Tag: Jim McKay

In this article, Jim McKay analyses how banning Vladyslav Heraskevych at the Winter Olympics for portraying victims of Russia’s war on Unkraine on his helmet backfired by making Heraskevych a national hero, and causing condemnation of the IOC by human rights organisations and the media. He concludes by indicating some implications of the debacle for how the IOC will placate an authoritarian populist like Trump at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Politics, Social Issues and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, edited by Danielle Sarver Coombs and Molly Yanity (Routledge) takes a close look at politics and social issues in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup that took place in Australia and New Zealand and is one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Christian Tolstrup Jensen appreciates that the book takes a broad view on women’s football with a global perspective. He also notes that the Cup in fact plays a very limited role in many chapters.

On average, one woman is killed every nine days by a current or former partner in Australia. Despite this appalling scenario, violence against women and children received negligible attention from both major parties during the recent electoral campaign. Jim McKay shows that the failure to prioritize or even address this emergency is in stark contrast to the munificent support, verbally and financially, by the ruling politicians and parties, on state as well as federal level, for professional men’s sports such as Ultimate Fighting, notorious for participants who endorse sexism, misogyny and violence against women.

Although netball is highly popular among Australian girls, it also has a history of failing to retain and protect First Nations players. In this article, Professor Jim McKay shows that not only does Netball Australia fail to attract First Nations talents at the grassroots level and promote them to the national teams, but in the few cases that they do they fail to include and protect them and keep them at that level.

International Sport Coaching Journal is a venture of the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE). Its mission is to advance the profession of coaching. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: An Ecological Insight Into the Design and Integration of Attacking Principles of Play in Professional Rugby Union: A Case Example by Jim McKay, Keith Davids, Sam Robertson, Carl T. Woods.

Karin Redelius Institutionen för idrott och hälsovetenskap, Idrottshögskolan i Stockholm I USA har det under större delen av 1900-talet funnits en allmän och vida spridd uppfattning...