Research paper assessing the physical and mental health costs of inactivity for Europe based on data from six countries: France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK. It is our hope that this research will present a clearer picture of the challenges we need to overcome.

There are common dynamics that plague mega-event planning everywhere in the world to a greater or lesser degree, or what the author of this research article calls the mega-event syndrome. The concept of “syndrome,” drawn from medicine, suggests the presence of a set of symptoms that occur together, recognizing that these symptoms may be interrelated and have shared underlying causes. On the basis of 51 interviews with mega-event planners, managers, politicians, and consultants; field visits to mega-event sites in 11 countries; and offi cial documents, polls, and media reports, the author identify seven major symptoms that together form the mega-event syndrome.

This report presents a systematic assessment of the problem of racism and discrimination in Russian football. Prepared as a joint undertaking of the Moscow-based SOVA Center for Information and Analysis and the Fare network, it presents an account of discriminatory and far-right displays in Russian football in the period from May 2012 to May 2014.

This report was submitted to Sport England by CFE Research, an independent, not-for-profit social research company. It summarises the key findings emerging from an evaluation of the Sport Makers project which trained and supported 50,000 volunteers to increase opportunities available for people to participate and volunteer in sport and physical activities. Sport Makers is one of three People Projects which make up part of Sport England’s Places People Play (PPP) Programme.

In this report from the Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto, Peter Donnelly and Michele K. Donnelly has analysed gender equality in sport using the case of the 2012 London Olympics. The specific focus of the report is on the athletes and on the gender-based structural and rule differences that still exist on the Olympic programme.

This paper by Arnout Geeraert seeks to provide a concise overview of the application of EU law on sporting rules as it delineates the boundaries of the autonomy of sport with regard to EU law. It also provides an overview of the different methods of enforcement of EU law on sports bodies and the legal and political limitations thereof.