What should decide whether an athlete can take part in a female sports competition? A test for levels of androgen? Or should the athlete be allowed to make the decision personally by signing a self-declaration of gender?

Comment: Al-Jazeera has called the current uprisings in the Middle East a feminist revolution. The news channel also argues that women’s participation has made the protests more peaceful than they might have been otherwise. Could the happenings in the Middle East also spill over into sport?

The Vancouver Winter Games 2010 are being critically reviewed by Laura Robinson, who looks into the IOC and VANOC's spin on the women ski jumpers' right to inclusion, the degree of freedom of expression, the sustainabiblity of the event and the way in which first nations people participated in the branding of the Games.

In the buildup to the Vancouver Olympics, Canadians were shocked to learn that the IOC could legally discriminate against female ski jumpers because their contract with VANOC resided in Switzerland, and gave the IOC carte blanche in terms of deciding what sports and events would be in the Games.

The newly founded Coalition of Athletes for Inclusion in Sport has issued an alternative to the current IOC Gender Policy.

A petition urging Olympic sponsors to take a stand against women discrimination continues the fight for inclusion of a women’s ski jump event on the programme at the Vancouver 2010 Games.

The 14 female ski jumpers fighting to be allowed to compete at the Winter Games 2010 next February in Vancouver went to court yesterday to continue their battle.

Evaluation on women on sports and sports policy conclude that not enough women take part in the polices of sport