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The following article was presented at the Next Steps Sports Development Symposium in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in November 2011....

Both manuals were written by Norman Brook in collaboration with experts in each of the fields and a group of YDF trained football...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon suggested recently that sport could contribute to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. He...

South Africa is one of the six “advanced emerging economies”. The others are Brazil, Hungary, Mexico, Poland and Taiwan.  It could be...

The International Platform on Sport and Development recently conducted an e-debate about Sport-in-Development, with the sub-topic of...

Dr Istvan Balyi is acknowledged worldwide as the expert in long term athlete development and the periodization of training plans.  He has...

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...

Norman Brook recently presented a paper on the practice of identifying, confirming and developing sporting talent at a seminar in...

Top sports coaches are innovative, finding new approaches to the train and prepare their teams and athletes, and in the process helping...

The education and training programmes adopted by most sports federations to develop their coaching workforce have in recent years tended...

This week two reports were published detailing the alarming extent of child abuse in South Africa. Helping Hand Fund, an organisation for...

New research from Eurosport, ZenithOptimedia & Synovate indicates that investment in the grass roots of sport is of critical importance...

I was especialy pleased to be invited by UK Sport earlier this month to travel back to Lusaka, Zambia, to undertake some consultancy work...

Sport and Development Sports Development is a widely used term that can mean the development of sport for sport’s sake or the use of...

There is an abundance of information on anti-doping published by WADA, International Sports Federations, and National Anti-Doping...

I got to know Mary when I was based in Belfast as the National Athletics Coach for Northern Ireland.  Having an Olympic Champion on our...