to a wheelchair racer during the Marathon International de Paris in 2014. 100m race record holder Usain Bolt and other runners, Moscow, 2013.

• The Nashville Predators are set to hire former goalie Pekka Rinne as a special alumni adviser following his retirement from the NHL in 2021.
• The Lakers have held two training camp workouts but new coach Darvin Ham has been noncommittal when talking about potential starting lineups.
• Allen’s incredible transformation from 19 stone at the World Snooker Championship in April to 14 stone 10 pounds was evident at the British Open in Milton Keynes this week.
• Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said he’s well aware of how hard it is to win at Iowa when a team is ranked in the top 5.

In certain sports such as racing, many contestants …

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The inclusion of mind sports within sport definitions has not been universally accepted, leading to legal challenges from governing bodies in regards to being denied funding available to sports. Whilst GAISF recognises a small number of mind sports, it is not open to admitting any further mind sports. They also recognise that sport can be primarily physical , primarily mind , predominantly motorised , primarily co-ordination , or primarily animal-supported .

• But if we stopped dividing sport by sex, elite women’s sport as we know it could cease to exist.
• The prophet Muhammad specifically authorized horse races, and geography dictated that men race camels as well as horses.
• Therefore, we got a legendary World Series with this iconic moment.
• It can also be determined by judges who are scoring elements of the sporting performance, including objective or subjective measures such as technical performance or artistic impression.
• The Bucs spent most

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Major League Baseball has concluded its experiment of pitch clocks at the minor league level. Officials said the clocks successfully reduced the length of games. The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Miami Dolphins, one of two remaining undefeated teams, in their home stadium on Thursday night. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. After reaching the semifinals for the first time since 1986, Canada faces a monumental challenge at the Women’s Basketball World Cup, where a near-unbeatable U.S. team awaits.

• Hear from Premier League managers before the return of domestic action this weekend, plus all the latest football news.
• Almost three weeks since the last race weekend in Monza, Formula One is back and the 2022 champion could be confirmed as early as this weekend.
• Fourteen Slovenian and Suisse national team players were

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The players’ union has asked for an investigation of his team’s handling of the concussion protocol. Sports science is a widespread academic discipline, and can be applied to areas including athlete performance, such as the use of video analysis to fine-tune technique, or to equipment, such as improved running shoes or competitive swimwear. Sports engineering emerged as a discipline in 1998 with an increasing focus not just on materials design but also the use of technology in sport, from analytics and big data to wearable technology. In order to control the impact of technology on fair play, governing bodies frequently have specific rules that are set to control the impact of technical advantage between participants.

• Bruce Pearl executed a cannonball into the political pool on Thursday.
• It is widely recognized that athletes consume oral antibiotics almost twice as often as observed in the non-sports population in order to reduce as

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