Can Europeans and Americans overcome rooted traditions and learn from each other when it comes to developing elite sport and sport for all? Born in Europe and living in America for 40 years, Christer Ahl this time discusses the very different approaches to sports across the Atlantic.

In a new book, scientists explore the phenomenon of running. With an outset in eleven different countries, the book looks into the historical and societal issues that have made running so popular, and what possibilities the market holds.

How eager are governments around the world to make a national sports policy making people more active and meeting some of the most important global threats to sport? This will be tested over the next year as UNESCO asks all countries to discuss a new “International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport”

Education and prevention have been identified as key measures in the fight against match-fixing in a joint project by Transparency International, European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) and the German Football League (DFL).

While parents largely support the element of competition in sport as an educational tool, the vast majority of children are far less enthusiastic, says a new British study among schoolchildren and their parents.

The country that will host two of the world’s largest sports events has no long term strategy for sport.

Duke University offers a free course on Sport and Society via the online e-learning platform Coursera.

Loughborough University has announced that a new Graduate School Studentship will look closer into the governance of selected sports governing bodies. The research will add to the theoretical debates on the development and implementation of governance processes in international sports organisations.